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Paywalled. Herd immunity is not one strict number. It depends on the transmissibility of the virus. Alpha was more. Delta is much more. Now A.Y variant is slightly more than Delta. All these affect the herd immunity number. But you can't lay out these sort of qualifiers when you are communicating to public. Seems like by using words like "political operative" and all you really show your ignorance.

The moment he uses that word, his impartiality goes out of the window. Viruses adapt, the science adapts. You give your best information at that point and you don't want to muddy the public with confidence intervals and all that.

"lied" - interesting choice of words. So did Newton "lie" about his theories because he was disproved by Einstein?

Lot less probability though. Like saying people wearing seatbelts can also die.

This is called slippery slope argument. George Washington ordered his troops to be vaccinated. It's been the case for centuries and pretty much why a lot of us are alive now.

Except it's not. You can drink 15 gallons of Coke every day and that's your right. But you can't be a vector of transmissible diseases.

The silver lining with Delta is it's such a transmissible variant that it out-competes the more slowly spreading but more vaccine evasive variants. I hope we never see a more transmissible one than Delta

> It is no different than the anti-vaxers posting picture of people's social media feeds bragging about being vaccinated and then ending up in the hospital.

What a sad analogy. One group that can take one or two shots and can drastically decrease the odds of hospitalization vs one group that tried to do the right thing but still got COVID mostly due to huge community transmission contributed by the unvaxxed group.

> Is it okay to celebrate when an obese person dies from heart disease?

If only obese people could take 2 shots that drastically reduces the odds of heart disease.

Well, it's not the vaccines that protect you (because no vaccine is 100% efficacious) but it's the vaccination. Good luck!

Measles, Mumps, Diphtheria, Meningococcal Meningitis & Bordetella Pertussis are all having a party.

Dear Cali expats to Texas, is it worth it?

You are against (anti-) taking a vaccine (-vaxxer).

(The concern is just some internet dude on Facebook claiming he's discovered something really evil about Big Pharma)

Donald Trump tried to cancel NFL because of black athletes kneeling for social justice and a significant percentage followed through.

He didn't lose his job for voicing a political opinion. He lost his job because they started having real financial impact (contractors dropping out etc.). Are you going to decree that others are forbidden to react to his comments?

Texas law forbids abortion even in case of rape/incest. However, per Gallup (your link) 77% of the people think it should be legal for rape/incest.

How is it 70% popular opinion? He's speaking for the draconian ~20% Texas rule.

They are back. Spamming hacker news every day with debunked studies.

Aussie guy overdoses on Ivermectin - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-02/warning-over-backdoor...

but pretty sure the excuse here is going to be a no true scotsman thing

Stop the tin-foil hat nonsense. Joe Rogan is not an expert. He refused the vaccine. There is no one out to get you. Hundreds of anti-vax, pro-horse-dewormer patients are dying due to COVID.

I really don't care what's happening outside the borders. It's pretty irrelevant. All I care about is a certain party here organized a coup and now threatening private players of dire consequences if they followed through with the subpoena.

(Laughably, they did the same thing 4 years back to try to bury a political opponent. Nothing happened. https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/143307082899280281... )

I mean I'd consider organizing a coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power would certainly be considered a crime. Especially when some of the members are actively planning t have another go at it(https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a...)

There's no rational discussion to be had between homeopathy doctor and an oncologist, for example. It's just a waste of bandwidth and source of misinformation which is killing innocents.

Why do these guys keep spamming hacker news?

Right. I think Rust was the first to propose “?” operator as a syntactic sugar to Result and Option monads. (i am not 100% though)

ref: https://m4rw3r.github.io/rust-questionmark-operator

I need a citation that it's "mostly" RSV.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2021/08/12/dal...

> A record-high number of pediatric COVID-19 patients — 73 — and an unusually large number of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, patients has resulted in the overall occupancy of children’s beds reaching about 95%.

Nowhere does it say that it's mostly RSV.

"confidence-men" love it!

"I have done my own research watching 100s of FB and Youtube videos and I don't need vaccine!!!"

Losing sec 230 protections would mean more ban-hammer for lying politicians (about elections, vaccines etc.)

Calling Alex Berenson a "science writer" is like calling Alex Jones a journalist.

Vaccination is not a "this is a cultural decision at the society level". It has saved millions and millions of lives. Maybe change your employer if you are so pissed at them?

lol. vaccination is the law. you guys can't spread measles anymore and thank god for that.

(I am very comfortable with a few million deaths, and maybe the variant turning more deadly in the process)