jfnixon

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by jfnixon 6y ago
Nation-sized leverage? Piffle. Pass a law that Big Pharma can't price higher in the US than the lowest price negotiated elsewhere. Boom, problem solved.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Not at all. Hospitals shut down elective procedures, not because they were running out of room, but because they were ordered to do so. That freed capacity may have been necessary in NYC, and maybe not, but nowhere else was it necessary.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
The response was primarily by Th cells, not the TC cells, so yes, this isn't immunity, but it would speed to body's adaptive immune system response. OTOH, the killer feature of Covid-19 seems to be triggering an out-of-control ada
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by jfnixon 6y ago
NYC and surroundings are very different than FL are very different than California. I agree NYC was a complete disaster, but it doesn't follow that Dallas would have met the same fate.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
There is still a piper to pay for the lockdowns, and that is the patients who will die due to untreated heart disease, missed cancer treatments and surgeries, mental health problems, und so weiter. Not to mention all the people who will now
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by jfnixon 6y ago
If the employer wants to manage the cellphone, then I don't use my personal phone for work. Period.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
I'll be "that guy" and point out we know the climate simulations have similar issues.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Then public policy should heavily discount results based on academic code, if it shown to be poorly engineered. I'd go further and say you can't trust the papers based on the results of badly engineered simulations. As a poster sa
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by jfnixon 6y ago
If you read the lockdownskeptics cite, "hard to debug" is not the problem. Non-determinism in the output is the issue, and if this is indeed the case, why would anyone trust the results? Do a bunch of runs and average is not a goo
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Bingo for the Japan observation.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
I think this is backwards. We have been using infection rates as a proxy for death rates, since deaths are a lagging indicator. It is certain we are missing a huge percentage of cases, and expanding testing will uncover those. It is complet
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Australia (and New Zealand) have no clear strategy to defeat the virus. They have won the opening battle and are claiming the war is over. Unless Oz and NZ cut themselves off from the rest of the planet, no, the virus war isn't over. H
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by jfnixon 6y ago
The question was not "do you have evidence the truth wins more often than lies for the species as a whole"; there was no specific context implied as I read it. So, do you have evidence lies win more often than the truth for the sp
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Therefore we should let those with power choose what everyone can say and hear? Sorry, I'm not following.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
"Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?" The existence of technology as well as science.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
One saving grace of inequality, which I think doesn't get enough love, is that fractional trillionaires are spending lots of money right now to get humanity into space. The governments can't do it. Apollo was an off-by-one success
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by jfnixon 6y ago
We don't even know the order of magnitude of the infection count, and you are making claims about how the lockdown is reducing them? That's not reason, that's faith.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
There is some evidence schools, and young children, are not spreading the disease. In SG, which did extensive contact tracing early on, there were no clusters associated with schools (apart from one where the cluster was in staff who had mi
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by jfnixon 6y ago
The Smithfield outbreak was in an essential industry factory (food production) which would not have been subject to a general lockdown.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Ah, letting scientists take the lead would explain why WA State shut down the Seattle Flu Study's efforts to pivot to investigate Covid-19. https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/seattle-flu-study-alle...
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Yeah, this is just like the WHO announcing "no evidence" antibodies provide some immunity. It just means no one has done a scientific study of how to collapse the food supply on a massive scale. These sorts of "everything is
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Your number is highly suspect. About 16% of the US is 65+, or roughly 50M. Where do you get your 50M worldwide figure? When a new flu appears, Neil Ferguson claims his 3K lies of undocumented C code forecast 200M will die. These numbers are
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Source?
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Exactly. One virus which is has been proven effective against in vitro is SARS-CoV. Which is probably why it is being tried against SARS-CoV-2. The two are similar, but with clinical differences (big surprise).
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by jfnixon 6y ago
I have a friend who takes it for lupus, and has taken it for years. Clearly, he hasn't died, in part because it is a prescription drug and requires a doctor's script. He understands the risks and the benefits. He has taken it for
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by jfnixon 6y ago
If by fighter you mean "manned fighter" there are several reasons to build large, fast drones; no life support overhead, much better maneuverability (tolerance for high g), no worries about pilots flying highly dangerous missions,
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by jfnixon 6y ago
You are going against the entire human history of governments and taxation. Governments use tax incentives to (charitably) encourage desired behavior and (pragmatically) reward supporters. A clean tax code without these deductions takes sig
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by jfnixon 6y ago
A dividend isn't guaranteed. A dividend depends on the success of the underlying company. A dividend isn't a right. Just off the top of my head.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Test the young caregivers for antibodies. Only permit those with antibodies and no viral load to get anywhere near the elderly. Pay extra if necessary, it would be much better than breaking society.
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by jfnixon 6y ago
Wait, wait, you mean we shouldn't have an all-powerful, top down, one-size-fits-all response? DC doesn't know best for everyone? Local decisions are better for a diverse nation with many differing communities? Why next thing, you&

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