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What would this data look like if all of the people with natural immunity from exposure were excluded?

For example, about 33% of the American population was exposed to COVID, according to the CDC [1]

If Pfizer is 42% effective, would that effectiveness value drop even further?

[1] https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/c...

Division of political maps will always be problematic in the USA because it is a multi-racial and two-party country, with a high number of non-citizen irregular migrants.

In that scenario, long-term demographic factors (and how they are shaped by Government policy) should also be placed under the same scrutiny as gerrymandering.

If one party tweaks the system to give them an advantage in the next election, how does that compare to one party tweaking the system to give them an advantage for the next 100 elections?

The worst case scenario is that the USA turns into a one-party state with effectively no opposition - at which point it ceases to be a democracy.

Why should people with natural immunity from previous exposure get it? Natural immunity provides broader protection because antibodies are generated for more of the virus, instead of just the spike protein in the case of vaccines.

If there is negligible additional protection then why take the risk of vaccine injury?

Why can't antibody tests be regarded in the same way as vaccination for 'passport' purposes?

The CDC estimates about 110 million Americans have had COVID already. Why should they be vaccinated? Why not 'donate' the doses that would be have been used on them to other countries, to help people who have not been previously infected?

"Do you think Australia needs more people?

Graduates: 58% yes

Non-Graduates: 24% yes"

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/10/72-of-aussies-do-no...

Not overwhelming.

Also there are some people who are happy with immigration, but only from other culturally-compatible regions, and as long as diversity (eg. max 10% from any one country) and equality (eg. max 49% males from any one country) is part of the intake.

Not much evidence that any of these interventions would have prevented that: https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/state-vs-state

The major underlying factor behind the deaths (apart from just old age) is obesity, secondly probably air pollution, but these factors are ignored.

How much of this is about 'masks' and really about Rand Paul calling for mass civil disobedience against COVID restrictions?

Here's the full video:

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1424399282447298563

And you don't even need to generate the propaganda. The internet is so full of voices that you just silence anyone who doesn't fit your agenda.

What's even more worrying is if one of the 'adversaries' gains control of this system. Maybe Russia or China is deliberating sowing division and dysfunction in the country, and has bought off a few key officials. How would we know? Anyone investigating the topic would be silenced by the same mechanism.

You can buy white-label 'Uber' apps from software companies all around the world now.

Just google 'white label Uber', there are plenty of results.

The payments can be outsourced too, to Google or Apple pay, including in-app. Since they represent a physical service there's also no app store commission.

But that's exactly the behaviour we want to encourage, when we consider so many poor people in America have a huge calorie surplus (ie. are obese or overweight).

If 1kg of Oreos (41% sugar) costs $3.60 instead of $3.19, people will spend the same but just consume 11% less, or manufacturers will recreate the recipe to have less sugar. Both of those outcomes are good.

The money collected can be used to subsidise community kitchens, or raw fruit and vegetables.

Actually, food habits in the USA are pretty consistent across educational, income, and racial lines:

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/146/9/1722/4630474

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5855172/

I wish there were more giant community kitchens in the West, as are commonly seen across Asia. This is one extreme example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-N5wl0l-s

And at a smaller scale in Melbourne, Australia: https://youtu.be/dG8hH8zE7ZI?t=169

If you don't want to wear sunscreen at all, you can use UV Index calculators like this, which take into account the hourly UV index, location, and your skin type to calculate safe sun exposure times:

https://sunburnmap.com/

Just be cautious because the time still stacks up - eg. walking to and from the beach in the morning/afternoon. When UV indexes are very high, eg 8 and above, the margin for error is also lower.

Why not just formalise the whole system and ship the waste to waste-to-energy plants?

Without added sugar or artificial sweeteners, many of these ultra-processed foods are completely unpalatable. You could replace the sugar with fat, which would probably be healthier, but also reduce the shelf life due to rancidity.

The solution is to tax added sugar (including for sub-ingredients) per gram, and a flat tax for any food containing artificial sweeteners. 1c per gram of sugar, or 20% for anything containing artificial sweeteners seems reasonable.

If we can't impose a carbon tax on ourselves, can we at least impose it on other countries?

ie. via import tariffs, that increase the cost of an imported product based on its embedded CO2e, if the exporting country does not have a carbon tax in place.

If you were a strategic adversary of America (eg. China), undermining the education system of the country would be a huge win.

Combine that with hiring policies based on racial background and mass immigration, soon we'll have planes that fall out of the sky, and sailors that can't operate their own navigation equipment.

Oh wait...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-11/how-big-t...

https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...

https://theconversation.com/us-navy-collisions-point-to-the-...

Its unlikely that the plants would be shut down completely, but these kind of frequent interruptions will be enough to push up their operating costs, and edge them closer towards closure.

Basically a 'people-driven' carbon tax.

The cheapest and most effective climate change intervention we could stage would be to get a few busses of activists and shut down the entry of workers and coal shipments into power plants, and to disable equipment.

The EU has about 300 coal power plants.

With 100 people at each, that's only 30,000 people.

In 2019, 300,000 people joined the 'climate strike' in the UK alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_climate_strikes....

At this coal plant in Germany, just five people were able to shut it down for several hours, saving 26,000 tonnes of CO2:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/04/no-regre...

We could probably pull this off just with the backing and resources of a multi-millionaire, to pay someone to organise the activists, identify the locations and equipment, and to bail them out of jail and defend them in courts.

It will still remove a significant amount of noise and air pollution from the ground-level of cities.

That's not really accurate, since the trees will biodegrade at the end of their lifecycle.

We would need to recreate the Azolla Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

Or even the Carboniferous period where microbes could not digest lignin and cellulose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

Which is impossible. We simply need to stop digging fossil fuels out of the ground in order to burn them.

Apple gets to maintain its 30% commission and monopoly abuse of the app store (which is becoming the de-facto place where all consumer software downloads and payments occur), in return for feeding the iCloud data of all users worldwide to US intelligence agencies.

Presumably the quid pro quo outcome is that Apple is allowed to win the Epic vs Apple lawsuit.

I'm guessing that companies are mandating COVID vaccination simply because its cheaper - cheaper than maintaining all of the rigorous pre-vaccine hygiene standards.

Whether or not customers and staff are actually vaccinated, I don't think they really care. Its not like the vaccine provides sterilising immunity anyway.

The Taliban are now armed with American weapons. Entire bases were abandoned overnight, full of supplies and equipment:

https://youtu.be/f37xrmiqmnU?t=132

There are videos of Taliban rolling through cities in American humvees:

https://t.co/cdHsZgjSv8

Its a matter of time before they take Kabul.

$2.2trillion gifted to the Military Industrial Complex.

Maybe dismantling the nuclear industry was a bad idea?

Particularly when the politician who oversaw it is now working for Rosneft:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/13/russia.germany

If anything, I really hope this spurs Europe to build out widespread modular nuclear power plants across the continent.

"On February 8, 2011, the NHTSA, in collaboration with NASA, released its findings into the investigation on the Toyota drive-by-wire throttle system. After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles.

Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents. The report ended stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical." This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats."

I'm not aware of any examples where car software 'crashed', in any vehicle, causing the vehicle itself to physically crash.

And if you're talking about FSD, most of those instances are from exceptions eg. unexpected pedestrian, parked truck, construction works.

Its fair to imagine that these tunnels will be custom-built for self-driving cars and will be totally controlled environments.

Tunnels are simpler when you remove fossil-fuel exhausts and human drivers from the equation, ie. Teslas with FSD only.

You don't need as much ventilation since there are no products of combustion to exhaust, and the risk of crashes from human error are eliminated. Presumably the car software and the tunnels themselves can also be designed in a way where the risk of crash is near-zero.

Not really, because if there are long-term side effects, we need to have a control group.

For example, the vaccine used for the 2009 Swine Flu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

"Pandemrix was found to be associated with narcolepsy from observational studies, increasing the risk of narcolepsy by 5-14 times in children and 2-7 times in adults. The increased risk of narcolepsy due to vaccination in children and adolescents was around 1 incident per 18,400 doses."

If you don't have a large section of the population unvaccinated, you can't conclusively prove that the vaccine was the cause.

The popular attitude to the pandemic is set by politicians and the media.

If those groups want urgent action on climate change, they will get it.

Those groups wanted lockdowns, and they got it (along with most of the $5.2trillion printed in the US alone since the pandemic began).

This not a new concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

The question is, why don't the elites want urgent action on climate change? Presumably the answer is that they're still making too much money under the status quo, or have not yet aligned themselves to exploit the transition to sustainable energy and transport.

"Godot does not officially support consoles (save for XBox One via UWP) currently.

The reasons for this are:

To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. Godot, as an open source project, does not have such a legal figure.

Console SDKs are secret, and protected by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the code as open-source.

Consoles require specialized hardware to develop for, so regular individuals can’t create games for them anyway."

Copied from: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/platform/conso...

Part of the fatigue is the intense level of PPE. Its physically exhausting and usually just theatre because so many healthcare workers are either vaccinated or have already had COVID.