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cas14655

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    Comment #32799791

    You took your time thinking about your excuses. The fact is that you weren't the slightest bit aware of the magnitude or direction of NHS funding. You just assumed it must be down …

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    Comment #32659586

    By March 2020 we had the Diamond Princess Data which established an upper bound of 1% case fatality rate (CFR) for COVID. We already knew then that it's definitely not the Spanish …

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    Comment #32650853

    Please describe the strawman.

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    Comment #32650846

    Well, you are right in a way. Contact tracing, masks and social distancing make even less sense for corona viruses which we full well knew in 2020.

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    Comment #32650810

    > If you have to search out a single country out of over a hundred to find supporting data you probably are just p-hacking You are not considering how positivism works. If you say …

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    Comment #32650583

    In itself your statement is accurate: we did not have data that is impossible to have. In broader context the implication is not correct. We had experts consider long and hard what…

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    Comment #32650328

    Sweden Age Adjusted Mortality 3rd January 2020 through 18th June 2021: -2.3% Source: ONS Not only did lockdowns fail, they were unnecessary and cruel and tyrannical. I sincerely ho…

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    Comment #32591297

    Liberals: "We will fix X with policy Y" Conservatives (-2, flagged): "All you'll do is cause Z" Reality: X is now worse and Y had unintended consequence Z Liberals: "Z isn't happen…

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    Comment #32578676

    > pro-spending / pro-austerity NHS spending 2009/2010: £124.1 billion NHS spending 2019/2020: £148.9 billion > What exactly is the point you are trying to make? You don't have a cl…

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    Comment #32562681

    Are you getting at potentially unknown long term effects of COVID infection?

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    Comment #32519267

    People keep saying this so there is probably something to it. I mean, not even the most optimistic mask studies show a long-term complete protection from all pathogens that can cau…

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    Comment #32519197

    If conversations about COVID seem impossible it might be because a substantial portions of the population overestimates the danger from COVID by as much as 50x. Source: https://new…

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    Comment #32519173

    > This, does. Because it has nothing to do with the submission but all with covid minmizing thrown in after a legitimate question. Question: how low does the IFR have to be so we c…

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    Comment #31861133

    My girlfriend sells self-made clothes online. In 2015 I made her a a small Tapestry 5 webapp to manage her orders and, this was the crucial feature, to determine payment status fro…

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    Comment #31218587

    I am talking about this table: https://www.ons.gov.uk/download/table?format=xlsx&uri=/peopl... (warning excel) It shows that of the 32 European countries 17 didn't even exceed an e…

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    Comment #31214649

    These are two examples of how measures specifically meant to fight the disease caused a lot of deaths. Care homes also had deaths from loneliness and despair due to banning family …

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    Comment #31214490

    > I agree that communication was awful all over the board I appreciate the peace offering but you have to understand that, for me, this topic is deeply personal. I am not willing t…

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    Comment #31211244

    Well except that a lot of countries didn't have any unusual excess mortality in 2020. And anyway how do you separate the deaths caused by the measures from the deaths caused by COV…

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    Comment #31211095

    I am not doing that at all. Switzerland for example has similar vax rates to Germany and I'd bet that Flordia is similar to Cali. You can even compare before any vaccinations and i…

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    Comment #31210998

    You really think you are in the right here? Wow!

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    Comment #31208703

    A: "Ten professional singers performed a passage of the Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode of Joy” in two experimental setups—each with and without surgical masks. First, they sang with p…