@Secftblgirl "The lambda variant, or “C.37” as the lineage has been designated, has been spreading rapidly in South America, particularly in Peru where the earliest documented samples of the virus date from August 2020."
So the virus was so prescient that it gained resistance to a vaccine that wouldn't even exist for another three months, in a region of the world that even today only has 19% of its population vaccinated.
These guys are fantasizing about another media gravy train, that's what's going on here!
So the virus was so prescient that it gained resistance to a vaccine that wouldn't even exist for another three months, in a region of the world that even today only has 19% of its population vaccinated.
These guys are fantasizing about another media gravy train, that's what's going on here!
@LouisConde As an ICU nurse myself, this is definitely how it actually happens.
Almost nobody asks for the vaccine, everyone is asking if there's a way to remove the vaccine from their bodies. I tell them that they have to trust the science, then remove their life support. Everyone applauds every time I do it.
I'm not lying. And if you believe me, I'll give you this sega game gear.
Almost nobody asks for the vaccine, everyone is asking if there's a way to remove the vaccine from their bodies. I tell them that they have to trust the science, then remove their life support. Everyone applauds every time I do it.
I'm not lying. And if you believe me, I'll give you this sega game gear.
#lotide I've taken my own advice and created communities for humor, news, programming, and gaming on my lotide instance at https://lotide.fbxl.net
Lotide is a federated link aggregator, and you don't need to be on fbxl lotide to follow the communities. You can follow the communities using mastodon, pleroma, or soapbox by just using @news @funny @gaming@fbxl.net and @programming@fbxl.net, or using some of the other lotide instances like https://narwhal.city/ https://hoot.goldandblack.xyz/ or https://lotide.exopla.net.eu.org/
Lotide is a federated link aggregator, and you don't need to be on fbxl lotide to follow the communities. You can follow the communities using mastodon, pleroma, or soapbox by just using @news @funny @gaming@fbxl.net and @programming@fbxl.net, or using some of the other lotide instances like https://narwhal.city/ https://hoot.goldandblack.xyz/ or https://lotide.exopla.net.eu.org/
@oversaturation @deprecated @rasterman I agree completely. I've called the concept the environmental industrial complex. It consists of everything where they disregard the actual environmental impact of a thing and instead package environmentalism as a product to be sold. The quintessential example being the "environmentally friendly paper shampoo bottle" that's just a plastic bottle wrapped in paper.
@rasterman @deprecated The problem is always "Who decides what's true and right?"
The answer is the problem, in the past, in the present, and in the future.
The answer is the problem, in the past, in the present, and in the future.
The key difference between teleological and deontological ethics is that the teleological ethics determines the goodness or badness of an action by examining its consequences whereas deontological ethics determines the goodness or badness of the action by examining the action itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT8EnEqVFYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT8EnEqVFYY
@isaac @wjmaggos you've got the wrong guy I'd you think I'm spouting propaganda.
I've been pretty consistently skeptical about all of this, but my core thing is finding truth.
Finding truth has been more difficult because the powers that be lie at every juncture, and brazenly. The most brazen example is faucis flip flop on masks. He said they didn't help but later that they do, and admitted that he lied specifically because he didn't want people using masks that doctors could be using.
Fact is, herd immunity is a theory that existed long before covid existed. If we pretend it didn't because it doesn't suit the narrative then we aren't seeking truth anymore.
It should be straightforward enough, we have enough data to know what R0 is, we know how many people have gotten vaccines, so at that point we can determine what level of effecacy the vaccines would require to say we have herd immunity now
1-1/ R0 is the equation. You need to get the number of new infections per infection below 1 to have herd immunity. R0 will be different from place to place because practices are different, but it's measurable.
I've been pretty consistently skeptical about all of this, but my core thing is finding truth.
Finding truth has been more difficult because the powers that be lie at every juncture, and brazenly. The most brazen example is faucis flip flop on masks. He said they didn't help but later that they do, and admitted that he lied specifically because he didn't want people using masks that doctors could be using.
Fact is, herd immunity is a theory that existed long before covid existed. If we pretend it didn't because it doesn't suit the narrative then we aren't seeking truth anymore.
It should be straightforward enough, we have enough data to know what R0 is, we know how many people have gotten vaccines, so at that point we can determine what level of effecacy the vaccines would require to say we have herd immunity now
1-1/ R0 is the equation. You need to get the number of new infections per infection below 1 to have herd immunity. R0 will be different from place to place because practices are different, but it's measurable.
@wjmaggos @isaac yes, the point is that it just needs to reduce the number of new infections per infected person. If it is above a certain point then it will continue to propagate. If it is below a certain number then it will die out. Vaccines that are only partially effective still act to reduce that number. For that matter, populations that are only partially vaccinated reduce that number on a statistical basis as well, and in fact modelling of herd immunity takes both vaccine efficacy and vaccine proliferation into account.
"Herd immunity" doesn't mean everyone is immune, it means that it won't spread easily within a population because enough people are immune enough to stop the spread of the disease.
"Herd immunity" doesn't mean everyone is immune, it means that it won't spread easily within a population because enough people are immune enough to stop the spread of the disease.
@djsumdog @jenny @MrMaxPowers247 besides, the vehicle of 40 years later runs for 300,000km with oil changes alone. It was designed not to need a bunch of constant adjustments to run well.
@djsumdog Decentralization must be the next phase of the internet libre. I can see that now.
@lain if you turned the volume down before and just watched him talk, you could hear the whining and crying. Just the way his face looks.
@djsumdog @devurandom we got to see it first hand. The megacorps act all buddy buddy when you have something they want, they will almost immediately get too big for their britches and start acting like your boss. Fediverse Uber Alles.
@p @sjw @Tepid_Tapir @graf @parker it's like the novelization of 2001: a space Odyssey. "You can have the entire solar system, but not Jupiter. Land no spacecraft there."
For all the new folks on fediverse, @FediFollows is a great account that points to interesting accounts on fediverse including open source software, bands and musicians, artists, and writers. Definitely give them a follow if you're looking for the more high-brow part of the fediverse.