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There are no ads in the paid edition of G Suite. They actually stopped scanning emails for ads in free Gmail about 5 years though. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/26/google-wi... Of cours
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No, I’m arguing your complaint is based on your own misreading. Some form of “reinfected” or “reinfections” appears 4 times in the press release. There’s no need to “add qualifiers” - simply to not remove them.
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Seems like you stopped reading . The full sentence you quote is “These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections
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> Everyone now knows "two weeks to flatten the curve" means endless abridgement of civil rights. Strangely despite having access to google I keep seeing this “two weeks” phrasing repeated. Please google news stories from March
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> Who could possibly have predicted that a non sterilizing vaccine would put selection pressure on a rapidly mutating coronavirus, right? Are you referring to the Omicron variant? Current theories suggest that Omicron evolved inside a HI
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NYC is the largest city in America and has no such requirement. I imagine you’re referring to some west coast city or cities? NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keyton... “ Full Vaccin
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Just looked at the press release and there doesn’t appear to be any misrepresentation involved. The press release clearly talks about the benefits of vaccination even after a previous COVID-19 infection, just as the study did. CDC credibili
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> 2- don’t pretend vaccines are 100% safe, report about side effects, and communicate about ongoing investigations around them. Saying « everything’s fine » when you can easily find online testimonies of people having horrible side effec
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That data is irrelevant to my point. Compare deaths from 2015 through 2021 on a bar chart and the discontinuity is obvious even to the naked eye. See the charts shown on https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04&#x
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Check the death statistics instead of headlines and you'll see it truly is a novel situation - no previous year saw as many Americans die as 2020 and 2021. And excess deaths correspond closely to regions that saw high reported COVID-19
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> For instance not considering past infection as equal to a vaccination The CDC has published data on this multiple times... Vaccination seems to be more protective than a past infection. A past infection is approximately equal to a sing
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Death numbers in the vaccinated are quite low. How can you blame “vaccine passports, triple jabs” for rising deaths among the unvaccinated?
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Without any context or analysis, this snippet could easily be applied to the surprising (if still 1% of the whole) of scientists who have thrown themselves into the work of pro-virus propaganda, or creating fake studies to boost ivermectin.
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Machine washing is a significant labor and time saver. People are usually opposed to line drying clothes because of aesthetics and feeling like it makes their neighborhood look “poor”. Luckily quite a few states have passed laws making it i
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> For decades people would ask, "why is there no vaccine for the cold or flu like smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox?" and the answer was that they were fast evolving corona viruses and you cannot vaccinate for
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The vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization and/or death from the virus by 20x or more. That’s pretty great even if not perfect. Much better than we ever had when facing the initial waves of any previous pandemic virus. Unfortunate
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Zero COVID prevented the virus from becoming endemic in China (look up the definition of endemic). Once it does, you’re right that it seems like putting the genie back in the bottle is impossible - once COVID has spread to wildlife like dee
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We’ve been hearing about the genocide and reeducation camps in Xinjiang for many years. How long did they actually cover it up for? I believe they actually post propaganda videos from the reeducation camps themselves.
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That is how averages work. One could equally point out that 0.6% IFR actually underestimated the risk for some adults. Many people shared Facebook memes of a “99.9%” survival rate not understanding that they personally were at greater risk
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Neighbors reporting each other for crimes is a good thing. Codes of silence between neighbors are what lead communities to cover up murders and refuse to talk to police. I suppose the actual issue here is the “pro social” behavior piece. I
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China’s zero COVID efforts and policy seem to be real, not made up. However given there have been a number of small outbreaks they have either been very lucky it has never spread to a vulnerable person or they have covered up several deaths
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> The pandemic response completely ignored the costs of shutdowns. There has been little or no consideration of their impact on physical health, mental health, education, business, employment, worship. Anyone who went to an open bar or a
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back in early 2021 I remember the media, especially the "MSM," warning that the vaccines weren't guaranteed to prevent transmission, and commentators arguing that the media were scaremongering and we should be secure in feeli
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> We likely would have saved tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives had we come out with a unified message asking people to not participate in high density activities (subway, etc.) because this new virus spread quickly This is not a
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Bad administration, maybe you could blame the fact that metro is funded by 4 jurisdictions (DC, Feds, MD, VA) who all sit on the metro board and have done a terrible job of getting costs under control and maintaining quality over the last t
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> Virginia isn't going to pay for public transit in DC. Maryland isn't going to pay for public transit in DC. Virginia and Maryland both pay significant funds to subsidize the DC metro system, as does the federal government. In
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Pandemic homeschooling is definitely not homeschooling at its best. Homeschooling by choice has a great academic record with students doing well on standardized exams and in college. Kids who were sent home for “virtual school” on the other
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> On January 31st. 2020, Trump announces travel restrictions from China. On February 2nd (and for about a month after that) various officials from New York as well as Nancy Pelosi are on video telling the public that there is nothing to
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http://longbridgeproject.com/ Virginia is working to double rail capacity between DC and Richmond by 2030. People will still drive cars though.
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Good reminder to completely close my AWS account. I have TOTP MFA on it but having a AWS account that had the same root login as my Amazon retail account was risky and a mistake from the beginning. Luckily I haven't used it for anythin

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