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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Amiga, Sep 9, 2022.

  1. Amiga

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    Nice job RFK jr.

     
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  2. Os Trigonum

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    should be in the Biden's America thread :cool:
     
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  3. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Did you mean RFK jr.?
     
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  4. Invisible Fan

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    I thought we eradicated polio.
     
  5. Ottomaton

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    It was in the US, but not globally.
     
  6. Rocket River

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    ANTI-VAX!
    for the win!

    Rocket River
     
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  7. Invisible Fan

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    I blame Bill Gates for lying to me!!
     
  8. AleksandarN

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    Wrong! Fake news!

    It is obviously hunter’s laptop. He didn’t have antivirus installed
     
  9. CCorn

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    Polio vaccines have killed more people than polio itself.
     
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    Googled it, low water mark was 50 cases globally in 2016.

    The Americas have been free of polio since 1991, except for 13 cases in 2000, and 18 in 2001.
     
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    NYC has some pretty orthodex sects of the various Abrahamic religions and them folks don't vaccinate.
     
  12. Space Ghost

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    How much TP should I buy? Asking for a friend.
     
  13. Invisible Fan

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    How much can your butt afford not to buy?
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...4feb16-2e73-11ed-bcc6-0874b26ae296_story.html
    Until very recently, most European governments have focused on helping households from the impact of rising prices, largely forgetting the manufacturing industry. From Finland to Spain, manufacturers now worry their only option to stop bleeding cash is to reduce production, which would create a shortage that pushes prices higher but allow margins to recover. Meanwhile, they are quoting significantly higher prices to their clients, often supermarket chains, than they were at the beginning of the summer.

    As a result, the wholesale price for European tissue paper (which toilet paper comes from) has surged this week to an all-time high of about 2,200 euros per metric ton — up from less than 900 euros in January 2021. And prices are likely to rise further in October, industry executives say. Even more worrying, the rate of the price increases has accelerated. From January to June, wholesale tissue costs were rising at about 3% to 5% month-on-month; since July, prices have increased by 10% each month.

    The price increases will soon find their way onto the supermarket shelves. So far this year, consumer-goods companies such as Proctor & Gamble Co. and Kimberly-Clark Corp. have hiked their prices somewhat and reduced the length of the rolls to preserve their margins. On average, industry executives say rolls are 6% to 8% shorter today compared with a year ago while they are 8% to 10% more expensive.

    A new round of retail price hikes is now coming, at least in Europe. And you can expect to see even shorter toilet paper rolls in the fourth quarter. Such shrinkflation is getting worse: Instead of toilet paper rolls just getting shorter, the paper sheets are starting to get narrower, too.

    The humble toilet paper roll offers a window into the rest of the manufacturing industry. Of course, there are great differences between the rolls and, say, ceramic tiles or a ton of fertilizer. But one common thread among them is that wholesale prices are still climbing, and production is falling. The shortages will inflate prices even further, despite economies slowing in response to interest-rate hikes.

    Central banks will feel compelled to act via ever higher interest rates, as it’s their only lever right now. But fighting inflation this way is a messy business. And now there will be less toilet paper for the clean-up.

     
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  15. Amiga

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    not polio

    we did eradicate smallpox.. it still exists... in labs

    polio has been kept in check due to a high level of vaccination rate

    expect more outbreaks of this and other diseases that had been kept in check
     
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