Monday, January 24, 2022

DR. AARON KHERIARTY: STATE MEDICAL BOARDS HOLD AMBIGUOUS THREATS OVER DOCTORS

WEALTH & WELLNESS INDEX: Only 9% of Americans Earn Over Six Figures

From Martin Armstrong:

Previous studies have indicated that Americans’ quality of life plateaus at an annual salary of $75,000, but that myth has been dispelled. A research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America entitled, "Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year" examines 1,725,994 experience-sampling reports from 33,391 employed US adults. The study believes prior reports failed to accurately measure “well-being” and the actual emotional implications of income.

Numerous reports begin by analyzing the Satisfaction With Life Scale developed in 1985:

In most ways, my life is close to my ideal.

The conditions of my life are excellent.

I am satisfied with my life.

So far I have gotten the important things I want in life.

If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.

The noted study incorporated these questions as well as others such as, “To what extent do you feel in control of your current situation?” The test also asked participants for their input on optimism for the future. The study found that the well-being plateau of $75,000 was no longer accurate. “There was also no evidence of an income threshold at which experienced and evaluative well-being diverged, suggesting that higher incomes are associated with both feeling better day-to-day and being more satisfied with life overall,” the abstract stated. “This suggests that higher incomes may still have potential to improve people’s day-to-day well-being, rather than having already reached a plateau for many people in wealthy countries.”

With inflation running at a nearly 40-year high and the prices of the most basic necessities such as food and shelter at unsustainable levels, people seeing money as a safety net is understandable. Personal Capital’s 2022 Wealth & Wellness Index found that Americans need an income of $122,000 to feel “financially healthy.” Only 9% of Americans and 31% of households earn over six figures, so this annual income is not feasible for the majority of the population. Only 67% of participants said they have enough money to pay bills in full and on time. Around 57% say they have some form of retirement savings that could manage an unforeseen expense of $500 without worry, and that figure only rises to 63% when asked if they could afford a $100 unforeseen expense. Despite previous notions, there is in fact a correlation between wealth and wellness.

"As for me, I've had it with masks. I feel like a fool, and I am not going to play anymore."

The question was, "In general, do you trust [what] Dr. Fauci has said about the coronavirus or not?" The results were 43% no, and 40% yes.

Compare those results to 60% yes and 8% no in April 2020.

From Tom Woods

These days it seems as if everywhere I turn, a new person is saying the whole thing is stupid and I'm not doing it anymore.

This time it's an editorial writer for USA Today.

Headline: "I am done with masks. We've been idiotic about them since the beginning."

He begins with this: "Who knew that little pieces of plastic or cloth worn over the nose and mouth could turn people into complete idiots?"

In response to Dr. Leana Wen's [the Chinese-American, flip-flopping, goalpost-shifting version of Anthony Fauci] recent observation that cloth masks are nothing more than "facial decoration," he responds, "Well, I feel like an idiot for all the times I donned a facial decoration and forced my kids to do the same."

He dismisses the drive for N95 masks as unreasonable and concludes: "As for me, I've had it with masks. I feel like a fool, and I am not going to play anymore."


Then, too, Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times opinion section, made waves on Bill Maher's program recently when she declared herself "done with COVID," and swatted down the standard arguments with data.

The only thing missing was: I'm sorry for going along with it all this time and demonizing people who said then what I'm saying now.

The whole "we now have new information" thing from Weiss and others is disingenuous. We knew very early on that the crazies were wrong and that nothing they recommended did any good. A simple "stay home when you're sick" would have been better than their entire mitigation program.

Having said that, I by no means decline Bari Weiss's membership in Team Reality, and I'm happy to see our ranks continue to grow.

Before I reveal the happiest of the three items I have to report to you today, in terms of the evolution of opinion, I want to make sure you know a term.

Surely you know "red pill" and "blue pill," from The Matrix. You and I are red-pilled. We understand the nature of the regime that rules over us. We don't accept the establishment version of events.

The blue-pilled are those who even now still think the public health establishment just has the best interests of Americans at heart and should be trusted to do sensible things.

A white pill, meanwhile, is a source of optimism for us.

And now for a white pill:

A recent NBC News poll--so not exactly biased in our favor--finds more Americans distrust Fauci than trust him.

The question was, "In general, do you trust [what] Dr. Fauci has said about the coronavirus or not?" The results were 43% no, and 40% yes.

Compare those results to 60% yes and 8% no in April 2020.

Meanwhile, Ireland just announced it's dropping most COVID restrictions, and England (not the UK as I mistakenly said the other day) is dropping its mask mandate and vaccine passport system.

Austria keeps putting off its mandatory vaccination program, and there are murmurs in England about pushing the vaccine mandates for NHS workers back six months.

We're almost there.

With next to no high-profile support, and with every major opinion-molding institution against us, we've begun to turn the tide.

What you and I say and do is not in vain.

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DR. PAUL MARIK: REMDESIVIR INCREASES THE RISK OF DEATH

JUST AS WITH THE POLICE, THE PEOPLE NEED THE MILITARY TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE AND NOT THE ELITE

Servicemen and women, but particularly men since they outnumber the women serving and they're the first ones called up for combat, need to pay attention to this warning.  Do not get the vaccines.  There are no good vaccines.  Get an exemption.  Get a religious exemption.  Get a conscientious exemption.  But get one.  You're not going to spend your entire life in the military, which means you and your loved ones will need your health, strength, vitality, and intellectual vigor to get things done.  You know this, and I know this.  So avoid the shot.  None of us know the long-term consequences of these shots because information is not forthcoming.  So if you don't know or you're not sure, then you pause until you get more information.  Information is the drawing line between tragedy and survival.  Choose wisely.  To do that, you'll need enough information that satisfies your moral and biological convictions.