Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "CNBC Television" channel.

  1. Nobody tests side effects for anywhere near that long.
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  2.  @justthe2ofusindempines  High BP is also a massive sign for kidney issues, so maybe get that looked into just in case. I had high BP and it turned out to be a kidney function problem. Did the echo show anything? Usually that's to find and issues with the way the heart is functioning in acute areas, but myocarditis is usually diagnosed through a cardiac mri, and pericarditis through an x-ray. ECGs can show show normal for both illnesses.
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  3.  @Songstarify  Long covid is just a broad group of people who suffer from long term side effects from covid. ME/CFS also has nothing to do with high BP. In fact CFS patients usually have much lower blood pressure overall. The relationship between viral infection and heart inflammation is much more likely, especially given how common it is.
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  4.  @jondoe2099  He increased the deficit to artificially and temporarily inflate the economy. This artificial inflation was passed off as a tax cut for the regular people, while about 90% of cuts went to the richest Americans, as well as corporations and large businesses. The result of which was that the "black swan" even of this decade hit, that being covid, and the deficit has nowhere to go but up. Instead of relying on more stable growth or using addition funding on long-term projects that would eventually benefit the economy and stimulate consistent and steady growth, they took a shortcut. The end result was a deficit increase from $585 billion in 2016, to $984 billion in 2019, then $3129 billion in 2020. But sure, keep stroking the ego of the only president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during their presidency. When you have to go back to the great depression to find worse stats, it really points to the colossal screwup that was Trump's fiscal policies.
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  5. Try again Dmitri.
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  6.  @mikhailtolstykh4104  You mean the state that locked down and their deaths dropped, then when they relaxed restrictions the infections went up?
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  7.  @lifethroughromans8295  History? The land didn't originally belong to the Jews, and they controlled the region for only around 400 years. You may as well give the area to Egypt if history is your guide.
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  8.  Abcr Rgh  It's funny how you very clearly laid out exactly why Israel IS an apartheid state, then tried to walk it back, all in the same comment.
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  9.  @danielwatson3273  And he pocketed all that cash. Lol, what a joke.
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  10.  @charlescharlemagne4907  Says the Frenchy. Go back to your wine and cheese froggy.
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  11. That's what we call people who catch it.
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  12.  @rocknrobert1  Pretty sure we were screaming at someone who was definitely not in the sky.
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  13.  @boofert.washington2499  The majority? We had an election and we have opinion polls. You are not the majority.
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  14.  @ricksanchez9798  You think the government buying a product that has already been produced means that product's development was subsidised? Are you serious right now?
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  15.  @ricksanchez9798  "what usually happens when a business sells a lot of product all at once? they get bigger and make more product" And? They can only sell on delivery, and they can only deliver if it works. Your original argument was that the government is buying the product regardless, which is just not true if the product didn't work. "think about it, if someone paid you just for your idea, wouldn't you use that to make that idea??? Problem is, now the "investor" owns that idea" That's not how that works at all. The jabs are original and created by the pharma companies themselves. Buying a finished product from someone isn't the same as investing at the ground level. Pfizer took zero Operation Warp Speed investment. Your analogy falls through because it just isn't true. Never mind the other issues surrounding it.
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  16. Moscow is Ottoman........historically.
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  17. Overtaken in what context? Healthcare? Education? School shootings? The US military could stand to lose a few pounds, especially after we just got out of a 20 year war.
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  18.  @alsilva3720  There isn't a bill, they haven't written it yet. According to the general plan however, yes around 5% is going to roads and bridges. They are also putting money into Amtrak, climate-related disaster resilience, road safety, airport upgrades, ports, public transit, electric vehicle chargers, retrofitting homes, high-speed broadband, school upgrades, water infrastructure, improving the electric grid, VA hospitals and clinics, public housing, cleaning up abandoned wells, clean energy, community college upgrades, federal building modernization, childcare facility upgrades, caregiver funding for elderly and disables, domestic manufacturing support, American workforce development infrastructure and worker protection, upgrade research labs, climate tech, domestic industry capacity monitoring, dislocated worker programs, new technology foundation, and research and development for small businesses. Lots of things that will pay dividends in the future overall.
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  19.  @Ontheroxxwithsalt  The right can't balance a budget, but sure, the left are the issue.
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  20.  @FilterExel  Sounds like Keystone XL. At least this infrastructure plan will be for something useful, and not a pipeline between 2 places we already have a pipeline between.
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  21.  @lulu111593  According to the CDC the vast majority of those 94% didn't have life threatening conditions. Obesity is considered a comorbidity, but that's already about 42% of the country. Then enter things like diabetes, asthma, COPD, kidney disease, HIV, heart disease, liver disease, transplants, pregnancy, tobacco users or any sort of immunodeficiency. The vast majority of these deaths are in people who were weakened by their conditions, but certainly not at death's door. If you then look at excess deaths year over year the numbers get worse.
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  22.  @robotron17  "Did you know that RC peaks at 20CT and falls to 0 at 35CT?" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Do you have any idea what you just wrote? How can you spout this nonsense. Replication competence has NOTHING to do with PCR cycles you absolute nonce. The number of cycles indicated how much of something there is, IE the viral load. The ability of that virus to replicate has nothing to do with how much of it there is. That's like asking how many jelly beans are in a jar and you respond with "they're green". What an absolute joke. Why are you even commenting on PCR when you don't understand even the basics? You still think you can test positive with no current or prior infection don't you? Seriously, it's embarrassing.
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  23. You know he has a press secretary for that right? Her entire job is to meet with the press on his behalf.
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  24. Even if every single one of those deaths was caused by the vaccines, which it absolutely was not as they follow up on all of these reports, then it would still be hundreds of times safer than covid.
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  25.  @robotron17  Oh sure. You stomping your little feet and declaring that you don't believe in antigen testing, after posting a study that has results that rely on antigen testing, is "destroying my credibility". You destroyed yourself, you're just too simple to understand it.
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  26.  @robotron17  A lot to unpack here so lets dive in: 1. The extra payouts are irrelevant. The cancellation of procedures combined with hospital safety measures means that hospitals made less money during the pandemic. 2. What's even more irrelevant is that your argument relies on testing being wrong to support your claims of extra payments being exploited. No evidence of this has been found, and every single snippet of information you send to prove your case seems to just do the opposite. When you are relying on antigen data in your source to disprove PCR, only to tell me that antigen tests are wrong 1 hour later, you don't have a leg to stand on. Your whole argument falls flat, extra payments or not. 3. You're using the term Dunning-Kruger wrong. People can't be DK, they are instead examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. For instance, when you claim that PCRs can detect virus in people who were never sick, then completely shutdown and stomp your feet when I explain what cycles are. Those kinds of little hissy fits are your brain failing to comprehend what was said, and rationalising it by declaring victory. THAT is the Dunning-Kruger effect. A shameful attempt at rationalising what you perceive to be an irrational world.
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  27. I'm sure it has nothing to do with US refineries being shutdown, the massive freeze in Texas or increasing international demand. Probably just something to do with oil barons stocking up to spike Biden or something.
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  28.  @tinmanx2222  Because the oil price is based on global demand.
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  29.  @tinmanx2222  That's not how demand works.
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  30.  @tinmanx2222  That's not how that works.
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  31.  @tinmanx2222  Wow, how insightful.
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  32. Senate made some changes so house has to pass it again. Biden is expected to sign before the unemployment extension runs out on Sunday.
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  33.  @Trippy_solutions  Not a joke at all. For every dollar spent on unemployment benefits the economy sees double put back into it.
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  34. The $600B is for transportation infrastructure. They are also looking to spend: $580B on manufacturing, research, development and jobs training. $300B on drinking water, broadband and electric grid infrastructure. $300B on affordable housing retrofitting and school upgrades. $400B to care for elderly and disabled. So about 83% is directly into one line of infrastructure or another. The rest is for the elderly. Transportation spending pays dividends through economic growth, as does job creation through the other project and increased broadband access. In total this will probably net a lot for the economy, as infrastructure spending usually does.
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  35.  @macarenaturcattideleon5642  "What will help our economy is open blue states and stop killing jobs" Biden has no control over how open or closed blue states are. The plan he has proposed will create jobs. "don’t increase our taxes when business are struggling" If a business has no new profits then they don't pay taxes. The idea that struggling businesses are effected by changes to tax rates is a misnomer. "increase wages when people don’t have jobs" Increasing wages will uplift the economy, stimulating billions in spending, and adding billions to tax revenue. "2T money isn’t going to infrastructure" Right, about 80%+ is though. The rest is going to elderly care, as I explained above. "1.9T didn’t went to American people! Only 9% of the 1.9T went to the American people" Incorrect. The stimulus cheques alone made up over 20% of that funding. Almost all the rest of the funding also went back to the American people. Small business loans, unemployment payments, SNAP benefits, expanded tax credits, covid response, healthcare are all directly to us. The rest helps the American people in less direct ways. Broadly quoting the number 9% (which was a reference to only the direct stimulus payments as a percentage of the entire omnibus bill) is so stupid I'm not sure where to start. "You are entitled to your on opinion not to your facts" Which is why I am stating the actual facts and not Fox News talking points based on lies. "Everything is Billions and Trillions in this administration" Almost like they're trying to stimulate the economy or something. "Infrastructure in other words means money flowing into corrupt politicians packets and we the taxpayers get the bill to pay of all this printed money" No, infrastructure funding means building and upgrading the many many out of date pieces of US infrastructure. This included: 56,000 structurally deficient bridges in the US, and over 200,000 that are more than 50 years old. 15,500 high hazard dams. Over 1 million drinking water pipes that are over 100 years old. Almost all US power grid transmission and distribution lines being over 60 years old, with a life expectancy of just 50 years. Funding for levees to protect from flooding. Various national parks projects that need attention. Port overhauls needed to replace small ports that cannot accommodate larger and larger ships. Hugely outdate railways that need a massive amount of funds for not just repairs, but also new high-speed lines that could make billions for the economy. Crumbling roads, with a backlog of $836 billion in unmet capitol needs to repair and replace the 32% of urban and 14% of rural broken roads. 24% of school buildings in fair and poor condition that need upgrades and repairs. Distinct lack of recycling pretty much anywhere in the country. $90 billion in backlogged public transit projects. Building over 500 new wastewater treatment plants. All of these projects will also create jobs. So are you in favour of job creation or not?
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  36.  @macarenaturcattideleon5642  Yes, how are I present a list of US infrastructure projects desperately in need of funding. I've only made my mind up because I already looked at the facts.
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  37. @Solstice of Snow No, it won't. Pushing funds into stuff like this pays dividends. They are investing in the future to improve the economy. Take unemployment for example. Every dollar paid into unemployment ends up being 2 back into the economy. Funding roads improves transit which also ends up back in the economy. There is a long list of things this helps, but basically, funding transportation always pays well in the long run.
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  38.  @soundco  I know you believe that, but it's just not true. When their taxes were dropped a couple of years ago did products suddenly cost less?
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  39. ...which was used to fund terrorism.
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  40. Green projects create more jobs than traditional energy project, if you want job creation then start there. As for bailing out states, yes I'm sure the failing Republican states that receive handouts year over year will need the bailout again.
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  41.  @jwoods9659  "Name one green job, aside from the largest one" lol Okay, wind turbine technician, grid integration engineer, energy transition specialist, renewable estimator and renewable energy designer. Then there are all the jobs that can be created when making these renewable products like: Solar panels made in a dozen different states. Wind turbine manufactures like GE Renewable Energy and PacWind. Hydroelectric dam contraction jobs. US biofuel manufacturing, which also reduces our reliance on oil. Geothermal energy jobs, which could in reality be the real key to heating millions of homes for almost nothing, and are made by US HVAC companies, and installed by qualified geotechnical engineers. At the end of the day the green energy sector creates more jobs per KWh than any other sector, and currently employs over 3 million Americans.
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  42.  @bobmodica5703  Doubt it, I'm not a Trump supporter.
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  43.  @svalliance8373  Trump literally hid in a bunker in the white house during DC protests.
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  44. Remember all the times that didn't happen?
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  45.  @mrarcher9095  God you're a loon. Stick to your echo chambers dude.
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  46. Which poll?
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  47.  @timchaney4729  Who even cares. The dems have passed a lot of stuff in just 2 years, more than previous presidents.
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  48.  @paulhare662  Private purchases require no background checks. Really not that hard to explain.
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  49.  @Raptoraddict6610  Voting this way has been used for well over a century in the US. Amusingly France is actually having talks about reinstating the postal vote due to the success of the US elections.
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  50.  @annawhite1430  AZ only has about 67% protection against the delta variant. You are also far more likely to see the vaccinated walking around, making the chances of getting sick and dying more likely. That being said, according to your own numbers, less than half of the people who caught the delta variant and died had been vaccinated, making it still much safer overall given that 53% of the population are fully vaccinated, and 69% have at least 1 dose. So with a larger population of vaccinated people, and more than enough reasons for them to be more likely to catch covid, they still died less from the virus. Sounds like a success to me.
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