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  Covid 19 True Infection Rate / Proof of Misinformation

  by Simon in

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  this is interesting.. you've probably heard of "asymptomatic spread" which is, people who are infected with the virus and are spreading it, but who have no symptoms.. but is it accurate?

  is it supported by the statistics?.

  this video analyses the facts and concludes that we've been given misinformation due to faulty testing.

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  @rocketman: you can look at the stats in the US and EU. States like Florida that never locked down or did not do any top-down policy cramming have much lower impact across any measure. Compare to high control states like NY and California where crackdowns continue and deaths are a lot higher.
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  Depends on the statistics you're looking at. According to PubMed, TB kills about 480,000 persons in India every year which would put them at 32/100k annually. Tuberculosis death rate (per 100000 people) in India was reported at 32 in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators.

  Regarding the TB, I was indeed incorrect, misquoted from a source, that was not annually.

  The statistics quoted on COVID are annualized. COVID has been going on for 1.5 years if you didn't notice, you can't make a comparison of all deaths in India and give it as an annual rate. Look at the number in 2020 and then the number is 7/100,000.
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  How big of a problem is COVID really in a land where there is insufficient food, water and sanitation?

  200 children under 5 die daily from lack of proper sanitation in India. In 2010 the average life expectancy was under 65 years. Annually 18.6 people per 100,000 die in India from lack of sanitary provisions, and 145 infants per 100,000 born die due to lack of medical facilities.

  COVID in India kills less than 7 per 100,000, tuberculosis kills 190 and malaria more than 50.

  That is nearly 7000 infants that die per year simply from sanitation problems. Since COVID started they had 2600 deaths from that. Unsurprisingly a disease that affects primarily people over 65 and obese people doesn’t affect a country that doesn’t have many people over 65 or obese people.

  Sure they may be seeing a bit of a surge but twice the number of kids died yesterday from sanitation problems than any age group died of COVID.

  Perspective is key. If you think COVID is bad where you live, move to India, you probably won’t die of COVID there.
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  Woke Oscars cringe

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

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  What was really bad is that they cleared out central station of the homeless, something they won’t do any other day, then built a giant wall to protect them from the public and Antifa/BLM protestors, then had rows of cops standing to protect their little enclave they built. They got $250,000 swag bags for the actors, regardless whether they won.

  
  

  Then they went on stage and created movies to decry white privilege, railed against the cops, the system and support BLM.
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  Covid 19 True Infection Rate / Proof of Misinformation

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is interesting.. you've probably heard of "asymptomatic spread" which is, people who are infected with the virus and are spreading it, but who have no symptoms.. but is it accurate?

  is it supported by the statistics?.

  this video analyses the facts and concludes that we've been given misinformation due to faulty testing.

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  There is a reason the government is spinning this. You'd be a fool not to. I'm in a leadership position and even I have used this thing to get extra funding for my team and goals.

  People that are scared allow all sorts of things, regardless of whether it is good for them or not. People that understand that are your leaders, people that can think straight, come up with a solution and get resources to implement that solution.

  However there are also those leaders that outright lie about these things. You can clearly see from the statistics that the COVID pandemic is for all intents and purposes, over, the reproductive rate is below sustainable. But the government, now drunk on power, doesn't want it to end and the media know this as well, as they say "if it bleeds, it leads" and continue to misinform people on the facts in order to get more funding for their pet projects.
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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

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  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  @joey: what self defense instructor would tell you to give an intruder what they want and hope they go away? At that point they’re already too close to you.

  Guess what: they’ll shoot you or beat you after you give them what they want because you are a witness.

  On the street, you have to be aware of your surroundings. Be aware of how gangs operate. They’ll almost never confront you head on, they’ll walk past you and yell at you when your back is to them. That’s because they know head-on you could surprise them, but coming from the back you’d have to turn around. If it’s one you could defend yourself with a knife or gun, with three or more, you have to take an opportunity after you give them your stuff and their hands are full and their guard is down but before they beat you into a pulp.
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  How long did people worship Zeus? Was it longer than Christianity's 2000 years?

  by pistolpete in

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  how long did people worship zeus?

  was it longer than christianity's 2000 years?.

  most answers say this but they do vary..

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  People have always worshipped. Even today, people (eg Ibram X Kendi) are inventing cults and religions, not necessarily with classic deities but definitely inventing a “higher ideal” to be strived after, declaring some form of original sin and declaring classes of priesthood and rituals of penance in order for this priest class to attain some power. And you too can get some of that power, some of that knowledge, if only you do what is prescribed and excise those who do not from your bubble of society.

  All religion follows this pattern, you find something that will be perpetually wrong with the human condition that nobody can fix and declare that you have the solution as long as you are put in power. And people have the innate desire for ritual and stability by forming groups and having an answer provided to the monsters in the abyss, and all forms of religion exploits that.

  It is why all religions have the same deity forms, it exploits the monsters we naturally fear (the snakes in the field, the birds in the sky and the big cats in the trees) to make us give up something to benefit someone else. And that can be quite good for a small group society, hence why most people accept religion, because it was beneficial to a society, we are here because our ancestors were hard wired believers, but can also be exploited by those who seek power, especially when the group grows large and the classes distance themselves from each other.
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  Belgian Civil Rights Attorney's comments on the Ghent decision

  by vienne in

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  this and several other articles are here: https://bitterwinter.org/excommunication-looking-for-a-balance-of-interests-between-opposite-freedoms/.

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  Recognized the name and sure, I do believe Yannick Thiels is an actual JW.

  He has several “papers” decrying the anti-cult government apparatus in European countries. He has defended the WTBTS on blood transfusion and other things, his opinion is highly colored. The fact he quotes scripture in his defense of the organization kind of gives it away.

  I do think this case is different enough, the legal strategy was well thought out, the case actually does not go after religious tenets as most prior cases have done, instead using the anti-discrimination statutes to go after the results (damages). So WTBTS is not forbidden from teaching the doctrine, which the Roman Catholic Church in its strictest form does as well, they just can’t tell people to discriminate on the basis of it.
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  Reagan was objectively the best modern President with Nixon a close second.

  Best boxer (or rather martial artist) I would have to give to a girl, but not sure which, they fight a lot more fierce than their male counterparts.

  Best athlete is debatable, probably Michael Jordan.

  The rest is highly subjective, more of a preference than “best”, cow part would probably be sirloin, a lot more flexible to work with.
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  Over population

  by mickbobcat in

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  so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.

  that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.

  well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.

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  For the naysayers: China did actually lift itself out of poverty. Until a few years ago people there died yearly from starvation. The same goes for India. That problem has disappeared, and that isn’t just China talking, the UN and US agrees on these points, China has been hiding the problem of starvation for nearly a century now, hence why nobody knows but over the last century, there were years where millions of Chinese died and even in the 1970s 30% of their population did not have enough food.

  Poverty does not mean you’re not a millionaire, it means you can feed yourself regularly and have a roof over your head. Sure it may mean you’re still living in a slum and can’t afford a car but at least you’re not worm food. Our concept of poverty in the west is so far out of whack, the concept of poverty we have is that you aren’t sufficiently rich to afford certain luxuries.

  There are other statistics people spout here, but they are all from a very narrow perspective. As Israel showed in the 1940s and 1950s, it is relatively easy to convert desert to sustainable agricultural areas, it is actually one of the few uses for modern solar and wind energy would be suitable for. And we complain about California while people choose to live and grow there when it was never actually sustainable to begin with. The only reason California exists is the gold rush, but it was a desert before we even got there, the problem they have is handouts from the government, if the federal government weren’t giving handouts to them (50% of all state aid goes to California, paid for by other states), it would sort itself out very naturally.

  The rainforest is a similar problem, its cutting was sustained by massive handouts from western and Brazilian governments. The current conservative government is slowly fixing that, they’ve deployed their military to stop illegal logging and they are now on track to have more than 33% of the area cut since 1970s rainforest recovered in secondary forests. The problem with activists is that they only count in one direction, so they’ll say stuff like how much rainforest is being cut last year while ignoring that recently most of the legal cutting has been done in secondary forests (which humans planted) and that through the human intervention and the halt to funding subsistence farming the total area of wood for both the Amazon rainforest and the world has increased (https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/)

  As always, we have to be careful with the information we obtain. There is always an angle, according to Greenpeace we’ve only been cutting trees and there is a dire problem with tree coverage. But anyone that has walked into Home Depot between 1970 and now knows that most of our wood source has changed to young, cheap, human grown trees (to the begrudging of many an old contractor).

  The same goes for habitable lands and farmlands. The facts are we use less farmland now than we did half a century ago and we produce double the amount of food. Sure there are byproducts, but those are all manageable. In the near future farming will go vertical, meaning even less space will be used by several factors. Visionaries are predicting a future with a handful (~5) of vertical factory farms, taking up a total area smaller than NYC, throughout the US could supply all of humanities food requirements (in the world). Meat can now be grown in vats obviating the need for cows.