Coronavirus

This delta strain sounds like a nightmare.

Ah......nothing to worry about. Our local expert has already stated that these pandemics run their course.

Our local expert has valiantly predicted that ALL pandemics last around 2 years. Nothing to worry about!!

(Sarcasm, Sarcasm. Sarcasm)

The media panicked everyone into wearing double masks, disinfecting their groceries, etc.......Now the media (and governor) wants us to believe its all over..............Is there no moderation anymore? Everything is an absolute it seems...........

Delta variant is real, its HIGHLY contagious. All deaths related to Delta strain have been UNVACCINATED individuals......

[BREAKING]('https://www.forbes.com/news')|Jun 24, 2021,03:44pm EDT|4,327 views
[HEADING=2]99% Of People Killed By Covid Last Month Were Unvaccinated, Analysis Finds[/HEADING]

99% Of People Killed By Covid Last Month Were Unvaccinated, Analysis Finds

[BREAKING]('https://www.forbes.com/news')|Jun 24, 2021,03:44pm EDT|4,327 views
[HEADING=2]99% Of People Killed By Covid Last Month Were Unvaccinated, Analysis Finds[/HEADING]

[99% Of People Killed By Covid Last Month Were Unvaccinated, Analysis Finds]('https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/06/24/99-of-people-killed-by-covid-last-month-were-unvaccinated-analysis-finds/?sh=3bc632ebf049')

In Darwin we trust...

??????

I trust this guy as much as I trust a Politician.

One day, when we look back on the pandemic and what was done right/wrong, Fauci will be one of those people who they will say gave guidance and treaded cautiously while giving the public a sense of reassurance. He was probably too exposed however given the circumstances, it was necessary.

If you didnt trust Fauci, who DID you trust?

I think we are better off for being overly cautious in the beginning of this thing. I said the way we come out of it and open back up is going to be a giant cluster f*^%. It’s going to happen to fast in some areas and too slow in other areas.

A lesson I learned relatively early in life: In some situations you can’t make everyone happy.

The one takeaway I have (as should most people that can think for themselves) is how the media & other individuals at the head of organizations can singlehandedly either report or bury stories based on their political allegiance. When certain people were saying that this thing may have come from a lab it was dismissed almost immediately. Now all of the sudden they need to go back and fact check 2 years later. Good luck finding any evidence.

I trust this guy as much as I trust a Politician.

Make no mistake. He is a politician. He may not be an elected official, but he's definitely a politician.

Why do you guys have to turn everything political?? when you now we dont allow it here

Why do you guys have to turn everything political?? when you now we dont allow it here

Everything these days is Political or racists, depending on what your goal is for the day.

Sad But True, Since that’s how the media wants it and as we know , they always get what they want.

One day, when we look back on the pandemic and what was done right/wrong, Fauci will be one of those people who they will say gave guidance and treaded cautiously while giving the public a sense of reassurance. He was probably too exposed however given the circumstances, it was necessary.

If you didnt trust Fauci, who DID you trust?

You know who

Why do you guys have to turn everything political?? when you now we dont allow it here

Politics infuses everything we do. Even if you wanted to limit it to forum topics, you're still looking at fishing and hunting regulations, funding of reef projects, boating facilities, DEC enforcement, pump out stations, beach driving or whatever else we stumble across. Even the fuel our boats burn to take us fishing or what certifications you suddenly need to operate boats that you've been operating for decades is influenced by politics.

Fully 50% of those inevitable things,... You know,... death and taxes...

are political.

Fully 50% of those inevitable things,... You know,... death and taxes...

are political.

And the other is subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics...

Why do you guys have to turn everything political?? when you now we dont allow it here

Spoken or unspoken it’s all colored by politics
It’s now ingrained in us as a society
You may attempt to control it here but it oozes out of us all with every word every post , maybe not spoken directly but it’s there
No matter what we may think we are no matter what designation we may give ourselves
What we are are how we align is known
So every word every post on any thread is
Colored as such

try as you might to lock it down you’ll fail again

it’s all politics , at least for the near future

get back to us in 15/20 years May change

[HEADING=2]The Best And Worst Places to Be as The World Finally Reopens[/HEADING]
By [Jinshan Hong]('https://twitter.com/hongjinshan'), [Rachel Chang]('https://twitter.com/rachelwqchang') and [Kevin Varley]('https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APpq5l8yD5Q/kevin-varley')
June 28, 2021

THE U.S. RANKS #1 BEST PLACE TO BE POST PANDEMIC
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Almost a year and a half into the pandemic, the best and worst places to be in the Covid-19 era are increasingly defined by one thing: normalization.
The biggest vaccination drive in history is enabling parts of the globe to abolish mask mandates, relax restrictions and dismantle border curbs, making the magnitude of reopening key to quality of life. Taming cases and deaths was once paramount, along with ensuring a robust health-care system. Now, the ability to essentially turn back the clock and return to pre-pandemic times is taking on an even greater significance.
Central to that is an economy’s openness to the world, and that’s why we’ve introduced a new element—Reopening Progress—to Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking. Two new metrics capture the ease of moving in and out of a place and how much air travel has recovered, alongside our 10 other measures tracking mortality rates to infection counts, freedom of movement to economic growth.
This pivot has ushered in dramatic changes to the ranks. The U.S. is now No. 1, with its fast and expansive vaccine rollout, dominated by the highly effective Messenger RNA shots, stemming what was once the world’s worst outbreak.

[HEADING=3]Covid Resilience Ranking[/HEADING]
Get info and sort on table headers ?
[LIST]
[*]

[*]← Worse
[*]

[*]

[*]Better →
[*]
[/LIST]
REOPENING PROGRESSCOVID STATUS ⇣QUALITY OF LIFE ⇣
[TABLE]
[TR]
[TH]RANK[/TH]
[TH]ECONOMY[/TH]
[TH]BLOOMBERG RESILIENCE SCORE[/TH]
[TH]PEOPLE COVERED BY VACCINES[/TH]
[TH]LOCKDOWN SEVERITY[/TH]
[TH]FLIGHT CAPACITY[/TH]
[TH]VACCINATED TRAVEL ROUTES[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]U.S.[/TD]
[TD]76[/TD]
[TD]50.3%[/TD]
[TD]47[/TD]
[TD]-20.1%[/TD]
[TD]334[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]New Zealand[/TD]
[TD]73.7[/TD]
[TD]10.3%[/TD]
[TD]22[/TD]
[TD]-31.3%[/TD]
[TD]140.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Switzerland[/TD]
[TD]72.9[/TD]
[TD]41%[/TD]
[TD]48[/TD]
[TD]-69.9%[/TD]
[TD]365.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Israel[/TD]
[TD]72.9[/TD]
[TD]59.1%[/TD]
[TD]22[/TD]
[TD]-63.7%[/TD]
[TD]134.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]72.8[/TD]
[TD]40.3%[/TD]
[TD]48[/TD]
[TD]-59.3%[/TD]
[TD]346.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]72[/TD]
[TD]41.7%[/TD]
[TD]54[/TD]
[TD]-54.7%[/TD]
[TD]365[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Australia[/TD]
[TD]70.1[/TD]
[TD]14.2%[/TD]
[TD]50[/TD]
[TD]-35.3%[/TD]
[TD]136.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Mainland China[/TD]
[TD]69.9[/TD]
[TD]40.8%[/TD]
[TD]78[/TD]
[TD]1.7%[/TD]
[TD]121.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]U.K.[/TD]
[TD]68.7[/TD]
[TD]57.1%[/TD]
[TD]51[/TD]
[TD]-77.8%[/TD]
[TD]216.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]South Korea[/TD]
[TD]68.6[/TD]
[TD]19.2%[/TD]
[TD]50[/TD]
[TD]-46.4%[/TD]
[TD]137[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]Norway[/TD]
[TD]67.9[/TD]
[TD]36.5%[/TD]
[TD]59[/TD]
[TD]-59.9%[/TD]
[TD]133[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]12[/TD]
[TD]Denmark[/TD]
[TD]67.5[/TD]
[TD]43.2%[/TD]
[TD]50[/TD]
[TD]-73.2%[/TD]
[TD]173.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]Singapore[/TD]
[TD]67[/TD]
[TD]44.1%[/TD]
[TD]58[/TD]
[TD]-83%[/TD]
[TD]137[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]14[/TD]
[TD]Turkey[/TD]
[TD]66.9[/TD]
[TD]28.2%[/TD]
[TD]63[/TD]
[TD]-39.2%[/TD]
[TD]354.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]15[/TD]
[TD]Saudi Arabia[/TD]
[TD]66.9[/TD]
[TD]25.2%[/TD]
[TD]54[/TD]
[TD]-44.2%[/TD]
[TD]349[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]16[/TD]
[TD]Belgium[/TD]
[TD]66.4[/TD]
[TD]45.3%[/TD]
[TD]51[/TD]
[TD]-62.6%[/TD]
[TD]170.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]17[/TD]
[TD]Finland[/TD]
[TD]66.1[/TD]
[TD]38.1%[/TD]
[TD]48[/TD]
[TD]-83.2%[/TD]
[TD]142.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]18[/TD]
[TD]U.A.E.[/TD]
[TD]65.8[/TD]
[TD]70%[/TD]
[TD]61[/TD]
[TD]-59.9%[/TD]
[TD]253[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19[/TD]
[TD]Greece[/TD]
[TD]65.8[/TD]
[TD]36.9%[/TD]
[TD]45[/TD]
[TD]-42.9%[/TD]
[TD]187.5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]20[/TD]
[TD]Romania[/TD]
[TD]65[/TD]
[TD]23.2%[/TD]
[TD]43[/TD]
[TD]-33.2%[/TD]
[TD]371[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
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[HEADING=2]US surpasses Israel in Bloomberg COVID resilience ranking[/HEADING]
[HEADING=2]The United States surged past Israel to take the No. 1 slot this month in Bloomberg’s COVID Resilience Ranking while Israel remains at No. 4.[/HEADING]
By [MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN]('https://www.jpost.com/author/maayan-jaffe-hoffman')
JUNE 28, 2021 18:52

Interesting snippet from a NY Times article today ([Markets Work, but Untangling Global Supply Chains Takes Time]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/upshot/markets-work-but-untangling-global-supply-chains-takes-time.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage')). Bottom line, look for prices to start dropping on items that have surplus manufacturing capacity, so don't be expecting anything that needs computer chips anytime soon. Feel bad for a neighbor who pre-purchased most of the lumber he needed to build his house in May...

***The cure for high prices is high prices.

That’s an old line used in commodity markets, and it helps explain why the great inflation scare of 2021 has [eased some]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/opinion/inflation-economy-biden-fed.html') in recent weeks. When the price of something soars because demand outstrips supply, it has a way of self-correcting. Buyers, scared off by high prices, find other options, and sellers crank up production to take advantage of a profit opportunity.

It is an idea simple enough to be taught in the first few weeks of any introductory economics class, but one with powerful implications for the American economy as it aims for a post-pandemic reboot.

Several of the key products whose prices had soared in the spring have grown less expensive, as producers have increased output and buyers have held tight. This is particularly evident with [lumber]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/business/lumber-price.html'); as of Friday, its price was down 47 percent from its early-May peak (though still well above historical norms). Sawmills responded to soaring prices by pushing the limits of their capacity.***

The prices of corn, copper and a variety of other economically important commodities are also down by double-digit percentages since early May. This supports the notion that the inflation the world has been experiencing is transitory — set to ease in the months ahead as the laws of supply and demand take hold.

[HEADING=2][[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]FDA Adds Warning About Heart Inflammation to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines[/COLOR]]('https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-june-25-2021')[/HEADING]

Stay tuned there will be more side effects and warnings to come

and no I’m not saying that at the end of the day the side effects will be so sever that they outweigh the benefits

simply that we have no idea yet what they will be and that
They will occur

we all must make our own decisions
As to the near and long term risk