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by zpeti 5y ago
I really think anything less than N95, especially since the infectiousness of delta, is more a crowd control exercise than anything else on the part of people in power. No mask mandate has ever reduced the R number or growth trajectory anyw
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> I feel like it was impossible to really deal with this debate responsibly, what with the current state of society and social media where everyone has figured out how to weaponize false information So, the solution to this is lying. Rig
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I agree with the diagnosis but is immigration the only possible solution? I can think of at least 2 others straight away, but it seems for some reason governments refuse to entertain any other solutions.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Just a thought after reading the good news - ok this is great for the US and the west where there is decent vaccination. What the hell is going to happen with the omicron spread in countries with hardly any vaccination? I mean if it really
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by zpeti 5y ago
There clearly are a lot of scammers and grifters in this market, as with all upcoming markets usually, but how is crypto a scam industry? In 13 years the fundamentals of Bitcoin have not been exploited. Algorithmically I mean. Human element
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by zpeti 5y ago
Ironically if you let the market do it's thing, this is basically the end result too, but it's not some central authority telling you what to do, but you can decide what you want to waste your money on. A hot bath tonight or runni
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Why does either option not require hard evidence? I don’t understand your distinction. Something that happens 60% of the time is almost a hard guarantee that’s that what happened now? Really? You also ignore all circumstantial human behavio
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Are you worried about the tail risk of an asteroid hitting the earth, or a super volcano explosion? Or a pandemic for that matter? Does humanity do enough about those? How do you resource allocate between all these tail risks?
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How is he wrong about global warming? As far as I know he doesn't say it doesn't exist, just that compared to other issues facing humanity, the data doesn't actually indicate global warming is the biggest threat to our future
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>Old white man raised in the American South makes me think he's likely to have a bunch of racist attitudes, and that those might leak into his science. Judging people based on their place of birth and skin colour... I feel like ther
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What evidence comes down to it being of natural origin? I’m genuinely curious because I haven’t seen much “evidence” of it.
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> Whole fields of medical and psychological science have changed over just the course of my lifetime. I expect they will continue to change to reflect the complex needs of our society, and based on new understanding we continue to uncove
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The entire basis for wearing surgical masks and cloth masks is droplet transmission. They don’t help at all with aerosol transmission. So basically the entire world is crazy to mandate it unless it’s minimum kn95 or n95 masks. Many many peo
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Does resigning make a difference in these cases? I’m very worried about the almost complete institutional capture by this woke anti scientific/data driven approach, but what does the future look like? Anyone who disagrees eventually le
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by zpeti 5y ago
It also reminds me how many people were incapable of understanding, that some people are fine with being poorer if they aren't controlled by a central unelected bureaucracy far way. National sovereignty actually means something to many
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> Did the NHS get an extra £350mm per week? No Wrong. Before covid the NHS got an extra £10bn in funding which is almost exactly 350m per week. Since covid its even more. So actually the NHS has gotten more funding since brexit.
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Financial services is 6.9% of UK GDP, probably more now as covid has affected things like tourism. Irrelevant? Please back up your argument with more than just claiming that the state of financial services is irrelevant to the UK, and that
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by zpeti 5y ago
> For now it is going mostly as predicted by the 'remain' camp, the 'leave' camp have a bit of a problem maintaining their credibility. Let me know some specifics. If you look at banking, the EU has failed to make any
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> CNN, Joe Biden, etc. spreading FUD about the "warp speed" nature I love the posts on twitter of people who basically said in early 2020 they would never ever take a vaccine approved by Trump. And by late 2021 they are saying
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by zpeti 5y ago
While I agree being anti vax is something like a religion, the facts in your post are wrong, as has been pointed out by so many news outlets recently that even the CDC was bullshitting when they said 90% of ICU patients are unvaxxed.
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1. This isn't just the adults deciding. Children are attracted to certain types of stories too. 2. It doesn't stop. And it's why CNN and Fox are successful. But it is how we as humans want to see the world. Suprisingly to som
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Many western countries you've had 10-20-30% of the population actually diagnosed with covid in the past. 60-70% vaccination rate. That leaves only 10-20% of the population at risk of severe covid if vaccination and previous infection m
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Yeah, good idea. And while you're at it, since 50% of severe cases worldwide are obese people, let's deny care to those as well. And for diabetes too, I mean it's their own fault right? /sarcasm
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It's a bit different when you decades long dynamics of whether you can see a counselor on the NHS, vs when you can literally see drug use, alcholism, domestic abuse numbers rise in the last 2 years. That's concrete numbers. Some t
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To the sister thread maxehmookau: This is basically ad hominem. Dispute the numbers and the argument not the source. We can all point out how almost all other news stories somehow strongly skew towards clickbait and fear mongering and also
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/12/19/tackled-sage-...
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Climate changes are way exaggerated. Almost all official predictions by IPCC etc, which aren’t addicted to clickbait, say that over the next few decades we will lose some GDP growth due to climate change. But world GDP will still grow. Ther
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Global population will basically top out at 9-10bn. I look forward to the problems we will face then, and the apocalyptic narratives the media will invent about this new problem. Here's my shot at a few: - Even with better quality of l
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