Remember when there weren't supposed to be ANY cases among the vaccinated?
Rachel Madcow, 3/29/21:
now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.
These people still haven't owned up to that fact, nor to their responsibility for the continuing spread of the disease.
81% also support cutting benefits for those same earners whose Social Security taxes would soar.
Meanwhile, 64% support increasing the minimum monthly benefit from $951 to $1,341.
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Equity used to mean everybody had a reasonable expectation of receiving what they put into the system, but that stopped being true for high income earners in the 1990s.
Last year, a person making $200k taxed at the current 6.2% rate for 30 years would have to live 10 years beyond full retirement age of 67 to recoup all his contributions at a 2021 maximum benefit level of $3,113 per month, or to age 77.
Life expectancy in the US fell to 76.6 years in 2021.
C'mon, who advertises peanut butter?
Breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths in December 2021 were running close to 20% and cases just over 30%.
Omicron in 2022 is a bitch, eh?
Vaccines have done nothing to stop the spread and little to reduce deaths in any significant way.
Over the last eleven years 2010-2020, heart disease in the United States has killed 1729 people per day on average.
Cancer comes in a close second at 1620 per day.
COVID-19 remains the third leading cause of death, averaging 1221 deaths per day to date, 822 days after the first death on February 29, 2020.
The best explanation of the data so far remains that the virus has evolved to spread more easily at the expense of lethality, otherwise the explosion in cases in 2022 would have resulted in far many more deaths than we have at present. Deaths per day in the third year of the pandemic remain relatively constant when measured over time.
And who is most victimized?
California, America's largest state by population, continues to show that COVID-19 infects people 65 and over the least, but kills them the most by far. Since May 2021, deaths among people 65 and over in California have changed little, constituting 74% of deaths then and 71% a year later.
This is despite the fact that people 65 and older became the most vaccinated segment of the US population in 2021.
CDC reports that today 95% of them nationally have received at least one dose, 91.2% are fully vaccinated, 69.7% are boosted once, and 29.7% are boosted twice. In California to date nearly 85% of people 65+ have been fully vaccinated with nearly 76% of those boosted.
There needs to be a massive shift in the messaging of the medical establishment away from thinking the vaccines are a panacea for anybody, toward preventing senior deaths by reducing their comorbidities and quickly treating them with drugs like Paxlovid when they become infected with coronavirus:
In reducing mortality, Arbel said the treatment showed a very high benefit in patients 65 and older - an 81% risk reduction. There were no observed benefits in younger adults, who are at less risk of dying from COVID.
Donald Trump is an idolator and a heretic, a blasphemer and a perpetrator of sacrilege, and much more.
Now The New York Post thinks 62 year olds are "elderly".
Before it was just Obama and Democrats who infamously and routinely seemed not to know the size, proportion, and meaning of things (when life starts was above his pay grade, 57 states, hundreds of millions getting Obamacare, 200 million dead from COVID-19, et cetera).
Now everyone is getting into the act.
Life expectancy in the US is about 77 years old. You are elderly when you are near that or exceed it.
Federal law prohibits FFLs from engaging in handgun commerce with anyone under 21 and longgun commerce with anyone under 18. Meanwhile 18 year olds can vote, be tried as adults, sign contracts, and get drafted to have their asses shot off in wars, and fry in the electric chair for shooting up schools. Let's have some of that, shall we?
And just in case you were wondering, a woman is still an adult human female, at least until it becomes Wokepedia.
The $17k subcompact gets about 36mpg, and more, on the highway compared with the HR-V which gets only 30mpg and costs $5k more.
Hey, who wants a Fit during a Plague, right?
“The J-16 ... accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at very close distance,” he told reporters in Melbourne. “At that moment, it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminium, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft. Quite obviously, this is very dangerous.”
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The average weight of all cars has been increasing. But there has been particular debate over whether battery electric vehicles (BEVs), which are heavier than conventional cars and can have greater wheel torque, may lead to more tyre particles being produced. Molden said it would depend on driving style, with gentle EV drivers producing fewer particles than fossil-fuelled cars driven badly, though on average he expected slightly higher tyre particles from BEVs.
More here, in "Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show".
Meanwhile, the great Scotty Kilmer was all over this like white on rice a couple of days ago:
