Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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Screamer
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And the media just constantly blaming him for everything. Over here we had a passing news story on California's bush fires being the worst ever. Yet I remember the coverage of them a year or two back being focussed around Trump.
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Without Trump using a Twitter account, these people don’t have anything interesting to talk about. Though, the worst part is that they’re being sneaky about hiding information that makes Hunter Biden look like an actual criminal.
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"Calm down, he's only been in office for a year, he hasn't had time to do everything he's going to do yet. Look at what he's inherited."
"Calm down, he's only been in office for two years, and the midterms are coming up. If we lose the House/Senate, that's the end of it."
"Calm down, he's only been in office for three years, and he's got to worry about reelection. Don't tell me that you want the other side to win?"
"Well, at least we can say that he did his best. You see what happens when you constantly question and challenge, nothing gets done. Fall in line next time."
The song might be slightly different each time, but the beat's always the same.
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It is overly complicated and as Gehanna has pointed out ad nauseam, Democrats can't see two steps ahead. That indeed, the bills come due far faster than what Dems reckon.
Unfortunately energy independence even doing renewables would require an educated and competent blue collar workforce which would terrify the fucking shit out of the elites.
So no, Biden won't get us to energy independence but he also can't shut the sector down completely either. We will just have this malaise caused by schizophrenic policy that has been the way of doing things for decades now.
Hunter is the gift that keeps on giving. God. I look forward to the Biden presidential library that will make Dick Cheney look transparent. (Rumor being Dick Cheney shredded official documents that were required to be kept so where ever his historical records are you some piles of shredded paper.)
Is it Blockchain? I'm guessing they are going to use Blockchain because they are "hip" and "it's what the cool kids are using". "How do you do fellow kids. Do you like this cyberpunk Dystopia that we have created where you have to scan your vaccination card to use vending machines? It is the bees knees, I tell you what."
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You keep doing this, so let me interject. GehEnna not GehAnna.
Garm
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I will put it on a post it note
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I think just keeping it in mind would work. You did it so frequently and reliably I can only assume you misread it once and never thought to read it again. I think I have done it with like... half the people here. Hell I STILL think of @Compositesludge as CompostSlug.
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Personally, I think that Joe Biden wants to have sexual intercourse with pre-pubescent girls.
Compositesludge
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It's wild, but you'd think he'd do something proactive with it? Say that the situation proves that we need to invest more in renewables so we don't get another predicament like this in the future, instead of quietly trying to rally OPEC. Heck, that might really get them to try lowering prices, if they believe we're seriously searching for alternative solutions. I dunno, I'm admittedly spit-balling this.
No worries! It's especially weird in my case because the e at the end of "Compositesludge" gets cut off. I honestly mostly remember your name only because I have an interest in theology and love diving a bit deeper into my informal Biblical studies. And while I'm at it, I have read every post Salubrious has made here in the voice of Frieza from Dragonball Z Abridged. It's amazing.
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The problem with renewables is that the U.S. is simply too damn big. There is no real one-size-fits-all solution that would work across our nation. We'd need to invest in a dozen separate items to research, develop, produce, and eventually manufacture. We simply don't have the spare cash to do that without cutting back -something- big.
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The multiple solutions approach then raises the fact that novel solutions face novel problems. For example, the wear and tear on those giant windmills popping up all over is so bad that they're expected to only have a lifespan of 15 years, when they were sold on 30 year lifespan, essentially doubling the cost per kWh.
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Correct. In the end what the U.S. is going to -have- to do is buy the base technology off countries that mostly figured it out for their specific case, then adapt and develop it into a more general use form, which it will then sell to the rest of the world. We have a long history of doing this for a variety of technologies related to infrastructure since the U.S. has basically every form of major ecology issue inside its borders.
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Sekirodiealot
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Denialsim ar it's finest
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Because COVID causes massive amounts of excess deaths, even with nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g. masks, social distancing, lockdowns, closure of businesses). It has significantly reduced life expectancy in developed nations. Hospitals in multiple states are being overwhelmed with unvaccinated COVID patients.
Vaccines typically don't lead to repeat customers, even the ones that require a booster every now and then. Lifestyle diseases create repeat customers. Acute illness creates large short term profits, and often convert the patient into a repeat customer. Getting a shot 2-3 times, or even annually, isn't a big deal, even spread across the entire population.
Here's some numbers. According to my EOB, my pharmacy billed $75 for my first COVID shot. Let's say that's $25 for the pharmacy and $50 for the vaccine manufacturer. Assume it becomes a three-dose schedule in the post-pandemic era. This is far from a certainty, but I don't want to be accused of painting Big Pharma in an unreasonably good light. Now vaccinate every man, woman, and child in the United States. The actual population eligible for vaccination is smaller, but we'll use the whole population to keep things simple later on:
$50 * 3 * 332620895 = $49,893,134,250
To keep things simple, we'll assume Pfizer is the only manufacturer of COVID vaccines. Their profit margin is about 30%, so they made about $15 billion. From that point forward, only newborns and possibly immigrants would get vaccinated. The US population grew by 941,061 over the past year, so the next year's revenue would be about:
$50 * 3 * 941061 = $141,159,150
With the same profit margin, they're pocketing $42,347,745. Compared to Pfizer's other products, that's a drop in the bucket.
How much would the medical industry make without a COVID vaccine? To keep things fair, we'll pretend everyone gets it at once, and we have the medical capacity to treat them. About 1.9% of confirmed SARS-CoV-2-Delta cases are hospitalized. Each day of hospitalization costs about $2607. I don't know if that's applicable to the current variant of COVID and/or ICU stays, but it's late and I want to keep things simple. Length of stay varies between those who live and those who die: If you live, it's a little over a week; if you die, it's typically over 10 days. To keep things simple, we'll say all hospitalized patients get out--one way or another--after 7 days.
332620895 * 0.019 * $2607 * 7 = $115,329,975,544.25
Running the same analysis for the year-to-year increase in population:
941061 * 0.019 * $2607 * 7 = $326,295,021.59
If you expose everyone in the US to COVID, the hospitalization costs alone are over $100 billion up front and $326M annually thereafter. And that's with some generous assumptions (and one that was not generous). This estimate does not include health care for those who aren't hospitalized, lost productivity, child and elder care, long term health care costs, the economic effects of many people dying at once, the effects of delayed or canceled medical procedures, etc. Or the knock-on effects of all that illness, such as the sudden dearth of Gatorade.
Under the universal vaccination scenario, the number of hospitalizations isn't zero, but it's quite small. Whether your concern is people making money off COVID or reducing the cost of COVID, you should be in favor of universal vaccination.
"But Standardized Profile," you say. "What about
The most promising results for ivermectin were faked. Other research shows it may have only marginal benefits or none (31m 40s) at all. I guess the next wonder drugs are fluvoxamine and fenofibrate, but there's hardly any research on those. We'll see what they do.
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We need nuclear. Shit like solar and wind - when they're not causing birds to drop dead or fucking up the ecosystems of deserts - take a lot of unsavory processes to make. Rare earth metals aren't called that because they're clean, easy, and efficient to get.
1: They do when they say that you need to get the shot/series of shots every 3-6 months.
2: It's not a vaccine.
Eugh. First off:
Second, with shit like this:IT!DOESN'T!
It's pretty fucking clear that this is about money. Not protecting anyone. That's even before getting into nightmare shit like this:
Fully vaccinated man dies of COVID-19, daughter says he was cautious
Vaccines are not 100 percent effective.thehill.com
- A woman’s fully vaccinated father died from COVID-19.
- Doctors said the condition of the father could have been worse if he was not vaccinated at all.
- The father was mostly indoors and wore a mask, his surviving daughter said.
So do spare me the attempt to sell me on the equivalent of letting big pharma and the government brutally fuck me in the ass with a cactus so they can make a profit off of my health and safety, thanks.
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Hell, I am skeptical off about half the shit you put here. but even ignoring -all- of it, the vaccine does jack and shit for the "Delta Variant", making the prior one -actually useless-.
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It was proven to be fucking useless anyway, or does nobody remember the 50 some-odd asshats from Texas who were all jabbed and caught it?
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The best part is that the HCQ study quoted is one of those that doesn't include all the parts of the treatment, in this case it's just about using HCQ and AZ, no mention of Zinc. AZ is just to deal with opportunistic secondary bacterial infections. It's actually Zinc doing the work, HCQ is a Zinc ionophore. But don't just take my word for it.
Every time with these people, every time it's a study that doesn't use the actual treatment people are recommending. Or uses it on people too far gone to benefit. Of course it doesn't work if you don't do it right.
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