Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "I Allegedly"
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@polarbear5740 You're on the east coast, Atlantic Ocean.
These ships are transporting goods from Asia (Pacific Ocean, aka west coast).
The shortest route is to the west coast then over land, rerouting things to the east coast would be more expensive.
If you're buying a product from a store on the east coast then sure, it might be shipped in to the east coast, that's part of why you have a job.
But often if it arrives from Asia, it's shipped to the west coast, then by train to some centrally located warehouse.
Things are repackaged and redistributed all over the country, including to the east coast.
And it makes sense to keep a central storage area that can reach all of America, you don't have to pay for as storing things as many places that way but you can still ship everywhere.
The companies in question probably already have deals with freight lines and truckers to transport things between the west coast and those distribution hubs.
They'll have to pay for that regardless.
So shipping in from the east coast would cost them money both for a new contract from the east coast and in, but also continued expenses on the west coast.
As for the companies delivering products on the west coast, they're probably still payed the same amount on long term contracts, so they can't afford to give their employees a raise, yet due to the corona situation there's lots of other jobs with higher wages and the costs of everything has risen due to inflation.
So what you can buy for the wages you get from those companies is essentially falling.
So no one wants to take those jobs.
And things won't get shipped as they're supposed to.
And the companies in question are probably also running at a loss for the duration of those long term contracts and till they can renegotiate their deals...
The UK is having similar issues...
Since there's not enough truck drivers etc the containers fills up the yards on the west coast.
Since those yards are filling up there's no room to unload cargo into.
Since there's no room the ships ends up having to wait in queue before unloading.
And since they wait there the containers are not available in Asia for their products there.
And so one and so forth...
It's all connected...
As for the idea of the US producing things yourselves...
Most people in the US wouldn't be able to afford most of the products that would be produced in the US if they where produced there...
The reason why products are produced elsewhere is because there for some reason or other a competitive advantage there.
Sometimes it's cheaper highly educated population, for instance engineers are cheaper to employ in my own country then in the US.
In other cases it's cheaper laborers, or cheaper raw materials, or local suppliers with patents not available in the US enabling them to produce something required more efficiently and so one and so forth.
People in different places are good at different things.
For instance Americans work much longer hours then Europeans tend to and US companies tends to be more focused on grabbing new potential revenue sources by expanding into more products, but Germanic peoples tends to have more focus on just making a single product and specializing in making it the best one there is of that type or in finding some kind of niche, investing in the company for generations and just in general trying to excel in the manufacture of that product.
That's the advantage that Germany has over the US for instance.
While my own country, also Germanic, but not Germany has cheaper highly educated work force like I mentioned so we focus a bit more on the development of those advanced products.
The US has focused more on the services of actually managing all of these various supply chains across the world.
So a company might do the production all over the world developing the parts in my own country, for instance the designs of the microchips, then perhaps producing those microchips in Taiwan, then producing most of the mechanical parts in Germany perhaps, and perhaps doing the assembly in China or Vietnam, all lead by a US headquarters, funded by US investors and share holders.
Who of course will pay money to US companies to service their needs, trickling down money into the rest of the US economy.
Although not efficiently enough given the growing difference in wealth between the upper class and everyone else in the US...
But yeah, the US is best in the world at figuring out how to put together a international company that actually works well, chaining together suppliers from all across the world into a whole, a supply chain that meets the companys needs.
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@polarbear5740 Thank you with regards to the work hours etc.
As for the vaccines.
They work.
We're using the same vaccines in Europe as you guys are.
And the results in terms of number of new infections are clear.
You're right that the vaccines are no gurantee of not getting sick.
They're protecting you from between 2/3 and 4/5 of all potential covid infections.
Less for newer strains that has evolved in a world where vaccines exist, more for older strains that the vaccines where actually designed for.
Yes, these new vaccines do have side effects, like most drugs.
And my country has stopped using the jonson vaccine for most people.
And we've increased the restrictions on who should get Modena.
If you're worried about your health then Pfizer has the least risk of side effects, but it's also the least effective vs Covid.
Modena has more risk of side effects, but is more effective against Covid.
Jonson is even more effective but has a even higher risk of side effects...
Basically the vaccines are a fake attack on the body forcing your body into "plasting up wanted posters" all over your body identifying the virus, preparing it to fight the actual vaccine.
The more the vaccine "scares" the body the more agressive the body will fight back against any sign of the virus.
But rilling up the immune system also means that the immune system might have "friendly fire", attacking your own body.
Including your heart, lungs, brain etc...
(Because this virus attacks all of those areas, so the vaccine makes the body think those areas are attacked too)
Yes, I know, this is super simplified, and not necessarily 100% accurate, but it's close enough to give you a rough idea about what this is all about.
As a parallel imagine that the US was attacked by a terror attack, and the army implemented a curfew, keeping everyone indoor for most of the day.
One day or two of that might be okey.
But long term that would cause huge damage to the economy, making supply chains break down, people not getting their needs meet etc...
But there won't be any terrorist attacks.
Or you can do nothing and they'll have free reign.
You don't want either.
But it's hard to get a vaccine to get the exact right middleground, especially since everyones immune system is unique.
For instance people decending from the vikings often have issues with autoimmune diseases, with immune systems prone to attacking our own bodies.
So everything from allergies to rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and a whole host of other autoimmune diseases.
But on the other hand we hardly have sickle cell disease like my black american girlfriends family has to struggle with and that black americans and africans have to struggle a lot with.
In both cases the diseases where responses to other attacks on our body where people evolved to have these features because those reduced the risk of people dying from something worse.
Sickle cell disease protects you from HIV/AIDS, Malaria and it's believed it probably protected against the black death.
But of course you can die from having sickle cell disease...
So it's only a evolutionary advantage if you're more likely to die from other diseases before you can get children.
Likewise with the autoimmune diseases of the nordic region...
People adapted to their enviroment.
In the nordic case one possible reason for our autoimmune diseases where the frequency of parasites who discreted substances to calm our immune system.
If that's true then perhaps our immune systems evolved to fight diseases and parasites despite the methods that the parasites evolved to hinder our immune systems...
By simply being overly agressive.
Combined with the immunesupressing effect of the parasites our immune system would then work normally, but now that we've gotten rid of the parasites we're suffering from auto-immune diseases.
With these differences between people it's hard to get a vaccine that works perfectly on *everyone*.
Since you need enough stuff in it to "antagonize" the immune system so it'll react to the vaccine, yet you also need to keep the immune system from overreacting so much that people get sick or die.
The vaccines has pretty much nailed it.
But there's slight nuances there.
Just like there's nuances between different ethic groups in how their immune systems works.
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