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Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by simianwords »

phtrivier wrote: post #63

No idea of whether those people ar competent, or if it's a PR stunt. Good luck to them. I've joked often enough that "a vaccine for common cold" would have changed my life. Also, I'm: - happy that they don't claim the breakthrough will come from AI or Blockchain, for once - a bit surprised that they got founding by both openAi and Anthropic (so of course they'll try to solve a few things with ai and Blockchain, but,w…

Your post is equalising the utility of blockchain and AI which means you have no idea about the utility of either of them.

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by kakacik »

happyopossum wrote: post #6

> Healthy people spend roughly 15-25 days each year—about 5% of their lives—sick with respiratory infections like the common cold and influenza This seems completely unbelievable to me. Totally outside of my personal, professional, and family experience.

No its correct, having 2 kids and rate of sickness went through the roof, same for my wife.

We also had 10+ covids to indicate how much it changes, mostly imported by kids from creche (we hit the 'right' timing with them and covid waves). What do you expect when they shared pacifiers and put fingers in mouths all the time. Or suddenly sneezing gunk all over my face when holding them.

Before kids, I was usually sick 1x a year for few days, or had 1 proper flu week and that was it, my wife even less. No it didn't visibly improve our immunity, had covid last autumn and it felt almost like for the first time, sans loss of smell and taste.

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by fragmede »

sarchertech wrote: post #28
fny wrote: post #24

It's sad we're resorting to philanthropy to solve problems like this. $500M is chump change. NASA spent something like $300B in today's money on the Apollo program, and Artemis has exceeded $90B already. I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars.

The Iran war is going to cost us at least $200 billion dollars and you’re over here complaining about NASA spending?

Iran? An immigrant might get free healthcare, or a trans person might not have a horrible day today. Have you ever considered that?

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by helpfulmandrill »

ptsneves wrote: post #67
atomicnumber3 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kids eh? My oldest starting preschool was one of the worst times in my life. We were sick from august to december, then january to may. Dreadful. It got better. My youngest is 3 now and is ahead of where my oldest was due to having 2 older siblings importing illnesses for several years, and this year we finally were mostly not sick all school year. Which is to say, we were probably closer to the 15 days "materiall…

For me personally, I never was so sick in my life as when my children were between starting nursery school and 3. It was not just respiratory diseases: It was also the time in my life I and my wife had frequent digestive infections. Ohh my...How many times I could not move for 2 days. It felt like I was 80 years old, mixed with the hardest symptoms of food poisoning. I got sick so often it limited a lot my general li…

> I never fully went back to it, due to fear of getting sick

Does running long distance increase the chance of getting sick?

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by [deleted] »

9dev wrote: post #78
anhyz wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure if we just cut taxes a little more, our modern-day robber barons will choose to use their money to fix things on their own instead of building doomsday bunkers and buying superyachts.

it will start to trickle down any moment now!

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Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by fragmede »

9dev wrote: post #78
anhyz wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure if we just cut taxes a little more, our modern-day robber barons will choose to use their money to fix things on their own instead of building doomsday bunkers and buying superyachts.

it will start to trickle down any moment now!

That trickling down? It's them pissing all over us.

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by srean »

NDlurker wrote: post #3

My girlfriend died from human metapneumovirus at 30 years young. She had a weakened immune system from lymphangiomatosis, so something like metapneumovirus, which is a mild illness for most people, was a death sentence for her. I hope this fund is successful so nobody else ever has to go through what she did.

So sorry to hear that. I know neither you nor her, but no one ought to go through that. I hope you are doing well. Best wishes

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by compass_copium »

fny wrote: post #24

It's sad we're resorting to philanthropy to solve problems like this. $500M is chump change. NASA spent something like $300B in today's money on the Apollo program, and Artemis has exceeded $90B already. I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars.

There are already people dying of malnutrition, preventable disease, etc. in the third world. Half a billion dollars could do a lot of good there, instead of going towards a pipe dream to make sure people never have to miss work for the flu again.

Re: Ending respiratory infections

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Post by mpreda »

fny wrote: post #24

It's sad we're resorting to philanthropy to solve problems like this. $500M is chump change. NASA spent something like $300B in today's money on the Apollo program, and Artemis has exceeded $90B already. I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars.

> I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars.

Never getting sick is an enabler to reaching the goal. And the goal is..?

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