ERICOPOLY

When looking at the following, what comes to mind? -People are stupid? -We should be scared? Maybe part of the above answers are right but i would submit that people somehow are trying to get through this, sometimes through trial and error and sometimes the result is not elegant. A nice thing about such a place is that people can share independent thoughts (sometimes with deep convictions). It doesn't mean though that someone who thinks differently is an enemy. ----- Have you seen the latest results for the influenza season (in the US as an example of a global phenomenon)? The point of this is not that we have learnt how to deal effectively with the flu but that there may something to learn if 'we' communicate and collaborate more effectively and in a more constructive way. Congrats, you discovered all influenza deaths are counted as "Corona" deaths. Most heart attacks are even counted as Corono deaths. How else could they inflate the numbers to such a ridiculous degree with a common cold infection? How do people get influenza if working in the house all day and rarely venture out without a mask? If someone who is very ill with COVID has a heart-attack and dies, how would you determine cause? Are you saying the heart-attack was inevitable and would have happened on same day and been fatal without the person being ill? If a 95 year old gets sick with COVID and dies, should we tell their kids and grandkids we don't count the COVID because their remaining life expectancy was so short? Let me invert that for you: 1) How do people get Corona when working in the house all day? (yes Influenza is the same) 2) Well the official numbers if heart attacks is certainly too low a number. Heart attacks didnt suddenly drop 98% and neither did Influenza. They do blood tests on dead people of any cause and if their "test" (which doesnt even test for Corona) cokes back positive they count it as Corona death even if he had zero symptons. Come on people. Certainly you aren't all this retarded? :( 1) Yes, I'm saying that the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID (a much more dangerous illness) have also prevented the spread of Influenza. 2) Do you have a source for heart attacks declining 98%? I'm reading that deaths from heart disease are up during COVID, presumably because fewer people are seeking medical attention for its symptoms. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-heart-disease-deaths-rose-during-covid-19-surge As for your asssertion about testing dead bodies for COVID to attribute it as a cause of death, do you have a source for that? The topic is covered here: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/19/858390822/with-postmortem-testing-last-responders-shed-light-on-pandemic-s-spread "If family or friends say the person had symptoms consistent with COVID-19, the coroner's office will typically do a nasal swab to test for the virus, he says. If the test is positive and the office can determine the cause of death without an autopsy, one will generally not be performed." ... If a body at the morgue is positive for COVID-19, "you want to avoid doing an autopsy unless it's absolutely necessary," Melinek says, because of the risk of becoming exposed to the virus through aerosolized particles or blood. Plus, she noted, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommends against performing autopsies in COVID-19 deaths. Thanks, Eric. But I'm not sure how to parse it. Part of the article seemed to imply COVID deaths were under reported last May (when the article was written) because of a lack of tests for morgues to use? I'm assuming the access to far more testing facilities since has changed that. But if a dead body tests positive for COVID, and so they eschew an autopsy to report COVID as the cause, what percentage of the time is that wrong? If you had terminal cancer, and get COVID, is it wrong to think you would have lived a few months longer without it and your death should be reported as COVID? I've googled looking for explanations but so far come up empty. All I can think is if i get COVID, my ex-wife has a free pass to come over to my house and poison me risk free now. It's more dangerous than I thought! It’s basically a little bit like rock, paper, scissors. Rock beats scissors even though scissors beats paper although in this case it may be a ways (many years) down the road. And in this case paper typically beats rock in the absence of scissors. From a high level, the common cold doesn’t push people into their graves the way covid-19 does, so credit where credit is due.

When looking at the following, what comes to mind? -People are stupid? -We should be scared? Maybe part of the above answers are right but i would submit that people somehow are trying to get through this, sometimes through trial and error and sometimes the result is not elegant. A nice thing about such a place is that people can share independent thoughts (sometimes with deep convictions). It doesn't mean though that someone who thinks differently is an enemy. ----- Have you seen the latest results for the influenza season (in the US as an example of a global phenomenon)? The point of this is not that we have learnt how to deal effectively with the flu but that there may something to learn if 'we' communicate and collaborate more effectively and in a more constructive way. Congrats, you discovered all influenza deaths are counted as "Corona" deaths. Most heart attacks are even counted as Corono deaths. How else could they inflate the numbers to such a ridiculous degree with a common cold infection? How do people get influenza if working in the house all day and rarely venture out without a mask? If someone who is very ill with COVID has a heart-attack and dies, how would you determine cause? Are you saying the heart-attack was inevitable and would have happened on same day and been fatal without the person being ill? If a 95 year old gets sick with COVID and dies, should we tell their kids and grandkids we don't count the COVID because their remaining life expectancy was so short? Let me invert that for you: 1) How do people get Corona when working in the house all day? (yes Influenza is the same) 2) Well the official numbers if heart attacks is certainly too low a number. Heart attacks didnt suddenly drop 98% and neither did Influenza. They do blood tests on dead people of any cause and if their "test" (which doesnt even test for Corona) cokes back positive they count it as Corona death even if he had zero symptons. Come on people. Certainly you aren't all this retarded? :( 1) Yes, I'm saying that the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID (a much more dangerous illness) have also prevented the spread of Influenza. 2) Do you have a source for heart attacks declining 98%? I'm reading that deaths from heart disease are up during COVID, presumably because fewer people are seeking medical attention for its symptoms. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-heart-disease-deaths-rose-during-covid-19-surge As for your asssertion about testing dead bodies for COVID to attribute it as a cause of death, do you have a source for that? The topic is covered here: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/19/858390822/with-postmortem-testing-last-responders-shed-light-on-pandemic-s-spread "If family or friends say the person had symptoms consistent with COVID-19, the coroner's office will typically do a nasal swab to test for the virus, he says. If the test is positive and the office can determine the cause of death without an autopsy, one will generally not be performed." ... If a body at the morgue is positive for COVID-19, "you want to avoid doing an autopsy unless it's absolutely necessary," Melinek says, because of the risk of becoming exposed to the virus through aerosolized particles or blood. Plus, she noted, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommends against performing autopsies in COVID-19 deaths.

Is there really anything new under the sun? Haven’t we always counted flu deaths as flu deaths even when the person was very old and with all manner of pre-existing conditions?

My wife's employer (healthcare) has been vaccinating their employees, and is now mulling over the idea of vaccinating the family members of those employees as well. This makes sense because the family members are also at elevated risk, and if the family gets covid it's likely that the healthcare worker will miss work.

Another garbage political posting.

It is because pressure on hospitals has eased: [/img]

Japan's market has traded in the range of 25x for a couple of decades now.

If they instead had "round 1" distributed more broadly (not just frontline workers), it would have used up the supply of vaccines faster. So many nurses don't want to be vaccinated, or their employers don't want too many staying home with side effects at any given time. So they dribble out the vaccine. Another idea is to distribute the vaccines broadly and allow healthcare workers, teachers, vulnerable groups, etc to jump the lines.

Relative valuation sucks. What you want is to see where you are vs your potential. Right now, "49% of the shots distributed to states have been administered", and more shots could probably have been available if the Feds had taken up Pfizer's offer last summer. The opportunity cost to the economy of not purchasing those extra shots is very, very high.

It doesn't hurt that from here on out we getting beyond the pig in the python that is Thanksgiving/Christmas/NewYear. You could implement just about any policy starting now and claim relative success.

Politics is banned right? Supposedly. Which is why I found it odd Liberty posted a partisan opinion piece by a partisan clown...so I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the context. Thankfully, muscleman beat me to the fact check. So you posted like a partisan clown in response to it? What is this? Eye for an eye?

How about keeping right wing vomit off of the posts?

Politics is banned right?

It appears as though they are not lowered to 0% before that problem already appears to exist.

To me it doesn't mean select individual stocks.

Even Buffett admitted last year that the market may be cheap if interest rates stay low. We just don't know. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/warren-buffett-says-stocks-are-ridiculously-cheap-if-interest-rates-stay-at-these-levels.html

But you don't know when such a top comes along.

My wife and I had antibody testing done last week and the test did not detect any. Perhaps her Nov 19th covid-19 positive PCR test result was a false-positive? So that stinks, it cancelled our Hawaii plans. Whatever we had it drained our energy and made us dizzy just walking around. Yesterday, my 12 yr old son reported chills, body aches, nasal congestion, felt as though a rash was coming on, and had a 101 fever. So I'm off to get him tested today. He was last at school on Tuesday, which was 5 days before these symptoms hit -- right on time.

That's not what I meant because it doesn't raise the issue that I mentioned of the shareholder not knowing how to allocate the cash. I had my head stuck in the past when I remember he had addressed the topic back when dividends were asked for. But yes, beginning the sentence the way I did was prone to confusion. My point is that the shareholders similarly wouldn't know what to do with the shares distributed.

Distributing cash is another simple method, but in the past I think he has argued that the shareholders would rather have him manage the cash, or be better off if he did so as opposed to leaving them to make the decisions. He could make that argument again in the case of spinoffs.

The first patient to get the vaccine was patient 1a. The second patient to get the vaccine was patient 2b or not 2b. Credit: CapCities Radio

He's the leader of the country Castanza. One would think he'd get with the program and not scapegoat his behavior.

Richard what evidence is there regarding this statement? You and I both know that you don't care at all about the answer to this question, because the answer's obvious to everyone who's followed American pandemic news even the tiniest bit for the past 9 months. One doesn't need to provide supporting evidence to say that the sky is blue, ice is cold, and the sun rises in the east. So, I'm just going to save us both time, and not bother with an answer. Bill Gates pointed out that he likely seeded covid-19 all over the country when he closed travel from China and 40,000 came rushing back home to the USA and they were allowed to return without any sort of a quarantine.

From participating in an open economy (the part of it that is open). Rate of spread high -> greater total number of infected -> more likely I get it too Rate of spread lower ->. fewer total number of infected -> lower chance I get it too Imperfect system? No Dr. Fauci quoted in last one week about school re-opening: ""If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all." Would you have known that they actually didnt know (apparently) when they advocated school closing how children transmit to adults? This is what I am talking about. Using Remdesivir that WHO is not supporting. Having schools closed for a long time and then give statements like above. Why would it give people confidence to follow them? Dr. Flip Flop: A timeline of Fauci's school reopening positions https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/dr-flip-flop-a-timeline-of-faucis The schools are open for my kids, I agree with Fauci. I think people are grinding a political axe when they undercut him even when they agree with him.

From participating in an open economy (the part of it that is open). Rate of spread high -> greater total number of infected -> more likely I get it too Rate of spread lower ->. fewer total number of infected -> lower chance I get it too Imperfect system? No