Longer-dated Treasuries are up for the fourth straight session in a flight-to-safety trade, while shorter-dated maturities remain anchored by the Fed. The 2-yr yield is flat at 0.15%, and the 10-yr yield is down 0.76%. The U.S. Dollar Index is up 0.6% to 93.47.Even if Powell and his immedicate predecessors have/had moved 'the' interest rate to near zero, Mr. Market has done so on his own.
Way back in March one of these missives postulated that the evidence then available said that herd immunity was nothing like a slam dunk.Well, today brings more data. And it's no better.
"We observe a significant decline in the proportion of the population with detectable antibodies over three rounds of national surveillance, using a self-administered lateral flow test, 12, 18 and 24 weeks after the first peak of infections in England," the team wrote in a pre-print version of their report, released before peer review.and
"This is consistent with evidence that immunity to seasonal coronaviruses declines over 6 to 12 months after infection and emerging data on SARS-CoV-2 that also detected a decrease over time in antibody levels in individuals followed in longitudinal studies,"The nub of the problem is simply that, as the common cold, immunity is fleeting. It will likely be necessary to get an annual vaccination/booster. And all of the course for the whole population will take ages. Wear your mask.
>= 1,000 - 357 100 to 999 - 1,615(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,115. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.
>= 1,000 - 304 100 to 999 - 1,507(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,107. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.
Sweden: population - 10,343,403 territory - 173,860 sq mi US of A: population - 328,239,523 territory - 3,796,742 sq mi [the wiki]Ever try to herd cats?
There were more than 10,000 unmaskings last year and nearly 17,000 in 2018, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Statistical Transparency reports. There were 9,529 in 2017, Trump's first year in office.The whole idea behind unmasking is to find out who the Enemy has been talking to here in the USofA, it's not to 'out' somebody you know is your political enemy. How could you? Until the unmasking happens, you don't know who the individual is. You may suspect it's Don Jr., but you don't know.
Under the Obama administration, there were about 9,217 unmaskings in 2016 and only 654 in 2015.
>= 1,000 - 285 100 to 999 - 1,466(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,102. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.
Feb. 10: Now, the virus that we're talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We're in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.Clearly, what's going to happen once all those folks, mask-denying all, go indoors like everybody else? A virus grows in Birmingham?
The poll shows Clinton with 50% support to Trump's 38%, with 5% backing Libertarian Gary Johnson and 2% supporting the Green Party's Jill Stein.Now, naturally, in 2016 if both Johnson and Stein had been absent, the likely results would be the same in the electoral college. And Trump might well have won the popular vote, given that a Johnson voter would have gone with Trump, and a Stein voter would have stayed home drinking Merlot. This year, there's no leakage. Keep that in mind.
Well, whether steroid induced (likely) or just another hail Mary attempt, much of the left wing news is making much hay over Batshit J. Moron's declaration that all negotiations over the next Covid Relief legislation halt.
A second wave of coronavirus could "more significantly limit economic activity, not to mention the tragic effects on lives and well-being," Powell said. "Managing this risk as the expansion continues will require following medical experts' guidance, including using masks and social-distancing measures." In addition to gaining control of the pandemic, Powell reiterated his calls for more fiscal stimulus aimed at supporting America's most vulnerable.
>= 1,000 - 259 100 to 999 - 1,379
(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,097. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.
Well, what can I say? Some times bad things happen to bad people. Some times the arrogant and the stupid get punished by Karma or Mother Nature or God.
And some times the 1% get far better treatment for the bad that happens to them. In a bit more than a month, Dear Leader Yo! Semite of Thigh Land will make another attempt to destroy health care for tens of millions of 99%-ers who don't have nearly instant access to one of the top medical facility on the planet and the only extant drug therapies. If you're among the hoi polloi, you're told to isolate until your symptoms become severe. Don't you dare go to the hospital (as Christie just did) at the onset of Covid. Don't you dare. Okay, so you end up ventilated just because your disease progression is so severe that nothing much else can be done when you're finally allowed in past the security system.
WaPo, behind paywall so I won't put in a link, reported that the quick transfer to Walter Reed was specifically timed super early just so Batshit J. Moron could be videoed walking to the chopper. Of course.
Right Wingnut Radical Populists all behave the same way, and all have the gift of gab to convince the uneducated to support them. If only these knuckleheads were just those being pillaged by the RWRPs, I wouldn't care less. But, of course, we all get to suffer. Moscow Mitch keeps his corner of power thanks to the knuckleheads. On the other hand, we're one baby step closer to President Pelosi. I wonder if Moscow Mitch and the rest of the Radical Right have caught on?
[3 October] Putin's Other Puppy, Ron Johnson, has been re-infected with Covid. The Radical Right is reaping the reward of ignoring the virus and the science of beating it. Good on them.
[5 October] A bit of analysis. Just a bit. The first version using the high-end groups was 6 July. Here is the count for the top three groups that week:
>= 1,000 - 361 100 to 999 - 1,053 25 to 99 - 930
total is 2,214
And here is the count for this week:
>= 1,000 - 259 100 to 999 - 1,379 25 to 99 - 918
total is 2,556
So, in about three months, the high count groups taken together have increased by about 350. And there's about 350 more now in the second place group knocking on the Big Door. Yeah, Covid is in the rearview mirror. (Also note that in August, Topo folks switched to 'current infections'.)
The two major differences over the period (other than the basis for count):
- drop in 1,000+ counties; mostly in the northeast, southwest, and Florida.
- very large increase in second and third group counts running up the center of the country; aka God's Country, aka Red States.
If life goes as it has been, one might reasonably expect the 1,000+ group count to skyrocket over the next two to three weeks. We'll see. Remember, that piece of the USofA has a boat load of rural counties, so if the migration does happen, it will mean that the per capita counts in those counties must be sky high. We'll see about that, too.
Without notice, Blogger decided to up-end the editor such that it eats line breaks, so text ends up one continuous paragraph. There is a work-around I've just found, but it will take some time to fix older posts that happened between the switch and today. Blogger is free to use and worth every penny.
Dear Leader Yo! Semite of Thigh Land keeps banging his own drum that a Covid vaccine will exist before Election Day, as if that day mattered in the scheme (hee hee) of things.
Consider another viral disease from history (we still hope): polio.
Salk's vaccine went into wide distribution [s]oon after Salk's vaccine was licensed in 1955, children's vaccination campaigns were launched. Polio was considered eradicated in the USofA in 1979.
By my notion of arithmetic, that's either 24 or 25 years of use before 'victory' was declared. What a fucking moron with his thumb on the nucular codes.
