Carlson recently bloviated that the median age-at-death for Covid was greater than median life expectancy. Yet another case of 'figures don't lie, but liars figure'.
Not that he just made an honest mistake, of course.
Median life expectancy at birth isn't what matters in the case of a Covid comparison. What matters is life expectancy of someone who's already kind of old; let's say 65.
- in 2018, men 65 have an expected life time of 18.1 years, or 83.1 in toto.
- the quoted median age (by Fucker) of Covid deaths in Ohio is 80.
- the median life expectancy (by Fucker) is 73; this is the 'at birth' value and thus includes (is reduced by) all early deaths.
Ergo, Fucker Carlson is a lying moron. It is also true that Delta is killing off non-Geezers unlike Original Covid and other variants.
What happens to capital when there's no more labor to replace?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
The Kleptocracy of Muskistan, Unelected, Welcomes You
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
[T]he massive push to relocate federal jobs outside the Beltway comes with the risk of kneecapping agencies through the loss of experienced workers and bogging them down in logistical minutia.
-- Curt Devine/2024 [that's the point: make the Damn Gummint incompetent, then destroy it because it's incompetent]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
[T]he massive push to relocate federal jobs outside the Beltway comes with the risk of kneecapping agencies through the loss of experienced workers and bogging them down in logistical minutia.
-- Curt Devine/2024 [that's the point: make the Damn Gummint incompetent, then destroy it because it's incompetent]
There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]
-- Rick Bright/2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
In fact, the number of full-time federal workers has been relatively static, within a few hundred thousand civilians, since the 1960s. ... [C]ontractors frequently end up costing the government more money. -- Zachary B. Wolf/2024 [ya know, like The Musk Ox]
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