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Believe the experts!

Some people want real proof, not having to rely on believing experts.

I guess it is a chasm across society. Some people want to be able to believe.

Why is the US so hellbent on fighting for Ukraine in this case?

Russia is also "The West", culturally.

Couldn't it simply be true that Putin doesn't want Ukraine to join Nato and Ukraine is trying to join anyway?

How do you send a text message without any authority intervening these days?

Email used to do that, I guess, but now if GMail doesn't like you there may be problems.

Censorship and centralized control, hopefully. People owning their own content.

A list of appeals to authority. I guess it is the centralized mindset.

In my country the differences beteren universities (and schools) are not very big. It seems very unlikely that more money could buy a significantly better education. Nobody is starving, either.

Is money really the issue? In many places, everybody gets a free education, and even university is free. So everybody could simply become a doctor or a lawyer and expect an income above the poverty line - at least if money was the only issue.

I am older than 40 and according to qcovid my risk of hospitalization is about 0,1%, so I doubt your 0,4% number. I am slightly overweight, which increases my risk by about 20%. But I doubt all the 18-29 year olds in your group are so obese that they get to 0,4%.

But since the vaccine only works for a couple of months, doesn't it make more sense to consider the risk of catching Covid in that short time frame?

It seems likely that future Covid strains will be less deadly, too, just as the flu has years that are more or less deadly than others.

Also, isn't a fraction of the population immune to begin with?

How long have those satellites been watching? It can't be all that long? It seems to me scientists still find unexpected things.

I think when people first tried to model the three body problem, the planets would just fall apart. But in reality they don't, so they knew they had to try harder. I wonder if many doomsday models are like the three body models that fell apart. And newspapers go "scientists show that earth could float off into space soon".