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Protein & carbohydrates: 4C/g. Alcohol: 7C/g. Fat: 9C/g.
Satiety is much more important than energy density.
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Anecdote time: I currently live in Texas, the closest grocery store is a hour walk. While living in Colorado it was a hour and a half, and in Florida it was 2 hours, all of these where easy 5 minute trips by a car and an excursion by foot.
Not to mention that all three of those states have major portions of the year where being outside that long can actually be dangerous. Either through dehydration and heat stroke (especially considering that on pavement temperature is higher) or through freezing temperatures (and potentially frozen over sidewalks).
It stands to reason that * If the vaccine is safe and effective, life expectancy would improve some over 2020 * If the vaccine is safe and ineffective, life expectancy would stay about the same as 2020 * If the vaccine is unsafe and ineffective, life expectency would drop below 2020 We are now witnessing the third outcome.
That would hold true if it could be observed in countries with better vaccine uptake. A super quick google: - 68% fully vaccinated in USA, dropped life expectancy in 2021 - 86% fully vaccinated in Canada, increased life expectancy in 2021 Obviously there are a lot of other potential variables, but it’s hard to make a judgement purely based on vaccination and implying they are unsafe.
Not sure how that translates to life expectancy
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Lifestyles haven't changed? Come now, in just my lifetime I've seen kids go from being outside everywhere playing until dark, to being mostly inside all day. And I live in a very active community! With regards to changes in willpower, that seems like a strong assertion, got any sources on that? 100% agree that our diet (generally) has changed drastically. But I don't get your jump of why medication has to be the solu…
> With regards to changes in willpower, that seems like a strong assertion, got any sources on that? How is it a strong assertion that willpower HAS NOT changed ? Isn’t that the null hypothesis? It seems to me that you’d need evidence that it HAS changed
Our culture is light years away from that in terms of the resilience that's generally expected from people.
Yes, I think it's fair to question the assumption that willpower has not changed.
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Fat shaming just doesnt work, the only provable outcomes are mental illness and weight gain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236245/ It's also a huge glaring actor/observer asymmetry issue, you think between the 50's and now human beings innately changed to be lazier, more prone to overconsumption? Why opt for blaming the individual multiplied by 70 million rather than looking at the conditions of their…
>you think between the 50's and now human beings innately changed to be lazier, more prone to overconsumption? Why opt for blaming the individual multiplied by 70 million rather than looking at the conditions of their shared environment? Subdivisions basically didn't exist in the US in the 1950s; they were only just being invented then. People lived in smaller towns and cities and walked around a lot more. Even in th…
I think this urge to blame people for the effects of their environment seen in the one of the parent post is an example of a very dark part of our attitude toward change. It is very easy and tempting to short circuit into ridiculing positive changes in favor of instead attempting to fix it by punishment/shaming ("People will literally rezone entire cities rather than saying we need to eat less food and workout more")
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If it was a 2 hour by foot, assuming an average of 3 mph walking, that's 6 miles away. For that to be a 5 minute trip by car you need to drive 72mph. Reasonable on the interstate but as your driveway (nor the store entrance) are directly on an interstate, there has to be at least some stretch of slower driving bringing the average down, so the speed on the interstate section would have to be much higher to bring the…
You're assuming a straight line and constant speeds. While this is naive for both situations the error will not average out. Let me give a direct example. I pulled up google maps and what is a 10 minute car prediction (2.8 mi) is also a 54 minute walking estimation (2.7 mi) and a 17 minute bike estimation (2.8 mi). Also, 33-43 minutes by bus fwiw
That does change the numbers; 10 minutes by car being 54 minutes on foot sounds a lot more realistic than 5 minutes by car being 2 hours on foot.
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To what degree do you think improper administration played a roll? If the mrna was only delivered into muscle tissue and not the circulatory system, all the spike proteins and their damage would be isolated to the muscle tissue. Autoimmune effects would still be present, but would be with infection as well.
We didn't / don't even know the proper dosage for the vaccine... Personally, I stick to the research on mRNA technology prior to 2020 -- it doesn't work effectively and carries a lot of risk. Some basic unanswered questions: - How long does the mRNA last inside the cells? i.e. how long will your body produce spike proteins? - What's the appropriate quantity of proteins to produce a decent immune response? - In a batc…