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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by jessaustin on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:41PM
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It wasn't necessary to copy/paste this eight times.
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by hombre_fatal on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:59PM
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Not every HN comment subtree is an argument that you need to “win”.
If you write a comment you think is good, once is enough.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by henryaj on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:53PM
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You needn't have bothered. You shared a highly speculative piece which seemed to not mention the Pfizer vaccine at all, which largely said the opposite of what you are saying (i.e. the Oxford vaccine reduced both symptomatic and asymptomatic infections) and had one quote talking about a "worst case scenario" in which that might not be true.
And you shared it 8 times, which is 8 times too many.
I see 3, but even if it were 8 at some point, it'd just be 7 times too many at best. Saying 8 times is just shutting-up a perfectly valid comment.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by henryaj on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:24PM
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My point was that it wasn't a perfectly valid comment.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by h3cate on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:15PM
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Somebody else posted link about quote from Pfizer chairman saying it's completely unknown if transmission continues after vaccination. Happy to read any evidence either way
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by jessaustin on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:52PM
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If this were common practice on HN, HN would be pretty awful. If you've said something once in a thread, those who read the thread will read it.
Are we at -1 apologies now?
[EDIT:] we're square now, thanks...
I might have read it if your replied once and got downvote. Then it looks like you are saying an unpopular truth, which I am inclined to investigate. Otoh, copy pasting a bunch of times makes you seem like an internet crazy person.
"What will you having this vaccine do for anybody but yourself ?"
COVID is contagious meaning it's as much about those around you as it is yourself.
Second, in order to beat COVID we have to have a certain immunity threshold i.e. 75% or whatever, meaning, your participation in that effort matters.
It is our 'civic duty' and I'm proud that the top commenter (at the moment I write this) has put it in those terms because that's a good way to put it.