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Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

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Re: Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

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Post by encryptluks2 »

KarlKemp wrote: post #35
encryptluks2 wrote: post #24

What we are seeing in human society is a psychological attack. Murder and suicide rates are skyrocketing. Funny how the media says we don't know why. Maybe it has to do with the lack of social supports. When inflation and housing prices are at an all time high, we are still quarantining kids for 10+ days from school and expecting parents to have unlimited paid family leave. Kids are expected to sit inside the whole t…

Murder and suicide aren’t „skyrocketing“. In as far as crime rates have risen, there is no clear pattern pointing at any cause. Many other countries have had similar experiences with the pandemic, yet seen no changes in rates of violent crime. You fault „the media“ for not giving an easy explanation, then gesture at half a dozen unspecific grievances.

Hm.. a 20% increase in 2020, during a unprecedented lockdown but no clear pattern. Riiiight.

Re: Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

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Post by encryptluks2 »

DanBC wrote: post #39
encryptluks2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're forgetting about the need for closeness and connection. Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high. Crime and murder rates have gone up tremendously since the beginning of the pandemic. Saving 30,000 from the flu sounds great, but there are serious impacts from the extreme mask mandates and social distancing and the ones I mentioned are just what are immediately obvious. I imagine when you see the educa…

> Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high. No they aren't. Where are you getting your stats from?

I should have been more specific. I was referring to youth suicides:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youth-suicide-attempts-...

Data is from the CDC. I also ask you to look into suicide rates in other countries, not just the US.

Re: Honey bees increase social distancing when facing ectoparasite

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Post by dragonwriter »

gerdesj wrote: post #5

The term "social distancing" was not a thing until the CoVid-19 pandemic, in my experience. It could be a sign of the times so the term is used because it is now popularly understood. The Intro notes that "This hypothesis has been recently confirmed in the ant Lasius niger infected with the fungal pathogen Metarhizium brunneum, which induced behavioral changes ..." So it looks like this behaviour might be selected fo…

> The term "social distancing" was not a thing until the CoVid-19 pandemic

It seems to have nonzero incidence every year 1934-, and really start an upswing in the 1960s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc...

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Post by tinus_hn »

cryptoz wrote: post #9
KarlKemp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has been part of the literature since the early 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc... It just wasn't a widely-known term because we didn't have much need for it.

Well, we did have a need for it but we just chose to ignore that need. Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0. So if we're going by metrics of, we'd like to save 30,000 people every year, we absolutely had a need for social distancing all this time. But I get it, our society has a large to…

So all we need to do is just stop being human and then we can save all these lives!

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Post by kupopuffs »

felipemnoa wrote: post #13
kupopuffs wrote: post #11

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at first I was like, duh... But then it dawned on me. Duh me!!

I'll look stupid, I don't get it. Care to explain?

Animals have natural tendencies to stay away from smelly/sickly things. Thought the OP was getting woodshed, but his comment aligns w the article.
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