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by epakai 5y ago
Who cares about early beliefs? We have everything we need to explain a natural origin (see linked thread), and only a bunch of circumstantial evidence spun into a conspiracy theory narrative to prove engineering. https://virologi
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This was terrible advice. Rate of spread and our inability to treat it early on would have been catastrophic if we took that approach. Like it or not, lockdowns and mitigations were effective at keeping infection rates manageable and our he
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by epakai 5y ago
Texas leadership is focused on performing for their constituents. That relegates the contemplation to progressive city/county leadership who are willing to push back on statewide policy when the numbers get bad. A lot of this gets left
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It's the treatment my family member received in November. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34331674/ 2021 July. Seems like a reasonable treatment by these measures.
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Interesting idea, but not a proper clinical study. HN doesn't seem like the right forum for this unless there are people who would initiate such a study. The claimed mechanism is Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone or Povidone Iodine nasal spray can
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by epakai 5y ago
It has been tried. There are still ongoing trials. The evidence so far points to ivermectin being beneficial for people with parasites suppressing their immune systems. Studies in areas without common parasitic infections tend to show no ef
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Is this sarcastic? Abbott has used the border to attack democrats despite nothing of substance changing there since Biden took over. It's just another issue that has always been, but is drummed up when they need to attack the other tea
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by epakai 5y ago
This is false rhetoric designed to attack democrats and demonize immigrants as greedy. These same "handouts"/stimulus started under and we're touted by Trump. They don't apply to non-citizens ( I'm aware of exc
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A pandemic began? Nothing has significantly changed policy-wise since then.
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More like complimentary gum at every storefront.
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Republicans in congress and in the executive were the ones pushing the conspiracy theories that our democracy was at stake and the election was stolen. Even after their lies had been disproven they continued the farce. It's disgusting
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Biden quit demonizing BLM. That's a huge step in calming things instead of being the strong man who dismisses their beliefs and calls them sons of bitches. Trump having done more is laughable when he intentionally inflamed the situatio
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What if they don't but one group spreads a lie that they do so? Have you fallen for it?
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Except it's not debunked. Bipartisan committee concluded Russia interfered. Multiple people in the Trump admin were acting as foreign agents. We still have no indication what was actually discussed in the Trump tower meetings, but we k
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No, their defacto leader pushed false rhetoric that all but ensured such an event would happen and they didn't reject him or even condemn his actions. This is what condemns the group.
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https://biobot.io/biobots-wastewater-monitoring-the-omicron-... indicates they use PCR. How does PCR testing return a quantitative result? I thought the purpose was to amplify (reproduce) proteins to enable detection, and t
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by epakai 5y ago
Furin cleavage sites aren't as exclusive as you are making them out to be. It has already been established that such sites occur in other corona viruses. https://virological.org/t/tackling-rumors-of-a-suspicious-or
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by epakai 5y ago
The google workspace suite (gmail, docs, etc.) is quite heavy for school chromebooks, but a big part of the issue with school issued machines is they're running a monitoring solution on top of it. I've seen GoGuardian peg a 1&#x2
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by epakai 5y ago
I got one dose of JJ and felt bad the next day. I got covid last week and slept a full day and felt miserable the rest of the week. My folks are sick going on a week and a half now (unvaccinated). Vaccines still seem much preferable to me.
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mRNA has potential to be dangerous. There is nothing inherently dangerous in what our bodies already use as building instructions, nor is there evidence to suggest current mRNA vaccines cause any of these theoretical issues.
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You are misconstruing the Mueller report which did no such thing. It pointed out clear examples of wrong doing and suspicious behaviour then declined a proper conclusion because of political actions within the DoJ.
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I don't believe in either, but my list is quite similar (minus having children). Basically the point is to exert my influence to improve futures as I see fit. I think that statement comes off a bit too selfless; I'm not always con
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by epakai 5y ago
I am very confused when you say "previous president" and pro-vaccine. Are you not referring to Trump? He was talking anti-vax stuff during the 2016 primary debates. He retweeted conflation of vaccination and autism in 2014.
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Cool, never knew this having only worked in Texas. Both "phone maker" and "online retailer" had year-end efforts to reduce warehouse value before we took inventory. For retail it kind of works out okayish because it coin
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by epakai 5y ago
An alternative to the rubber nubs is a drop of clear nail polish. I started using it on dvorak rearranged keyboards. Not sure what is best, but I got some UV curing type. A bit of alcohol removes the residue after curing, and you get a smal
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Obama wasn't that shocking. There was just a massive outrage factory attacking him. There are controversial things the Obama administration did, but the outrage wasn't commensurate.
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Hispanic/Latino is 16.6% of all vaccinated while making up 17.2% of population. Black is 10.0% of all vaccinated while making up 12.4% of population. White (non-hispanic) is 61.5% of all vaccinated while making up 61.2% of the populati
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Trump has been spouting anti-vaccine rhetoric since before has candidacy. He dismissed the seriousness of the disease, and called other's response part of a hoax. Before the vaccine he made unnecessary endorsements of alternative treat
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It probably helps him keep his job. At the moment Abbott doesn't really have an Democrat opponent. His biggest concerns are being primaried by more Trumpian politicians.
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There's a 50 million active user in the US requirement. It's pretty much only for the big platforms.

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