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Bruddah IZ
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If you stopped explicitly ignoring the past 50 years of virus history you might retain some credibility here. At this point you're just a cherry picker.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Nearly 100% survival rate pre-vaccine. I think baldref thinks you're funny. Meep, meep.
What does that have to do with abuse of power? Or the topic of the conversation period? You gonna argue the homeless situation in CA is do in large part to a lack of housing?
Bruddah IZ
DA
The Power of Fallacies
Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts. --Henry Rosovsky
Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical— but with something missing. Their plausibility gains them political support. Only after that political support is strong enough to cause fallacious ideas to become government policies and programs are the missing or ignored factors likely to lead to "unintended consequences," a phrase often heard in the wake of economic or social policy disasters. Another phrase often heard in the wake of these disasters is, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." That is why it pays to look deeper into things that look good on the surface at the moment. Sometimes what is missing in a fallacy is simply a definition. Undefined words have a special power in politics, particularly when they invoke some principle that engages people's emotions. "Fair" is one of those undefined words which have attracted political support for policies ranging from Fair Trade laws to the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the fact that the word is undefined is an intellectual handicap, it is a huge political advantage. People with very different views on substantive issues can be unified and mobilized behind a word that papers over their differing, and sometimes even mutually contradictory, ideas. Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups— all of Economic Facts and Fallacies whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words. Fallacies abound in economic policies affecting everything from housing to international trade. Where the unintended consequences of these policies take years to unfold, the effects may not be traced back to their causes by many people. Even when the bad consequences follow closely after a given policy, many people may not connect the dots, and advocates of policies that backfire often attribute these bad consequences to something else. Sometimes they claim that the bad situation would have been even worse if it had not been for the wonderful policies they advocated.
Thomas Sowell
Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts. --Henry Rosovsky
Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical— but with something missing. Their plausibility gains them political support. Only after that political support is strong enough to cause fallacious ideas to become government policies and programs are the missing or ignored factors likely to lead to "unintended consequences," a phrase often heard in the wake of economic or social policy disasters. Another phrase often heard in the wake of these disasters is, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." That is why it pays to look deeper into things that look good on the surface at the moment. Sometimes what is missing in a fallacy is simply a definition. Undefined words have a special power in politics, particularly when they invoke some principle that engages people's emotions. "Fair" is one of those undefined words which have attracted political support for policies ranging from Fair Trade laws to the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the fact that the word is undefined is an intellectual handicap, it is a huge political advantage. People with very different views on substantive issues can be unified and mobilized behind a word that papers over their differing, and sometimes even mutually contradictory, ideas. Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups— all of Economic Facts and Fallacies whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words. Fallacies abound in economic policies affecting everything from housing to international trade. Where the unintended consequences of these policies take years to unfold, the effects may not be traced back to their causes by many people. Even when the bad consequences follow closely after a given policy, many people may not connect the dots, and advocates of policies that backfire often attribute these bad consequences to something else. Sometimes they claim that the bad situation would have been even worse if it had not been for the wonderful policies they advocated.
Thomas Sowell
Both are examples of old people in government looking out for the interests of old people, and ignoring the interests of youth.
I see….I misread/misunderstood your statement so thank you for clarifying.
Bruddah IZ
DA
THE CHESS-PIECES FALLACY
Back in the eighteenth century, Adam Smith wrote of the doctrinaire theorist who is "wise in his own conceit" and who "seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board." 3 Such theorists are at least as common today and have at least as much influence in shaping laws and policies. Unlike chess pieces, human beings have their own individual preferences, values, plans and wills, all of which can conflict with and even thwart the goals of social experiments. Moreover, whatever the merits of particular social experiments, experimentation as such can have huge economic and social costs. Although some social experimenters may believe that, if one program or policy does not work, they can simply try another and another after that, until they find one that does work, the uncertainties generated by incessant experimentation can cause people to change their behavior in ways that adversely affect the economy.
Some economists, including John Maynard Keynes, 4 saw the uncertainties about the future generated by the experimental policies of the New Deal administration in the 1930s as tending to discourage investment that was much needed to get out of the Great Depression. Boris Yeltsin, the first non-Communist leader of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, likewise spoke of "our country— so rich, so talented and so exhausted by incessant experiments." Because people are not inanimate objects like chess pieces, the very attempt to use them as part of some grand design can turn out to be not merely unsuccessful but counterproductive— and the notion that "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" can be a formula for disaster when consumers become reluctant to spend and investors become reluctant to invest when they have no reliable framework of expectations, since they have no way of knowing what will happen next in an atmosphere of unending experimentation.
Picture is worth a thousand truths....lol!!! Drip drip drip........... Lap dances and the laptop from hell is slowly leaking. Audit ((not a recount)) in AZ and so many more places. It's interesting to see how many former military or current military people are placed in very important places. The Gov of Florida was or is a Navy Seal? Wendy? Sydney?
Hüsker Dü
DA
Golf courses make more money
Failed to find that countries/states that implemented SIP policies earlier or longer had lower excess death, and no observable difference in excess deaths after implementations of SIP. May be due to people freaking out and reducing their mobility on their own. SIPs may only help to the extent they fuel the freak out.
As expected, cases seem decoupled from hospitalizations & deaths. The coming freak out over another wave of the Delta variant and masking/business restrictions/school restrictions is going to be a nasty clash.
www.nytimes.com
The Delta variant is not driving a surge in hospitalization rates in England, health data shows. (Published 2021)
Although the number of coronavirus infections has risen sharply in recent weeks, hospitalization rates remain low.
I dont think the "crockpots" can handle much more pressure Grace, moo!!As expected, cases seem decoupled from hospitalizations & deaths. The coming freak out over another wave of the Delta variant and masking/business restrictions/school restrictions is going to be a nasty clash.
The Delta variant is not driving a surge in hospitalization rates in England, health data shows. (Published 2021)
Although the number of coronavirus infections has risen sharply in recent weeks, hospitalization rates remain low.
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Desert Hound
DA
That is related to 2 main drivers.As expected, cases seem decoupled from hospitalizations & deaths. The coming freak out over another wave of the Delta variant and masking/business restrictions/school restrictions is going to be a nasty clash.
The Delta variant is not driving a surge in hospitalization rates in England, health data shows. (Published 2021)
Although the number of coronavirus infections has risen sharply in recent weeks, hospitalization rates remain low.
- Most important is the fact that they are finding out that the current vaccine works very well vs this variant.
- And while it spreads easier, it seems to be less deadly.
I know Torrey Pines is always sold out. Do you think they turn a profit?
Desert Hound
DA
They do. It is an iconic track. They get very good money from people not living in the SD area.