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by rhino369 5y ago
Ban gain of function research because it killed 20 million people? Your logic is like BP saying “hey it doesn’t matter how the oil spill started . . .”
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by rhino369 5y ago
I wouldn’t trust the CDC or WHO. We need an independent group who don’t have any baggage on this issue. CDC can’t be trusted to even make a simple covid test and they don’t want to admit scientific research killed 20 million people.
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by rhino369 5y ago
You also just get used to the taste of whatever other material in your local water. I drink tap water all the time and it just tastes like water. My daughter, who only ever has filtered, asked me why tap water tasted weird when I gave her
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by rhino369 5y ago
If the nobility consumed a disproportionate amount of goods and services, but were less likely to die from the plague, you could see the relative amount of labor per consumer drop. They could also be trading with areas less effected by the
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by rhino369 5y ago
What is point, we have millions of cases a day anyway.
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by rhino369 5y ago
Your entry tests aren’t strong enough to prevent 100% of cases anyway. You need a strict, no exceptions quarantine that lasts long enough to cover any incubation period. And even then, workers at the quarantine site might get infected. Prob
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by rhino369 5y ago
There has been little thought given to non-covid health and developmental issues caused by mitigations. My friends had to go to private school to get a school to accept a doctors note that their kid shouldn't wear masks because he&#x27
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by rhino369 5y ago
Omicron is so contagious that its going to burn through regardless of moderate mitigation techniques. NYC went from 1 case to 40,000 in a month. Even if you lock down for 3 months to get back to 0. We'd be back to 40,000 the second we
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by rhino369 5y ago
Tiny sample size compared to the one from Israel that found the opposite. And the CDC essentially admits the vaccines no longer do much to prevent spread (due to waning protection and new variants). Maybe previous natural immunity has seen
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by rhino369 5y ago
Then you can't blame continued high cases on the unvaccinated and you can't expect the covid risk to go away. The at-risk should get used to wearing an N95 mask, but I'm done complying with mitigation measures (I'll get
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by rhino369 5y ago
I would be in favor of a two week shut down to act like a short circuit breaker for Omicron. But I have no trust in local authorities, who let "two weeks" turn into months of restrictions even when hospitalization rates were low i
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by rhino369 5y ago
It's society's job to protect children, not the other way around. Closing schools while opening bars is huge failure of leadership.
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by rhino369 5y ago
You'll drive yourself crazy focusing on every minor risk for children. COVID risk for unvaxed kids is the same as fully vaxed 40 years and much lower than fully vaxed seniors. If you want to do some productive worrying, figure out how
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by rhino369 5y ago
I quit and I just felt worse. I'm not a morning person and only caffeine lets me function. My trade off was no caffeine on the weekends. It lowered my tolerance a lot since I had over 48 hours off it. I don't have any mental healt
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by rhino369 5y ago
I would never trust the Chinese government to publish accurate numbers. But their society definitely kept pre-Omicron covid cases really low. Their infrastructure to identify and quarantine cases is much better than the US's or Europe
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by rhino369 5y ago
If 100% should--an I sort of agree--then it should be built into the school day a bit better.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I think the idea is that you need to stagger the bus trips (so once bus can service 2-3 schools a day). And the high school students should be last since many families rely on older children to watch younger children in the morning.
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by rhino369 5y ago
They do that because a significant number of people will call rather than check the website first. My issue is that they often don't give you the "none-of-the-above please let me speak to a real person" option--or they hide i
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by rhino369 5y ago
An R value of .8 would quickly go extinct.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I'm skeptical. The 2020 Winter wave started in October. But cases were decreasing of flat Oct. and Nov. with barely any mitigations in place. There was some sign of an increase in very late nov. and early december. Whether that is an
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by rhino369 5y ago
>Or am I missing something? The possibility that a new variant arises that substantially evades both Delta and Omicron immunity. But it will probably turn endemic after this. There won't be any virgin hosts anymore.
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by rhino369 5y ago
Cool tech. How come burn in isn't an issue for OLEDs on laptops? Seems to be an issue for TV.
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by rhino369 5y ago
But did they map it all out up front and then not make any major changes?
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by rhino369 5y ago
We just need to hope that whoever discovers that much-worse-than-covid virus doesn't scratch their nose at the wrong time and carries it to the world.
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by rhino369 5y ago
It is less crazy when you compare to real property and personal property. Your rights to real estate never expire. I am pretty sure if you traced my house's property title back far enough it was awarded by Charles II to a loyalist. At
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by rhino369 5y ago
They want the netflix interface to be the only queue you use by default when your brain is tired. If they are just a content provider to apple, they lost.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I don't buy that. The vast majority of people would save substantial money by eating better--either by cutting out fast food or by avoiding junk food. Convenience/time is a big issue, but its not like the upscale versions of fast
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by rhino369 5y ago
I'm not really sure anyone knows for sure with Omicron since the data is too fresh and limited. The experts claim not to be able to tell how severe Omicron is yet, so I'm not sure how'd they know boosters are effective at re
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by rhino369 5y ago
That is a very interesting idea. But I think you would want at least a 14 year grace period with no property tax. Another possibility is a use-it-or-lose-it scheme like that used in Trademarks. If you built a game that is now abandonware,
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by rhino369 5y ago
It * can* be used to do that. But there is nothing inherent in that. And hardcore partisans always think the other sides is the really-really-really-evil side and they are on the side of angels. So your line of thinking can be used to just

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