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To try to avoid comments like this, I did add the below, obviously unsuccessfully, a while ago. Here it is again. = = = Don't agree with your first para and I wasn't pressed on anything. I'd say that the negative answers to the broad scope of questions about the state of UK now (3 years post Brexit) are driven and reasoned by far more than just Brexit. Any objections that I may have are unchanged, rather than generic. I agree that any government would have had trouble dealing with Brexit; I always said that and knew that leaving would be a problem because the EU of 2016 had gathered far more than power than the EEC had in 1972 - even though the concept of political union was already written into the Treaty of Rome - a pity more MP's couldn't be bothered to read it properly then. So, yes, the EU held most of the "cards' by 2016 and I think that was finally realised by the leave voters. The very difficulty of leaving highlighted the overriding political nature of the EU and the need to break free of it. There was a lot of nonsense spouted by both sides in the run-up to the referendum - personally, I ignored it - leaving "deals" were hardly discussed until the vote was over. No deal was the only way to leave completely but if the EU had truly been a trading bloc, it could have been relatively easy and amicable.

or just bored....

OK then. What a waste!

Open "Opinium" and it just asks another question immediately! Keep your cookies in a jar then! So many big questions in a single little poll, pretty much all of which seem to try to imply that sentiment on these issues in the UK today is only driven by Brexit, despite most all of the EU being badly affected by the pandemic, high immigration, too few homes, new wars, inflation and flagging economies! How can anyone make a fair judgement given all that? On top of that, the question of the process of actually leaving the EU was completely ignored. Tory UK governments, first misled by a dithering and weak May, then second conned by Boris, with the regurgitated Chequers (also May) withdrawal agreement, which was rushed in/out of the oven just to "get Brexit done", so that Boris could say that he did it. It was all such a waste, especially with such an enormous majority. It'll be a long time before the Conservatives see that again. What a waste!

I guess nobody knows for sure then.

Depends where you get your numbers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/05/us-covid-coronavirus-death-toll Guardian suggests February 4th.

Filing or fling?

OK Dan, you keep digging them up and I'll count them after sunrise.

Er yes/

You are correct. Maybe the pilot missed that bit.

You want to talk about one day when I want to talk about two years. Anyway your highlight looks to be peakiest after Biden arrived. Here's some spares in case you want another go.

If you want to credit this Vanity Fair rubbish that's up to you. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-03-17/trump-tells-followers-to-get-vaccinated-against-coronavirus

When Trump had the vax it was widely reported at the time.

Full blown like your story? Already by April 2020 there were already 2.5k deaths/day in the US. Not peaky enough? There were several other similar peaks/waves post Biden's arrival at the high 20/21 winter peak, all the way onto 2022. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Biden still lost more people in '21 than Trump lost in '20, despite new availability of vaccines, PPE, treatment techniques and information.

Lots of variables in there that are not accounted for but which the article itself acknowledges. However, the trend is there, indicating that Republicans who chose not to vaccinate but who contracted Covid were more likely to die. But that was their choice and Trump allowed that, although he received the vaccine in early 2021 and everyone knew it. There was no mandate and people were free to be free and tribal. I think that it has to be that way.

So how come Biden lost more people in his first year than Trump did? Even with vaccines rolling out by then?

And I am saying that most governments mismanaged the epidemic. There may have been many "additional" deaths however it was handled. There was very little information available early on.

Most leaders would not have wanted to create a panic. So what?

So you're saying covid was Trumps fault then?

I know that is supposed to be the case but sometimes I do wonder. Inflation just picked up again a bit last month so we'll have to wait and see, I suppose.

No joke. I was being serious that time. You have insulted me and I'm angry. Yes, I don't accept your so-called and irrelevant 7-point "fact" list.

I made a poor joke but never mind - it was nothing to do with anything anyone else wrote. But what was your point? I know that you think you have one. Redfin, or anything else, can be used to justify attacking "Bidenomics". It's easy. It is comical for someone to say that a link to support a post is biased - it has to be - if you really want to look at it like that. A better word would be relevant, even of you don't like it. The reality is that it is still difficult for house buyers in the US to afford a change of home or start into the market. Even if interest rates fall there will be quite a lag before borrowers see much relief. The relief in mortgage rates is only minimal so far. There have been actual no rate cuts from the Fed yet. Too much speculation, as ever. My biased link is below: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/real-estate/housing-market-predictions/ All that said, housing market difficulties are only one aspect to do with Bidenomics, whatever that's supposed to mean. Rates finally went up after years in the supernatural world of zero interest. Debt and inflation are the two biggest threats and Biden is making both worse.

I think just about everybody, everywhere, was wrong about Covid. But that does not make Covid Trump's fault.

Redfin? Sounds fishy.

It is 2024. Yield curve analysis generally uses 2 year and 10 year bonds.