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This is obviously hyperbole. We all know ANTIFA will write-in Sanders/Warren and replace the American flag at the post office with the hammer and sickle while walking the ballots in and holding a boombox on their shoulder playing the Soviet anthem. Then they'll call in MS-13 to rough up all the old ladies trying to drop off their mail.
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My family isn't in Healthcare, but my wife used to be the manager of food services for a major provider in our city. We have friends that are in Healthcare and still at the hospital and they all have the same story. At one point in July, their designated COVID hospital overflowed into the next, and so on until all hospital ICUs in the system had their ICUs majority COVID. Flu patients don't take up excess ICU capacity like that, even during a bad flu outbreak. The flu argument is so weak. I haven't seen one credible healthcare professional make it.
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Thanks for responding with actual discussion. Your post, in total with mine, is where I think the true debate lies. I think the two reasonable sides to this are those that think COVID is here to stay, or at least here for a couple of years so we need to learn to live with it, and those that think we can get COVID minimized to the level of SARS or MERS if we shut things down for a year or less. Either way, I think the situation is way more complicated than a lot of people are willing to concede. The problem with all of your last sentence is compliance. We have to put healthy people in quarantine because following the rules appears to be hard. It has certainly been confusing due to all the conflicting information out there, but compliance has been very difficult to maintain. Adults all the way down to kids have problems following the rules necessary to buy us time to reach a medical solution to all of this. If coaches and players want to trot out hashtags about letting them play, I think there should be serious consequences for breaking the rules regarding testing, social distancing, and reporting. We're already starting to see that they want to disregard the rules. Let's be honest, if these teams treat COVID rules like recruiting rules, then the season will never happen.
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Horace Hamilton is a living Pearl Harbor survivor who resides in Burleson County. I got to meet him at his home a couple of years back and he was kind enough to show me anything and everything he had involving his service in the war. A small town Texas boy who enlisted in the Navy in June of 1941 and was stationed in Pearl Harbor immediately after training. Was aboard the USS Phoenix and saw a ton of naval combat in the Pacific Theater. If you want to send Mr. Hamilton a letter or card to thank him for his part in getting us to V-J Day, you can send it to P.O. Box 1281 Caldwell, TX 77836
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Your lackluster trolling led to real discussion, so...
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We're going to argue in circles around each other on this. My point is that there are enough inherit dangers in football that we don't need to add another. Yours is that football is a dangerous sport, so what is one more? But you have your head in the sand if you haven't seen the increasing discussion about the future of football, the safety of athletes, and more and more parents being hesitant to allow their kids to play. And COVID is more inherently dangerous to a football team than CTE. Coaches won't get CTE from standing on the sidelines. Athletic training personnel won't get CTE from being in the training room. A strength and conditioning coach won't get CTE from being in the weight room. Students on campus won't get CTE from a player sitting in class after a coach covered up his concussion symptoms so he's available to play on Saturday.
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Sure, but you can't get CTE because a handful of your teammates broke team rules by going to a house party.
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I think the cat is out of the bag for CTE now. NFL and the fans who long for the days of leather helmets and crack back blocks are hating the days of concussion protocol, only one full contact practice per week, and good players retiring in their 20s and early 30s.
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The fact that this keeps getting trotted out there as some kind of justification for charging forward with the season just shows that people still aren't understanding the nuances of this pandemic. Of course there are inherent risks with football. Of course. But these risks are fully known and can be mitigated with proper care across all levels. From CTE all the way down to random meningitis outbreaks at water fountains. How well these risks are mitigated depends on everyone from the administration all the way down to the athletic training staff. CTE can be mitigated with concussion protocol, less full pad practices, and better tackling and blocking techniques, for example. Despite everyone around here and out there slinging articles at each other about the virus, there is still so much that we don't know about COVID. We've had literally over a century to figure out how to mitigate the dangers that already exist in football. We've had 6 months with COVID and if all of this uncertainty is evidence of anything, it is that there is yet to be a medical consensus about what is safe and what is not. The long term effects on players is of great concern. Death for young people is still a real possibility. The retort will be "those odds are low." There are 130 Division I football teams with 85 scholarship players per squad, plus support staff, coaches, and scout teams. So, around 120 to 150 people specifically dealing with the day to day around the team. That's around 16,000 people. How many deaths of those 16,000 is acceptable? How many of those 16,000 will deal with unexpected long term issues for the rest of their life? Sure, well over half of these guys will have a bum knee, shoulder, or intermittent headaches for the rest of their life, but they knew that going in. They knew that all of that could happen on the field. They didn't know that they might lose half of their lung function or develop an arrhythmia or lose a kidney because of a house party. This is a game, guys. It will still be there when this is all over with. Give these players a free year, get them into Zoom classes, find ways to keep them in shape, and let's play on in 2021 when all of this is behind us. I'm just as desperate for normalcy as all of you. Let's be patient, be kind to one another, put on a mask, and get all of this in the rear view as quickly as possible with as few avoidable casualties as possible.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Eastwood replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
You magically got bored of it the moment the numbers started dramatically going up. Even if it wasn't in bad faith, you have to admit the optics of that are horrible. -
Well, all the pro leagues have player unions that forced the leagues to come to the table and guarantee safety measures. Some are working, some are not. The college players, although they didn't go to their college to play school, have zero representation and are 100% at the whims of their coaches and administrators.
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Remember the last time we talked on the phone? Guess who my client was at the time.
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This always seemed to happen each bust, during my career at least. The amount of people on my projects got smaller and smaller.
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Maybe. A lot of unknowns with this, still. Either he was closer than what people thought, the blast is bigger than what people are currently estimating, or he's just one really unlucky dude. RIP either way, unfortunately.
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Flimsier structures, sure. But to break up concrete like that requires a shock wave with 10 pounds per square inch of overpressure. That is equal to winds of 294 mph. I have a link to the CDC pdf that covers it, but I'm not sure how the board handles PDF links. 3 psi is enough to collapse a house, but fatalities aren't guaranteed.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Eastwood replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
Sure, but with so many unknowns with regard to long-term damage to key organs, possible DVT, clots, as well as the neurological effects that seem to take a long time to recover from (taste/smell), it isn't worth rolling the dice in my opinion. Your own opinion above, as a doctor, still contains phrases like "I have seen data recently." The phrase "could see a significant subset of people with reduced pulmonary function but that remains to be seen" is in and of itself extremely concerning given the state of health care in this nation. Our health care system, and the health of people in this country in general, is already strained enough through obesity and other preexisting conditions. We don't have a financial system or health care infrastructure in place to take on more chronic conditions. We already needed a couple million more nurses by the second half of this decade, for example, and that was before COVID. I mean, hell, just think about the coming nightmare of utilization review lawsuits and vicarious liability. What the hell have capitation arrangements looked like over the last 6 months? Imagine what DRGs are going to look like over the next two years. This might not be huge on an evolutionary scale, but on the health care system scale, this was an absolute bomb. We need to mitigate that damage as much as possible so the system can get its arms wrapped around it. Circling back to the effects of the disease, people wanting to keep their kids out of school and insisting on people wearing masks is hardly "going through life scared of" COVID. It's managing the situation. You're obviously one of the few medical experts in the room that is Surly, there's no doubt about that, and I'm not saying that with any sarcasm whatsoever. That being said, the level of concern that people have about this is on entirely different level than say, a pregnant woman who is unnecessarily nervous because she ate some cold deli meat that was a day after expiration. We know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what the odds are for a pregnant women having complications from listeria or kids bringing home the flu. We still don't fully understand COVID-19 and I think that merits significantly more caution than what some are willing to concede. -
The shock wave was strong enough to damage the concrete building a couple of blocks away. It was probably like getting hit with sledgehammers all over his body. Here's a video of a guy's car getting demolished from across the got damn bay: If you weren't in some kind of shelter within a mile of that explosion, you're getting rattled to death.
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I haven't seen any news reports, yet, but it would not be surprising in the least. If it was a bunch of explosive chemicals that could be used as rocket fuel for Hezbollah rockets, there is a list of people who would not be shy about hitting an enemy asset surrounded by civilians. The official position has quickly transitioned from fireworks, to confiscated sodium nitrate that had been there for over a year, to it possibly being 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate that was either about to be sent to Egypt or, according to one tweet, had been sitting there for 6 years. Given the region, I just can't fathom how any government would allow that much explosive power sit on a dock that long.
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Sodium nitrate would explain why it looked like a thermobaric weapon at detonation.
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I'm not buying the fireworks angle. Sure, there were fireworks there, but I think there was something else in that warehouse. Not claiming anyone is an idiot for believing otherwise, but I just can't wrap my brain around an explosion like that being from just fireworks. It takes a large amount of human error (West/Texas City) or malice to get something like that .
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Completely unrelated to the protests, but that's Rocket Jockey t-shirt he's wearing. Not every day you see a t-shirt from an obscure PC game from 1996.
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Yup. Players refused a bubble then the Marlins went out and licked every doorknob in Atlanta. Good job, morons.
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U.S. Marine dead, 2 hurt, 8 missing after training incident near California
Eastwood replied to RPM's topic in Daily Texan
Nightmare fuel. Rest in peace and Semper Fi. -
2020 Baseball Cheaters vs the World Thread of Hate
Eastwood replied to UTexasFight's topic in Baseball
I'm glad we found some common ground.
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