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by jtc331 5y ago
Yep. For example with the 1918 flu cytokine storms in younger populations and not in older populations is one proposed explanation for peak mortality being among the young not the elderly.
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by jtc331 5y ago
That is how all research starts. If you have reason to believe the data is incorrect please give your reasons. Until then it’s a good leading indicator.
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by jtc331 5y ago
> But it affected older people worse, right? No, incorrect again. Mortality for the 1918 flu peaked at age 28 and was lower in older age groups. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/#!po=0..
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by jtc331 5y ago
Also, no, it’s not necessarily low relative to the vaccine adverse event risk. Here’s research showing it’s multiple times the risk of hospitalization due to COVID itself for young people (males in particular): https://www.medrxi
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by jtc331 5y ago
Is this the study you’re thinking of? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... It doesn’t appear to be retracted, and found these results: “Results A total of 257 CAEs were identified. Rates
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by jtc331 5y ago
Re: all diseases that’s not true either. For example the 1918 flu caused significant damage precisely because it affected young people quite significantly.
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by jtc331 5y ago
No. Clearly you don’t read my comments since I regularly note facts from around the world. Researchers in England found in the first 12 months of COVID only 25 COVID deaths for under age 18. That is an incredibly small number. That level of
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by jtc331 5y ago
No, that’s not what people are doing or saying. If the side effect rate/safety curve for the vaccines is not age specific then it’s entirely plausible there’s an age crossover point with the disease risk curve given COVID’s risk is wil
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by jtc331 5y ago
Even the FDA advisory panel raised questions about side effect data with children. And if it’s a giant conspiracy theory, why are so many other countries (in Europe, Taiwan, etc.) explicitly disallowing the vaccines (in some cases specific
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by jtc331 5y ago
What if it doesn’t reduce risk though?
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by jtc331 5y ago
Even Anthony Fauci, hardly a COVID denier, recently explained on MSNBC that many of those hospitalizations of kids are incidentally COVID positive while the child is actually in the hospital for (his examples) things link appendicitis and a
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by jtc331 5y ago
I’ve seen at least half a dozen full region AWS issues in the past 8 months. You really need multi-region and also not be relying on any AWS service that’s located only in us-east-1 (including everything from creating new S3 buckets to IAM’
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by jtc331 5y ago
You’re missing a huge factor: agency.
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by jtc331 5y ago
Sure, but so does America and the UK and so on.
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Given COVID’s risk/age relationship and already lower life spans in that time period plus higher vitamin D exposure rates it’s quite likely rate of death would have been lower in that population.
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by jtc331 5y ago
South Africa has extremely low vaccination rates, correct? Edit: Yes, your premise seems to be quite wrong. South Africa has only 26% vaccination rate.
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by jtc331 5y ago
It’s really not hard to understand why if you think about it just a bit. Industrial farming requires very specific growing conditions (e.g., single crop per row/field and in a spacing that allows mechanized seeding and harvest). Growin
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by jtc331 5y ago
Modern industrial agriculture actually produces far less per acre than small market gardening by hand does. The efficiency of the industrialized approach isn’t in output per acre it’s in output per person hour. So if large numbers of people
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Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead(consumerreports.org)
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by jtc331 5y ago
I think it’s easy to imagine cheating in a post-school context: copying code from a project your employer doesn’t own into one it does. And that has huge legal ramifications. So students do need to learn about those kinds of restrictions vi
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by jtc331 5y ago
By that definition inflation basically never happens until people get higher wages so they have more to spend. That’s clearly absurd, and so defining inflation in a way that means it never happens when people substitute goods is also clearl
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by jtc331 5y ago
“We’ve intentionally avoided purchasing things because they’ve gotten too expensive” sounds like the perfect way to prove exactly the opposite of your point.
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by jtc331 5y ago
You might want to read up on “original antigenic sin” before you assume the immune system is iterative in the way software is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
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by jtc331 5y ago
Except that data from the UK shows that’s precisely what’s not happening. Those who were immunologically naive when receiving the vaccine continue to not have N protein antibodies after subsequent infection. That is they did not gain new im
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by jtc331 5y ago
I think there is evidence—the number of execution decoders can be much higher than x86 because fixed width instructions make that less speculative. That improves out of order and speculative execution prospects.
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by jtc331 5y ago
Calling it a terrible comparison to avoid the obvious point by analogy is effectively just a way to avoid the discussion. If you want to engage seriously with it feel free to comment with that.
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by jtc331 5y ago
It seems clear you must not believe social media is as harmful to kids as the commenter you’re responding to does. If so, disallowing it (even when the kid desperately wants it) wouldn’t seem excessive. By analogy I think it’s fairly obviou
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by jtc331 5y ago
The original clinical trials didn’t measure immunity, and, in fact, the claim from day one has been that the vaccines were designed to reduce serious disease and death.
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by jtc331 5y ago
The 61% is misleading because it includes children ineligible for the vaccine. My undertow that they’ve vaccinated something like 80% of adults (one of the highest on the world).
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by jtc331 5y ago
Given many here have shown it’s not hard to “stumble” onto a correct answer, your comment is a great example of how Occam’s Razor shows the probable, but there are many cases where the simplest explanation isn't correct.

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