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by javagram 6y ago
The final 3 paragraphs of the 9-paragraph CNN article are a quote from a non-WHO expert doctor on the subject of the article. It does look like they tried to contextualize it and not just literally repeat the WHO announcement. I would put m
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by javagram 6y ago
If you click on the link in the post you respond to, it explains what the locations are used for.
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by javagram 6y ago
Apple and google are working together on this. So it’s an agreement between them both to have a more privacy-centered protocol for this purpose. Google lets you do a lot more privacy violation on Android, but Apple has been building their b
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by javagram 7y ago
> New York's 20% indicated infection rate likely means that the infection rate today is approaching the 50% or more required to achieve herd immunity. Yes, if by approaching you mean at least twice the number of people who have alre
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by javagram 7y ago
Thanks. Yes I believe your rough math is matching others that are reported by the scientific literature which is estimating around 0.7% infection fatality ratio (IFR) for this virus, 4*0.14 would be on the low end of estimates but within th
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by javagram 7y ago
There isn’t any reason to believe the virus kills a resident of NYC any easier than it kills a resident of Kansas if either is infected with it. NYC is an excellent example to look at precisely because of what you said - it’s a dense popula
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by javagram 7y ago
Section 230 of the CDA was written expressly to give YouTube-like companies the right to do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati... > One of the first legal challenges to Section 230 wa
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by javagram 7y ago
That is not how it works. It’s a complete legal myth that there is some sort of “Platform” v “Publisher” distinction in the law. Section 230 of the CDA was created 25 years ago to avoid this being the case. It gives companies the ability to
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by javagram 7y ago
Your argument assumes that coronavirus deaths will stop tomorrow, and also that mitigation measures used to reduce deaths from coronavirus via social distancing don’t affect the evaluation of whether it is “deadly”. It feels like you didn’t
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by javagram 7y ago
But in reality, the number of excess deaths compared to the average year, or compared to last year, is well above the counted number of COVID-19 deaths. Anecdotal claims about deaths being miscounted as COVID-19 don’t really stand up to thi
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by javagram 7y ago
The “data presented by the two doctors” has obvious reasoning errors to anyone who has taken even high school math. At this point, how can you look at the number of people who died from COVID-19 in just the last month in NYC and claim this
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by javagram 7y ago
The (dictionary) definition of censorship does include private institutions censoring. For instance, if private libraries remove a book from their shelves because they dislike the contents, that’s absolutely censorship. It’s YouTube’s legal
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by javagram 7y ago
Your quoted paper is 5 weeks old, as shown by the excerpt “ compared with less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing.” Now, today, we are at 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths just in the USA, and an analysis of excess mortal
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by javagram 7y ago
Yes, I find that even more bizarre. The “just the flu” crowd clearly put down their stakes with death predictions for a no-mitigation scenario that were greatly exceeded by the actual high-mitigation scenario we experienced over the last 1.
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by javagram 7y ago
Elon’s response since the beginning has been way off, “The coronavirus panic is dumb” (March 6). I guess he doesn’t want to learn from his mistakes. It’s somewhat incredible to see how the “just the flu” crowd doubled down on their views de
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by javagram 7y ago
CSPAN is already broadcasting the house and senate floors today, and committee meetings. There is no worry about breach of sensitive information, you could literally turn on cable TV and watch it before. e.g. https://www.cnbc.com
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by javagram 7y ago
This is ridiculous. Senators don’t have to literally be on the senate floor to debate, it’s the 21st century. This has nothing to do with nazism anymore than all the companies who have moved their work meetings to Zoom have become Nazis. Ne
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by javagram 7y ago
The goal here was to give the money out ASAP as businesses and their employees had already been forced to shutter by the pandemic and lockdown orders and were rapidly marching toward insolvency. Stuff like the 9/11 compensation fund wa
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by javagram 7y ago
FWIW, the banks didn’t feel like it was 0 risk, many of them were doing a lot of due diligence, document checking, etc. because they were worried about it. I’ve seen stories of small business owners talking about how difficult it was to get
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by javagram 7y ago
> New Zealand is the only country that has a government that full elimination is a viable option. The modelling that drives the belief is 100% based on the best available science. Isn’t Taiwan also on this path?
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by javagram 7y ago
Your post focuses on ventilators but the government could have ordered additional PPE in January easily. That’s exactly what Taiwan did for instance - maxed out their own factories and ordered more machines to make PPE in January. Meanwhile
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by javagram 7y ago
Oh, they proposed in Feb 2020 to cut the budget for preparedness further of course. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy... “The proposed budget also cut the CDC's discretionary budget auth
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by javagram 7y ago
In this case, you can read the email from Dr Robert Kadlec, the US Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS (Edit: provided corrected title), in February that I embedded in my original post He was shocked to learn of the asy
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by javagram 7y ago
> Short of that, Fauci says skip the masks unless you are contagious, I think since February we’ve learned more and more that people without symptoms are contagious. The only way to follow Fauci’s advice in that case is to wear a mask be
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by javagram 7y ago
Business leaders were opposed to the mask ordinance because they thought it would reduce the people shopping in the stores. Wearing the masks was seen as uncomfortable and so people didn’t want to do it.
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by javagram 7y ago
> Of course the media won't cover this story widely, as it won't sell properly, there isn't enough sensationalism. It lowers panic Actually it is being covered in the media (e.g. https://www.cnn.com/2020&#x
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by javagram 7y ago
> "Vox: advises citizens not to buy masks while Vox founder is buying masks" Vox is not a monolith. Matty Y, the "founder" mentioned, tweeted in February that the CDC mask guidance didn't make sense, right around
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by javagram 7y ago
“Run its course” = 2-3% of the population die due to the virus. I think the billions in research might be a more humane alternative.
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by javagram 7y ago
People were dying without ventilators in Wuhan and elsewhere. (E.g. all the people in NYC who are dying at home, something like 100 a day last I saw) The ventilator from what people are saying doesn’t seem to help as much as was hoped, but
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by javagram 7y ago
As of April 9, according to Wikipedia, the CFR of covid-19 in South Korea reached 1.95% The early pointing to South Korea’s CFR as low turned out to be misleading in the end due to I guess some issues relating to the data (probably because

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