Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. Yeah, they love to remove random comments...
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  2. ​ @jacksonk.swaffardiii7820 That's what hostages are...
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  3. At least enough to be statistically significant. No medication or vaccine is 100% safe as there will always be a tiny percentage of the population who will have unusual reactions to them. As far as severe allergic reactions go, the rate is equal to what would be expected from any other vaccine. Also, the number of reported cases of low platelet counts (with some deaths as a result) by those who received vaccination within a couple of weeks prior is not any higher than what would be expected coincidentally for such conditions over that time period, so there's no strong argument that such reports are actually related to the vaccines. Even if they were connected, the numbers are as tiny as you'd expect when it comes to "fluke" reactions. One other thing to point out is that many of the deaths occurring within a few weeks of vaccination have been of those who are on hospice care or had DNR orders due to other health issues. If connected at all to the vaccines, at least some of those reactions would likely have been survivable otherwise.
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  4. Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't recognized internationally thus it is considered part of Ukraine. The incident occurred in that territory around 150 km away from Russia's recognized territory.
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  5.  @woutergeboers7470  It's money. The specific process they use to create it (which would normally be considered proprietary information) is what they don't want to reveal. What's in the final product is already known (a chemical analysis of the vaccine itself is generally all that's necessary for that.)
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  6. Non Black Sea state warships of 15,000 tons or less are permited to pass. UK destroyers are all under 10,000 tons.
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  7. The world will enjoy taking advantage of the UK's ultra-weak economic status for decades to come... You're a small Island nation with minimal natural resources that can't feed your population with your own farmland. What were you thinking?
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  8.  @davidm3614  Pfizer didn't accept any government development subsidies opting to eat the costs of R&D and production in favor of government contracts to buy their vaccine at a set price. AstraZeneca however received nearly 97% of their funding from international governments (thus ultimately from taxpayers) and charities while pricing their product to cover production/shipping costs (non profit does not mean free.) To date, the public cost of both vaccines comes out about the same. With AstraZeneca now in the process of phasing out their non profit approach, the overall public cost of their vaccine will likely end up being greater than Pfizer's.
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  9. The rubles only up because Putin has tied it to gold. Russia's economy is just weak enough for doing so to be of some temporary benefit. He's managed to buy a little more time but unless he can pull a rabbit out of a hat somewhat soon, it will ultimately lead to Russia's economy becoming stagnate and eventually collapsing. Assuming the ever increasing problems caused by the tech sanctions don't lead to chaos and economic collapse first.
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  10. Bah, just send Xi some honey and he'll be fine.
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  11. Personally, I would rate my own country's (US) cowardly refusal to honor our part of the Budapest Memorandum to be much more intolerable. Regardless of how much money and aid we throw at the problem trying to clear our conscience. We agreed to defend them militarily should Russia ever invade in return for Ukraine giving up it's nuclear weapons (their only real deterrent to such an invasion.) Russia invaded...twice (2014 and the present) and we have yet to keep our word. Had they not trusted us and chose to keep their nuclear weapons instead, both this invasion and that of Crimea previously would likely never have happened...
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  12. Their position has little to nothing to do with the science involved as the contents of the vaccine and the general science behind it's method of creation and how it functions in the body are known. It's the specific process they use to make it that they don't want to reveal. Were it any other product, that would be considered proprietary information. If you've read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, Pfizer's position is similar to that of the Rearden Steel company concerning their method of creating Rearden Metal.
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  13. It's the internet...trolls will be trolls.
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  14.  @aurorasstorm5877  21 days without food and water is the extreme upper limit. With water but no food, 6 to 8 weeks isn't unheard of (longer might be possible depending on a person's initial health condition.) I had a 90+ year old relative on hospice care who went two and a half weeks with neither before passing (eating stopped about a week before water.)
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  15. If you live in the US, leave traitor.
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  16. Because having two important pipeline systems ransomed by hackers would be preferable to just one? The Keystone pipeline was going to be even more remotely operated than the Colonial and thus would have been at least as vulnerable, if not more so.
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  17. That's been going on since we discovered war.
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  18. The chemical composition of the vaccine is already known. What they aren't releasing is the specific process used to make it. Were this any other product, that would be considered proprietary information.
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  19. The only thing Brexit's going to do is turn the UK back into England and leave them with minimal resources and an inability to feed their population with their own produce. They will have their economic status severely taken advantage of by the rest of the world. If they're lucky, they'll end up as a protectorate of the US in a couple of generations.
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  20. You're not wrong. However, "low man on the totem pole" is an old and common figure of speech. Were you to poll people on it, the vast majority would give it the same meaning she did. How often does someone bother to research the origin and accuracy of a saying they've heard and understood the (intended) meaning of since childhood?
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  21. In order to operate a business you need a license and must pass health/safety inspections etc. If you're fined and don't pay, they can simply revoke your license and/or shut you down for health code violations.
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  22. Feel free to leave traitor.
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  23. The flu numbers are down by quite a bit as expected. It's a respiratory illness so covid precautions affect it as well.
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  24. And apparently Russia thinks it controls more than the ~14% of the Black Sea they actually do... The UK ship was not in Russian territorial waters or their exclusive economic zone. Assuming Russia did actually fire such shots, the UK could make a decent argument for considering this an act of war.
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  25. Try harder troll.
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  26. Attempted coup. Our military chose to uphold the Constitution and not assist Trump in his attempt to steal the election.
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  27. Try again
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  28.  @saleemjavaid8870  Inflation and increased oil prices due to the oil related sanctions weakening supply.
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  29. The vast majority of those who died during the Spanish flu epidemic would have survived with modern healthcare. Also, it wouldn't have spread anywhere near what it did were it not for WW1 ending around the time the epidemic began. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning home brought it with them. Edit: When adjusted for modern healthcare etc., Spanish flu is far less contagious and has a much lower mortality rate than Covid 19.
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  30. Why would anyone care about youtube like/dislike ratios? Only a small fraction of the population view news stories here and only a small fraction of those bother with liking or disliking such videos. Those who do tend to be highly biased politically and/or bots and only use this medium so they can troll/spam the comment sections.
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  31.  @ManyMunchiesAndMore  It's not fake in that it technically exists. It's not exactly the most accurate bit of ancient storytelling out there though and some of it's morality tales are quite questionable when it comes to their...morality.
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  32. If you don't like it here, you're free to leave. No one will miss you.
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  33. Trying to save face for BRICS.
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  34. Mandates from the executive branch are considered "law" unless ruled unconstitutional.
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  35.  @dekardkain5469  Denmark's overall vaccination rate is ~80+% and the vaccines aren't very effective versus the delta and omicron strains (the strains which make up the majority of their infections.) With such a high vax rate, the vast majority of people catching delta/omicron variants are obviously going to be those who have been vaxed. The statistical study of Texas's covid data released awhile back clearly showed that the unvaccinated (who account for a far greater percentage of their population compared to Denmark) were ~30 times more likely to catch the early strains and at least 10 times as likely to catch the delta variant (the data was compiled before the omicron variant came along) than the vaxxed. With similar ratios when it came to deaths/hospitalizations. With each new variant, it's likely that the current vaccines will become obsolete soon. However, they were clearly shown to be effective against their original targets and thus future vaccines targeted at newer strains will most likely be just as effective and definitely worth having.
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  36. The military honored their oaths to defend the Constitution.
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  37. The election was fair. Trump lost.
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  38. Yeah, they kinda ate their economical gun on this one. They will be fun to plunder though.
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  39. Power plants that use pressurized or heavy water reactors already release tritium (the contaminant in the water Japan wants to release) into the atmosphere (as water vapor/waste water) on a regular basis (China is no exception...in fact, they're one of the leaders.) We've been ingesting small amounts of it regularly since our species has existed as it's created naturally when solar radiation colides with water vapor in the atmosphere and eventually falls as rain. The amount generated by power plants (edit:combined) per year is roughly equal to what is created naturally. The ocean is actually the best place to dispose of the Fukashima tritium since it comes in the form of water (replaces other isotopes of hydrogen in water molecules) and thus dilutes to trace amounts very quickly in large bodies of water. The countries trying to make a big deal out of this are doing so far more for political purposes than a concern for the health risk. Which is minimal since it's ingested as water, and doesn't stay in your system for long (a week at most.) Due to it's half life, very little of it will decay on average while making it's way through you.
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  40. Now is not the time for fairy tales... Things are getting a bit too serious.
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  41.  @glenndavis4452  Due to the limited area of the Black Sea, the exclusive economic zones for the Black Sea countries were mapped out and agreed upon between them decades ago. This incident occurred in what is recognized as Ukraine territory (Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't internationally recognized) at least 150 km away from Russia's recognized EEC.
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  42. Because what's in it is already known (chemical analysis of the actual vaccine is all that's necessary to determine that)... What they're not revealing is the specific process they use to make it (something that can't or can't easily be accomplished through reverse engineering.) Were it any other product, that would be considered proprietary information.
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  43. No... They don't want to reveal the specific process they use to make it. It's chemical composition is already known.
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  44. Those aren't really the problems with the law. The real problem is that, like those being passed in other states, they're designed to make managing elections in highly populated urban areas a nightmare for election workers while introducing no real additional hardships for rural areas. They're clearly biased against the bluest areas. The idea being that, in case of a Republican loss, there will be enough problems with the urban vote to challenge it.
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  45. Going by the comments, you should make it clear that the vaccine's chemical composition is known. It's the specific process used to make it that they aren't revealing. Were it any other product, this would be a non issue as it would be considered proprietary information.
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  46. They're keeping a decent amount of Comrade Putin's "military" tied up for one. Also, the hold outs are Azov battallion. They wouldn't obey an order to surrender were one given. They're far too nationalistic and would never be able to look at themselves in the mirror without hating what they see were they to do so.
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  47. Well, after watching Trump intentionally sabotage our national security out of spite over losing the election, I'm not that concerned with internal strife at the moment. We'll survive that like we always have. Weakening our defenses against outside threats however, is a problem.
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  48. The UK ship was not in Russian territorial waters or it's exclusive economic zone. Putin can go eff himself.
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  49. Probably around the last time the US did...
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  50. I've seen this exact comment on many videos and posted by different accounts. Does trolling for Comrade Putin really pay enough to sactifice your honor?
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