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Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by AnnoyedComment on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:06AM (#28057170)
Why is your text all grey? Is this what we do to dissenting opinions on this site? It's the first time I've seen the effect (I'm new to the site).

Regardless, I agree with the sentiment professed above that this is an unconscionable action at the government level.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by criticaltinker on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:13AM (#28057222)
This happens when a comment is down-voted. Sometimes it happens to non-mainstream opinions being voiced, but more often it's because the comment is considered by others to be inflammatory or unsubstantiative. See the site guidelines for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by AnnoyedComment on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:51AM (#28057409)
I see. It only appears to happen thus far when it goes against the mainstream thought process. I'm sure I'll see some apolitical usage at some point, but I've yet to witness it. Thank you for your answer.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by _djo_ on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:50AM (#28071619)
I've seen plenty of examples of it happening to apolitical comments in just the last few days. It's not uncommon.

It may be that you're predominantly clicking on and reading inherently political topics, and so getting a disproportional view of the trend.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by whateveracct on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:21PM (#28056843)
You got a better idea?
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by anonymouswacker on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:52PM (#28057058)
Yeah. Let people do what they want. When did centralization of power ever do anything good without horrible unintended consequences?
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:25AM (#28057850)
Freedom to contaminate?
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by anonymouswacker on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:38PM (#28063081)
Yes. It’s what we called living before 2020.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by sanp on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:52PM (#28069670)
Ah - so, we should not change our behavior based on new knowledge? Perhaps we should also allow chemical companies to dump toxic pollutants because we called that living before the clean air and water act...
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by aplummer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:11AM (#28057206)
When we eradicated polio with the miracle of vaccinations and stopped having children in iron lungs
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by anonymouswacker on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:52AM (#28062485)
That was hardly the same thing. They tested for years, and then the Federal government left it to the states and did not mandate it.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by Analemma_ on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:00PM (#28055314)
You’re not allowed to walk into public places spraying bullets in every direction, but that is what you are potentially doing when you’re not vaccinated. Piss off with the juvenile freedom argument; freedom stops where your nose does and does not cover fatal contagions.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by mrandolph on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:14PM (#28056797)
that's an immense amount of hyperbole for a comment decrying juvenile arguments.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:02AM (#28057138)
This logic is shete. There are already several classes of people who either can’t or shouldn’t take the vaccines: kids under twelve, immunocompromised, and people who have severe reactions to vaccines. It’s weird but I happen to have family members in several of those categories.

According to this shete logic, we should close all elementary schools, daycares, and nursing homes.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:16AM (#28057249)
Also it is psychotic to vaccinate kids right now. We don’t have a good sense of the long term side effects of the vaccine. We usually figure that out with long term trials lasting years.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:29AM (#28057873)
Yes we do. There are hundreds of vaccines, none have long term side effects. There was some suspicion regarding one flu vaccine and narcolepsy, but it's been mostly ruled out and is entirely due to the peculiar etiology of that disorder, not the vaccine as such (the virus it targets is the known trigger for that autoimmune disorder).
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Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:37AM (#28058668)
Not getting vaccinated is playing roulette as well, and the odds are clear. The point is that not getting vaccinated is not just playing roulette with your own head, but with others'.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:49AM (#28058735)
No. The odds differ for each individual. It may be the case that for a particular individual it is better for them not to take it.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:50AM (#28058740)
Except that it's demonstrably not.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:14AM (#28058870)
There is no need to argue with you anymore. First you say that all vaccines are safe. Then when I find examples of them being unsafe, you say it was a manufacturing mistake from 60 years ago. Then when I find another from 1998 you argue that bowel obstructions are not long term and that it was 3 decades ago. Then I find another from only 4 years ago and you say that it is only one example. Then I go and find two more. Keep on walking back your claims.

Note that many of these vaccines were already approved and not under emergency use authorization. Ever wonder how many side effects vaccines under trial have and how many never make it out of trials?

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:45AM (#28059085)
I never said all vaccines are safe. You were not arguing with me, you were arguing with a strawman of your own making.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:01AM (#28059188)
Himinlomax - “Yes we do. There are hundreds of vaccines, none have long term side effects. There was some suspicion regarding one flu vaccine and narcolepsy, but it's been mostly ruled out and is entirely due to the peculiar etiology of that disorder, not the vaccine as such (the virus it targets is the known trigger for that autoimmune disord…”

“Ah, at last, one relevant example. So you're right, there is one case where a vaccine had negative side effects, long term. Out of hundreds of vaccines. Doesn't change much to the argument, statistically.”

“I never said all vaccines are safe.”

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:01AM (#28059581)
> long term side effects
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Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:00PM (#28066977)
“himinlomax 13 hours ago [–]

That's still 3 decades, and that was short term”

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:32PM (#28067301)
Nope, wrong again. Go look at the game theory of taking a vaccine for a trivial example.

Suppose there are 100 people. Suppose a virus has a 10% chance of killing you and the vaccine has a 1% chance. Now give the vaccine to 99 people. Should the last person take the vaccine? The virus is gone. Their probability of dying from the virus is now 0% instead of 10%. But their probability of dying from the vaccine is still 1%.

Different people taking the vaccine at different times have different risk profiles.

That is just the hypothetical example. There are actual real life examples of this with Covid-19. Some Scandinavian country was giving the vaccine to the elderly. Apparently they were already fragile and taking the vaccine pushed them over the edge and killed them.

Now if you are one of those people should you take the vaccine or be forced to? Your best bet is actually to have everyone else take the vaccine and NOT take it yourself.

Some people say that this is an example of a tragedy of the commons and that the health community pushes everyone to take the vaccine even if it is NOT in their specific self interest to do so. Everyone wants to be last. No one wants to be first. What do you actually think these vaccine mandates are pushing?

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:07AM (#28058503)
You are wrong.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

Go look at the Cutter incident. It killed 10. Seems like the long term side effect that you claim does not exist.

“ In 1955, some batches of polio vaccine given to the public contained live polio virus, even though they had passed required safety testing”

Go look at the rotavirus incident.

“ The results of the investigations showed that RotaShield vaccine caused intussusception in some healthy infants younger than 12 months of age who normally would be at low risk for this condition.”

All from the CDC.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:21AM (#28058581)
What a terrible example. You're taking as an example a case where a production defect resulted in contamination by the disease itself. The long term side effects are not caused by the vaccine as a vaccine, they were those of the disease a faulty vaccine contained. It boggles the mind how anyone can find this a compelling argument, but that's par for the course for antivaxers.

Your second example is a short term effect, not a long term one. Wrong again.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:26AM (#28058606)
Bowel obstructions kill you clown. Seems like a long term side effect to me.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:30AM (#28058632)
A bullet to the brain kills you more, but they're no more LONG TERM than a bowel obstruction shortly after injection.

LONG TERM means years down the road. We already have a year of experience with this vaccine, starting with the participants of the first trials.

This is just silly.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by dagsdgfhdgdj on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:23AM (#28058592)
> Go look at the Cutter incident. It killed 10. Seems like the long term side effect that you claim does not exist.

Not to mention what could happen if someone messed up and injected bleach instead of the vaccine.

You have to go back over 60 years and even then only find issues caused by manufacturing problems, i.e., cases where not the intended vaccine was injected...

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:28AM (#28058620)
Wrong. Rotavirus is 1998. Do the math. 2021 - 1998 = 23 years

EDIT: 23 not 32 years

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:32AM (#28058639)
That's still 3 decades, and that was short term.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:42AM (#28058702)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/coronavirus/four-times-his...

More examples.

One from 2017 with several deaths.

“In 2017, the Philippines stopped a school-based dengue fever vaccination program after reports of complications and several deaths linked to the product called Dengvaxia. The French manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur, later stated that the vaccine posed a risk to those without prior infection from one of the disease’s four stereotypes. The result was that it actually increased the risk that a child would contract a more severe form of the disease.”

Is 4 years recent enough?

Edit: Read more carefully, the paper cited 4 examples. One was Cutter.

“ Next on the list is the widespread vaccination against the childhood disease measles. In the early 1960s, thousands of children received a particular inactivated vaccine, so if they were exposed to the actual measles virus, they developed atypical measles. This was characterized by high fever, severe abdominal pain and lung inflammation and often required hospitalization. That particular vaccine was eventually withdrawn.

The final case deals with the vaccination attempt of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Children treated with one type of vaccine in the 1960s developed an enhanced form of the disease, often suffering from high fever, bronchopneumonia and wheezing. Dozens ended up being hospitalized and two died. There still is no vaccine to prevent RSV infection, but scientists are working hard to develop one, according to the CDC.”

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:54AM (#28059147)
re: your edit

So basically that vaccine didn't work to prevent measles. That's not a long term side-effect. That's a vaccine not working.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:58PM (#28064135)
Can you not read?

Here is the quote for the RSV vaccine that I had included in the earlier comment.

“Dozens ended up being hospitalized and two died.”

Also can you not at least do your own research on atypical measles? Pulmonary lesions for several years sounds long term to me.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7468641/

“ This report highlights three unusual manifestations of this syndrome: 1) transient hepatitis, 2) persistence of pulmonary lesions for several years, and 3) occurrence of excessively high measles hemagglutination-inhibition antibody titers.”

Everything you say, I go find evidence against and you find no new evidence. You just walk further and further back.

- no vaccines with long term side effects

- wrong, how about Cutter and rotavirus

- only one vaccine with long term side effects

- wrong, how about these 2

- only 60 years ago

- wrong, how about 23 years ago

- only manufacturing defect

- wrong, how about RSV, and these two others

- only 30 years ago

- wrong, how about 4 years ago

- only got you measles

- wrong, you got atypical measles

- no long term effects

- wrong, did you not read that there were multiple deaths? Did you figure out what atypical measles is? Did you find out about it’s long term side effects?

- I never said vaccines were safe, just that there were none with long term side effects

- wrong, you must mean short term side effects that fade away? Hahahaha. Deaths, paralysis, lesions, bowel obstructions that left untreated can kill you, etc…

Do you know what long term side effect even means? It doesn’t mean that the side effects only begin showing up later. An effect that occurs immediately and persists is still a long term side effect. A bullet to your brain has a long term side effect. It’s action is immediate but it’s side effects can be long lasting.

If vaccines are not safe, then why are you arguing that people take them? Also if you can’t tell if they are safe, how can you argue that taking the vaccines is safer than getting COVID-19? How can you argue definitively that the vaccines are safer for everyone? Why are you arguing against waiting for results of long term trials?

When faced with more and more evidence, instead of learning more, you stay incurious. You argue with so much self assurance but do not bother researching and thinking through a situation that is not fully known.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:48AM (#28058734)
Ah, at last, one relevant example. So you're right, there is one case where a vaccine had negative side effects, long term. Out of hundreds of vaccines. Doesn't change much to the argument, statistically.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:09AM (#28058841)
There were 4 examples in this article. Only one was in the CDC article.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:46PM (#28079528)
There was another in the CDC article. So 5 so far. And these were vaccines that had passed trials unlike the current COVID-19 vaccines that haven’t even passed trials yet. The COVID-19 vaccines in the US are ALL under emergency use authorization. Many, many vaccines don’t pass trials because of adverse side effects. Also these 5 were what I found with just a little research.

It’s as if you don’t actually know whether the vaccines are safe since no long term trials have been completed. And that even after trials have been completed, some vaccines are actually unsafe and not just due to manufacturing defects.

Use your brain people. Don’t let someone else think for you. Keep your agency.

Feel free to take the vaccine if you choose but do your own research first. Don’t be affected by the screamers. When someone tells you something, go find out if it is actually true. When someone tells you something absolute then be extra careful.

When someone approaches a topic without an open mind be extra cautious. Signs of this are not looking for evidence, not considering evidence, not allowing for the possibility that we just might not know, and not allowing for a more complex reality.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:45AM (#28058720)
“In 2017, the Philippines stopped a school-based dengue fever vaccination program after reports of complications and several deaths linked to the product called Dengvaxia. The French manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur, later stated that the vaccine posed a risk to those without prior infection from one of the disease’s four stereotypes. The result was that it actually increased the risk that a child would contract a more severe form of the disease.“
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by thoughtstheseus on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @08:59PM (#28056090)
This seems to be a more and more common view lately. There is free and widely available medicine that works extremely well. Take it or don’t but the “bullets” are not going away. That’s why it’s called a pandemic.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by anonymouswacker on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:56PM (#28057088)
Vaccinated people spread the disease, too. Maybe once the mRNA vaccine’s side effects have subsided — specifically brain fog & lethargy — people will be able to have less emotional, hyperbolic retorts to shitposts.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:08AM (#28057185)
You do know how the vaccine works right? The virus still infects you and quite possibly reproduces for awhile. It is just that your immune system has been primed to recognize the virus and kill off cells that have been infected. In other words, vaccinated people can still spread the virus.

https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immu...

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:14AM (#28057233)
In fact, in some cases, the virus will break through meaning that not only do you get the virus but you show symptoms. Also there are cases of vaccinated people infecting other vaccinated people.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:32AM (#28057895)
Vaccinated people can still catch the virus, die from it and spread it. Just like non drunk people can still kill people with their cars.

The point is that they're much less likely to do so, just like being sober makes you less likely to commit vehicular manslaughter.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:25AM (#28058603)
Go ask them to wear masks. Either masks worked or they didn’t. Don’t force people to inject vaccines into their bodies.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:28AM (#28058621)
Go ask other road users to wear seat belts so that I can drive drunk and over the speed limit.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:39AM (#28058675)
Wearing a mask isn’t driving drunk. That is exactly what we are asking children to do while the trials are under way. Your shete logic means that you think that children under 12 who don’t take the vaccine should not go to schools. Or are you advocating that we force them to take the vaccine too? Ha! Not even the CDC recommends that.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by himinlomax on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:40AM (#28058692)
> Wearing a mask isn’t driving drunk

I didn't compare wearing a mask to driving drunk, I compared wearing a mask to wearing a seat belt. I compared driving drunk to not getting vaccinated.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by babesh on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:04PM (#28067017)
Can you not read? I am comparing wearing a mask to NOT driving drunk.

I am saying that wearing a mask is being considerate of others just like not driving drunk. It is also like wearing a seatbelt in that it can protect you!

Masks help in protecting you from COVID-19 and from you spreading it. If unvaccinated people wear masks what is your problem?!

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by ipaddr on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:30PM (#28055540)
But you are allowed to breathe peanut dust which could kill the right person. Freedoms extends to the entire public space and you breathing is a natural process. Society tries to balance the freedom of everyone.

Spraying bullets in public spaces like the woods are common and are legal, welcome and governed by local laws. Similiar topless beaches areas exist where other areas of the beach do not allow this. This balances the needs of different groups.

Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by version_five on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:51PM (#28055695)
It's an easy thing to protest, stop spending money on places that want to operate in a jurisdiction that treats you this way. Let NYC become a progressive paradise and move somewhere that respects its citizens.
Re:NYC to Require Proof of at Least 1 Dose Indoors at Restau... by anonymouswacker on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:58PM (#28057116)
I can move anywhere, but most people can’t. This is absurd to force people to vaccinate with a premature product when a year ago we were just going to close things temporarily to “flatten the curve” and allow the virus to spread. A lot of gaslighting has been going on since then, and I feel really bad for its victims. Also, business owners again are faced with the onus, which just makes them take the brunt of the vitriol vs. shitty politicians