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This is good news: but it puts into stark view what was probably already true even before the additional doses: our problem is very much about the organizational capacity to administer the doses, not as much acquiring them. It looks like we've seen steady, continual growth of vaccines given per day. I believe I saw a number of 3m/day as the ultimate goal and we've gone from 1m to 1.6m, so we're making progress... but I'd sure love if it sped up. We could also hit a blip soon if we run out of willing vaccine participants. The last number I saw, and with some quick googling looks like it is probably accurate, is that 33% of the population are skeptical of the vaccine. That's 100m people.

We gonna complete the triple here with an IUBB win, a commitment, and a Brady loss?

Does anyone have a link to a compelling report on what exactly happened here and how the stock tanked back down so quickly? So much news coverage, it's hard to sift thru.

Cannot recommend it enough. The M1 processor is superbly fast. I already had the keyboard and monitors, so I just had to add a mouse and boom. The price is right too.

I have like 7 Apple products, I might as well complete the collection and own some of their stock vbg. Unrelated to this thread but the new Mac Mini is dynamite. I watch IU games (this time, also a Pacer game) in my office these days.

never a loss until you sell

What are good sites to see where the shorts are/what volume they are at/when they expire/etc?

Time in the market beats timing the market but REDDIT BEATS ALL.

Boooooring. But you’re right - I’m a DCA guy with an auto-balancing target date fund, so as hands off as one can get for about 95% of my invested monies.

My big question is that if these Hedge funds had a huge vulnerability leaving these short positions open, why didn’t a different hedge (instead of small retail investors) make that profit?

What's a good way to research when options expire?

I love a good gamble. I'm in for $5k of AMC.

And there’s a lot more to say on that topic but in an effort to stay within the rules I often ask others to follow, I will stop there vbg.

Local government often barely has the resources to do what they’re currently attempting. Throwing all of this vaccine rollout on top while at the same time their budgets (and in some cases staff sizes) are shrinking by 20-30% was always a recipe for disaster unless they got significant federal help. Funding to state and local governments has been a key sticking point in relief negotiation in congress.

Nobody wants to ban anybody - we try to find every reason to not punish members. You're speaking of unfairness, and that may be true. In truth: we're just some dudes. We're about 30-60 years old, we have very different viewpoints, and we're all at different points in our lives. By nature of being fundamentally different people, we may approach situations differently. The small action of attaching "moderator" to our profile doesn't make us any smarter, more wise, or less prone to making mistakes than any one of you here. By the same token, we try not to act like enlightened pricks. We discuss issues related to the guidelines for the community deeply and try to approach situations dispassionately, evenly, and with precedent. But at the end of the day, we're just hall monitors and we're just human. So if you want to take a stand of principle, that's certainly fine. My humble request, though, is to let this pitch pass you by - if unfairness exists, it's because we're human and not because we're trying to perpetuate an unfair system. In fact, we try our very hardest to do the opposite.

just once in my life I want to think of a snappy comeback like that in the moment, not three days later in the shower.

Let’s change course and move on from this topic folks.

For a wide variety of mostly tax-related reasons, the federal government is the only entity with the true capability to respond to a crisis like this. to their credit, they have apportioned money (albeit sometimes wildly too late - in this instance, $8b in vaccination distribution funds... only days ago), but this ignores the fact that once getting this money, the local entities using it have to build their organizational capacity during the middle of a trained worker shortage and a pandemic ravaging their own ranks. crying out for national leadership IMO.

Interview with incoming COVID czar: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/04/how-biden-will-try-fix-our-vaccine-rollout-mess/%3foutputType=amp

The real failure is leaving this up to understaffed local entities - this needs to be much more of a top-down effort. That seems to be a key area where the two administrations differ in their plans for the immediate future.

avoiding this thread as ignorance is bliss. see ya, geezers.

I've got a pretty basic 5.1 setup - but it certainly does the job! I'll try to take photos some time soon.

This is a great discussion. We appreciate you all self moderating. We all know when it’s gone too far - and if you’re unsure, just err on the side of keeping that particular thought to yourself.

Total agreement there. It’s a crappy way of budgeting that our leaders have gotten used to and it also definitely isn’t enough.

This isn't really correct. This was a $920b stimulus package paired with a ~$1.4t government funding bill ("omnibus"). The $920b break down is here. $600b+ of it is more PPP, more UI, and stimulus. The rest have pretty clear links to helping those who are hurting (nutrition assistance/etc): https://www.crfb.org/blogs/whats-final-covid-relief-deal-2020 The government funding bill has a summary here: https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/Summary of H.R. 133 Appropriations Provisions.pdf $671b is in defense funding. 23% of defense spending is direct pay and benefits to soldiers. You can skim through the expenses that make up the $656b that is non-defense spending, but it certainly has plenty of line items that people find great use in. Section K of the second attachment, which encompasses all State Department and USAID funding, is a total of $55b.