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by effie 5y ago
Agreed.
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by effie 5y ago
> But you can't "choose" to be separate from society, that's my point. Of course you can, to varying degrees. The farther from cities and the more resourceful you are, the more separate you can get. > The people in
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by effie 5y ago
Yes oversight and influence on the government is responsibility of citizens. It does not mean that citizen is responsible for government's actions (as in I am member of a group of people to blame for their government's actions). T
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by effie 5y ago
I understand that meaning, but it is very strange and confusing formulation. Just say it's 10x lower.
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by effie 5y ago
While this is a process that is believed to be happening, it is very hard to observe in real time. It takes comparing data between decades and more to notice changes in composition of animal bodies.
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by effie 5y ago
Compulsory wearing a mask may be a good idea in some parts of space-time (a bus, a train, an airplane), not in others (outside). It's like going around naked on the street is a no-no, but on a dedicated beach it may be OK. "My bod
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by effie 5y ago
You are advocating for segregation based on politics. If that comes, you won't like the consequences.
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by effie 5y ago
Vaccines decrease your chance of bad COVID from one small number to another 10x smaller number. "Getting the virus", even if almost certain, isn't something most people have to worry about. Bad COVID is a worry, getting the v
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by effie 5y ago
True. One which unfortunately we can't stop with vaccines. Even if vaccines were 100% effective (which they are not), we would have to violate constitution and humans rights of millions to really exterminate the virus with vaccines. Th
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by effie 5y ago
> I don't understand why people are so obsessed over potential long term effects of vaccines while completely ignoring the potential long term effects of covid. I don't know anyone obsessed but: the issue is present. The rollou
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by effie 5y ago
Not true. It has conditional marketing authorization. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/comirnaty#... Also it is in pharma's interest to have this as long as possible. They like thei
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by effie 5y ago
1. Maybe true, but there is also the interesting fact that pharma wanted and got immunity, so it is in pharma's interest to prevent the full authorization; 2. You missed the fact that risks depend on personal data, factors, weights of
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by effie 5y ago
To make an assessment of safety, what is the number of people who have taken them and got significant problems? It is very hard to find this number. I know a person who got bad reaction to the vaccine, heart and brain aches. Their doctor t
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by effie 5y ago
The procedure you are describing is difficult to do formally for most people, so they estimate it intuitively, like you did. And since individual data and personal values and political stances are involved, they got a different result from
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by effie 5y ago
> relatively high mortality rate Can you quantify that? How many people died from COVID vs. cancer or transport accidents?
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by effie 5y ago
> The risk of not getting the vaccine vastly outweighs any potential risk of getting the vaccine. Read again and think a little about this statement. First, it is biased: risk of getting vaccinated is "potential", but the other
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by effie 5y ago
> Rather, it means the risk of infection among vaccinated people was 90 percent lower than the risk among unvaccinated people. OMG that's the second time I encounter this nonsensical formulation, people in media just repeat stuff (b
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by effie 5y ago
Yes if you voted for that government, otherwise no.
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by effie 5y ago
People don't decide to become terrorists. They are labeled that way.
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by effie 5y ago
> help tip the scales back the other way > put some agency back in the hands of normal people You mean providing technology tools to people who aren't technical to give them more agency and thus promote liberation of society from
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by effie 5y ago
Personal observation. Steven Weinberg made his career as an accomplished disciple of orthodox quantum theoretical physics, making it to the top of the physics/social food chain via hard work developing quantum field theory and getting
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by effie 5y ago
> The best way to reduce the of risk of severe health results from COVID is literally take one of the twenty different vaccines I don't disagree with that, although I am not sure either, it's too early to tell regarding unknown
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by effie 5y ago
It is an absurd claim. Just because reported rate of infections went down for a while, it does not mean that virus was eradicated.
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by effie 5y ago
You can't compare getting vaccinated with getting bad COVID in this way. Getting vaccine is like a Russian roulette, because you do not know whether you are in the group of poor people who get maimed or killed by it. But not getting a
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by effie 5y ago
When this tech comes, only trust the autonomous ones not connected to Internet or other means of control.
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by effie 5y ago
It doesn't usually work like that. Media is directed via money and preferential treatment from the ruling class. For example, in some countries state has bought air time and ads in media. Media welcomes the gravy-train and makes sure n
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by effie 5y ago
Not RCT, but look up infections in Israel.
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by effie 5y ago
Would you want to wear a seatbelt if it also injected you with a novel gene therapy vaccine, which is basically a russian-roulette with rare harmful health effects and your family can't sue the state nor the pharma?
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by effie 5y ago
> countries that practically eradicated the virus instantly after vaccination (like Israel) Source for this absurd claim?
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by effie 5y ago
Indeed. It is also inconsistent with the fact that COVID vaccines are still in clinical trials, with no data regarding long-term (10 years) effects.

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