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abystanderon Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning

I notice a lot of run-of-the-mill liberals automatically assume their opponents who aren't manifestly crazy are "devil's advocates" or not making the argument in good faith.

It seems intellectually lazy and the epitome of condescension to cast away all criticism in this way. As those opposing arguments are always beyond the pale and not worthy of thought.

The overwhelming feeling I get from this type of person: "there's no possibility I'm wrong."

abystanderon Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning

Since they claim a quarter of patients are showing symptoms and one of those is depression - how do they separate the out the effect of the de facto criminalization of social activity, an innate human behavior ingrained in our DNA after millions of years of evolution?

You'd get significant depression in solitary confinement too.

abystanderon Inflation climbs higher than expected in June as price index rises 5.4%

> there will always be a lot of doom and gloomers predicting massive inflation

Clearly if all the actually essential things like education, housing and healthcare are manifestly unaffordable - it's not a matter of prediction - it's already here.

Conveniently these things are generally left out of the CPI that people use to claim whether inflation is happening.

abystanderon Pfizer to seek U.S. authorization for Covid booster shot

It coincides with a society that's become hyper-focused on historically small risks. Look at anxiety rates in children, etc.

I guess it must have to do with the progress of humanity. Life has become so good that even relatively small dangers are becoming the only ones left. Or kind of like the misery of the wealthy.

Any sense of proportion has gone down the drain.

abystanderon Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible delta variant

> The bigger issue would be if "Original Antigenic Sin" [0] could impact the immune systems response

presumably if this is an issue at all - it'd be because most people are "locked into" the spike protein as the original antigen, as opposed to those naturally infected and therefore carrying a immune repetoire against however many 10+ other proteins in sars-cov-2.

abystanderon US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming

> I don't particularly care for the opinion of one lone man.

Same thing happened with Galileo - I'm not saying anti-climate change perspectives are tantamount to Galileo, but it's precisely that line of thinking that marginalized and abused countless (correct) counter-orthodox scientific arguments.

abystanderon 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll

By that logic, re: outlawing speeding: "imagine making driving a crime."