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by vanniv 6y ago
Well, it is explicitly true that a vaccine exists. Over 70 different vaccines exist. They are all being held back, because none has been through the legally mandated clinical trials, which are progressing with the ordinary slowness of scien
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by vanniv 6y ago
A cruise ship under quarantine is dramatically more socially isolating than a prison. You would expect spread to be absurdly more efficient in a prison. Less physical separation, less hygiene, less everything.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Nah, that has too much risk of admitting that eternal house arrest isn't a good solution, so we can be certain that won't be the media narrative.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Early on, there was some discussion of the possibility that folks whose initial exposure is via the eyes would have a more mild illness than if the exposure was via nostrils or inhalation, because the immune system would have time to begin
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by vanniv 6y ago
No, we definitely don't want a world in which government officials have little kiosks outside every business where they get to decide who has to be removed from society with no due process.
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by vanniv 6y ago
All is going according to plan. In order for people to be willing to be enslaved, first you must destroy their livelihood.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Do you want people to seek the virus? Because this will accomplish that.
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by vanniv 6y ago
And so the famine becomes guaranteed. To save a few thousand coronavirus deaths, we will starve 10s of millions.
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by vanniv 6y ago
WHO doesn't get to dictate tonus how to love our lives. They can make whatever bullshit rules they like. We are not going to turn our free society into a dictatorship just because they want it
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by vanniv 6y ago
It could. Previous studies suggested that the strain circulating in NYC is of European origin, whereas the California strain, arriving earlier, was of Asian origin. It's always possible that the NYC one is more fatal. We don't ha
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by vanniv 6y ago
In Aus I liked the roadsigns with random trivia questions along the really straight part of the road from Bundaberg to Brisbane, trying to keep your mind occupied so that you stay awake.
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by vanniv 6y ago
When I was in Oslo, I was so confused by the takeaway restaurants that were selling various "Texas" combos that had nothing at all to do with Texas. The only specific one I remember was a Texas Gyro combo with Texas fries and a co
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by vanniv 6y ago
And you thought the delirium caused by extended vent usage was exciting, wait till you read about pumphead syndrome!
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by vanniv 6y ago
Yeah, I know. But seriously, we are talking about 50 domain names and cheap websites. Like, I'm not involved, but if I decided that I thought it was important, I could personally create a protest website for each of the 50 states. $8&
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by vanniv 6y ago
With the NYC analysis here, everyone is missing one unknowable piece of information. We know that the initial major outbreak in NYC was with a strain from Europe, while the initial major outbreak in California was with an Asia-origin strain
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by vanniv 6y ago
If 50% of NYC has had the virus, they won't have herd immunity yet -- of these studies are correct, then the virus is horrendously infectious -- making 90%+ of population required for immunity.
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by vanniv 6y ago
The other thing to keep in mind with death counts, especially in NY and NJ, is that all deaths of likely-infected people are being counted as COVID deaths regardless of cause of death. This has included a couple lf suicides of folks who h
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by vanniv 6y ago
Twitter is amazingly toxic, and alas that toxicity escaped Twitter and has infected everyday life. Twitter toxin might actually be more deadly than the coronavirus in the long run
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by vanniv 6y ago
You don't need to test everybody every 14 days. There is no purpose whatsoever to doing that.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Shh, gotta be careful with things like that, or people might start resenting the eternal house arrests ordered "for their safety"
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by vanniv 6y ago
America has become this extremely polarized place the last 10ish years where everybody know that "the other side" are actually monsters. If you are a Democrat, you think of Republicans as Nazis and white supremacists. If you&#x27
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by vanniv 6y ago
> A lot of people, some for good reason and some for bad, just don't trust their governments (or the media) enough One only has to look around HN for posts about using the current crisis for various unrelated political and economic
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by vanniv 6y ago
> I can open any thread on HN regarding economics and the general level of arrogant ignorance is staggering. This is a problem very generally -- and is significantly exacerbated by the highly-polarized nature of our society at present.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Somehow, the number of deaths has become a partisan political issue -- with one party wanting to suppress the numbers and another party wanting to "run up the score" -- because the lockdowns are a partisan issue now. Democrats wan
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by vanniv 6y ago
Some of the folks on vents would have survived anyway. Probably fewer than survive with. But I don't know, severe permanent lung damage guaranteed, delirium and dementia likely, and the misery of the treatment itself, all for a 1-in-5
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by vanniv 6y ago
If people will stay home anyway if need be, then there really is no reason for the authoritarian lockdowns, is there.
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by vanniv 6y ago
Given the misery and problems associated with long-term ventilator usage, I'm not sure vents for covid is a good idea at all
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by vanniv 6y ago
Ooh, ooh, another thread where I get to use Betteridge's Law of Headlines! No, it was never useful. (This kind of headline doesn't really fit the Betteridge's pattern, but the answer is actually "no" all the same)
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by vanniv 6y ago
This is a garbage number. New York reclassified a bunch of folks that died over the last few days as COVID deaths under their new methodology, where all deaths are covid deaths if there is even a hint that they might have had COVID. These a
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by vanniv 6y ago
History is full of famines, including those which were created intentionally. It is surprising that in this connected era, it is still possible to create intentional famine

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