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by faffffaf 3y ago
Where I live (Wales, UK), we had "local lockdowns" (where citizens were not allowed to leave they county they lived in) until late 2021. Even without that, there were still significant restrictions in place on our daily lives, lik
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>who doesn't have in circle of family or close friends somebody who passed away directly due to covid. Maybe true, but in every case that I know of, it's some variation of "Mavis died of Covid in the end, but she'd be
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>the inconvenience Oh hell no. I did not live through an "inconvenience". I and my kids now inhabit a world that will deal with the societal and economic damage for many years. And no, I'm not just going to let slide a his
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by faffffaf 3y ago
The name is the least of my problems (although I have always wondered where it came from). The whole thing reads like a D&D script.
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>Doesn't that cause people to go to work and school when they might not have otherwise? Hence the absurd situation where you "need" to get vaccinated to be a good person, but you also need to keep testing, in case you leav
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by faffffaf 3y ago
I'll quote OP again: >>COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick. The boosters are 26% effective at preventing infection. Sure, they do something if you are particularly at ris
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>COVID vaccines significantly reduce how many people who get exposed to COVID actually get sick. The linked article says that Covid boosters, at least, are 26% effective. Personally, I don't call that a significantly effective treat
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>the disease is far less effective spreading, either for not be able to infect as much people, or people not being severely impacted and being less contagious and for less time. This idea doesn't mix well with Covid's very high
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by faffffaf 3y ago
Religious impulses get measured on a different metric than the dry, purely scientific and logical basis that Climate Change is supposedly formed from. If it really is a religious impulse, then we have to completely re-evaluate the construct
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by faffffaf 3y ago
Interesting that many subreddits have removed downvoting, for a variety of reasons.
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by faffffaf 3y ago
>have value despite or sometimes because of that resemblance What kinds of value? Personal reflection and growth? Community cohesiveness? The construction of inspirational and grandiose places of worship? How would these be useful values
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by faffffaf 3y ago
Negative.
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by faffffaf 3y ago
I love the religious overtones of this, especially as I was brought up devout Christian and have a good familiarity with the Old Testament prophets and the Book of Revelation. Here, the author is warning us of the promised false prophets an
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by faffffaf 3y ago
You could take a further step down the conspiracy path, and argue that Climate Change is how the developing East has created dependence on their materials and manufacturing. The real solution to this is a CO2 tax at the point of goods impor