The actual theater is every handrail and elevator button everywhere being sticky from being "sanitized" every hour on the hour, and that does way less that having 1% more of the people wearing N95 masks.
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So the blue hospital masks that the vast majority of masked people wear/wore were only incrementally effective? I was under the impression they provided substantial benefit for slowing transmission, while understanding they didn't provide much protection to the wearer.
Now to be fair I will be looking for this same critique on both Obama and Biden's time as a senator and president. also when you do your research do include information from other sources besides big tech and state run media. I am not a trump fan but can show you over 200 accomplishments where he made your life better. Has biden ?
Go to the grocery store and fill your cart with any 200 items. Dumb shit
Incremental, maybe, and I guess I am viewing it from the perspective of the super-contagious omicron variant..
Wearing the blue masks is likely better than all but two other things: staying away from all people (infinitely better) and 2) wearing N95s (I would guess, at least 5x better). So (just spitballing numbers here) if the paper masks for all gives 18% protection and the N95s for all gives 90% protction from omicron, go with 90%. But 18% is way way way better than 0, particularly across a large population.
But pre-omicron the blue paper likely did a bit more than 18%, though still way less than N95. I looked for no data, but it seems sensible.
After 3 months of daily wearing real N95s, I put on a paper or cloth mask and I think "what is this flimsy piece of crap"
"inflation", LMAO!
how the CORPORATE media/Wall St propaganda arms are now sanitizing war profiteering esque price hikes during a pandemic, from companies many showing record profits and stock values.
wake up idiots.
yes, there absolutely are some covid based supply chain based price increases such as in the auto market, but most of this is just unfettered capitalism at work and price gouging veiled as covid driven inflation, disguised and enabled by all the far far right CORPORATE media/propaganda arms of Wall St and the monopolistic inducing mega funds/hedge funds, on top of the death of anti trust enabled industry consolidation and monopolistic mega fund manipulation..
the economic knowledge base of this board and the country as a whole, on a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 being highest, is a minus 1,000.
has no one been paying attention to anything economic going down the last 40 plus yrs?????
when money can buy govt, 100% chance it will.
when the media is 100% CORPORATE, 100% chance it becomes the PR/propaganda arm for it's GREATER CORPORATE ownership, it's CORPORATE advertisers, and it's MONOPOLISTIC MEGA FUND owners/controllers.
i know exactly what I knew before it started
Wash your hands!
Everything else is BS
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Most masks would greatly reduce the distance droplets travel when a person cough and if combine with staying 6 ft apart would greatly reduce transmission. Yes, n95s were on a whole different level of transmission prevention but any mask was better than the ma freedom mask refuser strategy
Then explain how my vaxed daughter, had covid, was under our roof over the holidays and none of us got it.
Explain how our friends piled in a car on the way home from thanksgiving for 8 hours. One was sick, tested positive, nobody else got sick.
This lil plandemic is just a depop test. Now they have all the info on the compliant and the non compliant. They can all f*ck themselves. Prolly have face recognition of masked and un masked too. Im dead where I'm standing.
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Then explain how my vaxed daughter, had covid, was under our roof over the holidays and none of us got it.
Explain how our friends piled in a car on the way home from thanksgiving for 8 hours. One was sick, tested positive, nobody else got sick.
This lil plandemic is just a depop test. Now they have all the info on the compliant and the non compliant. They can all f*ck themselves. Prolly have face recognition of masked and un masked too. Im dead where I'm standing.
That doesn't disprove anything I said.
You cant disprove anything I said either.
If you think anyone has the science on the wuhan sh*t ur crazies. This sh!t picks and chooses its victims. I'd rather die on my sofa than go to a hospital, get drugged out and put a vent.
Covid was a clusterf*cking mess that GHWB would be proud of.
Born in Summitville, farms closest to Fairmount. Lived there until I was 6, then moved to Anderson where you were one of our main rivals, !
Oh my goodness, bless your heart.Then explain how my vaxed daughter, had covid, was under our roof over the holidays and none of us got it.
Explain how our friends piled in a car on the way home from thanksgiving for 8 hours. One was sick, tested positive, nobody else got sick.
This lil plandemic is just a depop test. Now they have all the info on the compliant and the non compliant. They can all f*ck themselves. Prolly have face recognition of masked and un masked too. Im dead where I'm standing.
Uh oh. Did Garland send the FBI anti-terrorism unit to take control?
This is flat out stupidity. There is inflation because money supply has skyrocketed over the last year, while supply has not. It is really simple Econ 101. You must be part of the minus 1,000, whatever the hell that means.
Did corporate greed just start in the last year? What about inflation in Zimbabwa? Is that the greed of Wall St too? Unbelievable!!
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It would be better for the world if he could play Hungry Hungry Hippos. (Provided he could figure it out)
Cue Trumpsters: “Hungry Hungry Hippos is complex!!!!!”
But you do understand from Econ 101 what you do when there is excess supply, right?
So, no more whining about “no more free money” from you.
I would invite you to find one post I have made about "No more free money"
That being said, yes, the amount of money that has been pumped into the economy is one of, if not the primary, reasons for the inflation that we are feeling now. The Fed does not have the courage to do what is needed, and my guess is that inflation will be here for a while. It may drop some as the supply issues fade, but make no mistake, a few rate hikes is not enough.
Chart showing money supply.
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A), the US money supply has skyrocketed since 2008, when Wall St learned they could raid the Fed for free money. and keep raiding it.
only difference was in 2020, Joe Citizen got a few crumbs rather than just Wall St. (though the bulk still went to Wall St/investor class, thus why the market continued to rise during a pandemic, when it should have been dropping like rock).
yet prices didn't go up much when Joe Citizen got some in 2020 or 2021 did they, other than cars and real estate due to lack of inventory.
B), when prices go up just because they can, (as with the case currently), rather than due to cost of production/distribution/labor, it's price gouging labeled as "inflation" by the PR arm of the price gougers.
the death of anti trust/industry consolidation, and the effective monopoly power that mega funds/hedge funds has made possible, on top of the CORPORATE media's total and complete being a propaganda arm of Wall St more with each passing day, has enabled said war profiteering esque price gouging being labled as inflation, as if it were cost market forces rather than purely profit seeking forces driving it.
Do you have any data, or chart, that shows money supply skyrocketing since 2008? Also, are you accounting for wage growth as a part of the recent inflation? Is that part bad?
It's a sad day in this country when I find myself aligning with Lindsey Graham. He should not have said what he did, because it could easily escalate, but even someone as liberal as me was thinking the same thing over what it's done to my retirement account
Patience. Best to not watch daily. Instead yearly.
My grandfather was sent on a ship from Sweden at the age of 11 to America in 1903. Eventually became a house painter and survived the great depression. Every so often he would buy a few shares of stock in local companies (Minneapolis) and stick them in his safety deposit box. When he died at the age of 94 we inherited almost $1 million.
you must be kidding.
what planet have you lived on since 2008?
Wall St banks raided the Fed for a trillion plus in 08 to bail out the bad bets of the literally criminal bankers.
then raided it for trillions more on a regular basis ever since.
and once the criminals realized they could freely steal all they wanted from the govt, once the Fed was looted of all it had, the criminals then took out a credit card in the Fed's name, and maxed it out, keeping the money for themselves.
then another, then another, then another, for over $17 trillion, and counting.
and now the criminal Wall St bankers are running the ponzi scheme again, and the govt who let them before, and didn't prosecute them for their crimes, but rewarded them for their crimes, is letting them again, because they are in on it too..
just because Rachel and Tucker aren't allowed to touch it with a thousand mile pole, and keep their jobs, doesn't mean it didn't, and isn't going down again.
the thing about "free market" capitalism is, whatever can be done, will be done.
"capitalism" as a concept, and "free market capitalism" with no rules or controls, are not the same thing.
on a side note, everyone should watch the movie The Big Short, as it does a great job explaining the 2008 financial crisis to the layman.
the documentary "Inside Job", is available in full on You Tube for free, but it doesn't break things down for the layman or isn't as entertaining as The Big Short, which is done in movie form, and has an "A" list cast.
that said, watch The Big Short first to get an understanding of what went down.
then watch "Inside Job" on You Tube for free.
Inside Job teaser. but you really need to watch The Big Short, as a layman's tutorial for what went down.
Those are all great thoughts, and a lot of words, but nothing to back it up. Most every economist I listen to, which is a lot, point to the primary driver of the recent inflation is the dramatic increase in money supply. As I listed above, here is a chart
Money Supply
As you can see, what the government has done recently dwarfs the preceding time periods that you are referencing, wrt money supply. Your word salad above has some salient points, but misses the boat entirely when it come to the inflation spike that we are all feeling.
"most economists" are paid propagandists. (sad but true).
and that chart, every chart on that page, is total garbage.
the Fed printed over a trillion in 2008-09, and then printed another 16 trillion, before covid or any covid printing, ever hit.
of course pre covid, the 17 trillion ALL went to Wall St and the big banks, and Joe Citizen got nothing, nor was there any "velocity of money", except to the investor class..
and Wall St and the big banks got the lion share of covid money as well.
as for "inflation".
what the CORPORATE WALL ST media now call "inflation", is primarily corporate price gouging due to lack of competitive markets, due to mass industry consolidations and monopolization/oligopilization, due to the death of anti trust enforcement, due to the corporate takeover of govt and regulation.
healthcare, energy/gas, pay tv, beef, poultry, pork, and many other things, are no longer competitive markets, due to said industry consolidation and other competition killing forces.
corporate earnings are now through the roof, due in large part to said price gouging.
this price gouging/inflation, isn't being driven by increases in costs, or labor costs, which is how i define real "inflation", it's being driven by loss of competitive markets, thus because they can.
To me what’s remarkable is that the previous, enormous stimulus packages didn’t have similar inflationary pressure. That the most recent one does is what one would expect in general.
i just explained the real price gouging/inflation to you, it just isn't what you or your your puppet masters want to hear.
and inflation isn't driven in the least by increased money supply, in a competitive market, because the "competition" aspect always trumps and money chasing it.
and is there really any increased money supply since covid, or did the stimuli just make up for the money lost to covid.
true "inflation" is only cost driven in a competitive market, which we don't have where the current price increases are.
and the gas cost is 100% speculator driven, and you know it, so it isn't really "inflation" either.
nothing but propaganda and economic total ignorance from the sock puppets.
price gouging enabled by industry consolidation and absence of competitive markets, isn't inflation, is just price gouging.
am i pissed off? yes.
the lack of free markets, is matched by the lack of actual open discussion.
they have been replaced by monopolization and propaganda.
So the chart I presented, from the St Louis Fed, is garbage? Got it. Sorry you can't produce any documentation to support your wildly inaccurate claims.
