becuzThrowaway

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by becuzThrowaway 4y ago
I would say it is a fact that medical billing has little relationship to actual costs of care. You should do some research on it. It's also a fact that the real cutting-edge R&D is invariably funded by taxpayers, while pharmaceutic
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by becuzThrowaway 4y ago
> but it really is the case that we should disabuse ourselves from the notion that one should be entitled to life-saving care. I couldn't disagree more. If it truly is life-saving (as opposed to death-prolonging) care, we really sho
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by becuzThrowaway 4y ago
And also traditionally female-dominated. At a base, cultural level, our society has a very real problem with seeing female-majority professions as actual professions.
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by becuzThrowaway 4y ago
Dude, that study is _garbage_. > The researchers analyzed health data from 1,104 active male firefighters collected from 2000 to 2010. Active male firefighters? You mean people whose entire job is predicated upon physical strength? Peopl
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
Pretty much, yes.
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
In practice, you would just replace the queue with a disorganized rabble of people standing around, where as soon as the person currently being served leaves, there is a mad dash at the one secure spot, which is at the very front.
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
I feel like I've been a part of a queue like this -- at the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica. It was asinine and infuriating, and just thinking about it makes my blood boil.
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
>This isn't a political statement or criticism. It's Human Comms and Human Behaviour 101. Seems pretty political to me.
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
Please provide the RCT that shows that vaccinated individuals have similar levels of infection to unvaccinated individuals. What the RCTs for Pfizer and Moderna showed was that the vaccines reduced the symptomatic infection rate by 95%. But
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33964222/
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
My guess is that nobody really knows the answer to that question. It's also entirely plausible that the only way to have true sterilizing immunity to COVID is to have antibodies to the spike protein. shrugs
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
Wait, you think that HIV is still 100% fatal? What year do you think it is? Or maybe you mean untreated HIV?
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
No. First off, we still haven't had the level of death that we had in 1918, and almost certainly won't. Second, the narrative of vaccinated individuals being major spreaders of this disease is false. The virus is evolving due to m
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by becuzThrowaway 5y ago
My understanding is that there is very little evidence of vaccinated individuals actually transmitting the original ("wild-type") virus, or even the Alpha variant (obviously, Delta/Gamma are potentially different beasts). Thi