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by peytn 6y ago
Anyone who’s even dipped a toe in this policy area can tell you that when old people and hospitals meet, gaudy statistics follow. It’s common knowledge in the field. To not include that context or any points of comparison seems irresponsibl
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by peytn 6y ago
Not matching for hospital admission status is a pretty big factor given the bold, highly publicized top-line numbers: > We selected controls from the general population rather than matching to non-covid hospital admissions to determine t
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by peytn 6y ago
Worth mentioning that the control group wasn’t matched for hospital admission status, while the study group was solely people who ended up in the hospital. I’m guessing that the authors likely could have acquired the data to match a control
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by peytn 6y ago
Normal people worry about having a good job and saving for retirement. People in that world worry about things like UN Sustainable Development Goals. It’s a weird status thing they do, and I’m not sure we’re better off for it. I guess it be
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It’s tens of thousands of times as many contributors. For comparison, IIRC WebKit had like 500 contributors as of five or six years ago.
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I guarantee 100x returns as long as you never sell.
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> The fewer the mutations, the fewer the vaccine resistant variants. > The fewer the vaccine resistant variants, the fewer the need for new vaccines Aren’t you committing a logical error here? There will need to be new vaccines as lon
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by peytn 6y ago
On bunglemudgeonexchange.ru, yes. I’m seeing a ton of depth on their order book. Why not buy a few bunglemudgeons from me and see for yourself?
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by peytn 6y ago
I mean maybe in the broader sense, but bringing it back to something concrete: the CDC has a singular purpose, and plenty of money for planning so it can carry out that purpose. But having leaders who say things like (paraphrasing) “masks a
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by peytn 6y ago
The “store of wealth” excuse is pretty transparently just to lure greater fools after the crypto-is-money thing didn’t pan out. The only wealth that’s stored is the network of people pumping these things. And guess what: that network will m
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by peytn 6y ago
> If this is what it takes to get people to wear a mask when sick (as habit) and wash their appendages That’s the noble goal, but in reality it seems this strategy has led to enormous divisions, eroded the credibility of our institutions
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by peytn 6y ago
I dunno, there are definitely distribution-based assumptions—good luck working with skewed data. Most old-school techniques are kinda additive, so nobody's really been assuming a single distribution for practical applications. Curren
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No kidding, I grew up there as well! The not-wanting-to-ever-return feeling is very relatable. I wouldn’t have re-explored DFW were it not for the current state of life in the Bay Area. As it stands, things have changed a lot in the past 10
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by peytn 6y ago
Then you are more comfortable than I with unreviewed reports from government scientists a year into a declared state of emergency. That’s okay.
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Devil’s advocate: the CCP seems quite proud of its pandemic response and appears to have had procedures in place to deal with SARS-like disease outbreaks. Their tone is triumphant. Given its past history with SARS and the fact that the WIV
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by peytn 6y ago
Interesting, did not know. Thanks.
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How do you know? Do you have any evidence that that’s the underlying motivation for all of their recommendations? For at least one recommendation, the Food Pyramid, many allege the influence of lobbying groups played a role. Do you disput
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by peytn 6y ago
I assume the whole point of picking the S&P 500 and not, say, Bitcoin is that it is something that an average person would reasonably invest in. Presumably you don’t live in the US. Who exactly is working at a grocery store abroad and p
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by peytn 6y ago
I disagree. Communications is a core competency for public health. You can find it in the core curriculum of almost every degree in the field, e.g. [1]. What happened here is a fairly cynical culture of message paternalism that didn’t survi
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The initial outbreak was literally covered up. Conditioning on that fact, common sense would place more belief on “lab leak” and less on “natural origin.” Thus, in the Bayesian sense, one might describe a lab leak as “likely” relatively spe
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by peytn 6y ago
I think people are mad about the perceived abuse of liability protections enjoyed by these private actors. In my opinion that is totally valid.
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Political activity retaliation is a bit different from standard freedom of association concerns. You can plug your ears and go “not listening,” but there’s a real debate to be had about where it fits in the spirit of our country.
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Scale perhaps? Imagine if your union were two orders of magnitude larger. Would pathological behaviors emerge?
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DFW is another such megacity. The construction happening there reminds me of parts of China.
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I believe clinical trials are the gold-standard mechanism by which specific questions about interventions may be answered. I’m not pointing out a “scary gotcha.” I’m pointing out an omission identified in the linked work.
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From that article: > The findings of these simulations should neither be generalized to the effectiveness of all medical procedure masks or cloths masks nor interpreted as being representative of the effectiveness of these masks when wor
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That’s not necessarily the truth. It’s more of a hypothesis or opinion. In any case, enforcement of anything will require boots on the ground (or boots programming and building the drones). So you’ll have to convince the unwise 99.9% of so
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Before delving into accusations of maliciousness, might I suggest you first review the annual budgets of the relevant public health agencies? At least a hundred billion dollars have been spent by my government during my lifetime on public h
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Name a group that hasn’t been targeted historically by anybody. I’m talking about the latest tensions.
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What you’re not allowed to say (but are no doubt aware) is that after the Declaration of Helsinki public health became the field where all the healthcare people who have a problem with informed consent end up. Predictably, manipulating the

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