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by rajin444 5y ago
> Most are vaccinated, but they're still taking a risk Pre pandemic they took a risk every day as well, so it's a matter of acceptable risk, which I believe is what the article was focused on. What level of risk is that?
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How do you account for prior immunity as well as the "pool" of people that would show up as a case going down as well? Both those factors would result in a softer curve without any vaccination.
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Scientists are allowed and should be allowed to say "the data changed, so our recommendation changed". Politicians and health leaders have a responsibility to interpret the data and develop communications and policies that build t
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That is by no means a fair exchange. You'll do anything to save your life.
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You need controls to account for confounding factors. Looking at a trend line does not account for confounding factors.
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Yes, but you need a control to compare it against. How do you get one?
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Even Biden admitted the moratorium is unconstitutional. Nobody seems to care.
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How can you prove the mitigations worked? The only controls out there (Sweden, some US states, etc.) aren’t very robust (nor in favor of mitigation efforts).
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> If they eat themselves to death instead, it's no skin off my back They make themselves more vulnerable to a number of viruses - not just covid. Healthier immune systems reduce transmission.
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I'm all for more data! 40 or 60 years sounds great. Most vaccines take 10-15 years to develop, so that should probably be my target, but I'm willing to take on some extra risk.
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Do we have data on 5, 10 years after usage? I'm fairly certain that there won't be anything either (based on what experts have said), but we should withhold making assertions without data to back it up, right?
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> I do not want a substantial number of people getting sick and having to use collective resources to heal them at the expense of others because of a collectively bad choice Why are you ok with using this argument for covid, but not smok
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> The goal is to avoid overloading the hospital system If that's the goal we need to decide what things are ok to go to the hospital for and what aren't. A lot of hospital visits could be prevented if we took the obesity epidem
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Is there a reason we shouldn't expect it to behave like most coroanviruses?
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> Usually viruses become more transmissible and less lethal in response to rational behavior in their hosts--but humans are proving we're not rational. I was under the impression viruses became less lethal because if they became mor
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It seems like your argument is now "there were differences but there's no way they were big enough to change how we developed". Unless you've got understanding that vastly exceeds current science, I don't think you
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> My twin is significantly overweight. Has been since we were 15. I'm not and haven't ever been. I always enjoyed working out, he didn't. Your univariate view of the world can't explain this. Yes it can. You were subj
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What do you think dictates the actions we take if not genetics? If your answer is free will, or something similar, I agree you might be right but I don't see how to discuss that further.
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The ability to work hard is not earned, it is genetic. If equity is our goal, we need to make this ability equivalent across all people. I don't think that's what we want, so the term equity is incorrect.
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> What is helping people most in need other then giving more to one side at the expense of other? That's a great question and a lot more philosophical than I'm going to get into in HN comments. I was trying to emphasize how fra
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That's why it's so important for us to come to terms with how we view privilege. Society currently only thinks a limited set of things - parental wealth, social status, skin color, etc. - are forms of privilege and we should work
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His point is still essentially the same, even if the roles have reversed a bit. Replace Penn family with today's government, and the governor with a citizen about to give up his rights. The governor was going to give up the people&#x27
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Unfortunately I think that hatred also caused otherwise rational people to place more faith than should be in the media - likely those that are on the other side of the political side taking you mention. “My tribal out group strongly dislik
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I'm not being pedantic. You have no idea what kind of spread any given strain of covid (or any virus) is going to have. You're trying to over simplify an extremely complex interaction. It could stop at 1 or it could stop at 1,000,
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It's not literally true. Exponential goes forever. A vrius will not. Where it stops is incredibly complex. It's exponential to a point, and where that point is is extremely important.
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If you’re going to die soon (from the listed conditions), wouldn’t you be less likely to workout (especially with poor sleep)? I read the article and didn’t see this addressed, but maybe the study did…
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Calling disease spread exponential is dishonest. It’s exponential for a time, but there is an upper limit (which is dictated by a ton of complex variables).
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It looks like that study was done on < 300 people. Is that strong evidence?
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Really? At least in the US, most movies are either remakes or oscar grabs (which while novel somehow manage to be predictable and dull).
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Most of us work in a profession where we hire teams of people to maintain systems with a fraction of the complexity of the human body (not to mention our understanding of how computers work is orders of magnitude higher than our understandi

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