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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
The rub is that there are a lot of people on Earth. And, early evidence _might_ suggest that the vaccines that are available lose effectiveness sooner than originally thought. For example, [1] shows evidence of diminished effectiveness afte
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The likelihood of wiping out (as in, totally eradicating) a respiratory infection seems really low. Are there any examples of that happening in the past?
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Is it possible that it gets fewer dice rolls but the "dice are loaded" by the fact that a vaccinated but contagious case is likelier to spread only selected mutations? Isn't that the concept of immune escape[1]? [1] https:&#
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What fraction of people take the annual flu vaccine?
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It's not just Massachusetts finding that the vaccine doesn't prevent infection. Iceland[2], France, Britain, Germany[2], Australia[3], and Israel[4] are seeing diminished effectiveness of vaccination. The Israeli study in particul
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"do" [1] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210803/Unvaccinated-and-... [2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v...
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I think you mean "smallpox and other viruses should already have evolved." The difference is that the smallpox vaccine prevented infection of the vaccinated. That's not the case for existing SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. https:/
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"The variants all come from unvaccinated people." This is not necessarily correct. It's clear by now that none of the widely available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines (or maybe none at all) prevent infection by the virus. [1] discusses t
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That may not be how things play out. Vaccination may facilitate immune escape[1] "Given that therapeutics (vaccines and antibody-based therapies) target mainly the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the selection pressures that favour the emerg
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But isn't it true that most cases don't result in serious infections, regardless of vaccination status? I recall reading at one point that 80% of infections are asymptomatic or very mild.
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Apparently 67.6% of India has SARS-CoV-2 antibodies [1]. This can't be attributed to vaccination since nowhere near that percentage of India has had a vaccine for it. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/in
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But there's also evidence it presents a significant risk for people who were vaccinated against the earlier variants too.
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Not yet. I believe Novavax's protein subunit vaccine would use the same mechanism as the MMR vaccine. Well outside my domain but my understanding is that you're given a premade dose of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and an adjuvant to
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Murdering infants is barbaric. It's impossible to corroborate now, but many reports at the time suggested they used impaled French infants for a battle standard. I don't have a word strong enough to condemn that depravity. "T
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"Everyone knew George W. Bush was going to invade Iraq because Saddam had threatened to kill his father. He was going to finish the job daddy had failed to complete." I suspect it was lobbying from AIPAC and from defense contracto
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What would that do to all the Stripes holding illiquid shares in a private company?
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Does this assume that the likelihood of each alien to be an "einstein" remains constant with size? It seems like a larger being which can support a larger brain might stand a better chance to develop higher thoughts.
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Mine is Sakurai's "Modern Quantum Mechanics." But it sounds like you're really asking which book would be good for you to learn about quantum mechanics and also the Standard Model of particle physics.
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She could be facing much more serious charges for that too. It sounds like these girls are minors.
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To your latter point, the Jeffrey Epstein case was the first time I'd really considered kompromat on American politicians and other elite as a prime motivation for many of the decisions we see out of DC. Was that also an eye opener for
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A strictly internal decision like this wouldn't explain, e.g. Ebay also delisting all of these books.
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All other possible ur-sciences you list are purely deductive. But the natural sciences have an element of inference, or inductive reasoning, to them as well. To the extent that scientists aim to capture all observed phenomena into a theory
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I've never heard of Prof. Mary Wootters before. I wonder if there's any relation to Prof. William Wootters. Neither mentions that in their biography but it's not a terribly common name, and both seem to work at the intersecti
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Information Theory is the ur-science. It's the theory of mapping observed data onto models. In other words, it's how to fuse inductive logic into deductive logic. In physics, this is especially salient, since many of the models ar
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I agree wholly here. Google needs to be much more upfront when floating experiments. It's good that they do, but the signaling needs to be better. Or even different branding altogether. It would go a long way to help their image.
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I don't think Google mines data from their office suite to fuel ads. Do you have evidence of this?
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"I love the Swiss, I really do, but their reputation has been in tatters since the Crypto AG fiasco." Crypto AG is certainly an awful event but this seems like an impossible standard to hold a nation of millions to. Which country
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"The same applies to atoms, we all agree on what they are, and we can show pictures of them etc." This is where you bury the lede. It's clear if you read many of the comments here that there is no such agreement. Some people
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You sense spacetime directly too. It's what holds you do this planet we inhabit. I think atomic phenomena may feel somehow more familiar because it takes far less energy to make them dynamic than it does for gravitational phenomena. If
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"But Atoms are conceivable - they work as a model, but we can also imagine how to fit into the reality that we experience." "Quantum Mechanics is a model that fits experiment results very well, but is very hard to conceive of

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