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I like that way of thinking. Lets do to PSU what OSU has done to Michigan of late!

Was nice to see Carlos Rodon pitch 5 innings of 1 hit ball vs the Reds. Looks like he should be ready for at least some role in the opening series.

Last I saw there was like 60 ships waiting to unload at the port of LA. In other news, Should we expect this here? https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta What is clear is that “breakthrough” cases are not the rare events the term implies. As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older. “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,” says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. “One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.’”

The Bears put a bid in on land near Arlington racetrack. Serious or trying to bargain ahead of lease expiration?

Deaths are in red. And on a different scale than the cases.

As a Sox fan, I think the hating of the Cubs is more good natured than serious. At least that is how I am. Got a chance to watch the whole Sox game (vs the Reds) last night. First one I've caught in a week. Their hitting is rounding into form with everyone back and healthy. I think Luis Roberts is a future MVP. A true 5 * player. Keep an eye on him. The pitching has me worried. I would like to have our All Star (Carlos Rodon) start a playoff game. Looks like he will pitch a few innings tonight but, as of now, not looking like he would start in the first round. I believe Houston matches up well with our fastball pitchers. I have less than 50% confidence that they make it to the ALCS.

Hmmm, I always thought it was David.

I hear you which is way I do check it out every once in a while. They have stories you don't find elsewhere.

I do stand by my statement of poor ethics all over the place. I've brought up how Fauci should have resigned given his involvement in funding the WIV. Hopefully this a reputable source reporting on this troubling pattern of a lack of ethics- https://www.wsj.com/articles/131-federal-judges-broke-the-law-by-hearing-cases-where-they-had-a-financial-interest-11632834421. Full disclosure, I have a vested interest here as I am mandated to take ethics training and if I make a mistake I lose my license and my career. Yet the people that make these rules routinely do far worse and very rarely face any ramifications.

I was bringing up a new topic. It has nothing to do with the messenger. I did not peruse the rest of her? profile as the tweet I linked made my point. As @dgambill pointed out, they are not closely related. Good enough for me and I thanked him for his input. That is how the free flow of information is supposed to work. Time usually does a good job of sorting things out. I know I have been correct on many issues and wrong on many. At the very least, people now know Pfizer is working on a therapeutic. Again, the tweet was not my news source but what I thought was a succinct way to bring up the info and avoid bringing up a news source- which, BTW, was Zerohedge (which I understand is not the most newsworthy source!).

This makes me sick- Looks like the FDA and CDC are on the Pfizer payroll. Assuming this is true, and I'm no scientist, but other reports say is is the same class of drug, how many lives were lost as a result? Ivermectin was censored and banned so Pfizer could make more $. This country is so corrupt. BTW, 2 Federal reserve officials just resigned because they were trading stocks, they ostensibly had influence over. Utter lack of ethics everywhere you look.

I guess you haven't looked around lately. Our infrastructure is suffering.

Only 290 mages to go

Good luck! Get your rest and big doses of Vitamin C and D. Hopefully you will at least be feeling better real soon.

Been there, done that!

Just something to think about.... In other news, anyone following the gas crisis in the UK? Up to 90% of stations may go dry by today. A shortage of truck drivers caused panic buying and now they have a serious mess on their hands. I shudder to think what would happen if that occurred here. Hard to imagine a modern society where we can't keep the electricity on or the gas pumps full. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-23/hgv-driver-shortage-bp-poised-to-ration-fuel-deliveries-amid-supply-problems https://news.yahoo.com/uk-gas-stations-running-dry-094635861.html Great analysis of the conditions that led up to this- https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/What-Experts-Are-Getting-Wrong-About-The-UK-Energy-Crisis.html In the last year, we have seen TX and CA with major supply issues, now the UK and China. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-power-crunch-spreads-shutting-060437092.html Make sure you have a generator, or at least some firewood, as we head towards winter.

On the surface, it seems reasonable. If you dive deeper, there can be all sorts of issues. Are the majority of these people based in a certain city or state and likely to lean one way? What if you have far left balanced by moderate right? An independent who habitually leans left? Was the methodology created to appear neutral yet hide bias? Make certain outlets appear a certain way? It reminds me of an advertising technique. Let's say you Google best vacuums and the first ad comes up and promotes a certain brand yet the seemingly objective review is paid for by that brand. In today's day and age, you can't take anything at face value.

I'd look for the best combination of weather, activities, low cost of housing, income and property taxes. West coast has the weather and activities but not low costs and taxes. IN, TN, AL and SC rank favorably depending on what's important to you.

I'm likely to be on the other side of the mountains. I have spent a lot of time looking at where I will eventually retire. Want to get away from some of the cold which ruled out the Upper Midwest and West States. I want a low cost of living, property taxes and income taxes. Florida Texas and Arizona are getting too built up, crowded and expensive. So I bought a lot this summer in the Center Hill Lake area of Tennessee. In between Nashville and Knoxville / Chattanooga / the Smokies. A short drive to anywhere in the Middle Atlantic or Southeast so there will be plenty to do. Only drawback is humidity in the summer time but I figure I can escape much of that by getting on the lake or heading out west or north. If I can find something better somewhere else it should be easy to flip the lot so not a huge commitment but at least a toe out of the state of Illinois!

Not sure. I was thinking of the packed college stadiums. Some with 100k fans. Are FL college students required to be vaccinated? I'm sure many of the fans, especially in certain states, are not.

Speaking of football, is football killing the COVID narrative? Fauci had said stadiums full of unmasked fans would be superspreading events. Yet after the first couple of weeks, we see cases dropping. It's still early but I think the trends will continue.

First time I've seen this in depth info on death rates and excess mortality. Some great charts and info in here (from a Swiss policy research site)- https://swprs.org/covid-19-mortality-overview/ 2020 was equivalent to 2004. Look at the effect from Nursing home deaths!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/vanderbilt-researchers-discover-ultra-potent-antibody-against-covid-and-variants/ar-AAOI0tq

Getting back to Covid, Why are we not being bombarded by the benefits of exercise and healthy eating? Why is it that nearly two years into this pandemic, getting early treatment for Covid-19 that can prevent hospitalization and death is still extremely difficult? These continued attempts to ignore proven methods of boosting the immunity and undermine early treatment protocols, as well as the constant attacks against anyone skeptical of the prevailing narrative, give the impression that certain interested parties are hesitant to bring the pandemic to an end.