it’s rather remarkable to consider how much $100K a year used to get you https://t.co/IrUgT7jQOu

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) February 18, 2022

Yep. My grandfather owned three houses and bought expensive cars on a military pension and a decent state job, with three kids and a wife who didn’t work.

In today’s dollars*, all told, he made about $125,000 a year. I make a good bit more than that and I could not afford all of those things and still save for retirement. (Not counting my stock market funny money here.)

*Obviously the inflation numbers are bullshit.

When I grow up, I want to be a professional crisis actor. 😉

See: Denmark's Statistical Institute tries to address some of the misinformation proliferating about the country.
And again: a highly-vaccinated, high-trust, high-testing, small, competent county that can switch back-and-forth is not a good US comparator!https://t.co/RK2xTvsowU pic.twitter.com/VFcdxUz31l

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) February 15, 2022

Strangely — or perhaps not so strangely — it’s been mostly “progressives” that I’ve seen purveying utter trash lies about Denmark and Covid. The bed-hiders are gonna attempt to get us all to bed-hide no matter what.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

This is bleak https://t.co/Kbbcr2vc2Z

— John Robb (@johnrobb) February 17, 2022

Was zur Hölle?