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by nojokes 5y ago
Government should push better personal health choices? Absolutely. It is a good strategy regardless of covid. But how can natural immunity prevent covid? Natural immunity appears after infection, it could not somehow magically appear before
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by nojokes 5y ago
Yes, it does pair well. Both are incompetent opinions. I recommend you to read the actual study. It is 62 pages long but just read the conclusions part. You will realize that it is not possible to compress it into a single sentence. Even th
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by nojokes 5y ago
It looks like this hospital director is not well aware that most people in Isreal, who are receptive to the illness, are fully vaccinated.
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by nojokes 5y ago
I am not sure I can agree that dispensing ivermectin in the first place was a human subjects research. Or I need at least more convincing. How I see this is that they provided an intervention that they believed was going to help based on be
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by nojokes 5y ago
Again this discussion? Does the booster limit spread? Go for it then as having large proportion of society on sick leave is destructive and for sure less spread is less dangerous for those who are at highest risk. Just do not force people t
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by nojokes 5y ago
These insane prices for anything do have one upside - you can get some miraculous treatments if you have really a lot money. Downside of this is that it does suck talent out of EU that could perform the same treatments here (true story).
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by nojokes 5y ago
The F is wrong with US??? In EU, in high income countries paid PCR tests is less than 60 euro piece if you need it for something else than for medical reasons. In lower income countries it can be less but probably not less than 40 euro.
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by nojokes 5y ago
Perhaps it was because the method they were infected? I do not think it will represent common way of getting infected that most likely was via aerosol.
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by nojokes 5y ago
It still can happen that somebody dies during one of such future trials. I think that this possibility should be accepted if it is for gaining important knowledge about deadly virus but these studies should be very well prepare and vetted t
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by nojokes 5y ago
Very interesting experience with Google. Were you logged in both times or it was anonymous search? Did you try to somehow refresh your IP address
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by nojokes 5y ago
7 scientists reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic
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by nojokes 5y ago
> I've not seen a convincing argument against simply looking at excess deaths. You do not see it? I see a long fat tail there. There were 131500 excess deaths during weeks 1-8 and 230000 after that. Does it sound normal to you? And
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by nojokes 5y ago
What months? Months after omicron appearance? It has been here just about 2 months and boosters are still important because even though omicron is very fairly different from each previous variant we know, vaccine induced immunity still can
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by nojokes 5y ago
Every state has some rules about safety. Traffic, food production, health care and so one. These rules are in place because they are a good thing that creates order out of chaos, it makes things more predictable. Does it make every governme
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by nojokes 5y ago
It is not an excuse, it is an explanation. People mostly do not know a shit about the immune system. Can you for example name types of blood cells that are responsible for your immune reaction? What organs are involved? If somebody is tryin
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by nojokes 5y ago
I like this comment from there "The healthy 35yo might not have a bed for something unrelated thanks to freedom fighters with poor understanding of statistics." Second order deaths and reduction in quality of like can be as much h
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by nojokes 5y ago
"as compared to a COVID-19 policy based solely on recommendations" - what is this comparator? Sweden? I do not think that it is possible to derive much out of just simple comparisons without taking into account cultural difference
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by nojokes 5y ago
Interpretation of the title is completely wrong. Restrictions did have effect but severity was not the most important factor.
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by nojokes 5y ago
When checked US main causes of death, diabetes rates are very high. At least twice than in other countries. It points to generally bad health condition. Violent death rate is very high (even as 10x higher than in other countries), it points
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by nojokes 5y ago
US has higher diabetes related deaths too. And much higher accident and violence rates but I think this is not relevant here or maybe it is.
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by nojokes 5y ago
He actually gets the data wrong about fluvoxamine. It has about 30% efficacy against hospitalization (it is actually more complicated but I let it slide at the moment).
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by nojokes 5y ago
I think that his argument is totally misplaced. He tries to argue that vaccine mandates are bad because natural immunity after infection is superior. Honestly, this is ridiculous conclusion. If natural immunity gives about the same or bette
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by nojokes 5y ago
Anti-vaxxers are people who find for some reason that vaccines are bad or somewhat bad and should be avoided and then desperately constructs articles like this to mislead other people and convince them to accept their beliefs. I touched thi
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by nojokes 5y ago
Actually against omicron 3 doses of vaccine is superior but you will still get infected very likely. More likely than with 2 doses and delta because omicron is just so much more prevalent at the moment.
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by nojokes 5y ago
I wrote about this opinion piece in more detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172569 I think its arguments are really flawed and not grounded in reality but like I said, I do not think that convalescents shoul
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by nojokes 5y ago
Antibiotics do, so do antivirals and antifungals.
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by nojokes 5y ago
I think it is not possible to compress the essence of this very long paper into single sentence. I recommend to read at least "5 Concluding observations" fully. There is much more nuance to it than can be expressed in a single sen
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by nojokes 5y ago
I do not think that bringing out (again!!!) absolute risk reduction argument has anything to do with science really but propaganda. ARR requires that background risk is taken into account. Please note that small remark "Data collected
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by nojokes 5y ago
I think the last sentence is the best advice one can be given about the topic. I have tried to understand people who are against vaccination and have read great deal of this material and it will eventually, rather sooner than later, end up
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by nojokes 5y ago
Then every approved medicine is in experimental phase after approval continuously till everyone ever has taken it has died. Then we can compare final numbers and make final conclusion. Or we take data we already have and make the conclusion

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