And here I was hoping for some interesting/insightful comments. Didn’t realise how easy it was to get everyone’s set off on covid conspiracies again 🤦‍♂️

Did you heard about Intelligence Artificial

You got me at "According to LinkedIn".

I agree.

Here’s a good article on long term post covid heart complications:

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and-the-heart-it-spares-no-one

While I see your point and agree with it mostly. One could still make a case that at least in some key metrics like average age, life expectancy, physicians per 1000 inhabitants NZ and the USA are rather similar. While e.g. the average South African is roughly 10 years younger (38 vs 28 yrs)...

Did you by chance read the rest of the report. I mean just a few graphs above show the increases in excess deaths is FL, GA, TN, and TX. All of which had no vaccine mandates, just the opposite of what you are implying. Just more anti vax clap trap

That is done by reducing viral load. They also didn't claim it stopped all infection, but reducing probability of infection has the effect of reducing infections.

it's a link to an article.

This just isn't true. It's bizarre that you would claim something so patently false.

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This is super cool to see. I wonder where the AWS CDK ranks on this list. We’ve recently transitioned from Terraform to using the CDK, but use a lot of the technologies listed here like Docker, Ansible, and GitLab’s CI/CD.

> August of 2021 (when delta became prevalent) that the vaccine no longer prevented infection

Completely false and nonsensical, to the point that “not even wrong” applies. No vaccine ever was purported to “prevent” infection; instead, they reduce the probability, and lessen severity if you do catch it. Even the first vaccine still has efficacy along those lines. It’s true that efficacy is reduced after the first few weeks, but there is still plenty of benefit left over.

While the other party has a great track record of massively cutting taxes mostly for the extremely wealthy, sending the deficit through the roof. Case in point, we had a budget surplus when Clinton left office. W said that meant Americans were being overcharged and pushed for big tax cuts, putting us right back into deficits. Most recently Trump did it, making a big deficit bigger.

Good point I guess

Correct.

Now look at deficits. Debt keeps going up until we decrease deficits.

And one party has a great track record of decreasing deficits for the past 40 years of White House control.

I am vaccinated, a believer in vaccines and a proponent of the vaccines for those who benefit, rather than these "spray and pray" policies that follow the political science more than the medical science and cause more anti-vax sentiment in the long run

Not news. Both parties love a blank check. The debt comes from unchecked madmen who continue to increase the debt ceiling to reclassify their own contribution to our "debt".

Bunch of imbeciles in these comments if you believe this bullshit

The chart in the linked article is pretty nice.

The point, remember, is attractive and informative visualizations, not data/facts that you like.

exactly my point with New Zealand

But simple minds need simple answers.

How do you figure?

US debt increases are independent of party in power, except for the fact that republicans increase the debt, while democrats decrease the debt.

by the way, this is not "data is beautiful".

You want to talk about how to cut expenses, raise revenue, or both to reduce the debt fine but that's a seperate dicussion from the debt-ceiling.

The debt ceiling pertains to spending already incurred--paying your credit card bill in a sense--and it should go without saying that not paying your liabilities results in a default.

Unless the party in power wants the U.S. to default, of course they're going to increase the debt-ceiling.