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Why should poor people without jobs live in New York, one of the most expensive cities? Wouldn't it be cheaper and more effective to pay them to leave, and give them bus tickets to do so?
And would those sites be conservative media, who also advocate breaking up big tech?
Its sustainable politically if you call anyone who opposes the scheme racist - only a single country in the top 10 migrant contributors to Canada is of European heritage:
https://www.cicnews.com/2020/02/a-quarter-of-canadas-immigra...
This is already causing long-term social problems, like sex-selective abortion which is prevalent in Indian communities in Canada even after multiple generations:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S170121631...
If the USA is restricting immigration, and Canada is not, this is just another driver for the top talent to flee Canada to the USA.
Canada might succeed in becoming a dumping-ground of migrants, a country of cheap back-office labour and expensive housing, but that sounds like a terrible place to live or develop any cutting-edge technology.
Just legalise all drugs and let the free market decide. We could create innovative new substances which are safer and less socially damaging, compared to the plants and fermented liquids we happen to have stumbled upon millenia ago.
The tweet might be disagreeable, but it is still an important statement from a foreign Government. Twitter has no right to be 'Ministry of Information'.
Influenza does the same: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/can-the-flu-and-other...
These unprecedented restrictions on human freedom (Lockdown) are probably also a factor in pyschosis - limiting people from regular socialisation, exercise etc.
So incessant, and seemingly ineffective, lockdowns have succeeded - in selecting for a variant of COVID which is resistant to lockdown? What biological or physical mechanism could allow it to spread more than the original?
Their production source code has the salt for the encryption algorithm hard coded as the (presumably H1B worker's) name "Amalesh"
We need Russians - or people outside of the progressive bubble of Europe and North America - to create an alternate internet, please. Starting with browser, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook replacement. Then onto OS - mobile and desktop.
Is there any evidence that this new 'variant' has any impact to infectiousness or death?
Or is it simply genetic drift?
And what % of economic, scientific, and cultural output is that 10% responsible for?
Look at the data directly: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country
Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons.
New lockdowns also seem to be coordinated across the global right now, independent of local conditions. This absolutely seems like a coordinated global action to achieve some kind of strategic aim.
Australia also forecasts that it will increase its Federal debt by AUD$500 billion due to the pandemic - AUD$20,000 per person.
Meanwhile aged care deaths in the most heavily affected state, Victoria, are actually down 1,000 YoY. Its almost certain that the majority of the COVID deaths that did occur in Melbourne were with COVID - ie. people of advanced age and serious existing health conditions who would have died around this time anyway.
Overflow hospitals in the UK have never been used:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-patients-england-ni...
The UK Government is arresting people who film empty hospitals:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13619752/moment-anti-covid-loc...
Meanwhile less than 400 people under age 50 have died with/of COVID in the UK.
The fundamental driver of this pandemic is the ill-health of the population - driven by sugar (obesity), coal and oil (air pollution), as well as Vitamin (D) deficiencies - but these factors receive no attention.
Meanwhile in Sweden - without hard lockdown - deaths are up only 3.2% above 2018, and even then explained by mortality shifting from 2019 and 2021.
Even Ukraine without hard lockdown over Winter has had far fewer deaths per Capita than the UK and has a much more rudimentary healthcare system.
Lockdown seems to drive deaths, at huge social and economic cost, rather than prevent them.
If we linearly extrapolate the December 18 data to December 31st, we get 91773 * (366/353) = 95,152.
Which would indeed be the highest level this decade, but still only 3.2% higher than 2018.
Sweden's 2019 deaths were also the lowest in the decade, so there was a lot of built up 'dry tinder'. In fact the excess deaths in 2020 match up almost exactly with the 'non-deaths' of 2019.
This concept is also matched by research:
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-de...
"In Sweden, the observed increase in all-cause mortality during Covid-19 was partly due to a lower than expected mortality preceding the epidemic and the observed excess mortality, was followed by a lower than expected mortality after the first Covid-19 wave. This may suggest mortality displacement."
As of December 18th, 2020 deaths in Sweden are only the 3rd highest for the past decade:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
So its unlikely that COVID has lead to much excess death outside of what could be expected from an unusually strong 'flu year'.
However the avoidable major driver of death is lockdown (from suicides, overdoses, homicide, destitution, interrupted medical care) and mismanagement (eg. sending symptomatic people back into nursing homes as in New York).
This whole state of affairs has been great for Billionaires though - who have increased their wealth by 36% in the past 9 months thanks to egregious money printing and economic disruption:
https://yubanet.com/usa/net-worth-of-u-s-billionaires-has-so...
Overdose deaths are up 40%, to 81,000 in 2020:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death...
Suicides and homicides also up. Given that these deaths will occur for people with a typical age of 40, vs 80 for COVID, substantially more years of life have been lost from lockdown (which seems to have achieved little anyway), than from COVID.
This is why electric cars needs smart charging - plug it in when you get home, and expect for it to be charged by the time you need to go to work - but the actual charging hours should be linked to the grid in order to manage overall demand.
Its a shame that this regulation and UI environment is not already ready, since these vehicles are already being mass-manufactured.
Singapore also has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, at only 1.16 children per woman. Living in a controlled and apartment-dominated country seems to crush the desire and ability to have many children.
Peak deaths in Sweden from COVID this year are about the same as from Swine Flu in 2009:
https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...
Also the population would have been younger, with fewer vitamin-D deficient migrants.
It would have been explained as a very bad flu season.
Governments are not ready to allow the economy and population to return to 'normal'. They want to finish their bailouts/pork barreling, and to continue the destruction of the economy and society so that it can be fully recreated along ideological lines.
They want to ready systems like limiting travel and cinema visits only for the vaccinated.
How else can you explain things like the new executive order and $1million penalty in New York from Governor Cuomo for distributing the vaccine to non-prioritised people?
Immigration or population replacement?
And the nations which are overtaking us - Taiwan, Korea, Japan, China - are the complete opposite of diverse. Perhaps diversity is not our strength?
We need automated and mainstream Vitamin and Mineral testing - without needing to go through the traditional healthcare system.
Still a lot of countries which are not blue:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Abortion...
Which are also countries where overpopulation and destitution are most prevalent. Improving access to education, contraception, and abortion for women worldwide should be our #1 foreign aid objective. We should target this in place of food aid.
Should I get vaccinated if I have already been infected with COVID?
There are missing women even in Australia and Canada - son preference is cultural.
https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/the-missing-girls-never-bo...
"mothers within some key migrant communities are recording sons at rates of 122 and 125 for every 100 daughters in later pregnancies."
The solution is for migrant-receiving countries (ie. the West) to place a limit of 49% males from any one country on any type of visa. This will dramatically boost the intake of females (for some visas and countries eg. India, the intake is 75% male) and thus their value to society in their home country.
Alternatively male migration could just be banned altogether from countries which practice systematic sex-selective abortion.
People have been forced to endure lockdown and masks, but they have a choice about vaccines. We should just vaccinate the elderly and anyone else who wants it and get back to 100% normal life - ditch the mask rules and social distancing.
How much of this is due to over-population? If the population of Bangladesh was 80 million instead of 160 million - giving each person access to theoretically double the amount of resources and land - would the net improvement be greater than 2x?
What about 40 million - would the improvement be 4x?
The solution may ultimately be a one-child policy, as demonstrated successfully by China.
If you're worried about labor, cook using a pressure cooker eg. instant pot. You prepare your ingredients, throw it into a pot, and press a button - coming back to perfectly cooked food with zero monitoring. I work from home and so use mine daily.