2021-10-05

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University of Colorado Health denies kidney transplant to unvaccinated patient
Lessons from the elusive backlash to vaccine mandates

Vaccine mandates are not incurring a vicious public backlash, at least not yet. Almost a month has passed since President Joe Biden announced that most US workers would have to be vaccinated or frequently tested. Street protests are real but containable. Resignations from work are at modest levels. The governor of California even feels emboldened to require vaccines for school children

The public has already supplied an example of what we might call enlightened docility. Imagine being told in 2016 that, in four years, there would be vast support for a lockdown with no peacetime precedent, prescribed by an invisible expert class. Next to coercion of that scale and nature, the mandates are laissez-faire. I say all this with the jitters of a man carrying a vase in a greased hand across a stone floor.
Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity
New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers
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+ [HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752762)
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- Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider–now they’re fired
Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say

About half of all her critically ill patients died, and 80% of ventilated patients didn't make it, regardless of whether they'd tried ivermectin.
Veritas Records Pfizer Scientists: "Your Antibodies Probably Better Than Vax" After Infection | ZeroHedge
Why Are Americans Still–Still –Wearing Cloth Masks?

Americans generally don’t pay enough attention to the quality of a mask and how it’s worn. As the Harvard epidemiologist Bill Hanage told me in an email, we’re still wearing cloth masks because they’re “expected to still be better than nothing.” And they really are far better than nothing: He likened surgical masks to a sturdy, well-made umbrella and cloth masks to the cheap kind that inverts.
Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? And Other Racist Theories

pseudoarchaeological arguments may seem to be simply fun to entertain. But they are invariably heavily biased against Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color (BIPOC), who are doubted to have been responsible for their own histories. Archaeological sites from Africa, Asia, and the Americas are often put forth as proof of external interventions, while the achievements of those who lived in ancient Greece or Italy, for example, are rarely questioned. In other words, these arguments are often racist.
Microsoft's .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions it
Bank of America Access to Capital Directory for Women Entrepreneurs
Ex-Uber driver takes legal action over ‘racist’ face-recognition software

Edumacationalizing

MIT cancels lecture on exoplanets' climates over the scientist's lack of faith in DEI, by Steve Sailer - The Unz Review
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+ DEI apparently stands for "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion" and is so
ubiquitous an acronym as to need no expansion among the expected
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- MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me. - by Dorian Abbot - Common Sense with Bari Weiss
- MIT Cancels Geophysicist's Lecture After Outrage over His Views on Diversity
Tennessee School Board Chair Reported Single Mother to Employer for Criticizing the School Board

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

TechSuck

Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them
Facebook 10/4 outage, back up @ 5p CDT :
- Facebook stock is down 5%
- Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
So now, because Facebook and their sites are so big, we have DNS resolvers worldwide handling 30x more queries than usual and potentially causing latency and timeout issues to other platforms.
Is 40 the New 60? · It Will Never Work in Theory
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
Intel CEO Gelsinger Declares 'AMD's Lead Is Over'
Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
Brazilian Workers Paid Equivalent of 70 Cents an Hour to Transcribe TikToks

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World

Health / Medicine / COVID

“The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.”
Massachusetts coronavirus breakthrough deaths: 71% had underlying conditions, median age was 82. There have been 254 breakthrough case deaths in the state.
Why Merck’s Celebrated Covid Pill Could Be Riskier Than People Think
How Accurate Are At-Home Covid Tests?
FDA Approves American Rapid Antigen Test

The FDA has authorized seven antigen-based tests that can be used at home without a prescription. The EU has authorized 21 tests beginning with the letter A (I am not sure all of these are authorized for home use but you get the idea.)
Covid vaccines cut the risk of transmitting Delta – but not for long

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

Why DuPont's been poisoning you with PFAs for 70 years
World’s first commercial plant for making synthetic kerosene
South Australia sets new record: solar meets 106% of demand
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for predicting global warming accurately
Analysis Shows Coral Loss of 14% Worldwide
Why aren't there more climate cults?

nothing sticks out as an accessible and mainstream group for where you can find community and center climate change. I’m surprised by this mostly because in many ways climate change is an ever-expanding opportunity to bring people together to work towards a common cause. What we do in the next decade or two will set the course for another 100 or more years. The stakes have never been higher and the only viable solution is collective action - individualism will never yield the change we need. It’s David vs Goliath and Goliath is literally polluting the very air that we breathe. The climate crisis is the ultimate setup for creating a shared sense of belonging at a time when people crave exactly that. Yet as far as I can tell the two haven’t intersected at scale.
UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change