manwe150

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by manwe150 5y ago
I wouldn’t say that is the opposite, as it is suggesting both that ivermectin would be needed to be take as a preventative to slow the spread, and implies that vaccination is needed to stop it. My quote is taken from this page: https:&#x2F
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by manwe150 5y ago
Regardless, the link you sent says that treatment is not a sufficient option, and that protection (prophylaxis) is needed until vaccination.
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by manwe150 5y ago
I think we more specifically know something emerged that was much more deadly and contagious around January/February. That does not completely eliminate the possibility that an earlier variant was present, which might be cross-reactive
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by manwe150 5y ago
I’m quoting your link, by the people who argue for ivermectin: “We understand why policymakers are focused on vaccines. Vaccines will offer better, or longer-lasting, protection than any drug.”
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by manwe150 5y ago
I am aware of Ivermectin. It is hard not to be, given how often people talk about it being censured. The site you link seems to be asking for a EUA for giving it to the entire population, despite being less effective and higher side effects
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by manwe150 5y ago
You seem to be getting reflexive downvotes, but let's stop for a minute and see what you are actually proposing according to the rules you mentioned: If something else gets an EUA at this point, it would have to have nothing comparable
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by manwe150 5y ago
They seem to be the same site as https://hcqmeta.com/ , and while their data collection and aggregation looks excellent, their use of meta-statistics seemed mathematically questionable to me in the past, potentially leading
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by manwe150 5y ago
And such hypothetical alternative would also only have EUA under your argument. But that then wouldn’t stop them from administering the vaccine, as many of the various not-hypothetical vaccines work well and are cheap, so your overall state
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by manwe150 5y ago
Worse, the comment seems to be confusing under-eating with fit. Muscle is heavier/denser than fat and requires more calorie consumption to maintain.
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by manwe150 5y ago
100 lbs * 500 passengers is 50k pounds or about 10% of the max takeoff weight quoted there. Those numbers seem likely to be over-estimates, but that seems not inconsequential? Edit: the plane holds 328-550 depending on seat configuration pe
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by manwe150 5y ago
I think you mean, “it does matter”, since you describe different outcomes. Even in the case where those were pathogens, they may subsequently lose the competitive pressure to be good at fighting. Then when they re-encounter a robust environ
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by manwe150 5y ago
The Red Cross Blood Donation centers perhaps come closest to doing this. From their emails, it sounded like they never saw widespread active antibodies (until a few months ago).
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by manwe150 5y ago
That was true when the EUA was issued, but by now, we have vaccinated major segments of the population without seeing issues (e.g. hospitalizations are decreasing even as the rate of exposed population is much higher). I was in a similar po
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by manwe150 5y ago
Ah, this feels interesting. I would have said I’m a below average dancer, but above average person at dancing. The difference being whether I compare to people who I observe dancing, or consider everyone. Differently for sex, I assume that
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by manwe150 5y ago
Can someone explain this to me? It sounds like they want to claim that it cures COVID, and the FDA is invoking an obscure rule that basically says they need to prove it first. There's also a bunch of numbers on the page, as if there we
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by manwe150 5y ago
Not necessarily. They will likely try to key on something very specific, as this reduces the risk of it triggering on you (creating an autoimmune disorder). So natural infection may be less effective. We assume that mutations to the virus
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by manwe150 5y ago
Many low probability events happen every day, without contradicting the prior that they remain unlikely. It is akin to saying "Pliny the Younger didn't die in Pompeii overtaken by a volcano because there is so many other cities he
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by manwe150 5y ago
I’d guess it would reinforce the importance of getting vaccinated quickly, when vaccines are available for a disease, the same as for avoiding other side effects of contracting disease that we already know about. But OTOH, the researchers s
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by manwe150 5y ago
From my layman's reading (start from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles#Epidemiology ), I think the chickenpox vaccine is potentially somewhat the inverse of vendor lock-in: that giving the vaccine to childre
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by manwe150 5y ago
As a layman, my main observation with the link is they seem to be computing a statistical measures over the studies to get a meta-result. But that isn't necessarily a statistically valid methodology, for the following reason: it is lik
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by manwe150 5y ago
A few of the more highly touted studies I read even showed that early use of hcq by mildly sick individuals at home had better outcomes when compared against already hospitalized people who were already very ill sick with covid, regardless
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by manwe150 6y ago
I’ve heard a very high pitched hissing tone since mid-February. My personal theory is that it has possibly been the lack of noise / change in noise that amplified my perception of this frequency. I couldn’t find much information online
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by manwe150 6y ago
This was a very intriguing and plausible-sounding hypothesis to read. Since this was 2008, are there good follow-up papers yet (or rebuttals)?
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by manwe150 6y ago
Your statements seem mostly correct to me, but may be read in a misleading manner to imply the prevalence of colds is similar this year to past years. That data also does exist somewhere (since it was used to compute the plot in your first
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by manwe150 6y ago
I’ve only spent a couple minutes looking at the plot, but it appears they don’t know why half the patients are showing symptoms in a normal year. This year, something new that they didn’t add to their test aggregation—I assume COVID—increas
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If I'm reading that chart right, it is the percentage of sicknesses caused by each virus type, not the rate of sickness in the population. So we don't have information in this chart on the absolute prevalence. The change in relati
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I came to counter him with a joke, but the downvoters beat me to it. Anyways: The vaccine is more like going to the gym. We could continue our ancestor's practice of trying to run from lions, which was possibly better adrenaline practi
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by manwe150 6y ago
Is Remdesivir still in wide use? I know it was given emergency approval in the US, but I thought wider trials were now thought to show a lack of demonstrable results.
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by manwe150 6y ago
Or maybe something like temperature or humidity, since California is also doing much worse than Florida (27% v 17%) for simple excess deaths this year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/us&#
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by manwe150 6y ago
My layman’s understand is you need a neutron trigger to destabilize it rapidly, as well as a shell to contain it to get a stable chain reaction going. I think you typically need to be at the center of a an exploding star to see that happen

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