Debt Rattle December 15 2020
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 15 2020]William Merritt Chase Back Of A Nude 1888
Her skin; If I could touch it; I know what it would feel like…
This was adapted from a comment I made here yesterday .Buffed up. View From The Herd
“Head em up! Move em out!” https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/12/view-from-herd.htmlRawhide Extras,
I have found a Bill Gates CNN interview video that is not Twitter here:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-on-the-next-few-months-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-its-bad-news-11607893787
I admit I had not watched it, when I sent it yesterday, but now I have. My read of Mr Bill is that he should not play high stakes poker.
He is very pleased with himself numerous times in the interview, with a huge smile that he actually tries to suppress a few times to look appropriately serious.
Bill always smiles when speaking glowingly of his own prior predictions, now come true, and the efforts of his foundation and their allies, and of the failures of the Trump Administration. He is very careful in choosing his words to give them no credit at all.
Bill speaks glowingly of Biden and Fauci and all the big vaccines, and says he will take his shot in public, only when his turn comes.
He implies this is a massive, life-saving good, and he wants to be in the same line as the common people.
Bill says things will not be back to normal until 2022, but implies they may besomewhat better next summer.
Nothing about vitamin-D, though his comments seem to imply that he is taking it into account, summer, and winter pandemic waves, and all. Bill Gates reads like a fairly open-faced book if you know where he has been coming from for the last 15 years. I read something by him, about 15 years ago. He was fascinated with vaccines, including vaccines as birth control. Now he does not say that.
Bill sees the importance of reducing global human population to what global ecosystems can sustain.
My personal view of the population-utility of power elites is that they keep the human herd (me; you, our families) from completely destroying the means of food production, by helping us kill a lot of each other before that happens. Nobody who is not in the God-play-group likes people who play god.
They are a clear threat.
Bill Gates plays a very clever god, a smug and pleasant god, who deeply loves himself and invites all of us to do the same.
It will be best for all of us. God knows best. God has the big data, and the science.
God-Bill’s obvious point would be that the least painful form of population reduction is birth-reduction.
It’s less bad than war, pestilence, famine and death, but it does not exclude them.
Unfortunately, birth reduction alone might not be enough to do the whole population-reduction job. What might I suggest as a counter-offer?
I don’t play god. I also don’t eat critters, because I practice non-violence.
I am not a tyrant. I think that we should be past massive slaughter as a means of population control.
We are technologically and intellectually able to leave genocide behind.
We have not exactly found the societal disposition to leave it behind yet. What I suggest is our human strong point, distributed problem solving in small groups.
Nothing is assured, but it is what we, as a species, do best, and it is what has brought us to the point where we are about to extinct ourselves from success.
Going forward, we will have the severe and permanent decline in global oil, natural gas and coal, especially the cheap, easy and high quality stuff that the permanent-growth economy needs.
Energy and Economy have already begun their terminal decline, but the decline has been labeled ”COVID Pandemic”.
COVID has destroyed “demand” for the fuel and products that are now in decline, but we do not have to know that they are in permanent decline. “Back-to-normal” just keeps getting put off until later, while our owners work things out in THEIR smallish groups. The Davos-crowd/World Economic Forum clan may be as smug and self-satisfied as Mr Gates looks in the video, though they are not all doing as well as the prescient Mr Gates today. At least they can look forward to the imminent destruction of their nationalist rivals.
That will free them up to work out one, big, good solution for all of humanity, and put it into action.
The Global Reset is a work in progress, but they and their best experts are on it. They are all over it. I must disclose that what I advocate is not laid out at all, but the potential strength of it lies in customizing adaptations to specific locations and cultures and groups, like towns and churches and employee-owned-enterprises, for instance.
Just everybody does their homework in small groups for 30 years.
That’s my suggestion. It’s just what people always did to survive.
I’m doing my homework. My health remains good at 62. The supply lines are breaking globally. Merry Christmas.
More and more things are out of stock. Noticed that?
It’s time to invest, not to consume.
Invest in what you need to survive, not in New York (if I may be so bold) nor Phoenix, not in an isolated bunker. We need each other.
Risks involve a lot of uncertainty, and an ideal situation in 2-3 years might be terrible in 12-13 years.
We are renting a little half duplex from my Mom, in Austin, where we both work. The weather here won’t kill you, even without utilities.
We have paid off the gardening “homestead” in Yoakum, population 6000, with a rail line, and a mixed economy. Cattle ranching and farming persist.
Eagle Ford shale fracking went black. That’s ok for the moment. What’s next?
It’s a 2 hour drive each way. We spend weekends working in Yoakum, and weekdays working our paid jobs.
When will we have to choose one or the other? When will we have to stop driving four hours each weekend?
The country used a lot less gasoline in the 1970s, but there were long gas lines, and alternate-day filling laws.
When will supply-destruction become apparent?
Charles Hugh Smith assesses that going forward into volatility: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec20/gasoline12-20.htmlWith supply destruction as a limiter, you can’t buy what you need, and prices shoot up into hyperinflation. They sure will this time.
We will experience stagflation again; hyper-stag-flation… We will be insecure and frustrated.
Can you learn to grow some of your food?
Mainly, it gives you a comprehension of how difficult and uncertain it is, but you also develop skills and expertise.
Perspective. Working-knowledge. Actual experience.
Look to how you might survive for a month if the utilities go out. Grocery store utilities will be out, too.
Gas pumps need electricity. Utilities need electricity. Phone systems need electricity.
I’m not being extreme. The God-play-group will have to sacrifice billions of us, somewhat arbitrarily, at some time.
The birth-control-surprise cannot work fast enough to deal with the absolute decline that factory farming will go though in 10-20 years.
You may think my timeline is wrong. It might be. Some failures are bound to come sooner; some later. Physically preparing as much as you can, not just thinking, is better than not preparing.
Do have a sensible, multi-purpose bike, and some spare tubes, tires, parts, grease and tools.
Ride it at least every other day.Wheeled Bovine
From yesterday, suppose you were in charge of the deep information stream. You’re the KNOWERS, you’re the state agency of three-letter secrets. Could you run leaders around like idiots the way Kennedy was for Missiles and the Bay of Pigs? Just before he got mad at them and had an accident? So if deep leaders believe to their core that there is an imminent sun/comet/weather collapse, WHY do they feel that way? Who told them?
Quote of the day, “The Lie is different at every level.” That is, at the bottom it’s something like, CNN “Beavis is a stupidhead and should be shot for using the wrong Dr. Title/pronoun/euphemism. He’s so dumb!” Next level it’s NPR “Sir Butthead Esquire should be imprisoned because their policy lacks robust logic, old chum.” Next level it’s Bloomberg “Everyone knows we’re just running that idiot policy as a bone to the rubes as a direct attack on propane and propane accessories industry in order to consolidate power in SE Asia.” Next level it’s Google “Dr. Evil doesn’t care about governments – we only use governments, politicians, and idiot voters to get the REAL power in corporations and interpersonal blackmail.” Above that it’s Sachs “I don’t care WHO does WHAT power, I have people posted in all governments I’m the guy brokering the secrets and power because I arm all sides and wait for them to kill each other for my profit.” And above that, perhaps something else.
Are they all true? Probably a little. All lies work best when they’re true. But clearly the big is the father to the small. For instance, gutting the U.S. and selling all military secrets and manufacturing to China so Xi would think we’re equal sizes and he could possibly win WWIII and therefore prompt/demand he take a swing at it. On Dec 7th, a day that FDR overruled all admirals and demanded the whole U.S. Navy be blocked into one port within striking distance of the enemy. While we had already cracked their Pacific code. Hypothetically, of course. Murdering every gun-toting, law-and-bible-quoting deplorable is just a happy bonus for the real motive of the action, almost too large to be opposed, coming as it is from arcane WTO and OSHA/ACA laws while tied to a fake, too-high currency.
So WHY do the insiders think, believe, and act as they do? Who sets facts and reality for them? When they think they’re so smart and on the inside?
Speaking of inside info, year-end deaths are in. No deaths. So weird how we have these mass pandemics with NO ADDITIONAL DEATHS at all. It’s almost like it’s a scam to create worldwide martial law, let insiders hold and consolidate their power, during a debt/currency collapse, and transfer $10T of middle class assets to 20 guys at the top. …But that’s just me. I’m just a stickler for you know, people dying, or in this case NOT dying. At all.
But I gotta have a vaccine that gives facial paralysis to 3 on the first day and is immediately reversed for old, allergy-owners, and the immunocompromised. So, basically not recommended to anyone who would be at risk for the disease, only healthy people who are at no risk. …Who will still have to wear a mask. Forever.
Jimmy Dore is on these Democrats and faux-Progressives like a spider monkey. Like, you have power now, why not have a vote? …murmurmurmur…deflect…OMB…RussiaRussia. Since Biden has Bush II cabinet, and just told black voters to go screw themselves, Oh say what can you see? By the dawn’s early light? We got a woman Rumsfeld and a Black Cheney, congratulations, I’m sure the 10 new wars and 5 open slave markets will be much more gentle and caring now.
This also goes after his main point: even pot-smoking 2nd rate nightclub comedians know you don’t give away your vote BEFORE you get anything for it. And therefore, if they do nothing, over and over and over, you need a People’s Party. Wake up, he’s said for 5 years.
Barr, Bush-family deep state flunky, does nothing and steps down. Ding! After creating great cases he thinks will never be brought to docket. Ding! He is replaced by the Army Airborne. Ding!
Suddenly “Hacking” appears. Trump fired security insider who said, “Safest election ever” – a thing no NetSec admin would ever say, as one can barely keep the crooks out even when you’re not under direct attack. Turns out, they had complete “God-mode” access to huge swaths of U.S. government since June. As a State actor. A State actor like China, perhaps? Including – gasp! – Dominion! Shocked! Who coulda seen the timing? And Hunter’s case resurfacing. Meanwhile FBI investigates a totally different company and prints it to NYT, ‘cuz RussiaRussiaRussia.See the field? If you were about to release DNI Election tampering report, where you show all KINDS of fun stuff, sit on the throne, refuse to leave until the cases are finally heard and recounts actually run, to insure the worst election ever, what would you release? Biden actual payoffs with Chinese money-launderers? Chinese officials bragging they own the U.S. government? Leaks that the whole government was being monitored by China? And that went down to the voting systems, too? Nah. He’s just a midget IQ with tiny hands who eats ding-dongs all day.
Moving to Assange, don’t forget he’s the guy they need to testify under oath before Congress to pop all the fabricated Russian hysteria and vindicate Trump. Pardon, sure, but it’s much more than that. And they need to get him out of the U.K. alive, the nation that set up the whole fake Russian story, Steele, Haskell, Harper, the Skripals, and just about every other actual election-tampering worldwide. …You tell me how to do that, cause I’m not smart enough to figure it out. I’d guess they’d trade Andrew and the whole Royals – including St. Harry’s – dossier as well-known-and-run by Ms. Maxwell, whose father was Mossad/MI6.
“Democrats Make Wreck of Covid-19 Relief Negotiations (Taibbi)”
No they didn’t: if you hadn’t noticed, they’re trying to kill and monetize every poor and middle class person in every state they control. If you bail the people out, how can you utterly ruin and destroy them? They need to desperate, begging for the reset, UBI and Socialism. Just another “accident.” 500th in a row. All the same direction.
“Stimulus Bill Bails Out Defense Contractors, Denies Families Payments (DP)”
“How is it possible that in so many countries that failed so miserably in their pandemic fights, all the same faces hold on to all their same jobs?”
All the failures are approved and applauded. No one’s mad. They keep their jobs and are promoted. I rest my case.
“Guaido and Navalny are back in the western news, two people who play no role whatsoever in their own home countries.”
Just another amazing coincidence. No one’s behind it. Nothing to see here.
“Sunday Times Claims Navalny Was Poisoned Twice (Robinson)”
Wow, twice. With the world’s most deadly poison. With the world’s most deadly hit-squads. And still missed, Navalny is fine, completely unharmed. Who not only missed, but then allowed, helped, and encouraged him to seek special treatment in Germany so he could recover. RussiaPhrenia, where they’re both masing deadly masterminds and totally laughable, incompetent boobs at the same time. Like TrumpoPhrenia. Both dangerous masterminding dictator and idiot man-boy with too short an attention to get anything done. So be afraid! Be very afraid! …Of how he’s too dim-witted to do anything.
#Logic! …Or what passes for #Logic when you’re a dedicated zealot of #AntiLogos.
This year we watch Hong Kong swallowed whole by the CCP. Viable democratic loving people, POOF, disappeared as their extradition border got wiped!
Now our democratic traditions were thrown out when observers were forced from the counting rooms.. voting machine misbehavior was observer abuse on steroids. I noticed very few tears shed, in a move that would have made Stalin proud.
Today, we are watching is an attempt to restore the democratic features of our Republic. Very few politicians are mentioning voting reform, I suspect they are happy with the system that landed their seat.
I note that alternate electors cast their votes in PA, GA, MI, WI, AZ, NV, and NM. The Texas suit aside, suits initiated by the Trump remain viable. Interesting to me, Georgia and Michigan has opened up machines and signatures for more scrutiny. I expect more events and evidence are still ahead of us. Given a SCOTUS victory, is there still any chance of an overturned election? I have trouble assessing the odds.
January 6th… POOF?TAE has a winner selection today
Lyrics
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang Down Your head Tom Dooley
Poor boy your bound to dieDr. D: “So weird how we have these mass pandemics with NO ADDITIONAL DEATHS at all.”
That’s quite a claim. In the US, the CDC has been counting the number of deaths from all causes, and total deaths in 2020 are roughly 10% more than previous years.
I like this multi-year graph format because the y-axis goes all the way down to zero, allowing for any increases to be put in perspective relative to the total.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htmNumber of deaths reported on this page are the total number of deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period. Data are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction and cause of death…
Finally, the estimates of excess deaths reported here may not be due to COVID-19, either directly or indirectly. The pandemic may have changed mortality patterns for other causes of death. Upward trends in other causes of death (e.g., suicide, drug overdose, heart disease) may contribute to excess deaths in some jurisdictions.
What can one say, Doc Robinson? Dr. D. is both an extremely informed and insightful sociopolitical analyst, and someone who seems to delight in making bold bullshit pronouncements. He is anything but someone to dismiss out of hand yet also no one to take at face value.
He’s not Uncle Walter but he’s no Gil-Scott Heron either.
I learn something new from him quite often, and delight in certain phrase-turnings he uses, but it doesn’t take much Dr. D to set off the smoke alarms in my head.
@ madamski, I believe that BS pronouncements tend to erode credibility, despite the truths also being presented. Like shooting oneself in the foot.
Still, if someone is against “fake news” and propaganda, then proclaims something like “no additional deaths at all,” I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are misinformed and not hypocritical.
I have no clue, Doc. I acknowledge patterns but avoid motive inference. Smoke is not itself evidence of arson. People are known to be careless with matches.
@ John Day’s post from yesterday:
“I have given this considerable though and consideration for a long time.
I think we should shoot for 1970, as an economic model, not 1840, then work it out from there going forward in a different direction.
What are you thinking about a path forward?”As in a path forward for ‘us all’? I think that thinking in such terms is a collective joke that few people get but when they do, do not feel it’s funny. People enter a theater fairly orderly, even a death metal lunge festival. But if the place catches on fire, the exodus is generally a mess.
But I’ll provide some specifics: we’ve forgotten most of how we lived in 1840. That was still in the age of techne, i.e., craft. Knowledge handed down orally and manually from generation to generation. Meanwhile, we have a population whose under-30s can hardly give street directions without shsowing you colored lines on a cellphone view of some shitty map app.
“Follow the purple line, see?” (verbatim from actual personal experience a few years ago).
We seem to assume that 1970, or 1840, have been patiently waiting for us to come back to our senses and retrieve them from the past. It will take a decade or three just to raise enough livestock to make 1840 look plausible. How long it will take to rediscover lost techniques or devise new one is anyone’s guess, but I thionk it will take awhile.
In the interim between the post-modern neo-industrial paradigm crash, and the emergence of something new, stable, and tolerably liveable, I foresee extremely primitive conditions and accompanying behavior, the latter probably being the primary cause of the former.
As for a personal path: those who can should do something like you do. Most people can’t. My prescription, overall, is: be nice. Be kind and fair and decent to people. Even if it doesn’t save your tushie, it will help you die with a relatively clean conscience.
This ain’t no party and, thank god, no disco. It is, I regret to say, mostly us just fooling around. Why, look at Bill7. He wants to fight and I don’t even have a bucket of fried chicken for him to steal.
@Madamski @ DocR
The US may indeed have an excess death count this year, but many (most?) other countries don’t. That implies to me that the US is the outlier, rather than Covid. Why might that be? Perhaps the correlation between an unhealthy population, a ludicrously ineffective healthcare regime, and a polity in the process of collapse that couldn’t manage it’s way past a closed door.I lay my vote for more hyperbole from Dr D.. I personally don’t it difficult to distinguish meaning/intent from the rhetoric, and it’s a welcome relief from the pseudo-analysis in the media. As others have observed – if you ain’t angry already, you just don;t understand what’s going down.
“Utah Mink First Wild Animal In US To Test Positive For Mutated Coronavirus”
When a can of oil and a papaya can test positive on the PCR test, no surprise…
“Still, if someone is against “fake news” and propaganda, then proclaims something like “no additional deaths at all,” I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are misinformed and not hypocritical.”
All i know is that for the past four years i’ve been forced to listen to a fake story about Russian collusion, a supreme court justice who may have raped a women 40 years ago, and now how a disease is going to kill us all unless we do what we’re told……….and then censors anyone who questions them.
hypocritical?
The real question Doc is why you still believe anything they say? If we go back the past 20 years their track record gets even worse. They know no one but the most “devout” believe them anymore, thats why they’re resorting to censorship, can you get what the next step will be?
When I was just about to instantly concede my deaths rate (and go look instead at the source I used) I started into the CDC page posted. Look for yourself:
“Methods”
Counts of deaths in the most recent weeks were compared with historical trends (from 2013 to present) to determine whether the number of deaths in recent weeks was significantly higher than expected, using Farrington surveillance algorithms (1). The ‘surveillance’ package in R (2) was used to implement the Farrington algorithms, which use overdispersed Poisson generalized linear models with spline terms to model trends in counts, accounting for seasonality. For each jurisdiction, a model is used to generate a set of expected counts, and an upper bound threshold based on a one-sided 95% prediction interval of these expected counts…etc”
The chart says not “deaths” but consistently “Predicted deaths”. Okay, mostly the same? Wait: how is your “Threshold of extra deaths” always above the actual? Wouldn’t it be similar to your 200dma? Hold on: now I’m hovering over and getting week-by-week and the excess in 2020 is very similar to the weeks of 2018, like 50k. The mid-high weeks in 2020 are also in the 50k-range. What? They’re Visibly higher, but not actually higher? Or so “Weighted” as they say that a 2k increase reads like a 10k increase? 6k extra people isn’t nothing, but it’s also only 100 per state. Next door to nothing. This is going to take some time.
Trying .csv or alternatives, click “Number of excess deaths without weighting” + “Excluding Covid”. Wait: NYC has 7k extra deaths that are NOT Covid? And Michigan too? Texas has 10k and CA 12k? What are those? Deaths exclusively from the lockdown murder/suicide/healthcare halt? That’s like more than COVID itself. But it can’t be. But it is?
So you don’t have a number, you have a “predicted number.” You don’t have a death, you have a “weighted death.” Why? I mean like laymen look at the vaccine math and assume 95% means 95%, not 0.54% If you’re adding very, very complex adjustments, scientists say “Why?” “Where’s your raw data set?”
I JUST WANT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED GOING BACK TO 2010. And I have looked myself, but still can’t find it. (or forgot to link it.) Anyone? Like the number of missing children, why is this number not clearly tracked and easy to find?
Level of competence
Backyard chickens owner or Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a global company
Mastering the Management Steps
1. process
2. planning
3. resource
4. product
5. inventory
6. supply lineI guess I should have written “…according to the CDC (for what it’s worth).”
Somebody used the CDC data for 2015-2018 total death numbers here, but they reportedly used misleading numbers for 2019 and 2020:
https://static.politifact.com/politifact/photos/US_Death_toll_meme.jpgFirstly, the numbers listed from 2015 through 2018 are official, having been released by the CDC ( here , here , here , here ). However, the final numbers for 2019 have not yet been released, and it is unclear where the image creator took the 2,900,689 figure from. This is the same for the 2020 projection.
Meanwhile, the 2020 figure leading up to Nov. 16 is also an official figure released by the CDC (pdf here ) – but it is not yet an accurate representation of how many people have died in 2020. The table doesn’t begin until the week ending Feb. 1, 2020 and still has six weeks to report between Nov. 16 and the end of the year. The latest weekly data in the Nov. 16 chart also appears to have a much lower death count than previous weeks, which the CDC has said is due to a lag in reporting. This lag can be anywhere between one and eight weeks, or more...
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-chart-us-death-figures-2020-idUSKBN2872MV
The CDC data is not very user-friendly in my experience, and more than once I’ve thought “This doesn’t add up.”
Dr. D: “I JUST WANT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED GOING BACK TO 2010.”
You’d think the CDC would have this type of overview easily accessible, but the closest I found was a summary from USA Today (based on CDC data):
2010
• Age-adjusted death rate: 747 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Deaths: 2,468,435
• Population: 309,346,863
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (597,689 deaths, 24.2% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (574,743 deaths, 23.3% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (138,080 deaths, 5.6% of all deaths)2011
• Age-adjusted death rate: 741 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Deaths: 2,515,458
• Population: 311,718,857
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (596,577 deaths, 23.7% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (576,691 deaths, 22.9% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (142,943 deaths, 5.7% of all deaths)2012
• Age-adjusted death rate: 733 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.8 years
• Deaths: 2,543,279
• Population: 314,102,623
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (599,711 deaths, 23.6% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (582,623 deaths, 22.9% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (143,489 deaths, 5.6% of all deaths)2013
• Age-adjusted death rate: 732 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.8 years
• Deaths: 2,596,993
• Population: 316,427,395
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (611,105 deaths, 23.5% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (584,881 deaths, 22.5% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (149,205 deaths, 5.7% of all deaths)2014
• Age-adjusted death rate: 725 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.9 years
• Deaths: 2,626,418
• Population: 318,907,401
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (614,348 deaths, 23.4% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (591,700 deaths, 22.5% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (147,101 deaths, 5.6% of all deaths)2015
• Age-adjusted death rate: 733 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Deaths: 2,712,630
• Population: 321,418,820
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (633,842 deaths, 23.4% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (595,930 deaths, 22.0% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases (155,041 deaths, 5.7% of all deaths)2016
• Age-adjusted death rate: 729 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Deaths: 2,744,248
• Population: 323,071,342
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (635,260 deaths, 23.1% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (598,038 deaths, 21.8% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Accidents (unintentional injuries) (161,374 deaths, 5.9% of all deaths)2017
• Age-adjusted death rate: 732 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.6 years
• Deaths: 2,813,503
• Population: 325,147,121
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (647,457 deaths, 23.0% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (599,108 deaths, 21.3% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Accidents (unintentional injuries) (169,936 deaths, 6.0% of all deaths)2018
• Age-adjusted death rate: 724 deaths per 100,000 people
• Avg. life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Deaths: 2,839,205
• Population: 327,167,439
• Leading cause of death: Heart disease (655,381 deaths, 23.1% of all deaths)
• Second leading cause of death: Cancer (599,274 deaths, 21.1% of all deaths)
• Third leading cause of death: Accidents (unintentional injuries) (167,127 deaths, 5.9% of all deaths)@zerosum, why are you always posting non-sequiturs? Seriously.
DNC cheated in the 2016 primary, DNC cheated in 2020 primary (or at least thats the gist i get when seeing reports that just came out on Iowa) but they would never ever ever cheat in the general election.
Many here have many times commented that the measures being taken against covid might prove more damaging and lethal than covid itself. I agree with this in general. Such a concept implies higher death tolls, period, whether they are caused directly by covid infection or indirectly by the insanity of the past year.
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We all know the CDC is mostly shit. Personally, I don’t think they’re worth mentioning except in dismissal. The following says all one needs to know on the matter:
“As of 2013, the CDC’s Biosafety Level 4 laboratories are among the few that exist in the world,[21] and serve as one of only two official repositories of smallpox in the world. The second smallpox store resides at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in the Russian Federation. In 2014, the CDC revealed they discovered several misplaced smallpox samples while their lab workers were ‘potentially infected’ with anthrax.” wiki
“Thousands of years ago, variola virus (smallpox virus) emerged and began causing illness and deaths in human populations, with smallpox outbreaks occurring from time to time. Thanks to the success of vaccination, the last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949. In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated (eliminated), and no cases of naturally occurring smallpox have happened since.
“Smallpox research in the United States continues and focuses on the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests to protect people against smallpox in the event that it is used as an agent of bioterrorism.” (cdc)
So it doesn’t exist in the wild anymore. It is a useless bioweapon. Infect a nation/people you don’t like and they can drown you in smallpox cadavers in a month, infecting your nation/epeople. There is no single good reason for them to keep smallpox around. Yet the two dominant global powers in real muscle terms, USA and Russia, keep it around:
Blast sparks fire at Russian laboratory housing smallpox virus (article dated sept 2019)
^&*
@ Doc Robinson
Regarding the Mark Twain quote in your death count .jpeg: cognitive scientists have done research indicating it is easier to believe something than disbelieve something. Belief is easier than doubt. Cognitive harmony is more satisfying than cognitive dissonance.
@ Rototillerman
re. non-sequitursWe don’t think alike
My comments, observations and conclusions are irrelevant“You’d think the CDC would have this type of overview easily accessible, but the closest I found was a summary from USA Today (based on CDC data):”
Not if you’ve got something to hide……………..
Someone posted this in the comments at johndays blog, i’m not the biggest KD fan but submit it to hear others thoughts
@Mr House
Thank you so much for this link. I’ve been trying to understand the suppression of info about HCQ and Ivermectin without success. I couldn’t account for it out of hatred for Trump or editorial/advertiser collusion or talking heads group think. It didn’t make sense. This link nails it perfectly! Clear as can be.
Now what?
Thanks again. Made my night.
@zerosum wrote:“We don’t think alike
My comments, observations and conclusions are irrelevant”In other words, THINK for yourself.
Thanks Zero. Reading “Breath” by James Nestor. Breathing is something that everyone can do for *themselves*. Somehow relevant to myself….hmmmmmm. Probably a simple additional defense against the ‘rona’ as well. Just sayin’.
🙂
From that market-ticker article linked above:
“Because under the law an EUA can only be issued if there are no safe and effective treatments. If there are safe and effective treatments [like Ivermectin] then under the law an EUA cannot issue; you must instead go through the entire procedure to get regular approval.”
Like Huskynut said, if you ain’t angry, you don’t understand what’s going down. The official briefing documents linked below (for the advisory committee that voted in favor of approving the Pfizer vaccine) have no mention of Ivermectin, and the claim that there is currently “no broadly effective treatment or prevention available is used to justify the approval of the vaccine.”
8. RISK/BENEFIT ASSESSMENT
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on public health, and currently there is no broadly effective treatment or prevention available. An effective vaccine can impact the pandemic at this critical time. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, there will be >55,000 deaths per month in the US over the next few months.25 A COVID-19 vaccination program implemented soon can likely prevent many deaths.26 A vaccine must be introduced before the peak of reported cases to have a significant impact on the pandemic course.26,27 A highly effective vaccine, with sufficient uptake as supplies become available, may be able to induce population herd immunity to bring the pandemic under control.
Madamski:
As for going back to 1840, I wouldn’t want to do that!
First of all, my training is in electricity which really hadn’t become a thing by 1840 so I would be totally irrelevant!
Second, they hadn’t invented central heating back in1840!
Third, back then they used real money, so we wouldn’t be able to just print wealth, but would have to actually work!
So you see, the good olde days weren’t so good!
Your honor, I rest my case!
Doc Robinson:
It may come as a shock to you, or maybe not, to be a liberal requires one to not know certain truths that conflict with your beliefs!
@MrHouse: Thanks for keeping up with comments on my blog while I was at work today. That was a good one. You can’t have an emergency use authorization for a COVID vaccine if ivermectin works to prevent COVID and is safe, unless you pretend otherwise.
@Madamski, who said: “We seem to assume that 1970, or 1840, have been patiently waiting for us to come back to our senses and retrieve them from the past. It will take a decade or three just to raise enough livestock to make 1840 look plausible. How long it will take to rediscover lost techniques or devise new one is anyone’s guess, but I think it will take awhile.
In the interim between the post-modern neo-industrial paradigm crash, and the emergence of something new, stable, and tolerably liveable, I foresee extremely primitive conditions and accompanying behavior, the latter probably being the primary cause of the former.
As for a personal path: those who can should do something like you do. Most people can’t. My prescription, overall, is: be nice. Be kind and fair and decent to people. Even if it doesn’t save your tushie, it will help you die with a relatively clean conscience.
This ain’t no party and, thank god, no disco. It is, I regret to say, mostly us just fooling around.”
I caught the talking Heads doing this at The Armadillo World Headquarters before the mayor got rid of it to make room for developers. Uh, I forgot what I was going to say because I’m still listening to the song. It’ll play in my head for days now. Good choice, Sister!
The not being able to figure out a path for-all-of-us is the inherent problem, because it can’t be done. We, all together, are the distributed computing network that works this problem. Each of us has to practice novel problem solving, which might start pretty simply. Growing vegetables is way more work and complexity that one might assume. People bow out all the time. “I killed a cactus”, being the latest one I heard. I have come to the conclusion that all we can ALL do is start working on novel problems in the direction of using less stuff, using cash instead of cards, figuring out processes and products that can be reliable and last a long time, offering to help somebody, and so on. When we become a massive parallel processor, stuff happens differently. I think there is a different mind. It creates the unforeseeable, … as I foresee it.
Maybe you were feeling more like this song when you started writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
If history rhymes, the USA today is replaying the 1918/19 Spanish Flu Pandemic and the 1932 Great Depression with the economics and politics of the Gilded Age. The New Deal over the last 40 years was deregulated and privatized out of existence with Social Security the only vestige left.
Money talks. Facebook didn’t give 300 million dollars to state election offices this year for nothing. Congress didn’t give hundreds of millions of dollars to the states for electronic vote counting machines for no reason. Cash buys power. If anybody knows that the election is rigged, it is the Republicans. They depend on discouraging the opposition’s vote. Except, this year, in a pandemic, the turnout at 66.2% is the highest in over a century.
311,068 Americans have died because the two borders were not closed to international flights in February 2020. Testing is a debacle. The public health response was dumped onto 50 state governments that resulted in a haphazard incomplete lockdowns when for-profit local hospitals were overrun with COVID-19 patients. Copying the public health procedures that are working in China, Vietnam, Cuba, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are ignored as too expensive and contrary to the Elite’s imperative of eliminating government by ending taxes and regulation.
The sole thing that matters is corporate profits. But industry has gone to Asia. All that left in the USA is the scam of increasing shareholder value. It creates crap. Boeing has stopped delivery of 787 Dreamliner because of problems with assembly of the composite aircraft fuselage. Maybe they can restart the 737 Max line now that it is cleared to fly in the USA and Brazil; once the 400 in storage are delivered.
The Democrats simply do not acknowledge that they are Ivy League, Brahmin Caste, Insiders totally out of touch with reality. The Republicans are trying to secede. If politicians don’t try to get workers’ votes by allowing them to have shelter, food and a purpose in life, they will shortly be gone. Yellow shirted Proud Boys are picking for a fight.
@VietnamVet
Love your comments and we’re still ultimately on the same side, but once again going to disagree with you..
Unless you can find a way to tow your country out into the remote ocean, and believe it’s realistic to close you borders for the forseeable future and/or rely on insufficiently tested vaccines, underpinned by corporate immunity (plus today’s recurrent observation that vaccine approval wouldn’t have even been possible without the marginalisation of effective protocols using long-standing medications (Ivermectin, HCQ etc) then DON”T FOLLOW NEW ZEALAND. Our leaders don;t know sh*t.And interestingly, it’s been interesting in post-election NZ where Jacinda et al were elected in the first (and perhaps only) post-MMP non-coalition government off the back of their Covid “success” that finally criticism is emerging in a variety of media. House prices are through the roof (off the back of post-covid stimulus amongst other things), there is negligible accountability (somehow the report into the Christchurch shootings found no-one to blame – even the GCSB/SIS, where hundreds of millions of dollars goes to die each year without preventing a major terrorist shooting…
Biden is faced with exactly the same issue.. he’s about to be holding the baby. And it’s ticking..
“…he’s about to be holding the baby. And it’s ticking..”
A delightfully Looneyu Tunes moment, that.
“the turnout at 66.2% is the highest in over a century.”
If it were a referendum for, say, a Constitutional amendment to make or preserve the USA as a democratic republic, the amendment would fail due to lack of interest alone.
@ John Day
Having been a happy idiot for more years than I wish to admit, struggling like us all for the legal tender, I submit that true love is the only contender. The rest are hollow stand-ins. And Tina Weymouth was having too much fun that night with the Talking Heads.
“I’m going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Though true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender”
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