skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
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@Prodigal @Countermeasures @Lathe @nerdman @amerika Nana is based af, Macrons face at that press conference a while ago was worth its weight in gold
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I get there's people who want to move past Covid as a political issue, but the idea that "the pandemic is over" is wrong and myopic. Yes, there won't be new lockdowns or "war footing" like in early 2020, but from dealing with the public I can tell you that the sociological impact of the "pandemic" has irrevocably scarred many people. There's also hundreds of millions of people walking around with an irreversible vaccine in their system - what will the long-term effects of this be (not suggesting mass deaths, etc)? Will "public health authorities" ever relinquish their emergency powers? What are the social effects of a generation robbed of their formative years? Will countries continue to inconvenience and dehumanize the unvaccinated holdouts?
Yes, certain countries are realizing Covid is endemic and they're easing restrictions - this is a good thing. But the "pandemic," i.e. the array of bio-security tools and social reconfigurations erected by the System, is not going to substantively end for quite some time.
Yes, certain countries are realizing Covid is endemic and they're easing restrictions - this is a good thing. But the "pandemic," i.e. the array of bio-security tools and social reconfigurations erected by the System, is not going to substantively end for quite some time.
@cjd I'm with you all the way brother
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@skells
Now it's a fact that doctors and researchers have been intimidated into silence, and when that's the way you make consensus - whatever you claim you're doing, it's not science.
But this graph is a Rorschach ink-blotch.
@cjd hah, interesting
https://reitschuster.de/post/bundeslaender-mit-hoher-impfquote-haben-hoechste-uebersterblichkeit/
this is the source, they're focussing on the positive correlation but, as I say, don't think the conclusion is robust
Page 3, vaccination vs ALL CAUSE mortality
they actually claim a positive correlation but you can find a correlation on any random scatter plot
i think the key question is how covid deaths are being reported
@cjd I agree with the first statement
regarding the second, the only scatter plot I've seen is the vaccination/fatality rate of German states and it has no clear correlation
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@cjd
although intuitively one wonders how
80% -> 0.07%
<50% -> 3%
it's such a non-linear relationship I wouldn't want to draw a linear correlation between the two
@cjd
brief observation
France tests 3x as much as Romania (per million population) so I don't imagine test rate alone is a major issue with these numbers
well, I guess overwatch 2 is gonna be shit
@Cleisthenes
- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Essential Jung, C.G. Jung (ed. Anthony Storr)
- Power, Bertrand Russel
- History of the English Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill (esp. Vol I)
- things hidden since the foundation of the world, Rene Girard
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
- Parallel Lives, Plutarch
- Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
- The Book of the Courtier, Castiglione
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
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A Gentleman's Book Recommendations (update patch 2.0118.2022)
-The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
-The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
-The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
-Paradise Lost by John Milton
-Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
-Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
-Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda
-The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
-The English and their History by Robert Tombs
-Anabasis by Xenophon
-The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood
-I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
-Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
-The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
-The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
-The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
-Paradise Lost by John Milton
-Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
-Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
-Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda
-The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
-The English and their History by Robert Tombs
-Anabasis by Xenophon
-The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood
-I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
-Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
there are no bad questions but some are better than others
skells
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Joined Feb 2021
