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Bunktavious t1_j78fhcv wrote

I'd be curious as to see the math for that. It may be accurate, but its a pretty weird stat to be using, even if it is. Which I am doubting.

I'm seeing stats saying roughly 6 million hospitalizations so far, and roughly 100 million cases.

There have been roughly 670 million vaccine doses. If it took 70,000 doses to prevent a hospitalization, that would mean the vaccine has only prevented roughly 10,000 hospitalizations vs the 6 million total. That doesn't remotely add up, considering most of the research puts the odds of hospitalization at about 10x higher for the unvaccinated.

I'll gladly look at your source material if you want to provide it.

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Licking9VoltBattery t1_j7879fw wrote

I’d say you can make an argument. Eg. That’s why such drugs can be used effectively in all sorts of therapy. So I believe it’s plausible.

However, the folks i known who are interested and favour psychedelic drugs where a bit more sophisticated than for examples heavy alcohol users (and certainly would never do illegal drugs). That’s were a survey is heavily biased.

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Mountainstreams t1_j785dv6 wrote

I caught omicron just over 12 months ago from kids who got it at school. There have been a few Covid outbreaks this winter in their class too but we have avoided getting it so far. Though I’m suspicious we could have picked up an asymptomatic infection this year instead?

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ImportantRope t1_j785bxz wrote

Not saying my personal anecdotes are data, but in my experience my trips always lead to me examining my health and things I could be doing better on. A couple I knew was going through a handle of whiskey a week during the pandemic, and one trip on mushrooms led to them not touching it for over 6 months, which is awesome for them.

Not saying that proves any thing causally, but I'd be interested in study results that explored it a bit more because it would be awesome if it could help people.

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marketrent OP t1_j783met wrote

>Putin_Delenda_Est

>Probably a good way to get attention for your paper but tidally locked, red dwarf and a 16 day day orbit are probably not ideal.

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From the linked summary^1 for D. Kossakowski, et al.,^2 in my excerpt comment:^3

>Although the rotation of this planet, named Wolf 1069 b, is probably tidally locked to its path around the parent star, the team is optimistic it may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside.

>The absence of any apparent stellar activity or intense UV radiation increases the chances that Wolf 1069 b could have retained much of its atmosphere.

^1 A nearby potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanet, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, 3 Feb. 2023.

^2 D. Kossakowski, et al. The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Wolf 1069 b: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, very low-mass star. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245322

^3 https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/10te3ex/newlydiscovered_earthmass_exoplanet_named_wolf/j767v94/

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bomemachi t1_j783k6c wrote

I'm just going to say my kids watched a lot of PBS before elementary school and have none of these issues. They are all wonderful, kind students who appreciate school, learning, and respect their classmates. I expect there is more to be this story than a simple screen time correlation.

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Licking9VoltBattery t1_j782eod wrote

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JoshuaACNewman t1_j78266c wrote

What momentary increases there have been in violence among the general constant downtrend of violence as Boomers age out is directly attributable to gun access.

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JoshuaACNewman t1_j7820sb wrote

My friend, that is the direct (and knock-on) result of Bush’s No Child Left Behind program for defunding schools and its prioritization of education metrics over education.

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