Path..

 

Shaky..

The CDC agency’s director has said, repeatedly, that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks. That claim is based on very shaky science.

The Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. “You can’t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,” Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, said. 

His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research. 

But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate.

 
 Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic review of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse.”

Lockdown..

 

Boris Johnson has apologized for attending an event in the back garden of 10 Downing Street on May 20, 2020, at which point Britons were prohibited from gathering due to strict coronavirus restrictions.

At the start of the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, Johnson said he did attend the gathering for 25 minutes before going inside to work. He said he believed the gathering to be a work event, but with hindsight conceded he should have sent attendees back inside.

Leader of the opposition Keir Starmer said the UK Prime Minister's excuse that he "did not realize he was at a party" was "ridiculous" and "offensive."

This happened while the UK was in a hard lockdown to combat the spread of Covid-19. At the time, people in England were banned from meeting with more than one other person outdoors, and would be legally punished for doing so. 

In workplaces, official guidance stated that in-person meetings should only take place if "absolutely necessary."

Help..

 

Helping a fellow human being, while it can be inconvenient, has a few humble advantages: 

It makes you feel better about yourself; It connects you with another person, at least for a moment, if not for life; It improves the life of another, at least a little; 

It makes the world a better place, one little step at a time;

البصل الاحمر

 

Why eating red onions might just be the best thing for your health

• Stops cancer cell growth. Red onions are full of sulfur compounds that protect the body from ulcers and various cancers. ...
• Controls diabetes. ...
• Cures sore throats. ...
• Helps with constipation. ...
• Brings down high cholesterol. ...
• Helps ease arthritis. ...
• Good for heart health.     Just a thought.

Domestic..

 

Like this..

 

State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing measures, gathering bans, closure orders and mask mandates in an effort to stem the tide of cases and deaths.

Politicians are using the current situation to build up their own recognition, some to make profits out of it and some doctors stepped into the spotlights and wanted to be politicians.

Then came the Omicron, that proof all very wrong and in a 2 months period 28% of the population tested were infected.

New York City is the stricter of all due to the condense population caused mainly by rezoning and over building towers everywhere in the city.

The public responds with widespread compliance mixed with more than a hint of grumbling, pushback and even outright defiance. As the days turn into weeks turn into months, the strictures become harder to tolerate.

Got it..

 

I hope the Admin is simply using inflation as a way of adding urgency to the promotion of competition. That is a possible reading of this important article. I strongly support much of the Admin’s competition agenda.

However, as described, hipster Brandeisian antitrust, with which the Admin and its appointees flirt, is more likely to raise than lower prices.

To start, increases in prices and profit margins are what happens when competitive industries experience increases in demand. That is what calls forth increased supply. This is how a market system operates.

There is no basis in economics for expecting increases in demand to systematically larger price increases for monopolies or oligopolies than competitive industries.

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Blame..

 

Inflation has become one of the top economic issues in the U.S., and the Biden administration is acting accordingly with various policy actions.

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.5% in December and 7.0% on a year-over-year basis, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's the fastest rate since 1982. 

Two of the biggest drivers of price spikes over 2021 have been in food and energy which is likely the reason the White House has focused on both of those sectors both for inflation as well as antitrust reasons. 

Tying the two issues together is not without critics, even among Democrats. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers posted a lengthy Twitter thread taking issue with “[a]ntitrust as an anti-inflation strategy” and has noted that Biden officials “flirt with the idea that it’s greedy meatpackers causing inflation."

But until then, it remains a front-burner issue with a recent AP-NORC poll finding the coronavirus down and inflation up when it comes to voter’s top priorities. And, in bad news for the Biden administration, another poll finds 3 in 5 voters place the blame on the president’s policies. Just a thought.

I Don't..