For those that might consider themselves to be "fully vaccinated," most places are considering to change the number of doses used to claim full vaccination status.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-17-11-21/index.html

Current number is 3, but chances are this number will go up as Covid becomes endemic. And so, this makes any previous vaccine passports effectively useless, unless you want to continue getting pumped with boosters. With the "omicron" variant, expect more countries to become strict on the definition of "fully vaccinated" as they (the health "experts") push for booster after booster.

It never quiet ends does it?

Pfizer has made over 30 billion dollars from their vaccine. It's amazing how the ones that like to demonize big pharma as causing the opioid crisis and prescription drug crisis seem to turn the other way as to why a company might circumvent common sense and rationality in regards to vaccination in order to make 30 billion dollars. This isn't downplaying the effectiveness of the vaccine, as people do need it. Does everyone need it? No. Does everyone need to pump themselves full of boosters every 4 months to avoid what is flu like symptoms for 99 percent of the population? Nope.

Definitely. Austria has introduced new lockdowns for the unvaccinated, which essentially states they are removed from society if they do not take the jab.  No where in the requirements does it factor in natural immunity from previous infection, or does it factor low risk individuals that are less likely to catch and spread the disease. Australia has created "camps" for Covid infected people, and will arrest you if you have Covid and leave your dwelling. The US is characterized by hyper capitalism, so it seems uncanny for them to risk their economy for what is a mild flu for the vast majority of people. But when people are emotional, they're prepared to sacrifice their liberties in the name of safety.

Isn't amazing that merely the announcement of a new strain can have that drastic effect on the markets? Oil markets tanked a bit earlier too, stocks included. The strain hasn't even been confirmed to be more deadly or capable of evading vaccine induced immunity, so anyone that isn't already protected can get protected. The covid hysteria crowd can essentially manipulate the market by pushing fear such that an announcement will cause people to be on edge. Is there published data on this strain? Nope. So why is there panic? Big pharma companies are laughing to the bank.

This sums up US Covid policy really well, in fact.

A trucker, sitting alone in his/her truck for the majority of the day, would need to be vaccinated to protect who from catching Covid, exactly? The truck? The argument for a vaccine mandate was that an unvaxxed person could transmit Covid to someone that is also not vaccinated, but this begs the question as to how a truck driver is going to infect someone when they're sitting by themselves in a truck for most of the day.

Anyways, the implications of this are more supply chain issues and low economic growth. Shipping and logistics are the base of the manufacturing industries of any country, so removing transportation out of the equation ensures everything grinds to a halt.

They say inflation was due to the supply chain issue, and not a high money supply. Well, what happens to inflation when you stop truckers from doing their jobs if the result is scarcity of goods? More inflation.

India is too impoverished for them to have to rely on crypto, they're a nonfactor in crypto growth in my opinion. Main countries/regions that would legitimately concern me if crypto was highly regulated/banned is EU, US and China. For India, the least they could do is focus on education/poverty issues along with a proper Covid response, yet they seem so concerned about regulating crypto into the ground. India's Covid response has been abysmal, so if their focus is indeed to eliminate it, they're doing a horrid job.

They've plainly stated they want to regulate crypto currency, that is a step towards a ban. If they view crypto to be a threat (which any common sense government does), then they begin regulating the currency through convoluted tax law which makes no one want to use the currency.

If your left with high taxed crypto or traditional currency, no one will bother using crypto. And India has a poverty problem regardless, so there isn't any incentive for adoption. Adding in whatever regulations they can come up with will squash any crypto growth in India. Any crypto user should be against the regulation of crypto, it's one step before an outright ban.

"New" as in newly identified for panic and hysteria. Economy is already reacting to this variant, oil prices down, crypto down, flights all banned from South Africa in EU/NA countries. All with lacking evidence of increased mortality, and only slight evidence of increased transmissibility. This is the game that's going to be played for the rest of time, new variant appears, hysteria commences, lockdowns reinforced.

You think people would be over it, but the global markets don't lie, and it would appear people are NOT over Covid, even with their 50x vaccine boosters. One might wonder when this cycle ends.

WHO identifies new variant, origin in South Africa.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-africa-public-health-2b15d77e29c2607d4686e059e3313391

Identified as " B.1.1.529" variant.

As usual, no evidence of increased death rate, only some evidence that the variant is more transmissible. This variant is responsible for the uptick in cases, but has not demonstrated any evidence that it's dangerous to those with natural immunity or those vaccinated. I'm a bit surprised that Britain's banning flights from South Africa already in response, but they've learned from the delta variant when it was originally imported from India, so action early is critical. Though, flight bans aren't entirely effective they just delay the inevitable.

An unmotivated electorate is a feature, not a flaw. I don't want idiots to vote, and many people are morons that couldn't distinguish up from down. So if a politician comes along and convinces enough idiots to vote for him/her, they get elected even though the sane minority may not want them in power.

If the electorate were wise, then high participation is what's best. And you can count on your hand the number of societies that are educated enough to want the majority to vote.

Generally speaking the banks work for the government because any treasury positions can be pointed by the leader of the country, usually the President and then confirmed by a legislative body. But that being said, the government is a monolithic and this includes the central banks. Their interests align strictly with maintaining solvency within the currencies they operate out of, and maintain economic activity. The profit motive isn't as glaring, it's about self sustainment more than anything.

Ha, not banning just creating a "regulatory framework."

It's always what the story is, except the regulatory framework is extreme government oversight of crypto and is everything but an outright ban. You could effectuate a crypto ban merely by taxing it at a high rate, or forcing crypto users to report every transaction they make to the government. If you decide to store crypto, they can make an arbitrary wealth tax and force you to pay taxes on unrealized gains.

It starts with regulations, and ends with a ban.

The only reason CBDC's up for discussion, and eventually will be implemented, is because we're too far past the barter system and you can't go back. Cash transactions was a replacement for the barter system but most banking is digital, including crypto, so the government can easily implement a CBDC system because the pitch is easy to deliver. Digital banking already exists, you really on government backed currency, so switch to CBDC to eliminate a need for a private bank.

Realistically, though, the private bank just becomes the government.

With wider adoption the mining system becomes more robust, so in the event of mass adoption, I wouldn't be concerned about miners being centralized to one area, theoretically there'd be more around the world. Using volcanoes as a power source sounds like some PR strategy oppose to a legitimate source of energy, but nuclear energy technologies are rapidly being developed and I expect nuclear powered mining facilities to be a real thing in the future.

Inflation and the stock market are not exactly good metrics to compare because it depends on the stock. If you want to see where inflation is, look at prices over all consumer goods year over year, and then look at the general direction of the economy.

If you have a stock that is valuated high because of future projected growth, and that growth doesn't happen because inflation slows the economy and reduces growth of the company/sales, then the value of the stock will eventually come down. Other stocks

On the other hand, if you inject extra money into the economy in the form of stimulus when most people don't need it, a lot of that money ends up going into the stock market which will usually cause a bump in the market, but the effects of inflation are felt much later.

It's a bit difficult to compare.

You know that isn't always the case, right? Who often time are the most charitable? Religious people. And when many religious organizations receive charitable donations, you don't think a lot of it might go towards helping people, with a few cases of abuse? You can make a large business out of religion, see scientology (which is more a cult designed as a belief system oppose to a religion). That doesn't mean it's immoral to accept money as a religious figure or organization.

The prosecution has to have a mountain of evidence against this person, should be a quick and easy case. In fact, her defense team was arguing that jurors could not be neutral because they would have disdain and bias against Maxwell because she's rich....funny, because you would think someone would have that sort of bias because she is involved in trafficking of children. But sure, I guess it's because she's rich.

Kraken attorney adjacent Lin Wood withheld bail money for Kyle Rittenhouse, she wanted to keep him in jail so she could profit. She was also the one peddling election lies trying to profit from foolish right wing nutjobs. If someone tells you something you want to here, and then asks you for money, it doesn't take much common sense to realize they're grifters. Unfortunately, there's a lot of money to be made in the political world from stupid people. But that's generally how people get elected anyways, because a vote doesn't cost anything. And they're no refunds.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1462955974071926790

What's funny is the these pollsters will never ask politically inconvenient questions because they're afraid of the left wing mob. Are you aware of the damage that BLM terrorists have done during 2020 to American cities because George Floyd died of a fentanyl induced heart attack?

Well, let's dive into that question starting where the events took place -- 550 million alone in Minneapolis.

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-foundation-raising-20-million-to-rebuild-small-businesses-hurt-in-2020-riots/600058520/


Were these right wing Trump supporters that did this?

The J6 attacks, or "insurrection" as it is called, were a bunch of toothless Trump supporters from Alabama armed with MAGA hats and selfie sticks trespassing on the Capitol building. Absolutely terrifying.

People tend to forget that the payment processor middle men are the ones that profit from traditional currencies because they act as the intermediate between a merchant and seller -- physical cash isn't supposed to be convenient, they fill the role. I'm cautious when a giant payment processor enters the crypto space because they are shills for fiat currencies and profit from the high fees.

To be clear, though, they can serve a role in a crypto based society, essentially someone can have a credit card based on crypto and can make daily purchases, repaying the issuer in crypto every month. But we're far from that system.

Why would they aim for centralized currencies? They could create their own digital banking coins if they wanted a crypto alternative, and that gives them even more control than traditional cash does because they can be involved in every transaction. Most banking is done online anyways, so the entirety of someone's net worth appears on a bank statement in digitalized pixels produced by a private bank. If the government could take the existing principle of digital banking that people are already accustom to and transfer them to a CBDC system, there wouldn't be a need for government to adopt XRP or BNB (or whatever centralized crypto).