Doug, I always enjoy your columns, and today's was most interesting. I rarely listen to the news. The last time I did I walked out of the room after 17 minutes out of 30 of 100% Covid-19. Recently went to CDC.gov and clicked around to see if any meaningful statistics could be found. For what it is worth I computed a Covid-19 fatality rate of 1.52%; in other words a survivability rate of 98.48%. The contractual rate was between 14 to 15%. I went to VAERS' website and found five pages of vaccines. Only two had adverse reactions reported above 1.5%. Care to guess which two and both were slightly above 23%!!! One of my reasons for being annoyed these days is all the jumping through our you-know-whats we, as in the world, so to speak, are doing for miniscule reasons. Keep your columns coming. Happy New Year! Steve Stimpson
Doug, I always enjoy your columns, and today's was most interesting. I rarely listen to the news. The last time I did I walked out of the room after 17 minutes out of 30 of 100% Covid-19. Recently went to CDC.gov and clicked around to see if any meaningful statistics could be found. For what it is worth I computed a Covid-19 fatality rate of 1.52%; in other words a survivability rate of 98.48%. The contractual rate was between 14 to 15%. I went to VAERS' website and found five pages of vaccines. Only two had adverse reactions reported above 1.5%. Care to guess which two and both were slightly above 23%!!! One of my reasons for being annoyed these days is all the jumping through our you-know-whats we, as in the world, so to speak, are doing for miniscule reasons. Keep your columns coming. Happy New Year! Steve Stimpson
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Hi Doug,
In defense for "losing it in the dairy aisle".....A Minnesota Norwegian without his gjetost is definitely a cause for fisticuffs!