lithium_throw

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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Have you figured out yet why Zuckerburg won't let his own kids use any of his products? >“Congresswoman, My daughters are five and three and they do not use our products. Actually that is not exactly true my eldest daughter, Max, I
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
That's a pretty big cop-out. Yes it is, but France and England are pretty similar.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Months? I'm going to be paying for this folly, probably for the rest of my working life. I thought you told me that we couldn't compare numbers between different countries, what with them being different and all? Wales is an espec
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Typical. Those still exorting us that lockdowns were worth it, are those who did not feel the ill effects. Personally, lockdown as I experienced it here in Wales (which was particularly draconian and frankly absurd at times) was absolutely
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Yet France did no better in deaths per captia, than the "shambolic" UK, or Sweden, where life seemed pretty tolerable, nor most of the other EU countries, in fact. (Nor many developing countries that did very little to contain Cov
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
More like - Brexit has highlighted the state of our crumbling and badly-run domestic HGV industry, now that there isn't a pool of Eastern Europeans prepared to do the work for lower wages. Personally, I'm excited to see an industr
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Like? The formation of large blocs of people who will not tolerate any dissent to the current state of Covid thought, and the scapegoating of those who question or do not fall in line, and a corresponding decline in the social, moral, and e
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
>Honestly i think the French government's action was among the best possible Is that because you were relatively unaffected by the downsides of the various restrictions? It can't be because the overall Covid fatality rate is be
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
If you're at risk of Covid, stay at home (which is behaviour very common in old folks anyway, during flu season). Frankly, even then your risk is very low. I know several people in their 90's who tested positive for Covid and surv
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Which makeshift morgues? Which people dying in the streets? Remember that video from China in early 2020, showing people literally dropping in the street? You can't be talking about that, surely. >And where do those beds and oxygen
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Ah yes, the asymptomatic aspect of Covid, a disease so deadly most people need to be tested to know they came near it. How did the "connected" nature of our existence make it necessary to shut down entire countries, as well as the
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Your other comment got removed, probably for being overtly hostile and lacking in any objective facts or evidence. Here is my reply anyway: The IFR of Covid overall is very low (0.4%, by some estimates). If you are under 50, it's basic
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I really feel for you. What kind of pandemic has turned huge numbers of formerly healthy people into overweight, demoralized, and socially isolated individuals? A pandemic of the mind, perhaps.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
"Mass hysteria" is exactly what this is, and probably one of the greatest ones in history. I recently read "The Delusions of Crowds", written by E. Bernstein and published in 2021. Bernstein frequently notes that the aut
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
When? Maybe a town or village got isolated, and becaome the "unclean" zone. There is absolutely no precedent for putting entire countries under effective house arrest for months at a time, and for a disease with such a low mortali
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I have maintained for a long time, that this will be regarded as an outbreak of mass hysteria of truly historic proportions.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Heard from where? Got any numbers for this "clustering"?
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
It absolutely has. I maintain that without social media, which simultaneously provided a way into everyone's thoughts, and also contented people with a feeling of connectedness while living under house arrest conditions of historic pro
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
So according to that article, Covid so far has been 1/3rd as deadly as the Spanish Flu, yet any comparison drawn to the flu would elicit the response of "ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FLU, IDIOT!" ?? Interesting. I'm not downplay
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I too saw the widely-circulated picture of the "open graves" in NYC. Somehow they forgot to mention it was just a regular picture of a pauper's graveyard. Funny what fear can be provoked by context-free visual imagery.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
At least where I am (UK, and in particular, Wales), it seems our healthcare system is in the process of failing. It was already doing badly, and our response to Covid has tipped it over the edge. That alone will cause a significant amount o
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I do understand, and I am outraged. The stastical modellers have given science, and particularly the public perception of science, a terrible blow, as well as the actual outcomes of blindly swallowing their predictions. I'm planning to
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
If it had been 2 million dead in the same period, it would still have been a fairly tame global pandemic, by the standards of deadly global pandemics. It was pretty clear after the first few weeks that Covid was not the horrible killer that
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I was referring to the broader topic of lockdowns in general, but at least where I was, it was the narrative that "selfish" parents who "didn't want to look after their own kids" wanted to keep the schools open, and
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
And the governor of the fine state of CA sent his kids to private school for the entire time. Also, closing school for "just" a year and half is an enormous disruption to education.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Are you for real? Find me another culture that spends so much time fretting over people suffering in other countries, or the poor or disadvantaged in their own countries (Covid polices exempted, of course).
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
There was a pandemic that basically left kids untouched, and frankly barely registers on the scale of deadly pandemics for almost everyone else. Let's at least be honest about it - the decision was made to avoid any risk of disease and
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
And we all went along with it! And gladly shot down anyone who breathed a defiant word! Oh how we never learn.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
I know a headteacher from a fairly disadvantaged area in the UK. He said a lot of the kids will never recover. Hopefully soon, it will no longer be contraversial to say that lockdowns (especially any that lasted longer than the initial &quo
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Yes, they can. This has been known since early in the pandemic. And I'm supposed to believe it was absolutely necessary to shut myself in my house for months, and then not allow anyone else at all in my house for further months, yet Fl

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