free_glamorgan

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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
Yet most people have caught Covid anyway.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
I'm aware of that, which is why I made the point that it would only bring India's Covid death rate to around the same as the US and other Western countries. It is also of no help to the discussion around my original point, which i
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
The official statistics on Covid deaths in India showed a mortality rate 1/10th that of the US. There would need to be more than an order of magnitude error in reporting for their death rate to exceed that of the US. FWIW, calling it t
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
The state of Rotten Tomatoes turned out to be a very accurate bellwether for the state of the (US-centric) movie industry in general. It really is a shame what happened to one of the little bastions of human-centric freedom of expression an
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
Covid seems to be, physically and emotionally, a primarily Western disease. And as bad as the fallout has been where I live, it seems to have been particularly damaging in the US (on both of those counts).
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
Statistically, a social circle comprised of first world, Western, overweight and inactive and generally older folk should have the most susceptibility to death from Covid.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
I have a working hypothesis that a very large number of people don't personally know anyone who has died of Covid, except maybe for an elderly relative and "they were getting on a bit anyway". It's true of me and anyon
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
>.... How!? Everywhere else has had the sense to create smaller local ruling bodies.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
They sure are. They are selling budget, cobbled-together hardware that "supports FOSS", when in reality you are the one providing that support.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
It's probably coming for us all. The increasingly saturated smartphone market will not provide the sales that manufacturers need to maintain the current economies of scale. That is, unless they perfect the art of phones engineered for
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
>This lancet paper represents a pretty good consensus belief The paper represents an effort to support a particular hypothesis using curve-fitting. The Bible represents a "pretty good consensus belief".
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
Not the entire truth - they also have a £700 million equal pay settlement to pay out.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
I've never heard "traige" used with such negative connotations! FWIW, the term used by the NHS is "QALYS", or "Quality-adjusted life year". Yes, these calculations are made at all levels of health care.
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by free_glamorgan 3y ago
Wakanda - "It's ok if we do it".