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this was not surprising "because the vaccines are not 100% effective". "They're very, very effective, but not 100%, and as a higher proportion of the population is double-vaccinated, it's inevitable that those 10% of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital."

Today has been another busy news day for all of us. Another great job by the FReepers keeping us all up to date by posting the articles and by those FReepers making comments on the threads to keep us all even better informed. Please don't forget that the FReepathon fundraiser is still in progress even though it may get buried in Breaking News from time to time due to the important events of the day. Also please do not forget that without FR we would be searching high and low, spending a lot of time just trying to find those...

~ EXCERPT ~ In his budget speech earlier this week, President Obama described his budget plan this way: It’s an approach that achieves about $2 trillion in spending cuts across the budget. It will lower our interest payments on the debt by $1 trillion. It calls for tax reform to cut about $1 trillion in tax expenditures — spending in the tax code. And it achieves these goals while protecting the middle class, protecting our commitment to seniors and protecting our investments in the future. Now with all these plans floating around — the debt commission, Paul Ryan’s — Goldman...