No Wonder Why People and Businesses Are Dumping California

 Good article by Larry Elder hitting some of the high notes as to why people are leaving CA.

California's jobless rate, 7.3%, ties with Nevada's for last place. By contrast, Texas and Florida clock in at 5.4% and 4.6%, respectively. UCLA economist Lee Ohanian co-authored an August 2021 report on the tax and regulatory policies causing businesses to ditch California at an unprecedented rate. The report found: "Unless policy reforms reverse this course, California will continue to lose businesses, both large established businesses, as well as young, rapidly growing businesses, some of which will become transformational giants of tomorrow."

California policies are expelling rich high-profilers. Elon Musk, currently the richest man in the world, is relocating his Tesla headquarters from California to Texas. Musk, who says he will pay $11 billion in taxes this year, had already moved his residence from Los Angeles to Austin. In a population of almost 40 million Californians, 1% of taxpayers account for nearly half of the state's income tax revenues.

And Musk, the biggest of the one-percenters, just walked.

It's been a while "California Woman Sues...."

 I'm sorry, but it's been a while since I posted one of these.  I am not sure if it still holds true, but women in California seem to often pick up the ax to hurl when they feel wronged.  I noticed these years and years before "Florida Man" was a thing.

In California, there are a lot of things to sue. Some deserved.  Some not deserved.  I'm only interested in the petty stupid stuff. However, I've included some that were interesting. 

These stories go back to 2018 since I haven't done this in a while.

I checked for "California man sues" and didn't get nearly as many hits. I don't think it's because men don't sue as often. 

Woman sues over Sour Patch Kids box not being filled I guess she never thought about just taking it back and getting her money back.

California woman sues her parents because she is ugly  I think she's going to win.

Mom says Southwest Airlines thought she was trafficking her biracial daughter 

California woman’s ‘Bigfoot is real!’ lawsuit has been dismissed for now. I hope she ultimately wins.

California woman sues Red Lobster claiming false advertising: report

California Woman Sues Amazon for Not Stopping Scammers After Losing $3,000 in Gift Cards

Lawsuit Filed Against L.A. and California After Woman Hit by Car Walking Around Homeless Encampment.  I really want to see that car walk.

California woman sues Safeway operator for toilet paper price gouging

CALIFORNIA WOMAN SUES TRUMP-IMPERSONATING BOSS FOR RACE DISCRIMINATION

Woman Says She Was Fired Because Her Children Disrupted Her Work Calls

Mom Awarded $5M Settlement Accused of Buying Guns for Gang  Sometimes....you can't make this stuff up.

California woman’s lawsuit seeking $1,500 each for barrage of unwanted Subway promotional text messages clears key hurdle

Masks required: Woman, who shamed a Starbucks barista over mask request, sues creator of a GoFundMe campaign

Woman Sues Police Over Knocking Her Unconscious During Traffic Stop & Lying About It

California woman sues Mount Kisco charity shop over Hermès Birkin knockoff

California Woman Sues TSA For Detaining Her, Forcing Her to Submit to “Groin Search”

US Woman Sued Soda Brand Over Not Making Her Lose Weight. What Court Said

California Woman Sues American Airlines, Claims Employee Stalked Her

Black California Woman Files Lawsuit Against Former Professor for Allegedly Stealing Her Work

Suit charges Keurig's coffee pods aren't recyclable as advertised. A woman started the law suit

Peloton Sued Following Government Warning Over Treadmill Dangers

California Woman Blames Philips CPAP for Repeat Infections; JPML Consolidates Cases

Marriott slapped with $300G discrimination lawsuit filed by black woman over 'no party policy'

California woman claims Neutrogena skincare products are mislabeled as 'oil free'

Who’s your daddy? Woman sues Glen Allen fertility doctor for using his own sperm to impregnate her

California Spectrum Customers Say Their Calls to the Company Were Illegally Recorded

Foodstuffs Inflation: The Cause? Maybe China

 I got this from a gentleman on Elliottwavetrader.net (behind paywall).  This explains a lot as to why we are seeing fast rising grain prices here.  And until things reach some sort of normalcy, I think we could possibly see things get worse.  How much worse?  Not sure.  China's weather is pretty topsy turvy right now.  Enormous amounts of rain.

This table was originally from Karen Braun (@kannbwx on twitter).  She's a profuse poster with all things agriculture related.  Pretty much a "just the facts" sort of person (which I love). I'll be checking to see if I can find an update.

Bear in mind that this table includes worldwide imports into China, not just American products. I'm sure a huge portion of these numbers are from America.

The ice cream owner who tried, failed – and now owes $200,000

 I can't believe that Yahoo News actually posted this.  But shows the hash reality of trying to open a new business in CA.  And especially, SF.

He tried, and he failed. But the worst part is he never got a chance to even start. And now he’s got a $200,000 debt to pay off.

That’s the story of Jason Yu, a 30-year-old father of two who had the audacity to attempt to open up an ice cream shop in San Francisco’s Mission District. Unfortunately, the city got in his way.

As reported by San Francisco Chronicle, Yu started his project – a shop that sold green-tea-flavored ice cream – in late 2018, and ultimately found a location in mid-2019 where he got to work. After committing to a lease ($7,300 a month – this is San Francisco, remember?) he hired an architect to draw up plans for the space, which proposed no structural changes or modifications.

Then the city stepped in.

What he encountered was a byzantine permitting process that sucked all the money out of his wallet.

The article does say that perhaps the local politicians are waking up to the problem.  But to honest, I doubt it.  You need to vote these people out and then ban them from ever setting foot in the city ever again,

Latest post on Texas Coronavirus Data as of May 21, 2021

 Posting the latest Texas Wuhan Virus stats in graphic form. There are three numbers to look at:

1-    It took a while, but the daily hospitalizations are well under the trough we saw around August thru October in 2020.

2-    The second line shows daily deaths are under the trough at the same time period

3-    The third line shows that we have finally reached the low of daily deaths we saw before the volcano erupted on this whole thing.

Are we out of the woods?  I think we are.  But I've been wrong before.

Note:  I should make it clear that the daily deaths were smoothed out by converting it to a 7 day moving average.

I stumbled across a quick chart I put together and posted on another website (behind paywall). I superimposed the first wave onto the top of the beginnings of the 2nd wave.  This one was as of 2020/11/18. The date is from the timestamp on the file.

I wish I had posted this one here.  It was pretty prescient.

So now the question becomes: is this the lowest it's going to get?  

Stay tuned!!  I plan on to continue reviewing the data. I'll probably try to post once a month. I put off posting anything for a couple months because it was tough trying to determine where this was all headed.  It was sort of a cliff hanger.

One out of 25 in the Netherlands died of euthanasia in 2020

 Absolutely and utterly appalling.

• With 6938 deaths by euthanasia, this accounted for 4.12% of all deaths. (If the estimated 15,000 extra deaths from Covid-19 were put aside, the rate would be 4.52%)
• There were two cases of euthanasia for Covid-19 in 2020.
• With one more case of child euthanasia (a boy aged 12-16), a total of 16 children aged 12-17 have been euthanised since 2002.

And it gets worse.

Texas Coronavirus Update as of February 26, 2021

 The chart shows a distinct trend for lower hospitalizations and deaths.  I've added two points of special note regarding hospitalizations.  The first blue box has a date of March 13, 2021.  This marks a future time when hospitalizations could match the level in October (follow blue horizontal dashed line).  The second blue box date of March 27, 2021 marks when there could possibly be no more people in the hospital with the virus. The reality might be the actual hospitalizations by then will reach "some low number".  It might match what we started with in April and May.

Keep in mind this is an analysis of trends.  It is not really a completely reliable prediction of whether or not it will happen.  But as we say "we follow the trend...until we cannot".

I'm doing a better job of masking the incomplete updated deaths.  There still is a good chance the earlier death numbers will be updated, but possibly not enough to effect what the chart is telling us.

If the trend continues, the end is nigh.

 

Why California Isn’t What It Used To Be | Rabbi Dov Fischer

 There used to be a time I would have to scrounge around on youtube to find videos on the state of CA and why people were leaving there.  But now, there are dozens if not more of analysis and personal videos of this.

Here is one of them.

TEXAS CORONAVIRUS UPDATE AS OF 2021/1/23

 

UPDATE: Please check an update to this chart for February 26, 2021

https://californiaswansong.blogspot.com/2021/02/texas-coronavirus-update-as-of-february.html

The daily hospitalizations have settled down, from what I can tell. I didn't check every day, but spot checked a couple of dates. I don't know what the reason was for the change.  Probably Texas DHS were re-defining a few things.  I could ask them.  I have their email address and they do respond to my questions, which is very nice.

Like I mentioned before in a prior update to a post, the daily deaths have been slowly rising.  Nothing like it was in the beginning.  The conclusions regarding this have not changed.  A treatment protocol by now has been established - no more shots in the dark.  Also, there is herd immunity.  I add herd immunity because the virus had established itself as highly contagious. Refer to the chart to see the rapid rise in deaths and hospitalizations in late May onward.  But now, the rise in deaths (slope) is far far slower. We can imply from this that the virus has lost some of its potency.

If you look to the far right of the chart, I show a smooth gradiated shaded area.  I still use the cutoff point for reliable data of a change in deaths of less than 10 on the latest day, but I add an additional week to capture outliers. I gradiated it because it was unclear if the added weak should be counted or not.  I didn't want to blot it out entirely. But for sure, they are MORE up to date than the last few weeks/days.

The last few days show the daily hospitalizations topping out (see dashed oval in chart).  We need to see a few more weeks of data to determine if we have an actual trend. 

Daily deaths are represented as a 7 day moving average for greater clarity.

Update on Texas Coronavirus statistics

I am still following the Texas coronavirus statistics. This Excel spreadsheet is directly available here: https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/TexasCOVID19CaseCountData.xlsx 

My comments regarding these numbers so far are: 

1. I haven't gone back to look at it, but at some point in December or early January, the TDSHS updated the hospitalizations. The assumption early on was the hospitalization numbers were fixed and would not be updated. Well, that was not entirely correct. It looks like the numbers are fixed now.....for now. I can't determine what they will do in the future. 

 2. The daily fatalities are taking longer for them to completely update for any day. What looked like to me that daily deaths had flattened was not correct. They are slowly climbing. My calculations show the rate of deaths is at only one fourth the rate of the 2020 May/June time frame. Very....very slow. What I do now is add a week taking the date of incompleted data back a bit further to basically remove it from the analysis. I hated to do this because it delays any conclusion we can draw of what is ahead.  I think no conclusion is better than the wrong conclusion. 

3. My rough calculations for the rate of growth in daily hospitalizations show that it would take about four months for them to completely max out hospital bed utilization. That max-out date would bring us to the May/June timeframe. Just at the point we would probably start seeing a drop in hospitalizations and even daily fatalities.