Rants and Raves

**Niteluvr** · 05-03-21 16:14

Originally Posted by SkyWookie [View Original Post]

I have money invested in funerals and related items such as Caskets and I lost 10% in 2020 on that part of my portfolio so I don't know where you get your information from but it wasn't a great year for that business at all.

Never would have thought that investing in caskets and funerals would be a smart thing to do.

**SirDiscreet** · 05-03-21 15:10

Originally Posted by GoneForGood97 [View Original Post]

Between an increase in preference for cremation services and the price of wood skyrocketing in 2020, losing 10% tracks.

So funeral homes have large lumber expenses every year huh?

So funeral homes offer cremation services at an operating loss huh?

JeebusChristaMighty.

**GoneForGood97** · 05-03-21 12:01

Originally Posted by SkyWookie [View Original Post]

I have money invested in funerals and related items such as Caskets and I lost 10% in 2020 on that part of my portfolio so I don't know where you get your information from but it wasn't a great year for that business at all.

Between an increase in preference for cremation services and the price of wood skyrocketing in 2020, losing 10% tracks.

**TheRabbit** · 05-03-21 11:52

Originally Posted by SkyWookie [View Original Post]

I have money invested in funerals and related items such as Caskets and I lost 10% in 2020 on that part of my portfolio so I don't know where you get your information from but it wasn't a great year for that business at all.

This only proves you suck at investment in this area, just because you didn't make a profit doesn't mean everyone else didn't.

**SkyWookie** · 05-03-21 08:42

Originally Posted by GoneForGood97 [View Original Post]

Not going to argue politics, no one is going to change their mind from anything posted in a fucking sex forum. However, this is when it really "hit" me that COVID wasn't overblown: I have 2 funeral homes as clients. One is a "larger" organization with parlors in multiple counties. The other is a solo in a medium sized city.

They both had the "best" year ever in their respective businesses in 2020. And not by a little bit. Let me put it this way: if you told me I could invest in a business now with the revenue growth these 2 businesses had in 12 months, I'd write that check in a second.

Believe what you want, but capitalism and the market will always tell.

I have money invested in funerals and related items such as Caskets and I lost 10% in 2020 on that part of my portfolio so I don't know where you get your information from but it wasn't a great year for that business at all.

**TheRabbit** · 05-03-21 06:56

Originally Posted by HobbyMan51 [View Original Post]

As you always do, chasing down common sense with your own particular brand of stupidity. And it's always Trump's fault too. When he shut down travel to and from China, Mighty Joe called him a racist while Pelosi-Witch partied in the streets. Just some more inconvenient truths that you always somehow manage to ignore to keep the fires of your pathetic agenda going.

Biden did not call Trump a racist, this what he actually said:

"We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency. ".

But Biden did not explicitly tie xenophobia to the travel restriction. His tweet reflects coronavirus remarks he made during a campaign stop in Iowa Jan. 31, the day the travel restrictions were announced.

He criticizing Trump poor handling of COVID-19 which Biden turn out to be completely about.

**GoneForGood97** · 05-02-21 23:58

Not going to argue politics, no one is going to change their mind from anything posted in a fucking sex forum. However, this is when it really "hit" me that COVID wasn't overblown: I have 2 funeral homes as clients. One is a "larger" organization with parlors in multiple counties. The other is a solo in a medium sized city.

They both had the "best" year ever in their respective businesses in 2020. And not by a little bit. Let me put it this way: if you told me I could invest in a business now with the revenue growth these 2 businesses had in 12 months, I'd write that check in a second.

Believe what you want, but capitalism and the market will always tell.

**HobbyMan51** · 05-02-21 19:22

Originally Posted by TheRabbit [View Original Post]

Oh I don't think so, I currently busy right now to give a response but rest assured I have a few words to say of that idiotic statement.

As you always do, chasing down common sense with your own particular brand of stupidity. And it's always Trump's fault too. When he shut down travel to and from China, Mighty Joe called him a racist while Pelosi-Witch partied in the streets. Just some more inconvenient truths that you always somehow manage to ignore to keep the fires of your pathetic agenda going.

**TheRabbit** · 05-02-21 17:55

Originally Posted by SkyHighBuilder [View Original Post]

This whole thing is about Power and Control. The WHO was a floundering, corrupt, almost nothing organization until Covid19. And the "Global death toll" is a farce. There are 2 words that you never here in this discussion, "Of" and "With"! I will grant you that hundreds of thousands of people have died "WITH" Covid19 but I guarantee you that that number is a minor percent when you say that they died "OF" Covid19.

It is a Fact that healthcare providers get more money for documenting Covid19 deaths. The other side is the control over populations that the virus gives the power hungry. Fear is another limiting factor that causes self imposed limits on group gatherings and there for less personal interaction and face to face information exchanges.

Our entire election system was thrown for a loop because of it and it continues to effect our lives now. The homeless population here is going to rise, there are already more people living in motels and with someone else who had their own stuff last year. People have lost their businesses and livelihoods through this "Pandemic".

Why are states like Texas and Florida with their "Open Society" approaches seeing less cases and states like Michigan with their "Closed Society" reporting more?

I believe it has much more to do with Money, Power and Control than most are willing to say. But I know a lot are thinking it by now (Even if you didn't in the beginning).

Here it is from the CDC (right now at 5:45 am 5/2/21) by the numbers:

Right now on the CDC website the numbers as reported from 1/4/20 - 4/25/21 are that 621,730 deaths have occurred overall (these are NOT Covid19 but the total number of deaths in the US over that period). They also state that the total number of Death Certificates reporting Covid19 as the cause of death is 557,486. Follow the numbers below and they just don't add up.

Of those, the following Comorbidities are listed; 45.9% (254,384) had Influenza & Pneumonia, 19.8% (109,768) Hypertension, 16% (88,925) Diabetes, 13.5% (75,194) Alzheimer and other Dementia & 9. 5%. (52,986) Sepsis. If you remove the Alzheimer / Dementia category (may not be an actual health issue but more mental, you get 506,063 total deaths and subtract the total from above and you end up with 115,667 deaths that COULD be the total deaths OF Covid19 over 16 months in the US. If you divide the number by 16 you end up with 7,229 monthly deaths and that my friends is nothing more than the normal INFLUENZA deaths we get annually in the United States.

To break it down even further: 80.2% are over 65,17. 2% are between 45 - 64 and only 2. 6% of the total deaths reported are under 45. When you get down to the younger groups it drops dramatically. SO WHY all the fuss over numbers like these? You tell me!

Just sayin' .

WHO has nothing to do with the CDC data I mentioned for 2020 a few posts ago.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

You do not include the link for the CDC website page where you claim to get your figures from but 621,730 deaths for the 477 day period is contradicted by the data I posted where close to 2. 7-2. 9 million Americans die every 365 days.

However its also just blatantly implausible from an actuarial standpoint. There are 331 million Americans. If the age pyramid was a perfect column you'd expect 1/79 Americans to die every year, equal to the life expectancy. Since it isn't a column and there are more young than old, it was about 1/114 in 2019 and even Covid-19 could only push it down to 1/99. His purported figure implies 475747 dead a year, which implies 1/696 Americans die each year. That's just mathematically impossible unless the vast majority of Americans are youth (not true) or they live to be over half a millennium old (not true).

Finally even if you were willing to accept "they were sickly elderly on their way out, who cares if we let them out a little early and more painfully" the death toll belies the true impact of Covid-19. The long-term effects of Covid-19 are unknown for obvious reasons, but given hospitalization rates I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the millions. Millions of Americans will likely suffer permanent negative effects from Covid-19, millions more will be affected by their relations to those permanently debilitated or dead. All for a disease that could've been stopped or at least minimized by competent effort as numerous countries around the world have proven able to do.

Then you have the economic damage. Trump's too little too late approach to lockdowns, far from saving the American economy, instead ensured that it would stay closed longer. The more people were getting sick, the more people chose to stay home, no matter how "open" Trump insisted on things officially being. If the administration had instead just accepted that things would be bad for a bit and had an early and overwhelming lockdown, it would've saved months of scared-consumer-enforced quasi-lockdowns. Once again there are dozens of countries around the world that were able to safely reboot their economy sooner. Trillions in avoidable damages, which in a capitalist scarcity society equals even more dead.

I might add that the biggest enabler of the WHO was Donald Trump. Before him, the WHO kinda followed the CDC's lead, because they're the well funded health apparatus of the global superpower. Trump's "have the federal government do nothing and let God sort them out" approach to pandemic management meant that the WHO was forced to take the lead where they otherwise would not have, just as the states were forced to get their own tests and vaccinations and everything without assistance or facing outright sabotage.

Also some death counts relative to prior years for American locations
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total-promo-1588123095036/coronavirus-death-toll-total-promo-1588123095036-superJumbo-v3.jpg

Or an example in Italy too:
https://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/image/FromMay2014/ciminelli22aprilfig1.png

Or elsewhere:
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net%2Fprod%2F4dee8c60-9702-11eb-9838-33ecf8170d91-fullwidth.png?dpr=1&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&source=next&width=1260

Chart after chart after chart shows the same story, of daily deaths from all-causes in countries suddenly spiking dramatically from historic norms without explanation, at exactly the periods Covid-19 waves were hitting those nations, with the only exceptions being nations that successfully largely managed Covid-19 like South Korea, Norway, or Germany. Unless you decide to just regard all death data from any country anywhere, data that comes from tons of different sources around the world to be garbage you need to have an explanation as to why daily deaths were dramatically higher in nations around the world at exactly the points Covid-19 was most feverish but somehow be unrelated to Covid-19 entirely.

**TheRabbit** · 05-02-21 15:54

Originally Posted by HobbyMan51 [View Original Post]

Or like a walk-off home run. A nails it, end of discussion post. Of course idiots like The Rabbit and a few other Biden-impaired fools on this thread will have none of it since it threatens their precious little narratives and fragile, carefully constructed psyches. Common sense to them is like a crucifix to Dracula. They recoil and slither back into the darkness of ignorance from whence they came. Unfortunately they are compelled to drench us with their ignorance so expect furious howls of rebuttals from them very soon.

Oh I don't think so, I currently busy right now to give a response but rest assured I have a few words to say of that idiotic statement.

**HobbyMan51** · 05-02-21 11:21

Originally Posted by SkyHighBuilder [View Original Post]

This whole thing is about Power and Control. The WHO was a floundering, corrupt, almost nothing organization until Covid19. And the "Global death toll" is a farce. There are 2 words that you never here in this discussion, "Of" and "With"! I will grant you that hundreds of thousands of people have died "WITH" Covid19 but I guarantee you that that number is a minor percent when you say that they died "OF" Covid19.

It is a Fact that healthcare providers get more money for documenting Covid19 deaths. The other side is the control over populations that the virus gives the power hungry. Fear is another limiting factor that causes self imposed limits on group gatherings and there for less personal interaction and face to face information exchanges.

Our entire election system was thrown for a loop because of it and it continues to effect our lives now. The homeless population here is going to rise, there are already more people living in motels and with someone else who had their own stuff last year. People have lost their businesses and livelihoods through this "Pandemic".

Why are states like Texas and Florida with their "Open Society" approaches seeing less cases and states like Michigan with their "Closed Society" reporting more?

I believe it has much more to do with Money, Power and Control than most are willing to say. But I know a lot are thinking it by now (Even if you didn't in the beginning).

Here it is from the CDC (right now at 5:45 am 5/2/21) by the numbers:

Right now on the CDC website the numbers as reported from 1/4/20 - 4/25/21 are that 621,730 deaths have occurred overall (these are NOT Covid19 but the total number of deaths in the US over that period). They also state that the total number of Death Certificates reporting Covid19 as the cause of death is 557,486. Follow the numbers below and they just don't add up.

Of those, the following Comorbidities are listed; 45.9% (254,384) had Influenza & Pneumonia, 19.8% (109,768) Hypertension, 16% (88,925) Diabetes, 13.5% (75,194) Alzheimer and other Dementia & 9. 5%. (52,986) Sepsis. If you remove the Alzheimer / Dementia category (may not be an actual health issue but more mental, you get 506,063 total deaths and subtract the total from above and you end up with 115,667 deaths that COULD be the total deaths OF Covid19 over 16 months in the US. If you divide the number by 16 you end up with 7,229 monthly deaths and that my friends is nothing more than the normal INFLUENZA deaths we get annually in the United States..

Or like a walk-off home run. A nails it, end of discussion post. Of course idiots like The Rabbit and a few other Biden-impaired fools on this thread will have none of it since it threatens their precious little narratives and fragile, carefully constructed psyches. Common sense to them is like a crucifix to Dracula. They recoil and slither back into the darkness of ignorance from whence they came. Unfortunately they are compelled to drench us with their ignorance so expect furious howls of rebuttals from them very soon.

**Niteluvr** · 05-02-21 07:10

Originally Posted by ElPerron [View Original Post]

All I was trying to do was to change the subject of conversations this f. Politics, getting on my nerves 😂,suddenly everyone is an expert 😂.

Unfortunately, none of them is an expert and I'm tired of the politics here too.

**SkyHighBuilder** · 05-02-21 06:24

Originally Posted by TheRabbit [View Original Post]

Judging by the global death toll and the long lasting heath effects of COVID-19 I say their "overreaction" was pretty justified.

This whole thing is about Power and Control. The WHO was a floundering, corrupt, almost nothing organization until Covid19. And the "Global death toll" is a farce. There are 2 words that you never here in this discussion, "Of" and "With"! I will grant you that hundreds of thousands of people have died "WITH" Covid19 but I guarantee you that that number is a minor percent when you say that they died "OF" Covid19.

It is a Fact that healthcare providers get more money for documenting Covid19 deaths. The other side is the control over populations that the virus gives the power hungry. Fear is another limiting factor that causes self imposed limits on group gatherings and there for less personal interaction and face to face information exchanges.

Our entire election system was thrown for a loop because of it and it continues to effect our lives now. The homeless population here is going to rise, there are already more people living in motels and with someone else who had their own stuff last year. People have lost their businesses and livelihoods through this "Pandemic".

Why are states like Texas and Florida with their "Open Society" approaches seeing less cases and states like Michigan with their "Closed Society" reporting more?

I believe it has much more to do with Money, Power and Control than most are willing to say. But I know a lot are thinking it by now (Even if you didn't in the beginning).

Here it is from the CDC (right now at 5:45 am 5/2/21) by the numbers:

Right now on the CDC website the numbers as reported from 1/4/20 - 4/25/21 are that 621,730 deaths have occurred overall (these are NOT Covid19 but the total number of deaths in the US over that period). They also state that the total number of Death Certificates reporting Covid19 as the cause of death is 557,486. Follow the numbers below and they just don't add up.

Of those, the following Comorbidities are listed; 45.9% (254,384) had Influenza & Pneumonia, 19.8% (109,768) Hypertension, 16% (88,925) Diabetes, 13.5% (75,194) Alzheimer and other Dementia & 9. 5%. (52,986) Sepsis. If you remove the Alzheimer / Dementia category (may not be an actual health issue but more mental, you get 506,063 total deaths and subtract the total from above and you end up with 115,667 deaths that COULD be the total deaths OF Covid19 over 16 months in the US. If you divide the number by 16 you end up with 7,229 monthly deaths and that my friends is nothing more than the normal INFLUENZA deaths we get annually in the United States.

To break it down even further: 80.2% are over 65,17. 2% are between 45 - 64 and only 2. 6% of the total deaths reported are under 45. When you get down to the younger groups it drops dramatically. SO WHY all the fuss over numbers like these? You tell me!

Just sayin' .

**ElPerron** · 05-02-21 02:07

Originally Posted by Niteluvr [View Original Post]

I knew what he was saying, just that his written English is so poor that he needs to do a lot of work on it!

All I was trying to do was to change the subject of conversations this f. Politics, getting on my nerves 😂,suddenly everyone is an expert 😂.

**Niteluvr** · 05-01-21 21:35

Originally Posted by SkyWookie [View Original Post]

He is saying that a provider disappeared and was no where to be found, he wanted her but could not find or reach her. Then out of the blue she is contacting him nonstop and wanting him to meet up with her. BUT he is still upset that she wasn't available when he originally wanted her.

I knew what he was saying, just that his written English is so poor that he needs to do a lot of work on it!