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That is absolutely true, but what are you implying in this context? Was Taiwan harsher with draconian lockdown policies early on?
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They could also have motivations to use more specific testing or lower PCR amplification cycles. The PCR amplifications of over 40+ in the US and EU lead to many false positives. There could also be genetic factors found in only South East
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> The number of cases Please research PCR and the amplification cycles. Right now most tests are using over 40 cycles and it's causing a lot of false positives. Cases should never be the number to use, fatalities should (and even th
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Tell that to my best friend in the UK who's Italian flatmate committed suicide back in March.
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> https://www.benjaminborn.de/publication/bdm_lockdown_2020/ Literally a pre-print. There's only an abstract. I don't see the actual one on Sci-Hub or anywhere. I can read it. > https://
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Accusing me of mental illness is against HN rules, not to mention it makes you look like an asshole. Just because an argument has been "addressed" doesn't make it wrong. Your dismissal shows your religion devotion to your vie
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Can you post a link on the evidence for contact tracking in the UK and the data analysis please? I genuinely want to see it. Edit: the poster updated the post with an article rather than adding a comment. It wasn't there when I comment
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I agree. It's a power grab and security theater. It's like the TSA at airports. Let's show we're doing something for the people who keep screaming at the government to do something. It's like trying to stop a hurric
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Even with a vaccine this virus will not go away for at least 10 years. It took 185 years to eradicate SmallPox (mostly from the WHO push of 20 years in the 60s/70s). Vaccine manufactures are claiming 95% efficacy, but that's hones
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Gathering is a basic human right: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
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That masks are scientifically shown to do anything. They are more superstition at this point. You can look at numbers between regions with high mask usage and low mask usage and there's literally no correlation. Meanwhile they are cont
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By closing businesses and shutting down the means of people to provide for themselves, governments are also forcing people to depend on handouts. Printing money without increasing value will not last. It has already damaged our economy and
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Why not let everyone else sports to stay healthy and strengthen their immune systems, as well as get outside (where it's warm enough) and get the vitamin D they need? Why should people who get paid a million get special treatment over
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This is complete and total arbitrary nonsense. You're taking a conclusion and trying to walk back a path of logic to some type of justification. Let's see this for what it is: arbitrary decisions that curtails the human rights of
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> Furthermore, the people you listed above have been found to have conflicts of interest regarding this declaration There are also conflicts with Fauci has his strong connections to the Gavi health alliance and many big pharma companies.
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Some of these hospitals are being over-crowded because people haven't been able to come in for basic surgeries. People have died because they haven't gotten heart surgeries. If someone comes in for getting their wisdom teeth out,
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The actual numbers are totally opposite of what you say. Please show some sources. I think Shapiro covers the arguments against lockdowns very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymD9ipSm-eg I'm against them because
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Thanks for posting this. I do think we are greatly overreacting to this. The drug industries have wanted to push mRNA treatments for years and have never been able to get them approved. They have a vested interested in leveraging this perce
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It's off an on. The connectivity is spotty.
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So I guess TEAMS is next?
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Alright, so lets not look at the signers, let's look at the clearly listed authors on that page: > Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist > Dr. Sunetra Gupta, prof
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Um, the part where the guy opens the door and sees a bar welded in front of it?! There are Chineese sources that show bars being put up against peoples' doors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzQ8Dag8V8 There are tons
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In addition, early on we had statements from two front-line doctors in Bakersfield which were pulled from YouTube: https://www.turnto23.com/news/coronavirus/video-interview-wi... and we had professor Karol Sikora,
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The Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/ Signed by literally thousands of experts, doctors and virologists.
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We have an alert channel in Slack, but it's mostly ignored. Our primary alerts come via SMS/VictorOps. At one of my old jobs, we had SMS via two physical/hardware devices in our data center. One had a Telstra SIM card and the
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> The positive impact of lockdown in Wuhan on containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China Wuhan, where they literally welded people in their homes?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meRUCxlleUc Are you seriously advocating
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I'm not a fool or an idiot, and those types or attacks are not allowed on HN. You don't know a damn thing about me. I don't know about you either. You're not even addressing the argument.
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I wasn't stating my authority. My degree and papers are in totally unrelated fields. I was stating I'm not uneducated. Your interpretation speaks volumes.
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I have a masters degree and three publications. I'm not a fool or an idiot. Your attack is an ad hominem and your divisiveness is patronizing. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting
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Show me the evidence. You look from nation to nation, region to region, and there is no effect at all from masks or lockdowns. You are imagining they work because the TV tells you to, but they don't.
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