. I'm a little confused. My understanding is that you transmit the virus. Severe illness might mean you're shedding more virus, more likely to infect ...
Agreed. I do wonder how the trade-off is made though, as children in school together represent an excellent way for diseases to spread from household ...
Then we don't use that word there same way. I wasn't trying to make a broader point with the thing about kids, just the exact point I made, as I've ex...
I think about waking-up-from-a-coma-on-January-6 scenarios. Fifty years ago, pre-Watergate, the scene itself might not be surprising -- students had b...
Civil war feels decidedly less hypothetical than it did when I was a kid. We're basically living through a cold civil war right now (with occasional o...
Ah. Well it was not intended as a trick, but only to demonstrate that children are not immune. The only reason to demonstrate that children are not im...
Sorry. What concerns me is navigating the differing perspectives of our fellow citizens. It's all very well to choose not to consider those who differ...
I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. Here in the US we're not vaccinating children under 12. Vaccinating those between 12 and 18 is I guess becom...
I agree, very strongly. But there is a clear problem. What if they consider me their enemy? (For "they", feel free to substitute climate-change denier...
It's complicated. There is, as I understand it, very strong evidence that the vaccinated are less likely to become infected on exposure, to develop Co...
But it's not what they say. You might be right. I tend to agree with your diagnosis. I tend to think you and I are on the side of reason and democracy...
He only counts as "left wing" if that means "not a Republican". Sanders supporters were convinced Yang was a libertarian trojan horse. Nobody on the l...
Not sure what's going on here. I'm actually in favor of vaccine mandates. I'd be really curious to know why you think I'm an anti-vaxxer -- if you do,...
Fact as the limit of my will is very good. But we need to aggregate, and there are patterns. If you have a set of organisms, each is part of the other...
On the one hand, I see no reason to think we can separate observation and theory like this. Facts are theory-laden. That's the lesson of mid-century p...
One last thought, then I'm calling it a night. A tempting next step would be to suggest (?) that definiteness isn't definite -- that the boundary betw...
I suppose we ought to have a word for the opposite of reification, something like "nebulation", @"Banno"'s foe in this thread: the blurring of edges a...
I like "Reality bites back." (No doubt because it doesn't care about your feelings...) There's also the version in Chernobyl: "Every lie we tell incur...
I suppose we could also throw in that one of the effects of reification (or, conversely, one of its motivations) is the bestowal of definiteness on so...
If we didn't have the concept of height, there'd be no way for us to say anything about the height of Everest -- what that height is, that it has one,...
As I think about it, I think the language bit is mainstream pragmatism. It does still feel a little funny having words like "truth" and "fact" around ...
That's very close to how I look at it. Forced to choose, to act, to place our bets, to say one thing rather than another and then be accountable for w...
What I find curious is that not only can we make the distinction, we can't avoid it. No matter how convinced we might be about reality eluding our bel...
It's not a left/right thing and it hasn't been good for anyone. I don't have a solution for the "tolerating intolerance" conundrum, but I'm confident ...
This is true, but in the American culture war, if that's part of the topic here, it goes both ways. We're practically famous for deep currents of anti...
I remember some philosopher being described as "asking ordinary questions about peculiar things and peculiar questions about ordinary things." I aspir...
I have a soft spot for this idea, and the companion conception of science. The idea is that "the scientific method" is not responsible for the success...
If you cherry-pick, you invite those who disagree with you to do the same. If you believe you are countering a widely accepted narrative, I'm sure the...
You can accept that induction can't establish facts in the way we might have wanted, but stop somewhere short of "anything goes" or something. There's...
Being vaccinated doesn't make you immune. It's not 100% effective. The larger issues would be burden one the healthcare system, and simple concern for...
I was under the impression there's conflicting data, and obviously views, on this. That vaccination reduces the severity and duration of the illness, ...
It isn't obviously something you have a choice about. Right now, you and I both believe some things are Facts, with a capital F, that will turn out to...
I get that this is a sort of dictionary meaning, but there is an alternative usage that's roughly "to the best of our knowledge and with very high con...
Your body is in the study, but your mind isn't. And you are your mind. So you are not in the study but your body is. Then you have died. We'll miss yo...
Stop trying to belittle everyone you speak to, unless you only want to talk to newbies who don't know that this is the level of discussion they can ex...
But the fetus can be a threat to the mother just by living, not by doing anything. See how peculiar the situation of a pregnant woman and her unborn c...
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