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by ptaipale 5y ago
Covid vaccine hesitancy does not seem to be about poor education, nor about poverty. The visible antivaxx activists are well-to-do people. Distrust of government and authorities is a big factor. You have much more vaccine hesitancy in the U
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by ptaipale 5y ago
The covid disinformation is like a religion; no amount of researched data is going to change peoples minds. Believe me, I've been patient in explaining facts and referring to data, but people just report fabricated data memes and click
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by ptaipale 5y ago
In fact, over 3.5 billion people have been vaccinated (with at least one dose). It's about 45 % or world population. I'd say it's amazing, though there's still quite some way to go. Our World In Data is a great source fo
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Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines(lkml.iu.edu)
3 points by ptaipale 5y ago|3 comments
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by ptaipale 5y ago
No, at least I don't suffocate fish that I catch. I stun and kill.
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by ptaipale 5y ago
Game of Thrones is set on fictional continents (though yes, inspired by some actual European history). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fir...
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by ptaipale 5y ago
In addition to fiscal rules mentioned in other comments, an interesting case was the confiscation of face masks in spring 2020, i.e. blocking of free movement of goods inside EU. This was when we were desperately needing to have masks for u
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by ptaipale 5y ago
What? Of course infection induces immunity in case of covid, about on par with mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting... You don't have similar imm
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by ptaipale 5y ago
No, not including after vaccination. When people speak about pre-existing immunity, it's most of the time covid deniers saying there "natural" immunity and vaccines are useless or harmful. (Of course there is also valid discu
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by ptaipale 5y ago
I quite agree, but I think the message from health authorities has also been problematic here: they repeated that "vaccinated individuals will still spread the infection". That is true of course: some vaccinated individuals will
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by ptaipale 5y ago
Of course. If going out and working and consuming is dangerous, many people will not do it, even if there is no lockdown. More people will just be extremely careful. And there is some direct cost to the sickeness and death. This was publish
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by ptaipale 5y ago
I think no. It erodes trust in medical institutions, and now we reap what was sown. The same thing was done in other countries, including mine (Finland). Result: covid deniers are still using the year-old statements from national health age
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by ptaipale 5y ago
You can't know what kind of pre-existing immunity, if any, you have against covid.
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by ptaipale 5y ago
Halving the number of envelopes implies halving the revenue. As much of the cost is fixed (dependent on the size of infrastructure such as premises and vehicles, and number of delivery people required to cover a geographical area with suffi
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by ptaipale 5y ago
I suppose it is obvious that the previous writer just used wrong abbreviation, and meant the postal service. Snail-mail is in trouble in most parts of the developed world, because online services have replaced so many processes that were ru
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by ptaipale 6y ago
"Virus in the area" is not binary, on or off. It's always about rates and doses. Everyone is not infected instantly. Germany provides a useful testbed for the impact of mask usage, because the mask mandates have been decide
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by ptaipale 6y ago
CDC reports many kind of long-lasting adverse effects. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects....
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Indeed. I'm quite furious that my government (Finland) ordered such a "mask assessment" from a retired professor, in order to reduce the political pressure caused by PPE shortages. Now anti-maskers and other covid deniers are
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by ptaipale 6y ago
... less effective, but still effective.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
"Only" 6 5 higher mortality is huge excess mortality. (In reality, in Sweden mortality is about 4.5 % higher than the average of 2015-2019, but that is still very significant; and of course, covid is not just that one either dies
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by ptaipale 6y ago
At the moment, the decision-making looks like a trolley-problem. You've set the trolley to move on the "let's vaccinate" track. You have a risk that there might be a person who suffers down those tracks. If you pull the
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by ptaipale 6y ago
The war-sized effort includes a lot of other things besides vaccines: lockdowns, masks, drastic reduction of international travel, tankerfuls of hand desinfectant, etc. Yes, then it starts to have an impact; without those, there would have
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by ptaipale 6y ago
European Medical Agency still says AZ should go ahead. And, thankfully, several EU countries still do continue (including mine, Finland). https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/astrazeneca-vaccine-saf...
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by ptaipale 6y ago
To me it seems that most miss that the three different kids are watching a competition from back of a fence, without paying, while others paid for the game...
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by ptaipale 6y ago
...meaning that to reduce the number of cases evenly, we'd have to choose people to vaccinate by random, but we're not doing that; we're choosing by risk, and those at higher risk of severe disease are less likely to contract
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Ebola has spread quite quickly, and there have been lockdowns to stop it.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland form an entity that has shared history, culture, legislation and many other traits that make them comparable. For decades, the legislation, regulation etc in the countries has been developed toge
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by ptaipale 6y ago
On the other hand, currently the covid infection rates in Sweden are flaming red in the sparsely populated Gävleborg and Västernorrland counties which you can hardly describe as "urbanized". The counties in Finland (Österbotten an
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Sweden has a population density and urbanisation rate that is somewhat higher than Norway or Finland, but Denmark is far more dense. However, Sweden's infection rate is far higher than Denmark's. Of course here we are comparing a
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by ptaipale 6y ago
A bit off topic, but as far as I understand (not a medicla expert), respirators are not as important as they were though to be back in the spring when countries were fighting for equipment deliveries Extra oxygen is critical.

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