salmon30salmon

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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It is more like saying, "a loaf of bread in 1950 cost 10c, and you can buy a loaf of bread for the equivalent in today's dollar. But if you want that brand-name bread that people are out-bidding each other to buy, it is going to c
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I think it isn't the media not questioning, I think the media realizes that Covid is the gift that keeps on giving and they won't look that gift horse in the mouth. It's like the trope about media coverage of plane crashes ex
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Beyond your nonsense about free speech.. This is a discussion about Covid because the accused was motivated by Covid. My argument is that the hysteria we've whipped up over this pandemic has caused people to take crazy risks to further
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Because by saying there is any equivalence between an activist in HK who is risking their life, or a opposition party member in Russia who has already had an attempt on his life and a woman who was charged with a crime that was on the books
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Suicides are way up. So are overdoses. But the real tragedy is the lack of support for third world countries due to the contraction of the global economy. Millions will die due to a reduction in vaccines and treatable illnesses in the devel
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Right no shit. What I'm arguing is that people take the path of least resistance and it would have been far easier to announce a policy change than cook the books. I am saying that if opening up was the only reason, I do not believe th
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I love you and thank you for coming to my defense but please do not link vaccine distrust with my views. I trust the data and the science behind the vaccines and believe we need to be getting them distributed as soon as possible
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Because you know the links I click on. Or maybe, and I know this is crazy, but maybe this isn't my primary account as people have been mobbed and cancelled for having contrarian views on Covid!
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
And likewise, you inability to see her as anything but a martyr against an oppressive system is informed by your tightly held belief that the government is for some reason downplaying Covid. Oh is that not the case? Then don't attribut
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
To me that doesn't pass the smell test. In my state, they've just changed the thresholds. "New science is showing XYZ so in response counties can now eat at restaurants if their shits under 20"
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
He is saying I am either a troll or a pawn.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Right it's pretty fucking willy-nilly no matter the conditions you are testing for correlation. The nations you mentioned all had pretty different public responses as well. That is why I think it's dangerous to proclaim lockdowns
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
See my response to the parent. Yes, coronavirus gets me all hot and bothered.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
No relationship. Just bored on a day off. I am passionate about Covid related topics because I am frankly concerned by the rhetoric around Covid. It boggles my mind that this has become so politicized and opposition is equated with homicida
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
The message sent via emergency comms was quite dramatic. Her insistence that the numbers were being cooked with malice to justify reopening is also attributing to conspiracy that which could be explained by differing opinions on how to clea
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
South Korea is basically an island. Their only border is an impregnable military zone. Norway and Finland speak more to density than their geography. But yeah, we need to learn what was different in Vietnam and Thailand. Vietnam is especial
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I posted this elsewhere but you are just incorrect. Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedom of movement for 250 dollars (10% bail). Oh wait they just poison (Russia), disa
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
The response to her actions seem to be overkill. With that said, what she is accused of doing is illegal (especially downloading PII from the government). Also, she is reaching far beyond her grasp. And sensationalizing quite a bit. I am su
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
That is only really accurate if the electricity used would somehow disappear were it not for the mining. Electricity (minus the energy lost in transport etc etc) is zero-sum. If the miner uses hydro, that means someone further from the dam
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It is beyond unacceptable for states to now be working on their vaccine plans. Anyone with any sort of understanding would have known in April the only way out was a vaccine. Why weren't tracking apps made then? Why weren't rollou
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Yeah, I don't really give a shit about down-votes but it is interesting. I am not making this shit up. And I am not defending the right-wing at all, its all abhorrent behavior.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
At least where I am, one of the tactics that the right-wing protestors engage in is to walk right up to the limit of the law and greatly antagonize the left-wing counter-protestors. When the counter-protestors respond, they play the victim
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
A bit of an dark pattern here everyone. The menus at the top of the site are _not_ related to the article/topic. I thought I would be looking at top books by subject and instead saw ads for online universities. Beware.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Thank you. I honestly believe that there is a non-trivial percentage of the population that _likes_ the COVID world and wants to keep it going as long as possible. Some may like working remotely, others may like the wider acceptance of meal
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
We really need to stop using the term Nazi so flippantly. Nazism represented a systematic process of genocide. Literally treating the death of an entire ethnic group as something you use CI techniques to improve efficiency. The US saw some
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
People get their hopes up too much. I don't mean to "blame the victim" here, but at the same time I read all of the hype machine prior to a release and am not surprised that people are disappointed. Based on the hype and the
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
This is exactly my problem. The United States is structurally terrible at responding to a pandemic. We have a slow moving, federal republic with (ostensibly) a weak executive. We have open borders between states that is (arguably) constitut
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I can only speak for my home state. Maybe we have shit hospitals
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I believe that we don't know the effects of a long term lockdown because we've never done it before. I do believe the number of people impacted by poverty, food insecurity and job loss is far higher than the number of people impac
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Belgium, Italy, UK, Slovenia https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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