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To your way of thinking what is the significant difference between not mentioning transmissibility and ignoring it?

'I did NOT ignore it's transmissibility, I never even hinted, at it...' I rest my case.

My correction to your original assertion was not about public policy or the situation in the US. I simply used the US as an example. It's about the fact that your reason was mathematically defective. Here's what you wrote and my reply to it. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? How much stress is put on the hospitals system depends on 2 factors: 1) virulence of the variant 2) transmissiblity. So, yes, Omicron is on average less severe. A lower percentage will become seriously ill or die. But on the other hand, it's far more transmissible. So more people will be infected. Your formulation ignored the issue of transmissibility. You are still ignoring that issue. Not much I can do about that.

Actually another just collapsed in Pittsburgh just 8 days ago. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/28/us/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse/index.html

China managed to successfully land a probe on Mars. How have the UK and the EU fared so far?

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"No, I'm not saying they're lying, but without actual numbers and how get to them, it's meaningless." No, a meaningless is one that can't be falsified or proven true. It's definitely not meaningless. And if you knew anything about the media in Australia, you would know that Rupert Murdoch's media empire is very fossil fuel friendly. I haven't been able to find any evidence of anyone disputing the claim. It would be the height of foolhardiness for a public agency to lie about such a thing. You've got nothing. "As I have pointed out any number of times, if renewables were actually cheaper , every provider in the US would be in the process of converting, and there would be no need for mandates of subsidies. " "And as I have pointed out these are government mandates. These are not necessarily bottom line driven decisions. And I've cited sources like the IEA, IRENA, Lazard Freres that absolutely contradict what you claim. So who should we believe. An anonymous poster on Thaivisa or organizations that offer hard data?" "Do you not ever wonder about that? Why would any privately held company not choose to increase their profit given the chance?" This comment of yours is just incoherent. If a company can make money on a project and the government throws in some tax breaks as well, why would they complain? I haven't heard about the oil and gas industry complaining about their tax breaks. "Is it your position that "private industry" actually wanted to replace an existing coal-fired plant with a new renewable energy plant which would provide cleaner, lower cost power, but the government came in and stopped them?" This is not about my position at all. The government insisted on having a gas powered plant even though it was widely criticized as being financially unfeasible. It asked for bids from private companies to build and operate the plants. . None were forthcoming. So the government decided to pay for the plant itself. There was never any discussion of building any other kind of plant. "And now the government is compelling that same "private industry" to build a gas-fired plant, even though it will cost more and be more harmful to the environment than renewable energy plant, is that also correct? " More nonsense. When a government orders, say, a new building from the private sector, it is ordering the private sector to make that building? Do you understand that "order from" is very different from "order to"? You think that's how the government works in an economically advanced nation? That they compel private interests to provide services or goods? Let me explain briefly how it works. The government asks for bids and private contractors offer them up with the expectation of making a profit. Generally the lowest bid wins. What is there about this that is unfamiliar to you? In this case the government is going to pay some private contractor or contractor to build the plant. They may even pay them a fee to run it. But the financial responsibility for the plant will lie entirely with the government. It's going to be a government owned plant.

Next you you know, you'll ask him what does 2+2 equal and he'll conjure up some answer like "4". You think that by anticipating a point you somehow make it pointless? You think that by calling the vaccines "awful for protection against transmission/infection" that means they're awful vaccines? That it's a relatively minor point that they are brilliant at protecting against death and serious illness?

You're right. I won't see it in headlines of media I like to listen to. I've noticed that those on the political right seem to read very rarely. Instead they get their news from videos and podcasts. Not really great sources if you want to fact check but great if you want to be emotionally riled up. But I have read plenty about those truckers. As for how most Canadians feel about those truckers... Majority of Canadians polled support healthcare fines for unvaccinated, survey finds Just over 60 per cent of Canadians recently polled are on board with the implementation of fines for the unvaccinated, such as a healthcare tax, similar to the one Québec Premier François Legault announced on Tuesday. Legault said that adults in Québec who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 would be forced to pay a “significant” financial penalty. The fine would be the first of its kind in Canada and apply to unvaccinated residents who don’t have a medical exemption. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/12/canada-poll-unvaccinated-fines/ Majority of Canadians don't have sympathy for unvaccinated who get sick from COVID: poll The majority of Canadians, 66 per cent, believe in mandatory vaccinations for everybody five years of age and older, but over 80 per cent believe the country should allow for exemptions. Seventy-seven per cent believe the exemptions should be those with legitimate and diagnosed medical reasons. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/19/unvaccinated-vaccinated-covid19-opinion-polls/

In this case, it's the lemmings who are most at risk.

I think the English is crystal clear. But let me try it another way. Owners don't have the authority to force people to get vaccinated. But they do have the right to keep the unvaccinated out of their establishments.

Well, in Germany there is a serious debate in the Parliament about whether or not vaccines should be mandatory. In France, the govt made life difficult for the non-vaccinated by requiring vaccine passports. Austria has actually made vaccines mandatory. In all 3 nations there have been lots of protests. But they are representative only of a minority of citizens.

Are you claiming that these demonstrators are representative of the entire population? Most of the population?

Wow! So many! How many is "so many"? How many are not demonstrating in streets?

No business owners are telling anyone that they must get vaccinated. Only that if they want to enter their establishments must they be vaccinated. The unvaccinated are free to patronize other establishments.

You're still ignoring the fact that a)public health systems in poor nations are very unreliable in respect to reporting b)in lots of these countries, particularly in Africa, median ages are far younger. For instance, Nigeria, the African nation with the highest population has a median age of 18.1. Compare that to the USA which has a median age of 38.1. More than twice as high. And it's even worse than that looks because the percentage of Americans reaching advanced old age is far higher than it is in Nigeria. c)obesity rates in high income and middle income countries are mostly far higher than in low income countries None of this excuses the poor performance of the USA. But that's largely down to politics now, where one segment of the population that's aligned with one political party, has a far lower vaccination rate and a far higher mortality rate than does the other party. Absent forced vaccination, which is a political impossibility, that won't change until enough unvaccinated people become infected so that some sort of equilibrium is achieved.

Well, many vaccines require at least 2 inoculations to be fully effective. So people are getting the same vaccine twice. Some vaccines require more than 2 inoculations. In the case of covid it has been proven that the same vaccine can be effective against different variants especially in regards to serious illness and death.

Paxlovid is not a vaccine, it's a drug. So, no, it wouldn't function as a booster.

Japan was slow to authorize booster shots. And only recently cut the interval between the first 2 shots and the booster from 8 months to 6. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-japan-tokyo-8e5c6f17ccd1ecf256c0dbd4a79d2c33

Since you're only given the pill when you're already ill, waiting might not be the best plan.

And the things that some, like you, misunderstand.

The reason boil down to either inconsistent standards for statistics or an irrational fear that somewhere down the line some deleterious consequence of vaccinations will emerge. In the former case, it's about focusing on extremely rare events. In the latter, it's about ignoring the fact that there has never been a case of a vaccine resulting in latent deleterious effects whereas there are plenty of viral infections doing just that.

Well, maybe it's difficult to get enough Vitamin D in your bloodstream merely by sunbathing? Clearly, the question should have been addressed. But anyway, whether it's through sunbathing, or as a cheap supplement, it's very good news. As for Pfizer or other vaccine manufacturers working to discredit the study, got any more conspiracy theories to share with us?

According to The Times of Israel, Vitamin D is powerfully effective against death or serious illness from Covid. It says doctors can predict with a very high levell of confidence how well a patient will do based on the level of vitamin D in their blood. The one curious thing I noticed in the article is that while it discusses Vitamin D as a supplement, no mention is made of the fact that your body can manufacture it when exposed to sunlight. Israeli study offers strongest proof yet of vitamin D’s power to fight COVID Bolstering previous research, scientists publish ‘remarkable’ data showing strong link between vitamin deficiency, prevalent in Israel, and death or serious illness among patients https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-offers-strongest-proof-yet-of-vitamin-ds-power-to-fight-covid/

What does this have to do with your claim that hospitals will be less stressed by Omicron than by Delta? Omicron Drives US Deaths Higher Than in Fall's Delta Wave Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than was the case during last fall's delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been climbing since mid-November, reaching 2,267 on Thursday and surpassing a September peak of 2,100 when delta was the dominant variant. https://www.voanews.com/a/omicron-drives-us-deaths-higher-than-in-fall-s-delta-wave/6417795.html