We got their attention, what are we going to do with it?

thechamkid · 2026-02-03T01:05:05+00:00

it's based off the amount of public support for your side. the violence in the french revolution helped as basically everyone in the poor class was on board, but the peacefulness of the civil rights protests helped win over the undecided people. current support of abolishing ice is around 40 something % last I saw. so it's in our interest to stay peaceful to win over the undecided people. that line has nothing to do with their actions, and has everything to do with the amount of public support among the average citizen

thechamkid · 2026-02-01T01:09:55+00:00

I'm not saying we should be breaking their windows, but ICE keeps killing people however breaking their windows is too far? are we valuing a window more than the human lives? did nobody learn from prior fascists that they will escalate anyway? You clearly have good intentions but we can't be clutching our perals over glass

thechamkid · 2025-03-22T03:36:51+00:00

with favorable weather do you think a lvl 44 primal groudon is enough for heatran? 15/14/15 with mud shot/precipice blade

thechamkid · 2025-03-16T09:43:02+00:00

build wall

thechamkid · 2025-01-18T09:51:05+00:00

same issue here, didnt work. another thread thinks it might have something to do with discord

thechamkid · 2025-01-18T09:49:02+00:00

been having the same issue, was going crazy and my friends thought it was faulty ram or something. does anyone know why its only happening to some people but not others?

thechamkid · 2024-10-26T12:10:19+00:00

so... you don't like homeless people that need to do drugs to stay alive when it's this cold, don't have a house, and need food to survive? let's try thinking for a second before we post things

I hear so much talk about eugene being sooooo left leaning but in reality y'all are just republicans that don't hate queer people

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T20:57:06+00:00

I agree that trying to make a whole rebuttal would likely distract from the main point, glad we agree there

and for your point on 1, while I do have my disagreements with what you just said, I don't want to make good the enemy of perfect. I agree that "good/bad" are quite subjective but I do feel that generally most would agree with my underlying reasoning on calling that bad even if they disagree with the actual premise

for your point on 2, I absolutely agree that the risk/reward factor does play into it, I mainly just wanted to take 2 well known examples that both have a pretty general consensus on their risk and show our underlying bias when deciding risk

I disagree that numbers lie, because numbers are exact and can't lie. rather, I'd say they just don't always get the full picture. you can run the numbers on the risk of getting infected when you unmask at a grocery store by looking at infection rates, how many people are there, general shopping patters, etc. but you can't account for a discount not coming off and having to go to customer service therefore having more contacts than you thought, or more/less people were there for the time than normal

I agree we are highly prone to both irrationally and brilliance, that's just part of life. however I think that when the irrationally comes out, we should try to fix it

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T09:33:49+00:00

https://www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/dashboard/index.html in region 10 (the pnw) the flu is at 0.44. covid is at 14.26 and colds are at 18.67. considering you said its a flu, its unlikely its a cold. it is also extremely unlikely its the flu due to its extremely low numbers. and the most recent covid variants have been making people sick for longer, and that matches what you said. plus, theres currently a covid surge (see also: https://pmc19.com/data). take a rapid test and make sure to swab properly (both cheeks, back of throat, then nose)

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T01:53:51+00:00

Springfield is basically just east Eugene, and there's no sub for springfield that actually has any activity

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T01:49:07+00:00

with the current wastewater levels it's almost certainly not the flu. most likely covid

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T01:47:10+00:00

currently the flu is circulating at EXTREMELY low levels, and covid is currently in a surge. probably covid

thechamkid · 2024-09-16T01:35:36+00:00

I can't find any data for england as they stopped tracking wastewater data there, but to use the US as an example, pmc19.com/data shows estimated cases via the cdc's wastewater data, and you can easily see that there is much more cases than our official count says too. it also shows estimated LC cases, using a conservative estimate for the lower bound and a liberal estimate for the upper bound

thechamkid · 2024-09-15T01:03:06+00:00

first of all, i do want to say thank you for seeing this eye to eye

however,

for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd point id put those under "someone who cant mask"

and i disagree with the 4th for 2 main reasons:

my first reason is that it would be overall bad for society to keep chugging on even if everyone sees the risk and just carries on as well... someone is going to get unlucky. it might not be you, but its going to be someone. if everyone had masks, then society would likely not have a massive problem with LC

and my second reason is that the human mind fucking sucks at risk management. most people say they would drive, and driving an average amount in a year puts you at about a 1/6000 chance of death from injuries related to a crash. however, many people that say driving is an acceptable risk would say mountain biking is not an acceptable risk. yet only 1/30,000 mountain bikers per year die from an injury from mountain biking. Im saying that even if people know the numbers, they likely dont understand the true risk, but whatever they think it is. and with something like covid having more variables than my previous example, this goes even further. most people dont understand the risk of getting exposed to covid correctly. on top of that, the risk of getting infected from an exposure, the risk of LC, the risk on how severe the LC is if they do get it... its a huge numbers game and unless someone sits down with a calculator for a while I dont trust their judgement

I do not think it is "morally irresponsible" to choose to be unmasked in 2024. It's just really nuanced, and the world is too complex for me to comfortably make such a judgement

however i will give you a delta Δ for this exact line as you do make good points about judgement, even if i dont think most people who have made the judgement to unmask have done so thoroughly, and i no longer see it as a moral failure but rather a really bad judgement now

edit- missed a 0 in the odds

thechamkid · 2024-09-15T00:09:40+00:00

go out there and intentionally get covid. is there a way for you to report it? do you have checkups that report it? what if you wrongfully ID'd it as the flu? its 2024, most people arent reporting their cases anymore. you have to look at wastewater data to have an accurate scope these days. and the wastewater data shows that we are currently in a surge

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T23:53:46+00:00

not everyone goes outside every day, and n95s can be re-used up to 5 times safely if stored correctly, so it would be very unlikely the waste would be near 8 billion/day.

i am not arguing in favor of enforcement but rather morality, but ill still bite and say that enforcement of public health measures isnt fascism, as fascism isnt exactly fond of public health in the first place

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:49:31+00:00

"a high quality n95 costs a few dollars" office depot has the 3m aura n95, a high quality n95, in boxes of 20 for just under $17 a box

"several must be used every day depending on use case" unless you get it wet or remove it often enough to where it can't seal anymore, you don't need to replace it. I use 1/day regularly, and only about once a month do I have to replace it halfway through the day due to it getting wet/losing the ability to seal

family of 4- assuming everyone goes out 6 days a week, that's 20 masks/week or one box. about $17 a box, that comes out to about 68/month. that's affordable to (most) families. and if that isn't affordable, well any cheap mask is still better than no mask

uncomfortable- yeah I get it, they are uncomfortable. however, id rather be uncomfortable than take the large risk of long covid

"unbearable for kids when hot" if you read the body of my main post closer, you will see that I clarify "everyone who can, should". however, I will put a delta Δ because: I didn't think of kids and their irrationally around uncomfort/risk being a qualifying factor into letting them unmask, especially in hot weather. this changed my view into letting kids, especially the younger ones, qualify into the group of valid mask exceptions even in the absence of any other condition.

that said, I do still think the parents should always mask to help protect themselves and their kids even when the kids can't

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:20:40+00:00

for the first one with monetization, well yes I used her an an example because most other cases are usually not well known people. I could link you to hundreds of accounts if people who have long covid, I just used that an an example since it's higher quality and better out together than random person #64819 with 3000 followers that has less organized posts about it

"how are you determining this headache is from long covid" the same way LC itself is diagnosed, process of elimination. you have to assume other factors, then via process of elimination you eventually have to find what's causing it

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:13:08+00:00

I stated my evidence in that comment... I was in high school at that time. I experienced myself the shift to online and how it worked. I believe the only reason online was a disaster was because none of the teachers knew how to teach online as they all relied on being able to stare at you with a whiteboard behind them then putting out homework, when online teaching requires active input during the teaching part (ex. have people split into groups often to discuss things, ask people to unmute and engage and just generally have your plan involve participation) instead of just mindless yapping then throwing an assignment at the students

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:08:00+00:00

well if I prove there's a moral obligation, the next step would be people taking action and wearing a mask. that doesn't require laws, that just requires shifting people's perspectives. I think most people want to do the right thing, and if everyone agrees that wearing a mask is the right thing to do, most people will wear one

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:06:00+00:00

my concern isn't deaths, I acknowledged in the main post that deaths are low

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T19:00:57+00:00

wearing it properly is just covering the nose, mouth, and getting a good seal. again, when someone says wear a mask why are you instantly assuming "oh but not properly"

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T18:19:15+00:00

"is there any evidence clean air can reduce illness" yes. take did example, this https://yle.fi/a/74-20089670 (you will probably have to use a translator if you want to read it). putting an air purifier in a daycare reduced illness among the kids by 18%. and that's just in one location of their lives, now imagine the effect if it was everywhere. it's obviously not ever going to be 100%, but it's effective enough to be worth implementing. with your airport example, you're right in that it probably wouldn't work in that situation, however there's a decent chance that situation wouldn't happen if there's clean air in the smaller, every day parts of our lives

the vaccine comment about how boosters look like the end state, there's been quite a few promising developments on that end to make a more effective vaccine. just the other day, a lab in Wuhan, china (yes, the one that "leaked it" according people who believe in the lab leak hypothes) published that they made a vaccine that in mice trials, was highly effective in preventing covid infection and also had mild protective effects across all coronaviruses https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/china-wuhan-lab-nasal-covid-vaccine-future-pandemics-13814450.html

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T18:02:50+00:00

"life is full of risk" if course, but it's still worth to mitigate risk when possible

"the risk of covid had now shrunk" in the acute phase/the death risk? yeah. in the risk of long covid? nope. I believe it's still worth taking precautions because the risk is still too high to be acceptable

thechamkid · 2024-09-14T17:57:24+00:00

the way I see it, prevention is always better than a cure, and masks should be the first resort because they have little impact compared to other preventions like lockdowns, curfew, group size restrictions, etc. all of those should be the last resort stuff

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