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TopicSo JK Rowling and Emma Watson are bigots.
adjl
01/08/22 12:09:36 PM
#22
Unbridled9 posted...
I don't know. They seem really unhinged and their other topic seems far more inclined to get people to hate Israel.

That's usually how it goes. He shows up on a new alt, is relatively tame for a few days, then becomes increasingly unhinged and accusing anyone that doesn't compltely agree with Israel's actions of being anti-Semitic, eventually getting banhammered for being a little too crazy about it. Repeat every few months.

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TopicI think I'm too good at Facebook stalking...
adjl
01/08/22 10:20:15 AM
#7
Jen0125 posted...
First and last name and photo aren't really very little information

Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d59J78yhwtg

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TopicSo JK Rowling and Emma Watson are bigots.
adjl
01/08/22 10:17:42 AM
#18
I'm guessing this is that goldbman/ImmortalV/whatever person that periodically re-emerges with a new alt and starts spouting a bunch of pro-Israel stuff. I see no reason to suspect that it might be Mead.

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TopicPeople say money can't solve all their problems...
adjl
01/08/22 9:58:20 AM
#11
ChaoticKnuckles posted...
Money is one of those things where after you have a certain amount it cant solve any problems that still remain.

However if you dont have money, many of your problems are directly related to it. How can I pay for this thing I need can absolutely be solved by having enough money.

Pretty much. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy solutions to a lot of problems that cause very significant unhappiness.

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TopicHALF of Canadians are REJECTING Boosters cause it's MODERNA and want PFIZER!!.
adjl
01/07/22 9:11:22 PM
#9
Huh. I'd heard that a Pfizer booster was better for Omicron, but if Moderna's actually the better one, works for me. I got Pfizer first and Moderna second, and I'm booked for a Moderna booster on the 14th because that was all they had available.

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TopicYoutube BANS Joe Rogan Video with the CREATOR of mRNA who says DON'T GET IT!!!
adjl
01/07/22 1:23:41 PM
#38
BEERandWEED posted...
A person deferring to somebody else's competence or ability is not overestimating their own ability and not the DE effect.
adjl posted...
He's overestimating his ability to decide which scientists to listen to.


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TopicYoutube BANS Joe Rogan Video with the CREATOR of mRNA who says DON'T GET IT!!!
adjl
01/07/22 12:46:46 PM
#34
BEERandWEED posted...
Skardavnelnate is deferring to the competency of the mRNA scientist. Skardavnelnate did not overestimate his own ability in mRNA science, as the DE effect would require.

He's overestimating his ability to decide which scientists to listen to.

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TopicYoutube BANS Joe Rogan Video with the CREATOR of mRNA who says DON'T GET IT!!!
adjl
01/07/22 12:31:20 PM
#31
BEERandWEED posted...
You are definitely using that incorrectly.

He literally said "based on this one piece of information and no other understanding of the situation, I'm considering him more credible than anyone else." If that's not being overconfident of his competence, I don't know what is.

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TopicYoutube BANS Joe Rogan Video with the CREATOR of mRNA who says DON'T GET IT!!!
adjl
01/07/22 11:42:16 AM
#28
SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I'm generally distrusting of everyone. If the creator of a thing says it's being misused I'm willing to extend some credibility to him.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Dunning-Kruger Effect.

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TopicReheating pizza
adjl
01/07/22 11:06:58 AM
#8
I typically throw it into a cold oven, turn it on to 350, then take it out 2-3 minutes after the oven gets up to temp. Microwave makes it too soggy. I'll trying air frying at some point, since that's just a more efficient version of the oven approach, but I'm guessing that will take some fiddling to figure out the right temperature/time. Haven't tried using a pan.

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TopicI don't understand all this "NFT" talk going on recently.
adjl
01/07/22 10:59:06 AM
#35
Veedrock- posted...
Not here. From the very little I've read about it the NFT actually disappeared from the guy's wallet. The situation is suspect though and likely a publicity stunt, as the wallet also contained a good amount of crypto that wasn't taken. Why wouldn't a hacker take everything?

Okay, that's less insanely idiotic.

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TopicI don't understand all this "NFT" talk going on recently.
adjl
01/07/22 10:37:03 AM
#30
Wait, are the people complaining about being "hacked" actually just upset that somebody copied the ugly image they bought an NFT for? I was vaguely sympathetic when I thought it was actually a matter of having their investment compromised, even if the investment was a bad idea, but if it's nothing more than taking a screenshot, I don't think that's warranted.

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TopicLook at this bitch.
adjl
01/07/22 10:14:17 AM
#14
My girlfriend's cousins have a Leonburger, and they are indeed huge. He takes up their entire couch and can't climb their stairs past the first landing because he needs a running start to move all that dog up stairs. He's also just a giant doofus.

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TopicThe point of LOCKDOWNS is to NOT Overwhelm HOSPITALS. Does it make sense to you?
adjl
01/07/22 10:11:18 AM
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@SunWuKung420

adjl posted...
And where does that ability come from? Or do you believe that every species magically came into existence already possessing genes that allow it to respond to every threat the world can possibly throw at it (including those that do not yet exist)?


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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/07/22 10:09:02 AM
#27
I got a notification amounting to "don't call people that are literally fighting to help covid 'pro-covid'," which I thought was pretty stupid.

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TopicFauci says children hospitalized for Covid is overblown.
adjl
01/06/22 10:35:51 PM
#13
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Thing is it's sent to the general public who have no stake in hospital throughput as long as their hospital is not full.

They have a stake in making sure it stays not full. Keeping them informed as to how great the risk of it being overwhelmed is can certainly be worthwhile.

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TopicCanadian going to PRISON for being RACIST is ARRESTED trying to enter the USA!!!
adjl
01/06/22 10:28:00 PM
#6
Zeus posted...
Hardly feels like a credible threat

It was. He'd spent a considerable amount of time prior to starting his mayoral campaign spewng a lot of exceptionally violent rhetoric targeting health workers for treating the pandemic like it exists. Doxxing them under the pretense of rallying his fans to attack them was an explicit promise he made when he announced his intent to run for mayor, which was deeply concerning because he would have access to that information for campaign purposes if he had been allowed to run. I'm glad other charges interfered with that, since otherwise we'd have seen quite the mess.

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TopicDo you still wear masks when you go to public places?
adjl
01/06/22 6:56:18 PM
#9
darkknight109 posted...
Yes. It's the law around here and even if it wasn't, I would anyways. I don't particularly feel like getting sick.

This. Whatever the regulations around it, I intend to keep wearing one until Covid is no longer a significant threat.

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Topic#BigBroALERT: New Fed Law to introduce 'Kill Switches' in all new Cars...
adjl
01/06/22 2:12:35 PM
#11
Whatever extra features are involved to make it less dangerous, shutting down a vehicle mid-operation is still going to be a lot more dangerous than simply not letting drunk people start their cars.

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TopicArv can't stand "gamer girls"
adjl
01/06/22 1:24:30 PM
#15
CarefreeDude posted...
Are we talking the gamer girl stereotype or girls who enjoy video games?

Or the "porn star holding a controller that isn't even plugged in in an insultingly transparent effort to make nerds more excited" trope.

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TopicFlorida Baby is left an ORPHAN after BOTH his Cop Parents Committed SUICIDE!!!
adjl
01/06/22 1:20:52 PM
#8
HornedLion posted...
He did serve. Maybe it was some trauma from serving overseas.child.

That was my thought. Between being a veteran and being a cop (both higher-risk groups for suicide), I suspect it was one or both of those that did him in. Presumably his wife's mental health was also in a bad place already (possibly from being a cop, possibly from post-partum depression, possibly from the stress of trying to support him as his mental health declined), and his suicide pushed her over the edge.

Really, just horribly tragic all around, and it's absurd to suggest that a nice vacation from taking care of the kid would have fixed it.

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TopicFauci says children hospitalized for Covid is overblown.
adjl
01/06/22 1:16:39 PM
#8
BEERandWEED posted...
Someone who gets hospitalized for a non-covid injury or illness that happens to test positive for covid should not count as a covid-related hospitalization.

It is still a figure that's worth reporting, though, since it indicates how much capacity hospitals need for covid-positive patients (which includes stricter PPE protocols, isolation from other areas, and several other accommodations).

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TopicFlorida Baby is left an ORPHAN after BOTH his Cop Parents Committed SUICIDE!!!
adjl
01/06/22 9:49:40 AM
#4
MagicalPrincess posted...
They should have taken time off to be alone together while someone watches the baby, maybe be even more intimate together on a vacation or something to relieve the stress.

Generally speaking, being suicidal entails much deeper mental health issues than just "I need some time away from my month-old kid." That's a rather staggeringly ignorant way to respond to this.

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TopicWinnie the Pooh is now public domain
adjl
01/06/22 12:17:54 AM
#22
Zeus posted...
Which would be fucking insane, tbh. Something like that should never in the public domain.

I'm inclined to agree, but I feel like Disney's approach to effecting that is very much not the best. The whole system of stuff passing into public domain simply because it reaches a certain age is definitely harmful and unfair to companies like Disney that are still actively using IP's that are old enough to qualify for that. That Disney is pushing to have that threshold extended, however, is not only not a viable long-term solution (eventually, even Disney's going to run out of justifications), it means people have to wait even longer to legally access stuff that has been genuinely abandoned.

Instead, IP ownership should last indefinitely so long as the IP is being used, but expire after a much shorter period (I tend to default to 10 years for argument's sake, though I'm sure that could be tweaked) of not being used. "Being used" needs some definition, of course, but I'm pretty comfortable defining it as "available for official sale" for individual works and "represented in a work that is available for official sale" for franchises, characters, and any other broader elements (though I'm really not a fan of the idea of patenting/copyrighting game mechanics, like WB did with SoM's Nemesis system). In a pre-digital world, that wasn't necessarily a reasonable standard because maintaining production on a company's entire library simply wasn't a practical idea, but in a world of digital distribution, there's no reason not to make your stuff available for sale unless you don't want to profit from it anymore.

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 11:38:58 PM
#48
SunWuKung420 posted...
Man, that article. It reads like the writer dislikes he has to sensationalize the facts to falsely sway public opinion.

It really doesn't. Like, at all.

SunWuKung420 posted...
My favorite part is right after they admit the data isn't actually from a single day, they start the next paragraph with "nonetheless" as if misreporting facts is not important.

The following paragraph amounts to "even though the true number isn't as high as it looks, the average over all relevant days has still shattered records, so it's still a very big deal." Nothing has been misreported, nothing is misleading, it's just a huge number of cases.

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 11:30:28 PM
#47
SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
Let's try that...
25% of 40 = 25 * 40 = 1,000
20% of 10 = 20 * 10 = 200
80% of 20 = 80 * 20 = 1,600

... 25%=0.25. The percent symbol carries an implicit "*0.01" operation. Literally nobody that isn't a 6th grade math teacher insisting that everyone write out their entire thought process for every mathematical operation they do actually bothers to explicitly write out the conversion between decimals and percents.

Entity13 posted...
990,000 tested positive in one day. Not 990,000 positive as of the one day, but so many tested in the one day.

The actual number is 1,018,935. Judg just went with 1/330 of the total population was a rough estimate that contextualized it quite effectively, for most people.

BEERandWEED posted...
It wasn't one day. The article said that. It was more like 4-5 days.

And then the next day saw 880,000 new cases. There was likely still a bit of backlog contributing to that, but whatever nitpicking you can do over the details, it's a metric butt-ton of new cases in a very short period of time.

BEERandWEED posted...
It's why the whole reporting is based on fearmongering and sensationalizing to promote a positive public attitude about a topic inaccurately.

The report in question includes the explanation that you're relying on to say "oh that's not as bad as it sounds. You literally copied it. Accusing them of fearmongering by presenting misleading statistics when they explain why those statistics seem worse than they are in the next breath is just plain silly.

That said, for the reasons the article outlines and that you're clinging so desperately to, single-day case counts are not tremendously meaningful. It's generally better to look at averages to get a better picture of the trend, which is why case data is reported as both the single-day figures and the 7-day average. Yesterday's 7-day average was 550k, which is notably less than a million, but is still more than twice the record from previous waves. That's a big deal, even if it's less than a million. This is objectively a massive outbreak, whatever you'd like to believe.

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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/05/22 3:52:49 PM
#20
Heck, suggesting 80% vaccination as a herd immunity threshold predates Delta, let alone Omicron.

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TopicIs it selfish to not want to get the booster just yet?
adjl
01/05/22 3:29:34 PM
#41
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Long term, yes. Short term, no. Short term can kill it off entirely, then intelligent monitoring stops further entry from countries that don't bother.

As long as commerce and other cross-border travel is happening with countries that haven't completely eradicated the disease (which will be every country that hasn't achieved herd immunity; wiping out the disease with anything less just isn't possible), the risk of transmitting it will continue to exist.

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TopicProsecutor that opposed Covid vaccine dies!
adjl
01/05/22 2:31:41 PM
#4
Bye.

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TopicShow off your Steam sale new games
adjl
01/05/22 2:31:06 PM
#9
Bought Hades and Stardew Valley as gifts, that was it. I also collected all of GoG's free games and most of Epic's.

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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/05/22 2:17:23 PM
#17
Kyuubi4269 posted...
"Hepatitis C spikes even with people vaccinated for Hepatitis B"

There's no golden bullet all variants vaccine.

"I still got the flu even though I took last year's flu shot!"

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TopicIs it selfish to not want to get the booster just yet?
adjl
01/05/22 2:16:38 PM
#38
Kyuubi4269 posted...
You absolutely can eliminate it entirely, problem is nowhere has the balls to be strict enough about it.

You really can't. It's not about balls, it's about the fact that cross-border travel is an absolute necessity in the modern world for any country that hasn't gone full North Korea.

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TopicIs it selfish to not want to get the booster just yet?
adjl
01/05/22 1:52:47 PM
#36
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Didn't say it did, it does stop the current ones though, and if the border is properly monitored, you'd know if someone is carrying a new strain which they aren't vaccinated for and can stop them before they spread it.

Admittedly, I haven't paid much attention to other countries' border restrictions, but for both Canada and the UK (which I'm familiar with because my sister flew home from London for Christmas and is heading back tomorrow), travellers are required to produce a recent (<72 hours prior) negative PCR test before being allowed in, otherwise they're subjected to a mandatory quarantine period (in Canada, that happens in a supervised hotel, not sure about the UK) while they wait for results and are quarantined further if they're positive. That means almost anyone entering is not testing positive, which in turn means that there's no viral sample to sequence to identify variants, but it doesn't mean they won't end up developing the disease later from an exposure that happened too late for the test to catch.

I don't disagree that many countries could do more to prevent positive cases from coming in altogether than they are, but I don't think there's much room to specifically identify variants as they come in and block them. Genome sequencing (which is what's needed to identify variants) has come a long way in terms of speed and cost, but it's still far too slow and expensive for it to be viable to test every single traveller, wait for their results, then sequence the positive ones. The best you can do is either require a recent negative test, or go the Australia route and require all incoming travellers to quarantine in a designated facility regardless of vaccination or test status (which is costly and limits people's ability to enter so dramatically that some exceptions for essential travellers are still needed, leaving a significant hole in the defenses).

Kyuubi4269 posted...
Mutations only happen at all because of people who carry existing viruses and give it means to develop, if all variants inland are vaccinated for, you don't have any hosts to allow variant creation.

Even the countries that are doing this best don't have 100% vaccination rate, nor the persistent case rate of zero that would be needed to really ensure no domestic variants would ever emerge. The risk is dramatically lower when you don't have hundreds of thousands of cases every day, but you can never completely eliminate.

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 11:17:43 AM
#38
SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
Apparently no.

You just divided 300 million by 33, which has nothing to do with anything. To determine a given percentage of a number, you multiply the percentage by that number. In this case, .33%*300,000,000=1 million.

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 11:03:05 AM
#36
SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
Agreed. I'm waiting to see where Entity13 is going with this.

You don't actually realize how badly you botched the math there, do you?

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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/05/22 10:58:39 AM
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MartianManchild posted...
So whats the point of vaccine mandates then. 95% of new cases in the US are omicron.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cdc-omicron-now-95-percent-of-new-us-covid-19-cases/ar-AASqu3W?ocid=uxbndlbing

For now, to keep other variants from spreading. Omicron differs enough from Delta (the primary culprit for non-Omicron infections) that immunity against Omicron (whether obtained naturally or through a new vaccine) isn't going to do much to slow the spread of Delta. Omicron can be expected to burn itself out because of how aggressive it is, but that's going to have little to no impact on the primary pandemic.

If Omicron lasts longer than most are expecting and we end up developing vaccines specific to it, then vaccine mandates will function to keep it in check.

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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/05/22 10:54:15 AM
#12
Also, Australia's overall vaccination rate is ~77%. Not sure how the eligibility statistics break down, so I could believe they're at 90% of eligible people, but citing 90% as the only figure understates the number of unvaccinated people in the country by a full 56% (that is, you're implying there are less than half as many unvaccinated people as there really are).

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 10:50:03 AM
#34
Side note, yesterday's new case count was almost 900,000, bringing the 7-day average to 553k. I fully expect that the 1 million figure was a product of holiday testing backlogs, rather than an accurate report of actual new cases, but that backlog is clearing and numbers are still awfully high.

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TopicAustralia sees record coronavirus cases despite 90% vaccination rate.
adjl
01/05/22 10:43:31 AM
#10
Vaccine doing a poor job of reducing case numbers of vaccine-avoidant strain. More at 11.

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/05/22 10:36:35 AM
#32
OhhhJa posted...
This may or may not be the most transmissable disease in human history. But that would be impossible to determine because no disease has ever been tested for on the magnitude of covid. Not even in the same ballpark

They have not, so conclusive data is not available, but pretty much every disease ever tracked has estimates made for the true incidence by extrapolating from the concrete test results that were gathered. Even if you can't give a conclusive answer to the question, you can at least cite examples that might be comparable.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
1 in 330 is 0.303% but I'll play along.
300,000,000 / (0.33 * 100) = 9,090,909.091

That's an... interesting way to work with percentages.

Judgmenl posted...
This is why public education in the united states is an absolute failure.

But you don't understand! Some of those cases are going to be asymptomatic, and that means we don't have to worry about any of them!

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Topic1/330 Americans tested positive for COVID yesterday.
adjl
01/04/22 10:17:45 PM
#20
Ogurisama posted...
Lets hope omnicom burns itself out quickly cause of this

That is the hope. By spreading this quickly and effectively, it stands a chance of inducing herd immunity all on its own. Unfortunately, there's so little immune overlap between Omicron and previous variants that that's going to mean pretty much nothing for Covid overall.

BEERandWEED posted...
Lol skewed reporting is some fearmongering.

"The record single-day total may be due in part to delayed reporting from over the holiday weekend. A number of U.S. states did not report data on Dec. 31, New Years Eve, and many do not report data on weekends, meaning that some of these cases could be from positive tests taken on prior days."

But it's that reporting that explained why the spike is so high. How is that skewed/fearmongering?

That is, however, why single-day highs don't mean a whole lot. They often reflect quirks in data collection/reporting, rather than actual massive spikes. Instead, you're best off looking at the 7-day average, which is also pretty readily attainable. Yesterday's 7-day average was around 481,000, which is clearly quite a bit less than a million, but still the highest such figure recorded by a significant margin.

BEERandWEED posted...
Hospitalizations and deaths are still lower than last year.

Yesterday's 7-day average for hospitalizations was about 70% of the highest figure seen during the third wave, a record set almost exactly a year ago. That is lower, but it's currently climbing quite rapidly, and is nonetheless alarmingly high given that the vaccination rate (which is supposed to significantly lower hospitalizations, and otherwise would be) is so much higher than it was a year ago.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
1 in 330 makes it sound rare. Hardly worth being concerned with.

Can you name a single disease in history that has managed to infect an average of 0.15% of a given country's population every day for a week?

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TopicIs it selfish to not want to get the booster just yet?
adjl
01/04/22 4:17:00 PM
#33
In general, getting first doses to more people is indeed more important than getting third doses out, but as others have said, your personal decision isn't likely to change that policy (since it's generally a matter of nationalistic self-interest), so you might as well go with the best available option to protect yourself and those closer to you.

Kyuubi4269 posted...
WHO can fuck off after shilling, but "Vaccine Inequality" across national borders doesn't cause mutations if you watch your borders properly. Letting unvaccinated people travel causes mutation.

Restricting travel to vaccinated people isn't going to keep vaccine-avoidant strains from proliferating. The strains are more likely to pop up among the unvaccinated, yes (that's just how probability goes), but can still be carried across borders by any vaccinated people that pick them up.

kangolcone posted...
Boosters have been available for months.

Depends where you are. I booked mine yesterday, which was the earliest my age group was eligible.

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TopicYoutube BANS Joe Rogan Video with the CREATOR of mRNA who says DON'T GET IT!!!
adjl
01/04/22 11:23:31 AM
#7
Ozmose posted...
It amazes me how trusting people are of something with absolutely zero long term research. I went with the J&J. Good ol' timey viral vector technology.

Uhh, research on mRNA vaccines has been ongoing since the early 90's. This isn't new technology so much as it's technology that's had a hard time getting to market because the alternatives are too well-established. Covid presented an excellent opportunity for the technology to shine, though, because a vaccine was needed as soon as possible and development was able to start the instant the viral genome was fully sequenced (which happened in late December 2019/early January 2020), whereas other methods needed to wait a couple more months for viral samples to arrive.

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TopicWatching people who used to shout "blogfaqs" in a derogatory way
adjl
01/04/22 9:28:13 AM
#3
You wouldn't microblogfaqs a car.

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Topichow is disgaea 4 and 5
adjl
01/04/22 12:07:49 AM
#11
Bulbasaur posted...
oh my god you can change it

why is the wrong way the default way

It's fairly arbitrary. They had to pick one as default, so I guess they just went with whatever the dev team felt was most intuitive.

Revelation34 posted...
Should I buy it too? Been on my wishlist for ages and I only ever played the first two.

I had a pretty good time with it.

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TopicThe point of LOCKDOWNS is to NOT Overwhelm HOSPITALS. Does it make sense to you?
adjl
01/04/22 12:05:57 AM
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SunWuKung420 posted...
It's not random. All creatures (humans, animals, bacteria, virus) have survival mechanisms allowing them to survive by adapting to environmental pressures.

And where does that ability come from? Or do you believe that every species magically came into existence already possessing genes that allow it to respond to every threat the world can possibly throw at it (including those that do not yet exist)?

Furthermore, why are you acting like vaccine resistance (or technically, vaccine avoidance, since viruses generally don't actively resist immune responses so much as they dodge them by evolving new surface proteins) is in any way specific to vaccines? Vaccines do not interact directly with viruses. What viruses interact with (and therefore develop resistance to) is the immunity that vaccines provide, which is generally the same immunity that natural infection would give. A virus is just as capable of evolving resistance to natural immunity as it is to vaccine-based immunity.

Sahuagin posted...
k I was just doing total doses / 2 / pop, but I guess there are a lot of booster shots. ~21% are triple dosed and ~74% are (at least) single dosed. actually the way they word it sure makes it confusing... the actual distribution is:

26% unvaccinated
12% 1 dosed
41% 2 dosed
21% 3 dosed

I'm just going by https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=USA, which says 62% fully vaxxed (though I believe that just indicates that they've had the pair of shots (or single, in J&J's case), not that the two weeks to achieve full vaccination have passed). That's what the infographic Google presents upon searching "US Covid vaccine" cites, which I'm generally okay to work with.

Sahuagin posted...
(incidentally Johns Hopkins is reporting over 2 trillion doses administered world-wide??? that has to be a mistake right? that's an average of 250 per person world-wide?)

That must indeed be a mistake. Our World in Data is saying 9.81 billion, which is much more believable.

Sahuagin posted...
maybe, but where? the variants are not emerging from USA afaik. they emerged from like India and South Africa or something, and then came to USA.

No VoC's have emerged from the US, no. Alpha was UK, Beta was South Africa, Delta was India, Lambda was Peru, and Omicron was blamed on South Africa (but was almost certainly circulating in many other countries already, South Africa was just the first one with enough integrity to report on it and we're not really sure what the origin was). It wouldn't surprise me if other variants have, but just haven't been noteworthy enough to get attention (there are clearly several greek letters unaccounted for between Alpha and Omicron), but I don't know for certain and am only speculating when I say that.

That said, the US' high case count does put it at considerable risk of generating variants, so the irresponsible behaviour of the unvaccinated can be criticized on that basis.

Sahuagin posted...
I don't see that it is possible for the world to have been sufficiently vaccinated fast enough to prevent this. this is the inevitable outcome. all we can do is continue trying not to spread it, try to maximize vaccination rates, lockdown if/when the health system starts to reach capacity. unless you have nearly every person in the world cooperating, which cannot happen, there is no ending this.

It won't last indefinitely, no, but that doesn't mean the risk can't be reduced more than it has been to delay that inevitability until more people can be vaccinated/become immune and the risk becomes even less. All of this boils down to risk management, so while there are no guarantees, that doesn't mean nothing can be done.

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TopicWhat is your Monitors Resolution?
adjl
01/03/22 11:21:56 PM
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adjl
01/03/22 11:20:12 PM
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Bulbasaur posted...
why does up go to the fucking left, it should go to the right

this is legitimately giving me a headache

You can change that.

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TopicThe point of LOCKDOWNS is to NOT Overwhelm HOSPITALS. Does it make sense to you?
adjl
01/03/22 6:52:23 PM
#88
Sahuagin posted...
USA has something like over 76% vaccination rate.

62%, and even that's a relatively recent development. For quite a while it was stagnating slightly over 50.

Sahuagin posted...
it was not ever possible to vaccinate the planet in less than a year. and incomplete vaccination will inevitably result in vaccine resistant strains. I don't see how things could be different.

Mostly, with better compliance with other infection control protocols and a more conservative approach to relaxing those restrictions in response to vaccination rates (read: relaxing restrictions based on case rates, not vaccination rates), overall case rates would be lower, resulting in fewer total variants and therefore less risk of resistant ones. The risk would still be there, of course, but those that haven't cooperating all along have definitely increased it.

SunWuKung420 posted...
That's not how developing a resistance works. The virus developed a resistance due to the presence of a vaccine not from the lack of presence, therefore, the resistant strain developed in the vaccinated population.

How do vaccines introduce new genes into the viral population? I don't know how else I need to phrase this question for you to understand that there's a glaring hole in your understanding of the situation, and saying "they just do" doesn't fix that. if you don't know, just say that, and I'll be happy to help you learn. Otherwise, you're just a walking embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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TopicThe point of LOCKDOWNS is to NOT Overwhelm HOSPITALS. Does it make sense to you?
adjl
01/03/22 5:33:54 PM
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SunWuKung420 posted...
@adjl

I sufficiently answered your question, it just wasn't pedantic as fuck like you.

No, you answered a different question in a manner that left out one very key fundamental piece of the puzzle (which, incidentally, is precisely the piece I asked you about): Where do the resistance genes come from?

SunWuKung420 posted...
The only pro-covid humans are those profiting from it.

So everyone else that's fighting for it has just been conned into lending their efforts to a cause they don't realize they're fighting for, allowing somebody else to profit from it? Good to see you're developing a bit of self-awareness, but you've still got a ways to go.

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