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“Natural disaster” or wwiii?
Hard to tell with all the misinformation going around.
Trump won’t be judged fairly because he’s an a-hole, but if his name was Donald J Bush he would be lauded for what the federal government put into action last year. Just came out today that the total recession from Covid was 2 months long, and what a recession it was. The fact that the US has not one but three viable vaccines within a one year period is nothing short of amazing, and the president saying it would happen was another trump lie.
If we were just calling balls and strikes trump would have an overall positive executive record. He also faced the most rabid opposition since Lincoln. But, he IS a narcissistic jerk, and one who has limited political sensitivities when it comes to saving his skin.
But yeah, I’m thankful for the vaccine.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The 911 and doorbell camera recordings don’t look good for Richard.
We all have bad days, but you can hear his family screaming and sobbing. Awful.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Aren’t these practice games?
practice? We takin bout practice?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Might as well just be a gofundme.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=4938]Well, there are thousands of counties so it’s statistically significant and not likely to be some anomaly. As you suggested, there is also a correlation with education level. But less education does not automatically imply someone will necessarily be an anti-vaxxer. That wasn’t the case with polio, for example. More likely it has a basis in conservative media and politics. I admit that’s just a hunch. But invariably the antivaxxers, anti-maskers, etc., that I’ve come across tend to be MAGA folks.[/quote]
Again, a fairly simple question: if education level does not “automatically imply someone will necessarily be an anti-vaxxer” then why might who that person voted for in the last election “automatically imply” this? Are there other cultural factors in play that may not relate to who the person (individuals make a vaccination choice) voted for.
I suspect but won’t assume you know the answer to be yes. I suspect but won’t assume that you know there are plenty of black people who would never vote for a guy like trump but who also won’t voluntarily accept a government provided vaccine even when the government is focusing monumental time and money on reaching them. I suspect but won’t assume that you also know that there are a LOT of far left anti vaxxers out there.
Finally I suspect but won’t assume that you know you are towing a Democrat line that people who won’t take the vax now are “clearly” trump supporters because, hey, that’s why the president can’t meet his own goals: evil opposition.
The real question is this: how hard is the administration pushing for awareness in the communities where Billy Bob trump voter lives? I can assure you that funds targeted at reluctant whiteys pale in comparison to funds targeted at reluctant black folks, who have been a priority from the start.
Until that is sorted, comparing the two voting blocks isn’t worth spit.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This looks bad for Trump.
Wait, what does voting for Biden or trump really mean when it comes to vaccination? I mean, really. It’s convenient but plenty of people in counties that “voted for trump” voted for Biden. It isn’t monolithic.
Is it possible something else is going on other than the prior presidential election? Could this be related to education levels, or public health funding, or local government or health system effectiveness?
Probably not, it’s probably just how people voted. Never mind.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)USA TODAY reported that concrete rehab workers actually stopped work on the building in October 2020 due to the extent of damage. Pretty darned scary.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)BT, so I take it you think it takes a “grand conspiracy” to call in a hit on an old grudge? That’s some maximizing thought right there.
Ever heard of the adage “revenge is best served cold” ???
Just because it was ancient history to you doesn’t mean it was ancient history to everybody.
And, no, I’m not one who thinks there is some grand conspiracy around the Clintons. I do think they happen to have a lot of unfortunate suicides around them, and particularly among people who wronged them. Sometimes a coincidence is just that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”
– Barry Goldwater
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Agree w/ GR.
I am all in for a redefinition of the tax base and for redefinition of tax incentives. There are so many things that don’t make much sense. The SALT deduction that Trump’s tax cuts limited is a good example, and cutting it was quite the progressive move, but it pissed off a lot of rich liberals in high tax states.
The problem is this: Every tax code “kink” has a reason behind it. Some are actually good reasons. The Roth IRA was invented so that the government can get current income taxes while providing people an incentive to save. Not a bad thing, but then you have Peter Thiel with a $5 billion Roth IRA. Do you hate the player or the game? Which is it?
The mortgage interest subsidy is another good example. Subsidizing homeownership with tax deductibility of interest makes some sense. But what compelling interest does the government have in subsidizing purchases of million-dollar homes with jumbo mortgages?
Wealth taxes, for me, are a questionable animal. “Wealth” as defined for 90 percent of people is only one of two things… It’s real estate, which is already taxed as a percent of value in almost every jurisdiction, or it is an asset value (think stocks and bonds) based on a valuation of expectation of future payments. Those payments will be taxed when they are made (actually, double taxed). Taxing people for paper valuations of financial assets whose intrinsic value may not be in any way near the actual paper value seems…off to me.
For instance. Elon Musk may be worth Billions at the moment, but he can’t actually cash out the value, so is the value of his Tesla stock really the stated paper value, or some discounted value from that reflecting its illiquidity?
I won’t even get into trying to tax wealth that’s in the form of jewels, art, and other items with intangible value.
The wealth tax makes sense on its face (I actually find Piketty’s theory compelling) – Since returns to capital tends to outrun returns to labor and overall GDP growth, capital holders necessarily become more concentrated over time. Tax the growth of capital and you level the playing field… makes some sense.
The issue is in valuing the tax base.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)In all seriousness, Cosby is a dirtbag. But; he also is entitled to due process, and so this outcome is for the best. Now, when’s his next trial in a different jurisdiction for a different instance of his deplorable behavior?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)How can the republicans be implicated here? That’s what I want to know.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)good point about the lake.
Cyclical phenomena are tricky that way. Can you imagine if the warming trend we experience every year from February to June were extrapolated? We would all be fried by October.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=4890]“It is not rational to avoid Covid vaccination at this point. It literally is life insurance.” Easy to say if you have no skin in the game but it is far too early to draw that conclusion. 5000 people have died with the jab. What would you do if forced to have your infant vaxed against your will and best judgement? Or you are a young woman concerned about reproductive consequences yet undetermined? Or are concerned about blood clots in the spleen as my sister in law had after her stick. If I were young I would not get it. I’d go herd.[/quote]
Oh I fully think it’s a choice. I don’t think the gubment ought to force it. That’s why I used the word “suggestion” in my post, which is what the vax goals and ads are.
I don’t believe the government should force it at all, but also think saying things like 5,000 people have died from the vax is needless “information.” It instills fear in the statistically challenged…At this point well over a thousand people a day are NOT dying because of the vaccines.
Are there real child or reproductive concerns, or are those things made up? I have seen some inflammation concerns w kids, but as a father with three of four kids vaccinated (between ages 12 and 17, perhaps you would consider that “skin in the game”), you can see where I stand.
This vaccine is essentially a godsend. I don’t mind if people choose not to take it, but as for me and my house…
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It is not rational to avoid Covid vaccination at this point. It literally is life insurance.
however, the populations that are against vaccination tend to have reasons if not good ones. Very few of those reasons are “Republican” or “democrat” reasons. They are “Tuskegee experiment” or “government skepticism” reasons. That’s not to say that those are good reasons, but they certainly aren’t just political party reasons.
there’s a healthy proportion of the population in the U.S. that will refuse to comply with the government’s suggestions for the mere reason of it being the government’s suggestions. I say that’s actually on balance a good thing (‘Merica), but not in the case of Covid vax.
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