Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Trump is running away from his biggest health care success (because Trumptards are fucked up in the head)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. I don't understand retard.
You are a retard. You are a garbage human being. Everyone you know in real life hates you even more than people you know online.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
By Dylan Scott | Mar 11, 2025
https://www.vox.com/health/403372/trump-rfk-covid-vaccines-anniversary
-mrna
Exactly five years ago today, after more than 118,000 cases and more than 4,200 deaths across 114 countries had been recorded, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic.
With the virus spreading rapidly around the world, the need for a vaccine was desperate — but the prior record for the fastest development of a new vaccine to a new virus was four years Yet vaccines using the new technology of mRNA were developed by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech in a matter of months, and were already being put into arms by the first anniversary of the pandemic.
Rather than containing a weakened or dead virus, as most vaccines do, the shots contained mRNA — or messenger RNA, a kind of genetic script — that prompted cells to produce special proteins that would allow the body to develop an immunity to the novel coronavirus.
While new Covid variants would later pose challenges in the pandemic, scholars at the Commonwealth Fund, a health policy research group, estimated that the Covid vaccines prevented more than 3 million deaths in the United States alone and 18 million hospitalizations from December 2020 to November 2022.
Scientists, who are usually not prone to crediting divine intervention, called the mRNA vaccines a miracle. Four in five Americans received at least one dose; when we remember less than half of Americans get their flu shot each year, the high uptake of mRNA shots, at least initially, signaled a willingness from the US public to trust this novel technology. After most Americans received their shots, more people returned to work, more kids went back to school, and the economy began to rebound. And there was optimism that mRNA technology could be used to make better vaccines for other diseases.
But even as the vaccines were actively pulling the US out of the pandemic, skepticism about mRNA technology was rising. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., still a private citizen at the time and one of the country’s most vocal vaccine skeptics, urged the first Trump administration to pull the shots.
Now the nation’s top health official, Kennedy is reevaluating the US Health and Human Services’s contract with Moderna, which is developing flu vaccines targeting strains with high pandemic potential including the H5N1 bird flu that is currently driving fears of another pandemic.
With Kennedy at the helm of HHS, scientists and public health experts worry that a major breakthrough in medicine development may now backslide. mRNA technology has shown the potential to deliver new cancer treatments and a universal flu vaccine, and could lead scientists to uncover even more applications. But now, mRNA vaccine development is in peril — just a few years after proving its value.
Why so many Americans turned against a vaccine miracle
Scientists had been trying since the 1990s to crack mRNA vaccines, but progress was slow, in part because it was difficult to secure funding. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Operation Warp Speed funded rapid clinical trials, expanded manufacturing capabilities, and offered huge purchase guarantees for companies that delivered an effective vaccine.
mRNA vaccine development proved almost too good to be true during a real-life emergency. During the new Covid vaccines’ early clinical trials, they showed a 90 percent efficacy in preventing any symptoms at all.
In the real world, the efficacy of early vaccines didn’t quite live up to that hype. The Moderna and Pfizer shots were still very effective i
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Have fun with your future Covid-shot related heart attack, Mudblood.
At least the staff at Vox got that going for them. They're all going to be out of jobs soon, but maybe most of them die off from Myocarditis before they get the bad news.
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Quote:6ix, you are fucked up in the head. Thirty years from now I will be a healthy 103 year old and you will be long dead because you stupidly fucked up your health.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun with your future Covid-shot related heart attack, Mudblood.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump is lying about dead people and Social Security
But we should fix this problem and have a central federal birth/death registry
By Matthew Yglesias | Mar 11, 2025
https://www.slowboring.com/p/trump-is-lying-about-dead-people
Last month, Elon Musk complained that the Social Security Administration’s database contains millions of Social Security numbers for people who seem implausibly old but who are not marked as dead in the official files.
“Maybe Twilight is real,” he quipped, “and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”
This is the kind of thing that often happens when a person stumbles into an unfamiliar dataset. For example, I once tried to compute a “new homes per new people” ratio on FRED and noticed that there were consistently weird jumps in the ratio every January. I thought this might have something to do with the seasonality of home building, but when I looked into it, I learned that the Current Population Survey does a revision every January that creates a discontinuity in the population figures.
Literally, this chart says there was a mass death event in January of 2024. But we all know that this didn’t happen. By the same token, the US population did not increase by 2.8 million people in January of 2023. Instead, the population level estimate was revised upward by 2.8 million, and that is recorded in the database in a way that is annoyingly unhelpful.
By the same token, it’s true that the United States of America does not maintain a comprehensive federal death registry. As I have frequently complained, national data about the number of murders committed in the United States is incredibly laggy. The numbers on drug overdoses aren’t quite as delayed, but the most recent release (from late February) told us how many overdoses we had back in September.
In the United States, the tracking of births and deaths of livestock is much more timely and comprehensive than the tracking of births and deaths of humans, because livestock data is recorded by the Department of Agriculture, while collecting data on humans is a disaggregated state and county function. As a result, the CDC has one effort to figure out how many people are dying of drug overdose, while the FBI has another to figure out how many people have been murdered, and the Social Security Administration has a third to figure out how many people are ineligible for benefits due to death.
I find this to be a genuine government efficiency problem, and I think it would be great to create a centralized federal vital statistics database that could share relevant information with other agencies. This would reduce duplicative efforts, give decision-makers access to more up-to-date information, improve benefits administration, and constitute a genuine public good.
I was prepared to leave it at that, but Donald Trump repeated Musk’s claims in the State of the Union Address, again suggesting that money is being paid out to super-centenarians on a scale that is relevant to long-term fiscal policy.
This isn’t true, Trump is not proposing any solutions to the actual problem, and I don’t understand what move he’s trying to set up with this claim.
Super-centenarians and Social Security
The best source of accurate information on the number of active Social Security numbers held by implausibly old people is the SSA Inspector General Report, “Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident.” (The Numident is the name of the file where they list every SSN that has ever been issued.)
The IG report expresses quite a bit of frustration with the Social Security Admi
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You're a 23 year old beatoff living in your mom's basement.
Get fucked, loser.
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SECOND's posts are by overarticulate liars.
SECOND, you really think anyone is gonna wade thru all that crap?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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His articles are all written by a Who's Who list of Establishment NeoLib bureaucrats and shills that were all knocked off the raft and are desperately doing whatever they can to not get swallowed up by the rapids before everybody stops paying them to put their words to print.
These are their dying last gasps.
Their cultural relevance and their diseased vision of our future dies now.
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Quote:I'd flip that around to Trumptards Die In the Dark. Eventually America's libtards will understand that words don't change robots' degenerate behavior patterns but Canadians pulling the plug on Trumptard robots might work. See the following story:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Their cultural relevance and their diseased vision of our future dies now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Donald Trump explosively warned Ontario that it would "pay a financial price" for its retaliatory tariffs "so big that it will be read about in History Books for many years to come"
"Why would our Country allow another Country to supply us with electricity, even for a small area? Who made these decisions, and why? And can you imagine Canada stooping so low as to use ELECTRICITY, that so affects the life of innocent people, as a bargaining chip and threat?" the president raged on his Truth Social app. (That Trump asks such questions shows he was never a very stable genius, quoting his self-evaluation.)
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/breaking-donald-trump-issues-an
other-34841066
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Stable_Genius
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I read thru the article by Iglesias, and he has a point: Social Security should be a national database. Every citizen should have a number, and the dead (and illegals paying into the system) should be purged. I see a potential problem in the reporting of home births and deaths. Unreported births don't trigger any benefits, but deaths mean the cessation of benefits.
I think in order to collect insurance, settle estates and so forth you have to get a death certificate from the county, but the way it is now its up to ... somebody ... to notify Social Security of the death. If that "somebody" fails to report, benefits could be collected fraudulently. The county should pass that on to voter registration rolls and to Social Security automatically. N'est ce pas?
Turning Social Security into a comprehensive database, tho, is beyond Social Security's remit. In order to produce the kinds of analyses he's mentioning, Social Security would have to collect all kinds of data, like cause of death. And linking IRS and Medicare/ Medicaid to Social Security data .... they do that already, using your tax return to calculate your Medicare premiums. If someone's gonna cheat, they're gonna cheat on their 1040 with unreported income.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Elon didn’t get the memo
Candidate Trump promised he would not allow any cuts to Social Security or Medicare if elected. Looks like President Musk didn’t get the memo:
Despite reporting from The Washington Post on Monday suggesting that DOGE officials are starting to worry about bad “PR,” Musk suggested later in the day he could push for big cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other safety net programs.
Quote:“There is no expert on the planet who thinks there is $700 billion worth of annual fraud in America’s safety net programs. Musk at one point in the interview cited a Government Accountability Office report which estimated that the government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, but that report covered the whole of the federal government — not just those programs. (The sizable frauds occurring in programs like Medicare and Medicaid are typically carried out by scam businesses, not recipients.)”
“The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — most of the federal spending is entitlements — that’s the big one to eliminate,” he said. “That’s sort of half trillion, maybe $600-700 billion a year.”
I’m sure President Musk is lying. He lies as easily as breathing. But as Goebbels and Stalin knew, if you repeat lies often enough, people start to believe them.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-cuts-soc
ial-security-medicaid-medicare-1235293407/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I read thru the article by Iglesias, and he has a point: Social Security should be a national database. Every citizen should have a number, and the dead (and illegals paying into the system) should be purged. I see a potential problem in the reporting of home births and deaths. Unreported births don't trigger any benefits, but deaths mean the cessation of benefits.
I think in order to collect insurance, settle estates and so forth you have to get a death certificate from the county, but the way it is now its up to ... somebody ... to notify Social Security of the death. If that "somebody" fails to report, benefits could be collected fraudulently. The county should pass that on to voter registration rolls and to Social Security automatically. N'est ce pas?
Turning Social Security into a comprehensive database, tho, is beyond Social Security's remit. In order to produce the kinds of analyses he's mentioning, Social Security would have to collect all kinds of data, like cause of death. And linking IRS and Medicare/ Medicaid to Social Security data .... they do that already, using your tax return to calculate your Medicare premiums. If someone's gonna cheat, they're gonna cheat on their 1040 with unreported income.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
It would stop crazy people from cutting up their dead mother's body and hiding her in the freezer for years, among other things.
Remember that little gem?
https://abc7chicago.com/eva-batcher-regina-michalski-body-in-freezer-s
ocial-security-fraud/12763071/
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