A New Flu V***s Emerges (H1N1pdm09 v***s)

From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, in the United States, there were an estimated 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths (3000+ fatalities were under 19). Patients hospitalized with H1N1 flu had an 11% fatality rate.

151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from Swine flu infection during the first year the v***s circulated. Globally, 80 percent of Swine flu deaths were estimated to have occurred in people younger than 65 years of age. This differs greatly from typical seasonal influenza epidemics, during which about 70 percent to 90 percent of deaths are estimated to occur in people 65 years and older.

There were some travel warnings, fear mongering was minimal, Wall Street took some hits, but they didn't shut everything down and ban flights.

This PANIC over the C****av***s has nothing to do with its mortality rate, this is purely political.

For arguments sake let’s say we were to cut beef and pork consumption and production in the US in half, what would it achieve? For one thing half of the land used for grazing and stockyards could be used to grow either crops, forest or native grasslands. The amount of crops used to feed the cattle would be cut in half and that land could be used to grow fruit, vegetables and grain that directly fed Americans, a far more efficient and healthy diet. The health problems associated with excess consumption of red meat would be significantly reduced along with the associated cost. And because it is a reduction rather than elimination people like me who enjoy a good steak, burger or smothered pork chop would still do so just at fewer occasions. There really is not a downside at all unless you peddle fast food and would need to adjust your marketing program and change what you offer on the menu. Or if like two tapped you dream of a career capturing bovine farts and selling them.

And no matter what lies the usual OPP trumpcons spew, trumps own intelligence agencies are reporting that that pooty and the russians will repeat their efforts from the 2016 theft of office, to stealing the 2020 e******n.

And the stupid people are not smart enough to realize what trump and hs russian cohorts are doing, however the stupid people believe every scrap of trump and russian disinformation that is posted daily on every rightwingnut web site or media outlet.




https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/politics/trump-russia-intelligence-2020/index.html

Here is another place where The Party of Liars C***ts and Thieves are doing their v**ers a great disservice with their lies, and misrepresentations.
The LCT’s are want for their v**ers to believe that solar, wind, and water electric generation is not viable. My question for the LCT’s is, “if solar, wind, and water electric generation isn’t viable, financially, or production, then why are the power utilities investing billions of dollars in large solar and wind production farms”?
The answer is, they don’t want electric/energy production to be end user produced because end users don’t line their pockets with legal graft.

End user definition; any electric/energy load, ie everything that uses electricity.
Their is no reason that street lights shouldn’t be DC powered, generated by solar and wind, same with traffic lights, etc.

I have known since the 1960’s that the only thing holding back solar and wind electric generation is a/the battery for storing and supplying power on nights when the wind isn’t blowing.
Those days are gone, Tesla corporation is now selling a back up battery power source, that they say will power a 2800sf home for two weeks. That sounds pretty viable to me.
Before you stupid of both ignorance, and lack of critical thinking sk**ls, people start whining about the cost of solar and wind generation equipment, how much do you currently pay yearly for the electric and gas that powers your lights, cooks your food, and heats the water for your shower/bath?
Mine push $2000 dollars a year, and I’m only one person in a 1400sf home, that doesn’t use the AC until night time temperatures are above 85•.
That means in my 64yrs that I have consumed maybe as much as, or more than $100,000 on energy for my home and automobiles.

Sounds to me like g***n e****y is viable for end user production. Their are a few dozen homes in this country that receive checks from their local electric utility for excess energy their property produces.

Please Republican v**ers wake the f?$& up, exercise your critical thinking sk**ls, and quit believing the lies the Party of LCT’s tells just because you have irrational hatred for the Party of Stupid.

For the sake of understanding the psychology of progressivism this little 8 minute dialogue is enlightening and shows clearly how groupthink has taken over institutes of "higher" learning.

This young man is pretty brave considering the mob around him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGl4qRouOlA

It is written:

"The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.…"

Trump’s First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama’s Last 3 Years

MANCHESTER, N.H. – As President Donald Trump takes the stage at his ree******n rally here Monday and boasts of his economic record, there is one statistic he is likely to omit: He created 1.5 million fewer jobs in his first three years in office than predecessor Barack Obama did in his final three.

Newly revised figures from Trump’s own Department of Labor show that 6.6 million new jobs were created in the first 36 months of Trump’s tenure, compared with 8.1 million in the final 36 months of Obama’s ― a decline of 19% under Trump, according to a HuffPost analysis.

Economists say that the slowing of job creation is not surprising. There are fewer empty jobs and fewer unemployed people available to fill them as the economy gets closer to full employment.

“I’m not a big fan of jobs numbers as a metric of success,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, once the top economic adviser to the late Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 p**********l campaign. He added, though, that Trump’s “hyperbole” notwithstanding, “the performance of the labor market has been nothing short of stunning.”

David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, said Trump is presiding over a decent job market ― the same as his Democratic predecessor did. “The economy is basically humming along for the last three years, just as it was for the last year several years of the Obama administration,” Rothschild said.

Nevertheless, the statistics belie Trump’s frequent claims that he turned around Obama’s poor management of the economy.

The White House would not respond to the new statistics, but spokesman Judd Deere told HuffPost: “President Obama presided over one of the slowest recoveries in history while President Trump has smashed expectations with 5 million more jobs grown than forecasted by the (Congressional Budget Office), a record setting stock market, strong wage growth for blue collar workers, and historically low unemployment rates. Because of the strength of the Trump economy more and more Americans are coming off the sidelines to find work many of whom were left out of the so-called Obama recovery.”

During his State of the Union speech last week to Congress, Trump said: “If we hadn’t reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success.”

Trump has repeatedly disparaged Obama’s stewardship of the economy while claiming he has done a far superior job.

Trump has repeatedly disparaged Obama’s stewardship of the economy while claiming he has done a far superior job.

The economy is just one of several areas where Trump repeatedly claims credit for conditions or policies implemented under his predecessors. He has bragged about reductions in air and water pollution that were the result of presidents going back decades. He has claimed credit for a reduction in lung cancer deaths based on a decades-long study that ended the year he took office. Perhaps most famously, he has repeatedly ― and falsely ― boasted about passing the “VA Choice Act,” which allows veterans to get medical care at private facilities if wait times are too long at Veteran Affairs clinics, even though it was signed into law by Obama.

But the economy is the one issue that could determine whether Trump succeeds or fails in his attempt to win a second term ― and his boasts about it are consistently misleading and, at times, simply false.

Trump repeatedly brags that unemployment among African Americans is at historic lows. While that was correct in August and September, the unemployment figure has risen since then, according to federal statistics. More broadly, the trend lines for both African Americans and Latinos show a steady decrease from the end of the 2008-09 recession, through the Obama presidency and to the present day, with no significant change in the slope of those graphs when Trump took office in January 2017.

“He’s largely riding trends he inherited,” said Jared Bernstein, once the chief economist to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Bernstein and other economists pointed out that the nation’s gross domestic product, after showing higher growth rates immediately after the passage of Republican-backed tax cuts in late 2017, have now dropped closer to 2% ― a figure that Trump and others called weak during the Obama years.

And that, Holtz-Eakin and Rothschild agreed, could be attributed to the trade war Trump picked with China starting in mid-2018, and from which the president has only recently started to back down.

“There are markets we’re probably not going to get back, and we’re going to have nothing to show for it,” Rothschild said. “The economy is moving along pretty well despite the best efforts of Donald Trump.”

CORRECTION: An earlier version used the wrong job creation number for Obama’s final three years. The correct number is 8.1 million (not 8.3 million), which is 1.5 million (not 1.7 million) more jobs created than in Trump’s first three years.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with supporting a president, but there is a huge difference between support and automatically going along with even the stupidest ideas imaginable, concepts and policies that have never for a day at any time ever been representative of the values that this country is all about.

You can support a president by applauding what he does that is right, but the process of calling him out on the things that he does that isn't is part of influencing a government that is run according to what people want who put elected officials in office.

When staff members and the right wing press sees things that are wrong, people need to throw their voices into agreeing rather than go into an automatic thing where anyone who disagrees with trump is an enemy and f**e news purveyor, rather than simply someone who is calling out aberrant behavior for what it is.

Trump supporters are so quick to support wh**ever trump wants to say and do that they can't even keep up with the weekly flip flops trump himself is capable of.

You, as trump supporters need to make the calls when this clown goes bad and does things you know are wrong.

Vengeful? Trump fired Vindman and his brother just today. That's what you can vengeful...also petty and small-minded. Ever wonder why the whistleblower was never turned over? Well, it was that trait in Trump and his followers that caused Democrats to protect the WB.

The only thing being mourned by anyone is the coverup used by Republicans to trample all over rule of law in this country. If you have to destroy the rule of law to protect your president did you ever consider that maybe your president wasn't worth protecting?

Three or four years ago we would have been in 100% agreement on Russia and Putin. Nobody had a problem with sanctions and the reasons they were being done. Whenever a story was aired nobody was divided about the threat Russia poses to the country. Nobody seemed to understand what took place in Afghanistan and was was in effect a proxy war between Russia and NATO countries, in which we effectively broke Russia by providing hundreds of millions worth of arms to those fighting against Russians and their backed factions. Even ignorant people who didn't have much of a clue what had gone on there wouldn't have called anyone talking negative about Russia's role full of BS like they do now.

Patriotism is not blind, it does not have anything to do with loyalty or blind faith.The day a leader crosses a line and supports interests that are against the best interests of this nation and it's people, that leader is on the wrong side.

One need only to look at who and what Putin and Russia by proxy stands for, and you know everything a patriot needs to know to know where their loyalties should be.

...First it's easy to see what Putin is. He came up through the ranks of the KGB, arguably one of the more ruthless and feared c*******t intelligence services in the world. The hallmark of government intelligence in a country like Russia that has total control of people through fear and intimidation, is that the government uses it's intelligence and full authoritarian powers against it's people who object to what the government is doing.
...Another hallmark is that misinformation, rhetoric, and propaganda is used in such a way that people do not know what to believe, and there are those who believe that the government is working on behalf of them. Every dictator has his ignorant followers who don't know what the t***h is so they believe the lies, its safer that way. This is also part of what is so dangerous about our government.
...Russia has aligned itself for the most part with the opposition to those we support, this can be categorized in a democracies versus dictators model. Areas of conflict can be seen to prove this, Russia is allied with Iran, they are courting Iraq, who no longer wants our presence....they worked with Syria and Turkey when Erdogan told us to get out of Syria. We used to support the Ukraine against Russia, now that cannot be said because Trump's loyalties seem to be with Putin, there have been no actions that would prove otherwise when the US actually needed to speak out against Russian incursions We are seeing this all over the world.
...Russia has been openly involved in destabilizing several of our allies politically, including our country although the point of determining where loyalties lay is what this is about. Before trump took office we would have had no problem believing our intelligence whenever we talked about russian cyber and social media type attacks. Now, trump has aligned himself with Putin's word over comprehensive intelligence that can be proved if trump paid attention to it...he doesn't so neither do his followers.

Believing trump at this point has nothing to do with being a patriot, it is in fact the opposite, because this president is on the wrong side of the best interests of this country. This president goes on endlessly about everything being f**e, it in fact is, everything he says and believes is f**e. He owns alternative facts, alt christians who do not know what seeing thing from a perspective of loving people versus hating everyone who isn't christian, f**e love of country being attached to his f**e patriotism, which is attached to his f**e self who prefers Putin's advice to the intelligence services of this country because they don't agree with his underwhelming views.

Telling me I'm not a patriot is a clear indicator that this came from an alternative patriot. It's a worn out and f**e word.