+1 SourceInsight, it was very helpful when working on a large legacy C/C++ codebase.
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> The free-floating Spike proteins synthetized by cells targeted by vaccine and destroyed by the immune response circulate in the blood and systematically interact with angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors expressed by a variety of cells including platelets, thereby promoting ACE2 internalization and degradation. These reactions may ultimately lead to platelet aggregation, thrombosis and inflammation mediated by several mechanisms including platelet ACE2 receptors. Whereas Phase III vaccine trials generally excluded participants with previous immunization, vaccination of huge populations in the real life will inevitably include individuals with preexisting immunity. This might lead to excessively enhanced inflammatory and thrombotic reactions in occasional subjects. Further research is urgently needed in this area.
It's very unorthodox, but cuts through a lot of the bullshit.
To @p49k, you are a BSer. Joe Rogan apologized on twitter and even linked to The Guardian article where he got the "misinformation" regarding myocarditis. Here' a retweet by the guy that corrected him in the episode: https://twitter.com/joshzepps/status/1481834278271225864
> To people who think that @joerogan is closed-minded or that he’d get pissed when I disagree with him, here’s Exhibit A. I love the guy
I'll take the US model since it's clearly superior.
Here's an example of Rachel Maddow spreading false info on the vaccine: https://youtu.be/jDtUWXOmLLg?t=373
You have also spewed well known lie by claiming that Ivermectin is a horse medicine, while it is first and foremost human medicine which was only later on appropriated for veterinary purposes. There are studies on Ivermectin's effectiveness for COVID, some of which are ongoing, and calling it a "horse dewormer" is a clear smear tactic -- definitely not by an innocent actor. I personally went back-and-forth on whether Ivermectin was actually effective for early treatment on COVID. But whatever the ultimate answer is, censoring discussion about it, or lying by calling it animal medicine is clearly a dishonest tactic.
I do not care about Republican or Democart parties. I care about the truth. And now that we have access to both primary sources, studies and multiple sources of informations, no one has to take the establishment narrative at face value -- which is something done in corporate news channels such as CNN and MSNBC. At this point it's better to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox, because at least there you'll get an anti-establishment view, which any decent person should always strive for.
As I said before, I am triple-vaxxed. I am not against vaccines, but I am against the lies, power grabs and censorship that have plagued us since the beginning of this pandemic. The push for the vaccines has forced mainstream media and tech companies to censor any discussion on potential early treatments that were being researched (hydroxychrloroquine [which now we know is not effective], ivermectin, monocolonal antibodies, etc...), some of which were actually proven to be very effective. This is absolutely insane. The vaccine itself is not 100% effective, so why silence this information?
It is funny how when the vaccine was developed under Trump, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were "promoting vaccine hesitancy" a crime which now gets you deplatformed and declared a social pariah: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-press-rel...
Finally, there are credentialed people who have different opinions on how to handle this pandemic, for example: https://gbdeclaration.org/ which Fauci and Collins tried to shut down [see their leaked emails https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barr...] P.S. This is a nice interview with these doctors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Fxxrudk70
I don't even want to get started about the inaccurate COVID mortality reporting, and how actually extremely low the deaths from COVID-only are, especially for people younger than 50 - as opposed of people dying "with COVID" and a ton of other comorbidities.
No, a vaccine decreases the chances of developing a disease, but they rarely if ever decrease the chances of "catching it" (getting infected).
> The way the disease is eliminated is by getting as large a fraction as possible of people vaccinated, so that spread is stopped.
This didn't work as COVID mutated and the vaccine is not effective against the new strains anyway.. But once people will get infected with Omicron this will sort itself out: https://www.wsj.com/articles/herd-immunity-is-over-superimmu...
Are they obviously true? I present you exhibit A: https://youtu.be/jDtUWXOmLLg?t=373 This is false and blatant misinformation.
> But the data clearly shows that spread and 2nd order effects are reduced in a heavily vaccinated population.
How is this relevant? The OP claimed that anti-vaxxers are endangering people. Whom are they endangering? Other vaccinated people?
Do you have any examples of left-wingers producing misinformation? You know, people on CNN or MSNBC? Or are you going to produce only right-wing examples because you live in an absolute bubble and have no ability to see that there is daily misinformation on all corporate-owned networks: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc... and even in a very egregious way.
It is clear to me that you only read Democratic-party aligned news sources and have a terribly biased and skewed worldview where apparently only "tHe RiGhT-WiNgErS aRe RaCiSt hurr durr". Your guy Joe Biden has produced more racist outcomes with his Crime Bill than Donald Trump has ever done in his tweets.
All those things are covered under "free speech". There's no legal definition for "hate speech", or "anti-vax speech" or "anti-science speech". They are all ALLOWED.
This is false because COVID also has animal reservoirs. It will never get eradicated like polio or smallpox, which only had human reservoirs.
It appears that in 2022 it is now finally understood that COVID-19 will not get eradicated, the vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection (in fact, the original RCT never even showed it -- it was just assumed!), and that cloth masks have much more limited effectiveness than initially assumed. Omicron is highly contagious (but much milder!) so it appears that almost everyone will get it eventually.
https://earlyretirementnow.com/2018/02/21/market-timing-and-...
https://earlyretirementnow.com/2018/04/25/market-timing-and-...
In the second one he simulates a momentum strategy which does pretty well, which can be used along with multiple other signals to increase confidence.
I was thinking of simulating using leverage after these kind of drops to try to increase returns even further.
You can use something like https://recessionalert.com/ or a combination of your own signals to time the exit of the market. Of course, it will never be perfect and there will be times where you will get a false positive, but being right most of the time can still massively reduce risk.
Big drawdowns really hurt the geometric compounding of returns. A 50% loss requires a 100% gain to offset.
> Three months later, out of 120 subjects in the first group (1 slice), only 35 still experienced eye floaters, an improvement of 70.8%. In the second group, only 19 participants still saw floaters, an improvement of 72.8%
> How does it work? Scientists believe that enzymes in the pineapple can decompose extracellular substances that cause the formation of microscopic fibers. Apparently, these same enzymes can absorb free radicals leading to the degradation of hyaluronic acid.
COVID-19 might've made remote work mainstream, but I don't think it will fundamentally change the way we interact with other people in our social life. I think given the choice, most people would rather go out to pubs, restaurants, parties, etc... to experience other people face to face rather than be stuck in a virtual world. The virtual world was a last resort. Even during lockdowns people had underground parties (I've even been in a few!).
I personally grew up spending much of my high school years in IRC chatrooms, having virtual friendships with anonymous people. But I'm an introvert, and most other kids did not share my experience so I'm a bit skeptical on the mass appeal of these virtual worlds.