Here’s the chart of average sick days for each dose …
… and here’s the percentage of healthcare workers claiming some amount of sick leave for each dose:
Overall, the boosters resulted in 27.9% of the entire sample taking at least one day off of work. Of 21 participants who received AstraZeneca for their first dose, fully 11, or 52%, landed on sick leave. Moderna was also clearly worse than the BioNTech-determined average, sending 106 of 255, or 46%, of participants who received it as their third dose home for recovery.
The broader subset of healthcare workers who took medication to relieve post-vaccination symptoms paints the same picture. By the third dose, the vast majority of everyone in the sample (86%) were taking drugs to relieve the acute symptoms of the jabs:
L.A.’s mansion tax redistributes money from the sales of houses above $5 million. The law, which took effect on April 1, charges 4% on all residential and commercial real estate sales in the city above $5 million and a 5.5% charge on sales above $10 million.
Initially, proponents estimated the tax would raise about $900 million per year, but a March report from the City Administrative Office lowered that number to $672 million, The Los Angeles Times reported.
“But once the tax took effect, L.A.’s luxury market froze,” The Times reported. “Only two homes sold for more than $5 million in the month of April, and the market hasn’t quite recovered since.”
Luxury homeowners seeking to avoid the tax have either refused to sell their homes or hired tax specialists to find loopholes, The Times reported.
Perhaps someone should have clarified that it’s really “Tax, Collect, and Spend”.
Or, don’t plan on spending it before you’ve got it!
Same thing happens with every new obnoxious tax the Dems and Socialists come up with. Be it soda, booze, or luxury homes; people, especially rich people with lawyers, are going do everything in their power to avoid paying out to the grasping Democrats attempts get their sweaty hands on ‘Other Peoples Money’.
Oh, and the new tax may be unconstitutional. As if anyone cares.
He may be allowed to dress like an oaf in the United States Congress — but Sen. John Fetterman would be shown the door at the Big Apple’s finest restaurants.
Sen. John Fetterman may be allowed to dress like a slob in the halls of power — but it’s still a capital offense in New York City’s finest restaurants.
Intrepid Post reporter Jon Levine learned that hard truth this week when he crisscrossed the Big Apple’s culinary landmarks wearing Fetterman’s trademark hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers and tried to gain entry — only to face scorn and mockery from maître d’s with more common sense than Congress.
“He would not be permitted here,” sniffed a maître d at Daniel on the Upper East Side, where a seven-course tasting menu runs $275.
At famed Le Bernardin, a suited maître d named Julien served up an amuse bouche of stink-eye when The Post arrived.
New York Post reporter Jon Levine was unceremoniously shown the door at Jean-Georges.J.C. Rice
“No athletic wear,” he said flatly, staring The Post down and denying even a nibble of chef Eric Ripert’s $480 dinner and wine pre-fixe menu.
At the double-Michelin star Jean-Georges near Columbus Circle, no less than four sentinels outside its dining room vetoed The Post’s entry, ending the dream of feasting on the famed $368, 10-course tasting menu that includes caviar salad, king crab and smoked squab.
“Inside we don’t allow shorts,” said one, repeatedly insisting it would be “impossible” to get around the dress code, which also forbids jeans, sneakers and sweatshirts.
Workers at The Grill — an ultra-lux chophouse occupying the legendary Four Seasons Restaurant space in midtown — wasted no time rejecting the faux Fetterman, holding the door tightly shut after they caught one glimpse.
“If you went and got a pair of jeans it would work,” offered a doorman named Don who boasted, “We treat the billionaires just like millionaires.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) ripped the Senate for recently relaxing rules to allow Fetterman’s wardrobe, which he insists he needs for his mental health after his stroke, say Senate Democratic insiders.
“The Senate no longer enforcing a dress code for senators to appease Fetterman is disgraceful,” Greene posted on X, formerly Twitter.
“Dress code is one of society’s standards that set etiquette and respect for our institutions. Stop lowering the bar!”
No new posts for a few days, that was due in part to medical appointments but mostly to getting a contractor in to resolve a problem with the windows.
Though the house is insulated we came to find out that the frame around all the windows was not. Nothing between the window molding and the outside plastic edge of the window. That’s an half inch to three quarter inch gap on the sides and closer to an inch on top. Add all the gaps around all the windows and that’s a hole seven inches wide and thirty-four inches tall, nothing but a thin piece of wood and a thinner piece of plastic going directly to the outside. And that’s just the first floor.
With Natural Gas at $2.08 CCF going into this winter, that’s a heat loss I can’t have. The joys of home ownership.
So here are some Fall photographs from years past.
On Sept 19th it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.Wikipedia
The iconic word, Arrrr, turns out to be a West Country UK word for yes. It was popularized in the 1934 movie version of Treasure Island. With a parrot upon his shoulder, crying pieces of eight, and a peg leg, Beery brought to life the iconic imagery of Robert Louis Stevenson.
1934 film Treasure Island on Wikipedia
Though I wonder if it would be more popular as “Dress like a Pirate Day!”…
This most years I really think we could all use an excuse to forget this grim modern world for a day and have a little fun.
Those F-35 stealth fighters must be even closer to invisible than I thought because the Marines lost one on Sunday and nobody can find it.
A Marine piloting the special vertical takeoff and landing version, the F-35B, suffered some kind of “mishap” and was forced to eject over South Carolina. He ejected safely. He’s fine. We can go on and laugh. The plane, however, was nowhere to be found. Weighing in at over 32,000 pounds even when it isn’t filled with jet fuel, you’d think the missing jet would be easy to find, but no.
So whoever runs the social media for Joint Base Charleston took to Twitter to ask for help finding the super-invisible stealth fighter.
This, of course, is when Twitter lept into action as only Twitter can.
A heavily armed man who posed as RFK’s security was arrested at a campaign rally.
This comes after RFK’s unsuccessful requests for Secret Service protection since declaring candidacy in April: “I am the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has denied a request for protection.”“I’m still entertaining a hope that President Biden will allow me Secret Service protection.”
Both RFK’s father and uncle were assassinated, so this attempt is severely distressing for the Kennedy family.
STATEMENTS BY RFK:–
“The man, wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines was carrying a U.S. Marshal badge on a lanyard and beltclip federal ID.”
–“He identified himself as a member of my security detail.”
– “Armed GDBA (Private Corporate Security) team members moved quickly to isolate and detain the man until LAPD arrived to make the arrest.”
Former U.S. president Donald Trump said he would pardon “a large portion” of the people involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.
Scott Adams talked at length about this today. In full, President Trump said he would establish commissions to look into the arrests and prosecutions of all the Jan 6th protestors. But he would issue pardons on Day One if elected.
A study in Proteomics Clinical Applications found spike protein in individuals six months after vaccination, challenging claims mRNA in COVID-19 vaccines break down…
Spike Protein From mRNA Differs from Post-Infection Spike Protein
According to the study, spike proteins originating from the translation of mRNA vaccines differ from natural spike proteins that circulate in biological fluids post-infection because two proline amino acids replaced the amino acids lysine and valine to help stabilize the synthetic spike generated by vaccination. This double amino acid variation removed a tryptic digestion site (a necessary part of protein absorption) on the natural spike protein. Because of this, researchers said it is possible to differentiate between natural and synthetic spike protein in biological fluids using tryptic digestion followed by mass spectrometry analysis.
Ep. 23 Hyperinflation and reckless monetary policy could soon devastate the global economy. We traveled to Argentina, where it’s already happened. pic.twitter.com/vTEXroh4Uz
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.
Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
Wrath Of Gnon
“In an age where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.” ー Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On the North River 