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by mikem170 6y ago
> If there is a 'marginal risk' of 4 in 1 million of 'blood clotting' and it's entirely treatable I completely agree with what you are saying, but wanted to point out that the risk of a cerebral venous sinus thro
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by mikem170 6y ago
We will never wipe out covid, because it also is transmitted in a couple species of animals. We'd have to kill/vaccinate bats, civets, minks, etc.
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by mikem170 6y ago
> For there J+J vaccine, it's also a 1 in a million risk, but just of getting the clots, not dying. Are you sure about this? I thought the J&J 1 in a million number was deaths, from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis blood clots?
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by mikem170 6y ago
Careful, You might be comparing apples and oranges... Contraceptive pill blood clot risk is for any type of blood clot, such as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, etc [0]. The vaccine cerebral venous sinus thrombosis blood clot risk
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm glad you agree that covid-19 is not a threat to our species! Why did you bring up systemic collapse? You made some pretty broad statements. Things like food shortages and civil unrest happen all the time, for lots of reasons. There
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by mikem170 6y ago
My apologies! I didn't mean to mix you up with the original comment I was replying to. I did specifically object to the characterization of the pandemic as a threat to the surivial of the species. I'm glad you agree!
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by mikem170 6y ago
You said "the survival of the species" was at stake. Are you telling me that you stand by that comment? Do you really think this coronavirus might have killed off our species? There is zero science supporting this. In fact, to the
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by mikem170 6y ago
I second this - I also appreciate the numbers. Another way to look at this (29 million people in Texas, 50k deaths) is that 1 of every 580 people in Texas died of covid. Just a tiny bit better than the national average.
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by mikem170 6y ago
> shut down for the survival of your species Do you really believe the survival of our species is at stake? There have been 1754 covid-19 deaths per million people in the USA since the start of the pandemic [0], a seemingly reliable numb
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by mikem170 6y ago
Thanks for the links! I made a first pass through them, and will look at them more. I appreciate the extra data. There's a lot of details to mull over, some of it seemingly conflicting. For example, your linked article [0] mentions &qu
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by mikem170 6y ago
>You should care because your vaccine doesn't necessarily prevent you from catching a mutated variant . Given a long enough timeline and enough hosts such a strain will evolve, it's only a matter of time. Yes, I know there are
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by mikem170 6y ago
You seem to be overstating the likelihood of covid-19 mutating into another strain, like the flu does. It's a coronavirus and those are known to be different in this regard. I haven't seen a source saying that we should expect imm
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by mikem170 6y ago
> What's a reasonable alternative Housing that costs half as much as it does today, and doesn't grow faster than consumer price inflation?
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Is there any science supporting your statement?
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It still seems like you are forcing your preference on others.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound right (states overruling cities). There should be as little imposed from top-down as possible.
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Perhaps more local politics would be better. Trying to get 330 million people to agree on everything is doomed to failure.
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Some people value the community more than the individual, some the opposite. It is a big problem that people can't respect each other.
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by mikem170 6y ago
The article you linked said Cellbrite was helping in the attempt to unlock the phone, it didn't say they succeeded.
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by mikem170 6y ago
This is a fascinating topic. If you're interested you should read Khor's book on it, "The Breakdown of Nations". Lots of surprises and food-for-thought. The youtube I linked to is a fair introduction. I guess I threw my
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by mikem170 6y ago
That's 6 unusual/dangerous cerebral clots per 7 million doses, not all blood clots. There were 50% more clots of any types in the vaccine trials of 20k people [0] (15 blood clots in vaccinated group versus 10 in the placebo group)
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by mikem170 6y ago
Actually they did notice extra blood clots during the trials, but didn't think it was statistically significant [0] (15 blood clots versus 10 in the placebo group, in a trial of 20k people). [0] https://www.cnn.com/2021
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by mikem170 6y ago
This article [0] mentions 50% more blood clots observed during vaccine trials, which at the time was characterized as a slight numerical imbalance (15 blood clots versus 10 in the placebo group, in a trial of 20k people) [0] https:/&#
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by mikem170 6y ago
This article [0] mentions 50% more blood clots observed during vaccine trials, which at the time was characterized as a slight numerical imbalance (15 blood clots versus 10 in the placebo group, in a trial of 20k people) The 6 cases out of
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by mikem170 6y ago
I agree with your numbers above. But wondered about factoring the below into these calculations [0]: > During Johnson & Johnson's clinical trial, there were reports of other types of blood clots, too. Some are relatively common,
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by mikem170 6y ago
I didn't say it was ok to drive drunk. Were your questions rhetorical? I asked a question, and don't understand your answer. I didn't say anything about an anti-masker berating someone not wearing a mask. I don't think i
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by mikem170 6y ago
That might not be a good thing. A highly interconnected system is less able to adapt, becomes brittle, and tends to fail more catastrophically.
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by mikem170 6y ago
Actually it might be better if we split the world into smaller countries, like 10 million people each. Small countries don't fight big wars. Leopold Khor wrote a book about this, best info link I could quickly find is https:/&#x2
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by mikem170 6y ago
I don't know that anybody can be 100% sure of anything. But all along there have been experts on coronaviruses who have known what to expect from this pandemic [0]. They know that coronaviruses don't mutate into different strains
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by mikem170 6y ago
Influenza kills 250k to 650k people a year [0], year after year after year. By your logic does that make anyone who hasn't been wearing a mask during flu season for all years past a killer? Or is there something different about flu dea

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