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gyroprotagonist

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  1. long term effects are not known for either catching the 'vid and recovering or with the vax. we are going vax our 13yo when available. as everyone else likes to point out, driving or juggling chainsaws while walking a tightrope over the grand canyon have a higher chance of death for teens. I just look at as I have a chance to eliminate that super tiny chance of death so why not.
  2. saw this on twitter or hell maybe even the surly baseball forum. but you can't spell 'asshat' without that exact standings in the AL West.
  3. already in the portal. owner was feeding him Alpo and put him 2nd on the depth chart behind a fucking labradoodle
  4. OK, thanks for your take. I don't see it that way. Maybe they are being too cautious, but doing it just to feel like big men/women and lusting after their newfound power? not buying that. The kids and masking guidance. I agree they are too cautious. The data is there that say kids are not going to suffer serious hospitalization/death; no guessing here. I am guessing that kid to kid transmission is at a lower rate vs adults due to kids having a higher asymptomatic rate (when they are infected) and thus lower transmission rate? Is there a large school district that did not do any masking or SD that would show this as fact? or did those that did in person schooling have lower transmission and case rate because they wore masks and the school did all they could to SD? That, in my opinion is where the CDC is coming from right or wrong. I am biased. My kids have been in school all year and had to wear a mask. Honest to God, they have not complained once about it and loved being able just to go to school. Would i prefer they could go w/o mask? Sure there is a lot lost from facial expressions and the youngest does some speech therapy at school. I don't see it as cruel or child abuse though for them to wear a mask, but again, I am using a sample size of 2.
  5. great numbers! so if you assume only symptomatic cases are likely to transmit, then .007% of vaxed population show symptoms and might actually spread the disease. These numbers are probably more reflective of dwindling US C19 case rate. If you transplanted those 95 million into India right now, the number of breakthrough cases would likely to climb to the 10% efficacy seen in the trials (which is still awesome). I think numbers like this should really push the CDC to relax even further their guidelines for vaxed people in US.
  6. OK, i so see this posted a lot on the texags political board. What, specifically, are they trying to maintain control of? Is the narrative here that all Federal gov just gets off on telling people what to do for 'reasons'? I am guess this applies to both parties, right? I mean, the gov is already so intertwined in the lives of everyday people, I just can't fathom how this mask thing is finally the straw that broke the camel's back. you pay fed taxes, fed sets levels for the air you breathe, the water you drink, the food you eat, the medicine you take, the drugs you can use. Fed has restrictions on who you can sell to, who you can buy from, what types of goods you can sell/buy. when, where and how you can make use of federal land. Then there is all the money the Fed gov doles out to states, most of it with conditions for use ... but CDC 'recommendation' for masks was over the line and is about 'maintaining control'? that said, I had also hoped for more relaxed guidance from CDC on masking wrt vaxed people. Camps should be able to do what they want and if their customers complain enough, they might change their stance. I am sure there is a calculation concerning a civil suit from the small chance of death of a camper or staff vs loss of business due to mask requirements. It's prudent from a liability standpoint to follow CDC guidelines and that's the rub to folks wanting to eliminate the restrictions.
  7. lol, i saw a 'professional' mixed doubles pickleball match?/game? on TV (was not even the ocho) last week. took me a while to figure out some of the rules like they had to be behind some line to hit the ball back over.
  8. 'bout to do a 5 or 10 gal Maibock i think. been a year since i have brewed. see if i can remember how.
  9. look, surly would consider me a libtard, but i was more poking fun at the moving of goal post with yearly lockdowns for flu vs just saying get vaxxed. As time goes by and the vax is available to just about everyone, i start to lean to the yolo side of covid control. should people who can get the vax and don't be mocked and made to feel bad? Sure. Should the gov require/request mask mandates continue until we reach some magical % of Americans vaxed? No. I don't have a strong opinion on vax passport either. I have the vax. CVS knows i have the vax and that I like to also purchase chocolate everytime i am in the store. I am cool with that. the gov has my name, rank and serial number. how much i (legally) make. They could get a warrant for my phone and track me all over the country. Companies can run a credit check on me and decide whether to or how they do bidness with me. Why can't businesses ask if i have been vaxed? People were cool with answering questions like "have you been in contact with a C19 case in the last x days", "have you had a fever lately", "have you tested positive for covid" to do all sorts of stuff like enter buildings, fly, travel, even get a vaccine. Why were people not refusing to answer those invasive medical questions. well now there can be one simple question that takes care of all that crap. Have you been vaxed? Yes, OK please move to the free and clear VIP line. No, Well then please prepare anus for swabbing and move to the left with all the other degenerates. Is the end game Gattaca for the vax passport? is that the fear? I can squint and see that in the future. Too much money to be made denying insurance to 'genetically predisposed'. Would the vax passport usher that in...probably not. I don't get the GOP rush to pass laws banning vax passports.
  10. well, saying yearly flu vaccinations to reduce risk is kinda already a thing, so not the impact statement he was going for.
  11. yeah, i am over caring about Luka crying to the refs all the time. if he misses a playoff game from techs it's a problem. otherwise, it's part of the package. Mavs fans, opposing fans, broadcasters complaining about it. WGAF? I would be pissed to if this was what it was like at my job with no help
  12. i don't think the problem with variants will be incubated in the US. The astronomical advantage that we have on vax supply and rollout is so far out in front of the rest of the world it's sorta embarrassing. you are seeing countries that did a decent job mitigating the virus now suffer fatigue and they don't have the vax to prop them up from relaxing/eliminating C19 protocols and their cases are going up. Time will tell if a variant emerges that truly sidesteps the current immunity given by infection and vaxs, but there is no evidence other than some diminished efficacy that variants are a huge threat to start increasing body count vs the vaxed/recovered population. the biggest problem the US will face is dumbfucks like Tucker C. 'just asking questions' about the vax. JFC i saw a clip on twitter and does he ever make a statement? or just 'ask questions'? Maybe after the Dominion suits these shows have to move to a Jeopardy format and raise all issues in the form of a question. They should have named the vax after Trump. Imagine if he did not get it in secret and it was big public spectacle and hyped up for him and his admin. someone who had the disease, then also got vaxxed anyway. mindblown. at least Trump has encouraged people to get the vax when asked about it (at least in a some interviews i had read).
  13. wonder if that guy KC (card counting dude trekking across US in an RV) from the netflix doc is crushing it with the mask mandate and he can hide his face. some of that doc showed that casinos were starting to use face rec software to see through his disguises. anyway, it's exciting seeing stuff re-open
  14. dunno if there are any economic studies on Norway vs Sweden. The mortality ones are obviously out there. If Norway is a broke dick and Sweden is rolling like Croesus then that might be a starting point.
  15. tangent side rant, but Grubhub is a shitshow. generally do UE, but wife wanted a place that was only on GH. it's was 1:15 after we ordered (ap said 1 hour max) and we texted the driver and he said he has our food, but is claiming that GH is making him wait to pickup another order at another fucking restaurant near by. but that order was not ready yet, but should be in another 20 minutes. Told him he and GH were fucking crazy if we were going to wait for that and cancelled the order and called to get refunded. some stupid algorithm thought is was A-OK to have people's food sit in the car another 30-45 minutes on top of the normal delivery time. anyway, finally vaxed and now will moonlight as family's food courier to places that have a good bar to wait at. "sorry honey, food took forever. don't worry about those 3 cocktails on the total. must have mixed up the receipt"
  16. using SK as a case 'for' not locking things down seems a little misleading. They were kicking so much ass with robust contract tracing then keeping those individuals quarantined that things never got that bad at the start and middle of the year iirc. Now they are at a relative highpoint for cases, but deaths are back down to 0-2 per day. I mean there are lots of comparisons with Norway and Sweden and their different C19 responses. here is a graph (through July 2020) of total mortality (not just C19) between the two. The dotted lines at the bottom are C19 deaths pretty clear that doing something vs yolo will save some lives. Norway's lockdown was March 17th or somewhere around there. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-deaths-in-Sweden-and-Norway-before-and-after-COVID-pandemic.aspx I'm biased. I could work from home and was not an essential worker. i did not have my business shut down. My kids' school immediately pivoted to online learning and it was not a total joke. I realize this was not the case for most. If my job/industry was shut down or if my kids did not have a learning option or childcare if i could not wfh, then my views might different on what was an acceptable response for shutdowns. If you really believe that keeping a % of people from interacting in close quarters on a day to day basis for the majority of the day had zero effect the body count, then nothing is going to change your mind about any covid response being reasonable.
  17. because it did not go through the standard process, i guess? this is from the FDA.gov website
  18. yep, have a 13yo and will be signed up pronto. maybe even say my 11yo is 12 to get it over with.
  19. may want to stay away from 'Rosa' then: https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/las-vegas-woman-accused-of-stealing-luxury-watches-from-men-on-las-vegas-strip-arrested-again
  20. same, 2 weeks was on Sunday. i don't have to use rubbers in Haiti anymore, right?
  21. guess they should have went with a sternly worded letter instead of a stern talking-to. That totally would have cured being a pedo
  22. put bob wheeler in charge of bus transportation. maybe their arson would be forged of a hotter fire
  23. that's some SW/STTNG level fan fic right there. dear Soldier of Fortune magazine, I never thought this would happen in my lifetime but i swear my deepest fantasy actually came true...
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