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Comment I fail to see the problem (Score 0, Troll) 81

The anti-Israel crowd are disproportionately spreading hate speech and inciting violence against Jews. This is not Freedom of Speech. If anything deserves to be restricted, this is it. The fact that it makes Facebook less popular in dictatorships should not surprise anyone.

Comment Re:Call in the Press (Score 1) 362

Truth without context is not the truth.

* Hamas has openly admitted to embedding itself among civilians to avoid being targeted.
* It stands to reason that if AP, Al Jazeera and other organizations shared the same building that Hamas could have been one of the tenants.

Regardless, the TV networks were never under any danger because they all received advanced notice to evacuate hours in advance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No other army in the world would go to such lengths to avoid civilian harm. War is war. Accidents will happen. But no one can say that Israel is intentionally targeting civilians when it goes to such lengths to avoid collateral damage.

Comment Chances of getting infected outdoors (Score 1) 282

Does anyone know the probability of getting infected outdoors without a mask if you are unvaccinated? The few studies I've seen on this seem to indicate that you are (far) more likely to die from a car accident than contact COVID outdoors. Why then are we forcing people to wear a mask at all when outdoors?

Comment Re:Cause and effect (Score 3, Insightful) 131

It's difficult to draw any real conclusions from this study because they divided the population into people older than 70, or younger. This is a very coarse grain division with a high mean age, which means we have no way of telling whether a sizable number of people were young/healthy people with no preexisting medical conditions.

If we know anything about COVID it's that the vast majority (>95%) of hospitalizations involve people with preexisting medical conditions and the vast majority of those are old.

They say that people under 70 years old were more likely to get re-hospitalized. But what's under 70 years old? Are we talking about 65 year olds? Or 40 year olds? That's a huge difference.

There are a thousand and one ways to misrepresent this data which is why they should have provided much finer breakdowns by age and preexisting conditions. Without further information historical data implies that the vast majority of the people they are talking about are older people with preexisting medical conditions.

Yes, COVID causes these people to die more often. But that's not really news. At best, they are saying COVID's mortality rate is 30% higher than what we thought it was. A 30% increase to a tiny number is still a tiny number.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 91

Why would you expose teens to a serum with the potential for unknown long term side effects?

How else are you going to know if teens can be given the shot? Guess?

Are you nuts? You don't expose 100% of your population to an untested medication in order to test it for long-term effects. You expose a small sub-set and if many years later everything is fine you approve it for general use. How do you think past vaccines were approved? We had decades of testing before they were approved for general use.

It makes no sense to subject them to this. It's crap like this which undermines my trust in "The Experts".

No, it doesn't. You didn't have "trust" to begin with because you know more than those experts. You know more than people who have spent decades in their chosen profession, collaborating with others, performing tests, literally having life and death in their hands. You're just looking for another reason to whine and be a Karen.

Experts without data are still just human beings making an educated guess. The only thing that is certain is cold hard data. Do you know why we have such stringent levels of long-term testing? Because of what happened with the Polio vaccine. Mistakes were made. People died.

Vaccines are great but you don't rush experimental medicine out into the market and then shove it down everyone's throats. Limited exposure, maybe. Mass exposure... that's just shooting from the hip.

Comment Re:Will Israel free occupied Palestine? (Score 1) 108

Please explain to me why the only Jewish country in the world happens to be the only country in the world who "deserves to be dismantled". If you're going to talk about bitter harvest, a Palestinian state is already a non-starter. Strapping suicide bombs to children? That's a form of evil I cannot get behind.

Comment Re:Guess which citizens aren't getting vaccinated? (Score 1) 71

The article you quote disagrees with your point. The Oslo Accords clearly state that the PA is responsible for health care. Further, the PA ignored repeated offers by the Israeli government to receive vaccines from Israel. Palestinians have no one to blame but their own government.

Comment Masks aren't that important (Score -1) 304

There is nothing wrong with masks per-se but most studies show that COVID main transition method is *not* through the air. People are so obsessed over the mask situation that they stopped washing their hands and instead focus on "Masks! Masks! Masks!"

I have news for you: scientifically speaking you are better off forcing everyone to wash their hands and drop the mask agenda. We forced masks in Canada and it did very little (or nothing) to stop COVID transmission.

Comment Simple fix (Score 5, Interesting) 85

"That stance has long upset developers, who argue that Apple's fee is too onerous and gives its home-grown products a leg up on competitors by essentially letting Apple sell its own stuff with a much better profit margin. Apple sells its music service, for instance, for $10 a month; if a rival music service sold subscriptions via Apple's store for the same price, it would have to fork over as much as $3 of that to Apple."

Simple fix: anytime Apple offers a competing product, everyone in that space no longer has to pay Apple's fees. That way Apple will think long and hard before competing against its own partners.

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