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by markkanof 5y ago
But why are we only considering vaccination with regards to herd immunity. Shouldn't we also be including natural immunity from previous covid infection?
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by markkanof 5y ago
None of this is correct. Both of these drugs were part of the conversation long before a vaccine was available, and at least withe Ivermectin the proposed usage is as a prophylactic or as soon as you see any symptoms. Not once you are so si
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by markkanof 5y ago
I’ve also been curious what hospital these scientists went to. You would think that they might have some sort of self contained medical unit for when any researchers at these types of facilities get sick. Just to make absolutely sure they a
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by markkanof 5y ago
Looks like DARPA's budget is about 3.5 billion a year vs. the overall defense budget of something like 715 billion. I'm betting that a lot more people would feel ok about paying taxes if more of it was going towards these types of
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by markkanof 5y ago
I think your comment is interesting and generally agree, but to play devils advocate, there are certainly times when a fly might crash right into a window or something and then just gets up and keeps flying so there is also an aspect of res
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by markkanof 5y ago
Or even just stop giving the rich money that is taken from regular people. The money may not be directly taken from us, but printing money causes inflation, which is not really different from taking money in the form of taxes. At the end of
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by markkanof 5y ago
I’m not the person you are responding to and I’m also a software dev (ie. not the average user), but I prefer a nice looking email that includes some simple graphics and formatting. So that’s at least one person that prefers that kind of th
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by markkanof 5y ago
Right, in Oregon the coastal areas mostly rise quite quickly from the beach and are relatively sparsely populated. The more populated areas of Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc are well away from the ocean, so a tsunami is unlikely to kill very
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by markkanof 5y ago
You are correct on the aggregate, but that doesn't necessarily work when applied to each individual driver. I'm a pretty attentive and cautious driver. In the 20 years I have been driving I've been in one accident and that wa
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by markkanof 6y ago
If it is in fact a pyramid scheme, wouldn't they want to be on the top rather than the bottom?
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by markkanof 6y ago
There is also a problem with approaching this type of dialog as one side vs. the other. People are all over the spectrum with their opinions on various issues. You might have a disagreement on one particular issue, but it's likely that
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by markkanof 6y ago
At this point I just assume that photos with news articles don't really have any direct connection to the content of the article. It's either laziness, an attempt at emotional manipulation, or a combination of the two. I'm al
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by markkanof 6y ago
Right. It's frustrating that the term conspiracy theory has become a blunt weapon that can be used to quickly dismiss allegations of wrong doing and paint the accuser as a fringe lunatic. Sometimes people do evil things or conspire wit
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by markkanof 6y ago
Yes, it seems like ultimately the distribution problem will come down to communicating who can get vaccinated and when. Like right now I have been hearing scattered reports that there are places where doses of the vaccine are available and
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by markkanof 6y ago
More specifically, the idea is that we as humans just have certain rights and the Bill of Rights is supposed to prevent the government from infringing in any way on those rights. It seems that many elected officials do not understand that o
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by markkanof 6y ago
I recently watched the movie Angel Has Fallen on Netflix. The movie starts out with an assassination attempt on the president by a swarm of drones armed with explosives. The secret service agents were (not surprisingly) completely ineffecti
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by markkanof 6y ago
Maybe. There are certainly places where you can find long straight runs of highway with no on ramps. Do that in the middle of the night and you are unlikely to encounter another vehicle.
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by markkanof 6y ago
Because it's a new vaccine and the mRNA ones are a completely new type of vaccine. They seem safe in limited use over a short period of time, but we don't know yet what effects they may have in the future. Also there is an aspect
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by markkanof 6y ago
Do these vaccines prevent a person from spreading the virus? I've heard a number of times that these will prevent the person who got the vaccine from getting sick, but that it won't prevent them from spreading the disease. If that
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by markkanof 6y ago
I don't know the details here, hopefully these laws are extremely tightly scoped. Being able to be put in jail for speech doesn't sound like something that is "working pretty well" to me.
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by markkanof 6y ago
I can't necessarily argue the exact wording that you used "prominent", because the folks you listed are certainly no longer visible in the most mainstream venues, but do you really think Alex Jones has lost a lot of the audie
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by markkanof 6y ago
We have a couple places in Portland that setup individual dining tents for just one table. Those were included in the shutdown of indoor dining, even though it seems to me that could be done fairly safely. It's a shame for those restau
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by markkanof 6y ago
Not sure if there are studies of that or not, but clearly a lot of these decisions are not "science based". Politicians are just taking the easiest path to optimize for a single metric, reduced spread, and ignoring all other conce
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by markkanof 6y ago
I hope you are right, but I'm not convinced. Covid isn't just going to go away like switching off a light switch. A good number of people have gone way off the deep end with regard to "being safe". I'm not sure they
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by markkanof 6y ago
The Netherlands and maybe other European countries use 1.5 meters (~ 5 feet) as their guideline.
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by markkanof 6y ago
I've listened to Sawbones for a long time and finally had to give up. The shows does present some factual information, but also spins some things, and seem to primarily exist so the hosts can create a setting where they can "prove
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by markkanof 6y ago
Are you sure about this? A google search indicates Pluto was discovered in 1930 and Hubble was launched in 1990.
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by markkanof 6y ago
Could you elaborate on the data loss bugs. I recently had to restore from an Arq 6 based backup and ran into some issues where it seemed like if the screen saver started during the restore it would just stop restoring but would not give any
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by markkanof 6y ago
That line about the fathers routine really got to me. I find it a constant challenge to do the daily routine with my completely healthy children. This father got up at 5am, did the morning routine, then did the evening routine, and it seeme
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by markkanof 6y ago
Yup, sounds like we are in pretty much the same neighborhood. I wouldn't yet say I feel unsafe, but it sure doesn't seem like the city is moving in a positive direction. It makes me sad because I love this city and maybe I'm

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