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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
This is something I can agree with as being more useful. Anything that can be done to reduce funding to hate groups is fantastic. But there is a real difference between using deplatforming as a means of defunding hate groups and what happen
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
More accurately would be to say Reddit reports 18% of hate content moved to a different platform. This would be akin to saying "salmon30salmon saw a reduction in hate content when he stopped attending hate group meetings". While I
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Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by salmon30salmon 6y ago|0 comments
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
COVID parties were mostly fabricated. Don't spread FUD. Unless we locked down until there is a vaccine cases would return.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I am sorry, but I think you overcorrected. The problem was that we locked down at all. Nearly the same mitigation could have happened with masks, distance and isolation. Yes, testing was a shitshow. But look at Spain, Australia etc. If you
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
To be fair, Remdesivir is an under-patent medicine designed by an American company, it isn't all that outlandish that the USA would procure as much as possible. The "among other things" is doing a _lot_ of heavy lifting in yo
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
That is Operation Warp Speed[1] and it is a very large investment by the US Government to find a vaccine. You should be thankful that the United States has the money to invest in this global research, instead of spreading FUD that the USA i
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It most likely isn't a clone. While Bear predates Notable, the timeline does not seem like Notable was a deliberate clone at all.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
My mistake, I thought you were referring to the 600/week extra unemployment benefit.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Do you live in the same state? That is probably the difference :)
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Trump messed up a ton in this crises, and has a lot to answer for. This is not one of them. Unemployment is almost all within the remit of the individual states. The government approved additional payments to each state, but the state gover
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I understand the hesitation, and I think even those that are excited by this theory are stoic towards history. However, one thing to note is that this is _not_ the Flu. The influenza virus often mutates far more, far quicker than coronaviru
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
This seems to be evidence of the theory that herd immunity is lower than expected due to cross-reactive T-cells lowering the susceptible pool. If I recall correctly, the last serology study of NYC showed ~25% infection rate, which is right
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Because UBI is fundamentally different than most deficit spending. It actively injects cash into circulation as opposed to kick-starting economic activity which leads to increased spending/circulation. UBI has not ever been tested at a
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
The update the CDC made is interesting. AS the footnote in the estimate table states, the IFR is taken from the pre-print _A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection-fatality rates_ by Meyerowitz-
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I think that like most things in the states, this is super dependent on where you are. I know in my area, teachers were _not_ working every day, despite still doing online learning. They were supposed to check in with the kids every few day
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It isn't counter factual. We flattened the curve! Why did we not have outbreaks in Florida three months ago? Because we had flattened the curve! The naughty truth that the brigade of curve flatteners failed to mention early on is that
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
The parent said "print the money" which very much is MMT. Bonds/other debts are a different discussion and we very much are deficit spending right now to combat this.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
We don't know the long term consequences of completely shutting down a majority of society for an unknown period of time, including depriving children of an education. So let's not compare unknowns. This whole thing is an unknown
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
> New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and Germany have done it without herd immunity or a vaccine with a variety of strategies. We should follow their examples and stop using various forms of “American Exceptionalism” as an excuse
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
"Most" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. And lets also be real, there is a self-reporting bias there, where I doubt very many people (myself included) would admit to _wanting_ to not work and still get paid, even i
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It could be argued that the multi-generational home is one of the cultural ingredients for such a bad outbreak in Italy. That is a lot more common in that country than in some other parts of Europe. It is also somewhat common in immigrant g
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I appreciate your perspective and I am sorry that that is the situation in your state. I admit I can only speak for my state, and as such should limit my opinions to that context. Thank you!
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It is only a fallacy if incorrectly applied :D In some cases, it is better to continue course with known variables. Also, I wouldn't say it is non-existent. As I said in another response, I currently see a lot of evidence for the cross
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Three questions: 1. What makes you think we _can_ get this under control without herd immunity or a vaccine? I am of the belief that there is a certain level of latent immunity via t-cells in a large portion of the population and thus effec
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Well the issue may well lie in my first statement. I am not disagreeing in principle with you. But we a day late and a dollar short to actually make large scale societal change in the time needed to respond to _this_ pandemic. The children
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
We don't know this. We would need full contact tracing and much faster testing to know this. Plus, we now know antibodies may _not_ be the biggest contributor to the immune response. It seems T-Cells are in some cases able to fight the
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Here is a big problem. The children need to go somewhere. Parents need to work, bills need to be paid and tax incomes need to continue to flow. So what to do with the kids? Right now, the options are either send them to school, where there
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It could be argued that the response to the Spanish Flu, Polio, HK Flu, H1N1, Zika, Swine etc. It appears by most measures this is an order of magnitude less lethal than Spanish Flu. THIS one, however, is political.
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Pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2: the knowns and unknowns(nature.com)
9 points by salmon30salmon 6y ago|0 comments

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