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by collyw 6y ago
We had pandemic preparedness guidelines, and none of them involved lockdowns. They go thrown away in blind panic.
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by collyw 6y ago
As I understand it around 1 in 4 colds are caused by coronaviruses. The Diamond Princess cruise ship only ever had 20% of the passengers that tested positive, implying a fair bit of previous immunity.
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by collyw 6y ago
> Low Code/No Code solutions don’t work because the people involved in implementing solutions are rarely engineers themselves. In my experience these are usually too complex for non engineers to understand and incredibly frustrating
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by collyw 6y ago
Maybe there is a flu virus going around as well. I don't think anywhere is actually testing for it any more, just making assumptions that it is corona.
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by collyw 6y ago
Where? They were overwhelmed, but coped for around 6 weeks around April 2020 here in Spain. Everything since then has been paranoia based on PCR test results.
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by collyw 6y ago
I have read some peer reviewed research that suggested that exposure to other coronaviruses (including SARS from 2003) do give some level of immunity to Covid 19
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by collyw 6y ago
I have eaten street food in India. It may not look especially hygienic, but most of it is deep fried and that is going to kill off most pathogens pretty effectivley. Steamed (as opposed to fried) momos in Northern India seemed to be the thi
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by collyw 6y ago
So very remote places that managed to close off contact with the outside world early.
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by collyw 6y ago
That's without taking into account other factors such as comorbidities. Sebastian Rushworth did an interesting article on this, pointing out that it is likely wrong. https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/29&#
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by collyw 6y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-official-a...
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by collyw 6y ago
Governments can't control a virus. East Asia seems to have existing immunity or a genetic factor that means they aren't getting hit anywhere near as badly as other parts of the world.
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by collyw 6y ago
It's following a gompertz curve like every other country.
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by collyw 6y ago
One theory is about relative movement of old and young. Normal situation, young heathy people move around a lot more than the elderly, contract the virus get immune. With lockdown everyone is restricted and old and young go to the supermark
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by collyw 6y ago
How can you say it causes long term damage when it has barely been around for a year?
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by collyw 6y ago
Keep believing the covid hype. they have said this about most of the variants, but I see no evidence of them actually being more deadly.
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by collyw 6y ago
Personally I see a teenage suicide as a result of lockdown far more tragic than an 83 year old death from covid (that's the average age of Covid death in the UK. The average age of death in the UK is 82). 60+ years of life lost versus
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by collyw 6y ago
We have had a fourth wave hyped up here in Spain. Small ripple would be more accurate.
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by collyw 6y ago
Still a small fraction of what Europe has experienced. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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by collyw 6y ago
People who want to only do the interesting work are usually the worst ones to work with in my experience.
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by collyw 6y ago
Doesn't that make it a target for regulation, at which point it's value is likely to go down?
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by collyw 6y ago
Maybe get rid of bitcoin before limiting everyone ability to travel. I don't hear Greta screaming about that, or population growth.
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by collyw 6y ago
Do you know what Finland and Norways lockdown involved? They closed schools and public buildings. They didn't force people to stay at home. They didn't stop people travelling, or force them to wear masks. They treated their popula
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by collyw 6y ago
I didn't say they do nothing, lockdowns clearly cause massive harm and suffering yet there is no obvious benefit when compared to places that didn't lock down. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-
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by collyw 6y ago
Well they don't exist globally. Various US states and countries didn't copy China in a blind panic. There seems no correlation between lockdown and the overall outcome, suggesting that they don't "work". Texas openi
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by collyw 6y ago
>it’s an important topic because we as a society need to take care of each other. We are not taking care of each other with this approach though, quite the opposite, we are destroying small businesses, putting people into depression, mil
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by collyw 6y ago
>HN seems to be OK with this. They do seem to be judging by your (and my) downvotes. It's not like anything ever went wrong in the past with things pushing experimental vaccines onto children. https://www.sciencemag.org&#
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by collyw 6y ago
> In the real world though, 99% of all web sites run with a user with full permissions anyway, so if the site gets compromised, you're screwed regardless. Yeah, I was kind of working under that assumption.
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by collyw 6y ago
Here in Europe someone gave politicians the idea that they could control a virus. So now we have arbitrary sets of restrictions applied when case numbers of coronavirus go up. If case numbers go down again, they get relaxed. If they go up,
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by collyw 6y ago
If you have access to the application machine, you will likely have access to DB credentials, no? Actually if anyone has some more to add to this discussion, I would be interested to hear, in case I am missing something. I am currently usin
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by collyw 6y ago
Everything gets shittier and more complicated for no obvious benefit. I used to write code. Now I just search stack overflow and try and get pieces to work together.

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