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by cryoshon 6y ago
we have absolutely no clue regarding the long-term impacts of exposure to this virus for asymptomatic people or otherwise. we cannot gamble with our future so carelessly on the basis of preliminary data. here is a vignette to explain why. o
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by cryoshon 6y ago
unfortunately this article ignored around the elephant in the room: one of the two dominant political parties has an entire platform devoted to stopping institions from expanding while also eating away at the existing capabilities of those
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A videogame-based intervention for actively reducing severity of paediatric ADHD(thelancet.com)
2 points by cryoshon 6y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 6y ago
>If I were Charlie Baker I would call up the National Guard and tell them to retrieve the masks that were sized by any means necessary. This is an absolute disgrace, and blatant theft by the Feds. you are not the first to suggest this. a
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by cryoshon 6y ago
this is a really good point. AFAIK, 100% of the canonical pre-existing conditions which are highly dangerous with COVID are disqualifiers for joining the military. this cohort will give us a much better picture of how the virus impacts a to
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by cryoshon 6y ago
$1200 is barely enough for one month for most people. for a lot of urbanites, that check will get eaten by rent more or less immediately. if not this month's rent, next' month's rent, and so on. if not rent, then food. or hea
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>if you're spending your day on Twitter right now, it's shredding your psychological health >Twitter seems to have evolved more into just really stressed out people yelling at public officials these are both good points, but
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by cryoshon 7y ago
according to the OP paper, that's an unproven strategy. i can't find anything else supporting it in the literature linked by that paper either. so the real answer is that we don't know. however, while it appears to be unprove
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>It should be a balance. the situation you describe is not a "balance". it's whatever the employer desires. you've all but guaranteed low morale. when you demand loyalty and team spirit on top of that, it justifies cy
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by cryoshon 7y ago
honestly, i'm surprised that their demands are so few and so modest. i was expecting significantly higher numbers for the hazard pay portion of their demands. i can't understand what might prevent amazon and instacart from assenti
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by cryoshon 7y ago
rising health insurance premiums will drag down any notion of economic recovery once the pandemic recedes, much like rising health insurance premiums led to the middle class being hard-pressed in the aftermath of the great recession. quite
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by cryoshon 7y ago
framing the US as the world's "richest country" is a disservice here. a few people are very rich, and many people are well off. but the institutions of this country are, despite being the product of the "richest country&
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by cryoshon 7y ago
it's more or less unforgiveable that our american healthcare workers don't have the PPE they need to protect themselves. attrition among our healthcare workers is going to be very high, especially because unlike singapore, we use
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by cryoshon 7y ago
disinfection isn't going to do much of anything. the virus lives in people and spreads between people, even when they are mostly asymptomatic, at least for a few days. sure, it'll stop people from picking up trace viral particles
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>corticosteroids may have no treatment effect isn't the point of the corticosteriods to rapidly reduce widespread pulmonary inflammation that would otherwise kill the patient?
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by cryoshon 7y ago
a vaccine might be 18 months away, if we're lucky and divert resources to the effort. if we're unlucky, it could be four to five years or even longer. remember, there's no guarantee that we can even make a vaccine for any arb
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i think this article misses the mark. consider that the preliminary WHO incident report regarding the chinese response to the outbreak in wuhan essentially said that the radical and severe measures taken by the chinese government were the o
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by cryoshon 7y ago
school and business closures should have happened two or three weeks ago when it was clear that the US still had a chance to nip the infection in the bud. now, it's way too late. we've had numerous instances of community transmiss
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>This is going to cost you money, time, and opportunity herein lies the problem. everyone knows the virus is costing time and money. but how much do you want to bet that unscrupulous people are going to want to try to keep their employee
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by cryoshon 7y ago
my take on this is that those masks are probably useless, and even if they were useful, most members of the public will not utilize them correctly. so, i advise people to leave the face masks of all types for utilization by our healthcare w
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>there are clearly agendas on both sides and everything needs to be validated one side features scientists who have been developing the same story for nearly 40 years with ever-greater detail. they don't have paid PR professionals o
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>serious questions about how much of that is natural cycle and how much we are doing. We know we are doing some, we don't know how much, but we keep saying that this is settled science when more valid questions need to be asked your
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>a secret that they will never admit to what evidence makes you think that this is the case? what's the technology to fix PTSD that you're speaking of?
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by cryoshon 7y ago
for me, happiness at work means four things: 1. a worthwhile mission that i find meaningful 2. competency and effectiveness at serving that mission 3. freedom from interference from management and other people who typically get in the way o
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i feel like i'm in the same boat. if i don't suceed in my entrepreneurial labor to make my own (new and unique) path, there's no way i can express myself and be accepted most of the time. until then, going with someone else m
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by cryoshon 7y ago
yep. if the choice is "taking a risk" and burning down your meagre savings without the promise of a payout, or grinding away at a low-risk and low-reward job, the choice is exceedingly clear for most people. you need slack capacit
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by cryoshon 7y ago
saudi arabia isn't a great power. it has economic power via oil, but this power is eroding at a lightning speed thanks to the end of the petrochemical era. it has no military power to speak of, nor any cultural influence whatsoever out
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by cryoshon 7y ago
hacking of bezos' phone by MBS of KSA suggests an effort by the saudis to influence news coverage so that their backwards petrostate is not excoriated as routinely or as comprehensively for its cornucopia of egregiously unacceptable fa
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Welcome to corporate America. enjoy it while it lasts. there will be more bloodshed soon
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Maybe we need an acceptable way for people who can't mentally handle work to be able to exist in society. agreed. in america, the "acceptable way" is rapidly becoming suicide. of course, it's unacceptable. but that&#

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