daddylongstroke

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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
No money in preventative thinking. People want the convenience of the magic pill, people don't want the lifestyle change.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
> Moreover, no, emperical evidence shows the neutralizing antibody effect of vaccines decreases the spread of variants. The world started vaccinating in January - 10 months ago. You won't even begin to know the true effectiveness o
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
My friend's mom technically died in a clinical sense 5 minutes post first jab while still in the parking lot under observation. My other friend's brother dropped dead exactly 36 hours post 2nd jab. Both were zapped back to life.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
This is exactly right and is maybe the primary factor in why infection rates sky rocketed (year over year) in places that had high vaccination rates.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
It's kind of weird. I've worked both physical jobs and desk jobs, and could never imagine actually wishing a computer/desk job on either of my kids (thankfully they're not at all interested so far, so I think they'
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Completely agree. My most enjoyable job was working shipping at a factory (think playing tetris while loading/unloading trailers all day). Farming however, is my most enjoyable 'value-generating' activity as opposed to job.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
...and, as long as we don't revert our 'farming' practices to pre-industrialization means, lack of soil health.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
I think you're missing the point. The scale of today's cities IS the root cause of the problems.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Identical method that they use post-vaccine I would hope (though I doubt your MD's office would do this to actually validate vaxx efficacy, cuz cost ): Full CBC plus differential.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
My wife is an RN that has treated over 9K COVID or vaccine-side-effect patients in the last 1.5 years, with her team and their AI managing over 122K cases. These are higher numbers than many of the "studies" propagated by the CDC
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
For sure, and I'd much rather share the 'road' with horses, mules and goats rather than cars or cycles. :-D
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Yeah COVID is definitely a vascular disease and unfortunately that effects all parts of the body. It is interesting that my wife's triage line is now handling many many reports from single and double vaccinated people getting pa
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Yeah it's a bit bizarre hearing people say "this could never work", and them not understanding that it has "worked" this way for most of human history.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Yes, these are two great phrases and methods to vastly improve your communication skills! Many people seem to be OK with leaving a conversation with assumptions instead of assurances.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Mostly because they believe other investors will invest in these companies and hence their investment will pay off. Seems like 90%+ of tech companies religiously lose money, or maybe its just the 12 that I've worked for in my career?
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
I think this can also be split by class and background to provide further clarity. For example, every single one of my classmates (we were all lower income people) and myself are head and shoulders above where our parents were at our age
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Probably mostly like the present, and the past. Things don't really change much, especially people. We build new toys, that's about it.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
No offense intended, I'm an Eastern European who has lived in the US for almost 3 decades now, and as prejudiced as it may sound, most Americans don't deal well with accepting reality that conflicts their own internal worldview.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
This is absolutely correct. For hundreds of years the poor "peasants" have eaten healthier than royalty. Pretty sure there's a research paper floating somewhere around HN about it (Victorians and their health). I grew up o
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Ahhh, from the paper linked in your NPR article - 2020 cases = 435, 2021 cases = 1143. It's an even smaller increase than I originally thought - only 163%! Also, looks like 25% were from prescriptions.
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
My 63 year old father just built his own 3rd home about 7 years ago. He had a single helper, and of course, we all (direct family) helped. Everything was done by him/us, foundation through roof with exception of the gas line hookup h
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
>I don't see how you can honestly use this phrase to describe the worst pandemic since HIV. I mean, according to CDC's data, it is a very minor illness. Affects very few seriously, and kills even fewer: CDC believes (they obvi
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
>You can choose to not be indoors with others, or you can choose to take a vaccine to eliminate that risk. ^^ This is where you go off the rails. You don't "eliminate" that risk with a vaccine. Nobody who produced the va
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Yes, what's troubling to me in this imperfect communication, is the media reporting "COVID deaths", as if they were "deaths of COVID", instead of "deaths with COVID". The spin is palpable, and completely
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Firstly, I hope you accept and understand that we are all fucking idiots. Every last one of us, yourself and myself included. I'm not sure what specific nuanced position you believe equals "doubling down on stupid". I hon
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
>And states across the country are reporting an uptick in poison control calls for people that ingested Ivermectin, almost all from animal drugs, not prescriptions. You're spreading FUD man. These "upticks" you speak of a
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Exactly this. This is one reason we homeschool. Public school in the US was so incredibly oppressive (cops patrolling the halls and writing lewd conduct tickets for kids cussin'???), I was frankly shocked that most kids and parents p
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
I mean, speaking as someone who was clinically depressed for 25+ years, and about 20 of those years highly violent/homicidal/suicidal, in my opinion, a good solution would be to allow those of us with daily emotional pain and no r
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
>AvGas (which uses TEL) is used by general aviation exclusively. And by people who don't want to ever have to clean or rebuild a carburetor in their small motors. It's been an exceptional motor-life-extender to my chainsaws sp
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by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Completely agree. It's not even close! The scythe (when used by an experienced mower) can knock out twice the area as a weed wacker can in the same amount of time, without the noise, smell, most of the maintenance hassle, and it runs

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