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by mikem170 6y ago
You used the word creepy to describe the wikifeet site, which might lead people to think that you are motivated by prudish reasons. From a legal consent perspective are you also opposed to google image search for the same reasons, that goog
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm not sure why you brought up immunocompromised people. Does that have anything to do with the video you linked? Seems like a wash, they are immunocompromised and anything they catch will have time to live and mutate in them, not jus
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by mikem170 6y ago
Most places offer an alternative. Especially institutions that are not FAANG-types, like government services and heavily regulated ones like banks. I am a U.S. citizen and have never encountered a service that didn't have alternatives
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by mikem170 6y ago
Tell them you have no phone. It seems to disarm people. You're not telling that you refuse their request, and getting into a power struggle. Then ask them if that means you can't get a vaccination or whatever. This has worked ever
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by mikem170 6y ago
I hear you, this comes up more and more often. I remember reading that Singapore had something like this (for contact tracing, I think), but they'd give you a dedicated device if you didn't have a phone. Ugh. I like telling compan
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by mikem170 6y ago
Agreed. Users have it in their power not to use services that require a phone number for SMS verifcation.
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by mikem170 6y ago
Agreed. I add that the 24-hour news cycle is in it for the clicks, and they get lots of clicks selling fear. Risk assessment isn't one of our stong suits, either (human nature being what it is).
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by mikem170 6y ago
I agree with you. There is a lot of fear around this topic, so I assume rather than engage with on the merits people may be downvoting you in defence of their emotions.
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by mikem170 6y ago
What you said about different strains has never been more than click-bait and conjecture. Please stopping spreading this, people are scared enough already. This is not how t-cell immunity and coronaviruses work [0]. From an article titled &
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by mikem170 6y ago
And not just financial costs, but quality of life costs. One to two years of restrictions, quarantine, and/or lockdown is a sizeable fraction of everyone's lives. I feel bad for people in countries where people are even restricted
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by mikem170 6y ago
They are relatively close, enough so that unknowns may change the equation. Are there more unknowns for covid in young people, or more unknowns from the vaccines? (I'm not commenting on how to solve this equation, just pointing out oth
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm curious, were you able to find specific numbers for any of the studies done for regulatory approval? The raw data showing how many people got the drug, how many had side effects, and how this compares to normal rates? I haven'
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by mikem170 6y ago
Right. They were playing it safe, as opposed to having to defend themselves some day in the future for not playing it safe. This would explain why the Swedish state were so heavily criticised for not locking down. Also would explain the UK
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by mikem170 6y ago
Sorry, maybe I didn't do a good job with my comment. A better more specific example of what I meant might be all the people who drank the cool-aid at Jonestown. They bought the cult propaganda hook line and sinker, and died for it. Som
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by mikem170 6y ago
To be fair, that correlation would probably cut both ways. For example, the people who don't decide to try things for themselves being more susceptible to being swayed by propaganda. Interesting to look at, as you said. I assume that d
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by mikem170 6y ago
There is a lot of precedent for this. For example, here's a paper talking about the flu and heart swelling: [0] > During the Sheffield, England influenza epi- demic from 1972 to 1973, the cases of 50 consecutive patients who were in
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by mikem170 6y ago
You bring up a valid point about NY vs. FL. NY [0] had more initial cases (initial outbreaks), Florida [1] had more over the summer (perhaps inside with a/c?), and they have been pretty much identical the last several months. I don&#x2
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by mikem170 6y ago
What relevant viral theory do you think is wrong? Virologists know a good bit about coronavirusus, and so far I haven't seen where any of their prior knowledge that has not been applicable to the covid19 coronavirus. I've been rea
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by mikem170 6y ago
I think that I see what you mean, and that sounds fair to me. Basically that the disease may have only moved through half that population so far, if I follow your logic.
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by mikem170 6y ago
I used the population of that age group as the denominator. The numbers of infected by age group are not as easy to find, and perhaps not so accurate (confirmed vs non-confirmed, etc). I've approached this numerically since numbers sta
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by mikem170 6y ago
Why did you put "one-in-tens-of-thousands" in quotes? I looked it up, in 2019 there were 89 million 20-39 years olds in the U.S. [0], and 7000 ages 18-39 died dies of covid19 [1]. Mathematically that works out to 1 in 12,714, and
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by mikem170 6y ago
> "If it means snogging random strangers ... might not be a reasonable thing to do until late 2021 or after for most of us" 7000 people ages 18-39 have dies of covid19 in the U.S. [0][1]. There's at least 75 million people
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm an American and I make the same distinction. Cultural travel is not on the radar of the typical vacationer, so most people don't make the distinction. I'd add "tourists" as a third category, ranging from the one
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by mikem170 6y ago
Do you mean that there's no difference between organizing at the state and federal levels, given the cultural variety at each of those levels? Maybe that means we should go smaller? Swiss cantons average 330k people each (8.5 million p
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by mikem170 6y ago
Interesting. This thread has refined my opinion. I still wouldn't characterize this as a "free market failure", implying there is no room for competition, or everything needs to be the same as the rest of the country. I paid
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by mikem170 6y ago
The problem may be that 330+ million people expect the politicians in Washington to do anything about these problems, while the problems just get worse and worse. And not just the tax code. They should be ashamed of health care, the complex
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by mikem170 6y ago
If we were so smart (as a society) these problem would not exists. Personally I think these things are scaling problems. I'd argue that we are not smart enough to centrally organize these things for 330+ million people. Perhaps the pro
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm not sure what the point of that link was, either. But I'd point out that America has A LOT of blood on its hands. A half million Iraqi's being the most recent, Vietnamese before that, and Koreans before that. Still going
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by mikem170 6y ago
My first thought was that "the system" is broken. It's too big and complicated. It's inhumane. And it's not just corporate tax law. Health care is a dumpster fire. Lots of overly complicated modern bureaucracies. We
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by mikem170 6y ago
Good stuff. Had to get some of the bickering out of the way first, I guess :-) I agree about the money for services, practicalities need to be respected. I assume doing better in cities could lighten the load in other places, and that is wh

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