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Re:Reason to Stay on Freenode? on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:54AM (#28140066)
> current global users 9251

now dropped to 1100 due to new changes at freenode.

Techrights also reposted the rather crazy ramblings from the page on the debian . community domain when that was going on. Seems like a page run by crazy people.
Re:Is Covid Being Used as an Excuse to Stop Cheap Travel? on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:38PM (#28092476)
Why only flights? Just ban all nonessential travel. Also ration food to prevent people from eating too much.
Re:Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:42AM (#28075302)
> America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet.

ICU capacity per capita is larger in Germany and Austria at least.

Source: https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-...

> 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...

> There are no "I had a PCR-confirmed infection" passports

Despite its name the EU COVID vaccination certificate also covers recording PCR-confirmed infections and even tests.

It is open source so even less developed countries like the US could use it if they wanted to.

> Language of percentages is not supposed to be used this way.

Umm, it is though?

Given the probability (or risk) P(unvac) of an unvaccinated person to get infected, the probability P(vac) of a vaccinated person is 90% lower, or: P(vac) = (1 - 90%) * P(unvac) = 0.1 * P(unvac)

Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:27PM (#27988540)
> If someone at Google died from drunk driving, would it be fair to ban alcohol? Of course not.

I would expect Google to ban alcohol consumption at work if this causes safety hazards. So the answer is yes.