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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I have the opposite interpretation. Only this class of people was actually able to "not participate in society" for 18 months: > I don't hear people on HN who want to continue working remotely being accused of being neurot
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
My most charitable interpretation is that the ability to have avoided leaving one's house in 18 months implies a certain level of wealth (both literally in terms of money but also in terms of life situation etc) I guess it could also b
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Did you hesitate and worry about giving your own mother a hug afterwards? But this behavior was never rational risk-reduction; it was always a result of the incredible fear-programming. Granted if you're making a point that trauma
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
They must not think or read very deeply into their own field then, because there exists the phenomenom of immunological memory, ie the effect where memory B/T cells lay dormant in the body for decades , and upon exposure to the charac
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Yes exactly this. Naturalistic immunity learns a more diverse set of epitopes. Whereas the artificial-spike-protein immunity is learning just the S protein. The spike is super important but it’s not the only source of epitopes. And I’ve s
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Car accidents (including a car hitting a pedestrian) is certainly a problem but I just don’t see how someone could genuinely dislike pickup drivers for a reason like that. Seems like a conclusion in search of a reason.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Except there is no convincing evidence that they actually do help others, and the whole theoretical mechanism is centered around catching large respiratory droplets which is at odd with the totality of evidence pointing towards aerosol bein
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Staff seem to get infected less frequently than other diners, even though they are in the space for longer. There are a few possible explanations, but the fact that staff don't take their masks off is a pretty compelling one. IMO
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Yeah I always find it interesting that statements like that ("scalpers hurt literally everyone") can just be made and treated as gospel by most people. Not only is the statement not self-evident, but to your point, just a small am
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Of course it’s malicious. In context they were making a tongue-in-cheek joke intended to expose those that never heard about the MLK letter(s) to their existence. In other news, I only learned about the assassination of Fred Hampton quite r
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> The big problem here was that, early on, nobody knew exactly how the virus spread. So, in the interest of caution, they picked the worst case scenario, aerosol transmission, and speculated based on that assumption. And a cloth or surgi
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Yikes. That's a flag. You flagged my comment because I expressed an opinion that you disagree with about social distancing? I didn't say it doesn't work to reduce infection (although I absolutely put no stock in associat
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Then why are healthcare costs in the UK (socialised) and Europe (typically private, but highly regulated with a social option) dramatically lower than US (private) healthcare costs despite similar levels of care? They don’t have simila
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Being incentivized by paying for your increased risk via decentralized market dynamics is fine. Being banned from consuming a substance because your body no longer belongs to you but rather is property of the state is not fine. Unaware what
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Socialized medicine by definition increases healthcare costs because it divorces the person creating the cost from bearing the results. This applies in basically every socialist system not just socialized medicine. It’s also worth mentionin
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Thanks for the citation. I should mention I oppose these bans regardless of whether menthol really is or isn’t dangerous, but interesting to know it increases cellular permeability. And seems like a good bit of increased heart/cardiac
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Once you go down this road you end up with social credit scores. First it’s the obvious stuff like tobacco, then not exercising enough, then not sleeping enough, and eventually you reach the paradox that free will is a lie anyway and there’
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Welcome to the new world ;) https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7ny.com/amp/free-food-vaccin... You actually get a donut per day! The foundation of a healthy diet.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Honestly the secondhand smoke research is very sketchy. Actually anything that becomes a public health issue ends up getting distorted by the public health establishment. Case in point: flu vaccines. They’re so ineffective that no rational
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Ha, I hear this argument all the time and it’s actually completely wrong. All social behaviors are contagious. They do spread exponentially. Especially drug consumption / smoking. Note: it’s not relevant but to be clear I oppose all
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Yes. This is a common misconception. It’s not that inhaling any kind of smoke is inherently dangerous. It’s specifically the oxidative damage that tobacco causes that makes it so uniquely deleterious. Reactive oxygen species are no joke. By
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
We’re about a couple months away from being told that opposing mandatory vaccination is racist because more black people die from COVID-19. (I mean that seriously not as a joke...although there is some natural humor in it as well)
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
How are menthol cigarettes more harmful than regular ones? The menthol just makes it easier to smoke more. Is that the crux of your argument? I find the “company X is targeting [arbitrary subcategory]” argument to be totally asinine btw. Is
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
That’s the problem with socialized medicine. Once you institute it now your body belongs to the state. You’re not allowed to put something deemed bad in your body because the “people” have to pay for it. Prohibition is wrong. It’s not just
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Thanks for linking to that. I’d never heard of that case before; that is so incredibly horrifying. They should be in jail right now for having a known psychotic patient sign an “informed consent” form. As an aside, there is such a long hist
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I’ve already outlined in another comment why they could increase transmission. They increase net volume of air exchanged, therefore all else equal they increase the release of aerosols. There’s furthermore a strong chance that they actively
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
In the context of COVID we’re actually talking about unknowingly exposing someone to a virus. So I don’t think it’s directly comparable. Anyway, I don’t believe in throwing someone in jail for such an act. Some people do. But I don’t thin
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Everyone has the right not to catch a potentially deadly disease. Nobody has this right. This positive right has never existed. And for good reason. It leads to all manner of evils taken to the extreme.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
You’re comparing global IFR to a specific region. Not the same claim. US mortality is worse because of our extensive diseases of modernity and decent proportion of elderly. Furthermore you are assuming that the excess deaths are solely attr
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Suicide rates are not the same thing as discomfort. Calling the risks minimal to acne makes no sense. It’s one of the worst contributors to acne in any person’s daily life. Even if I agreed with your exponentiality argument the whole point

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