Cool and damp, but supposedly no rain. We got misty drizzle late yesterday after a day of threatening skies and occasional sprinkles locally. The national map has the front moving out of our area though, and that will be nice.
I didn’t get much done on my list yesterday. It seems that for every productive day, I end up having one much less productive. I did advance a couple of projects. I started the ‘burn all the DVDs and get them out of the living room’ project. This is very important to my wife for some reason, so I thought I could and should get started. It’s not a quick process, but like ripping CDs, I just feed the machine while I’m sitting here anyway. Like so many things, just getting started and then doing it is the only way to make it happen.
I spent some time doing PC maintenance too. Deleting stuff, moving stuff. Installing stuff I meant to install years ago…
And I went looking for something I remember writing and linking here, but couldn’t find it. In the process though I reviewed some posts from last year at this time. Pretty prescient if I do say so, at least as relates to prepping, although the wuflu turned out to be less for us than it was for them.
I’m going to have to be a bit more productive today, and that means leaving the house. For years the weekend has been ‘just two more days to work’. Put it to good use.
And keep s t a c k i n g. But also keep in mind, the anti-conservative white male three letter agencies will be looking hard at your purchases. Start countering that.
nick
Shop rag over the other terminal works well enough. It’s probably not as safe as a proper rubber cap but I always have rags in my toolbox and it works so that’s what I go with.
The posts about Bank of America yesterday: Banking privacy is something I find astouding. Or, rather, the lack of. People are supposed to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects” – surely that was always intended to include security in your financial affairs.
Yet nearly every country has given the government full, unquestioned access to your banking information. Even Switzerland has been forced to do so for foreigners – under massive pressure by the US and the EU. Domestically, it is still the case that the Swiss government needs a warrant to access information on Swiss citizens. That’s got to be just about the last bastion…
Someone edited that badly. It sounds almost positive, using words like “thrive”. Isn’t climate change supposed to be all bad, all the time?
I may have to pull fiber into the Office building after all. AT&T increased the cost of my two DSL lines and my five land lines by 50% on Jan 1. I am not happy. I have no recourse since they cut all of our discounts to zero so we pay retail now. Coincidentally, that $450/month will cover the fiber line at 10/10 mbps.
10/10 Mbps? No more YouTube at the office. Get back to work!
Fiber is technically a separate phone company, subject to less regulation than DSL/copper and serviced by labor not covered by the CWA collective bargaining. This was the deal AT&T cut with the state to roll out fiber to homes, arguing that they needed less regulation to effectively compete with Google and, to a lesser extent, around Dallas, Verizon.
2021 is a collective bargaining/possible strike year on the old schedule, but I thought things were settled with the union in 2020. Steve Jobs and the Death Star broke the union before I left in 2009, however, and I only keep up from a distance.
Will they let you keep one copper phone line not powered by an on-site battery for your fax and emergency phone needs?
The posts about Bank of America yesterday: Banking privacy is something I find astouding. Or, rather, the lack of. People are supposed to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects” – surely that was always intended to include security in your financial affairs.
Over the last 30 years, Americans have surrendered much of their privacy for “free” conveniences and an ability to stream Baby Yoda on demand anywhere at a reasonable monthly price tag. Most of the population is oblivious to the true cost of these services.
(To be fair, Banking privacy went early as part of the “war on drugs” and the state/federal governments’ half hearted attempts to balance budgets prior to 9/11.)
Even a simple convenience such as direct deposit of paychecks in the US comes at a cost of privacy in banking. I don’t quite understand the mechanism, but employers have the capability to “adjust” the deposit to correct a mistake with the number which has the side effect of a balance verification.
I have no doubt the tactic was deployed against us living in WA State by my wife’s employer. Ever since then, our paycheck deposits go to totally separate institutions.
If you don’t think there is something in direct deposit for the employers beyond preventing lost paychecks, try to get your salary the old fashioned say. I have.
Not only adjust, but reverse the deposit. A previous employer was in financial trouble. It was a small business with 15 employees. Our paychecks hit Thursday evening, and Friday morning they were gone. The owner said it was an accounting error. Our paychecks were redeposited Monday morning. I made it my full time job to find another job as quickly as possible after that.
Oh, and when I went to pick up my final paycheck (he wouldn’t direct deposit it), he conveniently forgot to sign it. I didn’t notice until I got to the bank. Scumbag doesn’t begin to describe the dude.
Yah, I had an employer like that a time or two. One guy had the paychecks regularly given out Friday afternoons, knowing that there wasn’t money in the bank to cover them all. The first employee to the bank could cash his check, and maybe the second, but beyond that was unlikely. The office guy would tell us when money was available for the rest of us, usually Tuesday-ish.
Shockingly, the money problems began when the company owner took his regular girlfriend and a teenage girl on a vacation in Europe. (Note in passing that the owner was 50-ish and the girlfriend was 40-ish.) The vacation was budgeted for two weeks, with the company paying for it because it was “work related”. (No, it totally wasn’t.) The problem came when they extended the vacation another week or so, with an additional draw approximately equalling the weekly payroll. Mixing company and personal finances is stupid, but it was his company and his business, pardon the pun. But when it reached into fraud in writing checks which couldn’t be covered, it became not just his business. Not shockingly, the company was out of business a couple months after the vacation. Shockingly, a few people were still with the company at that point.
Yes. They are less effective in preventing illness, but are just as effective in preventing hospitalization and death. The Oxford and J&J vaccine had patients get sick with both the S. Africa and Brazil strain, none had to go to hospital.
My plan, were I vaccine czar, would be to give the Moderna and Pfizer to the elderly and some of the comorbidity classes, J&J and Oxford to everyone else.
J&J is single shot, and scuttlebutt is that after they get EUA in 3 weeks, they will be doing a second shot trial to see if that boosts effectiveness. The Oxford vaccine appears to work better if the second shot is at 12 weeks rather than 4!
The Good Doctor got her 2nd dose of Moderna yesterday, is feeling achy, arm hurts.
This would in fact explain some of the weirdness about the reported authorization of the NG, and some of the actions on the day.
–again though, no time machines, no do overs. The hurricane is in the Gulf. Time to deal with the disaster not ‘could have beens’.
n
@ech
About the same as a “normal” flu shot?
@Nick
Two people can keep a secret if one is dead…
Some secrets don’t actually need to be perfectly kept.
wilson’s wheelchair use
JFK’s infidelity
the human humidor
For some people, classifying the secret is enough to keep them from exposing it. And those types of secrets are always sold with a carrot and stick.
Remember all the weirdness with Pense and the NG?
n
–again though, no time machines, no do overs. The hurricane is in the Gulf. Time to deal with the disaster not ‘could have beens’.
60,000 or fewer Libertarians in GA made it possible. Actually the number is closer to 16,000, but the larger figure is the number who went out, voted for Trump, and then “voted their conscience” for their own party’s ultimately doomed Senate candidate.
That shouldn’t be forgotten.
Some secrets don’t actually need to be perfectly kept.
Roosevelt’s demise in Warm Springs, GA at his sugar shack.
My parents were Orange County CA Republicans who were solid Reaganites, but John F. Kennedy was something special to their entire “Pre War Baby” generation and the Boomers after them. My father despised, Uncle Ted, however, so the night of the 1980 convention where Carter got pressure to turn the delegates loose, I got the full story of Chappaquiddick, complete with the old man pantomiming Kennedy wading to shore, the car left overturned in ~6 ft of water.
Neil Armstrong enabled Ted Kennedy’s continued political career.
@Nick
I didn’t see any reputable reports about Pence and the NG, all I saw was rumors and bs.
If Trump had been deposed there are 50,000 ash-holes in DC that would have been running to the phones, and the prog media would have reported no matter what the restrictions.
@Greg
If the media had done their job in 1968, Armstrong couldn’t have helped Tiny Ted by carrying him to the moon on his back.
I wasn’t within 500 miles of the pos and heard stories about the drunken debauchery with barmaids on tavern tables in the back rooms, and the special dispensations when the rabbits died.
If TT and McCain had been traveling together and died in a fiery crash we’d have a new national holiday.
Sort of. The flu shot varies in effectiveness based on whether the prediction of what strains are going to be active is right. If they choose right, it’s pretty effective. If not, it’s somewhat of a help.
The thing to watch for is if the normal evolution of memory B-cells gives more cross-protection over time.
BTW, Moderna has asked for permission to put 15 doses per vial instead of 10. They are hitting a bottleneck in vial filling and vial availability. The FDA says they will let them know in 3 weeks. 🙁
“The FDA says they will let them know in 3 weeks. ”
–never make a decision today that you can force someone else to make later.
I’m a bit puzzled about why the FDA or anyone would have a say about how many doses are in a vial. If there are technical issues, shouldn’t the manf be in the best place to make those decisions?
n
@ech
Sorry, wasn’t specific.
“The Good Doctor got her 2nd dose of Moderna yesterday, is feeling achy, arm hurts. “
I meant to inquire about rxn?
You keep saying that. I’m not convinced. The fix was in, and if there hadn’t been “principled” boycotts or crossover voting then any necessary necessary votes would have been made up or discarded.
If the media had done their job in 1968, Armstrong couldn’t have helped Tiny Ted by carrying him to the moon on his back.
Chappaquiddick was all about timing. The entire press corps was in Florida that weekend, and Uncle Ted lucked out. Plus, 50 years ago, it wasn’t possible to get quality photos taken on site from Martha’s Vineyard to New York City in a few minutes or even a few hours on a weekday, much less a Saturday night at 6PM after the first press conference.
The moon landing was Sunday morning.
LoooooooL
Polling of Trump voters in the general election has shown many stayed home for the Senate runoff. No “fix” needed.
SJW David Hogg is back on social media screeching how he is “gonna make a better pillow than the My Pillow Guy.” Union made in the US. Right. It will be a good lesson for a *Zoomer* to find out what it takes to run a “successful” business. If he didn’t have some other Zoomer rich kid helping him, this would be dead in the water. Find union workers that will work for $15/hr with no benefits. All because he doesn’t like Lindell’s politics.
How do you poll tRump supporters:
Pollster: Are you a tRump supporter?
Biden supporter: Sure, I am, ask me anything derogatory about The Rump.
How do you poll tRump supporters:
Pollster: Are you a tRump supporter?
Biden supporter: Sure, I am, ask me anything derogatory about The Rump.
Forget polls. You can see the numbers in the official results from both the runoff and the general election in the Perdue-Ossoff race.
A “fix” in Georgia really only works in Fulton County, and that part of the state isn’t generally known for Libertarian thought.
@Greg
Kennedy had no injuries, but put a neck brace on even though there was no medical reason. The press was very incurious about that.
The neck brace was prominent in photos at the time. Search
Ted Kennedy neck brace
and you will find dozens.
If you read Wikipedia there is no mention of a neck brace, and no photo. Not even the one that appeared on the cover of Time Magazine.
If you want to do an experiment, try editing the wiki article and adding The Time Magazine reference and discussion of the neck brace.
1972 was a bit soon for the public memory to fade. 1976 and later sure wasn’t: the fix was firmly in.
The “Lion of the Senate” couldn’t even measure up to the “Cowardly Lion”. A sub-standard intellect, and the only legislative legacy is gutting our immigration laws.
1972 was a bit soon for the public memory to fade. 1976 and later sure wasn’t: the fix was firmly in.
The desire for the return of Camelot dies hard with some generations. It still resonates and will until the last Boomer Bobby Kennedy voter assumes room temperature. Here in Texas, the appeal of Robert Francis O’Rourke (I don’t use the ‘B’ word) among older voters comes courtesy of the candidate’s maternal grandfather’s connection to Kennedy and a jar of makeup that invokes JFK’s Addisons affliction skin coloring — the “tanned, rested, ready” look was actually illness.
Unlike the Republicans, the Dems hate to lose “voting their conscience”, and I remember clearly the night of the 1980 convention, just 11 years later, when the party pressured Jimmy Carter to turn his delegates loose to vote for Uncle Ted and forestall the Reagan revolution regardless of the cost.
Of course, Carter, the old Sunday School teacher, didn’t want to lose, but he didn’t want to put Uncle Ted in the White House either.
What about Steve Bannon?
Kicking Trump off of Twitter has had a profound impact. I read somewhere that he has been reduced to sending content to friends and trying to get them to post on Twitter.
They have concerns about the extra jabs through the rubber stopper on the vials. It’s designed for 10 and they would want to be okay that the 5 extra jabs doesn’t result in any contamination. So they may decide to allow say 12 or 13 doses rather than 15.
Somebody at Moderna had a ‘light bulb’ inspiration and realized there was empty space in the vials. The Pfizer vials don’t, but with the correct syringes they can reliably get 6 doses from each vial. I understand that all Pfizer shipments going forward will have the 6-shot syringes.
Somebody at Moderna had a ‘light bulb’ inspiration and realized there was empty space in the vials. The Pfizer vials don’t, but with the correct syringes they can reliably get 6 doses from each vial. I understand that all Pfizer shipments going forward will have the 6-shot syringes.
The “6-shot” syringes have a plunger which is more expensive to manufacture and not typically necessary in most situations. Getting tool and die work done for the requisite rubber and plastic molds in this country is pricey and there are only so many of those places left.
@ Alan from yesterday
If you believe Trump was responsible for what happened in the Capitol on Jan. 6, then you have to take some action to say there is a price for such behavior. People are arrested and go to trial for all sorts of alleged crimes without surety of conviction. Here of course, politics intrudes. I doubt a single Democrat will not vote for impeachment and that is likely due to partisanship or honestly held belief and often both. It will be interesting to see how Republicans vote. Some will vote the partisan line, no matter their belief, some will vote what they believe, partisan or not. I expect the Democrats to go after any Republican that votes not-guilty, and the Republicans to go after any that vote guilty. How hard the Republican party goes after the guilty-voting Republicans depends on who ends up in control of the Republican party after all this: pro-Trump or anti-Trump Republicans (and lets not forget a whole bunch of opportunists sitting on the fence). I’m keeping my bowl of popcorn warm, this should be fascinating to watch over the next few months.
Lot’s of issues around the syringes, going back months.
Several government entities were reportedly stockpiling syringes at the same time that projections were showing shortages in a more short-term.
The UN was one, setting a goal for stockpile by the end of 2021 that was nearly twice the U.S. pre-Wuhan annual production. Makes you wonder what the hell is driving it.
And is seems that syringes may be another thing that was not replaced after use during eight years of Obama-Biden excellence.
Sam’s run today. Much busier than normal at the register, but just about everything was at full stock levels except … Charmin Blue!
Don’t know what to read about the crowds. Maybe Super Bowl.
More interesting than Sam’s was what I noted on the drive home — the signs are down for the company where I interviewed this time last year, and the building management has a big “For Lease” sign on the corner.
Another bullet dodged … even if it meant eventually being fired for cause for the first time ever in my career.
Several government entities were reportedly stockpiling syringes at the same time that projections were showing shortages in a more short-term.
The UN was one, setting a goal for stockpile by the end of 2021 that was nearly twice the U.S. pre-Wuhan annual production. Makes you wonder what the hell is driving it.
China. “You Ain’t Got No Ice Cream”.
Funny how Hong Kong seems to have been forgotten. Taiwan is the next test.
Operation Warp Speed was paying for more to be made, as well as vials.
This would be called ‘common sense’, exactly why Uncle Joe will ignore it.
I saw that mRNA is being researched to create a more ‘universal’ flu shot.
And on a somewhat related note, this was an interesting podcast I heard today on NPR:
Freakonomics Radio
#449 – How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research
For all the progress made in fighting cancer, it still kills 10 million people a year, and some types remain especially hard to detect and treat. Pancreatic cancer, for instance, is nearly always fatal. A new clinical-trial platform could change that by aligning institutions that typically compete against one another.
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvYWFlYTRlNjktYWY1MS00OTVlLWFmYzktYTk3NjAxNDY5MjJiLzE0YTQzMzc4LWVkYjItNDliZS04NTExLWFiMGQwMDBhNzAzMC9kMWI5NjEyZi1iYjFiLTRiODUtOWMwYy1hYjBkMDA0YWIzN2EvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M/episode/ZTkyNmNmNGUtNjIzNS00ZjkwLTkxMzAtYWNiZDAxN2YzZjMy?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwjhlL2ol9buAhXB854KHTPWAPUQieUEegQIHRAI&ep=6
I made a Home Depot run today.
Did HD have a fall-out with eGo? No eGo lawn stuff to be seen anywhere. Plenty of Ryobi, DeWalt, and Makita.
Yes, they did. Ego is now carried by ACE and Lowes. Have no idea why Home Depot bowed out. Financial skirmish in all probability.
“Did HD have a fall-out with eGo?”
Yes, they did. Ego is now carried by ACE and Lowes. Have no idea why Home Depot bowed out. Financial skirmish in all probability.
If Home Depot followed their usual pattern, they probably asked Ego for the right to slap the brand on a Chinese knockoff mower at the low end. “A Home Depot Exclusive”.
Also, a ChevronTexacoExxonMobil merger may be in the works, and Chevron might be looking to shed Ego like they did with Ortho ahead of the Texaco tie up.
Also, a ChevronTexacoExxonMobil merger may be in the works, and Chevron might be looking to shed Ego like they did with Ortho ahead of the Texaco tie up.
The FTC would never allow Exxon and Chevron to merge. I was amazed they allowed Exxon and Mobil to merge back in the 1990s.
Exxon is in serious trouble, $20 billion asset write down and and 30,000 people layoff in 4th quarter. Shell is shutting down 8 of their 14 refineries in the USA and EU and converting them to tank farms. Shell has already shutdown two of the Louisinana refineries and laid off the staffs. I did hear that they blew the pipes with nitrogen so they can restart if necessary after a six month turnaround.
I’m thinking on my t-stat and heater project. Ow. Freestanding is tougher than putting this stuff in a wall and adding sheet rock. Or maybe I’m thinking too hard.
Ok. I have a Honeywell ceramic heater. High setting is 250 watts, low is 175 watts. Seven inches tall, four wide, five deep. $18 and change from Big River. It seems to be well made.
I bought a Honeywell t-stat. Like what you would use for electric baseboard heaters. eBay. Another $18 and change. “T410A1013”. As I recall, the A is single pole, B is double pole. I’m messing with 120v so single pole it is. I could have bought exactly what I have in the EDC but I didn’t see the value of $25 more to have a thermometer. Hater? Yeah, that’s me.
The plan was to have a the t-stat on one side of a 2×4 and the outlet box on the other side. T-stat controls one socket, the other is always on (think LED nightlight pilot light). Add a little shelf on top for the heater. A bit over two feet tall because that’s the first scrap of 2×4 I found. I can build this.
But then I thought “why?”. Figuring out the legs, yeah, nope.
Just nail or screw a chunk of 2×4 to an eight inch wide scrap of plywood. Outlet boxes on one end, heater on the other end…. and set on top of a couple of milk crates.
Southern Engineering. <– polite term.
I know I will never break even vs parts and electricity used. But I won't have to check if the bulbs have burned out. I won't be heating the space on a warm day.
Anyway. The new dog wants to go out. He might even go potty.
@Alan.
So they think the way to spur innovation is to eliminate competition? How very socialist of them.
I prefer, as Dr Pournell did, the X Prize approach. Dangle a very big carrot and let everyone innovate.
BTW: I have no patience with the conspiracy crowd who claim that cancer research isa fraud just to bring in big bucks. I have met an done work for some cancer researchers and they have family struggling and dying of cancer too. To imagine they would play money games while watching their loved ones die is disgusting.
The FTC would never allow Exxon and Chevron to merge. I was amazed they allowed Exxon and Mobil to merge back in the 1990s.
Sure, it rebuilds Standard Oil, but the merger would back the government into a corner about the electric car kabuki, forcing a decision about the rhetoric:
Either electric cars are the future and there isn’t any point to spend a bunch of money fighting in court to deny the merger to form the modern equivalent of a buggy whip manufacturer monopoly
-or-
Electric cars for the masses are not going to happen on the scheduled timeframe and fighting in court to prevent the rebuilding of Standard Oil is necessary to prevent a dangerous monopoly.
The kabuki is killing the oil companies faster than any actual lost sales pre-Covid.
“Find union workers that will work for $15/hr with no benefits. All because he doesn’t like Lindell’s politics.”
— he can’t find any manufacturers at all. He’s sending out pathetic tweets, looking for them and no one is replying.
Either there aren’t any other pillow manf.s left in the US or they’re too smart to get involved.
n
Calling D’Hogg a Parkland “survivor” is like calling everyone who waved goodbye to the Titanic a survivor.
The FTC would never allow Exxon and Chevron to merge. I was amazed they allowed Exxon and Mobil to merge back in the 1990s.
Sure, it rebuilds Standard Oil, but the merger would back the government into a corner about the electric car kabuki, forcing a decision about the rhetoric:
Either electric cars are the future and there isn’t any point to spend a bunch of money fighting in court to deny the merger to form the modern equivalent of a buggy whip manufacturer monopoly
-or-
Electric cars for the masses are not going to happen on the scheduled timeframe and fighting in court to prevent the rebuilding of Standard Oil is necessary to prevent a dangerous monopoly.
The kabuki is killing the oil companies faster than any actual lost sales pre-Covid.
The USA government is bi-polar. It spends the hundreds of billions of dollars it gets from Exxon and the other hydrocarbon companies on electric cars and the so-called renewables, solar panels and windmills. That compromise in Congress will not change anytime soon. In fact, I expect a carbon tax by April 2021 of at least 100 $/ton CO2 in the USA. A lot depends on Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney as they both represent hydrocarbon producing states who people vote.
In April 2020, the demand for transportation fuels dropped 40%. The demand for diesel has mostly recovered but gasoline is still at least 20% down. Maybe 30% down. With half of the white collars still working at home, that demand will not recover until they go back to the office. Not gonna happen anytime soon.
@Greg
Congress needs to have their chairs electrified before they try to electrify our cars.
It’s not easy to hit stupid on nearly every level, but that one is close.
@Lynn
The legislators in the red states should require the utility companies to break out the cost of solar and wind, using the same standards that are required for calculating other costs. And then include it on every electric bill with the option to opt out. Let the people vote their money directly rather than leave it in the hands of elected mushheads who have no idea how to calculate roi.
@Lynn
The legislators in the red states should require the utility companies to break out the cost of solar and wind, using the same standards that are required for calculating other costs. And then include it on every electric bill with the option to opt out. Let the people vote their money directly rather than leave it in the hands of elected mushheads who have no idea how to calculate roi.
Texas folds the cost of renewables in at the grid average price every fifteen minutes. Reverse Dutch auction. The subsidies come from the federal government.
The renewables always make power when they can since they are fuel limited. Unless, they are grid limited by the transmission lines.
“Find union workers that will work for $15/hr with no benefits. All because he doesn’t like Lindell’s politics.”
— he can’t find any manufacturers at all. He’s sending out pathetic tweets, looking for them and no one is replying.
Either there aren’t any other pillow manf.s left in the US or they’re too smart to get involved.
n
Most of the pillow and other bedding manufacturers in the USA (the Carolina’s mostly) got shut down in the 1980s and 1990s due to the 50 cents/hr labor in China. The ones that are left are extreme high end stuff like:
https://www.bollandbranch.com/
Trouble is there is no vaccine czar, “Uncle Joe” or anybody else. It was all left to the states and there is chaos.
there is chaos.
–not everywhere. TX is doing ok, OK and the indian nations sound fine… haven’t heard anything from FL.
n
Brother and I got our jabs from our Indian health system without having to even sign up. They just called and said “Would you like to show up Tuesday for the vaccine? ”
My wife, not a tribal member, went to the Oklahoma covid vaccine site and selected an appointment date and time. Easy Peasy. I hear horror stories from my family in California about no availability, missing vaccines, and allocations favoring racial groups.
Happy to live here in Indian country.
There is a real question of the nature of our country. I’m old enough to remember when people said “don’t make a Federal case of it” regarding stuff that should be settled locally.
This union was intended to be a federation of States. The states SHOULD be able to handle their own ordinary disasters. They should be able to provide services for their residents out of their own revenues. And they should be able to handle a health crisis locally. Why even have the duplication of state departments of health otherwise? Ideally the states have the power because they are closer to the issues and should be able to better solve any problems. The kids should only run to daddy when there is a problem from outside the family, or when the family is the problem.
If a state has to bring in federal help, they should be declared incompetent and put into a sort of receivership for as long as the Feds are there, like a bankruptcy. And the Feds should confiscate 100% of the revenue while they are running the state.
n
n
“In fact, through February 3, 93 percent of COVID-19 deaths nationwide have occurred among those ages 55 or older.”
https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/public-health/covid-19-deaths-by-age/
(site has data by state.)
And 81% were 65 or older.
What is not captured in these numbers are the cases that have serious lingering effects, usually in those that have risk factors on the comorbidity list.
(I am personally familiar with two such cases:
One young man is overweight with asthma and perhaps other factors. His lungs are shot and he’s working about one half shift at a time. He has no paid time off left.
One middle-aged man is back to work. He coughs up blood every morning before he soldiers on. Not sure if he has any c-m’s or not, but he is sure as hell not recovered.)
Data on fatalities by age AND occupation should be available, somewhere.
But with only 2.5% of fatalities under 45, it’s pretty clear that the idea that entire groups of people who are “essential” should get vaccinated is bullpuckey.
Vaccinate the elderly, or explain why the prediction about “death panels” has come true.
Vaccinate those truly at risk for having serious complications, to reduce the load on medical resources.
Give the teachers a choice: Back in the classroom or find another job. Distance learning ain’t working and the taxpayers are tired of your b.s.
None of this is going to happen with China Joe dancing on his strings.
@Nick
I’m sympathetic to your argument in general, but
1) where does that leave Operation Warp Speed?
2) without some national authority what happens when Cuomo or some other goon finds out that vaccine is being manufactured in his state?
I think there can be coordination, and there can certainly be ‘helper’ programs and the Fedgov takes on issues that are bigger than the states individually, but at every level of government, the least is best, and the closest to the issue.
The founders were certainly wary of a strong Federal government.
What should be and what is are very far apart. There was plenty of evidence that Trump in particular thought the States should do things at a State level, and let the Feds do ‘big picture’ stuff. He also threatened on more than one occasion that if they didn’t get it (for x number of ‘it’ s) straightened out, the Fedgov would, and nobody would like that.
FEMA has been trying to push disaster response back to the states for half a dozen years or more as official policy.
We have different standards for licensing doctors and lawyers, different driving rules, gun ownership, marriage, etc by state, no reason that response to chinkyflu should be any different.
n
“without some national authority what happens when Cuomo or some other goon finds out that vaccine is being manufactured in his state? ”
–if it’s being paid for by someone else, and Cuomo tries to steal it, he should be jailed as a flight risk and tried for his crime.
n
@Nick
“What should be and what is are very far apart. ”
ayup
I’ve found women rather odd with the things they need clear or decluttered and the things they don’t care about or even contribute to. My wife cannot stand anything on the kitchen countertop, but I think she’s trying to set a record for how much she can cram on top of the dryer.
I’ve found WordPress’ search functionality lacking and Google mostly likes to index the posts but not the comments (they flip-flop on this, but mostly lean toward not indexing comments). Since you’re an admin, you may just try dusting off your SQL skills and querying the backend database and doing a full text search on the applicable keywords for any posts or comments authored by you.
Also, when did Milwaukee get in bed with everyone. I used to have to mail order their power tools now EVERY lumberyard and hardware store has them.
Unfortunately, so many trusted brands have been bought by bigger companies then manufacturing moved overseas and quality ignored. I would never buy those Record vises that Irwin tries to sell these days. However, I salivate over a Record woodworkers vise from 50 years ago when they were independent. The big guys are just snatching up brand recognition from small to medium size toolmakers that spent decades building a reputation and slapping that brand on Asian shit. I’ll continue buying old tools and ignoring the shiny new stuff.
–speaking of killer Cuomo
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Scanner has the popo street racer task force continuing to work tonight.
They were about a mile and a half north of my house earlier. Now they’re working a gathering in a parking lot near my rent house. they’re all over town tonight.
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