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(y) That's also why starting out with or campaigning distrust and Us-versus-Them narratives can be degenerative. It's in the toolbox of divide-and-con...
September 29, 2021 at 16:55
, here doctors on the news reported the rare exemption request. News also reported fake vaccination certificates in the wild; they're not formalized h...
September 29, 2021 at 04:32
Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism (Mar 16, 2012) :) The relationship between emotional abilities and right-wing and prejudiced attitu...
September 28, 2021 at 21:19
, dude, that's Evil Hanover trying to escape. Seen it before. Not pretty. True story.
September 28, 2021 at 17:56
, right, when rational means deductive. How much trust is deductive, though? I'm thinking trust is generally more weighted (subject to some contextual...
September 28, 2021 at 17:37
, you're not free to interact with others however you see fit. (If you want to go on a killing spree, then please leave others out of it. If you want ...
September 28, 2021 at 17:25
While discussing SARS-CoV-2/pandemic, ... ... kind of reminded me of ... :) (nothing further to see here, move along)
September 28, 2021 at 17:15
, check this post. There are already situations where whatever vaccinations are mandatory and have been for some time. Like hospitals, nursing homes, ...
September 28, 2021 at 16:12
Sure, according to some anyway, but not particularly decidable/determinable like the medical matters are. I seem to remember posts/threads about this ...
September 28, 2021 at 14:09
https://twitter.com/who/status/1432993575726239744 Some recommend a bit more than 1m, but, anyway...
September 27, 2021 at 18:21
That's ... aiming rather high (unless I misunderstand, which is entirely possible). There are historical/textbook case studies, and (cumulative) evide...
September 27, 2021 at 17:42
, it's easy to get pissed off with crap like this ... • ‘So frustrating’: Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics (Oct 8, 2020) • Swedish officials r...
September 27, 2021 at 16:43
, same here. Though, over at the dentist they told me of a skirmish with a mask-denier at the grocery store. It's not like motorcycle racing up and do...
September 27, 2021 at 15:09
, most doctors have taken an oath I think. Nurses/medics etc aren't far off that. There are some related laws, like malpractice and negligence. The ve...
September 27, 2021 at 14:34
Responding to something not asked, . Try again. Done. Now what? Done. What did "your own research" consist in exactly, that others should believe you?...
September 27, 2021 at 06:09
So , in your opinion, SARS-CoV-2 should be left to replicate propagate mutate unchecked with no containment efforts, leaving whatever in its wake? If ...
September 27, 2021 at 01:48
Apropos or hypocrisy ...
September 27, 2021 at 01:00
Spidey sense? But you're right, just assuming so was uncharitable.
September 26, 2021 at 17:56
Reading this, isn't there a chance that some traditional vaccine, followed later by an mRNA vaccine, could give extra immunity? New Studies Find Evide...
September 26, 2021 at 17:11
What if we, for the sake of argument, replace that ? quote with something like "which gave them a unique insight into the lab"? So, starting out with ...
September 26, 2021 at 16:58
A daily pill to treat Covid could be just months away, scientists say (Sep 24, 2021) Maybe the anti-vaxxers would be more amenable to this sort of thi...
September 26, 2021 at 02:44
Kind of neat 6 years-old animated chart, for the so inclined: Theories of Everything, Mapped (Aug 3, 2015) (As usual, don't take the word "Everything"...
September 25, 2021 at 23:30
, I'd rather meet SARS-CoV-2 armed (i.e. vaccinated) than unarmed. The unarmed has a higher risk of becoming a virus replication/propagation/mutation ...
September 25, 2021 at 19:32
@"Isaac", to be honest, these varying views can sometimes be illuminating in whichever ways, so in that respect feel free to keep it up. Of course the...
September 25, 2021 at 18:46
Nah, wasn't citing. In all honesty, I was copy/pasting. (My mistake, gave you something to latch onto, sorry.) Some incorrigibility among anti-vaxxers...
September 25, 2021 at 18:02
Checking double standards.
September 25, 2021 at 17:18
:D I was inquiring about the genetic fallacy. You do eh? That's a rather unspecific/abstract, possibly overlapping, response. (Personally, I have no p...
September 25, 2021 at 17:17
I have. So ... ... wasn't a blanket statement? (Far from it, perhaps?) Explicit examples have been given.
September 25, 2021 at 16:38
:roll: Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk A/S, Sanofi S.A. = pharmaceutical industry, kind of big too. Say, how distrusting would you be if you caugh...
September 25, 2021 at 16:11
You sure they're converging on a genetic fallacy? You think they'd be happier with witchdoctors brewing things out in the woods?
September 25, 2021 at 16:10
Fairly consistent North American findings: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States (Jul 30, 2021) Monitoring Incidence of COVID-19 C...
September 25, 2021 at 07:49
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe (Dec 2, 2020) One of nature’s key constants is much larger in a quantum material (Sep...
September 25, 2021 at 00:46
Bit hasty there? Distrusting diabetics die. :death:
September 24, 2021 at 21:52
Pathogens ? have been with us since, well, forever or something. Questions that seem relevant here by now: In the history of ? outbreaks, how %many we...
September 24, 2021 at 03:13
Ya' took a wrong turn somewhere, . The auditions to The Twilight Zone (or whatever it is) are over that'a way (pointing).
September 24, 2021 at 00:51
That's just the usual run off at the mouth, . Some things are known, and there are (historical) case studies.
September 23, 2021 at 22:37
, you asked There were some sample moves/results. Subsequent to ... We are still talking SARS-CoV-2/pandemic, right...?
September 23, 2021 at 21:43
"Doctor do no harm", "doctor help the sick", all that? Empathy/decency towards the ignorant/fearful/ungrateful? Ethics? I'm thinking there are a few r...
September 23, 2021 at 19:50
Could be better, could be worse? • The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta (Jul 1, 2021) • States with low vaccination numbers had Covi...
September 23, 2021 at 19:11
Dump the blinkers, . :) SARS-CoV-2 replicates, mutates, propagates unchecked wherever it finds fertile grounds, leaving a trail of victims (and taking...
September 23, 2021 at 03:53
, Siegel had some related comments on this stuff: Dark energy might be neither particle nor field (Sep 22, 2021)
September 23, 2021 at 02:02
, so, no where in your thinking does SARS-CoV-2/pandemic show up? (It's as irrelevant as masking up is trivial?) /uploads/resized/files/o2/hfqakg0caky...
September 22, 2021 at 23:24
, please don't quit on my account. (Wide disagreement among subject matter experts? Consensus means little to nothing?) , sure, I suppose the "persona...
September 22, 2021 at 16:08
:o cynical, that r/HermanCainAward thing The incorrigibility is as striking as the cynicism, though. Some of those folk are both entrenched and have t...
September 22, 2021 at 13:40
, yeah, some mistakes have been made (especially in retrospect). As long as we learn from them, including those having made the mistakes.
September 21, 2021 at 21:49
Is it possible for everyone to be subject matter experts in it all...? Not really. I suppose we could quit having family doctors, engineers to enginee...
September 21, 2021 at 21:40
, don't know, don't know the details well enough, just that black holes seem more localized than effects attributed to dark matter. Interesting enough...
September 21, 2021 at 20:45
Who doesn't like a good mystery? New gravitational wave detector picks up possible signal from the beginning of time (Sep 17, 2021) Mysterious, Never-...
September 21, 2021 at 18:33
:grin: Could always take a look , like Santayana suggested, whatever (medical) lessons learned, historical case-studies, all that? Doesn't have any de...
September 21, 2021 at 17:39