charbonneau

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by charbonneau 5y ago
Sure, but with the new Delta Plus® variant (+ false-negative tests + asymptomatic transmission) it's better to play it safe & keep your distance from other human resources.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> The Leger survey, conducted for the Association of Canadian Studies, found that more than three in four respondents hold negative views of those who are not immunized. Divide et impera
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Sounds bad, but imagine the warehouse manager would've helped the guy and gotten COVID-19! Can't risk that!
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> S.V. Subramanian, the Harvard professor of population health and geography behind the paper [Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States], says the vaccine dou
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A Study Is Going Viral Among Anti-Vaxxers. The Author Says They Are All Wrong(motherjones.com)
2 points by charbonneau 5y ago|4 comments
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Centner called COVID-19 vaccines "experimental," despite the fact that they have been under development for decades Attenuated vaccines have been under development for centuries. Do they even need trials?
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Not sure if it’s reasonable. My gut interpretation (before reading the article) was “breakthrough infections are overblown”. I prefer their alternative headline “What the latest COVID research says about breakthrough cases and transmission”
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by charbonneau 5y ago
TLDR; Immunologist isn't convinced of risk. Cites not peer reviewed laboratory evidence.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
From the study you cited: > We note that almost 43% of patients after influenza had at least one long-COVID feature recorded (Table 1) including 29.7% during the 90- to 180-day period. In this regard, we suggest researchers take a broad
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Let’s start with what we do know about the unvaccinated > Some key research on the unvaccinated > It may well be that some of the unvaccinated are a bit like cats stuck in a tree What a silly bunch, the unvaccinated
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> All I can hope for is to become happy with a life that now tortures me. One that cages me, pens me in, puts up walls all around me. One that makes me smaller, misshapen, that boxes my heart and spirit inside of me. But that’s no hop
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Two Arms and a Head (2008)(2arms1head.com)
46 points by charbonneau 5y ago|17 comments
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> The dynamic isn't that the evidence is unambiguous, but rather that when the evidence is inconclusive falling back to first principles makes sense. Respiratory filtration should help prevent spread of respiratory pathogens, period
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Sure, but can you imagine what 1968 would have looked like with cellphone alerts? http://web.archive.org/web/20180115194946/https://www.nytime...
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by charbonneau 5y ago
What's the point of life? When's the line of death? And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?
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by charbonneau 5y ago
I wasn't trying to make a distinction between blue and red tribes. You can paint a political propaganda machine however you like, its goal is the same: To encircle people by all possible routes, in the realm of feelings as well as idea
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by charbonneau 5y ago
The majority of people claiming to care about others by following uncertain pandemic mitigations are doing no such thing. Rather they are taking top-down direction from a post-truth political machine that increasingly rejects uncomfortable
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Vaccines make COVID-19 a largely preventable disease—and a survivable one in all but the rarest cases—and it is heartbreaking to know that people are dying of a disease not because it can’t be stopped but because they live in a low-inc
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> Catapults are a great way to get somewhere fast Elon Musk, June 11th 2020
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> She and an RCMP officer dispatched to investigate suspected it was debris from a construction site on nearby Highway 1 Conspiracy theory: Meteorites aren't real. It's all just debris. Construction companies bribe astronomers
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by charbonneau 5y ago
I'm never buying their processors again!
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by charbonneau 5y ago
From 2020 to October 6th 2021, there were 58,167 deaths in the age group 0-17. 499 of those deaths are related to COVID-19. That's 0.86% (or: 99.99% of deaths happened due to other causes) [1] The leading cause of deaths in this age gr
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-2xk8AWEAAWfaw?format=png&name=... * Since 1/1/2021 On 1/15/2021, 0.12% of the Ohio population were fully vaccinated [1] [1] https://ourworldindata.o
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Press release [1]: > CureVac estimates that the earliest potential approval of [first-generation vaccine] would come in the second quarter of 2022. By this time, the companies expect the candidates from the second-generation vaccine prog
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> In short, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, to claim their freedom, need to be reasonable. Reasonable according to whom?
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> since, as we know, vaccination is an effective prevention against serious illness and death Could you please share a meaningful study that comes to this conclusion and does not ignore all potential confounding factors? (I don't me
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> "I would never depend only on my natural immunity to weather this virus. It's a very, very bad actor," Falsey said. Never!
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by charbonneau 5y ago
> It is an indefensible decision that will cost lives "I'll only get the darn shot if it receives a Nobel Prize!"
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by charbonneau 5y ago
Thank God! Now we can finally go back to normal and die of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus again.
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by charbonneau 5y ago
That's pretty reasonable. What most people don't seem to realize: Merck's CEO only got $27.65 million in 2019 [1]. You can't even buy a decent Dynamiq GTT 165 yacht for that rat race wage [2]. [1] https://www.

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