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by kuhewa 5y ago
> Are there any examples of a place that is too hot, as opposed to too dry? For a given species of plant, yes. For cold-adapted plants, like those in the arctic, too warm of a winter could mean carbohydrate exhaustion due the increased m
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by kuhewa 5y ago
It can also have some negative consequences for imperilled ecosystems. African savannahs are becoming more shrubby for example, which will favour some species at the expense of others.
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by kuhewa 5y ago
wouldn't be shocking to anyone familiar with sailing, and ice/land sailcraft can go several times faster than windspeed without the benefit of any moving parts (besides standing rigging)
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by kuhewa 6y ago
My point is insofar as one would/should fear death, they would/should fear a decent probability long term nonfatal consequences to some degree. Incomplete information doesn't obviate that. Nonfatal=/=nothing to fear
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by kuhewa 6y ago
Sure, and those grave effects are a 'reason'
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by kuhewa 6y ago
There is not reason to be scared of a disease that don’t kill. What about one that causes permanent lung and/or heart damage?
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by kuhewa 6y ago
Because the virus isn't coming back in Sweden, whereas its neighbours are already experiencing a second wave. Sweden's argument was always that it was "front-loading" the infections, so over the long-term other coun
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by kuhewa 6y ago
> we'll have herd immunity (which is where Sweden is at now). No, even Sweden's epidemiologists say that up to 30% of their population could be immune.[1] They tried to shoot the moon but missed. They are in a similar place t
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by kuhewa 6y ago
We can only guess without data specific to SARS-COV-2, but for seasonal coronaviruses, antibodies disappear after ~6 months and reinfection with the same strain can occur after 1 year.
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by kuhewa 6y ago
There's a bit more to it. The reason vaccines weren't developed previously for other coronaviruses is because in trials for a RSV vaccine, 80% of treated kids that got infected needed hospitalisation and two died, while something