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I am a bigot of HN. I got that title from jasonwatkinspdx. I am a bigot because I believe that blacks and American Indians have agency. I am a bigot because I believe that people of all colors can improve their lives independently of a government. I am an HN bigot.
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Comment · 6 years ago
I really wanted to like QAnon as a conspiracy watcher. Unfortunately I was never able to wrap my mind around its stream of consciousness writing. It seemed like a bunch of right wing blather that used buzzwords to tantalize pro swamp drainers.
Comment · 6 years ago
You should follow through on some of those links to the actual papers. They have structural problems. The first assumed that there was a 50% chance of the individuals living to 100. That is not realistic. But the business insider article does allow for people to sensationalize and feel smug in their knowledge that the long term economic and existential damage from bunkering and collapsing the economy was all worth it.
Comment · 6 years ago
We don’t know that. The body could heal. Also there was little thought to comorbidities in most papers.
Comment · 6 years ago
No. Most of Sweden’s deaths were due to poor management at the beginning. They shoved the elderly into old folks homes with Covid positive patients.
Comment · 6 years ago
The disease will not be wiped out by masks and hand washing. Germany and other countries are finding their rates of infection increasing as people leave their bunkers. The model used by most of Europe is not sustainable. People can’t bunker down in their homes forever.

Sweden’s model shows that you can keep your economy open and reasonably manage the disease. People who are going to die are the elderly by enlarge. That is sad. However they would die soon enough due to their age and pre existing issues. Why sacrifice the economy for the elderly’s two years while harming the next generation by poor remote education and harming the current adults due to destroyed economic activity?

Comment · 6 years ago
Van Gogh tried to sell his art for more than the price of parts. He was unsuccessful in his life due to being ahead of the curve. Much like Betamax, he died before being appreciated.
Comment · 6 years ago
But pretending is key here too. Harry Potter porn? Here she’s pretending to be Emma Watson’s most famous role but not Emma.

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