Scientists don't know what causes auto immune reactions/disorders, or why they have seemingly been on the rise for decades.
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Were not talking about abolishing freedom of association or property rights, thats the same strawman hateful business used which of course did not happen.
Were talking about the most powerful corporations in the world who have become de facto owners and governors of the town square in which the majority of communication takes place.
If there was ever at all a chance at stopping it, it was in November and December of 2019 when Chinese doctors were sounding the alarm but were silenced and punished by their government for "creating disturbances".
My answer: to live life fully with what little time we have. Memento mori.
If you want to attempt to erradicate covid19, you'll also have to vaccinate all the animals, wild and domesticated, which carry the virus.
What do you mean?
We can't know what the long term side effects of drugs are until we have long term data.
Even with long term data showing significant negative side effects of drugs, we often dont understand the "mechanism"
At what point did we have a chance to stop this?
Indeed, thats what this whole discussion is about: creating laws to protect individuals speech from corporations.
Laws are not static.
Private entities also had no legal obligation to serve black people or gay people not long ago, but we changed that too.
As your XKCD comic is merely arguing from a position of conservative legal authority, it could have applied just as well to blocking black and gay people when that was not protected by law.
Why did you choose to leave that out? Is it perhaps because it invalidates your entire argument?
Freedom of religion and expression are coded in the same amendment for a reason, and come from the same historically progressive ideals.
>To continue the metaphor, this is less like someone getting kicked out of a shop because of their race or gender, and more like getting kicked out for refusing to wear pants.
Do you think freedom of expression is as important and historically significant to human rights (i.e. the right to not be refused service based on your skin color) as freedom to not wear pants?
>Spam: irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the internet to a large number of recipients.
Social media and the internet is already overrun with spam anyway so its a null point
It used to be the religious conservatives pushing for censorship of offensive speech and liberals fighting back against that.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental liberal value, but it has become politically practical for many liberals/democrats at this time to forget about that.
Are you implying that had nothing to do with the socioeconomic situation unique to that year?
Seems like you're cherry picking data which somewhat supports your hypothesis while ignoring the more recent data which does not.
For those that want to draw their own conclusions, here's the data:
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...
Why do you assume thats the only way to mitigate behaviors associated with ADHD?
Its the poor who are also most harmed by the harsh economic effects of the covid response.
What conclusions can we draw from this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
The CDC (like the US police and military) also does not keep track of the number of people doctors kill. A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins estimates that iatrogenesis (deaths caused by doctors) kills 250,000 people per year, making it the third leading cause of death in the US.
>"The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates."
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
Take a cat that has lived an easy life indoors its whole life and put it outside.
How long do you think that cat will survive outdoors compared to a cat who has lived outside its whole life?
Many people who have had too easy of an upbringing may seem emotionally stable while inside the safety of their cushy comfort zone, but when they're put outside their comfort zone and hit with a real challenge or hardship, they often crumble, because they never learned how to deal with real difficulty
We've had multiple recent presidents and vice presidents who have used illegal drugs.
That seems far more "beyond the pale" because the president has more power than anyone to ending the drug war
The best answer I've heard is: it will give you "extra immunity".
Which begs the follow on question, if we're so concerned about topping off our immunity, why shouldn't people get vaccinated and revaccinated every month or two?
>A "confirmed reinfection" for someone who previously had Covid requires them to have gotten sick, tested positive, have the virus sequenced, then later get sick, test positive, get the virus sequenced again, and have the sequences demonstrate that the infections were caused by distinct virus variants.
This is indeed quite a high bar for classification compared to classifying breakthrough cases.
>This is because it is often impossible to tell if someone who appears to be reinfected is suffering from a relapse but never cleared the virus, is suffering from "long Covid", or otherwise falsely tested negative without fully recovering.
It would be interesting to see what the reinfection case numbers look like with a more loose classification method that assumed a margin of error for such false positives.
>Lastly, immunity isn't some black box.
To what degree is it a gray box though? Or is it white box?