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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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How about if they get out of pharma’s back pocket and use the monoclonal meds like Florida? No one seems to like their success story, and hospitals like Edwards in Naperville fight any alternative treatments. Albert Einstein’s quote hits the mark everytime: It is truly insanity to keep trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.”
What exactly are you saying? You do understand that mAbs are made by Pharma as well and the profit margins on these products are massive compared to the margins on vaccines? They would much rather sell you a $2100 infusion than a $30 shot. Illinois also uses mAbs as well so not sure how we should be like Florida. So the crux of your complaint is that Edward hospital doesn’t want to use Ivermectin? “It is truly insanity to keep trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.” All of the controlled studies show that Ivermectin… Read more »
“All of the controlled studies show that Ivermectin is inconclusive in terms of efficacy…” Maybe you have not seen any of the 67 studies summarized at https://c19ivermectin.com/, which indicate that it’s helpful, tho a few other drugs might be better. And in practice, combinations prescribed by knowledgeable unconstrained physicians are likely to do best.
“118 additional deaths could have been avoided in the spring of 2021 if the least vaccinated group of Chicagoans had the same access to vaccines as the most vaccinated group.” This is probably true but not for the reasons they think. Early in the distribution phase, our state and city governments were purposely racists and distributed the vax based on skin color and zip code and not based on risk demographics. That hunger games type atmosphere, where my own white elderly parents were competing against healthy BIPOC 40 year olds, because JB is a racists, surely caused death of elderly… Read more »
I generally oppose racism, but in this case — assuming that the vax is actually beneficial — I think it’d be reasonable to prioritize vaxing Black people, who tend to have lower levels of vitamin D (see, for instance, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32869845/). Of course it would be even better, and cheaper, to just distribute (and promote) vitamin D and a few other helpful supplements to everyone, but that wouldn’t fit the narrative.
“Vaccine hesitancy” is higher in some neighborhoods than others, and the study’s conclusions are subject to that limitation.
But he didn’t lower the age thresh hold because of Vit. D., he did so he could say that vaccine distribution was done with social justice. And if a few elderly 75+ republican voters die because of the delay resulting from this social justice, well, it’s a win-win for the IL Democrat Party, right? And no one in the media would dare say anything bad about JB right, that $100,000,000 campaign is coming up next year and it would be a shame if [insert outlet here] reported something bad about JB. Notice how JB hasn’t had a scandal yet in… Read more »