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by pbak 5y ago
If I'm not mistaken the OC gentleman is Belgian. I surmise that as "benefit", you mean "protection". Last time there were battles on Belgian soil was Napoleon. Germans kind of breezed through twice. Contemporary Bel
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by pbak 5y ago
Check your timelines. Every single variant, dominant or not, originated before vaccines were available...
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by pbak 5y ago
> The Delta variant itself rose in India, which has really low vaccination rates. Sorry, I mixed your comment with somebody else's which used the word "emerged" and argued delta and lambda appeared because of the unvaccina
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by pbak 5y ago
Oh, you, plague-rat and Surtur apologist, why bring in reason, objective observations and doubt into this scientism Jihad ?
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by pbak 5y ago
I don't know what you are talking about. Your vertical eye slits slowly opening and closing please me very much, kin of Greta. P.S. : Still waiting on my invite to inner-earth.
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by pbak 5y ago
You forgot a big fat /S. I almost took you seriously ;-D.
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by pbak 5y ago
If all was well in the land of milk and honey, yes. However, if unlike me, and like most professionals, you didn't spent an unhealthy amount of time researching the details, you wouldn't know they didn't : https://
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by pbak 5y ago
I should have been longer. Exactly : Location of emergence of a variant has nothing to do with vaccination or not. All of the current variants raging around appeared before there were vaccines, as were all current and past variants of inter
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by pbak 5y ago
The timeline doesn't work in your reasoning. Vaccines aren't a factor as they weren't available when any of the variants emerged. The emergence can't be either the vaxxed or the unvaxxed's fault. Nobody's respo
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by pbak 5y ago
>To support my statement, see the reasoning in this paper >from very well respected researchers at top institutions >across the country [1]. Or take a look at the historical >examples of vaccine induced immune escape, for exa
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by pbak 5y ago
Yes I did, sorry ! Still sparks a lively debate, though ;-)
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by pbak 5y ago
> The Delta variant itself rose in India, which has > really low vaccination rates. Vaccines became available in India on February 1st, 2021. The delta variant was first detected during the same week. https://www.medrxiv.o
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by pbak 5y ago
>If your claim were true the variants would come from Israel, >Europe or the US. Except for the UK variant, b.1.1.7, also called Alpha, the deadliest since the beginning...
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by pbak 5y ago
Sweden enters the chat.
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by pbak 5y ago
You can, in the US. /s
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by pbak 5y ago
You still have energy to read the papers and be upset by journalists making a mess of the entire situation 18 months in ? I'm amazed at your mental stamina. I gave up and moved to the countryside cultivating pears.
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by pbak 5y ago
Whether it was global cooling fear in the 1960's, or the current actual climate crisis, a lot (maybe unconsciously) know they'll always somehow find ways to eat, be mobile, and find a power source for their AC.
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by pbak 5y ago
It's not a conspiracy if it's a stated public policy goal. A policy goal people are free to oppose in a democracy. Also, France ?
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by pbak 5y ago
And one day you'll learn how large their cybersecurity team actually is and who has contracts with them...
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by pbak 5y ago
You really gunning for that QA job, are you ?
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by pbak 5y ago
I'd ask "whose oversight is avoided ?", and "whose isn't ?". You are supposing the Fed's deciding committees are acting fully independently (wittingly or not) within their mandate. AFAIK the process isn&#x
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by pbak 5y ago
Very true, me too, to "burn" a flu out. However, you can get out of the sauna whenever you want ;-)
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by pbak 5y ago
Although not answering the question, this recent article might indicate the start of a better way to frame your question : https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-metaphysical-pr... In other terms, first : Wh
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by pbak 5y ago
You are not a freezer. Your basal metabolism doesn't switch off as if it had a thermostat. So no, it's not a beneficial, it compounds, and you die faster.
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by pbak 5y ago
Well, you were more than halfway to a Yugoslav-style worker-managed company in your first paragraph. They were all destroyed either because of the 90's wars, or by post-war liberal governments who forced dissolution. There aren't
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by pbak 5y ago
Except for bigger, better more efficient engines : Although Raptors are a great achievement, their design if used alone is not made for bigger loads. SpaceX is stacking them now for larger ships. Hopefully the whole system will prove reliab
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by pbak 5y ago
Weredoggies confirmed.
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by pbak 5y ago
Thanks!
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by pbak 5y ago
> When you just grab a paper or two at random, you're engaging in a dangerous sampling problem. When the papers aren't grabbed at random, it's even worse. I think you summarized the current situation perfectly. It's a
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by pbak 5y ago
Welcome to the suck. Most don't. It's less of a dopamine hit if before posting anything you take 2-3 hours to go through at least 1 or 2 papers in detail. Then again, if you' want to show equanimity during a controversy, you&

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