thowaway959125

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by thowaway959125 4y ago
To me, this is undoubatedly a huge part of the problem. I noticed that my depression spiked when I started to become more isolated. I was getting older, long time friends are now scattered about the country/world, difficult to make ne
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by thowaway959125 4y ago
> Make no mistake, for most people, life fucking sucks. And for many, it's one small slip-up, poor choices, medical problems, etc. and they may have to look forward to these sorts of jobs ... potentially until they drop. I have no b
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by thowaway959125 4y ago
One small screw-up and it can be all over. I know it first hand. I got completely burnt out, ended up drinking too much, and lost everything. At least with this career there is a chance to start over, depending on age and compensation. But
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by thowaway959125 4y ago
You can see from my comment history that I have a history of problems with alcohol also. I have spent many Christmas's holed up in motels alone with a bottle, thinking "what's the point?". You think going through that o
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
> Looking across the street every day in California and seeing the homelessness crisis in full swing is an ever present reminder of what this economy and this society can do to you if you slip up for even a second and / or have even
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
Can't dispute until posted, and the way the scam works is they get you on the phone as quickly as they can in order to continue to the scam. Obviously, in hindsight the correct way to handle this is to call the bank yourself. The way
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
I fell for this, and I have never fallen for a computer scam in my life, nor even had so much as a virus in the last two decades. However, it is very sophisticated. They somehow managed to actually get a fraudulent charge on my card. When
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
Is this not a national security issue when looked at in a broader scope? The Chinese company behind this seems to solely target the North American market and makes medical devices, IoT devices, and other things. According to their homepage,
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
> The technology could propel China to dominate global pharmaceuticals, and also potentially lead to genetically enhanced soldiers, or engineered pathogens to target the U.S. population or food supply, the advisors said. Or genetically m
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92388-5#Abs1 It found that the coronavirus is most ideally adapted to infect human cells – and not bat or pangolin cells.
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Covid-19 origin: ‘It looks like this virus was designed to infect humans’(thenewdaily.com.au)
5 points by thowaway959125 5y ago|2 comments
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
There was also an interesting 2019 event possibly involving Ebola but is still being kept under wraps for national security reasons. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
Very interesting. This is certainly a scientifically valid response. > Here we show that SARS-CoV, but not HCoV-NL63, utilizes the enzymatic activity of the cysteine protease cathepsin L to infect ACE2-expressing cells. https:/&#x2
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
You are right to question all of this. The science thus far backs up what you are claiming and the public narrative is shifting.
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
Sort of. Very different without getting into the weeds. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-020-0184-0
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
It's absolutely not a troll comment. I stand by the science and I would love any evidence of something like natural zoonotic spillover.
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
The big difference here is that now we have the added problem of dealing with ACE2 bindings which affect human lungs/liver/heart/pancreas/etc. This is a dangerous difference. > SARS-CoV recognizes angiotensin-converti
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by thowaway959125 5y ago
There are numerous reasons why we need a proper investigation into this. If this came out of WIV, we need to determine exactly why these bat coronaviruses were being studied with regards to human ACE2. This ACE2 binding is causing numerous
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by thowaway959125 6y ago
Your article specifically states "not one acquired recently via recombination" unless it was an ancient strain. It is almost as if Sarbecovirus acquired portions of the Hipposideros genome. You'll note your article also says
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by thowaway959125 6y ago
Note that SARS-CoV-2 contains a unique furin cleavage site, unseen in other coronaviruses. The first to point this out, in February 2020, was the Wuhan Institute of Virology: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/
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by thowaway959125 6y ago
In September of last year I was experiencing a combination of symptoms that I did not link to COVID, but looking back on it I'm starting to question it. First, I had debilitating brain fog. It felt link I was thinking through pea soup