Luckless Pedestrian

Comments:

• “Neither am I.” Yet you trust Snopes.

  Post: Jabs Anyone?

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• It’s your business, but your business becomes public when you choose to write about it on a public blog that invites comments from readers. You should understand that some of those comments might be critical. 

  Post: Misplaced Trust

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• The NEJM study you cite is hardly reassuring, showing that even during the brief four-week period during which the vaccine was most effective, it was only able to prevent infection in slightly more than half the study’s cohort population. Notably, the study says nothing about the vaccines’ ability to prevent transmission. I highlight this point because some commenters here, including the OP, have suggested that individuals have a social obligation to get the jab in order to protect third parties from becoming infected. Yet we’ve known since the famous Provincetown outbreak in July 2021 that vaccinated individuals who are infected can spread the virus as easily as unvaccinated infected individuals. See, e.g., https://boston.eater.com/22605934/provincetown-bars-restaurants-covid-19-delta-outbreak-july-recovery-masks

  Post: Jabs Anyone?

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• Beschloss and Rubin are a couple of partisan hacks. I’d take their opining with a large grain of salt.

  Post: Stay Informed by Marjorie Kondrack

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• “Almost a third”? That’s nothing — at least half of what appears in the NY Times is false, misleading or missing vital context.

  Post: In defense of billionaires

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• Why should Mary be obliged to provide “statistical proof” to support her cautionary observations about the Covid vaccines’ potential negative side effects?  Instead, shouldn’t the onus be on Covid vaccine enthusiasts to prove that mRNA vaccines are safe and effective — especially since no longitudinal randomized controlled trials have been performed to uncover the harm that mRNA vaccination might cause in some patients? With regard to efficacy, we already know that the vaccines prevent neither infection nor transmission of the virus — meaning that the vaccines utterly fail to “stop the spread,” despite this being the putative rationale for vaccine mandates. We also know that our public health officials conspired to suppress informed skepticism about the vaccines’ safety, as well as official narratives about the origin of the virus.  If a fund manager had a track record like this, I doubt you’d be demanding statistical evidence from someone who urged caution about investing in the manager’s fund. 

  Post: Jabs Anyone?

  Link to comment from September 24, 2024

• The Covid vaccines prevent neither infection nor transmission of the virus, and thus do nothing to “limit the spread.” How could a retired immunologist not know this?

  Post: Jabs Anyone?

  Link to comment from September 23, 2024

• If you’re going to compare the Direxion Nasdaq ETF to a Vanguard fund, wouldn’t the Vanguard Technology ETF (VGT) be the obvious choice, rather than VUG?

  Post: Is Your Broad Market Index ETF Suffering from Tech Bloat? by Steve Abramowitz

  Link to comment from September 10, 2024

• “JEPI acts as a sort of ‘bond surrogate’…” This is the point I was going to make. Comparing its performance to that of the S&P 500 is an obvious case of using the wrong metric. And calling the fund a “scam” is a bit much. Did the author not read the prospectus before he “got victimized”?

  Post: A Foolish Option

  Link to comment from August 19, 2024

• I’m the original owner of a 2005 Honda CR-V. I agree, it’s a terrific vehicle (and I’ve used the picnic table on many occasions). With only 141,000 on the odometer, I plan to keep driving it for at least another 10 years.

  Post: Car Quest

  Link to comment from July 31, 2024