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by javagram 5y ago
$100 is plenty to afford groceries at a grocery store. If they only had $4 or something your point would make more sense. You can take $30 to a grocery store and walk out with a decent quantity of rice and beans, at good prices per ounce.
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by javagram 5y ago
While the protocol may not expose it, the device itself could have a serial number that might be associated with a specific user? EDIT: that seems to be exactly the case, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277376
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Many adults in USA have refused the vaccine due to anti-vax propaganda. It’s far from a safe assumption, without something like a vaccine passport scheme in place, that every or even most adults a sick child meets would be vaccinated. Perha
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> OK, so you brought in some unquantified covid effects that you then said are irrelevant. I agree, they are irrelevant because they are too rare. I didn’t say they were irrelevant. They’re relevant to your argument that vaccination has
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> Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high Suicide rates were rising pre-pandemic as well (IMO, due to social media and the Internet). Suicides overall declined in 2020 in the USA, for instance, so social distancing didn't
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> Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0. Flu and pneumonia vaccines were also available and uptake was now
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Adequate sound insulation can deal with most of those issues (I assume group meetings is a euphemism for hearing your neighbors? Otherwise unless you’re on a condo board or something there are no such meetings in U.S. apartments in my exper
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I never said it wasn’t possible, in fact I gave some examples of people who are - politicians and tv hosts who have gotten vaxxed. Most people don’t fall into that category though. The “people” who are up in arms usually cite stuff like the
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Obesity hasn’t changed that much. Around 70% of Americans were overweight or obese before the pandemic. Diet is the most important factor in weight gain or weight loss. And except for a few dumb months at the beginning, parks and outdoor ar
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> What about them? It's Pfizer's job to quantify how their vaccine prevents these in kids, not mine. Perhaps redo the trials with a larger population? It’s not their job to do that, though. They have passed the standards of the
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by javagram 5y ago
What about the higher risks of viral myocarditis, MIS-C, hospitalization to the children? Not to mention the quarantines and loss of school / social life that happen when you are sick with covid because you’re a danger to others.
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The link you provided explains it pretty well: “ Regulatory precedent with other preventive vaccines provides a basis for inference of vaccine effectiveness in pediatric populations based on immunobridging to a young adult population in whi
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> It is the coercion / loss of livelihood and other threats, that are getting people up in arms (figuratively, and who knows, someday in real life) People were up in arms and fearmongering over the vaccine since 2020. This isn’t abo
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by javagram 5y ago
Look at your cdc link and it proves my point. I never said obesity wasn’t a risk factor, just that covid is plenty dangerous to the non obese as well. “ More than 900,000 adult COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States between
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Universal health care and centralization of patient records would probably be required to do what you’re talking about. If scientists actually could mine everyone’s data easily it would be a lot easier to do stuff like this. Privacy laws an
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There are plenty of Facebook and YouTube guides about taking animal ivermectin as a replacement for human-rated medicine. That said hopefully here on HN we can agree that is a dumb idea.
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If you seriously think the government could have made us all lose weight in the last 18 months... they’ve been running anti obesity campaigns for decades and failing while obesity grows every year. BTW covid is plenty dangerous to non obese
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It’s probably shorthand and doesn’t mean literal blueprints accurate down to lowest level of detail, but rather adherence to the project plan as a whole (windowless rooms, size, etc).
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There are multiple trials showing HCQ didn’t work. It was heavily studied and bombed over and over again in all 3 contexts: prophylaxis, early treatment, and treatment of hospitalized patients. Just use google directly to find the trials I’
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by javagram 5y ago
Perhaps, but there's an FDA EUA for an adenovirus-based vaccine (Johnson and Johnson) if one is simply scared of the mRNA technology. An adenovirus-based vaccine was already submitted for approval in 2019 for Ebola, and approved midway
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Abbott just issued a new order which applies to private businesses, not just cities and counties. That one is arguably performative, since OSHA and HHS are federal agencies and their requirements will override Texas law under the supremacy
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Your point cuts the other way - anyone who has joined the military showed they are accepting of vaccine mandates and are okay with giving up their bodily autonomy in this sphere. The military mandates service members receive between 9 and 1
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by javagram 5y ago
It’s the MSM showing you a video of a burning building. Why does that cause you to lose faith in the MSM when they give you video evidence of what’s happening?
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It’s from 2017. If he had a crystal ball he probably would have exercised the options, the post indicates he didn’t believe in the company back then. Not sure the point of posting it now, feels a little bit like dancing on his grave.
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by javagram 5y ago
Just realized (I think) you edited in the later sentences after I replied. Yea, it does invalidate your point, the average years of life lost from a Covid-19 death is fourteen not a few as you suggested. Many, many people lost more than a
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by javagram 5y ago
Centuries ago, people had to be locked up for 40 or 50 days on a small ship (the original “quarantine”) to prevent spreading disease before they’d be allowed in. Modern technology reducing it to 14 days and a few photos in the comfort of yo
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Since that’s not the choice: people will spread covid whether “intentionally” or not without a strong border control and quarantine system. Almost every country was hit hard by covid except those who stopped it at the border.
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Why use the Australian numbers to argue that AU should have taken the USA’s approach of unrestricted covid spreading? Australia’s numbers won’t match what happens when covid-19 spreads widely, because they successfully stopped it.
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The median covid death is 85 years old? Where did you get that number? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... Using the US dataset as an example of mortality when covid-19 is allowed to sp
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Seems less heinous than spreading a dangerous virus and killing hundreds or thousands of citizens? We’ve seen other countries try that approach (e.g. here in the USA) and it clearly harms society and has led to massive suffering and loss of

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