COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[Perd Hapley]

Well, I don't tweet, so I'm good there. 

Also, I wouldn't set about pinning it on one party or administration.  Like most problems, our money mischief has been going on a long time with bipartisan support, IMO.

I'm pretty sure we all know there'd less inflation if the Dem's had less power.

[kgbsquirrel]

I'm pretty sure we all know there'd less inflation if the Dem's had less power the United States Dollar was issued by the Treasury not a private for-profit bank, and fractional reserve lending was re-outlawed.

Inflation comes from the inflation of the money supply.  Some things automatically create inflation by their very existence. 

[K Frame]

I was wrong. My company has dropped its mask mandate for vaccinated individuals.

[RoadKingLarry]

Yeah, with the loss/settlement on one of the glyphosaye suits and the current inflation is suspect it is a combination of both factors.

[MillCreek]

This will give you the willies.  The monkey willies, that is.

https://scitechdaily.com/covid-infects-penis-testicles-and-prostate-causes-pain-erectile-dysfunction-reduced-sperm-count/

[sumpnz]

This will give you the willies.  The monkey willies, that is.

https://scitechdaily.com/covid-infects-penis-testicles-and-prostate-causes-pain-erectile-dysfunction-reduced-sperm-count/

1) Most of us on here are dudes.  Many of us have gotten the coof.  Anyone here had any symptoms remotely like described?  I certainly haven’t.

2) What other diseases (especially other coronaviruses and related diseases) cause similar symptoms?

3) What is the incidence of these problems, vs their incidence in the general population?

[Bogie]

Let's see... Tested negative in 2020. No weirdness. Got shots early in 2021... Had two old scars reopen after the second one. One from stepping on a tent pole in my late 20s/early thirties, and one from a recluse bite about 7 years ago.

[Nick1911]

1) Most of us on here are dudes.  Many of us have gotten the coof.  Anyone here had any symptoms remotely like described?  I certainly haven’t.
2) What other diseases (especially other coronaviruses and related diseases) cause similar symptoms?
3) What is the incidence of these problems, vs their incidence in the general population?

I sometimes think results like this are a function of the tremendous amount of research money and effort that has been put against covid, as well as a clear defining line in the sample set from before to after covid.

It would not surprise me if many other diseases have knock-on effects that we just don't know about yet.

[Bogie]

My philosophy?
 
Branch Covidians are gonna have problems.
 
This is a country-wide experiment in paranoid hypochondria, with intense pressure to conform...
 
"Hey baby... I'm an old essential worker who ain't dead yet... Wanna try?"

[Perd Hapley]

Inflation comes from the inflation of the money supply.  Some things automatically create inflation by their very existence.

Why don't you just say what you want to say, instead of pretending it was somehow a contradiction of what I said? Does it bother you that much for someone to point out one difference between the parties? Why?

[kgbsquirrel]

Why don't you just say what you want to say, instead of pretending it was somehow a contradiction of what I said? Does it bother you that much for someone to point out one difference between the parties? Why?

I did say I wanted to say.  Now I will expound.  Neither side of the uniparty is interested in fiscal responsibility.  Asserting one side is responsible for inflation is false in two ways: first it perpetuates the illusion of the two party system, and second it obfuscates the systemic origins of our monetary problems.

So why do you have a problem with my correcting your empirically wrong, political, propaganda-like, drive-by post?  Why did you need to make it personal?

[Perd Hapley]

I did say I wanted to say.  Now I will expound.  Neither side of the uniparty is interested in fiscal responsibility.  Asserting one side is responsible for inflation is false in two ways: first it perpetuates the illusion of the two party system, and second it obfuscates the systemic origins of our monetary problems.

So why do you have a problem with my correcting your empirically wrong, political, propaganda-like, drive-by post?  Why did you need to make it personal?

You are lying about what I said. Why?

Let's see if you can spot the difference between these two statements.

Statement 1: "There is every reason to believe political leaders X, Y, and Z would have done a better job dealing with issue B."

Statement 2: "Political leaders X, Y, and Z have a perfect record on B, and only leaders H, J, and Q are responsible for B."

Statement 1 is a paraphrase of what I said. Why do you want to accuse me of saying 2?

[Nick1911]

Why don't you just say what you want to say, instead of pretending it was somehow a contradiction of what I said? Does it bother you that much for someone to point out one difference between the parties? Why?

I will say that I find it a little tiring and unproductive.  If one party is more fiscally responsible than the other, it's marginal at best.  Politicians like to frame things in a tribal us-vs-them manner as a divide and conquer tactic.  Everything is spun as the fault of the other tribe, always.  I don't think being stuck in this us-vs-them mindset is helpful for thinking clearly about politics.

Are there some values and priorities where the parties are significantly or even directly opposed?  Sure.  This isn't one of them. 

I did say I wanted to say.  Now I will expound.  Neither side of the uniparty is interested in fiscal responsibility.  Asserting one side is responsible for inflation is false in two ways: first it perpetuates the illusion of the two party system, and second it obfuscates the systemic origins of our monetary problems.

Absolutely on point.

[Bogie]

The ballot box is only going to be used to change things  until it becomes apparent that it is broken...

[Ron]

The ballot box is only going to be used to change things  until it becomes apparent that it is broken...

The ballot box hasn't worked in a very long time. Most every major election is fake. The uniparty decides who wins. It appears they weren't completely fabricating the results until the last few election cycles. Trump may not be a good guy but his first election he definitely overwhelmed their ability to flip elections. You better believe they are working on making sure that never happens again. For whatever reason Trump went around pointing out the fakery in a lot of things and they didn't kill him. Fake news, fake elections and fake representatives, the American myth either never was (fake along) or is dead (fake now). 

I saw a meme the other day, "And just like that ... everybody believed the media again..."

Not me

(I know, I'm a real ray of sunshine. Every time I think I should back off the cynicism I learn of some new tidbit regarding the systemic corruption running things)

[RocketMan]

The ballot box is only going to be used to change things  until it becomes apparent that it is broken...

Too late.

[Nick1911]

Chicken nuggets at Costco: $13.99 last time we bought them, $16.99 last month, $19.99 today

[sumpnz]

Chicken nuggets at Costco: $13.99 last time we bought them, $16.99 last month, $19.99 today

Should post that on WSB.  The redditards would melt down over inflation in their chickie nuggies.

[Jim147]

Chicken nuggets at Costco: $13.99 last time we bought them, $16.99 last month, $19.99 today

I wonder if that includes the bird flu effects or is just inflation.

[Andiron]

The ballot box is only going to be used to change things  until it becomes apparent that it is broken...

Ms. Wolfe said it best, a long time ago: “America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

[Perd Hapley]

I did say I wanted to say.  Now I will expound.  Neither side of the uniparty is interested in fiscal responsibility.  Asserting one side is responsible for inflation is false in two ways: first it perpetuates the illusion of the two party system, and second it obfuscates the systemic origins of our monetary problems.

Absolutely on point.

Or it might be, if he wouldn't insist he was contradicting what I said. That's why I suggested he speak his piece without involving me.

[Perd Hapley]

I will say that I find it a little tiring and unproductive.  If one party is more fiscally responsible than the other, it's marginal at best.  Politicians like to frame things in a tribal us-vs-them manner as a divide and conquer tactic.  Everything is spun as the fault of the other tribe, always.  I don't think being stuck in this us-vs-them mindset is helpful for thinking clearly about politics.

Are there some values and priorities where the parties are significantly or even directly opposed?  Sure.  This isn't one of them. 

This comment makes a lot less sense when you remember that it was kgbsquirrel who started the argument. All I initially said was a boilerplate joke about "mean tweets." Was that really such a trenchant argument for two-party tribalism that the two of you had to veer the whole thread into uniparty talk? Who's being more "tiring and unproductive" here?

[Ron]

This comment makes a lot less sense when you remember that it was kgbsquirrel who started the argument. All I initially said was a boilerplate joke about "mean tweets." Was that really such a trenchant argument for two-party tribalism that the two of you had to veer the whole thread into uniparty talk? Who's being more "tiring and unproductive" here?

So what you are really saying is you deny there is a uniparty? 

[Nick1911]

This comment makes a lot less sense when you remember that it was kgbsquirrel who started the argument. All I initially said was a boilerplate joke about "mean tweets." Was that really such a trenchant argument for two-party tribalism that the two of you had to veer the whole thread into uniparty talk? Who's being more "tiring and unproductive" here?

Nope, I was good with that.  And noted it wouldn't be a "mean tweet" because I wouldn't do the standard "nastiness towards the current administration" thing that the left likes to decry as "mean tweets", because I don't see it that way.  This is what you meant be "mean tweet", correct?  The hypocrisy of the left when people start calling their guys out?

You countered that point of view, kgb joined in, we had a discussion, and here we are.

[kgbsquirrel]

So what you are really saying is you deny there is a uniparty? 

I mean that's all I'm getting out from it. 

Nick: our money problems are bipartisan and deep
Perd: but there'd be less inflation if we had less blue team
Me: teams don't really exist, that isn't the origin of the money problem, saying such provides cover for the money problem
Perd: Rrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!