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> If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid. You just don't get as sick. The vaccine protects you. The vaccine reduces the chance you can get and transmit covid. 40-60% protection against infection, and even w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel This was the definition of the death panel: > Palin's spokesperson pointed to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary coun
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> I wonder if they're using the current crisis to push through an agenda? Seems like baseless speculation. > I couldn't find any information on which Australian states are in lock down Wikipedia or google news have the answe
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The article indicates this was a 4 year legal battle and the last ruling in the 2019 Supreme Court was similar. It has nothing at all to do with Coronavirus. BTW “Australia” is not in lockdown. Some states of Australia are.
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Seems similar to the Section 230 conversation in the USA. The newspapers appear to be taking the logical response of switching off Facebook comments going forward.
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The article is a bit confusing because as you read along > A Sydney Local Health District spokeswoman confirmed the limits are in place in NSW Health’s Special Health Accomodation, where Covid-positive patients and close contacts are sen
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Consider, however, that being exposed to the virus after being vaccinated reduces your risk of death and/or hospitalization by a factor of 10-20x. The assumption that there are “no sterilizing vaccines” is a little questionable too - e
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Quarantines and lockdowns were used against previous pandemics such as the 1918 flu pandemic. American Samoa, for instance, was entirely unscathed by the Spanish flu because they instituted a strict quarantine at the border, the same policy
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> There is merit for harsh policies if you can prevent any case, what NZ did relatively successfully. But admitting that it failed is hard to convey politically. Note that the South Australia app under discussion is in an Australian stat
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That quote - “Rather has stood by the story” - is a great justification for why Dan Rather was fired. He failed at his job of being a honest, reliable journalist and didn’t even apologize or retract the story after smearing the US president
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Dan Rather was fired because he aired fraudulent documents on 60 Minutes.[0] Quinn Norton was fired for anti-black, anti-gay, and “Friends with Nazis” comments. If you want to associate this with a political side at all in the USA, then (es
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The criticism of this CEO that I’ve seen in various places did not focus on exclusion/inclusion of such criteria - check his twitter replies or the statements boycotting his company which have no such focus. Currently under Texas law&#
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Hypothetical, but I doubt the response would have been any different if he endorsed a post-12 weeks ban. Fair to point out that the Texas heartbeat law seems like it could have an effect similar to the 20% view (although it and the Supreme
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For reference - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx Views on abortion have been mostly static since 1975 in the US population as a whole. ~30% “legal under any”, ~50% “legal only under certain”, ~20% “
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2015: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/discovered-disease-w... > The World Health Organization (WHO) mostly works to reduce the physical toll of disease. But last week it turned to another kind of h
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Obesity has also increased among wild animals https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261232 While dieting can control obesity, we have decades of evidence to show it isn’t easy. Bariatric surgery does seem to work but is in
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What quackery? A quick google confirms that chickenpox has been speculated to have caused a serious epidemic among Native Americans. We know that European diseases wiped them out, it just isn’t necessarily clear which ones due to the lack o
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That’s true, but it’s because at the time the only way to become acclimated was to catch yellow fever, which meant running a substantial risk of dying or severe disease. In the 21st century we have safe vaccines so if someone is not “acclim
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You can always check overseas scientists’ recommendations as a cross check. Looks like the UK NHS recommends the shingles vaccine for all 70-79 year olds for instance. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/shi
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I support vaccine mandates (best way to move society past the pandemic), but an exemption for those with healthy immune systems who can prove via an antibody test or previous positive Covid-19 PCR test that they have naturally developed COV
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Annotating every object on the road with RFID beacons seems like it actually would be an impossible project. Yes, you can attach beacons to stoplights and signs (although they already have “beacons” that display in the visible light spectru
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I can eat a massive number of calories of basic homemade white bread, it’s delicious but not ultraprocessed. I guess white bread, white rice etc are all fairly modern too.
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Sliced bread you buy in the store seems different from the bread you make at home, even whole wheat bread, based on the ingredient list. Not sure “slicing and bagging” is actually what would qualify it as ultraprocessed, but also not sure i
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The article notes “ Inflation-adjusted compensation is down in most industries, but there is one notable exception: Leisure and hospitality. That industry's employers are scrambling to find workers, resulting in a 1.6% bump in pay and
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> In the few companies that do, the employees still move higher up the income tax brackets. U.S. Tax brackets are adjusted upward every year to account for inflation.
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Holding a diversified U.S. stock portfolio would have “helped” in every major market crash since 1929. (Perhaps at some point US stocks will end their 100 year run of success though.) This is easily demonstrated by visiting https:/&#x
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There was still supply of “toilet paper” but not of the kind that was sold in the store. Normally large amounts of commercial paper was sold but that wasn’t in grocery stores and sales stopped because of offices closing. Things got figured
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> Like this one? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.31.21258081v ... Or you can go find one of the 21 others FLCCC cites (excluding Elgazzar's). Did you read the top comment on your link? “Ther
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Agreed, it seems to me like we’ll never know for sure. Some aspects of china’s behavior are suspicious, and the lab leak theory is a plausible hypothetical, but I doubt we’ll ever see the evidence to know either way. We should definitely be
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> The flccc unequivocally states that ivermectin given alone is not known to be effective Without a randomized controlled trial, they have nothing but speculation as to what is effective or not. > Moreover, as to the claim that the fl

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