The effectiveness of the vaccines are now dwindling as well...
First it was studies proving that lockdowns had minimal effects on the spread of Covid. Then it was medical evidence that paper and cloth masks also had minimal effects on the spread of Covid. Now after just a few months of these vaccinations, we find that the effects are starting to decline.
As you can see, there was a time when being vaccinated seemed like a massive edge over those who were not vaccinated. Now there is an edge for the vaccinated, but not much edge. During one week in Minnesota ALL of the deaths came from people who are vaccinated.... meaning "none" of the deaths came from the unvaccinated.
Now we may find over time that the boosters will continue to help or there may come a time when the returns diminish to the point where it is no longer worth the risks of the vaccine (which contrary to popular belief can be fairly significant). But there is little reason at this point to push a vaccine mandate (as is still the case in some venues in Seattle).
At the end of the day, the lockdowns didn't work, the mask wearing didn't work, and the vaccines only worked temporarily. Perhaps this is just the reality of our science not being able to keep up with a new strain of virus such as this. But either way, there is no longer any need to "shame" someone for not wearing a mask or even not being vaccinated.
In fact, if we find out in a few years that these vaccines have long term side effects, it might have been medically prudent to have avoided them all together.
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The latest on the coronavirus
For the Harvard Chan community: Find the latest updates, guidance, useful information, and resources about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) here.
In the wake of an outbreak of coronavirus that began in China in 2019, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health experts have been speaking to a variety of media outlets and writing articles about the pandemic. We’ll be updating this article on a regular basis. Here’s a selection of stories in which they offer comments and context:
2022
April 5: Biden is pressured to end mask mandates on public transportation (NPR’s Morning Edition)
Mask requirements on public transportation have become increasingly contentious. Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) and co-director of NPLI’s Aviation Public Health Initiative, said that if the BA.2 variant, currently at “a very low rumble,” stays that way, “I think we’re at the point where we can lift that requirement to have masks worn on planes and in public transportation.” But if the variant causes a big surge in COVID cases, as it has in Europe, then it may be wise to keep the mask mandate in place, he said.
April 4: Cost of distancing may outweigh benefits for healthy adults (Harvard Gazette)
Even though the pandemic still poses risks to many people, there are also health risks to additional time spent socially distant from family and friends, according to experts. Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology, said that pandemic-related school closures have been tough on tweens and teens, many of whom now lag developmentally in terms of how to act with peers. She also noted that reconnecting with friends can be stressful because people have different risk tolerances for togetherness.
April 4: It’s time to consider relaxing mask requirements on flights (Washington Post)
In this op-ed, Joseph Allen, associate professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings program, argued for lifting mask requirements during flights because “one of the safest parts of an entire trip is when travelers are seated in the airplane and the systems are running.” Allen also recommended that airplanes keep their systems running when they’re parked at the gate, and that airlines require people to mask when boarding and disembarking, “when there is greater mixing of people in the cabin and when people are exerting themselves more and therefore emitting more respiratory particles.”
April 4: African clinical trial denied access to key COVID drug Paxlovid (Nature)
Experts, including Melissa Barber, a doctoral candidate in Harvard Chan School’s Department of Global Health and Population, discussed Pfizer’s denial of a request to provide supplies of its antiviral drug Paxlovid so that it can be tested in a large African clinical trial. Barber noted that there’s a pressing need to test Paxlovid in a range of populations. “Clinically, we might expect populations with different comorbidities—for example HIV or diabetes—might have a range of side effects of possibly effectiveness,” she noted.
April 2: With COVID cases low, Biden and Democrats struggle to get more money to prepare for the next wave (Boston Globe)
Amid Congressional wrangling over how much money will be allocated to fight COVID in the months ahead, Stephen Kissler, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, noted, “The fact is that COVID is still here, that it still poses a threat both in its current form and in the form of future variants and we’d be foolish to not be preparing in some way for that.”
April 1: Creating the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (Clyburn Chronicles podcast)
Kizzmekia Corbett, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, discussed her work helping create the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
March 31: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who worked on Moderna vaccine, cements her place in history (CBS Evening News)
Kizzmekia Corbett, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, who helped develop the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, acknowledged that, as a woman of color in the science field, she is a role model to some children.
March 31: Failing to fund the U.S. covid response bodes trouble for the entire world (Washington Post)
In this opinion piece, Atul Gawande, who leads global health development at USAID and is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Chan School, wrote that Congress’ failure so far to allocate more funding to fight COVID-19 globally “bodes serious trouble for the world.” Noting that cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in Europe and Asia, he wrote, “Without additional funding, we risk not having the tools we need—vaccines, treatments, tests, masks and more—to manage future surges at home. And no less troubling, if we don’t close the vaccine gap between richer and poorer countries, we will give the virus more changes to mutate into a new variant.”
March 30: Administration, health experts nervously eye new virus variants (CQ Roll Call)
Stephen Kissler, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said he expects COVID-19 to settle into a seasonal pattern of spread, with cases picking up in the winter and declining in the summer, as the virus becomes more endemic.
March 29: From ‘herd immunity’ to today, Covid minimisers are still sabotaging our pandemic progress (The Guardian)
In this op-ed, William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology, wrote about the danger of playing down the seriousness of COVID and the importance of a response strategy involving testing, wastewater surveillance, investigation of variants, an emphasis on up-to-date vaccinations, and efforts to improve indoor air. “Every time you’ve heard a voice state it’s time to ‘live with the virus’ remember that doesn’t mean doing nothing about it,” he wrote.
March 29: F.D.A. Allows Second Coronavirus Boosters for Everyone 50 and Older (New York Times)
People aged 50 and older are now eligible for a second COVID-19 booster, although experts continue to debate just how helpful these boosters will be. At this point, “each additional dose is offering marginal value,” said Eric Rubin, adjunct professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard Chan School and a member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee. He said that what’s most needed now is a vaccine that works better against the new variants.
March 29: How clean is the air in your school or workplace? Hint: Many places are lacking. (Boston Globe)
Upgrading indoor air quality can reduce the risk of COVID transmission as well as the risk of flu and other airborne illnesses, and it can also help boost worker concentration and performance, according to experts. “When businesses do this, they can see a 10 percent benefit to the bottom line of an organization,” said Joseph Allen, associate professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings program.
March 29: Mass. case numbers, coronavirus levels in waste water tick up from low levels (Boston Globe)
Although coronavirus levels are rising in waste water in Eastern Massachusetts, most experts don’t expect a huge surge. One reason is the timing. “I think that one of the things that might help us as we’re going into this next surge is that we’re entering the spring, which seems to be sort of a low time of circulation for SARS-CoV-2 across the U.S.,” said Stephen Kissler, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases.
March 29: White House turns to air quality in latest effort to thwart coronavirus (Washington Post)
The Biden administration is turning toward improving ventilation and filtration in indoor spaces to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic and other airborne viruses. Joseph Allen, associate professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings program, was among experts involved in a White House event on the subject on March 29. He stressed the importance of improving indoor air quality as vaccination and mask mandates are rolled back. “It’s important that this becomes a passive control measure—passive in the sense that it doesn’t require people to do anything,” he said. “It’s not requiring you to wear a mask, or wear a good mask or wear it right. It’s operating in the background all the time.”
March 29: Was omicron more deadly than it needed to be in Mass.? Some experts say yes (WBUR)
Although Massachusetts fared better than most U.S. states during the Omicron wave, it could have done even better if a greater percentage of its population had received COVID-19 boosters. Roughly 30% of the state’s older population is not yet boosted—which is crucial in protecting against Omicron, according to experts. “As Omicron came on the scene, it has been worse than it needed to be,” said William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/the-latest-on-the-coronavirus/
You really have lost your mind.
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Increased memory loss and confusion
Inability to learn new things
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Ch today
At the end of the day, the lockdowns didn't work, the mask wearing didn't work, and the vaccines only worked temporarily. Perhaps this is just the reality of our science not being able to keep up with a new strain of virus such as this. But either way, there is no longer any need to "shame" someone for not wearing a mask or even not being vaccinated.
In fact, if we find out in a few years that these vaccines have long term side effects, it might have been medically prudent to have avoided them all together.
Alzhimers symptoms
Even if you get infected, the vaccines gives you body the ability to recover quickly instead of dying
About three weeks ago I tested positive but despite being 70 and a weakened immune system I exhibited zero symptoms.
The right-wing 'seems happy to immiserate the nation' to 'preserve' white privilege
Daniel Schultz
April 07, 2022
The longer the covid is with us, the more it seems John Calvin had a point. The 16th-century theologian and autocrat had a dismal view of human nature, writing in his Institutes of the Christian Religion that "perversity in us never ceases, but constantly produces new fruits."
These days, it's not the most stylish perspective.
But Lord, is it ever on the money.
I am reminded of this after reading a sociological study that found that exposing white Americans to information about racial disparities in health care lessened their empathy for those who suffered from the covid. It also lowered their fear of the disease and reduced their support for safety precautions against it.
Simply put, the more white people believed the covid was a problem for Black people and people of color, the less they cared about it.
Exhibit one is this post
It was a lie from the beginning, a lie all along, a lie devised for one singular purpose -
To be rid of the Bad Orange Man.
The lesson here is two-fold:
1) The left will do absolutely anything, ANYTHING, in pursuit of their goals. Complete and utter destruction of the nation is on the table for them.
2) We cannot vote our way out of this mess. That ship has sailed.
Fauci is already setting the table for a return to mask mandates and lockdowns. Look for the left to pull that shit in late summer/early autumn with the approaching mid-term elections, of which the left is almost certain to be crushed.
THIS is where the American left is prepared to take the nation:
Officials in Shanghai have sent up drones with loudspeakers that tell residents not to protest the city's latest coronavirus lockdown.
Video shared on Weibo that has been viewed more than 1 million times shows a drone flying over residential buildings after some people went on their balconies and sang to protest the lack of supplies during the lockdown, Alice Su, The Economist's senior China correspondent, reported. "Please comply with COVID restrictions," the drone says.
The drone's female voice also tells listeners, "Control your soul's thirst for freedom. Do not open your windows and sing," according to London's Times.
https://www.newsweek.com/shanghai-residents-told-control-your-thirst-freedom-amid-lockdown-1695649
I am reminded of this after reading a sociological study that found that exposing white Americans to information about racial disparities in health care lessened their empathy for those who suffered from the covid. It also lowered their fear of the disease and reduced their support for safety precautions against it.
Simply put, the more white people believed the covid was a problem for Black people and people of color, the less they cared about it.
Exhibit one is this post
Complete and utter bullshit. Flatly and demonstrably false here in NY.
When the vaccines were first made widely available, the vaccine sites popped up in minority neighborhoods FIRST. Because EQUITY. For my first and second shots I had to venture into the ghetto. Fortunately, police presence was MASSIVE. And that might have been what kept blacks away because the take rate of the vaccine within the local black community was dismal. So perhaps it was the cops presence, perhaps it was our nation's history of experimenting on blacks with new drugs. Either way, the black folks weren't having it, so vaccination rates remained pathetically LOW.
And that wasn't whitey's fault.
Those who would say so are lying and deserve to die in a fire.
Fuck you alky.
Show your plagiarism alky -
https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/right-wing-immiserate-white-privilege/
Why has Lil Schitty become an anti science, anti vax moron like the DeSantis??? Is it because he wants more infections by spreading disinformation about the vax as data is very clear at the prevention of both hospitalizations and deaths!!!! But the moronic and naive Lil Schitty thinks that is not important at all as break throughs even though occurring, are basically mild and not debilitating ......a very good thing excerpt for idiots with an agenda of STUPID!!!!!
This is amazing ��
In Ukraine, US Vietnam veteran 'ready to fight'
Agence France-Presse
April 07, 2022
Just before he left New York for the war in Ukraine, American Vietnam veteran Steven Straub had the country's blue and yellow flag tattooed on his arm along with the words "free Ukraine".
The 73-year-old arrived in Ukraine in the middle of last month as Russian forces were encircling major cities and closing in on the capital Kyiv.
The retired maintenance worker from Florida has been undergoing intensive training with the Ukraine national guard in Kyiv since.
On a recent day off, he was the guest of honor on a Ukrainian military tour of several villages outside Kyiv recently recaptured from Russian troops.
The visitors stopped at burnt-out military vehicles, a destroyed bridge, a house that had been taken over by Russian troops.
"It's really different from Vietnam," Straub said, wearing a bullet-proof vest, a US-military style baseball cap and light camouflage, despite the cold.
Straub says he spent 14 months in Vietnam beginning in 1968 as a sergeant in the mechanized infantry, taking part in the Tet Offensive.
He shows off a tattoo on his left forearm: the two dates on either side of the name of the battle.
"It's much different because I was out in the jungle. I didn’t see any cities, any buildings, but trees, banana trees, elephant grass. I was on a tank, so luckily I didn't have to walk too much," he said.
"What surprised me here is the morale. Everyone has very high morale. It's unbelievable, it's very different from Vietnam.
"In Vietnam people were mostly more interested in making money. Here they're strong. They want to protect their freedom and their country".
At each stop along the way, he pauses for selfies with Ukrainian soldiers.
On an isolated road, two Russian tanks are charred and torn to pieces.
"That was a Javelin," he says, surveying the damage, referring to the portable anti-tank missile systems which the United States supplied to Ukraine.
"They definitely appreciate all the aid that the Americans have given but they need much more help, more rifles, weapons," he adds.
'Excellent soldier'
Passing through a small village, the convoy stops briefly to distribute bread and canned food to a handful of residents. Children get toys and sweets.
Straub takes several 500 hryvnia ($17) bills from his pocket and hands them over to three smiling elderly women.
Asked about his training in the national guard, he jokes: "It's tough. I'm 73 years old."
"He's an excellent soldier," a national guard official chimes in.
"He is ready for tactical training. He knows how to handle a weapon now. I'm happy with him," the official, identified as Ferrari, told AFP.
"It's his second war. He wasn't very happy with the communists then, and he came here to make them pay certain debts."
Straub expects soon to be granted permission to carry a weapon. And then?
"I'm ready to fight. That's why I came here. I want to go to Odessa," he said, referring to the southern port city that has so far escaped serious fighting
This physcotic member of congress now filing frivolous complaints because a comedian made her look like the asshole she constantly proves to be!!!!!!
Business Insider
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she reported Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol Police for a 'threat of violence' after he made a Will Smith joke about her
Matthew Loh
Wed, April 6, 2022, 11:55 PM
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that she had filed a threat of violence report against host Jimmy Kimmel.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's reported Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol Police.
The report was made over a joke Kimmel made about her, which she called a "threat of violence."
Kimmel had asked: "Where is Will Smith when you really need him?" while criticizing Greene.
On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tweeted that she reported comedian Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol police, appearing to call one of the host's jokes about her a "threat of violence."
Greene did not comment further in her tweet.
A spokesperson for Greene's office told Insider in a statement that it "takes all threats of violence towards the Congresswoman very seriously."
"Last night, Jimmy Kimmel called for violence to be committed against Congresswoman Greene. It will not be tolerated," the statement continued.
Kremlin says U.S. sending weapons to Ukraine won’t help peace talks
The Kremlin criticized Washington’s decision to continue sending military supplies to Ukraine, saying it wouldn’t bode well for the outcome of peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow.
“Pumping weapons into Ukraine will not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian talks,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on a call with press, referring to U.S. weapons provisions to Ukraine. “Of course this will most likely have a negative effect.”
The Pentagon says it has committed more than $1.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia began its invasion on Feb. 24. A recent $300 million package of military supplies Washington said it is providing will include drones, armored vehicles and machine guns.
A serviceman of Ukrainian military forces holds a FGM-148 Javelin, an American-made portable anti-tank missile, at a checkpoint, where they hold a position near Kharkiv, on March 23, 2022.
A serviceman of Ukrainian military forces holds a FGM-148 Javelin, an American-made portable anti-tank missile, at a checkpoint, where they hold a position near Kharkiv, on March 23, 2022.
Sergey Bobok | AFP | Getty Images
“Ukraine is fighting a defensive war, so this distinction between offensive and defensive weapons doesn’t actually have any real meaning in the defensive war that Ukraine is fighting,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
As Sloppy Joe and the democrats continue to flounder, dementia boy inches us closer to WWIII in a last ditch effort to "save" a failing presidency.
Far fetched?
Not really when you consider that the left was both willing and eager to needlessly lock down an entire nation and destroy a $23 TRILLION economy just to depose one man.
This entire presidency is like being tied to a chair and watching a toddler play with a loaded pistol.*
h/t: GVL
Show your plagiarism Real Halfbaked Soars Plagiarist -
https://www.rawstory.com/in-ukraine-us-vietnam-veteran-ready-to-fight/
"RAW STORY!!!11!"
LOL.
Not really when you consider that the left was both willing and eager to needlessly lock down an entire nation
Wow rat.....I have doubts to your composing something written as well as the above esoecially with your flunking out of Ag school!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! Where did you steal it from????
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is expected to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his historic pick.
What You Need To Know
The Senate is expected to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his historic pick
Three Republican senators have said they will support Jackson, who would replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires this summer
While the vote will be far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, it will still be a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate.
...it will still be a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate.
Man, the turd polishing is in high gear today.
Significant accomplishment: Confirming a pro-pedophilia, pro-crime, pro-child abuse, affirmative action, black vagina.
yay.
Wise-ass Latina breathes sigh of relief as the 'dumbest fuck of the USSC' torch will be passed.
rrb said...
...it will still be a significant bipartisan accomplishment for Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate.
Man, the turd polishing is in high gear today.
Significant accomplishment: Confirming a pro-pedophilia, pro-crime, pro-child abuse, affirmative action, black vagina.
yay.
Wise-ass Latina breathes sigh of relief as the 'dumbest fuck of the USSC' torch will be passed.
hopefully this will be a "jump the shark" moment for the dems
else we are fucked
pedophiles are rejoicing
most Americans who pay attention are horrified
"Ch ends his article saying it might have been prudent to have avoided the vaccines altogether."
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And many, many more of us have died.
Trump was so proud of providing them at warp speeed. And indeed, that was one of the few good things he accomplished.
CBC REPORTS:
Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since 1968
April 7, 2022 at 8:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
The labor market tightened further last week, with initial jobless claims calling to 166,000 — their lowest level in more than 53 years.
German Intelligence Intercepted Russian Radio Traffic
German intelligence intercepted radio traffic from the Russian military regarding the murder of civilians in Bucha, which were apparently part of the plan,
Der Spiegel reports.
The intercepted comments appear to completely refute Russia’s denials over the atrocities.
READ MORE AT politicalwire.com
No thank James.
TRUMP LIES EVEN BIGGER THAN MOST OF HIS LIES (SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT TRUE):
Trump Blames Pelosi for Capitol Riots
“Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence,”
the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump:
“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge.”
He added:
“I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”
WHAT A LIE. NUMEROUS WITNESSES SAY THAT HE WAS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED BY WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND HAD TO BE TOLD BY HIS ADVISERS THAT IT WAS NOT GOOD.
WHY WASN'T HE PUBLICALLY CALLING FOR PELOSI AND THE MAYOR TO DO SOMETHING.
HISTORY WILL NOT ONLY NOT BE KIND. HISTORY WILL LAUGH.
Roger, when do you "deploy" yo Ukraine?
Jobless clain fall as more people re-occupy their old jobs and ub-retire to combat Stag-flation and Biden's historic inflation.
Inside Biden’s Deliberative Yet Impulsive Ukraine Strategy
April 7, 2022 at 7:11 am
Washington Post:
“The 37-minute scramble to clarify Biden’s nine-word gaffe, details of which have not been previously reported, illustrates the singular role Biden has played during Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine — at times emotional and freewheeling, at other times carefully choreographed and deliberate, but frequently a central player in helping to marshal the West’s response to Russia.
“As the war enters its seventh week Thursday, Biden has left his distinct imprint on the crisis — in ways both intentional and not, and in ways that have both clarified and complicated the situation.”
IN OTHER WORDS, THE WASHINGTON POST SAYS THAT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, BIDEN'S LEADERSHIP ON THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, WHILE NOT PERFECT, HAS BEEN PRETTY DARN GOOD.
Link at politicalwire.com
RE 8:34:
Ivanka Trump's testimony should help us see what Trump was really doing.
News source:
"The couple [she and her husband who were] both White House advisers at the time, had reportedly urged Trump to call off protesters as they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 as legislators met to certify the election victory of President Joe Biden."
Trump Denies He Asked Brooks to Help Overturn Election
Former President Trump denied claims from Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Mo Brooks (R) that he asked the congressman to help remove President Biden from office,
Axios reports.
Said Trump:
“I didn’t ask him to do it. He’s in no position to do it. I certainly didn’t ask him to do it.”
WELL IF TRUMP SAYS HE DIDN'T DO IT, HE DIDN'T DO IT. EVERYONE KNOWS HE NEVER LIES.
more at politicalwire.com
rrb will go crazy ��
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that it's his responsibility to steer the Republican Party's response against Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Driving the news: "I think we have a moral obligation. We have a strategic obligation. It is in our best interest to be helping the Ukrainians and I think they're an inspiration to all of us," McConnell said during an exclusive interview with Axios national political correspondent Jonathan Swan.
McConnell also said Thursday that it's his job to "lead public opinion in different directions.""I expect that most Americans wouldn't have been able to find Ukraine on a map two months ago. This is a development that they're now watching. They're watching these atrocities," McConnell said.
The labor market tightened further last week, with initial jobless claims falling to their lowest level in more than 53 years, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Initial filings for unemployment dropped to 166,000, well below the Dow Jones estimate of 200,000 and 5,000 under the previous week’s total, which was revised sharply lower. The department noted that it revised claims from 2017 to 2021 and changed the seasonal factors it is using to calculate the numbers.
Last week’s total was the lowest since November 1968.
The numbers nevertheless reflect a jobs market that is subject to a severe worker shortage. There are about 5 million more employment openings than there are available workers, a situation that has driven up wages and contributed to spiraling inflation.
Federal Reserve officials are raising interest rates to try to constrict outsized demand that comes amid ongoing struggles in supply chains.
Despite the economy’s various obstacles, hiring has remained brisk, with nonfarm payrolls climbing by nearly 1.7 million in the first quarter of 2022.
Continuing claims, however, rose, totaling 1.52 million, according to data that runs a week behind the headline number.
The total of those receiving benefits under all programs declined to 1.72 million. The number was 18.4 million a year ago, when the government was providing enhanced support to workers displaced by Covid. The pandemic’s renewed spread over the winter showed little impact on the overall jobs numbers.
Weekly jobless claims fell to 166,000 last week, the lowest level since 1968
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/07/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html?__source=androidappshare
https://www.aol.com/news/putin-europe-looks-wean-itself-090053566.html
THIS IS CALLED
DOING THE RIGHT THING.
Are big oil companies gougig us?
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
rrb will go crazy
LMAO.
Wrong again, hackwit alky plagiarist.
Gosh, you seem to be overly interested in my opinion of things.
More evidence that I live rent free in your alcoholic skull along with President Donald J. Trump.
Swan is a piece of shit leftist hack. Mitch probably knows this and told the hack what he wanted to hear.
rrb seethes with hatred
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
rrb seethes with hatred
Says the pederast "pastor"(LOL) who wants to execute Tucker Carlson for treason.
wants to execute Tucker Carlson for treason.
THAT'S WHAT THE LAW ALLOWS FOR TRASONOUS LOSERS LIKE TUCKER WHO PROMOTE PUTIN'S AGENDA!!!!
Donald Trump has said he regrets not marching on the US Capitol building with his supporters on the day of the January 6 insurrection and again rejected suggestions he used “burner phones” on the day of the assault.
In a defiant interview with the Washington Post the former president said he had pressed to march with his supporters on January 6, but was blocked from doing so by Secret Service agents. “Secret Service said I couldn’t go. I would have gone there in a minute,” Trump told the Post, later bragging about the size of the “tremendous crowd” at the “Save America” rally that
Last month CBS News and the Post revealed internal White House phone records from the day of the attack on the Capitol showed a seven-hour-and-37-minute gap in Trump’s phone logs including the period in which the assault occurred. The reports revealed the House committee investigating the attack were examining whether Trump had used burner phones – disposable mobile phones – during that period.
Trump has denied doing so and said he did not know the meaning of the term, but last week his former national security adviser John Bolton said the former president had used the term several times in conversations.
In his interview with the Washington Post, Trump again denied use of burner phones and said he had not destroyed any call logs. He claimed instead he had not received many phone calls on the day of the assault, but remembered talking to two Republican congressmen, the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, and Jim Jordan.
“From the standpoint of telephone calls, I don’t remember getting very many,” he told the Post, later adding, “Why would I care about who called me? If congressmen were calling me, what difference did it make? There was nothing secretive about it. There was no secret.”
Alky never thinks of REV.
Lol
Truth
"Gosh, you seem to be overly interested in my opinion of things.
"More evidence that I live rent free in your alcoholic skull along with President Donald J. Trump." RRB
Why has Lil Schitty become an anti science, anti vax moron like the DeSantis?
Sorry Denny...
I am "following" the science.
Science (real science with nearly two years of data) is what is telling us that the lock downs and mask mandates had minimal effects. The data doesn't lie, but politicians and even politicians with science degrees can and do lie.
The graph shown is not my own. It comes from the MN Dept of Health which has been tracking this on a week by week basis. At the current point in time, being vaccinated is maybe 10% helpful across the board. 10% less likely to catch, be hospitalized, die... but it's not the silver bullet that "scientists" tried to convince us it was.
If you want to "listen to the science" then you need to accept that the "science" has changed. Not because anyone "changed their mind" but because we are finally starting to see enough real data to replace our "assumptions" with hard cold data.
I like data, Denny.
Data is powerful and unyielding.
Opinions and assumptions only take us so far and eventually have to be REPLACED (entirely) by the data.
And many, many more of us have died.
Probably...
But what happens if ten years down the road we find out that the Covid vaccines have caused long term damage (we already know it can cause heart issues) and say 1% of those who took the vaccine die of those complications.
Then we would be looking at approximately twice the deaths from a side effect than would have died all together from Covid (and probably way more than twice the amount of deaths that could be attributed to "not" being vaccinated).
The reality is that we don't know because this was by all practical purposes an experimental drug that got fast tracked to full approval without knowing the long term side effects. Generally a drug like this would "still" be in the testing phase and would not have been fully approved until we knew more about the effects.
It's all an unknown. Only thing we know now is that the vaccine is not lasting like we had hoped it would have.
I like data, Denny.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! The data shows the vaccine effective at preventing both hospitalizations and deaths.....That is irrefutable......The data also shows that the vaccine is extremely safe!!!!!! Your post saying it is not is complete BULLSHIT!!! Yes there are a couple of rogues who say otherwise.....but with a million dead from covid and a handful of bad reactions ( 5 per million).....the answer even for naive slurpers like you is obvious!!!
But what happens if ten years down the road we find out that the Covid
A LAUGHABLE STRAW MAN LIL SCHITTY!!!!!! What if 10 years down the road we find that the vaccine prevented 10 million hospitalizations and deaths?????? Sorry sport, you are desperately flinging shit at the wall to see what sticks.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Fast tracked saved many American lives and there is nothing but your opinion to think that is bad......just naive!!!!!!
The British are now officially hiding Covid vaccine data
As of today, they have stopped releasing it, and they are lying about the reason why.
Alex Berenson
Until last week, the British government offered the best source of raw data on the efficacy of the Covid vaccines. Each Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency reported the number of new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths by vaccine status.
Since last fall, and especially since the Omicron variant hit, the reports have presented an increasingly dismal picture of vaccine efficacy. Last week’s report showed that in March, nearly 90 percent of adults hospitalized for Covid were vaccinated. And OVER 90 percent of deaths were in the vaccinated:
continue/graphs:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-british-are-now-officially-hiding?s=r
He used to work for the New York Times
back when they had some credibility
CH SAYS:
But what happens if ten years down the road we find out that the Covid vaccines have caused long term damage (we already know it can cause heart issues) and say 1% of those who took the vaccine die of those complications.
Then we would be looking at approximately twice the deaths from a side effect than would have died all together from Covid (and probably way more than twice the amount of deaths that could be attributed to "not" being vaccinated).
The reality is that we don't know because this was by all practical purposes an experimental drug that got fast tracked to full approval without knowing the long term side effects. Generally a drug like this would "still" be in the testing phase and would not have been fully approved until we knew more about the effects.
It's all an unknown. Only thing we know now is that the vaccine is not lasting like we had hoped it would have.
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I SAY:
Why do you wait till now to be so critical of Trump's warpspeed proeduced vaccines?
I bet if Trump were president, you'd still be praising it to the rafters.
And if it may need boosters, it may need boosters. After all, flu shots are given each year.
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