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jamps··on Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone
Pretty cool and lightweight! I use KDE connect that allows me to have communication both ways.
jamps··on Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches
> A remote, unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded password could exploit this to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group

A hardcoded password... are these guys for real?

jamps··on [dead]
Countdown until it gets flagged activated
jamps··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
Apologies, I was not clear. There has never been a "deadly COVID19" pandemic for <45yo
jamps··on Covid Booster Highly Effective Against Omicron
Data from public health scotland seems to agree. (p.44) https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11223/22-01-19-covid...

But we don't know for how long. And what is strange is that unvaxxed are doing better than double vaxxed.

So what will happen once the booster effects wane? Will it be better or worse than unvaxxed?

jamps··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
Yes, we can see that something is different in the last months of 2021. So either Omicron, as we now that it affects younger people as well. Or another cause... Either way, it is close to the 2018 high. It would be bold to qualify that as a pandemic!
jamps··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
My point here was death. The fact that there is no life threatening disease for 0-45yo on a statistical level in Europe. Death for this age group is lower than it was in 2017.

> Vaccinated people suffer much less from a course of infection than unvaccinated, in all age groups.

I don't know how you can measure that. And that's not how these vaccines have been sold. They were supposed to have 95% efficacy at lowering risk of getting COVID-19 compared with the control group. We know now that is not the case as it does not help to control the epidemic (most vaxed countries with the highest cases). Transmission and contamination are not reduced with the vaccine.

So now we are told that it was never supposed to stop transmission, but miraculously, it makes your body handle the COVID better.

I don't know what data is used, but if you look for example in scotland (Page 44 https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11223/22-01-19-covid...) There is no obvious difference between the vax or unvaxed in term of hospitalization or covid positivity (p.38) unvaxed even seem to do better.

This is health, people are always going to get sick, not just from COVID. We need to fight all diseases with the best weapons we got. Against Covid, vaccines are 1 weapon, so is anti-viral drugs, antibiotics anti inflammatory and anti coagulant.

But we should let each individual choose with his doctor what treatment he wants. And not guilt young children to take an experimental drug where we don't know the long term efficacy or side effects.

jamps··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
That's correct. At some point we need to look at the real data of deaths. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ In Europe, there has NEVER been A PANDEMIC for people <45yo.

All care should have focused on the elderly (early treatment, access to doctors even when positive...). No restrictions (mask, mandatory vaccine, lockdowns..) makes sense for those aged under 45yo.

jamps··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
Well, if we look at their neighbors, Scotland, it is showing that even the proportion rate of positive case is lower with the unvaxed.

Page 38 https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11223/22-01-19-covid...

jamps··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
I think it is great that omicron can propagate like this. The severity seems to be quite low. That means that everybody will be immune and we can move on. We should remove as well those mask and vaccine coercion, but I don't think that will happen.

I personally look at the raw data of death. I believe that most data you would get around COVID have bias, and only overall data speak the truth.

Look at what happened in Europe: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps (This does not include hospitalizations) First of, you realize that the pandemic is not at all what we have been told. We can observe an increase in death in the winters, but somewhere like peaks with 10% more deaths than the years beforehand.

You realize that for the 0-44 age group, there has been NO PANDEMIC. So from the beginning, we should just let this age group live normally. (no mask, no restrictions, no mandatory vaccine, no pass, no isolation)

Then comes the other age groups > 44, that did have excess death especially during winters. We should focus on the care to them and allow them to have a better access to their doctor, even when positive. Equip all of them with early treatment pack (antiviral and antibiotics for the first phase, anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory for the second). Provide them access to vaccines, only if they want to take them as it is an experimental treatment.

The main reason why the hospitals got over populated is because we told people to isolate and not see their doctors. They wait to be really sick and have no choice than going to the hospital.

Then come the health structure. We should just double the wages of all the nurses, auxiliary, GP, emergency doctors. Allow quick formations for unemployed and military to become auxiliary.

And if you think we cannot pay for that, think about the cost of a single day of nation wide lockdown.

jamps··on Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYi5aW1GdUU take everyday as it comes. You will miss out, something bad is going to happened. The aim is to enjoy life while you still got it.

Try to go out and enjoy the little things of life, a chat with a friend/family, a hot drink, a nice shower, a sunrise! Hope you get to feel better

jamps··on Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEIqVq7EZqE
jamps··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Keep cool friend. It gives me headaches as well but... Everybody is entitled to their stupid opinion. So are we :) But I have to react to :

> and you probably shouldn't be contradicting the experts.

As you know, expert themselves can disagree, and have strong evidence to defend their sides.

For example, Niels Bohr and Einstein had massive disagreements, both of them are references, and had convincing arguments.

In the end you got to choose what you want to believe in with your intellect and your guts. And if you have neither, the New York Times it is haha

jamps··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Latest studies don't seem to agree with your statement: "Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

The theory of vaccinating people to protect others is taking another hit. It looks more that we should focus on proposing the vaccine to the people at risk (clearly identified, >65 years old, or multiple co-morbidity) for their own survival

jamps··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
I agree with you, the correct way to look at any medical intervention is to assess the risk/benefits ratio. And it is therefore a personalized decision that needs to be taken by your doctor and with your consent. Blanket rules are often missing out the complexity that doctors can assess. And this ratio is indeed questionable for young people:

"As a general rule, the ICU cardiac injury described in COVID-19 illness is subclinical and largely reflected by a minor elevation of cardiac troponin, whereas CIRM is characterized by a clinical syndrome often warranting hospitalization, dramatic ECG changes, and very large elevations of cardiac troponin that are sustained over time. " "Again, children are not a high-risk group for COVID-19 respiratory illness, and yet they are the high-risk group for CIRM." Source : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014628062...