Kbg wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:26 pm

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/c ... d-by-state

Thanks for posting this. It's a great site with a lot of details that I had not seen elsewhere. Alas, there's an announcement on the site that today (3/7/21) is the last day that they will be collecting data. Again, thanks.

What I find completely baffling is how many seem incapable of changing viewpoints as evidence comes in. What I think is relatively clear from the evidence. Masks and lockdowns do work and were implemented even in heavy red states when things got out of control For the large majority, COVID ranged f...

Not to hijack mathjak's day trading thread too much but I think Insurance Guy has the right dates for that max drawdown. kbg, is the 29% real or nominal? I think that IG is correct that it was less than 29% in nominal terms (haven''t looked at the granular data in ages), but we can't forget that inf...

I was curious to look into this as I have seen for months that Covid doesn't seem to be nearly as bad in sub-Sahara Africa as it is in Europe and the U.S.. Africa has a much younger population than the US and Europe: Median age of 19.7 compared to 38.1 and 42.5, respectively. Age is the biggest ris...

On the narrative of Covid being worse for Blacks and Latinos... I have heard this virtually non-stop in recent months and never bothered to check the numbers online. Here's what I found with a quick google search: As of 2019, here is the distribution of the U.S. population by race and ethnicity: Whi...

Here in CT the vaccine has been available to those 65 and over since about 2/8. And this timeline was just announced by the governor: Residents age 55 and older, as well as teachers, will be eligible beginning March 1, according to the state’s new plan. Those groups will be followed by residents age...

My friend lives a mile down the street from me. He is 70 and has cancer. He told me that when he recently checked he is not in the top category in Massachusetts to get the vaccine. The top category is those over 75 plus others. That's just horrible. And in a Blue state too. Vinny, Your friend might...

An interesting look by zdogg who is my first source for information https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAqW2uyMDj0 Thanks for posting this. It should be noted that the video is from almost three months ago. I really wonder if the successes of small island nations like Iceland, New Zealand, Singapore, Ta...

mathjak107 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:31 am

I don’t have to look at his lying egocentric face anymore

Must you always sugar coat everything, MJ?

Thanks for posting this, Vil. Maybe this thread should be re-titled to read "What Bridgewater Thinks of Bitcoin". It's a really in depth piece and I would think a must read for anyone who holds gold as a portion of their portfolio. There are lots of references to "digital gold" and the possibility t...

dualstow wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:49 pm

Oh yeah! Pay attention to dates, too.

At first glance I thought this was a reference to the “bad dates” scene from the first Indiana Jones movie!

Mountaineer wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:43 am

I'm up to about half a dozen in the category now, add them to the list.

Damn, that's rough. Were most of them elderly, Moutaineer? It's very sobering to think that you have lost so many.

When this started, we were saying we don’t know anyone who knows anyone who died. That has changed. Right. I had two business acquaintances who died from "COVID complications". Ages 70 & 58. Don't know the extent of their comorbidities. Mathjak and his wife continue to have had a rough time even se...

dualstow, do you carry any extra body weight? As others have mentioned, that can be the cause of sleep apnea. I don't suffer from it myself (I have myriad other sleep issues which are not solved by Mark's easy five-step program), but I do know someone who only gets sleep apnea when his weight goes a...

I am diabetic and actually have gotten the levels down to prediabetic and eat low carb ...it didn’t help me or my wife at all with covid Could it be that although you both had a tough journey with COVID, you had better outcomes in part because of eating low carb? I mean, you both may have done much...

I'm always trying to temper your drive to get married soon, but I will say there is one good thing about having someone sleep next to you. Even when paralyzed, I can breathe, so if I'm aware that I’m stuck in S.P., I start breathing loudly and rapidly, she shakes me awake, and I snap out of it. If ...

We are in a 7 story building so the stairs are my exercise machine Good to hear that you are both moving in a good direction. I had almost forgotten how good NYC apartment stairs are for legs and lungs. When living there I also got in at least four long flights of stairs in subway stations each day...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:27 am

Which got me talking last night --- there will never be a snow day ever again in schools! Just go to Zoom for the day. Interesting how things change.

The dog ate my computer.

MJ, how are you and your wife faring with your COVID recoveries? Are your lungs and stamina coming back?

You guys are worry warts. This becomes another flu shot, no lockdowns. My opinion. That's certainly what should happen. But I guess we'll see how the media decides to spin new viruses going forward. I predict summer. I also am somewhat perplexed -- you know, all the people who said Corona would "di...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/right_on_schedule_covid_pivots_for_biden.html From that article: "The New York Times knew about the overly sensitive COVID PCR test last summer, reporting that 90 percent of patients testing positive “carried barely any virus” based on cycle threshol...

Gosh, what a saga you've been through with your wife. I feel the same as Vinny... that your experience with the virus has made me more cautious. Hope you both continue to improve and that you can eventually get back close to 100%.

You guys are turning this political! O0 O0 O0 Someone mentioned Angus King, the independent senator from Maine, interview on 60 minutes. I just watched it. Goddamn I wish we had 100 of him in the senate. I think that Angus King is the Cortopassi of the Senate! Seriously, I don't get how posters on ...

I was about to inquire about your health as well but, alas, Vinny is quicker than I (a result of playing with taller basketball players?).

Good to hear that you and your wife are making progress, mathjak. It must feel good to be home!

Vinny, Regarding your post above, I wonder if the better behavior in the NBA has anything to do with better behavior in leagues like yours regardless of race. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the NBA was a pretty rough place with the Pistons beating up people on their way to a couple of titles and the ...