Crisis..

 

Fault..

 

Adam..

 

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. 

First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. 

By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.^[1]

Failed..

 

Someone has to say it, and I derive no pleasure from doing so. But here goes:

The Omicron wave is exposing the limits of COVID-19 restrictions, which are clearly failing. These include ferociously debated vaccine passports and masking policies that have done little, if anything, to tame skyrocketing numbers throttling the Northeast. 

Hard-hit travel, leisure and small businesses — especially restaurants — are bearing the brunt of questionable protocols. 

And for the record, it’s not just America. China's aggressive zero-COVID policies that have exacerbated global supply chain problems aren’t doing much to curb the spread there, either.

“Policies, tools and communication must adapt to where we are now two full years into the pandemic. “Vaccines have been invaluable to bring us to this point, but mandating drives away customers, good employees, job candidates, and creates more division inside (and outside) of organizations.”

The preponderance of Omicron-fueled breakout infections, and the attendant shutdowns of (highly vaccinated) New York City venues, Apple Stores and Broadway shows, are undermining illusions of safety. It's also questioning an underlying premise that effectively cleaved society into castes of vaccinated and unvaccinated.

 With this fallure, there is something else not being done. Crowded offices, street, stadium, buses, subway system etc and the quality of life needs to be improved.  Just a "Dense" thought

Busyness..

 

Our jobs can provide us with a sense of competence, which contributes to wellbeing. Researchers have demonstrated not only that labor leads to validation but that, when these feelings are threatened, we're particularly drawn to activities that require effort – often some form of work – because these demonstrate our ability to shape our environment, confirming our identities as competent individuals.

Work even seems to make us happier in circumstances when we'd rather opt for leisure. This was demonstrated by a series of clever experiments in which participants had the option to be idle (waiting in a room for 15 minutes for an experiment to start) or to be busy (walking for 15 minutes to another venue to participate in an experiment).

Yet the researchers found that those who'd spent 15 minutes walking ended up significantly happier than those who'd spent 15 minutes waiting – no matter whether they'd had a choice or a chocolate or neither. In other words, busyness contributes to happiness even when you think you'd prefer to be idle. Animals seem to get this instinctively: in experiments, most would rather work for food than get it for free.

But even in the realm of leisure, our unconscious orientation towards busyness lurks in the background. A recent study has suggested that there really is such a thing as too much free time and that our subjective wellbeing actually begins to drop if we have more than five hours of it in a day. Whiling away effortless days on the beach doesn't seem to be the key to long-term happiness.

Just a "leisure" thought.

Mild..

 

Omicron is “not the same disease we were seeing a year ago” and high Covid death rates in the UK are “now history”, a leading immunologist has said.

Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and the government’s life sciences adviser, said that although hospital admissions had increased in recent weeks as Omicron spreads through the population, the disease “appears to be less severe and many people spend a relatively short time in hospital”. Fewer patients were needing high-flow oxygen and the average length of stay was down to three days, he said.

“There is early encouragement from what we know in South Africa that you have fewer hospitalizations and that the number of days that they stay in hospital if they do go into hospital is also lower than in previous variants,” he told the BBC.

Unethical Bafoon .

 

Over the last decade, we voted him into City Hall twice, made him a punching bag on a regular basis and turned to him for leadership during one of the lowest points in the city’s history — the COVID-19 pandemic.

By now, almost everyone has an opinion of the Manhattan-born, Massachusetts-raised and Brooklyn-claiming mayor. He is, at turns, a progressive or an unethical buffoon, too anti-cop, a micromanager and just plain lazy. 

Still not entirely clear is how history will judge the man. Clarity on that may take several years or even decades to come by and even then, historians and political scientists will still debate the finer points.

However, the city is deteriorating. More towers are being built in favor of the builders who donate much to the politicians, streets are dug, sewar are old, water pipes and the belly of the beast deteriorates. Six inches of snow or rain will call for an emergency State of the city. Go figure. Not to mention the crowds, and Covid and the massive death.  Just a thought.

Froze..

 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] tweets

“He starts tweeting that WE, killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.

“And basically, we froze.” 

We weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, was going to be used against US while WE weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.

By then, Cuomo's five Million Dollar book deal, the Media deliberate misinformation calling him a Hero, the various sexual interaction with 11 women employed and De Rosas's 200,000 plus salary among other acts.

Notice, the four States mention in this investigation were all Democrats.!!!! The Biden Administration is Democrats and all what we have to investigate is the Inserection, and the death of thousands of older Americans is.... better buried.

Failure..

 

President Biden told Americans that he understands "how tired, worried and frustrated you are" about the latest COVID-19 case surge in the U.S. and announced several new steps to deal with the highly contagious omicron variant.

Most notably, the government plans to buy a half-billion at-home COVID test kits and mail them to people who want them, with deliveries beginning in January.

Biden defended his administration's performance in dealing with the fast-spreading variant against criticism the White House had not acted quickly enough. The administration's response, Biden said "was not a failure," and he asserted that "I don't think anybody anticipated it would spread as rapidly as it did."

The president also sought to reassure Americans that despite the latest wave of the virus, the nation is better off than it was last March.
Comment:

This administration is out of touch in every aspect. Disorganized as their mouth continue to yak how better we are. We are not bitter. Look and the lines to get tested for Covid before Christmas and they promise to get it after the Holidays.

Either Covid became a surprise to this admin or the testing. 

 Just a "disorganized" thought.

Cali..

 

Parts of California are getting a White Christmas after all, with snowfall pounding mountains across the state.  Other areas of California, however, saw a wet and rainy Christmas as storms continue to drench the state, causing flash flooding and evacuations in some areas over the holiday period.

Officials with the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory wondered on Twitter if the recent snowfall could break the snowiest December record of 179 inches (4.6 meters) set in 1970.

There’s been at least 119 inches (3 meters) recorded so far this month , according to The Mercury News, with more expected over the next 72 hours.

In the San Bernardino National Forest, crews are working on a $4.2 million emergency project to repair a section of State Route 18 that washed down a hillside late Thursday after heavy rain, according to The San Bernardino Sun.  

The roadway is a major route to Big Bear Lake and the closure near Panorama Point could be “several days if not weeks,” the newspaper reported. 

The Los Angeles area is likely to see rain and mountain snow for the next week, according to the National Weather Service, with temperatures significantly below normal through the middle of the week.

No one said it is climate change or just being unprepared.  Just a thought.