Keynesian economic theory applies here because one, we already have the data available and that inflation currently exists in the US, but two, the funds that were being pumped out by the federal government were funds that were going to be torched the moment they hit people's bank accounts. Example - you have small businesses that took PPP loans and kept their staff on payroll, only for the restaurant/bar/pub to close down some number of months later. Is that loan money ever going to be paid back? Nope. So you have the government giving out loans to businesses that will never pay them back, handing millions of people unconditional 2k checks, and bailing out poorly run states so they can fund their social programs.

We know what the obvious result would be, yet some politicians seem keen on keeping the status quo of more reckless spending.

This is not even getting to the problem of a labor shortage, which will ofc increase the scarcity of commodities.

My point is strictly about the inflated case numbers (inflated being people tested that don't really need to be tested), because the only metric that matters are COVID deaths, not cases. I’m not saying they are lying about the case counts, only alarmist hyperbolic propaganda being pushed by those that would say the pandemic is not over, even in the age of vaccination, by falsely attributing breakthrough cases with a need to mask up and lockdown. I know it’s coming, hell, it’s already here.

I thought we stopped trusting these billionaires for their takes on cryptocurrency, especially after the fiasco with Elon Musk. These people made billions off traditional institutions and traditional currencies, I’m not interested on their useless commentary. Dorsey should fix his social media platform and promote free speech first, then maybe I’d take his opinion serious

5100 vaccinated individuals get Covid after jab, 80 have died: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/more-than-5100-breakthrough-covid-cases-reported-in-mass-at-least-80-have-died/2435719/

Tells you more about the PCR tests they use for Covid,  blood titers confirm the high level antibody presence for the spike proteins in double vaccinated individuals, so they might come in contact with the virus and have a mild form. But, if they were to get tested, the virus would still be present within their system, and recognized in a PCR test. Seems almost useless to test a vaxxed person unless they're extremely ill and in the hospital, and that is incredibly rare.

It's mostly just against communism. These people aren't in the streets chanting about food or health supplies, they're directly protesting against government, meanwhile they get beaten into submission by government police. Vaccines and food are ancillary problems caused by communism. Biden administration has a tough time condemning communist directly so they'll blame these Cuban protests on social issues and not governmental issues.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1418562940458967046

Maybe members of the media are the reason why there's so much vaccine hesitancy? The US develops one of the first Covid shots that is safe and effective, but because orange cheeto and his Hitlerian antics, we were not allowed to trust the vaccine. I notice the script happen to produce a 180 the moment Joe Biden got elected, but for reasons unbeknownst to me, I don't believe the media will apologize for their vaccine misinformation campaign.

I don't think their concerns are unreasonable, the biggest case against BTC as a day to day currency is volatility. I don't expect the low wage earners of El Salvador to understand why their local currency might even be more unstable than Bitcoin given the currency is attached to government and politics, but the easiest rebuttal is to expand the time frame they look at. BTC had its price cut in half over these last few months. But look over the course of the year? Where is BTC now?

Pretty disgusting fear porn piece, I'm glad this doctor wanted to interject that "young and healthy people" were coming in with serious illness because actually showing the data wouldn't do justice. Pushing sensationalist alarmism sounds about right for attention grabbers.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm - There is the data, find your age, factor underlying conditions, and consult your own doctor. If you are young, you have other things to worry about, period.

This is the worst way to convince people to get vaccinated, it comes off as vindictive. Nothing like a "I told ya so" to dying patients as this doctor runs to the media to tell the story of her dying patients' final moments. With how many Americans dying of preventable diseases from smoking to drinking to obesity related illnesses, I'm rather shocked that there aren't doctors which share the last moments of their dying patients as they succumb to other preventable illness.

Yeah, we do know what variants are out there. The delta variant is the only one that shows evidence of higher transmissibility and there isn't any evidence that shows vaccinated people should be worried about it. The vaccines are extremely effective against variants, so if you are vaxxed and are worried about variants, you are paranoid and fearful without any evidence to support your concerns.



It is *never* going to be over. Ask any virologist that is honest and won't sugar coat things. Coronavirus is too transmissible and it is impossible to inoculate every man, women, and child in the world to prevent its spread completely. They will tell you Covid will be here forever, and will become like the flu, something seasonal. This is never going away. For Covid to go away you need to vaccinate the entirety of the world simultaneously. Isn't going to happen. Say Europe and North America vaccinate enough to reach herd immunity. Do you think India is going to be able to vaccinate their 1 billion plus population in time for Covid to not mutate and produce a new variant? Eventually, there will be a variant that the vaccines will not be effective against. Do we start the doom and gloom process over again, restricting liberties and shutting down businesses over a virus with a 99.5+ percent survival rate?

You're acting as if I did not see this coming, I did. I am not surprised the commies in California chose to reinstate their mask mandate, or for the US to start masking up 3 year olds, or for Israel to reinstate their mask mandate after one of the most successful vaccine roll out programs in the world.

Paranoia and fear do not allow for rational decision making.

Since when is lying a good public health strategy? Be clear, be honest. Bureaucrats have been telling people that "the science" says masks help reduce Covid transmission, they make no distinction between symptomatic and asymptomatic people.

If you're vaccinated, there is almost a zero percent chance you'll be symptomatic and have the ability to transmit the virus, so why mask up vaccinated individuals? It's ridiculous.

This is the Trump effect in action, where politicians will do a complete 180 given his position. We're at dementia levels of delusion when you tell people to start masking up 3 year olds. Orwellian type stuff, not rooted in any science, any logic, any rationality. I wish I was exaggerating.  I'm thinking that people associate masks with mental fortitude, so it just makes them more comfortable with their insecurities, so they push it on everyone else. I feel sorry for the hypochondriacs that are vaxxed and still masking, a very sad existence to live so fearfully.

Dr. Fauci has utter meltdown during congressional testimony today - https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1417501517976899584

What probably happened is this virus was leaked from a lab after irresponsible hygiene and sanitation in workplace conditions, NIH had given money to the Wuhan Virology institute through grants, and Dr. Fauci does not want to the entire world to turn on him and his organization so he dodges any questioning that that remotely suggests dubious funding was given for medical research. It'd be pretty embarrassing to admit that your agency was part of the problem, so we know why Dr. Fauci was so adamant about dismissing the lab leak theory. What a clown.

You're talking about symptomatic spread, which I don't dispute masks probably help. I'm talking about masking up if you do not exhibit any symptoms, regardless if you've got the jab or not.

By the way, this is what most virologists were saying back in March -- that it it's useless for the general population to mask up unless you're actively exhibiting symptoms. The guidelines changed when there was speculation about asymptomatic spread, but even to this day, there isn't much evidence that asymptomatic/presymptomatic people act as chief vectors of transmission, there never was. And masks do not protect you from being infected with the virus, they only (allegedly) protect you from transmitting the virus, the CDC even acknowledges as much, and so does Dr. Facui. Masking only protects those around you, not yourself.

We have the data for children, 300 known cases of deaths from Covid of people under 18 in the US, and the data isn't clear what type of other conditions those children had, whether the had extreme obesity, whether they died *from* covid, or they died *with* covid, so on. EU, same story, less than one tenth of one percent of all Covid deaths are from children. You're talking about masking up 3 year olds with the new guidelines, they don't know how to use a mask and those masks will become germ traps. Is there *any* evidence at all which examines mask efficacy in reducing Covid spread in children? Doubt it.

Masks work if you're symptomatic and if you use them properly. For medical professionals, if you touch your mask, you need to replace it because you've now contaminated your hands with whatever is on your mask. Do we expect 3 year olds to not touch their mask? If you sweat in your mask, if you build up mucus and saliva in your mask, you need to replace it immediately because the efficacy goes down. Do we expect children to be able to do this?

The doctors know that children are extremely low risk of Covid, they know masks do nothing for children, and yet here we are.

I was okay with masks for about a week until I realize they do absolutely nothing for most people. I happened to see this headline today - https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/calls-for-renewed-mask-mandate-grow-as-delta-fuels-covid-surge-in-nyc-u-s/3161139

American pediatric association now recommends children, toddlers, above the age of 2 to begin masking up in school. There are something like 300 known cases in the entire US of those under 18 catching Covid and dying from it....there are 74 million minors in the US, so about 0.0004054054 percent of children have died from Covid. Child has a better chance of dying from literally anything else and yet they are masking up toddlers? Purely political, as with most things. No sense in complying with covid restrictions anymore. They aren't rooted in reality.

The MSM is cancerous to the general person's psyche, they begin to worry about things that aren't actually real problems. It's not better to live in ignorance, but I can't figure out the usefulness of staring at a tv box or an online commentator informing you about non-issues, or whatever agenda they think is important.

Wiki link had the origins of agenda setting theory.



Makes sense, but also, do we expect the average political voter to have any idea of the complexity of issues? Even the above average informed voter isn't too well informed about all issues. Who do they turn to? The news.

India being the next super power isn't a joke, you know (it may seem like it, but think of the bigger picture). What's Pakistan got to offer? They don't have oil, so the US won't be bringing the tanks any time soon.

Federal interest rates are going to stay low for years in the US, but I'm convinced that there is no coming back from this. You can't have the world's largest economy uncontrollably print trillions of dollars and short out the labor market with unemployment checks without any repercussions. Paper money supply is too big right now. US is something at like a 5.4 percent inflation rate according to the CPI -- target is about 2 percent yearly (a 2 percent interest rate is healthy, incentivizes spending so people are not holding onto currency, federal banking institutions consider 2 percent to be good for the economy), so on the road to tripling the target range.

This is just the "defense production act" in different words from the looks of it - read about the US's version of this bill here: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/defense-production-act

Basically, in time of natural disasters (ie Covid), the government can force you or your business into compliance for the common good of the nation. Historically this was important during the world wars, where the entire nation's resources needed to be shifted into producing war equipment, but ofc that's not an issue anymore.

And boom, just like that, we're back in the same loop.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/us/los-angeles-county-mask-mandate/index.html

California to reinstate mask mandate, requiring masks for everyone regardless if you're vaccinated or not. Precisely why people are resistant to government control, because it starts out benign and painless, but then government bureaucrats think they know what's in everybody's best interest. There is *no* science at all to support masks post vaccination. We have antibody titer tests which demonstrate ample antibody levels for people that are fully vaxxed, enough to fight any variants in circulation. If someone doesn't get vaccinated, that has no bearing on your own health if you get vaxxed. Upwards of 99% of new Covid cases in localized areas are due to non-vaccinated individuals (keep in mind, the vaccine is 95% effective, so it's overperforming at the current rate). This won't end.

India has the same problem and it usually falls to poor education, poor healthcare, no birth control, and small communities/impoverished villages will pump out as many children as they can. Maybe it's different in modern times but even if Africa gets their population under control, they still don't have a worth wild economy that would ever support African prosperity, and it's not like they have any resources to fall back on (no oil, natural gas, ect.) At most they have pervious metals, and that isn't as profitable.