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by shock 5y ago
This entitled attitude irks me to no end. I'm curious, how much of your work do you donate to others? I would like to benefit from some of your free work, for personal use.
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by shock 5y ago
I think it's a side effect of Milton Friedman's Shareholder Primacy Theory, which people interpret in different ways, sometimes, resulting in very skewed incentives.
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by shock 5y ago
Being independently wealthy is irrelevant. Do you stop caring how your investment portfolio does, just because it won't bankrupt you if it goes to 0?
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by shock 5y ago
Quote from the study you linked: "[...] we found that BTIs[breakthrough infections] in recently fully vaccinated individuals have lower viral loads than infections in unvaccinated individuals. However, this effect starts to decline 2 m
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by shock 5y ago
> even if it turns out to be no difference in load, there is still less opportunity for selection. How so? Load means number of virus particles. Number of virus particles increases with the number of replication cycles. The probability o
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by shock 5y ago
He has financial interests in the health sector.
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by shock 5y ago
We're nearing the 2nd year of the pandemic.
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by shock 5y ago
You seem to be spreading misinformation all over this thread. Here[0]'s a study from Nov 19th, saying that: No significant differences were detected in duration of RT-PCR positivity among fully vaccinated participants (median: 13 days)
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by shock 5y ago
> the vaccine has been shown to reduce viral load which has an impact on rate of mutation even if you are infected. This doesn't seem to be the case⁰: A new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Franc
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by shock 5y ago
> [...] this has been well studied and widespread vaccination absolutely would help reduce the rate of mutation. I don't understand how this could be. Studies have shown that peak viral load is the same for vaccinated/unvaccina
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by shock 5y ago
> if we remembered everything we would be drowned in details and we wouldn't be able to distinguish signal from the noise. Not to mention how difficult it would be to distinguish past from present.
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by shock 5y ago
You're free to "hack" it as much as you wish, but when you break it(if you don't know what you're doing) you get to keep all the pieces. And the blame.
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It costs 1-2000€ in Europe. A day in the ICU costs 7-8000€.
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> Rationed for the usual reason because it's hard to make and there isn't enough to go around. The technology to make monoclonal antibodies is simpler than that for mRNA vaccines. > That's also the reason they tend to b
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by shock 5y ago
Batteries are heavy. A 100Ah battery weighs 25kgs. Cars have much bigger capacity batteries.
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by shock 5y ago
Probably some vesting schedule.
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by shock 5y ago
> Monoclonal antibody treatment is only usable within a specific window when a person is already ill. This is not correct. See my other comment in the thread.
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by shock 5y ago
> On a side note, I am on of the 20000 Icelanders that got full double moderna inocculation and I suffered through the absolute worst nights of my life after the second dose. I'm sorry you had that experience. I have a friend who ha
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by shock 5y ago
> There's not really a mechanism of action for an mRNA vaccine to have side effects that manifest after 15 months with nothing in between; any side effects would manifest themselves quite quickly. Unless, the vaccine causes a "
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by shock 5y ago
The fact that the technology to produce monoclonal antibodies is older than the technology to produce mRNA vaccines.
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by shock 5y ago
> A Conditional Marketing Authorization is not an Emergency Use Authorization. The European Medicines Agency even explain this. Please provide a citation for this claim. My reading of the EMA page for Conditional Marketing Authorization
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by shock 5y ago
> Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity of the disease but do essentially nothing to avoid its transmission. You, fundamentally, do not und
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by shock 5y ago
The vaccines cost in the tens of dollars, depending on the negociating power of the country/bloc. Their cost, as well as the cost of monoclonal antibodies, depends on the economies of scale. Monoclonal antibodies are easier to produce
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by shock 5y ago
In Europe all the vaccines that are authorized have a "conditional marketing authorization" with a 1 year time limit, and many countries have vaccine mandates. Under EMA, for a vaccine to be "fully approved" it needs to
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by shock 5y ago
> Vaccine is the only thing that can (and does) make this pandemic manageable. This is false. There are treatments available, like monoclonal antibodies, they just have not been publicized as much. Somebody, somewhere made a choice to pu
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by shock 5y ago
I plan to give LibreWolf a try.
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by shock 5y ago
FWIW, Atlas(Eclipse plugin) exists for Java and is very advanced.
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It's very easy, even if not always practical, to separate bacteria from water with a centrifuge.
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by shock 5y ago
Why do cells secrete interleukin molecules?
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by shock 5y ago
I did not say there was a "massive surge" of cases in Gibraltar. With regards to the open borders, most of the EEA has open borders, Gibraltar is not special in that regard.

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