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drocer88··on Dow rallies more than 700 points after record surge in U.S. jobs
Here's ADP's latest report : https://adpemploymentreport.com/2020/May/NER/NER-May-2020.as...

ADP's report has some revised methods, too: https://adpemploymentreport.com/common/docs/ADP-NER-FAQ.pdf

drocer88··on Dow rallies more than 700 points after record surge in U.S. jobs
Atlanta feds predictions of 2020 Q2 GDP : https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/cqer/researchcq...
drocer88··on In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
How about having the judge do some questioning?
drocer88··on In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
No. Mississippi will vote Republican and New York will vote Democratic. They need to run someone that can appeal to the swing states: Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio.
drocer88··on A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
Um. No. The press took the bait .
drocer88··on A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
A lot of people got hung up in the politics of this issue. A prominent politician endorsed using hydroxycholoroquine.

Bill Maher recently made a good point: "Liberals are falling into lionizing someone because because they are the anti-Trump. Even before the virus America had a far too chronically sick population which is one reason we've lost so many now. We need to demand something better than how the entrenched medical establishment manages symptoms but cures and heals far too little".

I guess pushing "the narrative" was more important than the science.

drocer88··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IfyI69IQSg
drocer88··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
What events were you at? Everything is on video these days somewhere. Can you point us to an online video example that you were at?
drocer88··on Study of the effect of Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin B12 on Covid-19 patients
The authors address the issue of small sample size in the Discusson section:

"This study was conducted under difficult dynamic circumstances and is thus limited by the small sample size, and the lack of systematic biologic measures to support its findings. It is however a proof-of-principle effort with very promising results. Our findings would need to be further validated in a well-designed randomized study."

drocer88··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
Use duck duck go or qwant.
drocer88··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
The buck stops at the mayor's office.

We need to hold these officials accountable.

Blaming the police is like blaming the soldiers in a war.

It's the regional ELECTED leaders responsible for the budgets and operations of the police departments who are the problem.

drocer88··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/upshot/police-killings-of...
drocer88··on Scientists Question Validity of Major Hydroxychloroquine Study
Dang, I'm not complaining. Do you have an issue with me?

edit: Ok. I get it.

drocer88··on Scientists Question Validity of Major Hydroxychloroquine Study
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23369904
drocer88··on Scientists Question Validity of Major Hydroxychloroquine Study
A lot of people got hung up on the politics.
drocer88··on Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
Can't they find photos from others, examine the angle of your photos and prove it was you that took the pictures? They can also subpeona your carrier for records indicating you were a location at a certain time.

I can see some diligent prosecutors going back and looking at data to gather evidence.

drocer88··on Reduced Vitamin K Status as a Modifiable Prognostic Risk Factor in Covid-19
You're better off with green leafy vegetables. Upshot of the preprint research is that Vitamin K may be beneficial in breaking up the blood clots in COVID-19. Extrahepatic vitamin K status was severely reduced in Covid-19 patients, as reflected by elevated inactive MGP, and related to poor outcome. Procoagulant prothrombin activity remained preserved in the majority of Covid-19 patients, which is compatible with the increased thrombogenicity that is frequently observed in severe Covid-19. Impaired MGP activation was linked to accelerated elastic fiber degradation and premorbid vascular calcifications.
drocer88··on The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now
Perhaps you need to compare with 3X bull equity portfolios for a better comparison.
drocer88··on The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now
According to Professor Damodaran's data here : http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ (See Historical Returns on Stocks, Bonds and Bills - United States ), Average returns from stocks from 1994 to 2019 was 11.36% and returns for T-Bonds were 5.51%, pretty close to their 1928-2019 average returns of 11.57% and 5.15% .

These results are not inflation adjusted.

drocer88··on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
"This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold to advertisers or any other third parties. "

Does this mean it "will not be shared with or rented to" advertisers?

drocer88··on New Zealand relied on science and empathy
Most of the countries that ran balanced budgets performed well : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
drocer88··on Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients
Does this include the liability costs?
drocer88··on March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
There were a lot of firsts in March 2020.
drocer88··on South Korea reports recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive again
Key passage from the text:

Kim also said patients had likely “relapsed” rather than been re-infected.

False test results could also be at fault, other experts said, or remnants of the virus could still be in patients’ systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others.

“There are different interpretations and many variables,” ...

drocer88··on A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal
A lot of folks are going to take the traditional advice of having 6 months of living expenses in emergency savings seriously this time.
drocer88··on Coronavirus and Credibility
If you're getting your "news" from CNN/Fox/MSNBC, or "gathering evidence" to promote one the two permitted narratives, that's your problem. This is stuff is low effort "Presidential Level Politics" 24x7. Real news died when reporters stopped having to craft a story so that the Associated Press or United Press International picked it up and made it available to the varied local newspapers of America, both liberal and conservative. The old CNN that actually did news, not talk show shenanigans reminiscent of old school Howard Stern, is missed.
drocer88··on Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19: a randomized trial
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...
drocer88··on Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
To the victors belong the spoils. Previous administrations benefited their friends and future administrations will likely benefit theirs. Don't like it? Vote for good government.
drocer88··on Palantir in Talks with Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
Current administration supports Peter Thiel's Palantir and getting them contracts: FDA, CDC, NIH. Apparently Mr. Thiel was one of the few Silicon Valley supporters of Mr. Trump.

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=palantir+DEPARTME...

drocer88··on How China Is Rewriting the History of the Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395

Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands.

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