They pay for it. I don't beg the supermarket for food, I don't beg my landlord for an apartment, I don't beg my ISP for Internet.

Used needles are dangerous and sharps containers are cheap compared to dealing with a used needle stick.

If 2 people a day needed it, it's probably worth it.

Additionally, they were looking to prevent cold symptoms in a hospital. I don't think very many people go to the hospital for colds (whereas COVID-19 patients are filling hospitals to capacity), these people are going to be exposed from their co-habitants, the people they come across running errands, and people they socialize with.

I clicked the paper, it's not formatted like an academic paper, and is not a review in the most commonly used sense of the word. It is a small selection of papers that agree or can be twisted to agree with the author of the review.

A philosopher might as well be a strawman. I didn't watch the YouTube debate, but I read the paper, that's why I gave it a review of terrible rigor. I have worked in labs, edited papers that were published (not on epidemiology), and regularly read scientific papers. That was the worst paper I've ever seen.

Let's start with their review of the first paper.

Mask and no mask groups were formed using block
randomization of subjects within their respective job
categories: nurses, doctors, and comedical personnel.
Those in the mask group wore a face mask while on
hospital property serving in their role as a health care
worker. The hospital-standard disposable surgical
mask MA-3 (Ozu Sangyo, Tokyo, Japan) was used.
Subjects in the no mask group refrained from wearing
a face mask while on hospital property unless required
to do so as part of their job duties (eg, surgical nurse in
the operating room).

So the no-mask group is still wearing masks. The mask group was not fully compliant, and that's based on self-reporting, and their exposures were not measured.

Additionally, it does not seem to be peer-reviewed. The PDF version of the paper http://philosophers-stone.info... Has a broken link to where it's supposedly published, and I can't seem to find any results for the DOI reported, so I can't see where it's purportedly peer reviewed. If you search Google Scholar for the paper, you can find it's hosted on philosopher-stone.info which lists the first article as "HARRY VOX EPIC RANT â" THE JEW MEDIA IS TRICKING THE GOY INTO TAKING THE JEWISH NEEDLE". Is that the site who did the peer review?

> Contrary to what you apparently think, Parler did moderate in a nonpartisan manner.

no. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techdirt.com%2Fartic...

> So you probably think Facebook should be removed from the Internet because their moderation proved to be completely ineffective.

I mean, it'd be nice.

> But I have an alternative for you. Instead of being short-sighted and failing to see where censorship of your political opponents leads, please use your brain to think about where similar situations from world history have lead in the past when this has occurred.

Germans have a ban of a lot of type of content and they seem to be doing fine. I'd love to see posts you made after sex workers were deplatformed due to FOSTA and SESTA.

> did the silencing of a political opposition tend to move the nation's political system toward democracy, or did it move toward authoritarianism?

Trump isn't silent, he could give a press conference at any point in time and every single network will cover it. He just can't use Twitter and Facebook. Trump is going to get coverage anywhere he speaks, by no means has he been silenced.

They have a very limited placeholder website with no functionality. I wouldn't consider that back up.

Yes, it was because Trump joined and had nothing to do with it being used to coordinate an insurrection at the capitol.

It also has nothing to do with them heavily moderating anything but the extreme right views.

It's because Trump joined.

That review is done by a physicist and the rigor is terrible. If this is your best evidence, then it speaks a lot to the quality of the debate.

The 'debate' is 100 minutes long, and the argument against masks is by the same person you just quoted, the one with a very clear agenda and a very low quality analysis against a Ph.D in philosophy?

Vaping while wearing a mask is done by people who produce enormous clouds. Have you seen what they do without a mask? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

People shouldn't be sneezing into their hands at all, ever. I have allergies and I have sneezed many times into my mask. Not all sneezes leak snot everywhere, and if they are snotty, then snot in the hand is not good either, people should sneeze into their elbows.

In the US they can make reasonable accommodations like allowing you to send a shopping list and for them to bring it out for curbside pickup at no charge.

They do not have to allow you to put all their customers and staff at risk because you can't be bothered to give a shit about the health of people around you.

And how many die annually now? We have a measure for that, it's called excess deaths. If deaths are going to be falsely attributed to Covid, you wouldn't have excess deaths. The excess deaths for 2020 exceed the official Covid death toll. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fintera...

It is not the same thing. Not wearing shoes isn't a health threat in the vast majority of circumstances. Those circumstances are almost certainly going to require some specifications on footwear like no open toed shoes, or non-sparking footwear, or requiring steel-toed footwear.

You can read some more information on it here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.barefooters.org%2Ffa...

Bombs, firearms, flex cuffs, pitchforks, gallows...

So when the website moves (URLs are sometimes shutdown), where would I go to find out about the new one? I use sci-hub often, and I follow the Twitter account because I want to know about moves and disruptions.

How many cities are burned down? Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I can't remember a single city that has been reduced to ashes.

Oh yes, this double standard where BLM protesters were shot in their cars and beaten in the streets, but the poor DC protestors just built a gallows in front of the white house, brought out bombs, stole the podium, and then finally one was shot in what could have been the secret service's last stand to protect the Vice President.

There are like 7 generations of i5 processors, is it a 3xxx or a 10xxx?