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justhookit

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  1. Did you talk to Jason? I’ve lost touch but used to hang out in sort of the same crowd with him back in the 90’s. Sounds like you played right after my dad who played for Bradley. ‘65 would have been my dad’s senior year, or maybe ‘66. To one of your points he was from West Virginia. Never ended up playing much because Bradley thought he shot too much and didn’t like defense and my dad will admit that’s probably accurate. Anyway, Leon was the assistant coach then and my dad has always talked way more about Coach Black than he does Bradley.
  2. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/14/why-vaccine-shy-french-are-suddenly-rushing-to-get-jabbed ”COVID-19 VACCINATION rates are slowing in many rich countries. As they inoculate more of their citizens, countries begin to meet resistance among people who are less confident about being jabbed. Few people have been more vaccine-sceptic than the French. A poll carried out by Ifop in December reported that a remarkable 61% of them would not get vaccinated against covid-19—compared with 30% in America. In another poll in 2018, one-in-three told the Wellcome Trust that they did not think vaccines were safe—more than in any other country out of 144 surveyed.” it’s interesting, and from December, and apparently their idiots are “smarter” than ours or at least they are willing to change their tune. I wish we would do something like France just did and basically mandate the vax for doing anything in public. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2021/03/08/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-is-worse-in-eu-than-us/?sh=49694544611f “The numbers in the U.S. are significantly better than the E.U. Last month, in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the RECOVER Social Sciences team published a policy brief based on their study on public views of Covid-19 vaccination. The study covered seven European countries: France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine. Only 36% of the surveyed Europeans strongly agree with the statement that vaccines are safe. Posed the question whether respondents would be willing to be vaccinated if the vaccine was found to be safe and effective and provided free-of-charge, only between 44% and 66% answered in the affirmative. Moreover, a separate poll in France found that only 40% of French people want the Covid-19 vaccine. Poll after poll conducted across Europe suggest very large numbers of Europeans have serious qualms about the safety of vaccines and potential short- and long-term adverse effects. They also voice concern about the speed with which vaccines went through the clinical development process. A vocal minority perceives the vaccine as unnecessary. And many have conveyed their mistrust of global and national authorities as well as pharmaceutical companies, who some regard as solely pursuing financial interests and not those of public health.” Anyway, MNLonghorn has lost his mind during Covid and I went after him multiple times on the old DT thread, or maybe it was dcar but they have both been pretty much interchangeable in my mind, but what bothers me is Penelope going after American idiots. We aren’t unique because the world is full of idiots. Americans didn’t ruin her damn vacation. The world did. I’m guessing that is kind of where he is coming from.
  3. It’s time to go to work on the 20-40 year old age group. It’s fucking shocking how many of them aren’t getting vaccinated. Good friend of mines daughter is 24 and has a job that requires her to travel all over the country. She’s out at bars pretty much every night. Both her parents are vaxxed but they are hesitant to ask her to do it because of concerns about infertility. Meanwhile her employer is telling her they are going to reassign her if she doesn’t do it. My girlfriend’s daughter is 26 and she is flat refusing to get vaccinated solely because her idiot boyfriend told her not to. He doesn’t have much of a reason other than he thinks he is really smart. He’s 26 and drives Uber for a living. Fortunately her father has told idiot boyfriend that he is not allowed in the house until he’s vaccinated. So far that isn’t working. Maybe they just want to kill all us olds off.
  4. If you can, put a sink in with a disposal. Don’t spend the money on an outdoor tv just buy a cheap tv and cover it and then when it breaks throw it away and buy a new one. You can never have too much seating and spend the extra money on quality outdoor furniture otherwise you will be replacing it often.
  5. Welp, we are now up to eight restaurants that are closed or have been closed this week due to Covid. Most have been pretty open about it but a few holdouts went with the staffing issue, so fuck you. So it’s FINS, Trout Street, Castaways, Moby Dick’s, Shells, Tortugas, Grumbles, Stingrays. That I know of. Also 361 Bar. Most are reopened now after testing all employees. It’s an utter clusterfuck down here.
  6. Damn that’s really high. Any idea what brought it on? Make sure you stay hydrated because that’s one thing that definitely elevates mine. My onset was a severe panic attack. im slightly elevated without meds. I Take metoprolol - low dosage- once daily which puts me right back in normal range.
  7. Apparently you are not pretty good at math. To be fair, that would require him to further break it down into vaccine efficacy as components of get virus, show symptoms,, get hospitalized, or die. That’s a shitton of math.
  8. Yup. I was floored by one of the people that brought up the ivermectin. The other 0ne not so much.
  9. I got that one today from 2 different people. After reading enough responses, I blocked them. Fucking Facebook. Unfortunately it’s the only way I can communicate with a few family members so I can’t delete it again.
  10. 5 restaurants in Port A closed now. Won’t name anyone but if they tell you it’s a water leak, or staffing or something they are lying.
  11. I mean it worked for dwi’s so let’s get graphic. Put it out there with public service ads that say *THIS* is what might happen to you if you refuse the vaccine. Show what they do when they intubate. It ain’t pretty. instead we argue over Fauci and the cdc and Trump. But I’m the bad guy here.
  12. Actually I do and I’ve said it before. While everyone whines about this and that, maybe we can do something constructive. Let’s put trauma babe and her partners with a film crew in every tv area and have them film an intubation and then interview the family. Local news. I’m all for scare tactics right now. Or we can continue to argue about Trump.
  13. Ok, whatever. I’m outta here. Sure y’all will miss me.
  14. I am not going out of my way to ignore it and the other 364 days of the year are quite enough to dissect the gross incompetence of Trump and our government. I’m saying our messaging is not working. I only quoted 1 paragraph but there’s more….. “Vaccine hesitancy is a global problem. Surveys in 2021 report that between 50% and 60% of all respondents worldwide would be willing to receive a covid-19 vaccine, with wide variations across countries.1213 In the UK, surveys have found variation in willingness to have a vaccine between ethnic groups. The UK Household Longitudinal survey asked 12 035 participants (in November 2020) “how likely or unlikely would you be to take the vaccine?” Overall only 18% of respondents were hesitant (answering unlikely or very unlikely), in contrast with high levels of hesitancy in people of Black ethnicity (72%) followed by South Asians of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage (both 42%), and mixed ethnicities (32%), though levels of vaccine hesitancy were comparable with White people in respondents of Chinese ethnicity.14 UK data (as of 11 March 2021) show lower vaccination rates (among those eligible for vaccination) in Black African and Black Caribbean (58.8% and 68.7%, respectively), Bangladeshi (72.7%), and Pakistani (74%) ethnic groups compared with White British (91.3%), and lower vaccination rates in people who live in more deprived areas (most deprived 87%, least deprived 92.1%).15” https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1138
  15. Well I clarified that in the post after it but maybe you didn’t see that. Those numbers don’t look off to you? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-vaccine-39percent-effective-in-israel-prevents-severe-illness.html and that’s why it would be really concerning. We will know in a month or so.
  16. Also greater than 10% of cases going to hospital and 4/217 deaths isn’t good, but I think the 217 number is waaaaaay low.
  17. For sure. But Delta just got here. They have one entire confirmed case. Anyway I’m not arguing with you at all, we agree. I just took offense to mchammer trying to say that I was referencing border/immigration policy, which I clearly wasn’t. I’m hardheaded, but I’m the only one that has avoided discussing politics at all in this conversation, which was pretty much my original point. Peace.
  18. It’s the Texas Covid thread . Data is incomplete from Friday and in the accompanying YouTube presentation they said 95% of hospitalizations were unvaxxed which is GREAT news considering roughly 60% of the adult population is vaxxed. Vaccine Breakthrough Cases in Nueces County (217 cases) • # hospitalized – 25 • #deaths–4 Vaccine Status: Moderna 78 Pfizer 57 J&J 30 Unknown 01 Time Infected: 25 to 54 days after last vaccine link - https://www.cctexas.com/detail/covid-19-update
  19. Blow it all up.
  20. Yeah I know and it’s frustrating as fuck. My hope I guess is that if it wasn’t so political a bunch more of the idiots would come around and take the shot. I mean one entire side of my family is enormously Republican and they’ve all been vaccinated. Let’s change the message to only stupid people don’t take the shot. Cut them off from healthcare. Whatever. I’m so done with this crap and it’s starting to feel like we are falling right back in to spring of 2020.
  21. Y’all really don’t like it when someone comes in here and wants to discuss an issue but not make it about politics.
  22. Actually, we don’t know that for sure yet. I’m not going to derail this thread any further, but I posted real time real world numbers on the Texas thread. I DO NOT think they are correct, but as of now it doesn’t look good. Meanwhile I’m sitting here in Port A and four restaurants have shut down in the last 3 days due to Covid. These mostly aren’t unvaccinated people. Now, I think we can all agree that the end goal here is to cut the deaths down to an acceptable level so if the vaccines are working, great. I was mostly responding to his attempt to throw me under the bus on the border issue, which I wasn’t doing. But you know that.
  23. Nah all good. My point that flew over his head is we can have 100% of our population vaccinated, but a mutation can happen elsewhere in the world and we are right back here like we are with Delta. I don’t give a shit about y’alls argument over the border and immigration. Hook ‘em.
  24. You don’t read well.
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