Joe Ferguson forever

I'd vote....for her. Amanpour too but I'm kinda old. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/video/melanie-joly-canada-trump-christiane-amanpour-digvid

Meanwhile, the russian are walking in high cotton https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2024123/russian-rouble-soars-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-ukraine

This! Trump and his treasury secretary are selling the rubes a load of shyte. the math doesn't work. sadly, it won't end well for anyone unless he pulls out prematurely. doubt he's ever done that. musk certainly hasn't.

"clearly and consistently implicated secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory–tract bacteria in most influenza fatalities." Cause of death is still influenza. I had a patient come in through the ER for a bee sting. He had heart problems. He had a severe allergic reaction to the sting. He was appropriately given epinephrine in the ER,, which along with the anaphylaxis caused him to have a heart attack and die. I wrote "bee sting" as his primary cause of death on his death certificate. The pathologist on the case agreed. At any rate, measles is the topic. Try top keep up.

a good friend is a local banker. Has made 100's if not 1000's of loans, mostly to farmers. His little bank is in the top 3 for farm loans. but yeah, you mean a guy who would get a loan 5 years ago very well might not now. I'm very much a buy and mostly hold investor. I play with a little mad money. otherwise I follow my advisors advice. She's not saying to buy or sell right now.

so what's your market prediction given recent events? inflation?

This is interesting if not shocking, data. My conclusions: there are many very wealthy congress people. An article I just looked at had Apple as the number one investment by them with 100’s of millions of their money invested. Pfizer was 6th or 7 th that year. And if they based their bets on publicly available information, they just made a smart trade. If not, they should be prosecuted. Notably, the investors were bipartisan. Don’t be elitist🤓

You tell me. I didn’t. I don’t have stock in any of the manufacturers. Do you? I do however, recall some senators who cashed in on early knowledge of the pandemic on stock plays like zoom.

Maybe you should rethink your strategy. Trump’s treasury secretary gave investment advice today: “Buy the dip”. You think he meant for investors to wait til summer 2026 to see a return? I’m thinking there will be a rebound sooner but that will largely be for to trump pulling back from his stupid tariffs.

So give us your opinion on cod liver oil, vitamin A, clarithromycin and MMR. We can look at the data retrospectively like we now can on hydroxycloroquine and ivermectin. Your argument for those was that there was no other treatment. There no treatment for measles but there IS a vaccine. betting doesn’t count. There are plenty of US vaccine skeptics. Just look at this board…

Nope. Punching dummies who shouldn’t be basing health decisions on “their own research”.

Link? You must have copied this from somewhere. Sure, a secondary bacterial superinfection (superimposed) infection surely killed some. The cause of death would still be properly reported as influenza. They wouldn’t have died were it not for it. All those folks ultimately died from respiratory failure. But that’s not how the cause of death should be reported on a death certificate.

Maybe if you looked at the title above the graph you’d know. Pearls before swine. 350 kids? Yes, the incidence wouldn’t predict you’d see a death. You’d need a cohort of a bit more than 300000 at that time

The highest rioting for trump voters was inflation. Many are people living paycheck to uncheck now. How do you think they’re going to fare given the outcomes you predict? On the bright side, the smarter one will vote D in the midterms.

So Mr expert what about bacterial pneumonia and Spanish”flu”? yes, that cluster occurred among migrants. It spread among the unvaccinated just like the current one maybe you should give up on commenting on microbiology

Keep drinking that kool aid. Add in some cod liver oil and vitamin A. I’m sure you’ll prosper. Well no. They died from an H1N1 flu. It’s a virus. Antibacterials wouldn’t have helped. Anti virals weren’t available til late 20th century.

And that has exactly what to do with measles? The point is you were wrong about it not killing people. It does, whether you watch tv in bed or not. It killed many more until the MMR vax came out. You admit this right?

Did you even look at the graph? In 1969 there were 1.2 deaths per 10 mil. In 2024 there were 3.8 deaths per 100 mil. Gee, what happened shortly after 1969? Btw, measles is not caused by a bacteria. Maybe virology was relatively new in 1919 but not in 1969…

Maybe they should look at total export dollars from Canada, Mexico and China. I just did. Correct me if I’m wrong but I totaled less than 1.5 trillion. You’d need 200% tariffs to offset that deficit. I bet he went to a fine high school. Western New York schools were pretty strong at one time.

The child was perfectly healthy. people did die from measles, many. In 1919, 10 per 100,000 Americans died from measles. you're a dummy who should not post about things you don't know. Anecdotes re not meaningful. still waiting for "Doc" to weigh in. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/measles-cases-and-death-rate

Almost never mentioned by MAGAs is that even with the unrealistic DOGE projected savings, the deficit still increases by 3 trillion because of tax cuts to the wealthy. Not sure how this aids the long game recovery. Perhaps @Big Blitz can explain...

to be clear, some folks will get rich (richer). So could we if we possessed the crystal ball big blitz has.

Are you arguing that the to and fro on tariffs is not spooking the market? That the global chaos and uncertainty isn't affecting the market That global markets aren't down? Or is it just the US?....cuz BIDEN! All of that is playing havoc. And very likely is the cause of trump backing off on tariffs. Rifts with Canada, Mexico and Europe surely aren't helping. secondly, do you think the rubes would have lined up to vote for trump if he told them it would be the summer of 2026 before they saw any economic improvement? I don't and that's not what the MAGA czars are saying even now. Why is that? Thirdly, how much skin do you have in the game? Are you shorting the market based on your prognostications. Now would be a good time, if so fourth, do you truly believe all these economic cataclysms that you detail are now unavoidable, cuz I sure don't

There have now been 159 new cases in West Texas and 10 cases in neighboring New Mexico. Two unvaccinated patients, one adult and 1 child have died so far. JFK jr was on Fox today promoting unproven treatments such as Vitamin A, Cod liver oil, steroids and clarithromycin (an anti bacterial, not anti viral). Steroids are generally avoided during infections because they decrease the immune response. He has not strongly recommended vaccination which is known to be the most efficacious prophylaxis. He quoted an ER doc today who has been disciplined for quack treatments by the Texas Board of Medicine. Thoughts? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/kennedy-touts-unconventional-therapies-for-measles-linked-to-disciplined-texas-doctor/ar-AA1Apskm

I think concern about the drop in the market is directly proportional to the level of investment the market, ie "skin in the game". Only 60% of Americans are invested in the market. A bit fewer pay federal tax (the bottom 50% pay 3% of all federal tax). The S&P is down 6.2% in the last month. A million dollar portfolio is down $60,000. A $100,000 is down $6k. A citizen with 0 in the market is down 0 and so on. MAGA seems less upset about the market and more about tax spending largely of other people's money. weird...maybe we should do a poll on investment amounts and taxes paid. that might be interesting...