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  1. Harrison Bergeron
    Thank you. The recipe is not terribly difficult: - Find meaning in your life besides online redmeat outrage - Trust but verify what people tell you - Hold true the core principles regardless of which political party is promoting or violating them - Respect that people have diverse opinions and tolerate them and resist the urge to consider your fellow citizens as enemies
  2. Harrison Bergeron
    100%. Both the purveyors and consumers of political propaganda have become consciously or subconsciously addicted to it. I'm sure it is the same proximity bias, but it amazes me the more information we have access to it seems to more ignorant the average person is of reality.
  3. Harrison Bergeron
    IIRC from the article I think it works within five days of known infection, so <nerdalert> I think technically as a "treatment" (post-diagnosis) vs. "prophylactically" (taken as a precaution. The good news is with this, the Merck drug, and the <triggerwarning> options we are developing a decent set of tools to reduce mortality.
  4. Harrison Bergeron
    I did not see this posted, but more good news on the treatment front: Pfizer's oral antiviral drug could help protect people at high risk of COVID-19 in trial, the company said. It cut the risk of hospitalization by 89%, when it was given within three days of symptom onset, Pfizer said. Antiviral drugs won't replace vaccines but could be a vital tool for people who don't respond to them.
  5. Harrison Bergeron
    Not sure exactly how that would impact transmission rates. Is there some data that suggests age impacts transmissibility? I have not seen it but certainly does not mean it is not there. It just is an interesting phenomenon in a situation full of interesting phenomena.
  6. Harrison Bergeron
    Does anyone have a theory as to why mortality and cases are so relatively low in Africa? It seems counter-intuitive that Africa and its associated health care resources seem to have a much lower mortality rate than other parts of the world.
  7. Harrison Bergeron
    How was that possible ... it doesn't make sense he was the #2 QB in Texas high school history and was recruited by basketball schools.
  8. Harrison Bergeron
    https://babylonbee.com/news/rudolph-changes-name-to-rolanda-dominates-female-reindeer-games
  9. Harrison Bergeron
    Can anyone post the obituary of anyone in the US that's starved to death in the last 50 years?
  10. Harrison Bergeron
    I know it's "get off my yard" but I wish both would return to their badass classic unis.
  11. Harrison Bergeron
    My buddy's wife might be vaxxed - I thought he said no but wouldn't be the first thing I misremembered at my age lol.
  12. Harrison Bergeron
    That was my initial reaction. Even if the results returned 10,000 suspects, it seems like it would not be a terribly difficult process to run against some other databases and narrow down the list to those that fit an age profile, lived in Austin, during the time of the murders, etc., and then do a little more digging. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but does not feel like there would be 10,000 matches that lived near Austin at the time, were between say 15-60, etc. Then you could do a little detective work and narrow that list down further - it's not like talking to someone is public record, so you could do some interviews and not have to make a big public announcement.
  13. Harrison Bergeron
    This 1000%. Our idea of "have nots" is hilarious not only compared to the rest of the world but compared to history. The poorest Americans are still global 1%ers. But you're right, we're addicted to whining because we do not have any real, existential threats. That does not mean there will not be some sort of economic collapse if we keep blowing out our deficits and other terrible governmental policies. I do not see a collapse as much as there could be some self-induced fundamental shifts that continues us on the road to Idiocracy, where half the population gets a UBI check and watches Instagram and plays video games all day. I do not think a revolution is really possible - the gap between the U.S. military's capabilities and a revolutionary force is just too great. That doesn't mean we don't ultimately lose a war to China someday.
  14. Harrison Bergeron
    Strange personal anecdote from a good friend. His wife has lupus so cannot get vaccinated. He and his two kids had post-vaccination Covid-19. She is the only one in the family that never caught it despite being severely immunocompromised. As part of her lupus treatment, for years she has been taking <trigger warning>
  15. Harrison Bergeron
    I had the same question - seems counter-intuitive to keep taking the same thing over and over again unless there is something particular about the mRNA technology. I can't think of another vaccine where multiple regimen's / year are required. Part of it might be frankly that SCIENCE'S answer always has been:
  16. Harrison Bergeron
    That's a perfect analogy. We still can’t decide if natural immunity is good for us Although Big Pharma has been remarkably consistent on this issue over the decades.
  17. Harrison Bergeron
    That's exactly my frustration. We seem to be one of the few countries that can't seem to align on a POV about natural immunity. Some say it's exponentially better than unnatural and some act like it's not a thing. SCIENCE seems to be running the same playbook that made him enemy #1 among the HIV/AIDS community in the 80s.
  18. Harrison Bergeron
    If you re-read the quotation I thought it was pretty clear.
  19. Harrison Bergeron
    I have seen studies and "experts" say both it is superior and inferior to unnatural immunity. There does not seem to be a clear consensus, at least in the US.
  20. Harrison Bergeron
    I wish we had a clearer picture on natural immunity. Like everything with SARS-CoV-2, it seems like the studies and "experts" say polar opposite things. I realize scientific examination is not always clean, but this feels like something that we should have a pretty clear and aligned POV at least directionally.
  21. Harrison Bergeron
    Re-listening to some of his post-hoax interviews is just hysterical. I hope he spends some time in prison because he really caused some serious harm: he not only fanned the flames of fake racism and also de-legitimatizes genuine incidents. Again, the problem really lies in the fact that the privileged and powerful swallowed such stupidity with zero critical evaluation. For those interested, Bari Weiss has a great episode on this case today both in the national context as well as his psychology and why he may have been driven to perform the hoax.
  22. Harrison Bergeron
    So much Yes!
  23. Harrison Bergeron
    I see your Germany and raise with Finland ... who also seems like a hell of a lot of fun! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/sanna-marin-finland-prime-minister-covid19-clubbing-apology-b970859.html
  24. Harrison Bergeron
    I was worried I would get in trouble with the mods for posting this here and not here, but then I saw the pics.
  25. Harrison Bergeron
    Exactly. The problem is morons with megaphones give voice and sympathy to this kind of crap without doing the most basic evaluation of whether there might be any veracity to the claim. This unquestionably was the stupidest among a lot of stupid fake hate crimes ... a healthy national conversation requires our informational gatekeepers to do even the most basic of evaluation before running with a story and giving idiots like this a platform to espouse Idiocracy.

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