donovanian

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by donovanian 5y ago
> Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens". I think it's possible the government practically can't reveal information about extraterrestrials, supernatural phenomenon
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by donovanian 5y ago
> Don't people have the right to be informed? Fauci has been leading with every indication he's willing to speak lies if it makes people fall in line with his policy objectives.
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by donovanian 5y ago
> those who could help the most Wouldn't complete confiscation of the wealth of billionaires finance something like Medicare for All for around 3 years? I don't think people understand how utopian and ultimately ill-conceived t
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by donovanian 5y ago
Maybe one-size-fits-all "guidance" is net harmful, and local knowledge and individual risk evaluation has outperformed the supposed advice, efforts and mandates of so-called experts.
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by donovanian 5y ago
You’re totally right. It’s strange to see random self-righteous, presumably highly-educated, safety-minded people suggest that the US should just be New Zealand. There’s been some really wildly unworkable things offered as though it’s just
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by donovanian 6y ago
The only failure we have to grapple with are all the people who demand any action in an emergency. The most damaging force in a chaotic situation like a terrorist attack, financial crisis or natural disaster are those who scream "you
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by donovanian 6y ago
Fauci is a mess honestly. He's been all over the map and revealed he's in the business of noble lies in the interest of policy objectives - which only backfires and erodes public trust. Were the establishment smart, they'd ha
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by donovanian 6y ago
> you should think of it as getting a flu but ten times worse that also gives you a permanent heart condition Perhaps we should think of it as getting SARS-Cov-2 and as much as 1/3 of people don't even know they're infecte
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by donovanian 6y ago
> It was (and remains to be, for many of the OGs) about making a space for peaceful people which was outside of the manipulation of large institutions, both corporate and governmental. I agree with this explanation, and would add that I
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by donovanian 6y ago
> Compared to the risk of going unvaccinated, it's an obvious choice. I think the insidious and repugnant effect of this line of thinking is that it subverts the body autonomy and free will that every human being should enjoy. The i
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by donovanian 6y ago
As someone in my late twenties who started a little later than the people who went through CS in college w/ internships, etc., you can do it! It takes a bunch of persistence - just keep chugging at applications and learning. If you don
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by donovanian 6y ago
> Twenty percent of previously healthy 18-to-34-year-olds had ongoing symptoms. Overall, research shows as many as one-third of individuals who had COVID-19 and weren’t hospitalized will still be experiencing symptoms up to three months
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by donovanian 6y ago
> for far less money - what's not to like? no free lunches, my friend
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by donovanian 6y ago
So it stands to reason that if the vaccine were effective, after the vaccine blitzkrieg that's going on now, the vulnerable should be ok.
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by donovanian 6y ago
I'm in the same boat, I'm not against vaccination either. I've taken every vaccine offered, I get the yearly flu vaccine and even went out of my way for the HPV vaccine.
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by donovanian 6y ago
> I’ll never say this to family who are hesitant to even take the vaccine in the first place This is precisely the attitude that justifies their suspicion and opposition. It's a form of weird narcissistic paternalism. If they ever c
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by donovanian 6y ago
The bills passed claim they're for "relief", but if you examine the contents much of the spending doesn't even occur this year. > Only about 5 percent of that total is funding public health efforts related to the pand
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by donovanian 6y ago
> and it resulted in some, but not very much, artwork in the grand scheme of things I'm not sure I follow, my understanding is that patronage, say from the Medici family, led to a proliferation of art.
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by donovanian 6y ago
You're being pretty generous, and I think it sounds reasonable but placed within the broader picture (and given how liberals generally consider profit-driven healthcare systems and industry in other circumstances...) it seems like peop
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by donovanian 6y ago
> It would mean to ignore the weakest in society (maybe lay them off?) for the benefit of a few at the top. As though almost all the unprecedented levels of pandemic relief in the US haven’t gone to anything but people that need relief
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by donovanian 6y ago
> Also, even if we disregard the expedited process, the release (the rate of production and administering it) is faster than you'd expect normally, which in itself imposes a greater financial/business risk by exposing more peop
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by donovanian 6y ago
> You should trust the system and the process. If I'm supposed to be ok with small risks, why aren't any of the pharmaceuticals ok with the small risk that they've made a mistake and should be held liable? Why did they see
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by donovanian 6y ago
> as is usually seen with other vaccines Is this really true? I can't recall having any vaccine in my life that's ever knocked me out like I often hear reported for the sars-cov-2 vaccine.
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by donovanian 6y ago
Agreed! It's no way to live drilling dumb little puzzles; there's this prevailing attitude that we should be grateful or it's not a big deal. But for me, it's been nothing be joyless, and I've found a lot of satisfa
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by donovanian 6y ago
The PR damage happens when authorities engage in noble lying and all of this weird non-transparent messaging. Public health really hasn't been upfront with a lot, and their back and forth on a number of issues, while maintaining this a
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by donovanian 6y ago
> What are you basing your claim about lockdown causing death on? It's pretty obvious there's a profound psychological, developmental (children), and economic toll of lockdowns. For anyone that's below 60 or so, it's
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by donovanian 6y ago
> There's a lot of "quality of life" there I guess you'd have to ignore what Deidre McCloskey describes as the Great Enrichment of liberal democracies: "[...] a rise in real wages 1800 to the present by a factor
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by donovanian 6y ago
> Equality means things are measurably the same. No I think you're loading the meaning of equal. No one would say "you and I are equal" and expect that we're clones. > That’s why you’ll often see folks talk about “
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by donovanian 6y ago
> The New Deal political coalition I have a hard time seeing the discontinuity between the New Deal people you're referencing and the 1960s Great Society ones that pretty much iterated on the same themes of the scientific management
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by donovanian 6y ago
> The world is not as toxic when profit isn't involved. Got it - this evinces a certain idealism that ignores some pretty glaring stuff that defined the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. All the places that either outright outlawe

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