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by kian 7y ago
"In some ways one part of the solution is simple: Pass laws that deliver consequences for lying and disseminating false information or fabricating narratives." Something inside me dies every time I hear an American say that the
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White Caller? That's a pretty excellent Mondegreen.
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Yes - but if we're concerned about people who are asymptomatic transmitting, and we need herd immunity in order to prevent transmission in general to the most vulnerable, then you 'getting it' and then getting better without
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by kian 7y ago
This is also the same group of people governments seem to be relying on to provide herd immunity - so it could still be a major issue
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aren't 50% of severe covid-19 cases improving from normal treatment? Would this imply about a 33% improvement over standard care (modulo concerns about patient selection criteria?)
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Which means doubling your chance of death in a year. Can you think of any activity you would willingly engage in that doubles your risk of death in a year? Most people won't even stand outside unprotected in a lightning storm - and t
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by kian 7y ago
It says this is opt-in - is this just the sending of covid information, or is it the entire contact-tracing key-exchange enterprise?
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Oddly enough, a government compelling you to provide medical care for a third party or pay to stop climate change is, in fact, comparable to someone threatening or assaulting you to get you to comply, as assault and imprisonment are what y
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by kian 7y ago
No need to listen to what the WHO says anymore, say people everywhere after review. Isn't the whole problem that if you're asymptomatic, you don't know if you're healthy? If reducing the credibility of national and inter
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any links to anyone who both has this deep understanding and teaches it?
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7500 per day is roughly the death rate of the country as a whole. We're less than 4 doubling periods from that.
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If you view this through a lens of reducing legal liability for the tire fire of safety preparation that was hospital supplies, it makes more sense. But that's all the more reason to not trust the CDC - the only way this wasn't a
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by kian 7y ago
The number of people who die, on average, per day in the US (as of 2015) was roughly 7,500. We're less than 5 doubling periods from those being our daily numbers - i.e., for the death rate in the US to be doubled. At 3-5 days per doubl
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Many apps would have a poor experience if the user didn't grant them the permissions they were requesting. Can't it be both core to a great AR experience and something you should ask permission for?
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There's more than one way to lessen effective resources being given towards something - inefficient allocation and cronyism isn't exactly a partisan issue. Perhaps we could leave behind the rhetoric about this being the fault of o
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shame that this healthcare worker apparently doesn't care for the other people she exposes. Perhaps the wrong profession?
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Thank you for that! I had no idea Azithromycin had those effects.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v... I hope you have a pulse oximeter - go to the hospital if it gets below 95!
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by kian 7y ago
I would guess that opportunistic bacterial co-infections are being suppressed by the azithromycin, which leaves more room for the immune system to respond directly to SARS-CoV-2. Viral Pneuomonia can easily lead to Bacterial Pneumonia. Comb
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by kian 7y ago
Sorry for the crosspost here, and I'll delete it if you think it is inappropriate, dang, but - To any scientists - an anti-malarial is found to be effective against coronavirus. At the same time, initial reports are suggesting that peo
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by kian 7y ago
To any scientists - an anti-malarial is found to be effective against coronavirus. At the same time, initial reports are suggesting that people with type O blood have a reduced risk of infection and lower infection severity than those with
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by kian 7y ago
If you're looking for a book, Music: A Mathematical Offering https://www.amazon.com/Music-Mathematical-Offering-Dave-Bens... is pretty good. But you're nearly a the end of your recursion, though. Wikipedia ought
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by kian 7y ago
Octave - a doubling in the frequency. Generally speaking, in twelve tone equally tempered classical music, melodies and harmonies are drawn from a scale, a subset of these twelve notes. The most notable of those scales, the diatonic scale h
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by kian 7y ago
23AndMe, which is located in California, claims on their website that they are required to maintain any information from genetic tests indefinitely. How is Probably Genetic able to 'destroy samples and data' on more than a soft-de
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by kian 7y ago
Where are you located? I was under the impression that many states in the US mandate that you hold on to the genetic data for them, and thus that you can never truly delete or remove it.
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This is pretty horrific. Wishing for the deaths of millions? Would you also wish it upon your friends and family that have respiratory disorders, or are on immunosuppressants? Plenty of Millenials will die as well. And the old people who wi
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words form a net hunt writhing concepts some escape
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Agreed in the entirety. Thanks for taking the time to write this reply.
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[Just an edit to clarify - I'm not saying climate change isn't real, or that we don't need to do something about it. I'm steel-manning the grandparent poster because I don't think the parent to this post was giving
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People cannot grasp some concepts without some sort of path which leads to the concept, and humanity paves those paths with words. -- beautifully spoken.

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