Post @post@qoto.org

@elizaorlins

It has always been like this and it doesn't matter the political ideology, it's just a matter of power: evidently there is still too little awareness about #FreeJulianAssange

@bethsawin

If the same were imposed for other energy sources and storage solutions (like lithium batteries), it would just perturb the system that it would reach a new equilibrium point with a mix of sources, don't you think?

What if instead we broke the taboo and stopped using the market economy to manage large resources?

@augieray @ariaflame @Aquila_Audax @familydoctor

In my first answer, I underlined how what you want (obligations based on nothing) have been judged illegal in Italy by several judges.

We are bringing scientific evidence to the courts (where a discussion can't end with "believe what you want") and dismantling this authoritarian drift one piece at a time.

I am here to differentiate propaganda victims from accomplices by offering the information.

I'm not the one who's going to live the rest of his life feeling guilty.

@ariaflame @Aquila_Audax @augieray @familydoctor

Accusing a stranger of cherrypicking to show "what you wanted" (want what?) is silly and offensive.

I gave the benefit of the doubt in my first answer. Then I ascertained that here there is not a problem of lack of information but an ideological approach.

That said, I won't allow anyone to treat me as an idiot. OP's responses were dishonest and aimed at stating preconceptions instead of discussing freely.

OP even tried to pass off a newspaper article as a scientific study. What's silly is trying to fool people with childish tricks everyone know at this point.

@augieray @Aquila_Audax @familydoctor

I provided the studies, you didn't read them, you picked the abstract of one of them in an attempt to contradict (you casually clicked on the last one first, uh?), then completely changed argument by accusing me of cherrypicking and in the end you felt the urge to reply "believe what you want".

Masks have only been used in operating rooms which is a completely different situation. Despite this, they have always been used without scientific evidence. When studies have been done in a scientific way it has been seen that the masks are unhygienic and counterproductive even in the operating room.

I'm sorry but it's all written in the studies you don't want to read so I'm not going to share other links.

Who cares if you block me, you are just a random guy on a social network. Block the scientific publications if you can.

@Aquila_Audax @augieray @familydoctor

Sorry but wearing masks is incredibly harmful, not only for carbon dioxide but also for proliferation of bacteria and viruses and inhalation of microplastics. Not to mention the psychological impact especially on children.

There is so much evidence on the harmfulness and ineffectiveness of masks that insisting is now becoming criminal.

Remember my words for the next few years or decades: everything was already known, the information was there within everyone's reach and you will all be morally responsible for ignoring it.

@elk

On Discord, great... do you need a controversy for each platform before moving from a centralized to a decentralized one?

There are plenty Matrix servers that offer to host chat rooms especially for FOSS projects.

@augieray @familydoctor

P.S. there are tons of studies on the harms of mask wearing, so your preventative approach needs to be reviewed.

@augieray @familydoctor

My best friends were physicians. I know exactly what the knowledge of physicians is focused on and it does not include the basic statistical tools to judge the studies. You can verify this by yourself by simply asking them how they judge the quality of a study.

On the other hand, the nanoparticles physicist who introduced the term "nanopathologies" (Dr. Maria Antonietta Gatti) has been working for years on a filter against nanoparticles (same order of magnitude as viruses) and has always stated that blocking viruses with masks is nonsense.

I urge people to read all the studies on their own and ignore researchers' conclusions and focus on methods and statistical relevance instead. Then draw your own conclusion.

I don't believe in anything, I aim to have the means to judge independently. Note that blind trust in institutions (including "experts") is an ideology called positivism that has allowed enormous crimes in the history of humanity.

@augieray @familydoctor

As I said, I have read them all and took into account the methods to form my conclusion.

If you stop at the abstracts, you can find everything and its opposite.

You are not discovering anything new, it has always been like this, you are just showing that you are unfamiliar with scientific publications.

You accuse me of cherrypicking, but you yourself noticed how in one of the studies I shared, researchers drew the opposite conclusion.

So go for a consistent attack if you have to.

@augieray @familydoctor

You meant the last one.

Welcome to scientific studies: you need to read them, not stopping at abstract; you must take into accounts the methods, the sample, etc and understand for yourself whether they provide weak or strong evidence.

That paper also says: "There was a significant reduction by wearing face masks to 1 of 27 (4%) in detection of influenza virus in respiratory droplets, but no significant reduction in detection in aerosols (Table 1b)."

Isn't this confusing? It's always like this with scientific studies. Check the samples in this study and in the others and draw your own conclusions.

@familydoctor @augieray

https://qoto.org/@post/109655921887846230

https://qoto.org/@post/109655906578045257

Other studies:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

https://eurjmedres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40001-020-00430-5

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

I can go on for a while...

@evan

I'm curious to know what place in the world resembles a democracy. I don't see any in the present and I don't see any in the past.

P.S. #FreeJulianAssange

@augieray

I'm sorry but there is scientific evidence (and was there before #Covid19 ) that masks don't help against coronaviruses spreading (as expected from physics).

I added two more recent studies to the list in my timeline just yesterday.

Also, recently in Italy a judge sentenced against some of these anti-covid measures, stressing that no obligation can be imposed just because of *presumed* risk (something that doesn't apply for driving drunk, where the risk is certain). At least not in Italy.

So please consider revisiting what you took for granted, thank you.

@ElleGray

Music is math that made it.

@photon

It is even worse when a Nobel prize winner says Macroeconomics is basically pseudosciece and you are realize we are all victims of unbacked policies:

https://paulromer.net/the-trouble-with-macro/WP-Trouble.pdf