2021-11-28
Worthy
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Effective altruism and Xi Jinping Thought - Gray Mirror
Ergo, the truly effective altruist must become a potent altruist. He must end his futile mosquito-net programs, stop worrying about imaginary AI risk, and focus on the only ethical goal that matters: world domination. Not domination by him, of course—domination by anyone. That is: any persons or persons both (a) competent for the job, and (b) altruistic (whatever that means).
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Horseshit
celebrity gossip
COVID / VaxCult
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FDA: Merck COVID pill effective, experts will review safety
Additionally, the FDA flagged a concern that Merck’s drug led to small changes in the coronavirus’ signature spike protein, which it uses to penetrate human cells. Theoretically, FDA cautioned, those changes could lead to dangerous new variants.
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Biden says he delayed Africa travel ban over Omicron variant on advice of advisers led by Fauci
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Protection offered by booster shot beats 'natural immunity,' study suggests
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Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections as Compared with Primary Infections
Of 1304 identified reinfections ... Reinfections had 90% lower odds of resulting in hospitalization or death than primary infections. Four reinfections were severe enough to lead to acute care hospitalization. None led to hospitalization in an ICU, and none ended in death. Reinfections were rare and were generally mild, perhaps because of the primed immune system after primary infection.
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South African doctor who raised alarm about omicron variant: ‘unusual but mild’
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Omicron: Israel bans all foreigners, uses 'counter-terrorism' phone-tracking
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WHO skipped two Greek alphabet letters in naming coronavirus variant
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Covid: South Africa 'punished' for detecting new Omicron variant - BBC News
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Omicron Update: Nov 27 - by Katelyn Jetelina - Your Local Epidemiologist
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We have received one update from the CDC, which was a few lines long. They basically said there are no cases in the U.S. and to keep public health mitigation measures in place. The deafening silence from the CDC is the most disheartening thing to me.
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We still have no scientific updates on Omicron’s impact on immunity escape or transmissibility. If you’re hearing anything right now (even if it’s the British PM) it’s purely speculation. Hypotheses are important to discuss, but not the solid evidence we need. Getting answers takes time because good science takes time. I give it a week or two until the evidence starts rolling in.
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"The Omicron Variant" – Magic Pills, Or Solving The Africa Problem? | ZeroHedge
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A rumor is going around that Omicron is less deadly than other variants, but so far this is unsubstantiated. It’s based on an out-of-context quote from a South African doctor who found only mild cases among a group of young, healthy people. Once again, wishful thinking springs eternal, but don’t fall for it.
So both vaccine manufacturers and the administration are on high alert. That means the ball on variant-specific boosters is now in the FDA’s court. It’s very important that they streamline the approval process. After that, it will be up to the CDC to recommend variant-specific boosters to the general public.
Meanwhile, as Topol noted in our interview, a pan-Covid “supervaccine” of the type currently being worked on by multiple labs would be even better than having to get Covid shots every 6 months or 1 year. It would allow us to put an end to this pandemic decisively, once and for all. So we need a new version of Operation Warp Speed to fund and coordinate the development one or more supervaccines.
Basically, the age when we could expect to stop the virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions — lockdowns, social distancing, masks, test-and-trace — is long, long over. Not only has popular appetite for this strategy waned to almost nothing, but new variants are so contagious that these strategies just aren’t sufficient to stamp out the virus. Every country except China is transitioning to a “live with Covid” strategy (and China is hurting itself by trying to maintain its “zero Covid” policy). So while you should still wear a mask, and while some cities may do some limited business closures, we should assume that distancing measures will not be our first line of defense against Omicron.
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Fact check: N95 filters are not too large to stop Covid-19 particles
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When the fourth Covid-19 wave is expected to hit South Africa
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To be clear, I am not arguing masks don’t work, nor am I making any claims about how much masks may or may not protect you individually, or the people you interact with. I am claiming that at the aggregate social level we are quite far from knowing how well masks work. I say it is third doses we should be doubling down on, not masks
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No Severe Covid Cases Among Vaccinated Patients Infected with Omicron
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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? A Statistician's Perspective
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Because this is a "Righteous Screed against Misinformation", the author feels free to make up data and present it deceptively, in addition to mis-characterizing what he's arguing against.
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The English data on vaccines and mortality, revisited - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths
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What a small world we live in. The “Nu variant” scare you keep hearing about is coming from the same people and institutions that spawned the last COVID scare, and the one before that, and the one before that one, dating back all the way to the onset of COVID Mania.
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New coronavirus variant Omicron keeps spreading around the world
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Moderna Says New Vaccine May Be Ready in Early 2022 for Omnicron Variant
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World Medical Association boss compares new strain of COVID-19 with Ebola
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Belgian Prime Minister Says New Variant Heralds Arrival of ‘COVID-21’ – Summit News
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France postpones vaccine mandate in territories after violent unrest
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Coronavirus: Why 'Omicron' might not be as scary as it sounds, and the advantage NZ has | Newshub
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Greenwald: The Cynical And Dangerous Weaponization Of The "White Supremacist" Label | ZeroHedge
Yet again, we find that the same news outlets which love to accuse others of “disinformation” — and want the internet censored in the name of stopping it — frequently pontificate on topics about which they know nothing, without the slightest concern for whether or not it is true.
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Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Simpsons Episode Removed on Disney+ Hong Kong for Tiananmen Square Joke
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The economics of Broadway shows
The best seats will almost always cost at least $200 and sometimes more than $1k. The average income of Broadwaygoers in 2018-19 was $261k — roughly 4x the median household income in the US.
3 companies — Jujamcyn Theaters, The Shubert Organization, and The Nederlander Organization — own 31 of the 41 theaters on Broadway.
TechSuck
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If you urgently need to retrieve a piece of software, it's likely archived in Software Heritage: http://archive.softwareheritage.org/
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Proof of stake is a scam and the people promoting it are scammers
Economicon
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People haven’t been this worried about inflation for decades
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Holiday shopping 2021: More Americans won’t be buying holiday gifts this year
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How Austin Became One of the Least Affordable Cities in America
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Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
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Black Friday shopping in stores drops 28% from pre-pandemic levels
Gubmint / Poilitcks
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Small Business Saturday: White House Encourages America to Shop Small
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QAnon congressional candidate sets up Bitcoin fundraising operation that may be illegal
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‘Climate Migrants’ Are Roiling American Politics
The impacts are varied, from the quarter of a million Louisianans who fled New Orleans, mostly for Texas, after Hurricane Katrina, with the 40,000 who stayed bringing more non-white and Democratic voters to formerly conservative precincts; to the influx of people fleeing California’s wildfires who ended up in Chico, Calif., prompting a political backlash from local residents.
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Hillary Bemoans Lack Of Media "Gatekeepers" And Spread Of "Disinformation" | ZeroHedge
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Law / Crime / Police
World
Health / Medicine
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(May 2021) Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart
Methods: In the time interval 1979–1998, 273 consecutive cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people (≤35 years) which occurred in the Veneto Region of Italy were prospectively studied
Conclusion: Macroscopic heart features were normal in nearly one-third of young SCD victims. In 79% of them, however, histologic study unmasked concealed pathologic substrates such as focal myocarditis or cardiomyopathy and conduction system diseases. A total of 16 victims (6%) had no evidence of structural heart disease and the mechanism of their SCD remained unexplained.