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I’d suggest searching the terms “foreclosure” and “acquired immunity” in the text. If you find it to be up for interpretation, I’d love to see your take.

chrisjarvis 5y ago
>Even so, given the high degree of Delta variant contagiousness, a combination of vaccination and acquired immunity should drive down pandemic measures substantially by November. I didnt find this distasteful.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
I see lots of text describing trends and making predictions, but not any text about whether those trends are good or bad (at least in the moral sense)
saxonww 5y ago
OK. I read the entire article, so I was able to see those terms used in context, which I think is key to understanding what the author is trying to say. The discussion around acquired immunity also includes vaccinations, as in "...will require increased global vaccination and acquired immunity" in the very first sentence, and "...a combination of vaccination and acquired immunity" later in the section discussing COVID. Vaccination was mentioned first both times. I am not sure what you're seeing here, but I am reading an acknowledgement that some people will not get vaccinated, not advocacy for non-vaccination or anything like that. The discussion around mortgage foreclosures is a little less clear cut, to me, because it's commentary on data that may not show the whole story, and it assumes a familiarity with the subject that I don't have. I still didn't read anything close to "we must foreclose on mortgages and increase the homeless population," which I think is basically your take. Instead, I read an analyst commenting on data that appears to show the labor pool being impacted by ongoing COVID-relief policies, noting that COVID concerns may be trending down (again based on data), and then suggesting that we may need to walk back the relief policies to help address the labor shortage.

chrisjarvis 5y ago

>Even so, given the high degree of Delta variant contagiousness, a combination of vaccination and acquired immunity should drive down pandemic measures substantially by November. I didnt find this distasteful.

Rebelgecko 5y ago

I see lots of text describing trends and making predictions, but not any text about whether those trends are good or bad (at least in the moral sense)

saxonww 5y ago

OK. I read the entire article, so I was able to see those terms used in context, which I think is key to understanding what the author is trying to say. The discussion around acquired immunity also includes vaccinations, as in "...will require increased global vaccination and acquired immunity" in the very first sentence, and "...a combination of vaccination and acquired immunity" later in the section discussing COVID. Vaccination was mentioned first both times. I am not sure what you're seeing here, but I am reading an acknowledgement that some people will not get vaccinated, not advocacy for non-vaccination or anything like that. The discussion around mortgage foreclosures is a little less clear cut, to me, because it's commentary on data that may not show the whole story, and it assumes a familiarity with the subject that I don't have. I still didn't read anything close to "we must foreclose on mortgages and increase the homeless population," which I think is basically your take. Instead, I read an analyst commenting on data that appears to show the labor pool being impacted by ongoing COVID-relief policies, noting that COVID concerns may be trending down (again based on data), and then suggesting that we may need to walk back the relief policies to help address the labor shortage.