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@DavidM_yeg @ritawild @detachedspork
Thanks, it's always good to read counter arguments to a scientific publication from a storyteller fact twister journalist.
- The overnight coronavirus expert
https://fortune.com/2020/08/10/the-overnight-coronavirus-expert/
https://www.removepaywall.com
- What does Covid-19 mean for expertise? The case of Tomas Pueyo
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/what-does-covid-19-mean-expertise-case-tomas-pueyo
Here is a fair and balanced tldr critique of the Cochrane study from a medical expert 👇
➡ Drop Public Mask Mandates Without Misgivings
Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group Concludes Masks "Make Little or No Difference" in Spread of Viral Respiratory Illnesses
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/drop-public-mask-mandates-without?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fmask&utm_medium=reader2
- Dr. Peter A McCullough, MD, MPH
Citations 67165
h-index 122
i10-index 492
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LzqEaOkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
If you want to rely an expert opinion on this subject make sure they have at least a publication h-index above 10.
@DavidM_yeg @ritawild @detachedspork
Cherry picking bits and pieces of a meta analysis is not "reading".
Why didn't you cherry pick this part for example:
> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
Since you like "reading" so much, I would like to share with you two more research publications on this subject:
- Respiratory Performance Offered by N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks: Human Subject Evaluation with NaCl Aerosol Representing Bacterial and Viral Particle Size Range
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/52/3/177/312528?login=false
>Most of the tested N95 respirators and surgical masks in this study were observed to perform at their worst against particles approximately between 0.04 and 0.2 μm, which includes the sizes of coronavirus and influenza virus.
- The Foegen effect
A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate
> This study revealed that wearing facemasks might impose a great risk on individuals, which would not be mitigated by a reduction in the infection rate. The use of facemasks, therefore, might be unfit, if not contraindicated, as an epidemiologic intervention against COVID-19.
Meta-analysis:
➡ Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
Research study:
➡ Respiratory Performance Offered by N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks: Human Subject Evaluation with NaCl Aerosol Representing Bacterial and Viral Particle Size Range
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/52/3/177/312528?login=false
>Most of the tested N95 respirators and surgical masks in this study were observed to perform at their worst against particles approximately between 0.04 and 0.2 μm, which includes the sizes of coronavirus and influenza virus.
➡ The Foegen effect
A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate
> This study revealed that wearing facemasks might impose a great risk on individuals, which would not be mitigated by a reduction in the infection rate. The use of facemasks, therefore, might be unfit, if not contraindicated, as an epidemiologic intervention against COVID-19.
Opinion articles:
➡ The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html
https://www.removepaywall.com/
➡ Does this finally put the mask debate to bed? 'Gold standard' analysis of 78 studies and 1million people finds face coverings made 'little to no difference' to Covid infection or death rates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html
➡ Do We Need Mask Mandates?
The science suggests that more states should consider rescinding them.
https://www.city-journal.org/do-we-need-mask-mandates
➡ The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-real-science-on-masks-they-make?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fmasks&utm_medium=reader2
#MaskMandate #CovidLong #LongCovid #N95s #n95 #FFP2 #ffp3 #n99 #COVID #COVID19
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Excellent video from a young man describing the rent crisis he and his generation are going through.
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@jq @vwbusguy Leave this tutorial here, it describe boot to vdisk with a #linux distro. https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_vtoyboot.html
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Leave this tutorial here, it describe boot to vdisk with a #linux distro.
@jq @vwbusguy I was using Linux in Virtual box for a while, I tried different distros, KDE neon, Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu etc.. The main thing I liked about Zorin OS it's simple, stable, everything works with my laptop hardware with minimal configuration or bugs. What made me make it the Host OS, is that I discovered Ventoy. With Ventory I don't need to setup dual boot, I can boot into a VHD in which I installed Zorin OS using Virtual Box.
I should make tutorial about this, it makes moving to #linux so simple.
@vwbusguy I just did recently, I upgraded from Windows 10 to Zorin OS, it felt like I bought a new computer. I was sick and tired of windows updates and dozen of Microsoft bloatware services for tracking and telemetry consistently slowing my laptop.
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If you want to be a pro at #Linux, run it as your daily operating system. Break stuff and figure out how to fix it. Run your own web server from home and figure out how to get around your ISP blocking random ports. Run it on your main laptop as your daily driver. Get on IRC or support forums for the distribution and try to help others who need help getting starting. Certs are great, but there's no substitute for hands on experience.
@samuraikid This guy need to stop his obsession with vaccines and retire to a tropical island
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Microsoft has addressed a known issue behind unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and being unable to complete the installation process.
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Martijn BAARDA - How ancient Roman bridges were built... https://t.wtyl.live/videos/watch/a7493c1e-bd13-462e-8030-032e432586f1
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@freemo @rbreich I'll push back on this one, if only because I don't want to look at my dynamic programming assignment 😂
I agree wealth inequality itself isn't the problem; however, I don't think the market is good at assigning value judgements to things, which leads to a whole bunch of really screwed up stuff, and the subsequent conflation of benefiting from capitalism with worshiping mammon.
For example: the CCP has been torturing religious and ethnic minorities for decades, mass surveilling their people, murdering political dissidents, and *MOST IMPORTANTLY TO INVESTORS* preventing individuals or corporations from withdrawing assets from the country "illegally". Yet, our investors, companies, etc. speculate that China is "the next big thing" and lose their asses while enriching a hostile country. People continue investing in Nestle and Tesla despite the provable child labor in their supply chains, (and of course the rest of the atrocities Nestle got away with). Why? Because making an extra 2% ROI is all that matters.
Meanwhile, private equity firms in the US buy up failing companies for pennies on the dollar, try to squeeze *every* *last* *drop* of capital out of them, and cause lasting damage in the process (see the environmental damage caused by rail issues across the US, alongside the mess of our hospitals, many of which are owned by private equity). Their M.O. is to run things so lean, and to cut so many corners, that the business fails anyway, but at least they didn't let any of that money go to the worke- I mean-down the drain.
The impacts of our modern values in relation to money go on and on, because nearly everyone has a price but not a spine: they'll sell out their employees and the business they built up to get rich, and leave the people they employ in the hands of a board who never sees them, and frankly doesn't care about them at all. For most, it's not about loyalty, purpose, effecting change in the world, and eking out a living (even a good one!) in the process; it's solely about the number of 0s on the check. It's so bad to the point that peoples lives and finances are ruined for "shareholder value", while disregarding the people who actually generated value for the company and the economy.
Finally, the reasons that the poor "cannot create wealth" is that often it is taken from them while the wealthy are given kickbacks in an almost perverse way: banks charge more fees for lower account balances, accessing credit with lower APY is more difficult, etc. Of course much of this boils down to financial literacy, but when a single car accident can bankrupt a family due to exorbitant healthcare coverage, adversarial insurance companies can screw anyone who can't sue them (by not paying out), etc, it's easy to see that there are not enough legal protections for the impoverished when the penalties for victimizing them are a pittance or even nonexistent.
So while I can agree that money *itself* isn't the problem, the modern "idolatry" of it is such a perverting influence that people conflate the two, because frankly it's difficult not to.
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