ronharmless
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BCSnob wrote:I have posted links to studies (not opinions websites; peer reviewed studies) which you have implied are fraudulent. Where’s your evidence refuting these studies as fraudulent; where’s your links to published studies supporting your opinion?
Let’s see if I can summarize your stance.
This is my opinion on climate change, you cannot refute my opinion with peer reviewed studies on climate change because of this example of a fraudulent study from a national institute of health grant, and until you refute my opinion with studies I won’t provide studies to back up my opinion.
With this “logic” you clearly win. You’ve also posted peer reviewed studies that said masks prevented covid. Guess what. I guess science changes as time goes on and you learn more and more. Now to figure out if Pluto is really a planet as was the science for the last 90 years.
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Yep, I have and there are studies that demonstrate it (reduced the risk of getting Covid-19). The devil is always in the details of the study which the popular press & social media (and general public) tend to ignore In the case of masks it’s in the compliance of use and effectiveness relative to no mask use. One has to read the experimental details.
https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/multiple-studies-show-face-masks-reduce-spread-of-covid-19-cochrane-review-doesnt-demonstrate-otherwise/
Mask mandates have proven to be about as effective as speed limits.
Much like the general public expects vaccines to be 100% effective (no such vaccine).
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RambleOnNW
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DW and I have been using our 3M N95 Surgical masks from our emergency supplies since the dawn of the Covid pandemic. When the CDC said you didn’t need masks in March 2020 we looked at the Chinese on TV all wearing masks and burning their money in panic we knew it would be bad and we ignored the CDC and wore our N95 masks in stores, etc. We’ve continued to wear them in indoor situations and have only been indoors without masks since with friends and family who are similarly careful.
3 years later neither DW nor I have had Covid. According to the datasheet the masks are 95% effective in filtering at 100nm which is smaller than the Covid particle size of 125nm.
Sure, mask fit is a risk but so far no Covid.
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ronharmless wrote:You’ve also posted peer reviewed studies that said masks prevented covid. Guess what. I guess science changes as time goes on and you learn more and more. Now to figure out if Pluto is really a planet as was the science for the last 90 years.
Pluto has not changed in the last 90 years. What has changed is that the classification system has changed as more similar planetoids like Pluto have been spotted by more powerful telescopes.
Some science is completely settled and no longer changes. Sure there is incremental engineering refinement but the basic science stands.
For example, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for discovering and explaining the PhotoElectric Effect. 100 years later we have billions of solar panels utilizing that PhotoElectric effect worldwide.
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Whats the big fuss, just like when cell phones came out and the gov mandated that all land lines be replaced by a certain date.
Oh wait, that didn't happen. The technology kept improving, the price came down and people transitioned on their own. I have not had a land line in over 20 years. Getting a bit tired of things being forced on me!
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BCSnob wrote:Debating tactics are trumped by data in published studies. Care to provide any?
I stand by my statements which heretofore you’ve made no effort to disprove (except to defer to the presumed integrity of a purchased white paper - sadly, today’s academic acceptance of ‘outcome based’ science is an patent repudiation of Aristotle’s invention called ‘the scientific method’…
The only practical means to disabuse one from (say, the comfort of…) a paradigm lies in the doing of their own independent research (requires objectivity and some personal effort…) - nowadays (sadly) a relatively commonplace ‘binary conundrum’ as there’s little else others can offer to dislodge one from an already accepted narrative…
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The mask quandary
Want to know what masks do for a living?
Take one outside on a cold day.
Breathe. See your breath? It contains virus
Now fit an N95 mask
It severely inhibits breath exhalation travel distance. The evidence is irrefutable. Think three or four times before arguing against it.
Speak, shout, scream and sing both when wearing and shedding a mask.
Really look at breath concentration,shape, form, and dimensions.
Now imagine packing people together in a store, a restaurant, a theater, an airplane.
The shape, size and intensity of that breath cloud does not change.
Like radiation, intensity and duration of exposure determines the level of hazard.
I urge the use of sense when analysis is being performed.
Ignore political rhetoric. Go by the numbers.
In the entire contents of this thread I've yet to encounter hard numbers regarding monthly kWh totals for arguing energy grid design, or capacity, where are the holy grail WORST CASE grid and intertie numbers? It isn't merely automobiles that are being hard mandated for energy conversion.
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“In the entire contents of this thread I've yet to encounter hard numbers regarding monthly kWh totals for arguing energy grid design, or capacity, where are the holy grail WORST CASE grid and intertie numbers? It isn't merely automobiles that are being hard mandated for energy conversion.”
Good luck at finding any objective-independent information, policy makers have merely deferred to ‘feelings’ (the debasement of solid data) by throwing ‘caution to the wind’…Apparently, the Socratic method (critical thinking) is not much in vogue…
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More on ‘White Paper’ Integrity (often funding sourced by Gov’t…):
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-real-fake-hoodwinks-journals.html
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pianotuna
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Oh for the days of a 30 amp service. Two 15 amp circuits, one for lighting and another for running a fridge.
The Tesla plaid has a 95 kwh usable battery bank. That is not enough to run my RV house loads for 24 hours running 100% electrically in -30 weather.
The companies want to serve us well. It seems that there is a lot of red tape in the way, so they can't be proactive but rather are forced into reactive management.
Any profits that Sask Power (a Crown Company) makes are dumped into the Government's General Revenue coffers. So Sask Power has to borrow money for upgrades.
Regards, Don
My ride is a 28 foot Class C, 256 watts solar, 556 amp-hours of Telcom jars, 3000 watt Magnum hybrid inverter, Sola Basic Autoformer, Microair Easy Start.
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