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by twofornone 5y ago
>yet they are not "good Samaritans" to their own people The state of the secular healthcare system is unrelated to the religiosity of the population. Further, in some states (like TN), there are in fact christian organizations
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by twofornone 5y ago
>When you're having a heart attack, the last thing you're doing is shopping around for the best prices on heart attack emergency treatment. This is a tired, nonsensical argument. The vast, vast majority of medical procedures ar
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by twofornone 5y ago
There is a known mechanism by which ivermectin is expected to work against covid - it inhibits the protease family of enzymes. Incedentally, Pfizer is developing a new (read: expensive and on patent) covid drug which also happens to work vi
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by twofornone 5y ago
Well, to be fair, my experience is limited to a couple locales and only an hour or so away from major cities. I might have lucked out because I made a solid first impression on the community and don't have to worry too much about havin
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by twofornone 5y ago
>So, perhaps unsurprisingly, if you've had the virus and then received a vaccine, it appears that you have a very high level of immunity Why would someone get vaccinated post infection?
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>I guarantee there’s many places where they won’t want to stop. As someone who recently made the jump to a rural area, these problems are almost entirely imaginary. The notion of backwards, ignorant, racist rednecks occupying all the rur
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by twofornone 5y ago
I do wonder how far the activist researchers are willing to contort the science to avoid acknowledging that many stereotypes are in fact manifestations of statistically valid priors. Culture predicts behavior, and ethnicity predicts culture
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>This did not go over particularly well with the large group of biologists in the room, most of whom had built their careers conducting research on worms, flies, mice and rats Its really offensive to me that many in the research communit
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by twofornone 5y ago
Great writeup, really sums up a lot of the angst I've been feeling about modern american culture.
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I think it depends on the depositional environment, its still possible for trees to be buried before decomposition. Especially in forested areas with significant water flow. Once a log hits the muddy, anerobic bottom of a river/lake it
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by twofornone 5y ago
Not quite. The vast majority of petroleum comes from the remnants of microorganisms like algae. They settle in anoxic aqueous environments, are buried over millions of years, compressed and transformed into organic rich rock called kerogen.
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by twofornone 5y ago
I very much agree with the assertion that our economy is getting less dynamic, in the sense that everywhere you go in the US it seems like everything, and i mean everything, is being steamrolled by bigger and bigger corps and morphed into a
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by twofornone 5y ago
Its only a matter of time before the wrong people get their hands on all the data that big tech has been unscrupulously mining for years now. An authoritarian's wet dream. Im typically a minimal regulation kind of guy but these orgs ha
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by twofornone 5y ago
Same here. None of the data feels quite transparent. There seems to be a major taboo around supposing that beyond the R0 value which tends to overwhelm local hospitals during outbreaks, covid is actually not a serious concern for the vast,
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What exactly is the benefit to importing personnel who will work for lower wages and draining talent from other nations when we have 300MM+ local people from which we could train medical workers? I fundamentally don't understand why pe