No. If the population of hospital admissions are made up of 90% red-heads, then taking an unbiased sample out of the group (to ICU, for example) you'd...
The figure I quoted was for one state in the US. I couldn't find any figures for the US as a whole - Cheshire was trying to claim (without any evidenc...
Sure. Take the 72.2% figure from the first study (which didn't include obesity) and add to it the OR (as a factor of case admissions) in the Lancet st...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390529/ ...was where I got the figure from. Other studies have given lower figures, but still over half,...
Yes. Some will, others clearly won't. Why? Pretty evil, yes. I'd call restricting access to a life-saving vaccine and thereby leading to thousands of ...
Pathogen emergence used to be monitored to a greater degree than it is now, so it did actually happen in the real world. Countries did put swifter eme...
I'm not talking about pre-vaccine times, I'm talking about right now. Read first, comment second. Oh, and England in the 80s had double the hospital c...
Really? You're still persisting? Did you even check the figures, or did you , again, just presume I must be wrong because the telly says so? https://s...
I disagree. For a start, emerging pathogen monitoring was cut to the bone, it should never have been. Emergency measures were drafted but not acted on...
Again, this is why we look at actual numbers rather than guess what the numbers might be based on the strength of media interest. A building normally ...
Yeah, you're probably right. It didn't feel that way at the time, but I expect it was. That's probably why we didn't get anywhere then either. Remembe...
The reason why left wing politics is failing in a nutshell. For a movement which used to unite under the banner of Solidarity, most are more intereste...
Try to think rather than fall back on the narrative you've been fed. What doesn't make sense? The health services have a number of incoming patients t...
2,000 children die every day just from diarrhea. No one gave a shit. No media storm, no hysteria, no moralising those who fail to act...nothing. A tho...
Oh. Then I've misjudged you and I apologise. So in your response to @"Janus"'s concern about vaccine distribution, you seemed to be saying that there ...
Yes, it's exasperating when educated and intelligent people won't simply agree with your totally unsubstantiated assertions... and you even used your ...
Do you see much awareness of that here? Is there a narrative you can point to here that extends beyond our flawless pharmaceutical saviours delivering...
It's not about inflation, spending has gone up even in real terms because GDP has gone up in real terms. It's no good trying to make it about the poor...
Your graph doesn't show what it purports to show. That defence spending is a lower proportion of GDP is not the same a defence spending being 'low'. I...
The point is actually well made by your response. The problem is the polemicisation of the issue. Vaccines are neither useless nor panaceas. They're n...
Where did I say that? My last comment on the matter... I don't see them as manna from heaven to be lapped up enthusiastically at every opportunity. Th...
Your source... The question was over how many the US actually have shared, not how many they promised to. So you think abandoning less developed econo...
Well, none of the VOCs have come from the US thus far. Look at where the cases are rising most, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trend...
Wrong about what? I don't see how this statement follows at all from anything I've said. Covid-19 obviously, why would you think it had anything to do...
I'm sure it isn't. It would need to fluctuate over a thousand-fold to affect the argument. Why on earth wouldn't they be concerned. They're seeing tho...
I've already covered this, the whole of covid hospitalisation are about one fiftieth of those caused by obesity alone. The unvaccinated represent abou...
But governments demonstrably are not sensible enough. So what do we do? The governments of the US, UK, France Germany and Israel for a start are rolli...
Indeed. But you acknowledged it by making a unsupportable claim, in other words, you used a rhetorical tool to give some force to that acknowledgement...
Struggling to distinguish rhetoric from claim doesn't surprise me from you. I'll offer a guide since the territory is clearly unfamiliar; claims are t...
Good article on this in the guardian today, for the vanishing few who actually give more of a shit about sorting this pandemic out than they do about ...
You're assuming the public get their information from official sources like the FDA, WHO, or CDC. I'm not here accusing the official public health ins...
The other issue is that quashing debate about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines has a knock on effect depending on the types of strategy used. I...
I mean something like being paid by the industry benefitting from your results, having a personal relationship with test subjects, beneficiaries, or f...
Should be the WHO strapline! Yes, that's about the size of it. Partly it's good old fashioned selfishness, but partly it's the result of filtering a s...
Really - the effort? Like ripping the fucking place to pieces out of a paranoid fear of communism? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-th...
Nice little story for anyone still convinced their governments have their best interests at heart with vaccine promotion... ...meanwhile the US, the U...
Relevant qualification, publication in a respected peer reviewed journal, and lack of obvious conflict of interest. Does that seem complicated to you,...
Yes. So vaccination is one way of reducing transmission. I'm not sure who you think is denying that. True again. So the vaccine is one way to reduce I...
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