Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
It takes an economist to say that the labor market is on fire
But as it stands “we have to take the numbers at face value, and they paint a picture of a labor market on fire,” wrote Jefferies economists Aneta Markowska and Thomas Simons, with the Fed likely heading towards “a more sustained tightening cycle and a higher terminal rate.”
Full-time employment in the US in January was 49.3% of civilian noninstitutional population, a far cry from what it could be. The measure could recover to 50.4% pre-pandemic and it still wouldn't be "on fire".
Bouncing back would be a good thing, is fully expected, and could be actually happening, but confusing it with boom levels as Trump did would remain an illusion.
When WaPo is more accurate than Drudge
Discussions between the Archives and the former president's lawyers that began last year resulted in the transfer of the records in January, according to one person familiar with the conversations. Another person familiar with the materials said Trump advisers discussed what had to be returned in December. People familiar with the transfer, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal details. ... the Archives has very limited enforcement capabilities ...
Drudge headline:
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts have soared to 44% of all COVID deaths since last July through the end of January 2022
Let's check in on breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts, where breakthrough deaths have soared by 290 just in the last week.
Massachusetts reported 106 breakthrough deaths by the end of July 2021, according to NBC Boston, here.
At the time there had been 18,082 total COVID deaths in Massachusetts. At the time breakthrough deaths represented a tiny fraction of all COVID deaths (just 0.6%).
Through January 29, 2022 there have been 21,909 total COVID deaths for an increase of 3,827 total COVID deaths during the intervening period in Massachusetts.
As of January 29, 2022 Massachusetts is reporting a cumulative total of 1,789 breakthrough deaths. Subtract the 106 through July 2021 and you get 1,683 breakthrough deaths from August 1, 2021 through January 29, 2022.
1,683 breakthrough deaths is 43.977% of the total COVID deaths of 3,827 which have occurred since last July. More than 8% of all COVID deaths have now been among the vaccinated in Massachusetts.
If this isn't a picture of evolving vaccine failure I don't know what is.
LOL, teacher "Linda" takes rapid antigen test, thinks she KNOWS something
... they are far less reliable than PCR tests – and are “almost useless” when cases are very low. ...
New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science president Terry Taylor said rapid antigen tests are, at best, 80 per cent accurate when there is low prevalence of the virus, producing about 10 false positives for every one true positive.
From a pool of 1000 people, of whom 50 have confirmed Covid-19 infections, a rapid antigen test would detect 48 true positives, miss two cases, and produce 48 false positives, on average, he said.
“If you’re using it in a business sense, they’re going to have more people sitting at home that haven’t got Covid, than sitting at home that do have Covid."
More.
The rapid antigen tests are PERFECT for teachers, who have shown throughout the pandemic that they'd rather find any excuse to stay at home than go to school.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Former Democrat Donald Trump laughably calls Mike Pence a RINO and is now the mirror image of the 2016 Hillary Clinton who wouldn't accept the election results
It's obvious to anyone who has looked at this issue carefully that Trump's stance isn't a serious position.
Leave aside the question of the powers of the VP. The fact remains that 50 state legislatures certified their votes in Election 2020, making Trump the narrow looser, just as they certified their votes in Election 2016, making him the narrow winner.
Trying to overturn any of that, no matter how justified one may think it might be, is a fool's errand.
That ship has sailed and Popeye isn't going to turn it around. The inertia is simply too great. There is nothing any legislature will "figure out" at this point.
Trump's continued whining about his loss makes him nothing if not the mirror image of Hillary. They are unserious, self-absorbed people who can't accept what's happened to them. Richard Nixon, from whom the election in 1960 was stolen, was a better person than these two ever could hope to be.
They should both just go away.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
The numbers do not lie: The pandemic today with vaccines is worse than it was at the outset without them
Deaths last month were worse than in April 2020, and cases are simply to the moon.
Deaths are likely to remain high in February given such astronomical case figures in January, even if Omicron is less deadly. There's just too many of them.
Vaccines worthy of the name should have destroyed these trend lines by now. It's been over a year.
They have not.
This is vaccine failure writ large. Moving the goal posts to requiring 70, 80, 90% vaccinated is simply an admission of defeat.
"When you get to somewhere between 40-50% [vaccinated], I believe you’re going to start seeing real change, the start of a precipitous drop in cases”. -- Anthony Fauci, Apr 28, 2021, in The Wall Street Journal
An astounding 20.3 million breakthrough cases in January 2022 in the US . . .
. . . but only 62,021 deaths (data is New York Times).
211.05 million people in the United States are fully vaccinated as of January 31, 63.6% of the country, and it's still the fourth worst month of the pandemic for deaths so far. There were an astounding almost 655,000 new cases per day in January. The US ranks 27th worst for confirmed cases/million. The vaccines are a spectacular failure, but everyone pretends the emperor isn't walking around naked.
After all this time, effort, expense, and incessant propaganda about the efficacy of the vaccines, the US still ranks 17th worst in the world for deaths per million of population. Pretty damn pathetic for the most advanced nation on the planet.
Wildcats cheerleaders have only one thing to say.
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Monday, January 31, 2022
US COVID-19 deaths during the "Delta" wave are completely uncorrelated to mass vaccination
US COVID-19 deaths, July-December 2021: 223,362
US COVID-19 fully-vaccinated by 12/31/21: 206.87m
US COVID-19 deaths, July-December 2020: 224,389
US COVID-19 fully-vaccinated by 12/31/20: 0.04m
Difference in deaths: 1,027 (-0.45%)
Difference in vaccinations: 206.83m (+517,075%, heh heh)
Mass vaccination made next to no difference in the number of deaths
All data is from Our World In Data
LOL, newly-minted vaccine misinformation celebrity Joni Mitchell suffers from "a disease most doctors think isn't real"
https://www.vox.com/2015/4/2/8330925/morgellons :
Interestingly, a large number of people in the study had a psychiatric or addictive condition, including depression and drug use. Among half of the participants in the study used drugs, but it wasn't clear whether the drugs caused the symptoms or whether they were being used to deal with the disease.
Even so, the researchers could not uncover any particular underlying medical condition or infectious source, and concluded that Morgellons is "similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation."
LOL, Justin Trudeau got his booster shot in early January, but now not a month later his damn kids have infected him with COVID-19
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-gets-covid-19-booster-shot-at-ottawa-pharmacy-1.5727288
That's the way this works. Your immune system is actually weakened for a short time after any of the shots.
https://www.14news.com/2022/01/31/canada-pm-trudeau-tests-positive-covid-19/
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Canada's "fringe minority" comes to a very cold downtown Ottawa in a 45-mile truck convoy with a message for Justin Trudeau and his vaccine mandate
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456147/Justin-Trudeau-flees-secret-location-50-000-Freedom-Convoy-truckers-hit-Ottawa.html
Saturday, January 29, 2022
LOL, Joni Mitchell brings blackface star-power to Neil Young Spotify boycott: When will the rest join?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/joni-mitchell-is-joining-neil-young-in-protest-over-covid-misinformation-on-spotify.html
Friday, January 28, 2022
Michigan deaths exceed births by 12,921 in 2020 due to pandemic: Births down 50% from peak Baby Boom year 1957
There were 104,166 births in 2020 in Michigan, 50% fewer than in 1957 when there were 208k, the peak year of the Baby Boom in the USA.
There were 117,087 deaths in 2020 in Michigan.
And ~ 99,000 deaths occurred annually in Michigan, pre-pandemic.
Story here.
Therefore ~ 18,087 deaths in 2020 are possibly attributable to the pandemic according to this accounting (117,087 minus 99,000), except NYT data shows only 13,010 pandemic deaths in Michigan in 2020, which is very close to the 12,921 net deaths minus births.
The 5,077 (18,087 minus 13,010) difference in deaths represents 39% more deaths.
Due to what, exactly?
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