lborsato

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by lborsato 5y ago
Actually it literally does. A pandemic is a geographically spread epidemic. If a disease is endemic then it is not epidemic, and therefore cannot be a pandemic as per the accepted definition.
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by lborsato 5y ago
It's the best kitchen timer in the world, no matter how many dishes you're cooking.
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by lborsato 5y ago
Unfortunately as a result of original antigenic sin, the fact that the immune system has been trained for by a vaccine for a certain strain means that the body will respond to that strain, likely unable to mount a new defence for the differ
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by lborsato 5y ago
How dare you! /s Just the one file? I've been hearing this story since 1988. The screeching just gets a little louder year by year. :)
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by lborsato 5y ago
He would likely base that comment on the fact that no pre-2020 RCT studies of masks (over decades) showed any significant protective effect against aerosol-spread respiratory viruses. Covid epidemic curves globally similarly showed no chang
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by lborsato 5y ago
My first thought is that there are 329,000 pages of data related to the Pfizer vaccine alone and we are supposed to believe that the FDA read and evaluated them before granting authorization.
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by lborsato 5y ago
As Governor Gavin Newsom says, it’s all about seasonality: “We know why: because [of] the seasonality to COVID,” Newsom said. “It’s not particularly difficult, after a couple of years, to understand. You see those trends in Europe. You see
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by lborsato 5y ago
Well not many since Tuvalu’s land area is actually increasing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
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by lborsato 5y ago
If it were really obvious that "the vaccine is good, everyone should get the vaccine", then public vaccine mandates would not be necessary .
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by lborsato 5y ago
ICUs typically run around 85% occupancy and up. At 68% it is difficult to pay the bills.
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by lborsato 5y ago
The Lancet you say? “Individuals who have had two vaccine doses can be just as infectious as those who have not been jabbed.” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036 Study: https://www.thelancet.com/jo
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by lborsato 5y ago
I do own one. It was a gift for my parents’ wedding in 1957. The cord has been replaced twice but everything else is original. You put bread in. It goes down. About 20 seconds later it rises, toasted perfectly. It seriously is the greatest
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by lborsato 5y ago
“Individuals who have had two vaccine doses can be just as infectious as those who have not been jabbed.” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036 (Article contains link to the Lancet study)
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by lborsato 5y ago
It has already happened multiple times previously in our lifetime: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC403836/
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by lborsato 5y ago
“Individuals who have had two vaccine doses can be just as infectious as those who have not been jabbed.” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036
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by lborsato 5y ago
It’s as if a majority lost the ability to think critically, choosing instead to tilt at the windmills of incessant fear propaganda from media/social media, usually lacking any context to assuage that fear.
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by lborsato 5y ago
As Retraction Watch notes, the journal is not disputing the study (they refused to respond to a request) but has no interest in publishing the study because they seem to be questioning the motives of the authors. Either the study is valid o
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by lborsato 5y ago
Dr. Fauci and the NIH misled the public repeatedly, claiming that there was no funding of gain-of-function research. Finally they were forced to admit that they were indeed finding such research. Fool me once shame on me. Fool me repeatedly
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by lborsato 5y ago
“We have investigated ourselves and found that no crime was committed.”
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by lborsato 5y ago
And deny themselves the pleasure of the advertising? /s
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by lborsato 5y ago
Two years ago this would have been called child abuse. It still is.
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by lborsato 5y ago
I’m in America/New_York as well and I see them correctly. I think your computer’s time zone may be incorrect.
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by lborsato 5y ago
For me it’s trying to remember the ‘for each’ syntax in every language. I normally bounce between 4 or 5 languages every day.
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by lborsato 5y ago
The phrase “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” exists for a reason. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181017211703.h...
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by lborsato 5y ago
The twisted world of Twitter consists of people who claim to care about others for internet points, yet have no idea what empathy is.
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by lborsato 5y ago
700,000 Americans died. That is approximately 0.21%. Over almost 2 years. Not 1%.
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by lborsato 5y ago
But they are higher in elderly, an even higher correlation.
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by lborsato 5y ago
From the study: “Aspirin use was associated with lower likelihood of COVID-19 infection, as compared to nonusers” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33621437/
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by lborsato 5y ago
Well this is my fifth decade of “10 years to save the earth from climate destruction” if that eases your worry a bit.
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by lborsato 5y ago
There have been 499 deaths under 17, approximately 1 in 700,000. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... Around the same as atypical flu season. https://www.statista.com/sta

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