surreal_mash
surreal_mash t1_j5fjug2 wrote
Reply to comment by pukabi in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons
Which vaccines “treat” disease?
Are you claiming that a “true” vaccine must prevent 100% of infections? If not, can you tell me what you mean by “prevents”?
surreal_mash t1_j5dba6j wrote
Reply to comment by pukabi in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons
Which part do you think makes it “not a vaccine by definition”?
surreal_mash t1_j3dkqcw wrote
Reply to comment by JustKimNotKimberly in The NHS crisis - decades in the making by Ganacsi
The better analogy is that this is exactly what the GOP is trying do to Medicare.
surreal_mash t1_ixvszyx wrote
“Rat: 65%/75%”
NYC rats: “come at me, bro.”
surreal_mash t1_ivko0vf wrote
“Utah has the lowest consumption… most likely attributed to 60% of residents being Mormons, who don’t consume any alcohol.” (FTFY)
Excluding that 60%, Utah’s average would be ~3.3 gallons per capita, which appears to be on-par with neighboring states.
surreal_mash t1_iqvts3p wrote
Reply to comment by HurlingFruit in [OC] Supersonic Inefficiency: Why the Concorde Was Decommissioned by haboo213
You must have been trying to book during a holiday or other price surge; you could book MEM-DEN right now for under €100.
surreal_mash t1_j5g1bpo wrote
Reply to comment by greatdrams23 in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons
This. Either way, the immune response only happens after infection. The question is whether the immune system has been armed and trained to fight possible intruders (vaccinated) or will be caught completely off-guard (exposure to an unknown pathogen; unvaccinated).