KozmoNau7 (u/KozmoNau7)

KozmoNau7 commented on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed thepointsguy.com/news/sou... · Posted by u/walterbell

busymom0 · 4 years ago

Age, obesity and health conditions play a massive role in the hospitalizations and deaths. When the vaccine isn’t preventing catching and spreading the virus, it makes absolutely zero sense to have mandates. And based on Israel and Australia, the mandate doesn’t stop at 2 shots.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

Full vaccination greatly reduces the risk of infection and thus also the risk of transmission.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0607-mrna-reduce-ri...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/09/covid-va...

Additionally, the Delta variant (currently the most prevalent by far) hits young people and children hard.

Even if you consider the elderly, the obese and the chronically sick to be "expendable" (which is an absolutely abhorrent worldview), your claims simply are not correct.

KozmoNau7 commented on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed thepointsguy.com/news/sou... · Posted by u/walterbell

baumy · 4 years ago

If the choice is between 3.5 million dead, and the rise of authoritarianism and censorship, then yes the former is much less tragic than the latter and therefore the more acceptable option. And that's before taking into account that the survival rate is quite a bit higher than 99%, so it won't be 3.5 million dead. And also before taking into account that the vast majority of the dead will be the very old, and people who took extraordinarily poor care of their health.

Of course the choice isn't that simple or binary in the real world, but there's elements of that choice at play and I stand by the point I'm making.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

You're willing to sacrifice people that you consider "expendable", because you think vaccination and masks are more dangerous than a highly infectious disease with long-lasting detrimental health consequences even for survivors.

Such a severe lack of empathy is disturbing.

> the vast majority of the dead will be the very old, and people who took extraordinarily poor care of their health.

This is incorrect, the Delta variant is hitting young people hard, including children.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-covid-19-d...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/young-people-make-up-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/young-unvaccinate...

The ego-driven vaccine denial and lack of respect for distancing and mask requirements is killing people.

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KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

> "99% survival rate"

1% dead means around 3.5 million dead, in the US alone. Do you consider that acceptable?

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KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

> Who does this benefit??

Great upheaval brings great opportunity, if you are ruthless enough to exploit it.

There are unfortunately many actors around the world who - for various reasons - desire to create instability, because they see it as a way to profit or to gain political power.

It's the history of international politics.

KozmoNau7 commented on The 'specialness spiral:' Why we label ordinary objects as too special to use cnn.com/2021/10/06/health... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

aimor · 4 years ago

At some point I had a moment of realization that most things are meant to be used. That is, those fancy decorative soaps smell better on your hands than on the shelf, chocolates taste better in your mouth than in the box, if someone gives you a gift they want to enjoy it. Unsurprisingly I agree with the article's advice: use the things you have as soon as it's appropriate to use them. Light candles for dinner, write in the margins of your books, eat off china with silverware. This makes ordinary moments more enjoyable and more special.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

Exactly, things have a purpose and more often than not, that purpose is to be used up, possibly repaired and then used again, until it finally wears out or breaks completely.

I tend to baby new things until the feeling of novelty wear off, then I just use them. I don't abuse them, but I stop trying to avoid normal wear and tear. Repairing things is also something I find relaxing and interesting.

As a consequence, I tend to stick to things that are durable and can be repaired, designs and materials that have stood the test of time, and I keep them for as long as I can.

A well-worn patina on an obviously beloved object is hard to fake.

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bserge · 4 years ago

Because the officials are fucking cretinoids who can't understand it.

I had Covid, had immunity, and no one gave a flying fuck. I had to follow the same procedures as everyone else. PCR tests up the ass, waste of money, travel blocks.

Half a year later I got the J&J vaccine and had a mild fever for a day (proving my previous infection worked for immunity, just imo). Yet I still wear a fucking mask and shit. At least I have a QR code that I can use to travel...and some countries don't accept J&J as a valid vaccine.

What a fucking joke.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

I didn't have COVID, and I also only had a day or so of fever after my J&J shot in June. My girlfriend had a similarly mild reaction, and we've both been tested regularly for various reasons, we're pretty certain that we haven't been infected.

I just got my recommended booster shot of Moderna yesterday, now I'm waiting to see how hard that will hit me.

There are no certainties, but I know that here you would also been considered immune if you had previously been infected, but not yet vaccinated.

Bad public policy unfortunately exists, same with the thing about not accepting the J&J vaccine as valid. It works about as well as the mRNA vaccines against hospitalizations and death, but with somewhat less efficacy against base infection, and of course a slightly larger risk of complications. That doesn't make it a bad vaccine, so countries not accepting it is completely insane.

KozmoNau7 commented on ‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist

88913527 · 4 years ago

Even then, supermarkets being stocked isn't a self-sustaining vacuum. Not all goods sold are produced within 100 miles. The fields are cleared with industrial equipment, sourced with semiconductors and parts produced across continents, the grain is processed in a facility, the product is delivered by a driver, and some point later a 99¢ box of pasta is on the shelf. Very few items can carry on forever due to complete sourcing, production and distribution occurring as closed systems. We simply don't have that level of vertical integration.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

Equipment keeps on running until it needs to be repaired or replaced. If you can't get parts or new machinery at that point, you're screwed for a while, currently that can be a long while. Those situations will add up and get worse and worse.

KozmoNau7 commented on ‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist

simorley · 4 years ago

> Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are

A global pandemic hasn't taken out the supply chain. So I wouldn't say fragile.

> With how the climate is changing, we are only going to see more and more instability and disturbances to production and shipping in the future, due to climate refugees and unrest.

Global warming is going to open up the northwest passage and the arctic trade routes which would cut shipping times by a huge percentage from asia to europe. It would be the greatest boon to world trade in human history.

> We've played a dangerous game of brinkmanship and now we're paying the price.

Seems like we are always on the brink of something. It's neverending and it's always wrong.

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

> Global warming is going to open up the northwest passage and the arctic trade routes which would cut shipping times by a huge percentage from asia to europe. It would be the greatest boon to world trade in human history.

Climate change is going to cause droughts and starvation for millions and millions of people, who are either going to die or desperately seek to migrate to the parts of the world that are less inhospitable.

An increase in potential global trade is a drop in the ocean against the instability that large scale climate migrations are going to cause, especially considering how hostile our governments and media have acted against immigrants for decades.

KozmoNau7 commented on ‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist

powerapple · 4 years ago

I don't know what the perfect storm is, everything looks great to me. Yes, the car manufactures are cutting their productions, some people will wait for their new cars, who cares. the supermarket is full of stuffs, more than enough for everyone, each of us can choose a different brand and there are still enough for us. What's the problem?

KozmoNau7 · 4 years ago

We're not seeing empty shelves in supermarkets just yet, groceries are still available, because most places have reasonably local production available.

But electronics, cars, machinery, the kinds of things that are produced more centrally in just one part of the world are facing shortages. It's a small thing, but there was a 3 week wait on the access point I bought recently, where in normal times that would have been a day-to-day delivery. The mechanical keyboard I was looking to buy took a full year to get back in stock before I could order it.

These are of course small things, luxuries in the grand scope of life. But industries are facing component shortages that are going to last for years.