COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

[Gilead]

“Many in the health industry are completely abandoning their career path in favor of something completely different. We are seeing nurses and doctors apply at travel agencies, for example, and just the other day we saw a resume from a NASA data analyst who was willing to work as a plumber or an electrician as long as the employer respected their values and their bodily autonomy.” Companies use unvaccinated workers to fight labor shortage

[Mark Rippetoe]

Yes, insurers are interested in long-term effects of COVID. They still have not changed their pricing based on policies. And, they are unlikely to find anything significant in that department: The Myth of ‘Long COVID’ - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Fascinating:

What if you knew that the overwhelming majority of these sufferers never had a positive antigen test to indicate present COVID infection or an antibody test to show past infection? What if you knew that just as hospitals were paid bonuses to declare cases as COVID rather than any number of other potential causes of death, the U.S. government is paying a bounty to researchers to pontificate on “Long COVID”?

And what if you knew the demographic profile for sufferers of acute COVID is vastly different from that of so-called “long-haulers”? Acute COVID (normally lasting about one to four weeks) is essentially a disease of the elderly and hits males and blacks harder than females and whites. “Long COVID” is overwhelmingly a disease of white middle-aged females.

What if you also knew that those “Long COVID” demographics, even according to those who insist this is definitely COVID-related, happen to match those of previous somatoform diseases (even if it’s become not just un-PC but a career-killer to say so) such as “multiple chemical sensitivity” and “fibromyalgia encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” and that indeed even these syndromes appear to have been identified well over a century ago?

Finally, what if you knew that far from doing sufferers a favor by misclassifying their symptoms we’re actually dooming them to perhaps a lifetime of suffering because just as there’s no cure to the above somatoform diseases there will never be a cure to “Long COVID,” leaving these people forever in despair sometimes, as with Dawson’s Creek writer Heidi Ferrer who took her own life in May after what her husband called “an unremitting battle with long-haul COVID-19.” She was 50 years old.

[Barry Charles]

Barry, I think this can also be used for direction to finding the "who's".

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John Hopkins University gets a crazy lot of funding to do such war game studies. Such vast stones are inextricable from political influence. Is the tail wagging the dog? It’s amusing that the pg68 Malone reference gets a lot right but inverts the politics 180 degrees, having the Republicans embellishing the fictional pandemic for profit and using social media for fueling conspiracy .Being it was published in 2016/2017 it seems in the ballpark and timing of Russian Collusion fraud.

That’s fairly meaty.

[David.Lewis]

It is usually compelling to put these odds into a larger context. How do they compare to other popular ways to die? (An actuary's assessment of "popular" would be very interesting.)

Most of that stuff is readily available on the Internet. You should read Pete's blog. He has an entire section devoted to COVID-19.

I don't know that there is a popular way to die. Most people don't like dying.

[Buddy Rich]

What's just happened is incredible.

There was never a plausible prosecution case here without provocation. Nobody can see what the prosecution claims the video shows without the crime lab "expert" selecting a still and doing his twenty hours of "enhancements" that he can't explain.

Prosecutors roll out this testifying bullshit to make bogus cases all the time. Armstrong was about to break down on the stand because he absolutely knew he tampered with the evidence and thought he was caught.

 First, the jury asked for 11 more copies of the pages of the jury instructions that discuss self-defense (including provocation). Now the jury wants to see the video again, and there's only one possible reason for that: heated disagreement over whether or not the video shows what the prosecution says it shows. They do understand the legal issue here, but aren't aware of the full extent of how much the prosecution has screwed with them.

[David A. Rowe]

Insurance companies need only look at one thing: average age of mortality (and maybe a gross distribution by age). From there it's a simple calculation of does the cost of being wrong exceed the cost of doing the work to change the policies for all of your customers.

Apologies, Mr. Lewis. That was both a bit tongue-in-cheek. I want to say either life insurance or another large independent data set was discussed several thousand pages back, and I expressed interest in sourcing those for more accurate data than what was collected by PCR testing and death reporting. That was way back when I was still interested in seroprevalence.

Excellent and robust information from you, though. I enjoyed the read.

[David A. Rowe]

“Many in the health industry are completely abandoning their career path in favor of something completely different. We are seeing nurses and doctors apply at travel agencies, for example, and just the other day we saw a resume from a NASA data analyst who was willing to work as a plumber or an electrician as long as the employer respected their values and their bodily autonomy.” Companies use unvaccinated workers to fight labor shortage

That hit a lot closer to home than I thought.

[wal]

Yes, insurers are interested in long-term effects of COVID. They still have not changed their pricing based on policies. And, they are unlikely to find anything significant in that department: The Myth of ‘Long COVID’ - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

David long term effects occur with respiratory illnesses and just about any other you can name. It depends on the persons general health at the time they become ill, their age or their living conditions and the treatment if any they get. If you are a smoker your lungs are already comprised, if you are like me and worked in an environment of dust and fumes and potential asbestos (which I had to have 12 monthly lung tests) and you get a repository illness you will suffer long term effects, to say there are no long term effects from a covid infection is just plain nonsense. All it does is perpetuate the idea that covid is a myth. As I said on this forum numerous times I have been in places where tuberculosis is endemic and with this disease which damages the lungs and you get covid your life expectancy or quality of life if you survive is pretty poor.

[Matt Jackson]

"Covid-19" was cooked up by the Chinese - not as a bioweapon a such, more a political/economic weapon as they understood and pre-empted how our liberal democratic societies would behave. This psy-op has forced the hand of Western central banks, who had hoped they could continue the debt charade for a while longer. The fallout from decades of unearned borrowed wealth will be blamed on Covid-19, the idiotic public will eat it up and the bankers will get away with murder.

[Gilead]

FDA Asks Federal Judge to Grant it Until the Year 2076 to Fully Release Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Data - by Aaron Siri - Injecting Freedom