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Ben Hunt Profile picture
@EpsilonTheory
Aug 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Not sure I have the words to describe how screwed up our PPE distribution is in this country, or what a betrayal it is for our gov't to support this system of personal greed and corporate ambivalence in trade for campaign photo ops.

But I’m gonna try. epsilontheory.com/the-grifters-c…
Mississippi announced today that it has 179 "active Covid outbreaks" in long-term care facilities.

What is the failure of our PPE distribution system?

This.
Florida (271) and Georgia (122) reporting record Covid deaths today, Alabama (50) and Tennessee (38) second highest days on record.

West (CA and AZ) improving. South deteriorating. Rural counties particularly hard hit.
25 states reported 10 or more Covid deaths today. That's never happened before. A month ago it was 10-12 states.

This is the new Covid normal ... the disease is now endemic in the United States, meaning that it's unlikely to spike from here, but also unlikely to decline rapidly.

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Feb 25
How does gov’t policy create inflation?

Eversource (ES), the publicly-traded company with a monopoly over most of Connecticut’s electricity supply, is raising its rates by 19% on May 1.

Reason? To recoup losses on required purchase of carbon-free power.

But there’s a twist!
CT requires Eversource to buy electricity from Millstone, the state’s last nuclear power plant, at a fixed price.

Eversource sells this electricity back to the grid.

When nat gas prices are high, like after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company makes a profit on this.
But when nat gas prices are low Eversource takes a loss, which they may recoup from customers by price hikes.

The lower the price of nat gas, the higher the cost of electricity to Connecticut residents.

I am not making this up.
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Feb 10
This widespread idea that MSM coverage of Ukraine is dominated by pro-Ukraine propaganda-ish ‘reporting’ is wrong.

And we can prove it with our Fiat News monitors.

epsilontheory.com/useful-idiots/

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This is the absolute level of MSM usage of propaganda-ish terms and rhetorical constructions. High since the invasion, and remains elevated (which is unusual).

But it’s not dominated by pro-Ukraine content. Image
In fact, ‘leftist’ MSM like the NYT gives a LOT more coverage to Putin’s rationales for the Ukraine invasion than Fox and Breitbart and the like.
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Dec 14, 2023
BTW, the NBER paper that Stancil and his Renfields love to cite clearly shows that real wages are lower today than they were pre-pandemic. For women it's the same and for men it's lower.

The economic discontent isn't just vibes. It's lower real wages.
nber.org/system/files/w…

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To 'rescue' the vibecession narrative and avoid the unthinkable (that real wages increased under Trump and fell under Biden), a new graphic was created from the NBER dataset that appears nowhere in the original. We are told that we have 'returned to trend' in real wage growth. Image
This is an example of a perfectly fine (I guess) NBER paper trying to show wage compression post-pandemic that has been pressed into Yay, Bidenomics! service by the Stancil/Wolfers crowd for far more sweeping claims than it ever intended or can reasonably support.
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Jun 19, 2023
You think I’m not angry? I am beyond angry … AT THE VIRUS.

The *virus* killed two of my best friends along with ONE MILLION other Americans.

The *virus* inflicted 2+ years of brutal, life-diminishing decisions on every American family - yours and mine alike. Image
AND our institutions - all of them! - utterly failed to protect American citizens.

Trump was a disaster. Biden is bad. The FDA and CDC were incompetent and politically captured. MSM and Congress were a joke. The worst of all was Fauci.

epsilontheory.com/first-the-peop…
AND a well-fitted N95 or equivalent mask is *very* effective personal protection against Covid, thanks to the electrostatic properties of its textiles.

AND the cloth mask theater promulgated by govt officials was bullshit.
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Jun 18, 2023
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Apr 1, 2023
I can’t remember the last time I found something quirky and cool on Twitter, something that made me laugh or gave me a sense of wonder.
Instead I find that I’ve been molded into a rage engagement machine, triggered by norepinephrine into a reflexively combative stance against a literally constant and literally promoted stream of media Renfields.
My wife’s a dancer, and we were talking tonight about the concepts of ‘grounding’ and ‘full-breathing’ that are the source of a dancer’s most authentic and powerful artistic expressions.
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