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by loveistheanswer 5y ago
I've been asking this same question and have yet to hear a very convincing answer. The best answer I've heard is: it will give you "extra immunity". Which begs the follow on question, if we're so concerned about top
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Thanks for the insights! >A "confirmed reinfection" for someone who previously had Covid requires them to have gotten sick, tested positive, have the virus sequenced, then later get sick, test positive, get the virus sequenced
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by loveistheanswer 5y ago
A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking (2011) -By Anthony S. Fauci, Gary J. Nabel and Francis S. Collins https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-wor...
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Is natural immunity stronger than vaccinated immunity?
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Perhaps the root problem is that it is seemingly impossible for psychology to isolate and control for the dependent variable in question: consciousness.
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"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances
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A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins found similar results: iatrogenesis kills 250,000 Americans each year[1]. "The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on
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>how common pandemics have been in east Asia. This is why we need more data about cross reactivity playing a role in the relatively favorable health outcomes in Asia and Africa compared to the rest of the world.
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>question is whether each county has the organizational capacity and societal will to carry this strategy out. Indeed, that's a critical question to the long term success of the strategy. If the world is unable to put 8 billion peop
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2/4 of those examples are affluent island nations with low population densities. Another one of those examples has been actively censoring covid information from the start, and thus cannot be trusted. As for Vietnam, it is an interesti
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>But airplaines are engineered by humans, we know everything about how they are supposed to work until the last bit of physics. >We don't have the same absolute understanding of mechanisms with vaccines. Having even less knowledg
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by loveistheanswer 5y ago
If you've already had the virus, and had only mild symptoms from it, what additional level of protection does the vaccine confer? Do you still really need to get the vaccine in that case? The CDC says yes, but their reasoning is purely
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by loveistheanswer 5y ago
People are capable of critizing the bad things that both FB and the Guardian have done
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed criticisms, you raise some good points. >4. China is praised multiple times for its "near-elimination of SARS-CoV-2", but the official data is comically suspicious[3]. A total of 4,851 deaths in a countr
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Thank you for the detailed response. As a layperson, these specifics are over my head. Assuming everything you say is true, that still would not rule out a lab leak of a virus collected from nature, would it? >You can't do it in the
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
>The lab leak would have to be covered up by the Chinese authorities and the WHO would some how have had to be in on it. Indeed. There's another important bit that you seem to be missing. Did you know that Peter Daszak, one of the &
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
>But you know what's interesting about that? >We know about the CoV-1 leak because /the chinese scientists told us about it./ Sometimes humans tell the truth, sometimes humans don't. Pointing to one group of people
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Which part of #1 is false? 1.1 Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature 1.2 and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to learn how viruses evolve in nature. 1.3 If such viruses were
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
>I can say the vast majority of us are not qualified to answer the question either way though. It's also worth noting that even the leading experts can get these things wrong, as was the case with the Sverdlovsk lab leak. Soviet aut
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Judging by the comments in this thread, it seems a lot of people are still unaware that: 1. Gain of function research primarily uses samples collected from nature, and seeks to stimulate their evolution in as natural a way as possible to le
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Scientifically speaking, that's not true >herd immunity: resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on pre-existing immunity of a high proportion of individuals as a result of previous infect
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>later on passed it on to your parents or other elderly people, that is something entirely preventable. Weren't those types of higher risk people the first ones to have the vaccine made available to them?
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
The answer is: it is not acceptable. Humans are awesome! Including you, even if you don't realize it!
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
Why is it unacceptable to say "racial group x sucks", but it is acceptable to say "the human race sucks"?
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
What do you mean "bright line"? The difference is plainly obvious, Bob's forum has <100 users, FB has > 2,800,000,000 users
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
I've seen a lot of Big Tech engineers make this same quip to avoid having to take any responsibility for the horrible results of their maliciously designed systems. >Welcome to humans. They suck. If AI is being developed by humans w
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Locking down scientific information from the greater scientific community and the general population is a terrible and anti-scientific idea which we have seen implemented by many theocracies and authoritarian states throughout human history
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An alternate scenario could also be the most at risk populations (elderly, obese, etc.) lockdown, while the young, healthy, low risk populations gain quick herd immunity
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No, more agnostically I'm just saying we don't know what the ultimate nature of reality is. Some people say consciousness is just matter, others say matter is just consciousness. I do find it peculiarly interesting that it is seem
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by loveistheanswer 6y ago
>I mean, it's all chemicals, right? It's chemicals all the way down. That is a theory, not a scientific fact. The current state of physics tells us we do not understand the fundamental nature of matter. The current state of neu

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