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by effie 5y ago
1. and 2. are jokes, but 3. a 4. are close. Don't mix them up.
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by effie 5y ago
> Thanks to the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, the global economy is slowly starting to emerge from the pandemic. Why would CNBC thank solely vaccine rollouts? There is also natural and acquired immunity, existing effective treatments,
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by effie 5y ago
> Good luck replicating that server setup It is easy when the server is regularly backuped.
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by effie 5y ago
However, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is the preferable term; the process has nothing to do with nuclear reactions or nuclear energy or nuclear material or nuclear bombs. The fact that the thing that is resonating with EM radiation are
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by effie 5y ago
I wouldn't let my 10 year old children watch/listen to "news". That's too young for such toxic influence.
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by effie 5y ago
> You absolutely can choose to not get the serious covid version that hospitalizes you: by getting the vaccine! By socially distancing, and not hanging out with people who don't take very basic precautions. That is not strictly true
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by effie 5y ago
Let's get some perspective on U.S. deaths in 2020 [1]: [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234 For the whole year 2020, heart disease was 2x bigger killer (700 thousand) than COVID
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by effie 5y ago
You assume the policy of pushing vaccination is sound, so the methods of its implementation are not totalitarian or it isn't a concern. But even if it was a sound policy from the standpoint of the state, the methods employed (censorshi
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by effie 5y ago
It's a reminder of a bigger unresolved societal issue - how the healthcare resources are to be distributed to patients. Should vaccinated get preference? Young ones? Wealthy? Political class? Celebrities? In whole world, they all do,
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by effie 5y ago
Either severe, or very common. Hopefully time will tell.
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by effie 5y ago
Even if you are eventually proven correct (vaccinated putting pressure on the virus to get more dangerous), I think your personal decision to favour personal health to public health is the correct one. Everybody should primarily watch their
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by effie 5y ago
The vaccine can 1) hurt me with probability p1, and 2) help me with probability p2, in case I get COVID later in a few-month-window after the vaccine when it is efficient. I can choose to not get the vaccine, but I can't choose to not
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by effie 5y ago
> Multiple orders of magnitude more people have died or come down with long haul COVID Yes but a very small part of those are relevant to my personal assessment of risk of bad COVID. The risk depends strongly on age, health status, lifes
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by effie 5y ago
> Your freedom to catch and spread covid to me is not supported by established law. No all freedoms are given by eastablished law, many are implicit. Then later some freedoms can be restricted by the law. Is there a law banning catching
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by effie 5y ago
That is not rational at all. It's a manageable disease class with limited health impact on population, in death numbers comparable to strokes. It is not appropriate to compare it to war at all; in most places people are not afraid of C
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by effie 5y ago
That's a very interesting observation!
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by effie 5y ago
Exactly! Popular history is very much driven and sometimes twisted by the colorful characters that people like to talk about. Feynman wasn't important in Los Alamos at that time, he wrote a book of his favourite stories some of which
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by effie 5y ago
Von Neumann wasn't that important in development of the present-day computers. He just wrote a paper where he formalized the designs that were already appearing in real life due to other people - computer pioneers like Konrad Zuse an
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by effie 5y ago
No normal users are going to use Linux or MacOS. They are going to use Windows.
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by effie 5y ago
Did you provide arguments for why "person being a part of society" means or implies they have to submit and receive the vaccine? No. You claimed that not submitting to the vax agenda makes them a selfish person who refuses to cont
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by effie 5y ago
Yes, it's still a big part of the population. I think getting vaccinated makes a lot of sense in that group, but of course even there, it has to be informed personal decision.
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by effie 5y ago
40% efficacy for preventing spreading is quite poor. There are other strategies of similar or better efficacy for preventing spreading like limiting contact with people, using masks, vitamin D, being on ivermectin. If you were a marketing d
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by effie 5y ago
I'm sorry your family had to go through that. Your wife meant well, but I think overreacted and wasn't very rational. Young children are the most resilient group against COVID, even without vaccination. Most of them don't eve
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by effie 5y ago
Those 80% and higher efficacies are against symptomatic COVID and hospitalization. Not against getting infected and getting infectious. This efficacy was high initially, but is reported to be decreasing, and currently at 40% for Pfizer [1]:
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by effie 5y ago
Yes that's slightly better. However millions may still die even with vaccinations, because most of the world does not have access to them and they don't have adequate health care. Also, with time as mutations occur, vaccines will
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by effie 5y ago
These attempts at guilt-tripping of people with different opinions on society COVID strategy / personal health choices are disgusting and tiresome. You are not their doctor, and even doctor has to respect patients decision. Vaccines ar
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by effie 5y ago
Yes much less likely sick, but that by itself does not mean much less likely getting infected. The recent data from U.S. and Israel show that vaccinated people get infected easily too.
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by effie 5y ago
> How could I live knowing that I brought it to someone because I was so stupid to avoid the vaccination? First, you would never know, the virus is out there and some people get COVID symptoms days after getting infected. Second, by vacc
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by effie 5y ago
These vaccines are not going to solve societal problems; they do not prevent spreading, and efficiency decreases as the virus mutates. COVID measures will stop when critical body of people finally realizes they are inefficient/too cost
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by effie 5y ago
1) Prions: kuru has asymptomatic incubation period 10-13 years; 2) various carcinogens, it takes time for the cancer to develop.

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