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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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Ivermectin is a noble prize winning drug, but they say it is “unproven” for the current virus. However, the government is completely willing to inject millions with a exploratory vax instead that has some clear, documented, and potentially serious side effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/
Reducing a statistical population analysis to age and race or any single attribute is of dubious value. Many other attributes must be considered. Also the base statistics are inflated to begin with as hospitals were incentivized to call everything Covid, at the expense of actually having a place to even document in the record other health problems of each individual. The statistical analysis of Covid will go on for years down many paths, the truth will not lie in one big number, but in many sets of common comorbidities and patient weaknesses outside the virus. There will be many “truths”,… Read more »
Dead on, James, and very well said.
Statisticians, help me out here. We know that obesity and age are both risk factors for serious illness/death from COVID. So wouldn’t it be important to note how much overlap there is between the elderly/obese/unvaccinated? Really puzzling to me. Why is it only reported how much higher death rates are among unvaccinated? Have they held other risk factors constant to isolate only unvaccinated as a factor?
The question should be is why are obese people more susceptible to getting more serious Covid. What is it that affects obese people more? I spoke to my doctor a while back about blood pressure and diabetes and people who are obese and she said that there are very large people who you would think have horrible blood work numbers and they are all in the good range. 300 lb people who have perfect blood sugar/no hypertension or any major health problems while others have perfect weight but have many health problems and are on a lot of meds. No… Read more »
Breakthrough deaths are instances where individuals who are fully vaccinated die from COVID-19 or complications due to the coronavirus. As of Jan. 12, 2022, IDPH reported 1,844 breakthrough deaths out of more than 7.8 million Illinois residents who’ve been vaccinated — a miniscule 0.024%. That leaves nearly 27,000 COVID-19 deaths among roughly 5 million Illinois residents who have not been fully vaccinated or 0.537% — a figure more than 22 times higher than the one for vaccinated residents. This article is misinformation using faulty statistical analysis. The author can’t compare pre-vax death rates to post-vax death rates because everyone was… Read more »
The vax does almost nothing from what I can see. But, that matters not. What matters is that the good citizens are propagandized to believe it works. And the propaganda works so well that folks will say “see the vax works, I didn’t get covid from my vaxed (and boosted) significant other.” Seen it happened a dozen times since Christmas.
The vax does seem to reduce the likelihood of a case progressing from mild to severe in high risk populations and somewhat reduces it in lower risk populations. This is what the evidence seems to show. There are fewer vaccinated people in hospitals than unvaxxed despite being a larger % of the population. This is the truth (not like JBs lies that is almost totally unvaxxed hospitalized). The vaccine has all sorts of other issues but these days high risk people should take the vax I hate to admit. Access to regeneron or other antibodies is not guaranteed because of… Read more »
Yes. Vax or vent in Blue states is absolutely true. Sadly a vent is unlikely to save you. Too late. I can speak from my own tragic family experiences. The USA medical protocols and “system” for COVID ignored early therapeutics, including ivermectin (which ended the pandemic in India) and HCQ. And before anyone disagrees there is substantial evidence now from clinical trials all over the world that say so. More are ongoing now, and surprise surprise even some USA RCT’s have started on Ivermectin use. We all know why: Follow the Money. Big Pharma. Fauci etc. Its criminal and a… Read more »
I read another comment elsewhere that nearly every action the Democrat establishment makes can be easily explained by TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). Money is a motivating factor in one direction or another but the reason they don’t do theraputics is because of TDS! Trump strongly pushed for early treatment theraputic so the establishment was against it! Pfizer was right there along with them. Other countries around the world don’t have an establishment with TDS so they get ivermectin.
I understand the data may show one thing or another. Here is the thing though. What I see with my own eyes is not the same as the data. Vaxers I know we’re just as sick as the unvaxed I know and for just as long sometimes longer. Scientists are just as easily bought as politicians apparently.