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Ginned up's avatar

So many aspects to the skyrocketing fuel costs.

1. What will this do to the entire online shopping/ home delivery business model? Amazon recently jacked up prime membership rates but w fuel costs like this Amazon will be losing money hand over fist even w the rate increase. What do they do? They can't raise rates again without losing major membership numbers but how do they keep up free delivery? And how long until consumers start preferring local shopping where they don't have to pay exorbitant delivery costs which will inevitably be passed on by Amazon et al?

2. With any luck we will finally see the kind of transportation shut down that we should have seen by trucker strikes over the stolen election, the unconstitutional jab mandates, and open border. The sooner we have an economic shutdown the sooner we can face down the DC Regime and deprive them of their power.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-gasoline-prices-hit-record-weeks-major-driving-season

While high gas prices hit consumers, expensive diesel has battered the industrial economy because it's the lifeblood of the nation's transportation system.

"Diesel is in everything ... the diesel price shock will be longer-lived because it will take time for systems to digest and pass through," Mark Finley, a fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, told Bloomberg.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

If I understand this correctly:

2 Dose > 5m ago – 26.7%

2 Dose <= 5m ago – 20.2%

Means if you had 2 doses after 5 months you have a greater risk?

Or it’s the opposite?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Right. The bottom line to these stats is that they confirm the low effectiveness and durability. Now they're seeing people will need to get shot up every year, just like for flu. What they don't mention is how ineffective the flu shots are--16% this year, and that's only if you believe the public health people.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Dr Malone has an eye opening post about how Fauci has decreed vaccination is the only acceptable method.

Use of vitamin D, or other preventative or treatments won’t be investigated / funded.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/preventable-deaths-and-d3?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2&s=r

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Yes. Came out a few days ago. Very good. It's a religion for these knuckleheads.

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chuck99z28's avatar

I can say lots about that data though. 1. Without knowing the numbers of tests per dose level you can't tell if its skewed by low or high numbers of tests. 2. I would also suspect, those vax'd maybe less concerned about their personal environment. For example, I would not go to a crowded dance club.

But thats not to say it isn't concerning. It also confirms no durability.

There is supposed to be a Omicron 2.1 out. Still low impact compared to the old school Delta.

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Ginned up's avatar

Why wouldn't you go to a crowded dance club (assuming you like dance clubs)?

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chuck99z28's avatar

I personally don't like dance clubs but I was trying to use an example of a sweaty crowded place of fornicators trading bodily fluids with each other.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

There was also an article yesterday at the WSJ that pointed out that highly injected areas are experiencing high infection/hospitalization rates.

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

1) We Americans pay almost as much wholesale for diesel as Europeans, we produce an excess of diesel which is exported to Europe, their price greatly affects ours.

2) I was smart to hire the D6 dozer in Feb. @ $150/hr.

3) My decision to avoid the jab keeps looking better all the time.

4) I would have bet #21 across the board in the Kentucky Derby, but no off track betting in Texas, the surrounding states and Indian Nations own my state legislature.

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chuck99z28's avatar

I opt'd to keep my job. But I'm getting payback for that.

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