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by iammisc 5y ago
> The problem with living in these desirable, walkable, neighborhoods is that once they're built up enough, activists lobby to destroy what was built to fill it with high density housing because of the critical mass of services avai
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Or... hear me out. You could just build walkable suburbs. Why there is a distinction between 'suburb' and 'smaller city' is beyond me, but there really is. A small city still has a walkable downtown core with apartments
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I think you've gone off the deep end. I replied to a comment suggesting making hospitalization of unvaccinated illegal by social policy. I said that doesn't make sense in a country where government is not nominally involved in hos
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I'll just quote what I said above: > As with any 'rule', there are exceptions, but that is the general idea yes. There is little need to worry about future variants.
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Viruses don't 'mutate' up to a death rate. They mutate to a low death rate in one host, then sometimes cross, and happen to cause a higher death rate in the new species. Can Sars cov2 cross to another animal, mutate, and come
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> Denying expensive claims increases profitability right up to the point they lose enough customers to offset those gains. Am I missing something fundamental about capitalism here? Yes... the ultimate responsible party is the patient, no
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> It also says that in addition to being more contagious, the delta variant likely increases the risk of severe disease and hospitalization, compared with the original strain. Hold on, hospitalization and severe disease and death are com
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> >COVID does not seem to be bouncing between animal hosts You make antibodies to all kinds of things. You likely have antibodies to cat viruses that have no chance of infecting you. Again, stop the fear mongering. > they always e
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Because the denied claims are the responsibility of the individual, not the government.
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> But that could change or are you asserting it won't How can you interpret what I wrote to say that a new virus or variant certainly won't cause a higher fatality rate? Anything can happen at any time. For all we know, a new v
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> but it's no longer in dispute on principle. It was also not in dispute in the first constitution of the united states, but they just did away with that for funsies (I'm being facetious). I imagine we'll see something sim
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Absolutely, but forcing elderly to their deaths in the face of multiple warnings against it and against federally recommended policy is much worse. Sex assault is terrible, but marching people off to death is much worse, IMO.
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this is fear mongering. The fatality rate of COVID, even at the beginning of the pandemic when we didn't even have proper metrics, was never measured to be more than about 7-8%, which is very high, but not 35%. The paper you cite is ab
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In a socialized medicine country, I'd understand this argument. However, in a private medical system, there's no reason for this. If an unvaccinated person can pay, they ought to be treated. It's their money.
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Many states ban new hospitals from starting without the approval of other hospitals. NO one wants to effect actual change, preferring instead to deal with superficial attempts to deal with the problem. That being said, hospitals have not be
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The rise of national chain stores and mass media. In the past, if you traveled from San Francisco to new Orleans you would experience an entirely different set of stores, a new dialect, new customs, and frankly a new language. Even the diff
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Correct. Just like the eu was good for the uk until they decided it wasn't. Except the issue of secession was settled in the affirmative there and in the negative here. You'd be hard pressed to argue the confederacy wanted to take
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Politics has become a religion substitute in this country. People are becoming blinded by dogma, but instead of the dogma being about unfalsifiable claims, it's about facts and real world happenings.
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This is why the focus is on sex assault and not nursing home deaths. Like it or not, there's a segment of the population that celebrates men who grab life by certain parts. they're typically elderly. And the elderly are a more act
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To be fair, Iraq basically was a disqualifier in 2016. Little data is to be had on 2020 since the gop primary didn't really mean much. Trump campaigned on how dumb Afghanistan and Iraq are and promised to remove troops.
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Two things: 1. What he did went against published federal guidelines which state no transfers to nursing homes unless they have medical isolation wards 2. Why lie about it? Also contemporaneous with his policies, pundits like mark Levin (wh
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It was never the case. If anything Americans are more homogeneous now than ever.
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Sure it was about slavery as the wedge issue over which to decide whether you can leave the union. This sort of reactionary rhetoric just skirts over the surface. It's not like the confederacy was fighting for slavery and to be part of
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It's not at all clear this is political unless you're talking with someone who clearly benefits from the political narrative. Take Alabama, a state with the lowest vaccination rates. In Alabama, blacks and whites are on different
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Same I know zero people hospitalized or died. And my aunt lives in a senior community where many got it... The only person I know who died lives in a third world country and had medical issues. Terribly sad, but I mean we hear stories of al
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The civil war was all about membership flexibility. Is it any surprise that the losers wanted their 'divetsity' to be accommodated. Frankly we're heading down the path of membership flexibility if the next few years don'
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Except we have no problem with such diverse policy in other federations like the eu.
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The constitution grants pretty much unlimited power to the states, which are the primary sovereign ntity ruling over their territories.
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But this is a contrived example where each person agrees to buy the hot dog for purposes of this experiment. Fair market value is typically defined as the value you'd get on the market, selling to someone you don't know and withou
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Then you increase the GDP, the nominal measure of the economy. This is not rocket science. If person A mines aluminum and sells it to person B for $10. And person B sells person A wheat for $5. And then person A sells person B bread for $8,

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