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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by ed25519FUUU on Saturday April 17, 2021 @11:16AM (#26844865)
Getting strong “15 days to flatten the curve” vibes.
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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by maxerickson on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:19PM (#26845382)
There were, uh, people arguing, 12 months ago, that this characterization was bad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908490

Taiwan's had 1070 cases! And concerts and mostly normal life.

(do note that I'm not calling for endless lock downs there, I'm calling for control measures that we didn't really work very hard to put into place; we could have done a lot more to reduce household and workplace spread and so on)

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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by guscost on Saturday April 17, 2021 @11:40AM (#26845058)
“It’s just a tiny inconvenience, don’t be selfish!”
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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by perl4ever on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:28PM (#26845468)
The only way I can interpret this is that you believe the cost-benefit is not there without a substantial altruistic motive. Do you think that, and if so, why?
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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by dang on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:24PM (#26847966)
Please don't take HN threads into flamewars. They're tedious and nasty, and we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eage... by foogazi on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:14PM (#26846243)
“It’s going to go away”
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