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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
No need to tiptoe. It’s been six months. You can call it bullshit and demand a real plan instead of a political escape plan.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
> it puts public health policymakers in a dilemma > they have to walk a line between fully detailed truth, and simplified advice that people en masse are more inclined to believe and follow I know they are acting in good faith. Howeve
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Saying they don’t work or aren’t necessary was a lie. I’m honestly not trying to stir anything up here, but a lie is a lie. Here’s an interview where Fauci discusses point-blank why the American public was mislead, and it had nothing to do
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Okay, okay, I’m as down with the science as anybody but those numbers sound a lot like cherry-picking. They also don’t jive with the info that’s trickled out suggesting that a plurality of infections are happening in the home, at restaurant
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Sorry, I was summarizing several replies and wasn’t trying to make a personal attack against you. My hope was to point out that there are other ways of looking at things. You seem to be coming at things in terms of patient trade-offs. I’m s
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Sounds like that is the prevailing opinion amongst software engineers on HN. “If the product doesn’t exist, then the market doesn’t exist” isn’t how biology works. I assure you that many in life sciences would kill to get their hands on a s
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
NyQuil’s and Alka Seltzer’s sales figures beg to differ.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
I think silencing criticism of human rights abuses is bad. Your whataboutism does not cut it here.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Seems a little extreme if our goal is just to get more people using public transportation.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Validity of these findings aside, a brief look at the headlines on the source site (psypost.org) suggests it may be a news outlet that plays to confirmation bias in order to generate shares on social media.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Neverending lockdowns belong in the dustbin of history besides eugenics and nonconsensual human experimentation. The virus is endemic. The fact that people don’t really understand that is a leadership failure. Let’s all move on.