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charbonneau

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About charbonneau

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

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    Comment #28945819

    > All trial participants previously completed the primary two-dose series of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and then were randomized 1:1 to receive either a 30-µg booster dose (the s…

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    Comment #28928975

    Sure, but with the new Delta Plus® variant (+ false-negative tests + asymptomatic transmission) it's better to play it safe & keep your distance from other human resources.

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    Comment #28928798

    > The Leger survey, conducted for the Association of Canadian Studies, found that more than three in four respondents hold negative views of those who are not immunized. Divide et …

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    Comment #28928732

    Sounds bad, but imagine the warehouse manager would've helped the guy and gotten COVID-19! Can't risk that!

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    Comment #28915886

    > S.V. Subramanian, the Harvard professor of population health and geography behind the paper [Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and …

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    Comment #28915408

    > Centner called COVID-19 vaccines "experimental," despite the fact that they have been under development for decades Attenuated vaccines have been under development for centuries.…

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    Comment #28896831

    Not sure if it’s reasonable. My gut interpretation (before reading the article) was “breakthrough infections are overblown”. I prefer their alternative headline “What the latest CO…

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    Comment #28895914

    TLDR; Immunologist isn't convinced of risk. Cites not peer reviewed laboratory evidence.

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    Comment #28895864

    From the study you cited: > We note that almost 43% of patients after influenza had at least one long-COVID feature recorded (Table 1) including 29.7% during the 90- to 180-day per…

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    Comment #28887597

    > Let’s start with what we do know about the unvaccinated > Some key research on the unvaccinated > It may well be that some of the unvaccinated are a bit like cats stuck in a tree…

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    Comment #28877134

    > All I can hope for is to become happy with a life that now tortures me. One that cages me, pens me in, puts up walls all around me. One that makes me smaller, misshapen, that box…

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    Comment #28875725

    > The dynamic isn't that the evidence is unambiguous, but rather that when the evidence is inconclusive falling back to first principles makes sense. Respiratory filtration should …

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    Comment #28868775

    Sure, but can you imagine what 1968 would have looked like with cellphone alerts? http://web.archive.org/web/20180115194946/https://www.nytime...

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    Comment #28866929

    What's the point of life? When's the line of death? And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?

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    Comment #28866166

    I wasn't trying to make a distinction between blue and red tribes. You can paint a political propaganda machine however you like, its goal is the same: To encircle people by all po…

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    Comment #28862610

    The majority of people claiming to care about others by following uncertain pandemic mitigations are doing no such thing. Rather they are taking top-down direction from a post-trut…

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    Comment #28855792

    > Vaccines make COVID-19 a largely preventable disease—and a survivable one in all but the rarest cases—and it is heartbreaking to know that people are dying of a disease not becau…

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    Comment #28849887

    > Catapults are a great way to get somewhere fast Elon Musk, June 11th 2020

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    Comment #28849416

    > She and an RCMP officer dispatched to investigate suspected it was debris from a construction site on nearby Highway 1 Conspiracy theory: Meteorites aren't real. It's all just de…

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    Comment #28849376

    I'm never buying their processors again!

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    Comment #28842049

    From 2020 to October 6th 2021, there were 58,167 deaths in the age group 0-17. 499 of those deaths are related to COVID-19. That's 0.86% (or: 99.99% of deaths happened due to other…