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Post by BombNullIsland »

ianleighton wrote: post #571
BombNullIsland wrote: post #567

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The site is intended to vaccinate the population as quickly as possible. Ignore the rules, get jabs in every willing arm until there is none left. Vaccines in the fridge or thrown in the bin don't lower R0. The goal of any competent vaccination program should be to get the most socially active population vaccinated as quickly as possible to lower R0. This means 15-35 and retail workers first. That's not what happened…

If your goal is just lowering R0, sure… but a lot of countries prefer to lower deaths, which is why they start with the older population / those with health conditions.

People with health conditions won't get infected if there is no spread. By all means vaccinate the most vulnerable, but stay at home early retirees aren't exactly superspreaders.

The 18-35 cohort after vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine are going from being extremely dangerous asymptomatic spreaders to having high levels of sterilizing immunity.

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Post by hallway_monitor »

dylan604 wrote: post #486
Aeolun wrote: post #375

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Why would YC care about that? Their ethos is “how to make a boatloat of money”. Theranos would be fine if they weren’t caught out before their IPO.

That's a very sad commentary on the human condition if you think anything about Theranos would have been "fine". If anyone involved knew what was going on and still pushed for the IPO to get their money, then they need to be hit for fraud. As a collective, we've lost our humanity. I used to think we were losing it, but over the past few years I feel like we've moved past losing and now just lost it completely.

Humanity as in valuing service to mankind over the abstract point value of accumulating money?

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TechBro8615 wrote: post #263
angry_octet wrote: post #66

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It has a real "snitches get stiches" vibe to it. You have no expectation of privacy if you announce (let alone advocate for, or instruct how-to) behaviour against public health policy _during_a_pandemic_. The contrast with people who have been working hard to match people with appointments couldn't be more stark.

It increases my respect for YC knowing that they would kick a member out of the club for airing another's dirty laundry.

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Post by hiq »

rurban wrote: post #595
hiq wrote: post #560

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> They gave him one without checking anything. His response? “America has the best vaccine program on the planet. They have so many rules in Zurich that the confusion is holding things back. They’d rather throw away vaccines than break minor rules”. I live in Zurich, the vaccination program is crystal clear. If there are free slots, you can book an appointment. Up to recently, if you were not in a priority group (whi…

I've heard of about 2 million shots thrown away so far, but only from internal medical sources. You would not dare to call friends and neighbors, you rather throw them away. Public outrage only over the first

> I've heard of about 2 million shots thrown away so far, but only from internal medical sources.

I couldn't find any information about this, is that more than a rumor? Where did you read this? Honestly I find this hard to believe without more evidence.

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Post by hiq »

systemvoltage wrote: post #603
hiq wrote: post #560

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> They gave him one without checking anything. His response? “America has the best vaccine program on the planet. They have so many rules in Zurich that the confusion is holding things back. They’d rather throw away vaccines than break minor rules”. I live in Zurich, the vaccination program is crystal clear. If there are free slots, you can book an appointment. Up to recently, if you were not in a priority group (whi…

I had a long chat with him and don't remember it all but I paraphrased his take on Zurich's vaccine program. I don't know enough about situation there but my guess of why they flew down to CA was probably that they didn't cut it for the tier, frustrated by the slow roll out and the trip was most likely not a dedicated trip - they also rented an RV to travel around. Vaccication!

The main differences between the countries which could have frustrated your friend could be:

- Switzerland got their doses later than the US for a variety of reasons, so the US was able to give them away earlier, and lift the age restrictions earlier

- Switzerland made clear groups to assign priorities, with which you friend might not have been happy (presumably because he is in the last group, as I am)

That would explain why in his personal situation he was better off getting the vaccine in the US while on vacation there, but that's not really a case of too many rules or red tape holding the vaccination back in Zurich.

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Post by arolihas »

s5300 wrote: post #496
arolihas wrote: post #411

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But then he couldn't subtly minimize or delegitimize it.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Any HN user should most definitely be applying this rule on Dang of all people. He deals with a lot of shit on here.

Well he basically admitted it. But if y’all want to suck him off, fine. This place is overrated anyway.

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Post by systemvoltage »

hiq wrote: post #637
systemvoltage wrote: post #603

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I had a long chat with him and don't remember it all but I paraphrased his take on Zurich's vaccine program. I don't know enough about situation there but my guess of why they flew down to CA was probably that they didn't cut it for the tier, frustrated by the slow roll out and the trip was most likely not a dedicated trip - they also rented an RV to travel around. Vaccication!

The main differences between the countries which could have frustrated your friend could be: - Switzerland got their doses later than the US for a variety of reasons, so the US was able to give them away earlier, and lift the age restrictions earlier - Switzerland made clear groups to assign priorities, with which you friend might not have been happy (presumably because he is in the last group, as I am) That would ex…

I see, thanks for sharing your perspective.

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Post by neonological »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #614
neonological wrote: post #588

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He's probably not deleting or flagging anything because he's aware it will make him look biased. This is a common strategy. Dang picking and choosing only to censor the most insidious things remains an open possibility. Also, what decade long track record? You have a record of posts that were deleted or censored? That would be a track record. But guess what? none exists. That's a fact. All I'm saying is that a confli…

You are making the accusations. In the court of law, it's up to you to prove it and you obviously can't. You're constantly making accusations without any proof.

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