Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden counties — 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000 — Leonhardt reports. "Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny." In fact, he argues, the "straightforward" explanation is that "the vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe COVID, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults."
"This situation is a tragedy, in which irrational fears about vaccine side effects have overwhelmed rational fears about a deadly virus," Leonhardt writes, but the good news is that the partisan gap very well may have peaked, thanks to promising new antiviral COVID-19 medications from Pfizer and Merck.
https://theweek.com/vaccines/1006887/red-america-is-now-dying-from-cov
id-19-at-a-clearly-higher-rate-than-blue-america
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden countries
No they weren't.
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"This situation is a tragedy, in which irrational fears about vaccine side effects have overwhelmed rational fears about a deadly virus," Leonhardt writes, but the good news is that the partisan gap very well may have peaked, thanks to promising new antiviral COVID-19 medications from Pfizer and Merck.
Brought to you by Pfizer.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:The full quote is Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden counties — 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:No they weren't.
Originally posted by second:
Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden countries
6ix, if you want to argue that 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000 makes no difference, go ahead and be a crazy nutjob.
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Quote:The full quote is Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden counties — 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:No they weren't.
Originally posted by second:
Residents of heavily Trump counties were more than three times likelier to die from COVID in October than those in heavily Biden countries
6ix, if you want to argue that 25 per 100,000 versus 7.8 per 100,000 makes no difference, go ahead and be a crazy nutjob.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I know how to math. I'm not a Democrat.
The numbers are bullshit.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Did Covid-19 checks cause a "Labor Shortage"? -- A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview:
Joey Holz recalled first hearing complaints about a labor shortage last year when he called to donate convalescent plasma at a clinic near Fort Myers, Florida. "The guy went on this rant about how he can't find help and he can't keep anybody in his medical facility because they all quit over the stimulus checks," Holz told Insider. "And I'm like, 'Your medical professionals quit over $1,200 checks? That's weird.'" Over the next several months, the 37-year-old watched as a growing chorus of businesses said they couldn't find anyone to hire because of government stimulus money. It was so ubiquitous that he joined a "No one wants to work" Facebook group, where users made memes deriding frustrated employers. He said he found it hard to believe that government money was keeping people out of the labor force, especially when the end of expanded federal unemployment benefits did not seem to trigger a surge in employment. All expanded benefits ended in September, but 26 states — including Florida — ended them early in June and July. "If this extra money that everyone's supposedly living off of stopped in June and it's now September, obviously, that's not what's stopping them," he said. Workers have said companies struggling to hire aren't offering competitive pay and benefits. So Holz, a former food-service worker and charter-boat crewman, decided to run an experiment: applying to 60 entry-level jobs in September and getting only one interview.
Holz acknowledged that his results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country, since his search was local and targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending (Covid-19 Checks).
He added that despite the claims of some businesses struggling to hire, his boss had no staffing issues during the pandemic.
"Nobody leaves those positions because he takes care of his people," Holz said, referring to his boss.
More at https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-applied-to-60-jobs-got-one-inte
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Did Covid-19 checks cause a "Labor Shortage"? -- A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview:
In Florida, huh? You mean the state that is most adamantly fighting against Biden*'s unconstitutional vaccine mandate?
Try that experiment in California and New York, idiot.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD @PeterHotez tweeted
Some leading causes of death in the State of Texas
5. Homicide: 1,653
4. Drug overdose deaths: 2,989
3. Firearm deaths: 3,583
2. Accidents: 10,763
1. Deaths from COVID19 vaccine refusal since June 1, 2021 even though vaccines widely available: 21,000
6:48 AM · Nov 11, 2021· Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1458778724149739521
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD @PeterHotez
My point: "health freedom" antiscience aggression = a leading killing force in the state of Texas, more lethal than drug overdose, accidents, firearm injury, homicide combined. And yet we tolerate this, but we don't have to. More deaths coming but it's not too late to save lives
https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1458779792178925571
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We mandate less effective vaccines for illness that are less deadly. I'd be curious what the legal arguments for and against those requirements are.
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We mandate less effective vaccines for illness that are less deadly. I'd be curious what the legal arguments for and against those requirements are.
Here's an argument for you.
If somebody tries to force a vaccine on me, only one of us is coming out of that alive.
I'm far from alone.
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Nobody is going to come to your house to forcibly COVID-19 vaccinate you.
So please put that in the 'predictions' thread, because it will always be true no matter how long we wait, and no matter how paranoid 'people' are.
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