Posted on 11/01/2021 7:22:22 AM PDT by weston
When I mailed a letter, at a local mail box, yesterday....I saw a lady standing outside of her car, with her mask barely pulled down.....puffing away on a cigarette.
The smoke was blowing out/all around that nasty mask. Oh well, what does she care (I thought to myself, I said).
Good morning, dear s&sf!!
Dr Mercola calls it, again.
I think I’m just shocked that he hasn’t been banned, from twitterville.
I’d like to know what he died of. Blood clots? Heart inflammation?
Then she’d have to smell that cigarette smoke on her mask all day. Ick!
Was just about to post that (from the FR thread).
Loved this reply....
Coincidence sure seems to be a side effect, of these “vax”s.
She was puffing so hard, on that cigarette, while staring at her cell phone, that I KNOW she didn’t see my 😱, as I drove past.
Joe Biden Calls Satchel Paige "The Great Negro" - Media Immediately Says Biden Did Not Say What You Saw Him Say - The Last Refuge
Comrades, the ministry of truth does not want you to misunderstand what Joe Biden is saying in these prepared remarks. Do not believe your eyes and ears, Joe Biden…
Austria is just “days away” from imposing a new lockdown that would exclusively prevent unvaccinated people from leaving their homes for anything other than “essential” reasons.
Chancellor vows to make unjabbed “suffer.”
$6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/investigative-reports/operation-warp-speed/
Wow, I was thinking yesterday steak instead of bacon.
Thanks lysie, you are the best.
Sad.
🤣😂🤣😂
Yes, it's amazing people aren't priced out of the market. Smoking meth is probably cheaper. In the short run anyway.
So sad.....to see these heroes, who worked so hard, LAST YEAR, on the front lines, being treated like criminals, under this regime.
Glad to see Laura Ingraham had the one nurse (?) on her show.
True.
Consumer sentiment hits 10-year low while workers quit jobs in record numbers
FRI, NOV 12 2021 10:42 AM EST UPDATED 27 MIN AGO
FTA
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index tumbled to 66.8 for November, representing the lowest level in 10 years.
Inflation concerns weighed on consumers, with 1 in 4 reporting scaled-back standards of living.
A separate report showed that more than 4.4 million workers left their jobs, a fresh record.
Consumer confidence hit a 10-year low in November as inflation climbed to the highest levels since the early 1990s, complicating efforts from policymakers to sell the case that the current surge of price increases is temporary.
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index tumbled to 66.8 for November, according to a preliminary reading Friday. That was the lowest since November 2011 and well below the Dow Jones estimate of 72.5. October’s reading was 71.7, meaning that the November level represented a 6.8% drop.
The survey showed consumers expecting still-higher rates of inflation, with the 12-month forecast nudging up to 4.9%.
“Consumer sentiment fell in early November to its lowest level in a decade due to an escalating inflation rate and the growing belief among consumers that no effective policies have yet been developed to reduce the damage from surging inflation,” said Richard Curtin, the survey’s chief economist.
The survey showed 1 in 4 consumers reducing their living standards due to price increases, while half of all families anticipated reduced real income in the year ahead when adjusted for inflation.
Seemingly robust increases in average hourly earnings, which rose 4.9% in October from a year ago, still have not kept pace with inflation, bringing real wages down by 1.2% from the same period in 2020.
“Rising prices for homes, vehicles, and durables were reported more frequently than any other time in more than half a century,” Curtin added.
The gauge also indicated a low level of belief that policymakers are acting appropriately to handle inflation, which ran at a 6.2% rate for October, according to the consumer price index released Wednesday.
The news on consumer sentiment comes with President Joe Biden’s popularity levels dropping as consumers increasingly worry about inflation.
Earlier this week, the White House rolled out a few proposals to try to help, including trying to alleviate cargo backlogs at major ports. Tie-ups in supply chains are helping drive the price increases, as is strong demand from consumers and escalating gas prices as the administration has sought to clamp down on fossil fuels.
The Federal Reserve faces a similar dilemma as it seeks to meet its mandate for price stability without raising interest rates. Central bank officials said last week they expect to start withdrawing their policy support, but only incrementally with small reductions in monthly bond purchases until the program is finished, likely by early summer 2022.
Republican critics blame the trillions in government spending and loose Fed policy for helping fan the inflation fire. Both Biden and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell have said they expect the inflationary pressures to ease later next year.
Job quits hit a record
Despite the continued decline in how people feel about the economy, workers again left their jobs in record numbers during September.
In a sign of confidence for the labor market, 4.43 million people quit, part of what some have called “The Great Resignation,” the Labor Department reported Friday. That number topped August’s 4.27 million and bought the quits rate as a percentage of the labor force to 3%, also a record.
The September total was 1.1 million higher for the same month a year ago, when the quits rate was just 2.3%.
At the industry level, the quits rate for leisure and hospitality rose to 6.4%, a 0.3 percentage point gain from a month ago and owing to a big jump in arts, entertainment and recreation, which surged to 5.7% from 3.2%. Accommodation and food services held steady at 6.6%, the highest of any industry, as is typical.
Those who have quit their jobs this year largely have gone onto positions with higher salaries.
The Atlanta Fed’s wage growth tracker shows pay up 3.6% overall in September from a year ago, with job switchers seeing a 4.3% increase. Gains have been skewed to higher earners, with the top quartile seeing a 12-month increase of 4.9%.
Hires totaled 6.46 million for the month, a slight decline from August.
That exodus from current positions came as available jobs remained elevated.
The Labor Department in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey said there were 10.44 million employment openings, well above the 7.68 million people looking for jobs in September. JOLTS data runs a month behind the department’s widely watched nonfarm payrolls report.
Job openings in September were expected to total 10.46 million, according to FactSet.
San Francisco leaders say they want to stop drugs from killing 700+ people/year but in quieter moments they say they can’t
“We can’t end overdoses until we end poverty, until we end racism,” said the head of the SF’s drug OD prevention program https://t.co/XHGnekZprQ— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 12, 2021
Lol well, no, but I am wondering if I’m missing something here. I guess it would be handy to clean all the sauce and grease off my face right away. Having said that, I have a walk-in shower, and that would not go well. Waiting to hear back from dj after she gets home tonight lol - my guess is she takes delivery of a piping hot pizza, gets in the tub for 15 minutes to power down, then enjoys her warm pizza (the kind that the piping hot sauce hiding under the cheese does not burn the skin off the roof of your mouth) while she sits and catches up on the thread lol.
Lawyers smell blood in the water.
The CDC admitted it has no record of an unvaccinated person spreading Covid after recovering from Covid in response to an attorney’s FOIA request.
A New York attorney filed a FOIA request in September asking for “documents reflecting any documented case of an individual who (1) never received a Covid-19 vaccine; (2) was infected with Covid-19 once, recovered, and then later became infected again; and (3) transmitted SARS CoV-2 to another person when reinfected.”
The CDC responded: “A search of our records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to your request. The CDC Emergency Operation Center (EOC) conveyed that this information is not collected.”
Senator Rand Paul
@RandPaul
Dr. Fauci, great news! T cell immunity after natural infection shown to include variants. Do we still need to wear multiple masks after we’ve recovered or been vaccinated?
CD8+ T cell responses in COVID-19 convalescent individuals target conserved epitopes from multiple...
This study examined whether CD8+ T-cell responses from COVID-19 convalescent individuals(n=30) potentially maintain recognition of the major SARS-CoV-2 variants. Out of 45 mutations assessed, only...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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