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Indeed, when the government can take away your ability to earn a living, it is communism.

Not being able to earn a living is violence.

Here you go: For stoicism: - "Enchiridion" of Epictetus. - "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius (my personal favorite that I keep reading over and over). - "Letters from a stoic" from …

At 35, it's not an uncommon feeling, some call it a mid-life crisis. The reason imo is it's an age when we start feeling our body is getting old, the feeling of "immortality" of ou…

2 years in, we don't even have the numbers of people hospitalized from covid or with covid. It's not science reportings that is dead, it's science itself.

Your last link says it all: "COVID-19 has triggered lockdown measures for billions of people around the world." A lockdown at such a scale never happened before covid. Your "counte…

Keep your condescending tone for your friends "my dude".

Ok so what about lockdowns then?

Yes, similar as in "if we don't do that, insert_whatever_crazy_idea_here, we're gonna overwhelm the hospitals!!!" Because it's been the justification from day 1: "not overwhelm hos…

Lockdown and quarantine are very different. And it's you who mentionned "completely novel and exotic government actions", to which I point out that it's already happened with lockd…

Let's see, those for freedom and individual choice would be more brainwashed that those against? Interesting theory.

Oxford definition: "an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances."

Exotic like what, lockdowns for example? How crazy of me...

> That's not how anything works. That's how everything works, it's called a precedent.

Are you sure you are on the right side of the argument yourself? Suppose next year, the government mandate that you lose weight, or stop smoking or run everyday, all that of course…

> "the something of somewhere is always the nothing of nowhere" Never heard this one, what does it mean?

And the next time the government will want to force you to do something you disagree with, who is gonna fight it, the spineless white collars that we pretty much all have become?

Very interesting explanation, thanks.

It's both time and cost really, in vivo studies cost a lot of money.

Ask them: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Scoop: every single time you see a result about how effective is a covid vaccine against such or such new variant, it's based on in vitro results.