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Spin Zone / Re: Ashli Babbitt
« on: January 07, 2021, 02:25:38 PM »
She was shot by a Capital Hill Police (from what we know so far).  She was not armed, nor was she being violent.

You'll have absolutely no argument from me that police shouldn't go around murdering unarmed people.

I think this issue might have come up somewhere last year as well...

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Spin Zone / Re: POTUS bans immigration
« on: April 24, 2020, 11:45:21 AM »
This discussion deserves its own thread, but I’ll ask here whether the first couple paragraphs of this wikipedia entry reasonably describe your philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

Yes. To an extent - I realize the need for central government for the purpose of defense (but significantly smaller).

I believe that viewpoint is shared by any contemporary capitalist libertarian as well.

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Spin Zone / Re: Time to Reopen the Country
« on: April 23, 2020, 06:38:15 PM »
This was an antibody test, indicating a cohort that already had the disease and survived. They should be compared to the cohorts that acquired the disease within the same time-frame and subsequently died. For those that die, from first symptoms to death is about 14 days.[1] Antibodies also do not appear till about 7 to 10 days after infection.[2] If you include deaths in the next 10 days, you must also include people who have been infected around the same period but have not yet developed antibodies (a presumably even larger number than 6000.)

You sir, are of course correct. You can directly compare currently reported deaths with currently reported anitbody tests because of the time for them to develop vs. time for death is approximately equivalent.

I've updated my post and redacted my initial comments, and drop by fatality rate estimate from 1% to 0.7%.

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Ok, a lot to discuss here,  I'll try to hit it all.

Paul, I gave you a "Like" on that one because it's such a well argued and articulated position, not because I specifically agree with everything in there. I wish this site had different types of like/agree/dislike buttons. I'll respond more later, but traveling for the next couple of days.

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