@jolly it's mid-December. Thanks for that.

No, Mik has the pot. I have the firewood and the backwater. Tell us when to show up. I've heard Brits ain't bad, if you cook them right...

@jolly said in A good deal is when both traders are happy.: Problem comes when some of them aren't breathing afterwards... Picky, picky, picky.

I'm about 5 years out of the loop where HHS and Medicare gave "bonuses" for stuff. In my field, we had to dance through some hoops, filling out forms, to get a minimal increase in reimbursement from Medicare. The time spent almost wasn't worth it. "Meaningful Use..."

It might be a bit too soon to select Ms. Harris' replacement.

I can't top Aqua, but we had that most wild of all beasts - Medical Residents. Many of them, especially the HO 1's, lived in a dump owned by the state, affectionally called The Hilton by all. They were known for some quite boisterous parties, but one Christmas Eve they outdid themselves. I dropped by when I got off at 11P, just long enough to say hello and sample the jungle juice, since the lab had donated two gallons of 95% ethanol for the garbage can. At that point, they were already having a great time, having cleared off the parking lot for a dance floor and barbecue. They'd had the wheelchair races before I got there, but I still got to see the end of the gurney drag races. Literally...docs in drag, pushing a gurney down the boulevard with one very obviously pregnant (basketball) OR nurse on each team, riding in the gurney. I missed the best parts, or so they tell me. They built a campfire in the middle of the boulevard. A mannequin was stolen sometime during the evening and used in drunken festivities of unknown significance. They caught one of the nurses in the bathroom fellating one of the surgery residents. It finally broke up, when one of the female nurses took off all of her clothes and streaked by the front of the hospital. Didn't help that the woman was in her fifties, overweight and with some definite gravity problems. I knew they must have had a good time, because when I doubled back that morning at 0630, there was a naked mannequin on the hospital boulevard, wearing a silver tinsel halo. I'll never forget the announcement Christmas morning on the hospital intercom... This is Doctor ___. I'm the only physican in the hospital right now and I will be indisposed for the next five minutes. Please, nobody get sick while I'm gone. I was told the "Come to Jesus" meeting with the Chief of Staff and Administrator was epic.

Good decision.

The biggest issues that I have with these types of analysis is they assume that: there would have been no differences in behavior that there wouldn’t have been any new developments Let’s say the mRNA vaccines were not approved for whatever reason… Then funding for all of the various other vaccines wouldn’t have dried up. We might have had an attenuated virus vaccine by April that would have been far better at protecting against all of the variants across the board… Maybe some of the more promising treatment protocols wouldn’t be experimental but in active use well before all of this…

Hard to refudiate that.

That reminds me of how much I hate Trump.

Biden should refudiate his misstatement.

Isn't it such a coincidence that they decided to get greedy during inflation?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudette-colvin-record-expunged/ Now 82, Colvin filed a petition to have the record of the incident wiped clean, and a judge in Montgomery has granted the request.* . "My record was expunged," Colvin told "CBS Mornings" in an exclusive interview. "And my name was cleared. And I'm no longer a juvenile delinquent at 82." …

Pretty much identical to the early fall late summer, but we are just starting so who knows. Deaths are down. Hospitalizations about the same. Lower than last year.

Old article. Carter is now 97.