Well, well, well. Seems like the flippy flopper Republicans, all of the sudden have decided that "their body, their right" to not get vaccinated is a good philosophy. Even if their "choice" results in the death of a human. Pick a side, Republicans. Make up your minds. Counterpoi...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... tudy-finds

Well this is scary! The average IQ of children born during the pandemic puts them in cognitively challenged territory.

Tell that to my buddy who is about to watch his life's work restaurant go under. Pug, I post to the two COVID threads mainly for entertainment value at this point. We can't find an atom of the horse we've been kicking any longer. Long gone. If your buddy is going to lose his life's work that sucks,...

I really (really) would be interested in the elite lust for power. Is this a real thing? Do they masturbate thinking about forcing people to wear masks again? Seriously, I know this sounds like I am trying to yank your chain, but are there people like that? Politicians go into hyperdrive when they'...

Went to Costco today. All their employees and way more than half of customers were wearing masks. I was surprised how many were wearing masks versus a week ago. I agree. I dropped my son off at middle school this morning for his first day back. Even though the governor said they cannot force mask w...

In Melbourne AUS, I don't think you can work out outside. Even with a mask. Hal would know. Mark me down as saying we are on the way out of this when the current surge burns out. What makes you think there won't be another 'surge'? And then another. Think how influenza works, year in and year out. ...

Long-time lurker here. I can help with the math part. But then I'm going to need your help. If 600k people have died from Covid out of 328 million, then we can say the fraction of U.S. people that died is 0.6/328 = 0.0018 (0.18%). I search a bit on-line for an estimate of how many people the averag...

A large US study found similar effects for both hospitalized and non-hospitalized people2. Wait, what?? There is a study showing 20% of non-hospitalized Covid patients suffer from new “disabilities”?? Seriously?? If that were true it should be the front page headline news story everywhere. Unless t...

I know it's hard to step back from making it all about you, but here's a recent poll: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/8w7calyx30/econTabReport.pdf see pages 17 and 18 where 29% of people have lost a family member or close friend to Covid. A full 25% of Trump voters say they have seen a family member or...

I'm in the most densely populated county in the state and have still not heard of a single person hospitalized for Covid or even someone that someone knows. It's very odd don't you think? I know it's hard to step back from making it all about you, but here's a recent poll: https://docs.cdn.yougov.c...

Delta, apparently, received only a "meh" response. So as this morning, they've rolled out Lambda. They've also tried donuts, beer, lotto tickets, sex (tinder), threats of losing your job to get the anti-vaxxers to grow up. Looks like we'll be moving into starvation as the next tactic. I'l...

Maddy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 7:07 am Delta, apparently, received only a "meh" response. So as this morning, they've rolled out Lambda.

I am waiting for the Omega-Mu variant before I get the shot.

That would put it somewhat similar to deaths from cancer? https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-deaths/index.htm "Cancer was the second leading cause of death, after heart disease, in the United States in 2019. In 2019, there were 599,601 cancer deaths; 283,725 were among f...

vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:48 am I think that intellectually I'm in Group B but emotionally I'm in Group C.

You?

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Group D here. Never wavered from group D from the very beginning. Depending upon your view that means I am consistent to my principles or inflexible to changing data.

I'm in the most densely populated county in the state and have still not heard of a single person hospitalized for Covid or even someone that someone knows. It's very odd don't you think? I know it's hard to step back from making it all about you, but here's a recent poll: https://docs.cdn.yougov.c...

Remember when herd immunity was going to happen at 65% vaccination + recovered cases? Illinois has 12.5 million people. The state says 56% of people 12+ are fully vaccinated, with 72% having had at least one shot. There have been 1.4 million "total cases", or 11% of the total population. ...

About a week ago after running some errands I came home and told my wife "well I think masking is over around here." I estimated about 99% of the people I saw in the various places I went were maskless. In fact it was strange to actually see a person wearing a mask. On Wed the CDC recommen...

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-admin-not-ruling-further-223434354.html About a year ago I posed the question as to what the end game of this was going to be. Given the fact that this virus will not just disappear, are alternating lockdowns and masking going to be the game plan forever? If not then wha...

Since the PP was started by Harry Browne, I feel like a lot of people on other investment sites try to pigeonhole it as a crackpot Libertarian investment philosophy. Having such a large percentage of the portfolio in Gold probably doesn't help that image. However, is it really that Libertarian? No t...

Don't know who this guy is but I thought it was an interesting twitter post, if true..... https://i.postimg.cc/6pX407t5/Screenshot-2021-07-29-154855.png And as an added bonus I really liked this post in the same thread. All I can say is Amen.... https://i.postimg.cc/vBJZZjmH/Screenshot-2021-07-29-1...

I'm pretty sure the 14 asshats that were plotting to kidnap the Governor of Michigan are purist Libertarians. If you read down their list of principles, it lines up pretty much exactly. Ranging from the Left/Communism, Government/Tyranny, the Constitution/ (insert pretty much anything), the deep st...

If the psychological idea of having paper-losses scares you, I would recommend tracking multiple portfolios as benchmarks. For example, I don't invest in the PP, but I do track it "as if" I was invested in it. For example, my portfolio backtests higher drawdowns than a PP, but if I was in...

Thanks for sharing. Great interview. Everything up to 1:39 was about his investment philosophy which is to basically invest as an owner of the business and not as an investor. Essentially mark to market price is more of a distraction when time preference is generational. I am sure I would be called...

As I roll my eyes, they of course tell meall they do all day is watch CNN. Duh, like I hadn't already figured that out . I've never watched CNN on any regular basis. In the long ago past I'd only put it on when there some big-time news going on with them being the only one covering it 24 hours. But...