Mom (85) at assisted living in NY, where infection rates are way down + vaxx rates among nation's highest.
New email from Med Chief: fully vaccinated resident tested positive for Covid-19. Facility back on quarantine protocols.
Likely source: Unvaccinated adult family member.
Those who opposed lockdowns saying "stay home if you are scared of the virus, let us live our lives" are now actively putting others at risk by refusing to get vaccinated
COVID-19 is dropping where people are being vaccinated more heavily, rising where they are not.
Seems like a big overlap between people who said private businesses don’t have to serve a gay couple a wedding cake but ignore rights of private businesses who want to protect their employees and reputations by requiring vaccines to come into the office.
"We don't know the long term side effects" of the vaccine
But we DO KNOW the current risk from Covid: It is very dangerous, deadly, and those who survive are at greater risk from long-haul symptoms, vascular and neurological diseases.
Do the risk vs reward analysis
More than 2.39 billion doses have been given in 178 countries around the world. In the USA, 311 million doses have been given.
How much more proof do you need this is safe & effective relative to the risks of contracting Covid?
"The entire concept behind “bashing forecasters” isn’t simply to suggest one forecast is more valuable than another, but rather, to point out the futility of using forecasts as a basis for making investment decisions."
"The probability is 100% that the markets for 13 of the world’s largest GDP ranked countries, including the US, reached their post-crash highs from Friday June 5, 2020 to Monday June 8, 2020."
I don't want to bash any specific analyst or trader; there are always 100s of examples of this.
Look at financial publication in December + January - they are filled with predictions, the vast majority of which - mostly extrapolation or wild ass guesses - end up being wrong
• 1992-2006, >75% of all day-traders quit w/i 2 years
• Negative Aggregate performance of all traders over 15-years.
• Only 1 out of 100 day traders earned profits over time
What's so pernicious from a trader's perspective is: YOU CAN MAKE MONEY DAY-TRADING!!! but the odds are you will give it back plus most of your starting capital. Greed only sees the all-caps teaser while ignoring the lower-case reality.
See this US example:
Individual investors pay a tremendous performance penalty for active trading. From 1991 to 1996, of 66,465 household with discount brokerage trading accounts, those trading the most earned 11.4%/year vs 17.9% for the market's returns
Shafiroff refined various phone-selling techniques (straight line, the first trade, the trust close). These were published for the 1st time in “Successful Telephone Selling in the ’80s” and subsequent editions (’90s, etc.)