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by jewayne 3y ago
> False dichotomy. I live in the suburbs, The closest things to me to walk to (within 30 minutes) are a gas station, or another gas station, or an automotive replair place. > When I take conference trips to other cities, I do walk eve
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by jewayne 3y ago
The range of opinions is huge. I got into an argument here on HN with a fellow American who argued that sidewalks are nothing but legalized trespassing. There are, in fact, many Americans who choose to live in neighborhoods without sidewa
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by jewayne 3y ago
Oh, I happen to know the root cause on this one. Remember the Big Dig? It went so horrifically over budget, either the city or the state forced the MBTA to assume a large share of the debt. Since then, the MBTA has been hamstrung financiall
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by jewayne 3y ago
I already told you. When historians ask "Why did the US do so much more poorly in the pandemic than other first-world countries?" they will have a ready-made compilation of testimonials. This is tremendously important for future g
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by jewayne 3y ago
From my understanding, the RCTs were never big enough to gauge the risks you're talking about in a statistically valid way. As your data suggests, even if the relative risk of myocarditis from the vaccine is very high, the absolute ris
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by jewayne 3y ago
Whether you call it celebrating or properly recognizing, I feel they were doing a public service. Go back and read it, and you will see a distinct pattern, repeated literally hundreds of times. The same arc of (often vile) right-wing memes,
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by jewayne 3y ago
> There were drugs, devices, procedures, and even vaccines, whose massive harms were only apparent years after they were approved. However, in this case "massive harms" were incurred when people WEREN'T vaccinated. We do k
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by jewayne 3y ago
The trials showed that 95% efficacy over the initial trial period -- about 3 months, as I recall. That wasn't a made-up number. As time went on, it became apparent that while efficacy against symptomatic COVID faded quickly, efficacy a
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by jewayne 3y ago
I maintain that the unnecessary death of 400,000 people due to misinformation was more disgusting, but hey, to each his own.
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by jewayne 3y ago
As somebody who was in the Phase 3 clinical trial for the Pfizer vaccine in 2020, I was never skeptical about the intelligence of my fellow Americans until I saw the way we handled covid. It's an article of faith in Team Hoax that &quo
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by jewayne 3y ago
Viruses don't "resist" vaccines, because vaccines don't act directly against viruses. We're not talking about antibiotics here.
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by jewayne 3y ago
No. The goal is one shot that doesn't have to change from year to year. We already know that the flu doesn't have a long enough incubation period for humans to gain lifetime immunity. Which means that even if this vaccine works an
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by jewayne 3y ago
It's so much worse than you think. Almost ALL doctors want to help. It's system (in this case, the reimbursement system) that makes it impossible to help, even though they want to. The doctors themselves have far less agency tha
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by jewayne 3y ago
So, your first thought when searching for artifacts from the ancient past is whether they can be melted down into commodities?
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by jewayne 3y ago
At the time of Barack's birth, of course, Ann Dunham was only 18 years old and had lived her entire life in the US. I think at this point we all have to acknowledge the retarded genius of Donald Trump, the way he always got people to t
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by jewayne 3y ago
As they say, the cruelty is the point. :(
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by jewayne 3y ago
There of course was never a credible doubt that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, either.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Yeah, upper middle class people are predictably out of touch with reality. The median household income in Franklin County is only $66k. Yes, stupid zoning made building non-McMansion houses difficult, but that doesn't mean the workin
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by jewayne 3y ago
> Don't even need to show a birth certificate Fun fact: Trump rode birtherism all the way to the presidency, then never showed his own birth certificate.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Improving preventative care will no doubt improve outcomes. Improving end of life planning will no doubt improve quality of life for those nearing the end. However, believing that either of these things will lower health care prices is pure
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by jewayne 4y ago
This article is a good place to start: https://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killi... When it came out 10 years ago, it answered questions that I'd had for the previous 15 years.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Before we have this conversation, let's first agree on one thing. Let's all agree on the fact that health care is not actually exorbitantly expensive. That "health care costs" are not what's out of control in the US
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by jewayne 4y ago
> I'm just stating that the US is the most unhealthy country there has ever been. More unhealthy than England during the Black Death? Also, Mexico has already passed the US in obesity, and tons of countries have more smoking that th
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by jewayne 4y ago
In my experience chit chatting lays the groundwork for extemporaneous collaboration, the kind that turns a week of work into an hour of work, because you happened to remember that one guy said he did something like this at a previous job.
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by jewayne 4y ago
> ... to whom? To the people whose job it is to advocate for the privileges of the wealthy. And that is a frightening number of highly-trained, well-paid people. They are starting with the foundational belief that taking any privileges w
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by jewayne 4y ago
The first two are interesting, but last one you mention is not a lifetime limit, and so doesn't really belong in the discussion. And the first one is interesting, because that 60 day "limit" is actually 60 days of extra benef
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by jewayne 4y ago
Not Invented Here? That's too kind. More like "the universe ends at our borders, and anything done outside it can be dismissed offhand".
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by jewayne 4y ago
For a contrasting viewpoint to your contrasting viewpoint, I took over my parents' finances as my father was dying from emphysema. He had a number of comorbidities that led him to see a number of specialists, so he was definitely usi
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by jewayne 4y ago
What? You're talking about two different things: Health insurance vs Long Term Care. There are no maximum lifetime benefits for Medicare Part A & B (health insurance) that I'm aware of. When you hear about a "Medicaid spe
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by jewayne 4y ago
You understand that you're not the one paying for the service, so you don't get a say, right? Even once The Machine has perfect knowledge of you, the ads will not be tailored to your preferences. It will be what an advertiser has

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