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In hindsight, much more important than closing schools.

> Like most things with covid, the null hypothesis was inverted. Instead of assuming that like the vast majority of viruses, natural immunity was a thing, they inverted it to assum…

> In Tech we have more choice, I'd say that isn't much more. Ok. Then our main disagreement is whether a household income of $400k grants significantly more freedom than a househol…

> Sweden has the lowest excess deaths count in the western world. This is false and full-on misinformation. It's sad to to see it in a forum like HN. > They didn't lock down. This …

> Saying you can retire at 50 if you choose too, and working is a choice, is completely bogus. You are not being nuanced, you are being misleading. Perhaps read again what I wrote.…

A more nuanced discussion would perhaps help. You are just jumping between extremes. Obviously the average tech person can't retire with 50 while living in a golden castle. Nobody …

> There are a ton of people in tech that struggle, and reach 50 just to be nearly living on the street. In the literal sense I doubt that. If they are "nearly living on the street"…

Totally. The criticism was that the post responded to literally claimed that physicians have it worst of all since everybody elses compensation has been growing more than inflation…

Difference is that in tech you can retire with 50. Few people who still work at 70 do so by choice.

> Physician salaries are the only ones that do not grow relative to inflation Spoken with the true conviction of a position of privilege, and blinded by the very same. (No pun inte…

> But Nuremberg was very successful in de-Nazifying the country. Um what?! You seem to know very little about post-war bureaurcats in West Germany. They failed completely at de-naz…

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I went by car through town today, own car, masked up since my gf was also in my car (also masked up), while she has a cold. The looks we got for this were ridiculous. We've isolate…

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When the real thing hits, a few carcinogens here and there will be ok if it saves civilization. The air in the average U.S. city is full of carcinogens, on top of volunteer smoking…

Had this pandemic turned out to kill 10% of the global population then it would definitely have been the right move. Turns out, that didn't happen. Because we were lucky regarding …