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Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens

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Sgfeer

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imprimis

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Moron Markey, how can this be? How can the heat be 20 degrees hotter in neighborhoods you describe? Don't they still have unpaved streets, no running water and trash being burned in metal drums out back? If anything, the temps are higher where the ground has been concreted over. Maybe you should spend more time getting city services in those areas of color and less wear and tear on your fingers.
 
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Heard a Lakota tell everyone that the reason they lost everything was because they didnt have a Dept of Homeland Security. Still laughing about it years later.
Saw a documentary about the Overseas Hwy being built in the Florida Keys. Had a tent city housing workers with a Cat 5 hurricane and 200 mph winds coming at them. Flagler's train was in bankruptcy being run by the Gov't. Took all day for a decision to be made (bureaucratic delays) to send the train to rescue the workers. Finally OKed to go. By that time it picked up the workers the Cat 5 had arrived. Major disaster with lots of dead people.
 

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COVID-19 was not a hoax, but it was the world's first Social Media pandemic, where fear was spread in a way we have never seen before. Our goal with the COVID-19 Tracker was to provide a data driven piece to put the pandemic in perspective.

The information we presented was used by the White House, Congress, the press, educational institutions from universities to high schools, and of course, the Financial Advisor community. The reason we think it was so widely used was that we presented factual data in a way that helped minimize fear.

What this data has consistently shown since the beginning of the pandemic was that those most at risk were a small subset of the population. Those 65 years and older make up only 16.3% of the population, but have accounted for nearly 80% of all COVID-19 deaths as of 6/30/21.1 In our opinion, focusing resources on the most vulnerable individuals, instead of locking down the entire country, would have resulted in better outcomes from both a public health and economic perspective. As history looks back, we believe locking down the economy will be viewed as one of the most damaging public policy mistakes in world history.

The shutdowns destroyed supply chains, put millions out of work, hurt the young by eliminating in-person learning, damaged mental health, caused the delay of important screenings for other health problems, and led to a government spending spree of over $5 trillion. We are now dealing with the costs of those shutdowns and while we can't assess the long-term sociological problems, we do know that the economic data continues to improve. You can follow our weekly Recovery Tracker here.

While some fear that a new variant of COVID may lead to more shutdowns, the data tells us that this is unlikely to happen. Vaccines, which were miraculously developed in less than a year thanks to Operation Warp Speed, have helped many to return to more normal life. We think this trend will continue in the months and quarters ahead.

Yes, there are long-term economic consequences from government spending and money printing, but it seems clear that in the near-term confidence is returning, the pandemic is waning and the economy is booming. As a result, we have decided it's time to end the First Trust COVID-19 Tracker on its one year anniversary. We hope you found our Tracker a port in the COVID-19 storm.

https://www.ftportfolios.com/retail/blogs/Economics/index.aspx
 

Long Cat V2.0

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COVID-19 was not a hoax, but it was the world's first Social Media pandemic, where fear was spread in a way we have never seen before. Our goal with the COVID-19 Tracker was to provide a data driven piece to put the pandemic in perspective.

The information we presented was used by the White House, Congress, the press, educational institutions from universities to high schools, and of course, the Financial Advisor community. The reason we think it was so widely used was that we presented factual data in a way that helped minimize fear.

What this data has consistently shown since the beginning of the pandemic was that those most at risk were a small subset of the population. Those 65 years and older make up only 16.3% of the population, but have accounted for nearly 80% of all COVID-19 deaths as of 6/30/21.1 In our opinion, focusing resources on the most vulnerable individuals, instead of locking down the entire country, would have resulted in better outcomes from both a public health and economic perspective. As history looks back, we believe locking down the economy will be viewed as one of the most damaging public policy mistakes in world history.

The shutdowns destroyed supply chains, put millions out of work, hurt the young by eliminating in-person learning, damaged mental health, caused the delay of important screenings for other health problems, and led to a government spending spree of over $5 trillion. We are now dealing with the costs of those shutdowns and while we can't assess the long-term sociological problems, we do know that the economic data continues to improve. You can follow our weekly Recovery Tracker here.

While some fear that a new variant of COVID may lead to more shutdowns, the data tells us that this is unlikely to happen. Vaccines, which were miraculously developed in less than a year thanks to Operation Warp Speed, have helped many to return to more normal life. We think this trend will continue in the months and quarters ahead.

Yes, there are long-term economic consequences from government spending and money printing, but it seems clear that in the near-term confidence is returning, the pandemic is waning and the economy is booming. As a result, we have decided it's time to end the First Trust COVID-19 Tracker on its one year anniversary. We hope you found our Tracker a port in the COVID-19 storm.

https://www.ftportfolios.com/retail/blogs/Economics/index.aspx
All the “negative side effects” of government response to covid were not considered negative or side effects by governments that implemented those policies. The last year has been a massive, coordinated international effort to clamp down on freedoms and make people dependent on their governments.
 

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Yeah science. $cientists will produce any document necessary to keep dollars flowing.
My sister has a PhD with a focus in nanotechnology and has never worked in her field because she got sick of the games you have to play to get funding. She was over it a year before she graduated but stuck it out to get the degree.
 

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Wasn’t the Olympic in Germany right before World War II? You know that chapped hitlers ass to death.
He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy", although he "wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either".[6]

The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the 20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century.
 

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