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by effie 5y ago
Yes technically you are correct, but COVID does not care about technical definition of obesity. Obese is a very general term, borderline obese/overweight person with otherwise healthy body has much better chances than someone with morb
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by effie 5y ago
They are not underresearched, they are unknown because the long term has to pass first and then it can be researched.
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by effie 5y ago
You said it is very dangerous, but I say it is not in that category. It is very dangerous to specific subpopulations, that's it.
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by effie 5y ago
Exactly, somehow this simple fact eludes many vaccinators on HN.
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by effie 5y ago
We can't be master of our fates, because if there is fate, it's determined. But we can decide to think and act as free persons nevertheless. We should ignore nonsensical / non-constitutional edicts and go on with our lives.
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by effie 5y ago
> against a very dangerous disease Ebola or smallpox are very dangerous disease. COVID has much lower negative impact on lives/health, it is more like flu or risk of stroke, very dangerous only for specific subpopulations, mostly ol
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by effie 5y ago
No, long term means 5,10 years and it cannot become short term because it takes 5 years (from the start of vaccination) to observe effects in people vaccinated for 5 years and it takes 10 years to observe effects in people vaccinated for 10
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by effie 5y ago
Wow those are some assumptions. > Being silent - not voting - is NOT the same as voting against something. I never said it always is. However not voting does not mean being silent. I explained this in my analogy where most of the people
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by effie 5y ago
I think not; consider pseudosphere, there is no obvious center. Its embedding in 3D space has infinite dimensions but the object itself has finite surface area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudosphere If you mean ob
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by effie 5y ago
You can't rely on big media to report on important things, and even when they report on it, often they push some one-sided narrative. One other example recently are the anti-covidism protests - they never talk to the protestors, instea
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by effie 5y ago
That kind of assassination of inconvenient people is already being used for a long time. Just plant the evidence and tip off the cops. This kind of legislation is for a different reason: to introduce pervasive surveillance of people activit
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by effie 5y ago
How many people need more security coming from the state in EU? /rhetorical question
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by effie 5y ago
False dichotomy. It can be both, depending on the issue. This is similar to U.S., although U.S. is much stronger on the federal level than EU is.
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by effie 5y ago
No that is a wrong analogy. The correct analogy to not participating in the vote would be: I would say "there shouldn't be any pizza party vote, because the options all suck, and I do not want any pizza, everybody go home". I
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by effie 5y ago
Any examples? At least the Council has people with mandate from the countries...
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by effie 5y ago
So, mortality due to COVID is similar to mortality due to stroke. Most of deaths probably in similar age groups, although probably COVID may kill younger people more than stroke does.
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by effie 5y ago
> Make your representative in the Council of the EU accountable. How would I do that? He is already in that position, I have zero influence on his decisions.
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by effie 5y ago
No, where is the contradiction?
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by effie 5y ago
> the risks associated to the vaccine are completely fictive. Risk of GB syndrome, clots, bad immune reaction in heart and brain, death from vaccine are not fictitious. They did happen and are still happening. I can choose to nullify thi
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by effie 5y ago
> You don't get to complain when you decide not to participate in the democratic process. You can complain either way. Not participating means you are not participating, and is a kind of a vote too. If <50% people vote, then the
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by effie 5y ago
> on the grounds of a single piece of legislation. No, I said "when you realize", not that it is the "single piece of legislation". There are many other reasons for that stance, such as the fact that nation's peo
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by effie 5y ago
That is the probable reason why this is being pushed through.
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by effie 5y ago
It could work, just do referendum in every country and then implement the result. It would require that people in power in all countries wanted to give power to their people, and implemented it securely. Which is why it won't happen.
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by effie 5y ago
This is not substantive. Please read the HN guidelines.
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by effie 5y ago
Citizen, show me child protector greenpass on your phone. You don't have it? We will have to search your phone and your cavities.
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by effie 5y ago
It's agendas like these when you realize submitting your country laws to legislation from Brusel was a fatal error.
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by effie 5y ago
> We have a duty to other people and other people getting sick through the inaction of an individual's refusal to get vaccinated is an easily foreseeable outcome. No that's pure fantasy, most people in most situations do not ha
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by effie 5y ago
I think a big part of that uptake is the fact that UK has its own Astrazeneca vaccine with which Oxford was involved and this makes people in UK trust it more than people in other countries trust mRNA vaccines from the foreign big pharma an
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by effie 5y ago
> You can choose not to be affected by the virus by taking the vaccine. That's the whole point of the vaccine. Vaccine isn't 100% protection from being affected by the virus. Even if you take it, you can still get the virus and
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by effie 5y ago
Yes I made the distinction because "very contagious" is scary but infections are not, most healthy people handle them well and only some get COVID. I agree with you that long-terms effects are unknown at this point, both for the v

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