We need to stop labeling dissidents as "conspiracy theorists

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well the identity is a result of the behaviour right?

No worries... I've found there are people who like to focus on minor quibbles (spelling mistakes, badly chosen word, poor analogy, etc.) in order to avoid addressing the subject under discussion, so figured I should let you know about this recent study (I believe the theory of asymptomatic tranmission had been considered suspect for some time).

The problem is that it's now everyone that needs a vaccine. Before we were told that only key, at risk groups needed the vaccine for restrictions to be lifted and now people outside those key groups.

Fully vaccinated people coming from amber list countries who test negative also need to self isolate.

By all means vaccinate people, but behaviour that strongly implies that the vaccine is ineffective like I mentioned above only encourages millions of people to give up with restrictions as no acceptable alternative to the vaccine has been put forward.

They can, but stand no chance is hundreds of people an hour do it

The vaccines were never claimed to be 100% effective. If I recall correctly, Pfizer and Moderna are said to be 90% effective, whereas J&J is said to be 70% effective.

So it only makes sense to continue with masks and social distancing until the vast majority of people are vaccinated. Hopefully this will take just a few more months?

But only among those who have not been vaccinated. Why do you think smallpox no longer exists in the wild?

We, in the US, are so vaccinated that the CDC said we don’t have to wear masks in most locales…even indoors.

Most people still wear masks, though.

Think about it: 5,000 cases a day in NYC in March. Less than 500 cases a day right now. 5% positivity then; 0.4% now.

They are never 100% effective but in the UK they make no distinction between the unvaccinated and fully vaccinated.

All the vulnerable adults have been vaccinated now where I live at least so I see little point in carrying on with any restrictions regardless of how small. I had my first dose about a month ago and I'm only 30. People in work who were 27 and 28 had theirs a week after. They're mopping up the last people in their 50s with the second doses.

Freedom is apparently on the 21st but the Indian strain has now brought that into question. Sadly viruses mutating into other strains is just a fact of life and I have no idea why it's being used as a strongly implied excuse for holding back the lifting of restrictions. We were promised vaccines were the road out of this mess but contempt is growing rapidly here.

The government either needs to admit the 100% vaccine they seem to be hoping for will never exist in which case they need to ease all restrictions or they need to admit they're being paranoid and ease all restrictions. They can only do one or the other in the next month.

Failing to lift all measures on the 21st here will just force people to go down the heard immunity route and intentionally spread the virus and get it over with.

Not really. You just dig your heels in and become more tribal. Also, you are being controlled. You're a tool of oligarchy, manufactured through 40 years of right-wing propaganda. You're just in denial.

On the heels of some of what we're talking about - ie. education, progress, deconstructing the power game in ways to allow social flourishing, and the liminal space we're stuck in 'between regimes' or 'between worlds':

I think I can be called a superb Chinese speaker, even by native speaker standards. At least in the range of standard Mandarin, my native dialect and even a part of classical Chinese.
No, it haven't. I have never heard of it.

I searched it on China's internal network, and the search results correspond to that some Chinese students accused a professor of Penn State University of racial slander in his courseware.



It is full of disputes on the execution process, intensity, and end nodes.
But it is absolutely not idiotic.

Really? With China has a fertility rate comparable to that of South Korea? We are facing the most serious population crisis in the world.
I think you mistakenly confused us with some South Asian countries.

Then, China has adopted(one of)the strictest control measures in the world to defend its own biological weapons used to destroy its own population?