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I didn’t say it’s peachy. I said it’s not “turbofucked” when hospitalizations are still 30% below last summer’s peak, much less last winter’s. Yes some hospitals will be strained. I’m just going off the official state and national numbers.

So looks like we may stave it off. This big omnibus bills are the ones to watch. Easy to try to tuck stuff in something that’s guaranteed to pass.

What do you think about maybe separate bathrooms and water fountains?

I’m assuming there will be spots where resources are briefly strained, not sure why it’s hitting Corpus a bit harder now. Maybe the rural Hispanic population there is less vaxxed and getting funneled into there, idk? But the numbers bear out that both statewide and nationally hospitalizations and death are substantially lower. And that’s with the ultra rapid spread going on.

Our hospitals are not getting turbofucked. It's nothing like the two previous big waves, see the two posts above me for the hospitalization numbers. For deaths it's the same story. If you worked in hospital setting you would know that. This wave is getting a lot of attention because people are frustrated and scared. They're frustrated because they thought we were past restrictions and they're scared because they thought after they were vaccinated they weren't going to get sick. Now they know people or see on TV that vaccinated people are catching it. The key is to focus on the lower rates of hospitalizations and deaths. Don't let the fear get to you. In a few weeks, Delta variant will be largely done.

He wants to pull a Ewers?

Update

Now up 11% today

It seems like it was a good time to pull back a bit. Had 10 straight green days. But

SQ with a big acquisition buying Aussie payments processor Afterpay for $29B, all stock. Expanding geographic footprint. Also released prelim q2 numbers. Market likes it. Up 7%. Sq is strong Lt hold IMO.

Lol this guy is Aggy

Cool interview with Jimmy Johnson. If you can tune out Corby’s laugh

I look at it this way. Let’s say for purposes of this discussion my chances of getting re-infected in the next 12 months are 1%. If I opt to get vaccinated then I expose myself to all of the common possible side effects we all know. Could be nothing. Could last a few days. Then there’s the extremely rare side effects. All for dropping that 1% to what 0.5%? Then you consider that I’m young, healthy and a second covid infection would likely be weaker than the first which one was relatively mild. The math doesn’t add up. First you call me a liar without basis. Now me saying that natural immunity is comparable to vaccine immunity is “killing people”. Hyperbolic to say the least. Anyway here’s people from Cleveland Clinic with a hand from an ID doc from UCSF spreading “disinformation” and “killing people”.

I was kind of surprised it didn’t. I guess the final draft isn’t done. Supposedly a lot of people have been mobilized to get it changed. Supposedly Portman from Ohio is one of them that needs convincing. Not sure why.

He’s a sucker for shiplap

Cool piece here. Didn’t realize they recorded a lot of their last album at Willie’s studio and wrecked it. They were in process of crashing and burning. Not a ton of good quality live stuff online but I always liked this cover. Also always liked this one. 90s nostalgia here.

Looking strong af now. The last 10 or so days it’s taken off. Right around when the Fed says inflation will be higher than they thought and not sure when it will moderate. Coincidence?

That’s all broken down in the column. Thanks for (not) reading.

So you’re telling him it’s transitory?

Maybe some of your emotion is that we’re getting confused here. Breakthrough to me is infections in the vaccinated. Re-infections are second infections in people that have had covid before. Anyway here’s a column on the latest data from Israel. The relevant section on re-infections. Who isn’t getting Delta? Well, it’s hard to say for sure because of confounders in the data, but it looks like recovered people — people who had tested positive for the coronavirus in a past PCR test — are massively under-represented. Recovered people are around 9% of Israel’s population, but they’re less than 1% of current cases. That has led to speculation that recovery from past Covid is more protective against infection from the Delta Variant than vaccination. Known recovered people in Israel are mostly not vaccinated, though some chose to get a single booster dose There could be other explanations for this result. The Delta wave is, for now at least, not affecting the communities hardest hit by Israel’s previous Covid waves: Ultra Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. So perhaps recovered people aren’t being exposed to the virus yet. But I’m not sure that’s enough to explain the sharp difference. From data I was passed last week, recovered people were testing at only 0.1% positivity, compared to more than 1% for vaccinated people. I think you mean re-infections here. I think re-infections and breakthrough infections are both rare. Do you not? I think they’re at least comparable. Which is my whole point. Vaccine and natural immunity are at least comparable. IM NOT SAYING VACCINES ARE BAD. MOST PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THEM. I’ve gone through this before but think about it, how many people do you know that have had a breakthrough infection? How many have had re-infection? How many people on this thread have posted about their own or someone they know having breakthrough infections? What about second infections? Unfortunately I’m not aware of large scale, nationwide data on re-infections in our country. I’ve posted about two countries with more comprehensive data than our own. And this isn’t a sock. I started this only after my other one was axed.

Do you have an electro ejaculator?

The distribution of BTC has increased over time. Of course it started with just a handful of people mining and 50BTC blocks being created every 10 minutes! This chart shows smaller addresses growing over time.