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Well, Rob, I don't follow him...last I heard he was living in Florida, at Mar-A-Lago.

It’s a legal mess. Trump and Melania took the first step toward Florida residency when they filed a Declaration of Domicile in 2019 saying that Mar-a-Lago, will be their permanent residence. They also changed their voter registration from NY to Florida. Trump agreed in writing years ago to change the use of Mar-a-Lago from a single-family residence to a private club owned by a corporation he controls. The distinction is significant. The property is taxed as a private club, not as a residence, according to the Palm Beach County property appraiser. Trump’s attorney assured Palm Beach before they voted to approve the club in 1993 that he would not live there. The agreement states that he cannot reside there for more than 21 consecutive days per year. You can’t have it both ways, so if Palm Beach stands firm on the agreement, Trump will be forced to either stop operating Mar-a-Lago as a club and make it a single-family home again, or change his official domicile to some other address in Florida.

Also I never said anything about climate change itself. The climate always changes. Siberia was temperate forest and wine grapes grew in Scotland.

You asked “What does climate change have to do with the northward track of a hurricane?” and I attempted to answer your question. You’re welcome.

No, they seem that way because of modern records and 24/7 crazed media.

Yes, accurate record keeping provides the facts. NOAA records since 1851 are here: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/. If you are trying to imply that older historical record keeping is fundamentally unreliable, incomplete or erroneous, then maybe the Civil War was just a hoax created by the crazed media? I agree about the media’s sloppiness when reporting about such things, compounded by the general population’s poor understanding of how science works. The media will report a such-and-such scientific estimate, but omit the +/- margin of error. The general population then forgets what the word “estimate” actually means and misinterpret it as some sort of infallible prediction because it is scientific. We have the same statistical prognostications with sports, but at least sports fans “get it” regarding predictions and uncertainty.

“When we work backward from results to figure out why those things happened, we are susceptible to a variety of cognitive traps, like assuming causation when there is only a correlation, or cherry-picking data to confirm the narrative we prefer. We will pound a lot of square pegs into round holes to maintain the illusion of a tight relationship between our outcomes and our decisions.” ~ Annie Duke, “Thinking in Bets”

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The same therapy that’s free for others, btw. Little known fact. The government bought all the regeneron to provide.

Yes, Trump had access to an 8-gram dose of REGEN-COV (Casirivimab with Imdevimab) during the first week of October 2020 while it was still experimental and unavailable as doctors threw everything they had at the illness. The development and manufacturing of REGEN-COV was funded in part with federal funds from BARDA. Regeneron established supply agreements with the U.S. government in January 2021 to purchase all finished doses of the cocktail supplied by June 30, 2021, as well as a previous agreement to supply doses to treat approximately 300,000 people, so we’re getting there one year later for the average patient. BTW, the medicine itself may be free but the ambulance, ER and hospital sure isn’t in the US. Source: https://investor.regeneron.com/2020AR

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That’s a s**t load of words just to say I was right—but still attempt weaselness.

Context, context, context. Average citizens who contracted SARS-CoV-2 when Trump did only had access to fish tank cleaner and maybe a ventilator. Trump’s recovery was due to being POTUS, not the shining example you make it out to be of easily beating COVID despite co-morbidities. Bragging about his amazing recovery completely ignored the irony that the very existence of that treatment resulted from fetal tissue research that the Republican religious right has been trying to shut down for decades. You are right that Trump survived on a desperate Hail Mary in 2020 by virtue of having free and immediate access to the best available emergency care by a 24/7 dedicated team of specialists and an entire hospital wing. No one else did. One whole year, 40 million cases and 648,000 deaths later in the US there are enough doses of REGEN-COV to treat 1.5 million of the 300+ million Americans now facing Delta. Stay safe, or not if you insist on magical thinking about relative risk.