If they want to exist they can roll their own framework, host themselves, make their own chips, mine their own ore.
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It's a fine line between sacrificing the future "economy" to save lives now.
We will have to see if overall life loss is less or more due to the human interventions during covid mania.
Not a single bad experience, although I did spend a bit more time than I would have preferred looking through product reviews.
Also not just restaurants and bars, gyms, the border, etc. were all closed.
Caveat: Software Engineer salary with large discretionary income
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"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said politicians should not be telling the police how to deal with protesters and that resolution should come through dialogue"
Millions of dollars in damage by these protestors (railway above). Protests for me, but not for thee.
Vaguely remember stuff like:
"Your right to freedom of speech stops where it harms others" (hate speech)
"Your right to bodily autonomy stops where you can harm others" (vax mandates)
"Your right to protest stops where ... ?"
These are all nuanced, sadly the Canadian government can override its Bill of Rights whenever they please under temporary 3 year Emergency Measures.
formerly known as Slate Star Codex prior to doxxing by Cade Metz at the New York Times.
>Is he just saying that that all precautions for respiratory viruses like masks, vaccines and distancing are useless and should be stopped? Is he suggesting that we stop using the flu vaccine as well?
Prefer steelmanning this. We know cloth masks are not effective, yet we force them rather than alternatives. We never mandated flu vaccines (is/ought problem?), and why would he suggest stopping the flu vaccine? This seems like a needless dig. Distancing is basically theatre this point with the prevalence of Omnicron.
>The vaccine is far safer than covid, so giving the vaccine to millions is much safer than giving covid to millions.
Not for certain age groups. Even if they're equivalent, mandates should not be a thing when the risk between the virus and the vax is so close.
> I have no idea where he's getting this from. The vaccinated still spread COVID at a high rate, especially with the prevalence of Omnicron.
>Is this a repeat of the "everyone over 60 should just die" line that went around the US in 2020?
I agree some may have said this, but realistically there was a 90%+ survival rate (IFR) pre vaccine for 60+. (Figures not exact)
The whole substack is great, but people from all over the globe talk about the hygiene theatre and pushing of optics during the past 2 years.
"It’s been nearly two years now and my confidence in publicly funded science is completely destroyed. I don’t believe anyone reasonably intelligent can read the COVID literature and come out the other side without concluding that universities and governments cannot tell the difference between science and scientism. Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists. Their work looks roughly right from a distance - there are data tables, charts, equations - but when you sit down and read it the scientific method has gone AWOL. I am now explicitly open to counter-narrative claims I’d never have previously considered."
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"I think it’s now officially more inconvenient to live in San Francisco or Oakland than when I lived in Chennai or Bombay growing up." - I definitely don't think this is a fair assessment objectively.
Constant hygiene theatre eroding faith in institutions.
Not a shot at you, just a comment about the dangers of excess paternalism. (slippery slope)