Insights into the COVID Pandemic

[Budge]

Eric, In a time when many institutions are compromised, can we trust Hopkins' numbers? After all, in the early days of the plandemic, do you remember the panic they caused with their daily graphic with the exaggerated red balloons? Huge red globes all over the world especially China and Europe. The sky is falling!!

I read somewhere they are the largest recipient of federal government (taxpayer?) largesse.

Did a quick sum of the grants they got from Bill Gates. 2017 is the last year I have. Hopkins got 44 grants totaling over $75 million.

Just sayin'.

[SOL]

This graph provides interesting data. notice how the number of beds has dropped



https://www.statista.com/statistics/185 ... ince-2001/

[bpcw]

50k deaths from vaccination, interesting read.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/0 ... r-country/

[MarkD]

I believe in the 1980's, the USA had a lot of hospitals taking Medicare patients who just were "lonely". A friend told me the administrators accepted and housed elderly who would show up at the beginning of winter, go home for the holidays, and return. After that was halted, a lot of rural and unprofitable facilities were closed.

[SOL]

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 is deadliest among older populations. In fact, through February 17, 93 percent of COVID-19 deaths nationwide have occurred among those ages 55 or older. Only 0.2 percent were younger than 25. This trend can also be found on the state level.

CDC data also show that Americans, regardless of age group, are far more likely to die of something other than COVID-19. Even among those in the most heavily impacted age group (85 and older), only 13.3 percent of all deaths since February 2020 were due to COVID-19.

https://datavisualizations.heritage.org ... hs-by-age/

There are some interesting charts posted in that article

[AstuteShift]

@Yodean nice astute observation

I move slow when it comes to big decisions however my goal is to get out with all the loot

My friend would call the Taurus Sun/Scorpio Moon combo as “force of nature”. However signs is only a small part of anyone’s role in this holographic film

[Yodean]

Eric, In a time when many institutions are compromised, can we trust Hopkins' numbers? After all, in the early days of the plandemic, do you remember the panic they caused with their daily graphic with the exaggerated red balloons? Huge red globes all over the world especially China and Europe. The sky is falling!!

Hey Budge,

Agree with you about Hopkins - they tend to show data in a way that supports the establishment's narratives. Another institution that tends to do this a lot that comes to mind is Yale.

With that said, I think, if I am not mistaken, that the graphs "One-Niner" Eric posted may easily be misread if one is not careful.

I think you are reading the top of each bar's category as the total number, as opposed to the incremental number above a previously demarcated category. Sounds confusing, I will try to explain.

Let's use the 1st chart that Eric posted (i.e. "Number of Inpatient Beds Occupied"); the same idea applies to the 2nd chart he posted.

So, let's take the most recent bar values from July/21 (i.e. the "right-most" bar) - this is how I am reading the values, if I am not mistaken (the values will be approximations, as I am "eye-balling" them, more or less):

-non-cv19 inpatient beds occupied: 575k
-cv19 inpatient beds occupied: 25k
-inpatient beds unoccupied: 200k

So occupied cv19 beds make up only about 3.1% of all the beds being monitored in the Hopkins data set. When you factor in the false-positives of the PCR tests, the sudden lack of counting of seasonal flu as a diagnosis, the number of "true" cv19 inpatient beds is likely to drop even more substantially from the 3.1%.

I think you may have been reading the top of each category as the total amount, as opposed to the incremental amount above the line demarcating a separate category below.

[Yodean]

@Yodean nice astute observation

I move slow when it comes to big decisions however my goal is to get out with all the loot

My friend would call the Taurus Sun/Scorpio Moon combo as “force of nature”. However signs is only a small part of anyone’s role in this holographic film

Lol, I know my share of Taurus' and Scorpios'. As you know, every sign has positives and negatives, and individuals may express more evolved or less evolved aspects of the sign's potential.

Since a lot of people have declared their astrological aspects, and I know continuing this stream is bound to trigger YoungAnakin, I will do the same: I am Cancer Sun/Scorpio Moon/Leo Ascendant.

Yeap, I can be a real friggin' bastard at times.

[xkosmox]

If COVID ever disappears from the world, would it likely be a father/mother of all buying opportunities?
And which industries would be the best?

[stefk]

More people than last week in 200 demonstrations everywhere in France. In big cities and little cities, everywhere. And the french government stays blind, do they know there is a revolution tradition in France against arbitrair ?

https://youtu.be/P4U1zhhrtCw

https://youtu.be/Oupo2tUC8B8

[Yodean]

More people than last week in 200 demonstrations everywhere in France. In big cities and little cities, everywhere. And the french government stays blind, do they know there is a revolution tradition in France against arbitrair ?

I think there is a significant chance that Macron might be the first major leader to suffer a similar fate as Marie Antoinette.

1st European head-of-state to be slapped publicly:

https://youtu.be/vbYPmcWBA4o

Indeed, the French have a strong history of revolution. Also, they already had a strong "Yellow Vest" movement well before cv19.

[Yodean]

If COVID ever disappears from the world, would it likely be a father/mother of all buying opportunities?
And which industries would be the best?

Mr. X.:

I don't think cv19 is "going away" ever . . . there might be less of an emphasis on cv19 in the mainstream media in the future, but it's always going to be kind of "around," would be my best guess, for the next several years, at the very least.

It's making Big Pharma and related industries a sh*tload of $$$, and now that governments know the general population is willing to let themselves be "lockdowned" without much of a whimper, if there is civil unrest or rebellious factions acting up, they may easily be dealt with simply by once again imposing cv19 restrictions, etc.

From an investment perspective, the right pharma. companies, biotech. companies, cv19 testing companies, etc. are probably going to do really well. There will be cries for more booster vaccine shots to deal with a litany of upcoming variants (i.e. delta, lambda, gamma, omega, maga, ninja, etc.) as well as some contrived treatments for "long cv19," etc.

I am sure T.I. has been looking at them and will continue to make good recommendations.

Besides the much-discussed A.I. supertrend, asset price inflation mega-trend, and the biotech/pharma. trends, another biggie will be the climate change supertrend, as well as the cybersecurity and surveillance trends.

In terms of investing, the cybersecurity-surveillance trends are kind of related to the A.I. trend. The big climate change trend will involve many industries over time but one area to keep an eye on is the "Carbon Credit/Tax" trend and the companies that issue these credits, as well as measure carbon footprints, etc. I am pretty sure the T.I. team is already keeping an eye on this.

The U.S. looks destined to be the "King of the Hill" for at least another ten to fifteen years, but as you probably know from living in Singapore, I believe, China and other parts of Asia are rising quickly, so geographically probably not a bad area to start to look into investing. I am probably a bit (or a lot) early, but I've been buying a lot of the Chinese Tech. Titans (CTTs) lately - they seem pretty cheap, could get cheaper.

[stefk]

Are there also demonstrations in the US and Canada ?

[SOL]

Some demonstrations in other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjDwUJ0Ydc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btl4QEQpdbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFk45V9wEQ4

There will be at least one Marie Antoinette event and then the cauldron will reach a boiling point, there will



The carbon credit trend, for now, is not as strong as the AI and Tech Trend. As for big pharma, they are big and most of them don't move like tech companies; there are exceptions like modern, but the main move is almost over. However, there are smaller players in the biotech sectors that are worth keeping an eye on, a big trend that no one is talking about is this ultra-mega life extension trend.

[Budge]

If COVID ever disappears from the world, would it likely be a father/mother of all buying opportunities?
And which industries would be the best?

Mr. X.:

I don't think cv19 is "going away" ever . .

Agreed. The early attempts to provide a vaccine against the coronavirus was for dogs about 20 years ago. Any virus that exists in the animal population is never going away. I saw an estimate that 40% of the deer population has covid antibodies.

Ditto on China.