The continuation of the increase through to June 2024 .... this is after "let it rip" policies were in place, after COVID was being effectively trivialised by governments.
Most countries in this graphic started downward at the cusp of 2021/22. I wonder why that could be? 🤔
🔗 https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/the-root-cause-of-australias-productivity-collapse/
Over the past decade, the Australian economy has recorded some of the poorest productivity growth in the world and the nation’s poorest productivity growth on record. Last week, I presented five reasons why Australia’s productivity growth has declined, namely: The mining boom of the 2000s and the associated surge in the Australian dollar contributed to
"The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say."
Unfortunately, this news isn't from the Onion. RFK Jr is anti: science & vaccine.
#GOPDeathCult #Health #PublicHealth #Science #PublicSafety #H5N1 #HHS #RFKJR #Trump #LetItRip #Resist #USPol
And now you see why the Right (and Corporate Center) was so all hot and bothered for #LetItRip and ending the COVID emergency: the pandemic seems to have done a spendid job of preserving the Social Security Trust Fund for looting by Emperor PalpaMusKKK and Darth Trumpster.
h/t @jdm2
https://palcarajo.social/@jdm2/114032903483986280
https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/americans-died-covid-social-security/
(Warning: Fortune article may be paywalled; alt source here:
Content warning: USA: covid excess deaths, social security