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Comment Re: Purposeful (Score 1) 604

Have you considered that maybe It wasn't Russia?

Russia has the means to do it, but it didn't benefit from it. They already control the source, so if they want to starve Europe out of gas they just needed to close the tap, no need to destroy their own infrastructure that costs 10s of billions.

Who did actually benefit from this, and also had the capability of doing it?

Comment Re:Common side effect (Score 1) 176

Also, this is not the way you calculate these things. What you did is the equivalent of me saying I would only consider traffic accidents that happened on Pay day Fridays and then extrapolate for the whole year.

Do you think people don't change their diving habits based on traffic accident news and statistics?

The way to compare is add up all the data for a period, you day what the period was, and then compare. I did this the first time 6 months into the pandemic, and using a 10 years Federal record of traffic accident, and extrapolated/averaged to get the average number of deaths per years to compare. Then I redid it this march to see the effect of one year of COVID data, the numbers change a bit in favour of not panicking over COVD.

Comment Re:Common side effect (Score 1) 176

  • The lasting effect of COVID: I would love to find more data about it. I've heard it mentioned, tried to find some numbers on it, the numbers I could find were really small, less than 0.5% of people had "lasting effects" but methodology and sample size were not the best, neither the classification of who had lasting effects (age, BMI, pre-existing conditions). If you have better data I'd love to see it, if one doesn't know the numbers about something one knows NOTHING about it. I's like the effect Jaws had on people's fear of swimming in the ocean, never mind is more likely you'll get hit by lighting than bitten by a Shark, but the movie had a very powerful advertisement effect.
  • COVID not only kills, but it can damage lungs, etc: Traffic accidents not only kills, the also maim. It didn't present the comparison of people being hurt in traffic accidents with survivors of COVID with COVID related body injure, because the data on the latter is not reliable, but in that case traffic accidents were even worse than COVID.
  • Constitutionality of the thing: It depends on the country. I suppose you are talking about the United States, with has a very nice Constitution because it's all about setting constraints on the Government, not on the individuals (is not that you pay any attention to it...), Well, your question gets answered on Amendment 9, individual Rights are not limited by what is listed on the constitution as a Right, and Amendment 10, the Federal Government cannot have any power not listed in the Constitution. Since life, health, movement, and making a living are rights, and since the constitution doesn't explicitly says anything about them, it is then assumed that people have them, and government cannot take them away. Federal's Government's only role it to protect those rights if they are being violated. Also, there is a explicitly mentioned, very prominent right, the defining right that in the US constitution trumps every single other aspect of life, and that is was supposed to mark the character of the US: Freedom. But that was before, that is not the US anymore.

Comment Re:Common side effect (Score 1, Insightful) 176

I did the math, is all about your perception of risk.

On the younger than 65 COVID mortality is only twice that of driving in highways. Not two orders of magnitude higher, just twice higher, it's on the ballpark when it comes to risk. So, if we are are going to have this disproportionate reaction to COVID, we should also give up driving altogether..

But it gets even better. 9 out of 10 people hospitalized because of COVID are overweight. So, if you are under 65 and not overweight, you are actually 5 times more likely to die in a traffic accident than dying from COVID..

These numbers, at least for me, do not justify any of extreme measures being taken: striping people of their constitutional rights, and recommending them to inject themselves a medical treatment with a level of testing that by any measure two years ago would have been recommended to be distributed massively to the general population..

An this is for under 65. For people under 20 the risk of dying of COVID is an statistical zero. Heck! it looks like the vaccine is more deadly for them than COVID.

So, for me it makes sense to vaccinate if you are elderly, obese, diabetic, asthmatic, etc. For everyone else, no.

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