ifyoubuildit

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by ifyoubuildit 26d ago
So if I don't do a thing that has no appreciable benefit for me or the people around me, I'm being selfish, because if everyone who was in a different context did the same thing, this would somehow produce a gigantic difference? Y
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by ifyoubuildit 26d ago
OK, so I think I understand your position now: I made a single decision early on in the pandemic that I wasn't going to get vaccinated, and somehow your links from late 2021 (ie weak evidence that didn't even exist when I was deci
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by ifyoubuildit 26d ago
That's not quite my claim, but its close enough. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9047157/ "Conclusions: Naturally acquired immunity confers stronger protection against infection and symptomatic
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by ifyoubuildit 27d ago
A reasonable prior (which my doctor ascribed to) was that immunity after recovery from an infection with a coronavirus would be pretty durable and effective, and you can find plenty of reporting to support the effectiveness early on. To bel
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by ifyoubuildit 27d ago
You might consider reading the actual Kentucky study (as I did at the time) and looking at the limitations. This and the one in October are exactly the kind of shit that would get published and then reports like your link would way overstat
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by ifyoubuildit 27d ago
I misspoke, right at rollout when supplies were short, they did say you could wait. Once they had enough to sell, everyone who didn't jump in line was a grandma killer. > Yes, I would bet that it made you feel like a leper, but that
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by ifyoubuildit 27d ago
I did read a lot of evidence available at the time. It's why I opted to skip the vaccine for myself given that I had already recovered shortly before the shots were available. That decision was very at odds with authoritative guidance
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by ifyoubuildit 27d ago
This is the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" argument. It works in a world where you have trustworthy institutions and its safe to just outsource your decision-making to the authorities. Your interpretation of events might be tha
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by ifyoubuildit 28d ago
> Vaccinating your children in general is very much the right thing to do, both for them and for anyone around them. Isn't this kinda like saying medicating your children in general is very much the right thing to do? Like it's
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by ifyoubuildit 28d ago
All I'm saying is if you sum up the time (between vaccine release and today) that a person was strongly protected from covid infection and transmission, it's a relatively small portion of that time. Thats my pushback against gp&#x
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by ifyoubuildit 28d ago
Vaccines that have a large impact on transmission and infection are there not just for you but for your community. The covid shots were good against hospitalization and death in older folks, but they were not great at preventing infection o
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by ifyoubuildit 1mo ago
> Culture or technological stasis is a death sentence for civilization Why?
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by ifyoubuildit 1mo ago
It's not free. If you bring anything up, you will be charged. I know because I've paid hundreds of dollars for "free" physicals that way.
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by ifyoubuildit 2mo ago
Are you saying my comment was terrorist sympathy? I'm not admiring or excusing anyone. I'm saying you probably find a whole range of IQs among them. Because why wouldn't you? Whose to say if the userbase of this site grew up
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by ifyoubuildit 2mo ago
> This will sound like a hot take, but consider that terrorists are for the most part, stupid idiots. What even is a terrorist? If your definition of terrorist is "person on the news involved in some FBI entrapment scheme", the
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
> reminder to the myocarditis-maxxies, the actual virus causes that too and the 2020-2021 variants caused it worse Do you know if the vaccine prevented the virus-induced myocarditis? Cause the vaccine didn't do much to stop people f
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
This is the gospel that is taught. It seems to help people tolerate the fruits of their labor being quietly separated from them over time. Just another tax, except the people have even less of a say in this one.
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
> So you're saying I'm in poverty because I couldn't buy my house and my car outright? I think this isn't as unreasonable as it seems to everyone living it. It's like water to the fish. We are conditioned that ev
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
The relevant question for me would be how many people would be combat ineffective for how long with and without the flu vaccine. Your Claude conversation says things like this: "The best recent direct measurement is the FLUTES study (J
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
Are you sure? Your link ends with this: > Combined with the brutal arithmetic at higher R0R_0 R0 , this is a large part of why flu vaccination programs are generally justified on individual protection against illness and severe outcomes
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
> They're not. They're not particularly effective for preventing flu in an individual. But at the group level, they have a clear and useful effect. This is my understanding. It basically would have marginally reduced the cost o
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
True or false: they traded a supreme leader who made a religious edict against nuclear weapons for one who did not.
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
> I can control government more than I can control Google or Anthropic How true is this really? With the government, you can vote in various elections, or contact your representatives, and when it comes to important issues that will do e
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
Are you saying this because you only recognize the name from breathless covid propaganda? Or because you know ivermectin is pretty important in livestock management.
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by ifyoubuildit 3mo ago
This seems like a poor tool to keep in your logical toolbox. If some line of logic would lead to some sacred cow getting slaughtered, then that logic must be false?
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by ifyoubuildit 4mo ago
I do wonder if either the interviewer or interviewee are aware how insane this must sound to people with regular jobs. They did mention something about feeling privileged, but it feels like they don't necessarily understand what that a
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by ifyoubuildit 4mo ago
So you know who blew up nordstream? The financial support point seems like it could have some legs. The other ones aren't terribly convincing. "They went on the bad guys show" or "they said the same things the bad guys s
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by ifyoubuildit 4mo ago
Do you have any specifics about Mearsheimer or Sachs? Or just vague insinuations.
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by ifyoubuildit 4mo ago
> You're missing some very important context If we're talking context, isn't there more to include? Like why those protests were happening in the first place? Did the hostile government cripple your economy first and poten
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by ifyoubuildit 4mo ago
> I don't believe you The Trump admin has pretty low approval ratings. If some very hostile country bombed the US, is your default assumption that the folks who despise Trump would somehow support the bombing? You could probably fin

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