Covid (Out of the Box Thinking Protocol)

[Triplethought]

In the end all these adminstrations are as signficant as cow dung. The Fed is all powerful and the idea was to get the massses to embrace and accept forever QE, which they have done. The rest as they say is just noise

I know what you mean by cow dung in the long run. Short run they do impact tax and economic policy.

SOL, do you have any opinion on how QE and the never expanding money supply ends? I mean in a 5-10 year time frame. Do they eventually destroy the currency? Or cause Hyperinflation?

Or, as the book "The deficit myth" and the progressive MMT (Modern Monetary theory) states, the deficits and total debt doesn't matter as long as inflation is kept in check. It's all either "green money" or "yellow money" (aka interest bearing T-bills) and the government is in control of both so we're all good.

On a tangent here I suspect Biden and Repubs will compromise at around a 1.2 Trillion stimulus.

[Triplethought]

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All these rhetorical questions. Soon Biden will have the "walks on water" soubriquet. Unfortunately it'll be the result of Depends failures.

I'm no Biden lover but since no one really seems to know why flu numbers are so low, I don't think it's fair to attribute that particular success to Trump. I'm not sure whether to believe the CDC is counting everything as Covid (including flu) - which is what makes sense to me. OR whether more people have gotten flu shots this year. OR whether Covid lockdowns (masking, social distancing, lack of travel) have decreased flu (which is what I read in mainstream media).

I guess their may end up being some other explanation. I just don't buy the flu shot and social distancing theories. If social distancing were so damned effective why is Covid still rampant? To me it makes more sense that every damn chill, cold, and flu is being labeled "Covid".

Either way, saying Trump crushed Flu unless you can point to a specific action he took that caused it seem disingenuous.

[AstuteShift]

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All these rhetorical questions. Soon Biden will have the "walks on water" soubriquet. Unfortunately it'll be the result of Depends failures.

I'm no Biden lover but since no one really seems to know why flu numbers are so low, I don't think it's fair to attribute that particular success to Trump. I'm not sure whether to believe the CDC is counting everything as Covid (including flu) - which is what makes sense to me. OR whether more people have gotten flu shots this year. OR whether Covid lockdowns (masking, social distancing, lack of travel) have decreased flu (which is what I read in mainstream media).

I guess their may end up being some other explanation. I just don't buy the flu shot and social distancing theories. If social distancing were so damned effective why is Covid still rampant? To me it makes more sense that every damn chill, cold, and flu is being labeled "Covid".

Either way, saying Trump crushed Flu unless you can point to a specific action he took that caused it seem disingenuous.

Imho the CDC labeled everything as COVID, flu still exists. Even though I’m forced to wear masks I know it does nothing for protection, social distancing doesn’t make sense either

As with any scam, you need the con, con-men and victims. The objective is just to print more money

I believe also what SOL stated in the updates, eventually AI will take over everything and GDP will rise substantially and eventually the debt will not be an issue

[Eric]

Either way, saying Trump crushed Flu unless you can point to a specific action he took that caused it seem disingenuous.

I'm being as genuine as the ruling class and the media and the medical community and the little wannabe dictators in your county health office are going to be in April when they all come out singing that Dementia-Joe saved the world from The 'Rona in just 100 days by doing literally NOTHING different from Trump.

Do you remember how OBiden cured Swine Flu in 2009? It's the same way "Trump cured" the Flu in 2020, and the same way Dementia-Joe will cure COVID in just 100 days...
(Quote the post if you want to see my answer here -->) Just stop testing. No test, no case. No case, no problem.

Of course Trump didn't "cure" the flu, the medical community did by testing people only for 'Rona (looking at "Week 1" data on the CDC website for 2020-2021 season, Flu tests are down about 67% vs the 2019-2020 Flu season). Since (according to the W.H.O.) PCR tests for 'Rona have been as much as 1,000x too sensitive and as much as 96% of "positives" have been false positives, most of the people that would have tested positive for the Flu instead got a false positive 'Rona test result. I'm just playing the game the ruling class and media are going to start playing in about 2 months here; they're going to blatantly lie (gaslight) and say Dementia-Joe cured COVID so I'm blatantly lying and giving Trump the same untrue accolades regarding the flu. I can back it up as much as they will be able to...look at the positive case numbers and no farther.

[SOL]

In the end all these adminstrations are as signficant as cow dung. The Fed is all powerful and the idea was to get the massses to embrace and accept forever QE, which they have done. The rest as they say is just noise

I know what you mean by cow dung in the long run. Short run they do impact tax and economic policy.

SOL, do you have any opinion on how QE and the never expanding money supply ends? I mean in a 5-10 year time frame. Do they eventually destroy the currency? Or cause Hyperinflation?

Or, as the book "The deficit myth" and the progressive MMT (Modern Monetary theory) states, the deficits and total debt doesn't matter as long as inflation is kept in check. It's all either "green money" or "yellow money" (aka interest bearing T-bills) and the government is in control of both so we're all good.

On a tangent here I suspect Biden and Repubs will compromise at around a 1.2 Trillion stimulus.

Over the years I have learned to worry less and less about the future because today determines tomorrow and tomorrow is the future. I have also noticed that most of the naysayers serve only one purpose and that is to cry wolf all the time, other than that if all of them were locked up in a mental asylum and juiced with high voltage shots every day, the world would not miss them and continue to operate smoothly and most people would live with a lot less stress, the only ones suffering would be the naysayers. Most naysayers live miserable lives, it takes a miserable person to talk crap all the time. I look at any experts track record, if they focus too much on the misery factor, I assign them a score of negative 10 and place them on a list of people to bet against.

Most people mistake trend analysis and assume it's achieved by looking into the future. It is determined by focussing mostly on the now and by allocating some time to historical events. Those that focus on the future only are full of hot air. Now, this sounds like I am going off-topic, but it's not, for the answer is who cares what happens in the future, if you are giving up today to worry about tomorrow, then you already lost the game.

The most important thing is not to worry about the future but to make sure that you know what is happening now and take advantage of it. if you do that the future takes care of itself. In simple words, until the trend changes, I could care less about all the end of the world conjectures that all these penguins are coming out with.

[Triplethought]

The most important thing is not to worry about the future but to make sure that you know what is happening now and take advantage of it. if you do that the future takes care of itself. In simple words, until the trend changes, I could care less about all the end of the world conjectures that all these penguins are coming out with.

True enough. I think I would have a pretty good track record predicting tomorrow's weather by just quoting the stats from today's weather. Particularly in California or Hawaii.