Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Villanueva's a fraud so I take all of this with a grain of salt.

 

Oh it ain't a half-a-dozen, that's for sure.

Also a little "fun" with numbers there. If you don't watch out, your mind'll play tricks on you.

My linked graph (and there may be way better sources for the relevant data) shows the percentage of units with rent paid up-to-date. Let's say in a given month in a given year that percentage is 90%. If in the same month the next year the unpaid percentage increases 10%, the paid percentage will decrease by only 1.1%.

 

My friends, a debate between @doctorquant and @The Big Ragu is the Ali-Frazier of this “board.”

They are both crazy smart.

You cannot argue with this!

 

The anti-vaxxers are already at it.

 

I heard something on the radio this morning there might be complications for those with severe allergies.

 

This is worrisome.

 

Yeah, I mean I'm joyed by the daily vaccine news as well, but maybe a few more reps before this thing is game-ready.

 

Speaking as someone with a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction to, of all things, Brazil nuts (easy to avoid, thank goodness), this news does not bring joy. I have never had an allergic reaction to a vaccine of any kind, however (shingles, flu shot, measles, polio, etc.)

 

It is totally normal for a small percentage of people to have allergic reactions to a vaccine. In the Pfizer Phase III trial, some sort of allergic reaction was found in 0.6% of the vaccine group and 0.5% of the trial group that got a previously-vetted vaccine.

The reports I've seen did not say how severe the reaction was, just that they had an adverse reaction.

This is exactly the kind of thing I've been warning about, where as soon as the vaccines come out, things will happen that will lead to headlines that are technically true but give people a false impression.

Guess what: in the coming weeks, some people who have been vaccinated will die (especially because we will be vaccinating long-term care patients first and they tend to be very old), and there will probably be a report about it. "Government probes deaths of vaccine recipients" will be a completely factual headline, even if there's no reason to believe the vaccine caused the death.