Jeffrey B. Benyacar

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You're forgetting the new role: "Envoy for the Shields of America".......😳

Never argue with Jack Wilkerson. We all deciphered his meaning while barely noticing the lack of concordance (ok, you did).

You should hear how I muck up the tenses in French. Now THAT interferes with communication. 😳

Meh.🫤

As my old grammar buddy (RIP) and language professor Jack Wilkerson argued: if native speakers use it, it's acceptable and fine. I used to tease him about the 'correct' meaning of decimated and he rightly scoffed. 🫠

He dubbed himself the irascible old man. 👀

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NO.
Just the beginning....just the beginning.

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Your family and friends ok? 🙏

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Totally!

"Does it work?" vs. "how much does it work?" aren't always separable. In resource allocation or intervention comparisons, even a wide credible interval on effect size beats a binary. Demanding precision is bad; ignoring imprecise estimates in decisions that need them is also bad, don't you think? 🤔

Pharma industry and Ballard Partners dominate the lobbying space in second quarter of 2025 - OpenSecrets News Pharmaceutical and health products companies continued to dominate the lobbying space in the second quarter of 2025, spending $105.4 million…

The healthcare INDUSTRY spends more on lobbying Congress than any other sector in America. Furthermore, there is NOT one silver bullet, one shift that "fixes" this. "Medicare for All" is jingoism. The solution isn't just slapping tape on something that exists because it's putatively easy.

Hillary Clinton is one of the sharpest politicians in the Democratic party. Huge missed opportunity there.

Not yet, but give it time. Give it time.

The fact that we frame alternatives adopted from other countries as radical says more about our political imagination than the policy itself. I'm not suggesting a pivot is easy: it's NOT. So many entrenched interests; so many lives jeopardized.

The hardest part of what you're describing is that the people inside the system like you can see the structural collapse happening in real time while the public debate stays ten levels of abstraction away from the actual problem.

He's right of course. Employer-linked benefits aren't natural law but a WWII wage-control workaround we never bothered to fix. It's also why Americans are afraid to start businesses or leave bad jobs. We've chained risk-taking to a paycheck.

4/6 today.

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A sign of emotional intelligence is the ability to laugh at yourself. "...displaying amusement (vs. embarrassment) is
perceived to be a more emotionally calibrated response to many
common faux pas." Life skill: chill.

Food is not a reward for hard work.
#medsky

Hey @econmaett.github.io if you're on LinkedIn, connect w/me (at your own risk of course). 😉

This sentiment from Captain Picard on "time" is worth a rewatch. #startrek #TNG

In fairness Bush started no war. He stopped Sadam's aggression in Kuwait and mobilized an extraordinary coalition of nations. I had my issues but this was leadership.

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The answer from none other than Captain Picard.

The Pod Bros keep platforming this eejit. Gross and illuminating.

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This may also be LinkedIn worthy!!

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So immunity as the dominant driver isn't just plausible, it's the parsimonious call. Makes sense to me!

In laymen's terms: the math tells you that something is slowing the virus but doesn't tell you WHAT.

The main caveat is that Rt near 1 could also reflect behavioral changes or other non-immunological factors suppressing transmission, so attribution to immunity usually requires triangulating with seroprevalence data or other direct measures.

These are easy concepts to conflate. Reinfection reflects partial immunity, not absence of immunity. Wastewater measures incidence trends, not population susceptibility. Rt near 1 with a high R0 implies reduced population susceptibility, even if infections continue.

Pod Bros platform him. Vile