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by cempaka 3y ago
Ah I see what you mean, but live-attenuated might be quite different from the mRNA vaccines. I wonder if the study authors at the outset expected the impact to be similar. What I find dismaying is that this tiny study is the first and only
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Weightlifting might help heal trauma through a sense of mind-body connection(psypost.org)
6 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
You've misread (or not read) the study. "BNT162b2 vaccination is associated with a decrease in bacterial and viral stimulant-induced cytokine responses one month after vaccination." It is showing reduced immune response to
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mRNA COVID vaccine in children alters immune response to heterologous stimulants(frontiersin.org)
13 points by cempaka 3y ago|7 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
How long do you think it will be reasonable to continue requiring ineffective cloth masks to visit a doctor's office? Should this new requirement remain in effect indefinitely? Were we just failing to institute "basic healthcare p
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by cempaka 3y ago
You've at least stopped speaking for everyone else in the thread, but you've simply arrived at the same point these threads tend to reach, where you stop addressing arguments and fall back to simply impugning other's intellig
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by cempaka 3y ago
Nah, there are plenty of others in this thread on the same page as me here.
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by cempaka 3y ago
It's not clear, do you believe that firing people from their jobs did not cause them great harm, or do you just believe that that harm was justified?
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by cempaka 3y ago
The vaccines' ability to reduce transmission was never demonstrated in any rigorous controlled trial at all. Almost no one except those in very high risk groups takes them anymore. People lost valuable careers, including a friend of mi
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by cempaka 3y ago
"If this set of facts had been slightly different, then your take on firing people and excluding them from public venues for refusing to agree to an unproven and experimental medical procedure might be different." I mean, not real
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by cempaka 3y ago
A certain subset of the population which supported mandates, a now obviously failed and unjustifiable policy which caused immense harm, are going to soldier on as though that was always the right thing to do, rather than deal with the cogni
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by cempaka 3y ago
There was certainly no reason to believe, even at the time, that these vaccines would be any more durable over the long term against a rapidly evolving coronavirus than all of the previous attempts to develop such a vaccine. Seems like a lo
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by cempaka 3y ago
Just had my third case a few weeks ago, and it was definitely of the "just a cold" level of severity. Then my roommate caught it (almost certainly from me) for his first case and had a real rough time, major fatigue and a day or t
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by cempaka 3y ago
yes, we all would have perished if it was not for the mRNA Covid vaccines. China is over now because they didn't use them.
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by cempaka 3y ago
just an absolutely incredible financier (lol)
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by cempaka 3y ago
Do you have a link to Bhattacharya "pushing ivermectin"? And what specific statements about vaccine effectiveness did he make which are misleading? Masks are harmful, so that one isn't really misinformation. I mean, if he was
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by cempaka 3y ago
> increased risk of developing a chronic illness for children Well, there's pretty good evidence of this one given that one of the subjects in the adolescent trials for Pfizer was briefly paralyzed by the shot and still dealing wi
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by cempaka 3y ago
Had to scroll through quite a few paragraphs to find the actual truth claims in question, finally made it to these: > Claiming vaccines were unsafe or ineffective True. You can argue they were a net benefit to certain at-risk demograph
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by cempaka 3y ago
Quake 2 and especially the Jailbreak mod were my first big foray into online multiplayer gaming. I was in two clans, one named after the band 311 (had no idea what it even was when they invited me to join because I hung out on their server
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by cempaka 3y ago
Java's structured concurrency approach to async code eventually may result in much simpler libraries compared to Kotlin's approach, which introduces function coloring with the "suspend" modifier.
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by cempaka 3y ago
At my last job, maybe a good fifth of the company or so seemed to have emotional states which careened from one end of the spectrum to the other based upon whether some new COVID variant had just been announced, or new developments in the w
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by cempaka 3y ago
There's even plenty of reason to doubt the motivations of the very researchers involved here. George Church is known to have had extensive ties and contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. Here is some research at Harvard that Epstein sponsored
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by cempaka 3y ago
> Arguably, having a ton of unvaccinated kids going to school and swapping the virus back and forth constantly and then infecting their families could have been a big contributor to how long this pandemic lasted. Vaccinated kids did th
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by cempaka 3y ago
The FDA played a big role in the opioid crisis by permitting manufacturers to claim for years that the narcotics being prescribed were not habit forming. "Preventing deaths" is not necessarily the incentive they're responding
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by cempaka 3y ago
The CDC itself had language on their website to the effect that Covid posed less risk than influenza to young children. Pre 2020 freakout, would we ever have approved an influenza vaccine using a novel delivery method on the basis of less t
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by cempaka 3y ago
Actually, an adolescent subject was paralyzed by the Pfizer vaccine during the trials, and children were never at any serious risk from COVID (which it was clear at that point the vaccines did not prevent anyway), so the FDA's decision
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by cempaka 3y ago
I like runit, which is actually from Void Linux but can be used on FreeBSD. There's also OpenRC, again not limited to BSDs.
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by cempaka 3y ago
Yeah I would say FreeBSD is about on the level of Arch as far as where it starts you off after the installation. But it makes configuring either one a great learning exercise.
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by cempaka 3y ago
The dogged pursuit of Assange long predates the 2016 election.
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by cempaka 3y ago
> They'd just run some kind of CIA thing internally and rejig Aussie politics Did it once already: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-...

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