propaganja

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Thank God some people still know what's up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I agree the claim requires more evidence and it would be foolish to just take it at face value, but even if my intuition told me it was intrinsically safe I wouldn't place any degree of trust in my own logical conclusions, or discount someone else's warnings, however spurious.

The burden of proof should never be on the accuser when it comes to safety, in my opinion, or anything else of public concern. And the standard of proof should be higher to show that everything's ok than to show that it's not. At least in an ideal world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean, it sounds like you're saying, "I don't know how it can be dangerous, therefore it's not dangerous."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So... actually that's not the case. They're only free at the point of sale. The government buys them. They've made money on every single one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The basic premise is that the community needs to be inoculated enough so that any breakout doesn't have enough viable hosts around to jump to and dies out before it can gain momentum among a wider population. This benefits others in the community who are still vulnerable for whatever reason and is a legitimate argument for why people should care if other people get vaccinated. If the threat is dire enough it could even be argued that others should be forced against their will. The costs of implementing herd immunity can be quite high, as well as the benefits—but for us to begin even thinking about whether it's worth paying, we must be sure we can realistically achieve it.

If the level of inoculation among the population is too low the virus will spread. That's what's important—that's why it's all or nothing. The fact that it's slower, or that it won't overwhelm hospitals as quickly, is so trivial in comparison as to be inconsequential. The only thing that matters is that it's still there. Fast or slow, it will still infect the entire world, and the vulnerable won't be safe.

Given all of the above, it goes without saying that a vaccine that only stops a virus from making you sick but doesn't stop it from spreading is next to useless when it comes to herd immunity—that much should be obvious. I would think it should be obvious too that the covid vaccine is one of such a type, but if you're interested in arguing that here or elsewhere—or anything else for that matter—please know that ridiculing and dismissing others because you think they're so obviously wrong and incapable of being saved, is in fact the only thing preventing anyone from trying to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Both perspectives are defensible. The question could be interpreted generally on its own, or in the context of OP's new-user experience. Personally I would lean towards the latter, but that makes an assumption that the] look

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God I hate camping

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You wouldn't have electricity without metal things, so metalsmithing has a bigger impact. But you can't manipulate metal without fire...

Basically sticks are the most impactful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The Internet is like TV 2.0?

You're comparing a unidirectional medium to a bidirectional medium, just for starters. It'd be much more appropriate to compare the Internet to phone or telegraph, but neither of those are adequate either.

Consider that the internet enabled smartphones. Many other things did too, but the thing that separates smartphones from those other things is Internet. It turned an already cool wireless global voice communication device into the equivalent of like 40 separate devices you used to own 30 years ago, but that fits in your pocket, and can still do unbelievable god-like shit that just wasn't possible back then, period.

Smartphones are so ridiculous that in many movies made today they have to pretend smartphones don't exist, because if they did then the problems that form the basis of the plot wouldn't—so I see a lot of movies that look like they're set in circa 2000s, i.e. mostly present day with dumbphones. Anyway.

All this is not to say that anything is more impactful than electricity. I'm just saying Internet is not tv 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Watch your fucking mouth, those are Job Providers you're talking shit about

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