Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

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    Not this shit again
     
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    Personally I find it hilarious that Trump got booed for getting a booster (meaning he's been vaxxed as well). Isn't he the hero of "freedom" Americans? I assumed "freedom" also allowed you to get a booster if you so choose.
     
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    As far as 85% vaccinated? I think the new standard is 3 shots which show up as 14.5% although it seems they are using the 2 shot standard. No time frames are used and it may very well be that these are 6 months old and providing very weak immune support, needing a 3rd or booster shot. I'd say the jury is still out on your numbers, too much is unknown.
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    My links, honestly they keep changing, what was available on the NIH and FDA websites previously have been pulled, probably because they were vilified as sources of proof of safety. Here is an article with quoted from the studies, you'll note the linked sources are no longer available. https://principia-scientific.com/doctor-reveals-remdesivir-is-real-cause-of-covid-19-maladies/
     
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    Shit is in the eye of the beholder, you created the same reaction in me with your posts

    I think Marv said it best, when he stated that nobody really cares about your opinion or mine, maybe in a different context, but still applicable. Just sharing my research and opinion and fighting against the darkness when I can.

    ps. stop whining about it and move on or apply a little more thought, we blind men need more feedback about the elephant in the room, at least describe the odor and speculate on the diet.
     
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    Oh boy, ANTIFA's up to it again....what are we going to do with those guys?
     
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    Particularly when a POS on Pfizer payroll, CEO of the University Health Network in Toronto, all teaching hospitals, highly rated internationally, just fired almost 100 of them for refusing mandatory vaccination for a variety of reasons: some of them had COVID before, some of then were pregnant and were unsure of long term effect etc ...Particularly in the context that vaxed people can infect, that is difficult to interpret this move as improving the public health. But I am sure the COVID enthusiasts will manage to do exactly that.
     
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    $1.9T "coronavirus relief package" or handouts already spent this year. The money was nice, but I certainly didn't need the money and I bet 99% of people on SBAF (who can afford expensive luxury audiophile gear) didn't need it either.

    There is no lack of overall capacity. I know there are bed shortages in hospitals the middle of nowhere and in ghettos. We could have used that stimulus money to allocate patients to hospitals which are less burdened.

    There's always a way. The data says there is a way. It's very uneven with some hospitals overcrowded but many many others with plenty of capacity. Every overcrowded hospital has at least one hospital with plenty of room within 100 miles. That stimulus money could have been spent on those people who were affected including their families for travel, lodging, time-off costs. Heck, give health care workers extra bonuses and hazard pay. Many hospitals are probably losing money during this pandemic. I bet that hospital in the good part of town would suddenly be willing to take patients from the bad part of town if funds were guaranteed.

    Yet people seem to give up too easily on finding pragmatic solutions and would instead to wave their arms "OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS", "WE ARE GONNA DIE", "GET YOUR VACCINATIONS porkers".

    But instead we gave out trillions of free money so we can ramp up inflation. 2T in 2021 and 2T in 2020.

    Oh, COVID hits the USA. Horrible. OK, it's time to spend. Let's put that money to good use to help people most negatively affected. No, wait, let's give that money to everybody including to people who don't need it and make everything political! That's people in government buying votes.
     
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    I would venture that the primary reason big businesses want their workers vaccinated is because they're then much less likely to be hospitalized or die when they get COVID, which has been costing employers lots of money. Also potential liability. Of course it sounds better and is probably more effective to push mandates for public health. Also not untrue that there are public health benefits, I don't know how true its holding for Omicron but up til now the vaxxed have less risk of getting infected, so therefore are less likely to spread COVID.
     
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    It's because businesses want people to come back to the office. Think productivity losses.

    I work in an industry which mostly employs younger people (vfx artists) and the slightly less young (dailies ops). There are the old guys too, the colorists, recordists, editors (finishing). I maybe heard of three guys who got sick and were out a few days since all this began. No hospitalizations, no deaths. Both entities I worked for had ~2500 employees. Reports of doom and certain death are highly exaggerated by the media.
     
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    Yes, that too big time
     
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    My previous employer I just left recently has ~50 employees and two deaths, both middle-aged. One had a preexisting condition, not aware of any for the other but people often keep things private so who knows.
     
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    If your interested in understanding this contradiction, check out David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America". TLDR: Patrick Henry's legacy is alive and well in America .
     
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    Just took a quick gander - this is really interesting. Will have to spend some time and read up - thanks for the reference.
     
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    Anyway. @crenca, do you remember a while back when you asked something about inflation, CPI, etc. and I responded with M3, money supply, and how we can't escape the law of the universe if the supply of money (liquid) increases massively. That it's just only a matter of time unless something is done immediately to decrease the money supply.

    And now today, inflation is official with in the news with CPI figures to show. Of course, all our politicians, economic experts, Fed governors are acting all surprised. (It's possible the Fed govs knew this shit was gonna happen but were forced to keep their lids shut).
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    No duh. Looking at M3 below, this was gonna happen. Not only is there the massive jump in 2020, but the overall slope of money supply has become steeper! Maybe it didn't predict the massive energy price jump because it's hard to predict what OPEC and Putin are going to do (we also decided to cut back on fracking), but the rest of the price increases were certainly predictable.
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    Yes, seeing what the left (i.e. most of the Dem's) actually do with economic/industrial/energy policy, it's clear they will always lose the "next" election as they still don't have a basic grasp (and/or look past it through their apocalyptic lense) of what inflation does to the average person/household. Green new deals are nothing if not expensive - very very expensive, gas would have to be $15 a gallon (with half being taxes) to even begin to pay for it. Thing is the fed's money policy of the last 21 years has been quite effective of mitigating the failed policy(s) of the left and right during this time, but covid spending, energy, and that slope up have finally caught up. I wonder if the right will be smart enough to skip the libertarian Trumpism (DeSantos, etc.) and go with someone who will unapologetically run for the economic well being of the average guy, which will include (among other things) the hard medicine of a fundamental shift of the feds easy money policy of the last couple of decades? nah...;)
     
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    It's also bad for your career apparently to do remote work, like -50% to chance of promotion. That goes back though. Working in operations before Covid I noticed there was virtually no chance of anyone on an overnight shift getting promoted as their boss never saw them face-to-face. Career aside I have turned down higher paying gigs if they involve inherently remote work. It's just f'ing depressing shit.
     

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