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by dent9876543 3y ago
There was once this crank who claimed the Earth orbited the Sun, and not the other way around... That was misinformation too, no?
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by dent9876543 3y ago
This does seem to square with the opinion some had that long COVID is really just an alternative name for post-viral fatigue.
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by dent9876543 3y ago
The article suggests that it’s best to look at death rates, since it avoids the classification trap. That might be true. But doesn’t it also make drawing meaningful conclusions hard? Seems more appropriate that the overall rate/ranking
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by dent9876543 3y ago
So, a sort of non-specific lashing out in frustration at not getting their own way? Could be that. Well demonstrated!
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by dent9876543 3y ago
Since COVID, I find the who left and right thing hugely confusing. I used to identify as left, and would still do that, except that what passed for left-leaning news during COVID became nothing more than propaganda, and left-leaning journal
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by dent9876543 3y ago
They’re only a good idea if you have an exit strategy that is feasible. We didn’t have one. We didn’t even seem to have an infeasible strategy for a long time! And as a consequence, lockdown became performative rather than strategic. If we’
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by dent9876543 3y ago
And a net loss for kids education, and a net loss for the vulnerable in who’s name the lockdown is enacted, and a net loss for the health of the nation who’s services were to be prevented from collapsing. It also would be good if next time
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by dent9876543 3y ago
Great to be sceptical about it, because that’s how we end up with robust plans that stand a chance of actually working. But, for all the protesting about how GBD would have failed the old and vulnerable, it missed the point that we actually
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by dent9876543 3y ago
Even after all this time, I didn’t realise the distinction. I thought it was based in the “China created it” vs. “came from bats” arguments, i.e., man made (and this novel; of at least partial descent that our immune system had never before
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by dent9876543 3y ago
> not in the gov’ts power to tell the press how they should present things. Is that really people’s understanding? Governments the world over made it their business to control what what put out — through the MSM, and many other channels.
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by dent9876543 3y ago
That's a gross oversimplification. It's only close to true for those kids that would have done reasonably anyway. For those kids that don't have the kind of family environment that will allow them to catch up, it's gonna
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by dent9876543 3y ago
But that simply isn't true either. Perfect eradication has to be the objective, not simply stopping it in its tracks. Otherwise, whenever you open up, you start spreading again. It's also a rather offensive appeal to human superio
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by dent9876543 3y ago
But freedom of movement does trump your right. At least as far as COVID is concerned, and that's because COVID isn't a realistic concern for most children. There are people (children, but also others) for whom it is a marked conce
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by dent9876543 3y ago
There’s no difference across the years. Wouldn’t you expect the vaccination programme to have reduced deaths across at least the older age groups?
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by dent9876543 3y ago
Except that, once it had become clear that population immunity was not going to happen through vaccination, what happened? Yep... they ignored it, and continued to insist on vaccination. They could have opened up. At least the risk taker wo
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by dent9876543 4y ago
I would agree with that assessment — it’s applying something of a fuzzy concept to networking. Arguably it is doing it without a great explanation of how, why, and the trade offs, but then the zero trust concept itself is also still in its
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by dent9876543 4y ago
True, but it is not opinion, and is reporting results contained in a paper. The reporting itself looks pretty even handed. (For example, paragraph 5 reads, "At the same time, the results do not prove a direct link between lockdowns and
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by dent9876543 4y ago
It's not about proving they don't work. No one cares if you can't do that. But it's getting a bit embarrassing that every time we try to prove the positive, all the benefits disappear in the closer analysis. It's al
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by dent9876543 4y ago
And that's on HN. On the less enlightened boards, you'd have your message flagged, and your account deleted. For selfishly spreading dangerous misinformation. :-) And that's where discussion was even permitted...
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by dent9876543 4y ago
True enough. Not wearing a mask now is normal again. Wearing is the more unusual case. I thought you were arguing that not wearing paints and unflattering picture. But I agree that isn’t the case any longer. Apologies. Misunderstood timing.
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by dent9876543 4y ago
Right. But consider actual masking practice, rather than the theoretical undertaking. In practice, they are used in a way that legitimises closer contact (socialising, working, travelling, supporting) than would otherwise be appropriate. At
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by dent9876543 4y ago
Perhaps. But perhaps by not masking, it shows the individual to be relatively un-cautious. That’s really useful to know if you happen to be on the other end of the vulnerable spectrum.
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by dent9876543 4y ago
But it’s the same thing, in the end, effectively. Isn’t it?
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by dent9876543 4y ago
I don't think this will really be a surprise to anyone for surgical masks. But it is surprising that N95s didn't make for a more clear cut result.
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by dent9876543 4y ago
That gets closer to a reasonable explanation for things — people executing those "information" campaigns were genuinely trying to make things better for people, perhaps motivated by their belief that, if they didn't do so, al
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by dent9876543 4y ago
The major conclusion to that discussion ("surgical masks work during surgery") was that the did work, but because they form an effective barrier against spittle and so on. Studies show that surgical masks are only marginally effec
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by dent9876543 5y ago
Logically it has to be 600, no? Which makes no sense. But doesn’t it place a reasonable scale upon what a trade might look like.
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by dent9876543 5y ago
I'm slightly surprised to see no comments on this story. It's almost as if people /expect/ Google to be doing this! Which perhaps the cynic in me can accept... (sad face) There's quite a discussion on the Ars boards
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by dent9876543 5y ago
Yep. Couldn’t agree more. There really is a time and efficiency cost to all the task switching g. But equally, and as another poster said already, software development really does require having meetings to get a good outcome. I think it’s
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by dent9876543 6y ago
They don’t differentiate risk and impact. The Oxford calculator seems to be personally focused, and for me, that’s I what. Reading was relatively low risk. Seems to correlate with what I’ve read. But the microcovid calc rated something I wa

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