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by mikem170 6y ago
Covid doesn't seem to be different that the flu in this regard. Any disease that has a fever component will leave some with long lasting problems. Any disease that infects the lungs will do the same. There has been nothing indicating t
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by mikem170 6y ago
>We know that millions died under Mao yet he is still praised It's my understanding that Mao is held in good regard by his people for the communist revolution, which liberated China from colonial powers, their colonization by the We
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by mikem170 6y ago
I don't mean to imply that this invalidates your reasoning, but I thought it would be interesting to point out that Underwriters Laboratories was a private organization funded by insurance companies and did, and still does, a great job
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by mikem170 6y ago
The science around the evolution of this pandemic is still up in the air, but it's not as crazy an idea as you think, here's an article talking about herd immunity in some NYC neighborhoods, without regard to t-cells [0] I agree t
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by mikem170 6y ago
Quick example form today: "Hong Kong man 'first case' documented of getting coronavirus twice" [0] This article has quotes by multiple experts saying that this is good news, that the immune system fought off the reinfect
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by mikem170 6y ago
My apologies, my mention of exaggerations and paucity of facts was a bit off the cuff, I didn't do a good job of explaining myself. I was replying to your remark that "It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years&qu
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by mikem170 6y ago
> Finding someone who isn't perfect but who you can love and dedicate yourself to, or having children and giving everything you can for them, these are things that can bring us true meaning. That certainly seems to be conventional w
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by mikem170 6y ago
We may have already reached herd immunity in some locations, like northern Italy, NYC, etc - the places hardest hit so far, with many other places such as southern Florida on the way. This would be due to T-cell immunity conferred by prior
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by mikem170 6y ago
They are finding that prior exposure to other coronavirus infections (common cold, animal viruses) leaves behind t-cells that are activates for covid-19, as long as 17 years. And that a large percentage of the population has these t-cells.
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by mikem170 6y ago
The huge development is that they found this T-cell mechanism active already in relation to covid-19 for a large percentage of sampled populations. Current antibody tests are only looking at B-cells. It's good news and nobody talks abo
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by mikem170 6y ago
>It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years. The 1968 flu killed 1-4 million people, in a world with half the population of today. The 1957 flu killed a million people. So much about covid has been exaggerated. So many s
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by mikem170 6y ago
>Go back to the ‘50s and ‘60s and you can actually see things change. The time just after World War II was kind of an economic anomaly for the U.S. Our population of about 4% of the world generated something like 50% of the worlds GDP, m
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by mikem170 6y ago
There are lots of numbers on the flu and other infection diseases that cause the same problems. Here's a paper I just looked up for another comment talking about heart inflammation from influenza, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.ed
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by mikem170 6y ago
From http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685... > During the Sheffield, England influenza epi-demic from 1972 to 1973, the cases of 50 consecutive patients who were initially diagnosed as mild c
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'd file that under "two wrongs don't make a right". I think all government pensions should be responsibly funded. To do otherwise is basically tell our kids and unborn future generations that they can pay for our our la
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by mikem170 6y ago
Lockdowns only cannot eliminate this coronavirus. You'd have to also eliminate the virus from bat populations, or eliminate bats, else it will jump back into humans. The most likely outcome for this is that it becomes endemic, another
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by mikem170 6y ago
>There's reasonable evidence at this point that Covid infections do long-term damage, even to healthy people It is already a known fact that diseases with fever and/or lung components leave a small percentage of people with lon
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by mikem170 6y ago
> we know that there are a much greater percentage of people who will experience significant health problems, potentially with life-long impacts This seems to be an alarmist statement. Any disease with a fever component will leave a smal
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by mikem170 6y ago
>mostly because covid requires certain measures in order to be eradicated I thought we were flattening the curve... What makes you think this can be eradicated? Source?
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And the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which killed 1-4 million people, world population half of what it is today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic
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by mikem170 6y ago
>They are being forced to plan for the next 75 years now. I'm reading that ALL pensions offered by private companies in the U.S. must be funded out for 75 years. I presume this is for good reason. Why should this not apply to the US
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> A Republican congress forced an insane burden for the USPS to pre-fund 75 years worth of pension obligations: there are future postal workers who have not been born yet that the post office must plan pensions for. No other government
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by mikem170 6y ago
I would assume a "second wave" means that it has crested in the same place twice. as opposed to calling Wuhan the first wave, Iran the second, Italy the third, Spain the fourth, NYC the fifth, and so on. If NYC is bad again I&#x27
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by mikem170 6y ago
>Let me retire on a good pension at 60 like my grandparents all did. My theory: The economic success of my grandfather, part of the post-WWII "greatest generation" in the U.S., was an anomaly. After WWII the U.S. economy was ex
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by mikem170 6y ago
The only bummer is that a lot of this amounts to expecting the young to pay for this the rest of their lives. Politicians keep kicking the can down the road and it is not fair to future generations. Nobody seems to be talking about that.
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More secure, more stable, better documentation, easier upgrades, less complexity, less aggravation. OpenBSD makes me happy, bought a Thinkpad for the occasion and it runs great.
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by mikem170 6y ago
I usually think of the opposite affect, someone making double money in San Fransisco pays the same price for what they order on amazon as someone working and living in a cheaper market. Also cars, airline tickets, vacations, etc. Cuts both
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm not arguing that what she did was legal. I am saying that I don't agree with your prior statement that it was clearly immoral. I see it as clouded when one hears of corporations, banks, hedge funds, governments, and other well
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by mikem170 6y ago
>So identity fraud is just totally fine as long as you're screwing over insurance companies? Isn't it legal to buy an airline ticket for someone else? I've never heard of that being called identify fraud. >Identity frau
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by mikem170 6y ago
>Given it violates the principle of “one person, one vote” I believe that the less populated states would not have joined the union without the electoral college. They may justifiably feel that it's still not in their interests to g

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