The Coronavirus, not the beer
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
How's Sweden's herd immunity coming thethe? When was that starting in August of last year?
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
You know those ads are paid for by Smoking Companies right?
Then you go to see films and see things like
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msstate7
Well-known member
Mississippi always leading the way... maybe texas.
sturg33
I
I had to pull this out for a few folks from Oregon yesterday to explain how useless the masks are at controlling the spread. They have never heard of this narrative or data.
Felt good to make 4 people less irrationally scared and less likely to muzzle themselves
It’s terrifying when you realize just how little people know and that’s a direct result of the propoganda machine pushing them agenda and not truth. That’s how you end up with over 13 million people who almost instantly regretted voting for Biden.
This doesn’t actually say much. For one thing, 20% is still a lot of people, and the sample is not necessarily representative. Second, the spike was expected regardless of measures taken during those months. I’ve been largely silent on COVID because I don’t have much to add to the discussion, but this feels misleading.
Tapate50
Well-known member
I have never smoked, but damn this pic makes me want one.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
a tutorial on causal inference and covid
https://delphi.cmu.edu/blog/2021/01/19/causal-inference-for-social-mobility-and-covid-19/
https://delphi.cmu.edu/blog/2021/01/19/causal-inference-for-social-mobility-and-covid-19/
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We need more of this in our politics. Trump Jr ain’t the guy but I hope the next to take the mantle pushes this hard.
Does the left want a solution to the healthcare crisis or not? Would be much easier to get Medicare for all if obesity wasn’t the epidemic it is right now.
We need more of this in our politics. Trump Jr ain’t the guy but I hope the next to take the mantle pushes this hard.
Does the left want a solution to the healthcare crisis or not? Would be much easier to get Medicare for all if obesity wasn’t the epidemic it is right now.
msstate7
Well-known member
So 49.2% weren't obese? That's much closer to 50/50 than I would've though. Hell, it is 50/50
I can only speak on my experiences, but most since roughly Sept of last year, most places I've gone to that aren't national retailers/chain restaurants, aren't enforcing mask wearing. As such, only about half the people in the store/restaurant wear masks and many of them wear them incorrectly. Also, to state the obvious, mask wearing is only one of the combatants we have to fight the virus.
And then of course schools (both K-12 and Universities) started reopening in person learning during Sept-Oct. And then the holidays started with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Years. When there is higher amount of interaction in society, you would expect cases to rise, regardless of masks wearing or not.
40 percent of Americans are obese. I’m one of them. I agree it’s a problem that needs to be dealt with. It’s a difficult problem. I also doubt conservatives would be on board with a lot of the interventionist types of policies that government might could use to combat it. They’re not going to regulate soda, fast food, and processed foods. They probably will probably not support improving low income access to healthy foods. They’ll blame obesity and then start talking about personal responsibility so they can feel good about themselves. However some of them including Donald Trump are obese.
All we have to do is have Trump come out and say obesity isn't a problem and should be encouraged. That will get the left to come down hard on it and push towards getting fitter.
Government is not the solution.
Having society stop saying things like obesity is healthy is how it starts.
I have known very few people who actually say that and most obese people constantly think about losing weight.However there are reasons it’s not easy to lose the weight once your body has established it as a baseline. It has a lot in common with addiction.
However this really is an attempt to deflect to a different real problem that it is more politically viable to say the government has no role in. It’s kind of a cop out.