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by glofish 6y ago
because it simply not true, their economy did not do worse their people are happier and pretty much looks like they would agree to do it again the same way that is the real test of measures, would you do the exact same thing again? which co
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by glofish 6y ago
That's the absurdity right there. Saying that no lockdowns cause the same damage as full lockdown. When it comes to coronavirus NYT is no different then Fox News, they are looking stuff up in their gut, ignoring all evidence, pushing a
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by glofish 6y ago
This dodges the question that I posed. Let me ask again: Are you arguing that Sweden would have done better economically if they locked down? Because that is what we are talking about.
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by glofish 6y ago
Don't you think Sweden would have done even worse had they locked down? This argument that hey look Sweden is still doing badly is ludicrous. Of course they do badly, no country is unaffected, Sweden is more industrialized and depends
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by glofish 6y ago
You can't quite compare countries like that and claim that Sweden would have had the same rate as the other. The world is full of examples where neighboring countries have radically different caseloads. I don't know enough to mean
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by glofish 6y ago
> no worries" because it's not Black Death. I think mentioning the Black Death as a counterpoint weakens the argument greatly. This disease is far-far more similar to the flu than black death, no? So we should probably deal wit
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by glofish 6y ago
it does not say that at all, instead, perhaps we could allow some people, you know those that are willing to take the risk, to live their lives they way they want it every single person that gets through the disease (and that is over 99.5%
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by glofish 6y ago
the "mask" is the red herring of every discussion. It is a talisman that people cling to as a way to ward off any of the ills. I happen to be convinced that some types of masks, like the reusable cloth masks actually make you sick
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by glofish 6y ago
Or she will have no symptoms at all. You have no basis to expect that it will kill her, or that she will even manifest any serious symptoms. Remember the vast majority of people have mild symptoms, the CDC stated that the actual number of c
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by glofish 6y ago
The 1 million deaths are a big deal only because it may include rich white people or even, gasp, you and I. This is the only reason this number is quoted with such an incredulity. Throughout history we have had and we continue to have far
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by glofish 6y ago
it really sounds like the youth got sick and tired of the lock-down and would rather get sick than continue with the never ending prison like conditions it probably is the right course of action - even though ethically no official can sugge
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by glofish 6y ago
do yourself a service and read a real scientific paper on masks (pre-covid when people dared studying the negative effects) and read what happens on the inner side of a mask in a nutshell stuff that would leave your body when you exhale wil
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by glofish 6y ago
now that there really captures the groupthink that permeates government actions someone's mom and people in general only matter if they are scared if they are not scared then they have no rights, their opinion does not matter and they
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by glofish 6y ago
how is anyone forcing anything on you? also where and in what way did the mask pop into this at all? we are talking about what a person would trade aka risk vs reward
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by glofish 6y ago
this is a risk/benefit analysis, we are talking about tradeoffs would I trade getting out of six months of quarantine if the price was the chance of 1/100,000 of dying. Of course I would. I contrasted that to the fact that I frequ
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by glofish 6y ago
the point I was making is that the value of a year in you life and what the quarantine takes from you depends on other factors.
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by glofish 6y ago
wait if you put it that way that is not the deal either, six months of isolation for a 1/100,000 chance of dying 50 years sooner, turns out I take that chance of dying each time I climb a mountain, and I get back less value than what i
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by glofish 6y ago
It is not about old people, they don't want this either. If anything old people are a lot more conservative and libertarian. Once you are 82 you sure made piece with dying after all most people you grew up with have long passed. It is
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by glofish 6y ago
uh no, I would most certainly trade the past six months for a normal life even if it meant that I would die six months sooner. wouldn't you?
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by glofish 6y ago
none of that mask wearing is done at the scale and in the manner forced upon the population nurses change their masks all the time, nobody skis every day for eight hours, (FWIW the vast majority of people skiing don't wear masks over t
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by glofish 6y ago
is a year in the life of an 82 year old (median age of covid death) the same as a year in the life of a 10, 20 or 30 year old? I sure think not. So the comparisons are a bit moot. trading 60 years of 30 year olds for 1 year of an 82 year
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by glofish 6y ago
what if you die next year (of a different cause) and the quarantine robbed you from your last year, would you make the same trade?
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by glofish 6y ago
this is exactly how see it as well. My mother is 77 at risk from COVID - does she expect the neighbors kid not go to school to keep her "safe"? Or that a 20 year old not have fun at the beach from now on so that she is "safe&
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by glofish 6y ago
Sweden is much hated because it demonstrates how the scientific epidemiological models, the studies on mask effectiveness, lockdown estimations etc are all junk science. None of their models would have predicted the trajectory for Sweden, n
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by glofish 6y ago
> I think of all of the parts of the environment (other students, 1:1 time with professors, research opportunities, labs, lectures, random events, extracurriculars, etc.) lectures brought some of the least academic value, But you are n
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by glofish 6y ago
Ok, are you arguing that all courses will be online, but the campus, labs and sports will be in person? It seems like you are missing the point, if the student is not coming the professor can't get paid either. Do you thing GT will jus
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by glofish 6y ago
Are you seriously arguing that a professor teaching/working from home will produce the same value? And that the students should pay the same tuition as before? Why did we ever have in person classes then if the value is the same? (Late
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by glofish 6y ago
is that a good argument? This product if worth X amount for you, but I can only build it for 2X An online course that an average professor puts together will be much worse than what is already available on Coursera. This is what scares the
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by glofish 6y ago
I think if they move all online, the university will have reduced income, that in turn will set the new salaries. It will in a way work out, all I am saying that I don't think these petitioners ever thought about it, or considered that
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by glofish 6y ago
Right, but those negotiations did assume face to face instructions. If they don't teach face to face then the terms need to be re-negotiated. All I am saying here is not that you should push faculty to do things they don't want -

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