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National Bureau of Economic Research finds approx 1.4M excess deaths among Americans 25 and older between 2020-2023 due to COVID, saving Social Security over $200 Billion.
‘Social Security financial health improved due to excess deaths, driven primarily by the premature death.’
ALT NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECT OF US COVID-19 EXCESS MORTALITY ON SOCIAL SECURITY OUTLAYS Hanke Heun-Johnson Darius Lakdawalla Julian Reif Bryan Tysinger Working Paper 33465 http://www.nber.org/papers/w33465 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 February 2025, Revised March 2025
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Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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I’m still processing something that happened today, and I am fucking LIVID.
People with Long COVID have to be among the most ruthlessly exploited patients on the planet.
The grift is absolutely shameless.
These predators enter patient communities, listen to people describe their suffering, their cognitive difficulties, their desperation for relief… and see a BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
They hear “brain fog” and think “easy target.”
Let me tell you something: Some of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met have Long COVID.
Cognitive impairment is not stupidity. Desperation is not gullibility. And chronic illness is not your fucking business model.
We’ve got people discussing serious medical conditions, including chronic kidney failure, and you’re swooping in to sell them $200 “frequency-infused” sugar pills disguised as a detox protocol?
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?
These people need medical care. They need research. They need treatments. They need someone to actually listen.
They don’t need another parasite trying to monetize their suffering.
If you’re lurking in chronic illness communities looking for vulnerable people to sell your pseudoscientific bullshit to, GET THE FUCK OUT.
Go back to whatever cave you crawled out of, you fucking vampires.
Sick people are not your sales leads.
And everyone watching this happen should be calling it out.
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There are so many deeply ominous news items right now.
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🚨 BLACK FRIDAY IS HERE.
$700 Billion has been wiped out from Gold and Silver today.
$500 Billion has been wiped out from the Asian stock market today.
$150 Billion has been wiped out from the crypto market following Binance's hack.
$800 Billion will be wiped out from the US stock market at open based on the current pre-market drop.
This is almost $2.2 Trillion wiped out from global markets, and Friday isn't over yet.
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Tech Stocks in Bear Market Territory:
1. AppLovin, $APP: -68%
2. Coinbase, $COIN: -62%
3. CoreWeave, $CRWV: -60%
4. Arm Holdings, $ARM: -55%
5. Western Digital, $WDC: -54%
6. Intel, $INTC: -54%
7. Oracle, $ORCL: -51%
8. SanDisk, $SNDK: -49%
9. Circle, $CRCL: -48%
10. ServiceNow, $NOW: -44%
11. Robinhood, $HOOD: -44%
12. Seagate, $STX: -42%
13. Marvell Technology, $MRVL: -39%
14. Super Micro Computer, $SMCI: -39%
15. Broadcom, $AVGO: -34%
16. Alphabet, $GOOGL: -31%
17. Adobe, $ADBE: -29%
18. Micron, $MU: -29%
19. IBM, $IBM: -23%
20. Meta, $META: -21%
21. Amazon, $AMZN: -21%
The Nasdaq 100 is now down nearly -$5 trillion since October 6th.
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Hi Leo, greetings from Australia. I'm an anaesthetist, and I wear an N95 mask in all shared indoor air to protect my patients, my community, and myself. I also educate my fellow doctors about the science: covidfordoctors.org
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Long COVID is Long COVID.
MECFS is the result of long covid, long flu, long EBV, long XYZ in a subset of each virus that results in a chronic infection.
It failed because on a standalone basis none of the current trials will work. Antivirals required for other things to work
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Al Pacino says he passed out with COVID in his apartment, woke up to five paramedics in his living room, and was told his pulse had stopped
"I felt I left the Earth when I passed out."
"Next thing I know, I open my eyes and there's five paramedics in my living room."
"And they were my doctors, but I couldn't recognize them from head to toe."
"But they said, my pulse had stopped."
The last thing he remembers is asking the name of the guy filling him up with fluids. Then he wakes up to two doctors in what looked like space suits, and his first thought is that it looks like a film set. Fifty years in front of cameras will do that.
ft: @60Mins 60 Minutes Australia on youtube
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My uncle spent 40 years as a high school teacher. Saved $250k in a modest nest egg.
At 78, he developed dementia and needed memory care.
The facility cost $8,500 a month.
When his savings ran out after two and a half years, the social worker handed my cousin a stack of paperwork.
She explained the rule: "Medicaid won't cover a single day until he has less than $2,000 in total liquid assets."
He had to sell his car, cash out his remaining life insurance, and empty his checking account just to qualify for basic care.
Forty years of discipline, erased down to two thousand dollars so he could die in a shared room.
They don't let working class families leave a legacy.
They make sure you die with zero before they hand you a safety net.
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Host: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: In the '70s I was too young to get go to South America for the Jonestown massacre, so this is as close as I'll get. There's nothing like seeing a cult up close.
Host: Alright, maybe this is not a Trump supporter
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There’s a saying: “the purpose of a system is what it does.” Don’t look at mission statements, goals, or intentions. Talk is cheap; look at outcomes.
I’ve been vocally against Long COVID treatment trials, the ones testing repurposed drugs with no mechanistic rationale, because they don’t advance our understanding of the disease. I assumed the people designing these trials, and the sick people pushing for them, just didn’t see this and needed to be convinced.
I don’t think that’s the case anymore.
Look at what these trials actually produce. Every time, they either fail or nearly fail. Paxlovid failed. LDN failed. Ivabradine failed. Etc., etc. When a trial fails, no one accepts it. “Well, it works for me.” “It worked for someone I know.” “If you massage the data this way, it looks like it might benefit this handful of people.”
The LDN trial that just came out is a perfect example. 44% of people on LDN improved. So did 41% of people on placebo. People improve for all kinds of reasons.
People who want to try the drug will try the drug. People who couldn’t get it before still can’t.
So these trials produce no knowledge, no access, and no closure. But they do produce one thing: hope. For the 2 or 3 years a trial runs, people tell themselves something is being done. They think about it when they’re struggling to make it through the day.
That hope has value. For years, I’ve watched people point to upcoming trials to talk others out of suicide. This is bleak, serious stuff. But it never lasts. So when one trial ends, everyone moves on to the next, and the cycle starts over.
You see this with the treatments themselves: LDN, rapamycin, oxalate, Anktiva, blood cleaning, stellate ganglion block, etc. One hot fad after another. When enough people have tried it and realized it doesn’t work, it fades from popularity for a while (and sometimes comes back after enough people have forgotten). Notice what kills a fad. It’s never a trial result.
But the truth is this is all pointless busy work. Elaborately packaged false hope. Ultimately, it doesn’t help anyone get better.
Can you imagine if this is how we approached cancer? Just test random Reddit fads? We deserve better.
