I have no doubt that you will continue to party like it’s 1999. Most of Phoenix will be like you. Other areas will mask up during covid/flu season and have less covid and flu.
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EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
For the immediate short term I largely agree with you. I'll leave policy to others; there is no shortage of perspectives. I'm just glad I don't have to make those calls. Going forward, I hope your confidence in the predictability of who is and is not vulnerable remains well founded. The virus is evolving-amazing rapidly-and its virulence profile is under neither positive nor negative selection. The one perspective I will represent is that our kids will almost certainly be dealing with re-emergent features of this pandemic throughout their lifetimes. It's possible that we really should be calling omicron Cov-3.
I guess it's official now (sort of). Justice Gorsuch says SCOTUS discussion that flu causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
CDC records --
www.cdc.gov
CDC records --
Burden of Influenza
Learn about how CDC estimates the burden of seasonal influenza in the U.S.
www.cdc.gov
In what way is it not a vaccine?
And there it is....the quiet part said out loud....what you've been accused of but have dodged: that you would like the new normal to be perpetual masking during covid/flu season. No thanks.
I won't say I'm confident, but we should make decisions based on the best available data we have and not based upon speculation of a potential long term risk. When you do make decisions on potential long term risk, you often do so at the expense of actual long term negative impacts (ie like closing in-person education.)
There are other coronaviruses. My friend caught Covid delta, Covid41 and covid omicron all in one year. One of the things that made this so deadly (like smallpox with the Inca, measles with the Hawaiians) was that it was novel. This isn't unique in that respect. Children die of flu and RSV each year (both of which are deadlier to them). It's possible this mutates somewhere down the road into something far deadlier and everything has to lock down again, but then that's true of flu, the other coronaviruses, the enteroviruses, adenoviruses and RSV. It's the human condition.
The thing that still has me mouth agape was the absolute hubris of some people, including many in the scientific and medical communities. As if we had evolved to a point that these pesky viruses that have plagued our ancestors for millenia no longer should be of concern to us, because we had evolved to the point our technology could control or "shut down" the virus. While we've made rapid advancements and even developed a vaccine in record time, the human species now has egg on its face for its hubris.
I’m what way is it a vaccine since it does not provide immunity to the disease for which it is intended?
No vaccine is 100% effective. This vaccine triggers a beneficial response in the human immune system just as intended. Playing around with word games is just politics.
Benefits to WHO?
Desert Hound
DA
Most people will say no thanks. By that I mean a majority of people. Bank on it.
Like the new definition of "anti-vaxxer".
Californians fleeing for Texas so fast U-Haul runs out of trucks for them: report
California and Illinois saw the largest net-loss of U-Haul trucks
The Texas economy is growing fast," stated Kristina Ramos, U-Haul Company of South Austin president. "With a strong job market and low cost of living, it’s a no-brainer. Texas doesn’t have an income tax, so families get more for their money."
www.foxbusiness.com
California and Illinois saw the largest net-loss of U-Haul trucks
The Texas economy is growing fast," stated Kristina Ramos, U-Haul Company of South Austin president. "With a strong job market and low cost of living, it’s a no-brainer. Texas doesn’t have an income tax, so families get more for their money."
Californians fleeing for Texas so fast U-Haul runs out of trucks for them: report
Texas took top spot on the list after briefly falling to second to Florida in 2019 and Tennessee in 2020.
www.foxbusiness.com
what-happened
GOLD
That's funny. And the vaccines were never marketed as transmission blockers and immunity providers. You are a master of revionsist history.
Typical pharma play book. There is a reason why we are only 1 of 2 countries in the world that allow pharmaceuticals to be advertised. And to allow them to market EUA drugs is shameful. Certainy is profitable though.
I'll stand by for your nonansweranswer
Hüsker Dü
DA
Only lawyers make things complicated.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Less than prevailing wage.
I guess it's official now (sort of). Justice Gorsuch says SCOTUS discussion that flu causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
CDC records --
Burden of Influenza
Learn about how CDC estimates the burden of seasonal influenza in the U.S.
Flu Kills 646,000 People Worldwide Each Year: Study
Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year.
www.medicinenet.com
Meh...most economics believe the union wage premium exists. It's anywhere from 3-20% and dependent on industry (one example: public school v. private school teacher wages based on years of experience). Closed shops are able to extract more (by exercising monopoly power) than union shops than open shops than non union shops. It's large in the public sector than the private because of regulatory capture. You can't avoid the supply curve, though, and the premium has to be made up elsewhere (....it must come from somewhere....if you take it from the capitalist overlords, which means lower profits which means lower investments in said industry). The union wage premium, though, has dropped for a lot of industries subject to non-union international competition....in said cases the unions just wind up pricing themselves out in the US to lower cost overseas firms. It's one of the theories for why unions have declined in goods creation industries, but are robust in services and public sector industries. TANSTAAFL and there are costs for every intervention a government makes.
