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by makomk 4y ago
I don't really see how patients so severely ill that they need a bed in A&E with dedicated nursing provision could be discharged into community social care, though maybe I'm missing something...
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by makomk 4y ago
That's an interesting explaination, but I'm not sure why they'd need such a complicated scheme when they could just point at the state of the German armed forces as justification. (Which was basically their response to the in
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by makomk 4y ago
The EU's financial sanctions on Russia were pretty obviously structured to make it as difficult and painful for Russia as possible to stop selling gas to Europe. In particular, the seizure of their foreign reserves - which they were no
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by makomk 4y ago
Yeah, the decrease in asset prices is just an unavoidable side effect (and similiarly, the increase in asset prices under the previous low-interest, low-inflation environment was a side effect of attempts to boost inflation and the real eco
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by makomk 4y ago
The US, through NATO, is committed to defending much of Europe and the EU against Russian invasion if they decide to try anything. This war was an opportunity to demonstrate that the price will be too high to for Russia to pay and that they
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by makomk 4y ago
France really feels like they're building towards serious trouble in the near future. The gap between the discounted electricity costs paid by consumers and the actual underlying wholesale prices is only widening (to the point I think
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by makomk 4y ago
Countries with >90% of electricity from renewables are, almost universally, ones which have unusually good geography for hydropower combined a low enough population and energy demand that this meets their needs. This is not something tha
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by makomk 4y ago
As a start, that means that your costs have substantially increased to provide the same amount of healthcare as before. That makes the funding problem bigger. I'm not sure how it is in Canada, but the NHS in the UK employs about 1.4 mi
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by makomk 4y ago
I'm not convinced that the UK has been all that comparable to Germany and France for years. GDP is of course an imperfect measure of the real size and capacity of the economy - Ireland has about twice the GDP per capita of all of those
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by makomk 4y ago
Definitely a coincidence. While the current polio outbreaks were caused by a badly mismanaged and failed vaccination campaign pushed by the WHO and the Bill Gates Foundation out of an arrogant sense that vaccines were magic, the vaccination
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by makomk 4y ago
That's not a distraction at all. There are plenty of naturally-occuring chemicals in plants that are deadly poisons to humans. Some of them are even naturally present at low levels in food we eat, such as cyanide in some fruits.
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by makomk 4y ago
England has been building more housing - pretty much everywhere I go there's housing going up, new housing starts are apparently at their highest since the last housing bubble popped in 2008, and the national government basically remov
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by makomk 4y ago
"Disclaimer: None of the sites discussed in this study have been the subject of geological, hydrological, environmental, heritage and other studies, and it is not known whether any particular site would be suitable. The commercial feas
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by makomk 4y ago
There are numerous ways that you can store some amount of power - batteries, various potential energy storage options, hydrogen and other synthetic fuels, even stuff like flywheels. The unsolved problem is storing power on the vast scale ac
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by makomk 4y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this would be illegal almost everywhere. Most countries have some exceptions for abortions this late on if performed by a doctor under circumstances that make it medically necessary, but this ain't that. (The
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by makomk 4y ago
I really don't see any way for the impact of a supply-side shock not to be passed on to consumers. After all, it inherently restricts the production of goods and services for them to consume, and that directly leads to consumers being
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by makomk 4y ago
He still doesn't really get it. The big problem with ESG is that the entire fundamental premise pushed by the media that inspired it is a lie: the world isn't emitting masses of greenhouse gases just because it means more profits
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by makomk 4y ago
Renweable energy was not the "main cause" because it reliably fails to generate adequate amounts of power at that time of year and so the grid was entirely reliant on other generation (mostly natural gas) to fill in the gap. Basic
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by makomk 4y ago
That's not the actual size of Haiti's reparations to France though - it's completely imaginaary, hypothetical money that the New York Times is claiming Haiti would've made if not for the evil colonialists ruining their e
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by makomk 4y ago
It's definitely not just caused by a lack of testing. The UKHSA is reporting a huge difference in positivity rates between men and women: "More adult men were screened for orthopox virus (3,467, 80% of all tests) compared to adult
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by makomk 4y ago
There was literally nothing the US could've done that would've lead to Covid being comtrolled. Their efforts to stop it spreading there from China seem to have more or less worked, and were at least effective enough that they we
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by makomk 4y ago
A couple of paragraphs up in the Wikipedia article: "Oral polio vaccine results in vaccine-associated paralytic poliomylelitis in about three per million doses". I've also seen one in two million doses quoted elsewhere, but i
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by makomk 4y ago
Unfortunately, vaccinating everyone is not actually zero risk. A small proportion of people who recieve the oral polio vaccine develop vaccine-associated paralytic polio which is exactly what it sounds like - full-on paralytic polio caused
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by makomk 4y ago
All those vaccinations will be the inactivated polio vaccine, since it's the only polio vaccine in use in the USA since 2000: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/index.html
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by makomk 4y ago
Okay, I should probably have been a bit clearer about that. Polio eradication efforts everywhere in the world, including the US, were based around the oral polio vaccine due to its apparent benefits in stopping vaccinated people from spread
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by makomk 4y ago
The anti-vaccine movement is a problem but they're not really the big problem this time. Basically, the global effort to eradicate polio failed catastropically due to a major flaw in the strategy devised by the WHO and all the other gr
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by makomk 4y ago
That's probably less of a smoking gun than it seems like. This case was only discovered because someone actually suffered from paralysis, which is somewhat uncommon even in the unvaccinated and extremely uncommon amongst the vaccinated
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Supposedly a bunch of routine maintenance was also deferred during the pandemic and has now come due, meaning that more plants are down for maintenance at the same time than normally.
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If I remember rightly we even know and have evidence of some of the specific ways in which China did this, such as not counting deaths of people in high-risk groups immediately after being infected with and hospitalized due to Covid as Covi
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Heathrow is the largest British airport by far. The second-largest, Gatwick, pre-emptively cut a whole bunch of flights in July and August about a month before Heathrow decided to do the same, the third largest is apparently Manchester whic

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