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"Gutter Tub", sounds pretty appropriate for the talent I saw walking around Bourbon last time I was in town. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Thank God Trump only listens to "yes" men. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Umm, no. Texas National Guard + Aggy Corp would be hard pressed to push back against a 2021 freeze let alone an actual armed force. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

In what world would this be considered a bad thing? GQP world. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

And on that, I'll award you all internet points for tonight. Damn you Covid, you Clear and Present Danger. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

The Coronavirus clip art just turns it up to 11. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

She should probably get a bucket and a mop. Wait, hold on that's someone else. My bad. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

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Wait! Are you still defending Trump? I believe it's common knowledge now, that Trump is indeed a huge piece of shit. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Thanks Tex Pete. I still do some commissions on occasion. I'm traveling more with work so I don't have as much free time. If you've got an idea in mind shoot me a PM and we can discuss. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Well, well, well. There you go. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

I didn't realize they'd use 24 year old Donny. I guess when your limited by how much rock you have you run with it and hope no one questions the lack of fat. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Let's try this again. Hook'Em Horns! Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Fuck me it's hot! Hook'Em Horns! Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

I'm in on $100 for Bama's happy hour. We're family now (Sec) Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Got Damn! Why is it so dusty in here. Good job B Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

I'm in for $100. Booze, dinner or Tahiti. It's time to back the ones who have to face this daily. TB, you rock! Hook' Em.. Disclaimer...... I've had a lot to drink tonight, we're moving our oldest in at UT tomorrow. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Just as an fyi, I'm steeling this. Thanks in advance JJ Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Of course he did. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Someone thinks Peter Griffin and the writers from Family Guy might be our only hope. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

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You missed nothing. You're correct, that's how this vaccine is working. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Baylor College of Medicine didn’t intend for its new-student orientation to become a case study in breakthrough infections. In retrospect, the photographed smiles and cheery video on Baylor’s Facebook page, look ominous. On Monday, July 26, around 200 people — mainly first-year medical students wearing hot-pink theme-weekend T-shirts — gathered inside a Baylor building and loaded plates from a breakfast buffet. They weren’t socially distanced, and in the photos, the only masks visible are in people’s hands or dangle from their wrists. But why should the affair have been any different? It was Monday, July 26, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines at the time, it was safe for groups of vaccinated people to gather unmasked. Baylor requires its students to be vaccinated, and 97 percent of the 189-member Class of 2025 were not merely vaccinated but fully vaccinated — a statistic unlikely to be equaled by many other groups in Texas. They were a young, healthy crowd. If it was safe for any large group to gather indoors unmasked, it should have been safe for this one. As instructed, the first-years did mask up to ride limousine buses two hours north, to the Retreat at Artesian Lakes in the Piney Woods. But after they arrived, they milled about mask-free, playing getting-to-know you games. They ate meals together inside the dining hall, and spent much of their time sitting close together outdoors in small groups. They bunked in the property’s cabins. On Tuesday, the limo buses carried them back to Houston. Notably, that was also the day that the CDC changed its recommendation about vaccinated people and masking. An outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., documented by citizen scientists, had shown that delta was different from the variants that had come before. Delta, it turned out, can be passed from vaccinated person to vaccinated person. That announcement, of course, came too late for the first-years. In the following days, some of the students began to feel sick. By the end of the first week of August, 11 of the first-years — six percent of the class — had tested positive for COVID. Followed CDC guidelines In the Provincetown outbreak, three-fourths of the people infected were fully vaccinated. The good news was that their vaccinations clearly protected them — they were far less likely than unvaccinated people infected with delta to become so sick they needed to be hospitalized, or to die. The bad news was that the vaccinated didn’t escape scot-free and asymptomatic: 79 percent of the people with those Provincetown breakthrough infections experienced symptoms — coughs, fevers, fatigue, muscle aches, loss of taste and smell. Something similar appears to have been the case at Baylor. Soon after the orientation, students began reporting the familiar flu-like symptoms to the medical school’s administration. One first-year student said they knew of “several” people who were sick, not just asymptomatic. (Anxious not to jeopardize a budding medical career, the student asked to remain anonymous.) SALE! 26 WEEKS FOR 99¢ Most Popular Texas Supreme Court blocks local mask mandates Inside a Galveston ICU, young patients desperately cling to life HISD warns of discipline for students, staff who don't wear masks COVID live updates: Texas requests 5 mortuary trailers Astros' Kyle Tucker out indefinitely for health and safety protocols Baylor College of Medicine orientation turns into COVID cluster NIH director Collins addresses COVID threat in Texas schools Why Deshaun Watson wasn't at Texans practice Beloved Austin High School JROTC instructor dies at 63 Interactive maps, charts show spread of COVID-19 across Houston LOCAL // HEALTH Baylor College of Medicine student orientation turns into COVID cluster Photo of Lisa Gray Lisa Gray , Staff writer Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 8:06 a.m. Comments 2 Baylor College of Medicine students pose after receiving their white coats in a ceremony at the Bayou City Event Center on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. 1 of 2 Baylor College of Medicine students pose after receiving their white coats in a ceremony at the Bayou City Event Center on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Annie Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Contributor Baylor College of Medicine didn’t intend for its new-student orientation to become a case study in breakthrough infections. In retrospect, the photographed smiles and cheery video on Baylor’s Facebook page, look ominous. On Monday, July 26, around 200 people — mainly first-year medical students wearing hot-pink theme-weekend T-shirts — gathered inside a Baylor building and loaded plates from a breakfast buffet. They weren’t socially distanced, and in the photos, the only masks visible are in people’s hands or dangle from their wrists. But why should the affair have been any different? It was Monday, July 26, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines at the time, it was safe for groups of vaccinated people to gather unmasked. SALE! 26 WEEKS FOR 99¢ ACT NOW COVID Help Desk: I'm fully vaccinated and just tested positive. What should I do? Baylor requires its students to be vaccinated, and 97 percent of the 189-member Class of 2025 were not merely vaccinated but fully vaccinated — a statistic unlikely to be equaled by many other groups in Texas. They were a young, healthy crowd. If it was safe for any large group to gather indoors unmasked, it should have been safe for this one. As instructed, the first-years did mask up to ride limousine buses two hours north, to the Retreat at Artesian Lakes in the Piney Woods. But after they arrived, they milled about mask-free, playing getting-to-know you games. They ate meals together inside the dining hall, and spent much of their time sitting close together outdoors in small groups. They bunked in the property’s cabins. On Tuesday, the limo buses carried them back to Houston. Notably, that was also the day that the CDC changed its recommendation about vaccinated people and masking. An outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., documented by citizen scientists, had shown that delta was different from the variants that had come before. Delta, it turned out, can be passed from vaccinated person to vaccinated person. That announcement, of course, came too late for the first-years. In the following days, some of the students began to feel sick. By the end of the first week of August, 11 of the first-years — six percent of the class — had tested positive for COVID. Followed CDC guidelines In the Provincetown outbreak, three-fourths of the people infected were fully vaccinated. The good news was that their vaccinations clearly protected them — they were far less likely than unvaccinated people infected with delta to become so sick they needed to be hospitalized, or to die. The bad news was that the vaccinated didn’t escape scot-free and asymptomatic: 79 percent of the people with those Provincetown breakthrough infections experienced symptoms — coughs, fevers, fatigue, muscle aches, loss of taste and smell. Something similar appears to have been the case at Baylor. Soon after the orientation, students began reporting the familiar flu-like symptoms to the medical school’s administration. One first-year student said they knew of “several” people who were sick, not just asymptomatic. (Anxious not to jeopardize a budding medical career, the student asked to remain anonymous.) That student is alarmed that the school didn’t send a mass email immediately, after the first indication that students at the orientation had been exposed: “There was radio silence for a couple of days.” On Saturday, July 31, two members of Baylor’s student-affairs staff emailed the first-years and upper classmen who had attended the retreat: “There has been a potential COVID exposure,” they warned. As sick and exposed students quarantined, Baylor canceled the first week of in-person classes. Family and friends were disinvited to the Aug. 13 white-coat ceremony, in which first-years take an oath and receive their doctor’s garb. Many students were angry, said the first-year: They wanted their loved ones to be present. “Baylor followed the CDC guidelines,” said Jennifer Christner, dean of Baylor College of Medicine. The cluster of cases — she doesn’t call it an outbreak — was contained. Maybe a best-case scenario Maybe, as one of the country’s top medical schools, Baylor could have been better prepared for a COVID cluster. Maybe, even before the CDC’s announcement, Baylor could have somehow have sussed out that the delta variant plays by different rules, and that even vaccinated people need to wear masks while hanging out with other vaccinated people indoors. Maybe it could have alerted students faster. But given what Texas educational institutions are up against, the cluster at Baylor College of Medicine may be a best-case scenario. Consider that while the delta variant is filling Texas ERs and ICUS, Texas colleges and K-12 schools begin in-person classes this month. Remember that a patchwork of mask rules applies, with some schools not requiring them. That students under age 12 are ineligible to be vaccinated, and that less than a third of adolescents are vaccinated, and far less than half of college-aged people. If six percent of students were infected in two days, in a group that’s 97 percent fully vaccinated and who follow medical advice, imagine what could happen somewhere else. None of the Baylor students were hospitalized. None died. None, so far as is known, infected a fragile family member or an unvaccinated friend. The school took measures, and the chain of infections stopped. In the grim era of the delta variant, that counts as a happy ending. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Kids are allowed to wear a mask. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

I'm pretty sure he's already done this multiple times on Fox. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk