U.S Buys 300 Million Covid Vaccines from Gates-Affiliated Drug Maker

.mid ‘80’s
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Age, or decade?

My age is in the 70’s, and I started Fortran in 1966, making my living using mainframes and PCs.

I try to keep doing math in my head. Calculating MPG to one decimal, after a fillup, while driving down the road.

Sometimes it surprises the cashiers how fast I can calc the tax, or discount. WHAT, you were right, how did you do that.

“”Age, or decade?””

AGE and you have a gift. I’m probably 10 years older and doing anything mathematical in my head would give me a headache. I sit in on tests that doctors put my husband through - counting backward from 100 by 7...I’ve done that at night when I can’t go to sleep until it dawned on me my mind needs to rest not count!!! It is fun tho’.

counting backward from 100 by 7...I’ve done that at night when I can’t go to sleep until it dawned on me my mind needs to rest not count!!! It is fun tho’.
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Try this lying in bed at night:

What is the inverse of 10, i.e., 1/10?

Then the same for 11
then 12
then 13
...

Go the other way:
1/9
1/8
1/7
...

get a fraction, as a decimal, which gives a percent.

Get them close, get a pattern, and you will be ready when the lying news (oops) gives a statistic.

You can say, Hey, that’s about xxx percent, or 1/nth of whatever.

Like 1/5 = 20 percent
1/6 =~ 17%
1/7 =~ 14%
1/8 =~ 12%
1/9 =~ 11%
1/10 = 10% An easy one

Then they can be reversed
1/11 9%
1/12 8%
1/14 7%
1/17 6%
1/20 5%

If they are in between, estimate accordingly.

Numbers are our friend(s), there are lots of them.

And ... they even have colors, which may vary for the individual.

No No No - why do you think I stick with counting back by 7 from 100? Anything beyond that is BEYOND my ability. I was born with MATH ANXIETY! Do you think that was fun getting through Math Regents exams in the New York State school system? Scarred me for life... I did work for 60+ years as a full charge bookkeeper and loved it and pleasantly learned that I did not need any of what they tried to teach me in school. Debits were debits and Credits were credits and keep track of which was which and apply them accurately and you’re home free. Income and Outgo - pretty simple. Who needed fancy-schmancy book larnin’ for that?

I had an 8th grade Math teacher who threw up her hands after I got to her class as she’d had two of my sisters and one brother in her class and said we were all the same!!! I always blamed it on our parents who talked at the “supper” table about “hating” arithmetic....

I wasn’t going to make that mistake with our daughter and what do you know? She hated it too!! Without me ever opening my mouth about it! Her dad never found numbers of any kind to be a chore or problem - sailed through all math courses in high school and college.. We had a flight school in Southern CA for years and he wanted to teach me how to fly and I knew enough to know that I wouldn’t be able to plot a training flight etc., so I politely (are you nuts?) declined. Did take the 10 hour pinch hitting course from him in case something happened to him at the controls and I’d have to land a plane but I told him I’d rather be shot down. I wasn’t kidding.

“”I will NOT be taking ANY vaccine that come from Gates NO WAY!!!””

That’s for sure. I even detest using his Windows programs....messed me up royally last week by installing A NEW EDGE BROWSER in the weekly update. Had to have my computer guy come to the house and straighten my computer out. It’s a laptop and no way I can get it to his shop anymore.

I wish Gates would take a long walk off a short pier - don’t much care where - just so he ends up 20 feet deep with no knowledge of how to swim. He really needs to just disappear!!

You’ve heard about the program in Atlanta going door to door to get blood samples from people for the CDC? HA! They may get away with it IN Atlanta but I don’t think they want to try it in Metro Atlanta. One guy was on camera saying he thought it was such a good idea and the workers identified themselves as CDC, had CDC on their jackets so he didn’t have a problem with it. WOW - and some have wondered why Hitler didn’t meet any resistance!

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