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How exactly would you confirm - beyond any doubt - that contagion happened outside? Most people live most of their lives inside a building of one sort or another, so it'd be almost…

Then you shouldn't use qualifiers such as 'poor' to describe their risk assessment. Don't give the idiots pushing anti-masking rhetoric in this forum more wind than they deserve by…

The only people whose mental health I'm really concerned about are those who are obsessed with trying to get rid of masks. If you are vaccinated and feel comfortable not using a ma…

Why 'poor'? Have you factored in everything going on that person's life? Do you know if they have a friend or relative who might be at higher risk? What if they have a young kid an…

Meanwhile, Satya Nadella isn't flashy and Jeff Bezos hasn't been involved in any kind of keynote speech on anything related to Amazon in years. So my point stands: flashiness doesn…

Meh, the outrage crowd in Hacker News is ridiculous. Any level of effort to make a company more inclusive as criticized as the company being 'too woke'. Meanwhile, Google's market …

Meanwhile, Google's market cap has tripled during his tenure as CEO. Maybe being flashy and showy isn't all that important after all.

I love the magic of Hacker News: posting a reply agreeing with someone describing a problem? WELL, THAT'S A DOWNVOTE FOR YOU! This place sucks. I wish there was a way to delete my …

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That's an oversimplification. The first thing to consider is that there's two types of masks: * N95 masks * Everything else We knew N95 masks worked because that's what professiona…

As I explained in another post, originally the consensus was that only N95 masks were somewhat effective. There were no studies on the effectiveness of other masks. Recommending pe…

Oh, I knew. I was just pointing out that even in the scenario he described it didn't even approximate to what you describe as happening in Belgium (which to be clear, I completely …

So basically what you are saying is that you drew your conclusion back then - who knows based on what data - and you are so set in your ways, there’s nothing that will change your …

So, nothing like Belgium then, and exactly what I described: people being asked to wear a mask and not doing it. I don’t know the circumstances of the situation you mention, but it…

It's honestly been fascinating to watch the conspiracy world twist themselves into logical pretzels to fit their narrative to both reality and the political landscape. At some poin…

The changes can be explained by two simple factors, without the need for some grand nefarious conspiracy: * The CDC's default position is caution * We know more now than we did in …

There's almost a year between the time we originally went into lockdown to 'flatten the curve' and the time a significant part of the population got vaccinated. You can't pretend t…

You are kind of proving my point by reading 'unless absolutely necessary' (meaning: they don't want to use a mask and they don't most of the time, except when there's a rule saying…

I have no idea what happens in Belgium, but nothing like that happens here in the US. They barely ask people to wear a goddamn mask, and they are all up in arms about it.

So you are salivating at the idea that businesses that cared for their employees' safety go under just because you disagree with them politically. Very nice.

This is such a bullshit strawman. Most of my friends are family are very liberal. Most of them are already vaccinated. Not a single one of them wants to wear a mask unless absolute…

You can't flatten the curve and then immediately throw away all caution and go back to the behavior that made the curve a geometric progression.

Meh, I understand your point, but as someone who follows the conspiratorial world passively, I can tell you the whole 'but they told you masks were useless' thing is a post-facto r…

First, this is a straw man. Nobody is saying that the CDC's guidelines are infallible. They've been widely criticized for botching the Covid-19 crisis. Second, the difference betwe…

Would you have rather waited until hospital capacity was overwhelmed? Spikes in hospitalizations follow - like clockwork - spikes in contagion. By the time hospitals were overrun, …