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Well, it appears vaccine passports are systemically racist.
I think people are confusing the media narrative (GOP = anti-vaccination) with reality. Trump obviously is very pro-vaccine, because he wants credit for it. Ron Desantis is also very pro-vaccine, because he not only vaccinated more of his citizens than the average state, but he has some of the highest senior vaccination rates in the country. Journo / Twitter world view demonizing aside, it’s pretty clear at this point that the real barriers are income, race, and education (both ends of the spectrum, apparently). But because we’ve raised a generation of journalists without the credentials to be pundits, who also want to be political operatives, instead of addressing the real issues, we get the blame game.
https://www.upmc.com/media/news/072621-king-mejia-vaccine-hesitancy
So what are we left with? COVID-19 is going to become the fifth endemic coronavirus. We’ll all get a variant at some point in our lives. We can continue to vaccinate to try to reduce the fatality rate / severity of infection, but it’s pretty much inevitable. Zero infections are not a realistic possibility, as demonstrated everywhere. Given this reality, what freedoms are you willing to sacrifice, perhaps permanently?
Here's @PressSec on same topic: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don’t think [Trump admin] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East."
But what would the Saudi FM know about that? https://t.co/intNP1c6xn
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) August 3, 2021
Biden’s foreign policy has been an unmitigated disaster. And his administration keeps pushing out quotes like this.
Don’t get me wrong, there was no positive endgame in Afghanistan.
Every piece of data from real-life shows the vaccines work very, very well— yes, even against Delta. Just checked US vaccine breakthrough hospitalizations. It's 6,587 people among the ~163,000,000 vaccinated: or 0.004%. Three fourths are elderly— as happens with other diseases. https://t.co/TmZkxRlETk pic.twitter.com/fUaTyXprey
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 1, 2021
Here’s more data on “breakthrough” infections. What are we doing and why?
White House: Here's the data we are basing our new frightening covid policy on
Media: This data is frightening!
WH: Wait, no, stop. Don't say that
Media: Same viral loads!
WH: No but–
Media: THREE QUARTERS OF INFECTED ARE VACCINATED!
WH: Can we blame Tucker for this?
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) July 31, 2021
This is a great summary of what happened (without the White House basically saying we’re imposing new restrictions for… reasons (because “health experts have determined” and “you don’t need to know why” and “we’re following the science”).
A more balanced view, this time discussing the relative correlations between certain variables. Hey, actual journalism instead of political journactivism.
A lot of people are saying it’s more than stress (it may be stress-induced, but it’s more than just feeling stressed). They’re saying Biles experienced aerial disorientation, which would explain her landing and bailing out on the skill on the vault. Basically, if you can’t orient yourself in the air, you can’t do a bunch of stuff in gymnastics (high bar, uneven bars). She might be okay on floor exercise, but even those flips would be risky if she’s lost her ability to orient to the ground.
I hope she gets her head right. Natasha Luskin said Biles was on the way to training to see if she could give it a go for the all-around and individual events.
Just curious, what’s the correlation coefficient (r) of the data? There seems to be a lot of noise in that chart. It would be easy to “find” a correlation with political party and ignore stronger correlations to other factors / variables. Why isn’t that in the study? Probably because the journalists / “academics” wanted to find a result and found it. I could probably get a stronger correlation to, say, income, education, autoimmune disease incidence, and population density.
That being said, isn’t the solution simple, given your one-variable way of thinking? Give Trump credit for the vaccines.
This blog does a good job of aggregating and analyzing the information. It also provides “misery index” (unemployment + inflation) and predictions based on various factors (and the Fed’s actions).
Of interest, the current inflation trend is outpacing even the most extreme inflation scenario. YET THE FED WANTS TO HOLD RATES LOW.
That’s the problem with modern journalism. Everything has to have a political angle to it, and blame must be assigned. You had Ken Klippenstein from “The Intercept” trying to blame DeSantis’ deregulation event in 2019 for the building collapse. It was a licensing reform event, and would not have affected the inspection of the building or prevented the HOA from ignoring problems relating to a poorly designed pool drainage system. You have Sec. Granholm trying to blame it on climate change. Why don’t people wait for the actual investigation and evidence before trying to assign blame? (Well, because journos want to play the blame game immediately, and often to further a political agenda, rather than to get a scoop).
As soon as the trial court dismissed the claim of immunity, I thought the verdict was in trouble.
That’s the problem with giving immunity (and why there are so many processes and levels of review generally to obtain it). Also, it’s an area where most courts are going to construe any ambiguity against the government most of the time.
Russian army ad vs US army ad
2021pic.twitter.com/tGQeY3dJa6— Pardes Seleh (@PardesSeleh) May 19, 2021
Producer Price Index increased by double what was predicted (.6%, expected .3%).
Part of this is explained by the drop in prices (some deflation) last year in the first months of the pandemic. BUT we’ve got supply and demand issues at this point, and inflation is a regressive tax on the poor. Unfortunately, we don’t teach economics or math anymore, so the average voter won’t care.
Could also be related to this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/chinas-digital-yuan-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work.html
I feel like I’ve missed the crypto train, but every time I turn around, I think it’s a better and better idea.
