throwmeaway_pls

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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
I definitely do not believe NZ’s claim they eradicated COVID with “95% probability.” [1] I do not trust that number at all. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/australia/new-zeala...
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
I think people can tell that bullshit has been spewed in all directions. Nobody is looking good here. Nobody is above reproach.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
What about viral reservoirs?
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
They’ve certainly changed my vote. Wow.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
That’s an overly simplistic and reductive view of free speech rights. Can my internet service provider shut off my access if I spend too much time reading “misinformation”? Can they give the government a list of all the people reading “misi
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
The medical chauvinism on display here is the real disaster. We need to have a broader conversation.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Unfortunately when rationality and ideology conflict, ideology tends to win.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Agreed, we are living through a mass hysteria event. The shared delusion is that through moral acts one can somehow avoid exposure to an endemic human coronavirus.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Yes. Look up the “Declaration of Helsinki.”
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
The eugenic impulse to eliminate disease has lead us down many a dark path.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Exactly, this should be highlighted. The rhetoric seems intended to distract from this fact. How much money does the CDC receive each year?
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
There are other channels for expressing that opinion. We don’t need a newsfeed from the CCP in the hands of every other teenager in the country.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
You’d also be signaling that you lied about your intentions.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
It’s not worth optimizing for.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
You’re just rebranding a weakness as a strength.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
That is not at all the title of the linked article. What is going on?
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
That is indeed the simple solution to a complex problem advocated by government propaganda, yes.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
The WHO estimated 750 million cumulative infections on Friday. This error is not unbelievable because the system is just a bit of political theater. There’s nothing more we can do against an endemic human coronavirus. It’s time to move on.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
This culture of deceit needs to change. I don’t blame anybody for not following the rules.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
That really does sound like ideology cloaked in common sense. Demand for great healthcare is already essentially infinite no matter what new technology comes along, and we need a sane way to deal with that. Pointing fingers at the demand si
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Nine out of ten people are not being sent to the doctor for no reason. The rest of this comment is catastrophizing. 10% positive predictive value for something like this is pretty good. It’s certainly better than “hey look at this weird mol
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
If people can live in Florida, I think humanity can make it through climate change.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Are you suggesting this blog post might be misleading by not disclosing the limitations of the referenced work? Why would anybody do such a thing? /s
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Look, terabytes of back-and-forth in internet comments has happened over this. The calculation you are asking to do is not a realistic scenario. The pandemic is gonna come out to be on the order of one year’s worth of smoking. People have b
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Both Vietnam and China have a track record of covering up disease outbreaks. They also both use homegrown tests for COVID-19. It is not unreasonable to discount their figures without independent verification.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Where does all the money actually go? Headcount? Long development cycles? Does anybody have any insight? I know there’s a trite answer, but what is really happening?
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Yup, this stuff keeps rising up out of nowhere, and the messages are unnatural to the point that they’re likely engineered.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
> we should be having conversations about the present and the future. I’m not privy to those conversations. Are you? All I can do as a citizen is hold my government accountable. I’d be a fool not to do so.
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
> There's no reason to be walking around with a mask. I see that statement as a lie. Fauci addressed it in the TheStreet interview and explained why he lied. I don’t see how somebody would see that as not-a-lie, but if you’d like to
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by throwmeaway_pls 6y ago
Endless message mapping and behavior change campaigning was never going to cut it here for an entire pandemic. People know they’re being led by the nose. I get it, it’s hard, which is why we give the CDC a ton of money every year. I just do

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