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  1. Is it too much to ask for him to strangle Kurt Bohls with the microphone cord?
  2. Quite noticeable already in game 1.
  3. Very good points. I'd also add that the Cajuns returned a ridiculously veteran, experienced offense that averaged 421 yards and 34 points last year. The D turned in a solid performance with lots of room for improvement. There was a lot to be excited about in this game.
  4. https://www.fox.com/watch/d6c7846f58af0fedcf2cc9221f79235e/
  5. Jones has only been playing football a few years, and got garbage coaching here until Flood. He still has no idea WTF he's doing much of the time and should improve immensely with competent coaching.
  6. Posted a page or so ago. https://www.fox.com/watch/d6c7846f58af0fedcf2cc9221f79235e/
  7. Sark has all the pieces to be a great one, if he's conquered his personal demons. Falling from grace is a hell of an experience. I'm glad we're the ones giving him a second chance, not USC. He now has another shot, at a better program, and USC has Clay Helton.
  8. Seems the FDA may have been the hold up on vaccines for under 12 and booster shots, both of which are badly overdue in my opinion. The people that will replace them in these positions will be highly qualified. Hopefully, the replacements will be quicker to respond to changing data.
  9. Unfortunately, there isn't any data that I've seen on this yet. I'll post it here when I see some. I will be surprised if the CDC doesn't update guidance to boosters at 6 months by mid-Sept.
  10. I am not a doctor disclaimer... Depends who you ask, we are in a liminal phase. It also depends on your goal. If you are fully vaccinated, and not old/immune compromised, you have excellent protection against severe cases, or death. Booster shots would be to reduce transmission (definitely) and reduce odds of contracting long covid (likely, but not enough data to say yet). Personally, I think the rollout is far too slow, but I took a lot of shit for saying they were inevitable back in June. I understand the CDC is working on a much slower timeline and waiting for concrete data, with larger sample sizes, while I was working off probabilities. This is actually much faster for them to come around than I was expecting. Again, just my personal opinion. I think people with Pfizer need to be getting that booster before month 6, definitely by 6. If I was a teacher, or clinician, I would not wait for the CDC. I would get my antibody levels checked and take a booster if low. I understand it goes against the CDC currently. I expect they will change it in the near future. Biden mentioned 5 months a day or so ago. I want to stress again though, I'm not a doctor and this is not medical advice. I recommend talking it over with your doctor. I think Moderna is good through at least 6 months, but we don't know how long yet. I've been assuming ~7 months against Delta, but that's a hunch and I don't have any data to back it up yet. I got my second Moderna at the beginning of April and have not yet gotten a booster. I wear an N95 and have kept my exposures low. In the meantime, mask up and get your antibodies checked with the UT study. They'll give you some idea of rough protection level.
  11. No, we are seeing a fair number of breakthrough cases, where people test positive. Many are asymptomatic, many have symptoms similar to the cold/flu that our disinformation merchants say Covid has always been. We are seeing some hospitalizations from vaccinated, mostly elderly and/or immune compromised. The vaccines stop almost all ICU visits and deaths.
  12. Get a booster now if you are immune suppressed, unless you've just been vaccinated. Everyone else, currently 8 months. This will likely change to 6 soon, possibly 5 months for Pfizer.
  13. Second sentence in the article. I have Good News/Bad News for you. Covid already does this with an asymptomatic period and not killing the infected for several weeks. It's why there is no selection pressure driving it to become more mild. The vaccine is unlikely to produce any response you wouldn't already see naturally. Having a shitload of infected people causes the same problem. Delta and Gamma both evolved in populations with zero vaccinated people and many previously infected ones.
  14. 4-6 months for Pfizer, longer for Moderna, but we don't know how much. We'd be fine against OG Covid, or Alpha, but Delta spreads faster and infects faster.
  15. Not a DR disclaimer. Official advice is take the same as your original. NIH/NIAID currently has a study looking at mixing and matching vaccines. Until those results come back, the CDC is going to tell you to take the same one. That said, they'll also say you can mix if that's the only option, because the data seems fine and other Western countries did it with no issue. I advised my immune compromised relative, who asked, to switch and take Moderna. Reasoning was they are also exposed to kids that go to an unmasked school and definitely need the stronger, longer lasting immune response. They were exhausted for 36 hours and then back to complete normal.
  16. The Salet Days.
  17. It's an existential threat, but most won't view it that way. Their normalcy bias prevents it. They are surrounded by people that make decisions frequently based on data and logic. They don't understand that a huge chunk of this country makes decisions predominantly on emotion. It's not about facts, it's about feels. That's not a matchup that favors the Scientific Method.
  18. JFC, this isn't difficult unless you are intentionally trying to misunderstand it. The current evidence says ivermectin is an ineffective treatment for Covid, but a great way to get rid of skin and intestinal parasites. There is no evidence to show that it works on Covid, so it is currently a false treatment and such claims about it are pseudoscience. That may change when the current clinical trials are finished, but that is the future, not the present. In the meantime, the fraudulent profiteers promoting ivermectin are making money hand over fist, while victims of these charlatans are chugging sheep dip, or slamming peanut butter and horse paste sandwiches, then clogging up our poison controls and ICUs.
  19. SEC, it just infects...more.
  20. Look out JFK Jr.
  21. Matches the reports of antibodies they were finding. There are a fair number of animal reservoirs for covid and it's pretty wide spread across the mammalian family tree. Primates, weasels, dogs, cats and deer is a pretty good smattering. It's likely a safe assumption that at least some other mammals can serve as a reservoir as well.
  22. The right wing declared war on science long ago. We got our asses kicked, before most of us realized we were in a fight. Now they've declared war on reality. We are once again, getting our asses kicked. Disinformation is killing people all across the country, but most still don't realize it's an existential fight between facts and alternative facts. Reality isn't political. Science isn't political. Facts are facts and alternative facts are lies, or at best, distortions. If we keep catering to these motherfuckers, we will be in an ever increasing dystopian nightmare.
  23. The well is being poisoned by the same profiteers that politicized masks, vaccines and promoted HCQ well after it was debunked as an effective Covid cure. Ivermectin has been thoroughly discussed on here over the last 18 months. At one point, many of us were optimistic that it might help Covid, but the bulk of the evidence says it does not. It is also not being suppressed. An ivermectin clinical trial is currently being conducted to determine if it is safe and effective in different dosages. If the trial shows it works, doctors will prescribe it at that dosage. That's how science and medicine work and why it's called "Evidence Based Medicine". This trial likely would have started and concluded sooner if the same dipshits screaming about ivermectin had shut the fuck up about HCQ. An ENORMOUS amount of medical capital and human trial volunteers were wasted and the same dipshits now screaming about ivermectin are responsible. Without all the time, money and human volunteers these fuckers wasted, we could have also gotten further on drugs with actual potential, such as fluvoxamine.
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