NEW: Orange line shows COVID infections among unvaccinated 70+ citizens in Israel. Blue line shows COVID infections among vaccinated 70+ citizens. It couldn't be starker. Among the triple vaccinated, the pandemic comes to a virtual halt. Graph from @GazitDoron.
@nytimes Federal and state governments and WHO kept sending mixed messages and confusing directives about every type of COVID testing, progressively politicizing the process. With commercial enterprise left guessing, they will be wrong often enough...
@DanPriceSeattle@papa_raw The deduction is for the interest on the mortgage, not the overall cost. Increasing "affordability" directly inflates the price. The actual subsidy is to the lenders getting to place larger loans and realtors + developers selling more expensive properties.
@ole_b_peters It appears that the future makes no effort to be predictable. A confluence of Dunning-Kruger and wishful / magical thinking results in predictions that are worse than random. Overly positive and overly negative predictions monetize better than neutral. Alas...