TheEncogitationer

Pope,

As long as we’re still short on vaccine, Herd Immunity works almost the same whether I take a dose or someone else gets it. I say “almost” because there’s a trade-off wrt which risks one is most interested in reducing. E.g. either reduce the rate of transmission in a typically highly social (or behaviorally careless) demographic, or reduce…

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Jake,

Hey Enco., Burn Dawg Sanders was quoted as saying two guys (Bezos and Musk) have greater wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. If so it is roughly two guys v. 131 million and two guys wins. Are you good with that result?

Bezos and Musk don’t deserve subsidies or bailouts any more than the get-your-shit-and-go crowd deserve 81″…[Read more]

Robert,

If you partied, killed grandma and then got vaccinated..some guilt could result in a life lesson perhaps.

Very true.  I recently met an EMT who actually said he thought COVID-19 was a joke.  I thought: “Yep, I’ll do Roman-style self-cauterizing or die in the streets before I’d call on this lunk-head for help.” 🙄

Reading some of the s…

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Kristina,

It’s not silly or deadly. It doesn’t reduce the number of vaccines being given at any point in time. It’s just an emotional/ empathic response to a prioritization system that may leave people in greater need exposed to greater risk for longer.

True, “vaccine guilt” doesn’t decrease the number of vaccines, but neither does it incre…[Read more]

Kristina,

I doubt they are ‘forgetting’. You wrote a bunch of incoherent statements not really backed up by research or data. It’s bias, suspicion and fear-mongering without content. I mean, gas prices going up? It’s because of the storms in Texas. I am not saying the prices needed to go up that much. I am saying oil producers were given a reason…

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Robert,

Econ, I am not as worried the super wealthy are gonna let their vast fortunes in US dollars inflate away. When the Fed finally tightens up to protect their dollars, there will be pain for organizations that can’t generate cash flow and for our 401Ks.

The wealthy have no more choice in The Federal Reserve or how it is run than any of us.…[Read more]

Davis and Roberts,

You are forgetting something: People of every income level have investments that they might not want taxed away by income taxes, capital gains taxes, sales taxes when they spend, and inheritance and estate taxes when they die and want to leave it to someone.

Also, people of all income levels gain from jobs, goods, and services…[Read more]

Davis and Unseen,

You do realize that the only way that Progressive Socialist People’s States provide all their “gimmies” is either by heavy taxation or the printing of worthless paper fiat currency, followed by nationalization and personal confiscation, right?

And that includes confiscation of personal Gold items.  President FDR illegalized…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Actually, Ketchup, combined with onions, a pound of lean ground round, and half a packet of French’s Chilli-O Seasoning make the best damn hot dog chilli I’ve ever tasted.  Combined with slaw and French’s Mustard, and a hot dog is complete.

My Grandmother always made hot dogs with that chilli and I carry the recipe with me…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco., i am with you on woo and on all forms of pontificating, lying, self-serving tripe. We ought not tolerate it. But the majority of humans are no better than monkeys in discriminating between what is valid/real and what is not. The free marketplace of ideas is failing us. It always has. But now we have large numbers of humans who get…

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Jake,

You gave a very detailed and informative presentation of these kinds of cases.

Still, though, woo such as chiropractory should not take up one minute of an adjuster’s time or one mark of stenography.  A rational system of justice should reject woo out of hand prima facie, ipso facto, a priori, for all the same reasons that the U.S. Patent…[Read more]

Jake,

If chiropractors are exaggerating claims of injury or referring to a Subluxation injury that can’t be verified by X-Rays or other medical devices, then they are indeed encouraging patients to adapt a victim mentality and to milk accident, worker’s comp, and S.S.I. Disability into a very comfortable lifestyle…at all of our expense.

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