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by rpiguy 6y ago
Doesn’t matter - a good portion of the US will never accept contract tracing, a prolonged shut down, mandatory antibody testing, or forced vaccination. It is illegal for states to prevent persons from neighboring, more constrictive states f
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by rpiguy 6y ago
It’s amazing how many communes depend on a cult-like figurehead just to hold together. So many are formed and dissolve because people start arguing over things like who does dishes.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Wow more than half a dozen! What a crock.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Although I disagree with it completely, I would defend the right of private platforms, like Google and Twitter to take down whatever content they like. When the government starts to mandate what information can and cannot be shared, that is
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The author is truly hyperbolic, talking about mass death happening in Sweden and comparing it to not standing up to the Nazis. 2500 deaths is not mass death in a country where 90000 people die every year. So far it seems to be a tradeoff th
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Not a double blind study, just another study showing that people taking hydroxychloroquine for lupus or arthritis suffered no deaths or hospitalizations in Italy. However, since many cases are asymptomatic anyway, these results could be coi
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Study of 60K shows hydroxychloroquine’s potent prophylactic effect on SARS Cov2(iltempo.it)
5 points by rpiguy 6y ago|1 comments
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is article is ridiculous - cities were disproportionately hit harder by COVID-19 and the author is arguing cities are better for pandemics? Suburbs are naturally spread out, people don't have to crowd onto mass transit, and life h
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is a ridiculous paper and a ridiculous headline. Firstly, the paper directly states the opposite of the title of this post: "The first European cases sampled on January 24, 2020 (IDF0372 and IDF0373 from Île-de-France, described i
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Sensational title that doesn't really match the "meat" of the article. The article is mostly about changing behavior patterns in developing areas. Stop these impoverished areas from hunting local wildlife to fill the nutritio
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Magazines are the only reason I go to Barnes and Noble. I wonder if it will impact their cafe revenue?
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Not a mystery at all. Multiple factors work in India's favor in likely order of impact: - Young Population - Non-obese population - Heat and Humidity across a lot of the country - Widespread deployment of anti-malarials to combat malar
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by rpiguy 6y ago
It is, but it is missing an important dimension. It counts the number of vectors the compound may be useful against, but not the efficacy of the compound on each vector. So there might be 66 targets for a given compound, but they may be wea
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The classic answer to this question is that "math was cheap." The Soviet Union was comparatively poor to the United States, so you create advantages where you can for the least investment. Math and national security are closely li
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So Far No Empirical Evidence That Lockdowns for Covid-19 Work(spiked-online.com)
1 points by rpiguy 7y ago|2 comments
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Pneumonia can scar the lungs, but COVID appears to be able to scar the lungs without causing Pneumonia. It interferes with hematic function (the ability of your blood to exchange oxygen) leading to the formation of ground glass bodies in th
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The current theory is that viral load is a factor in the severity of your infection. If you are exposed to it often and in larger quantities, you get a more severe infection. Therefore, healthcare workers are more likely to get a severe inf
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Sweden doesn't look like hell. 99% of deaths in Italy were over 65. Study after study, LA, Massachusetts, Chicago, etc. show that many, many more people have gotten COVID asymptomatically and the actual mortality rate thus far is minis
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Well I would include larger private companies in that group, you could have 100 employees and still be a small business - for example you could own a small chain of restaurants or franchises, or several hair salons. But yes really small bus
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by rpiguy 7y ago
There are 30.2 million small businesses in the US, which comprise a whopping 99.9% of all United States businesses and make up for the lion's share of employment. This is very different from Europe. By bailing out the small business ow
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Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus(bostonglobe.com)
82 points by rpiguy 7y ago|74 comments
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Conversely if 80% of COVID carriers are asymptomatic and therefore untested as is currently theorized (the US aircraft carrier that became infected is the most recent example) then we should be multiplying the denominator by 5 for the morta
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by rpiguy 7y ago
We have excellent data now, which has caused all numbers to be revised down week after week from a ridiculous 3.4 million dead to 70K by July (the Flu killed 80K in the 2018-2019 season). There is enough data for me to decide it is not wort
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The science, the actual hard number for mortality rate, is very low. It is the anecdotal evidence that is terrifying everyone (the terrible way in which it kills when it does kill, and the rate at which it spreads). I am personally not afra
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Sorry that information used to be available here but is no longer maintained: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistic... I do not think Covid deaths are being under-counted in NYC th
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I was shocked today to see how almost any submission offering any alternative viewpoint on Covid-19 is flagged. Sad.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Google has made the statistics query-able. Google “Covid NYC deaths,” etc. and they graph it for you in the search results. We are at about 8800 COVID deaths for all of NYC (this includes the city boroughs) so out of a total population of a
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Apologies.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Apologies.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I like your optimism, but I expect things to stay divided. Polling on COVID-19 is divided almost right down the middle like everything else in America with Democrats more afraid of COVID-19 and Republicans more likely to believe it’s like a

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