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by sjwalter 5y ago
Bad take. People are rightly wary of public health when public health openly discredits itself--you'd have to be an absolute imbecile to believe, e.g., covid was a huge risk during anti-lockdown protests, but was not at all a concern d
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by sjwalter 5y ago
The alternative that I choose is to have a fucking identity and constantly build up strength along every axis possible, yes even physical. Be a rock. This doesn't mean be hard-headed and unpersuadable, but it also means not being lead
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by sjwalter 5y ago
What I want to know is how does this issue impact the notion that we all seem to buy into that we should "follow the science". Scientists themselves have a hard time "following the science". Add to it the observation tha
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This is also especially ironic considering The Lancet published a totally fabricated study that supposedly demonstrated how dangerous a Trump-touted Covid treatment was. https://www.the-scientist.com/features/the-surgis
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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of in
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I heard this today: Walt Whitman wrote, "Be curious, not judgemental." Strange at first to think of "judgemental" the opposite of "curious", but it becomes clear after a moment of thought. Judgemental already k
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> The "angry populist masses" are the ones without college education Portland's seemingly endless supply of white, elitist anarchists would like a word with you.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Brave New World was not written initially as a dystopia. Huxley was a member of the elite and was writing what amounted to a pamphlet of where we were all going, influenced along the way by the writings of Carroll (Tragedy & Hope), who
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by sjwalter 5y ago
It depends on how it drops by 1.2 If all you care about is the numbers, then a drop of 1.2 is a horrible terrible outcome and we should all recoil in horror, no matter how it happens. To me and almost every other human, having a bunch of 80
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> "Natural immunity" to COVID is no different ($) than vaccine immunity You can't find any studies to back this up, can you? It'll be hard without clarification at first, because it's not clear what you mean--do
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The very best thing you can do to help yourself AND help combat coronavirus is go outside, enjoy the sun, get some exercise, and do all of that with a big gaggle of family and friends. Try it. You'll be improving your own immune system
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by sjwalter 5y ago
It seems like you're of the mind that every new novel virus that enters the biosphere requires several months worth of randomized control trials to determine best paths forward. The precautionary principle would tell us that it's
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by sjwalter 5y ago
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Vaccines+and+Autoimmunity-p-9781... It's so, so strange that otherwise smart people believe that this one giant category of medical technology has no long-term side effects. Like, FDA p
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> vaccine side effects always show up in the first two months Uh, what are you talking about? There are huge numbers of vaccine side effects that show up only many years later. Many, many autoimmune issues are caused by vaccines. Here&#x
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Here's the citation from some of his earliest work with mRNA from 1989: https://www.pnas.org/content/86/16/6077.long
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by sjwalter 5y ago
It's also really, really easy to avoid getting HIV.
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Those who've already had covid and recovered never have to worry about it either. Also those under age 40 that aren't fat don't have to worry about it either.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
NZ's strategy (and all lockdown strategies) never made any sense and it was obvious from the get-go. Very early into the pandemic, we learned three crucial facts: 1) Covid is non-transmissible outside. 2) Vitamin D is a potent inhibito
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Yea, statistics can make a case for anything. Life expectancy went down, but the average age of a covid death was 82 years old, meaning half were older than 82. These octogenarians and older are pulling the average life expectancy up every
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Are you kidding? Narcolepsy epidemic caused by swine flu vaccine in UK and Northern Europe in 2009/2010. https://www.narcolepsy.org.uk/resources/pandemrix-narcolepsy In fact, there are many, many vaccine-related l
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I'm not a doctor so I wouldn't encourage anybody to do anything in terms of medical advice. What I would encourage people to do is to think for themselves and review all available evidence before taking any kind of medical treatme
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Super-strange to be OK with an EUA for vaccines containing all sorts of new technologies, then quibble the evidence against vitamin D, a naturally occurring drug that we've known for many years is a potent inhibitor of ALL respiratory
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by sjwalter 5y ago
A few of my friends used to be in the Chairforce and told me about their forced vaccination schedules. One had severe adverse reactions to some now-banned anthrax vaccine. None of them took the covid vaccine. Strange you think we should all
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I never said anything was safe or not safe. I claimed that the long-term safety profile of the vaccines is unknown. This is demonstrably true. It seems like you're claiming anything that gets an EUA, regardless of FDA trial status or o
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by sjwalter 5y ago
You said I was spreading doubt about vaccines during a deadly pandemic. I have said zero about the safety of the vaccines. I have only stated the unassailable fact that they have not completed phase 3 trials. How is telling the facts about
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding your question because the only way I can interpret it seems to imply that you think it is better to lie to people about the status of a medical treatment than it is to be honest, in a gambit to ensu
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Far fewer kids have gotten vaccinated than have caught covid.
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One of the foundational, bedrock principles of bioethics is "informed consent". It is extremely, practically diabolically, unethical to lie to people about medical treatments prior to gaining their consent. This is literally bioet
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I agree nothing is perfectly safe. However, I have never once in my life taken a drug, vaccine, or other medical treatment that has not completed FDA phase 3 trials. I have no interest in doing so. All the other vaccines I have been adminis
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I'm guessing you didn't read the link you pasted as well. Note the correction at the top of the page. It is clear that I'm correct. The vaccines are still in phase 3 clinical trials, as reported by clinicaltrials.gov, the sou

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