sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8hr ago
The Democrat rank and file seem to have have largely convinced themselves that the Democratic party message is Just Being A Decent Human Being. It's hard to pivot from that to the message being a problem.
sarker
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1d ago
Quick Google search suggests that there's something like half a million gallbladder removals per year in the USA. I'll leave it as a simple exercise for the reader to estimate how many residents per year could be trained to do gallbladder surgeries at such a rare.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
,>Because there's usually a rule about maximum line length, in order to keep lines fitting inside the screen or window.
There's really no need for this anymore, it would be trivial to have the editor wrap the line in a nice way (go has no line length limits in the official style guide).
Not to mention that sometimes we use tabs to deliberately format things into columns, not just indent code. Variable-length tabs throw that off.
That's just an abuse of notation. Spaces are for alignment.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
The thing is that indentation should be tabs. Then everyone can set whatever depth they want their tabs to render as.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
Which made me realize that I am not sure if I have ever watched a movie that depicted a modern religious institution well.
Not a movie, but Shtisel was a pretty good depiction of charedim I think.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
Why is Oklahoma less enmeshed in capitalism than New York?
sarker
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7d ago
It’s caused by market forces and corporate influences rather than planning.
It's caused by (some) people's revealed preferences for suburban living rather than apartment living and the increasing unusability of public spaces thanks to laws against nuisances not being enforced, for which we can thank leftists.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
since it's possible for more than one economic system to suppress birthrates
What is the basis of comparison?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
various cultural diminishments in the role of community and family in peoples' lives owing in part to automobiles, suburbanization, etc.,
What does this have to do with property rights and free enterprise?
obesity caused by processed foods and cheap low-nutrient foods, environmental contaminants, etc.
Given that obesity and number of kids both correlate negatively with income, I'd be surprised if the obese weren't having more kids than the skinny.
government and corporate propaganda systems increasing the prestige of educational and economic attainment
Even government propaganda is capitalism now?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
babies are recommended to get 2 influenza shots in the first 12 months of life, so the number is 20 and not 18.
The standard recommendation is one shot in the first year of life.
If we're counting the combos, MMR & DTaP would count for 24 and not 18 (8 total doses of these shots).
Yes, 24 is the number I used after breaking down the vaccine cocktails.
HPV is 2 or 3 doses.
HPV is one or two doses.
When I count, I get 72 or 73 not including the RSV.
You are still hiding the ball, because you've counted 47 with some fudging and there's only 24 other recommended shots on the schedule. Even with these inflated numbers you only get 71. "A hundred dollars? What do you need fifty dollars for?"
boosters (teal),
Boosters are not teal, teal shots are not recommended for all children.
sarker
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8d ago
But there's no way to distinguish well manufactured and poorly manufactured vaccines?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
What boosters and multi year shots? I counted the boosters. Seriously, show your math, because I am pretty sure you are hiding the ball.
and "ask your doctor about RSV" means, in practicality, you should get the RSV "vaccine"
RSV vaccine is not recommended for all children. If we're going to stick to what's recommended on the schedule, let's stick to the schedule.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
How is it 80? 48 I counted above, plus 18 flu, plus 2 covid makes 68.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
Please show your math for "hundreds" of vaccinations on the schedule. I went through and counted, you can surely put some minimal effort in rather than low effort sneers.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
Sure, we can break down dtap and mmr into three vaccinations. That brings the total to 48. Still a far cry from hundreds, so I don't see what's asinine about saying that hundreds is wrong. There's just no way you can torture the numbers to get to hundreds.
why wouldn't you count these?
Simply because in my experience most kids don't get these on a regular basis.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
So... there's no actual vaccine that you "believe in", and your belief is strictly in the theoretical (but so far unattained) possibility of producing a good vaccine?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
Let's not do the thing where the poster is directionally correct, but we're nitpicking the details. Yeah, it's not 100 shots, but it's a lot, and it's a lot more than before.
Wait a second. There is no "directionally correct" here - the poster said not 100 but "hundreds" and the true number is around 30. It's "directionally correct" in the sense that the sign is right, but that's about it. If he said "thousands", would that still be "directionally correct"?
And it's not a semantic nit, because we can mostly all agree that the ideal number of vaccines is greater than 0 and less than "hundreds". So where exactly we are on that spectrum is basically the entire discussion.
Let's flip it. Why should an infant be receiving Hep B and Covid vaccines? Why should they receive any vaccines that they didn't in 1990 (or whenever the Chicken Pox vaccine came out).
I don't think there's a good reason to vaccinate infants against COVID.
I don't know why infants are vaccinated against hep B but it's been recommended for newborns since the 1991 (and patented in 1972), so by your heuristic that one seems pretty safe.
The post-1990s vaccines to have vanishingly little benefit and unquantified risk.
It's not clear to me that this is the case, but I'd be curious to see if anyone has actually looked at this rigorously. I don't know off the top of my head which ones are post 1990s.
sarker
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8d ago
That's much closer to the truth but not necessarily true.
- RSV is required depending on the mother's antibody status.
- Hep B can be done in the second month of life.
- So can the RSV vaccine.
So taking those two at 2 months instead of 3 months cuts the number to 5.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8d ago
The vaccine schedule now includes hundreds of vaccines
False. I count 32 doses recommended to all children from age 0 to 18, not counting a yearly flu vaccine and one dose of a covid vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-children/schedules/index.html
This is a perfect example of the belief set I am talking about. The RFK supporters I know believe that kids are getting tens of vaccines in a single day.
I think it's pretty reasonable to believe in vaccines as a technology in general and that a lot of them have been captured by special interests.
Okay. Which vaccines in particular do you believe in?
sarker
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9d ago
If the vaccine manufacturer is not capturing all the benefit of the vaccine but is liable for all the downside, it's clear that the math isn't mathing even for plainly good vaccines.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
Let's do a little back of the envelope calculation.
Infectious disease mortality declined during the first 8 decades of the 20th century from 797 deaths per 100000 in 1900 to 36 deaths per 100000 in 1980.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9892452/
The actual infectious disease mortality in 1980 was 80k people. At 1900 mortality rates, it would have been 1.8M, so let's ballpark it at 1.7M deaths averted thanks to sanitation and antibiotics. FEMA values a human life at $7.5M. 1.7M people * $7.5M/person = $13T. US GDP in 1980 was $3T.
Obviously this is highly simplified, but I think it's safe to say that vaccine companies did not capture a large part of the benefits of vaccines.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9d ago
I do not see anybody, anywhere, downplay the importance of vaccines and antibiotics.
RFK supporters I know personally are highly vaccine skeptical and believe in a kind of vaccine/autism link bailey. They do not support vaccinating kids for e.g. measles due to low death rates and are convinced that the only reason kids get so many vaccines is due to the pernicious influence of pharma companies. They are members of Facebook groups of hundreds of people where the consensus view aligns with their beliefs.
Huh? Where are the historic sedentary men eating over 5000 calories on a daily basis?
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