Oh and the economy is starting to tank again because surprise you can't actually chose economy over lives/public safety and let a pandemic rage unchecked

 

 

Stock market is weird. I only look at my 401k quarterly. After the first quarter, I was down 24% on the year. I finished 2020 up 15.5% which outdid the lifetime performance of the account.

We pumped trillions into the stock market. 50 new billionaires! Bezos and Musk worth more than ever!

 

 

Shame about the millions slipping into poverty and facing hunger and homelessness, though.

I want to know if the Biden administration will speed the vaccinations up. They seem to be very slow moving with a lot of the public wondering when they’ll be vaccinated while essential workers appear to slowly get their vaccines.

It’s not weird.   Remember, Trump is the most Democrat president in the history of the country and it’s not even close.  Remember when Obama was completely owned by the banks and anybody above like level 2 saw how terrible the QE was?  Well Trump quadrupled down on that BS.   I think he spent 5 trillion this year.  Let that sink in.  5 fucking trillion.  
 

You think companies care about the Biden regime raising taxes and regulation and stifling business?  Fuck no!  He’s gonna deliver that $2000!  He’s gonna bail out the states!  He’s gonna make what trump spent look like an appetizer.  Probably 10 trillion in 2021.  
 

The money is what matters.  Not the social issues or discourse.  Don’t get distracted by the capitol, protests etc.  and get left behind this time.  Your wealth is being attacked. The poor and middle classes won’t be able to afford assets after this.  Get equities, assets.  Dump your cash.  This will be the final Democrat nail in the coffin for the middle class and poor people.
 

I don’t want to see people on here complaining about being left behind in 3-4 years after we win our 3rd championship on a row.  There’s still time 

lol, sure thing buddy

 

what are we up to by your calculations now, 50 billion Americans already infected? pssshh, no big deal, herd immunity here we come! follow the Swedish model!!!!

10 minutes ago, Jerksticks said:

It’s not weird.   Remember, Trump is the most Democrat president in the history of the country and it’s not even close.  Remember when Obama was completely owned by the banks and anybody above like level 2 saw how terrible the QE was?  Well Trump quadrupled down on that BS.   I think he spent 5 trillion this year.  Let that sink in.  5 fucking trillion.  
 

You think companies care about the Biden regime raising taxes and regulation and stifling business?  Fuck no!  He’s gonna deliver that $2000!  He’s gonna bail out the states!  He’s gonna make what trump spent look like an appetizer.  Probably 10 trillion in 2021.  
 

The money is what matters.  Not the social issues or discourse.  Don’t get distracted by the capitol, protests etc.  and get left behind this time.  Your wealth is being attacked. The poor and middle classes won’t be able to afford assets after this.  Get equities, assets.  Dump your cash.  This will be the final Democrat nail in the coffin for the middle class and poor people.
 

I don’t want to see people on here complaining about being left behind in 3-4 years after we win our 3rd championship on a row.  There’s still time 

Here's how the deficit performed under Republican and Democratic presidents, from Reagan to Trump

The catalyst for this PolitiFact article. 

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A viral tweet made several claims about how the deficit has grown under Republican presidents and shrunk under Democrats.

On the whole, the numbers presented for each president are basically accurate. However, it’s worth clarifying that presidents alone are not responsible for the rise and fall of the federal deficit. 

The tweet is accurate but needs additional information. We rate it Mostly True.

The deficit as of September (according to the CBO) was 3.3 trillion.

 

53 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

 

Wrong thread, although this thread is a different threat to Pence.

They put some of these rules in place after those people in Tennessee turned away eligible elderly people who had waited for hours to vaccinate their friends instead. I assumed they wouldn’t have put strict rules in place unless they could avoid this happening. I was wrong.

 

Getting closer

After testing though, where it seemed like there was a bunch of times we broke through then had really long plateaus, I'm not getting my hopes up we get above 1 million/day soon.

 

 

 

If we were anywhere close to approaching herd immunity, then areas that had the most cases should eventually start seeing fewer. If we are no where close, then more cases in the past should correlate with more cases in the future, because more chains that can be continued. Statistically it is the latter.

 

50 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

If we were anywhere close to approaching herd immunity, then areas that had the most cases should eventually start seeing fewer. If we are no where close, then more cases in the past should correlate with more cases in the future, because more chains that can be continued. Statistically it is the latter.

 

Unfortunately our man has already moved into inflation threats and his brain has already retconned these thoughts

So we're rapidly removing unproductive members of the population. That's got to be good for the overall economy. Their wealth gets redistributed making those who recieved it in better shape. 

36 minutes ago, Texsox said:

So we're rapidly removing unproductive members of the population. That's got to be good for the overall economy. Their wealth gets redistributed making those who recieved it in better shape. 

Ummmm...quote from Suze Orman?

It sounds almost Hitlerian when you consider the redistribution is away from minorities/women and towards upper class whites.

If you could prove it was going more towards those under 35, that would be at least one positive spin for the country, notwithstanding the completely unnecessary nature of inflicting most of this on ourselves. 

19 hours ago, Texsox said:

So we're rapidly removing unproductive members of the population. That's got to be good for the overall economy. Their wealth gets redistributed making those who recieved it in better shape. 

Bails out Social Security while we're at it.  A Win-Win. ☹️

BIG YIKES

 

Illinois starts publishing its vaccination data for today. 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-covid-19-vaccine-next-phase-20210112-kg3xvkfjfrd4hfju7wwox4tlzq-story.html

Pritzker allowing local health depts to move to phase 1b if remaining phase 1a are refusing shot rather than letting vaccine expire.

1 hour ago, bmags said:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-covid-19-vaccine-next-phase-20210112-kg3xvkfjfrd4hfju7wwox4tlzq-story.html

Pritzker allowing local health depts to move to phase 1b if remaining phase 1a are refusing shot rather than letting vaccine expire.

Good. 

Blows my mind that people are refusing shots, but hey, we let anti-vaxxers get solid footholds on the internet the past few years.

During the attack on the Capitol, GOP congressmen refused to wear masks even though they were in a crowded room. They smugly thought they were making a political statement. Now two Democratic congresspersons have Covid. The GOP record on handling this crisis is abysmal and ignorant. Not wearing a mask is not a political statement. It is an act of total stupidity, not to mention misplaced arrogance.

My wife's signed up through the county we live, her educational employer in another county and the medical group our PC doctor is part of. Hopefully she gets her shot soon since she'll be back to in-person 'teaching' (hilariously unworkable hybrid schedule that will result in drastic reductions of instructional time) in a couple of weeks.

 

 

 

Bad news is there's increasing evidence that the E484K mutation found in the South African, Brazil and Japanese variants does have some amount of immunity evasion. It's not a binary full effective/not effective at all situation, but there seems to be a good chance that vaccines as currently forumulated and naturally acquired immunity to date won't be as effective as they were against previous variants. These variants all include the increased transmissibility mutations found in the UK variant as well. It's more urgent than ever that we get doses into arms as quickly as possible.

Edited January 12, 20215 yr by StrangeSox

3 minutes ago, Quin said:

Good. 

Blows my mind that people are refusing shots, but hey, we let anti-vaxxers get solid footholds on the internet the past few years.

Best to blow past them though and deal with it later.

btw, take your Vitamin D3 or multivitamin supplements!

 

 

It's still all correlative at this point rather than having a proven mechanistic link, but as Fauci and other experts have said, there's no reason not to have sufficient Vitamin D levels. Just don't overdo it because if you eat a fistful every day you can give yourself kidney stones.

11 minutes ago, bmags said:

Best to blow past them though and deal with it later.

 

If I understood them correctly yesterday, Pritzker and IDPH were saying that part of the distributional problem they're having is a little paradoxical. They set up these systems to be need-based right out of the gate, which makes a lot of sense. But the way they set it up was designed to work with quicker and bigger supplies of vaccines. So because they have this restrictive distribution in place and there's not nearly enough vaccine doses available currently, it's created a distributional bottleneck. If supply increases as it should, it should actually make distribution easier because they won't have to try to be so selective with it.

Who knows how much of that is CYA, though. Illinois is in the bottom half of % doses administered. 

Edited January 12, 20215 yr by StrangeSox