Lostin76

Man, I love that strip and that quote. We have accepted periodic school/public mass shootings as part of daily life. Just like traffic “accidents.” It will not change in our lifetimes.

Even the Syracuse homers were very complimentary of TJD. There was one sequence where Edwards (I think it was) was a little yappy with Trace and then the very next play Trace posterized him to shut him up. The announcers were like “Daaamn.”

It’s literally ONE researcher in an abstract littered with errors and not peer reviewed. Actual researchers all over the world are questioning the validity of this research already. Reuters Fact Check is already on this and a few people at work had a good laugh about it today. So, I am on record saying I don’t trust this one poorly researched abstract. “Multiple other experts have expressed similar sentiments online, including one who shared parts of a presentation about the abstract and said it lacked data and any references, and was only written by one person (here).” And this is my favorite part of the Reuters Fact Check: “Reuters has reached out to the abstract author, Dr Steven Gundry, who is a former cardiothoracic surgeon and now promotes nutritious ways to avoid surgery, as well as running a private restorative medicine practice. He was not immediately available for comment.” Edited to add that @tdhoosier has already mentioned the Reuters piece. Apologies, I was at work today and am not logged into HSN.

An abstract without statistical discussion and design points to vaccines and health issues. I find it odd that the same people who were sticklers about restricting how you were supposed to count COVID deaths back in the day, are now lumping any health issue post-vaccination into caused by vaccine. Carry on though…

I would love that man! Always happy to discuss Russian history and literature. One of my great loves! And also a big reason that I went to IU. Their Russian department was very good at the time.

At first I was like, these guys seem biased towards Syracuse. And then it was like “WTF are these guys doing calling a game.” Love the fight and never give up attitude, but cut down on the turnovers and we wouldn’t have to fight so damn hard.

Hell yeah!!!!

Woof, horrible on all fronts. I thought we were past this, but nope.

Meh, we were in thick of things in the beginning, but not so much since. And I think your heating and air conditioning background may trump my IU Russian History degree when it comes to science! I just work with a bunch of smart people. I’m the dumbest by far, but they need me to keep the lights on and keep everything running.

Really worry about kids these days. I feel like they are getting it from all sides and they live in a country that gets more fractured by the day.

Hope you didn’t think that I was dismissing their experiences or your own feelings on the subject. Those are a lot of issues close to you and when they are that close they can feel very amplified. It’s just very difficult to tell what causes health issues in today’s world and the vaccines are fairly simple with very limited ingredients. Probably less ingredients than almost everything we stuff our faces with these days. That said, I respect you enough not to argue about it online. Would rather be talking home audio or IU with you anyway!

That’s a horrible experience, but how do you decide that those are all related to the vaccine? There are hundreds if not thousands of potential factors that happen among a group of people over the course of one year. Actual adverse reactions are not common, in fact they are super rare. “A recent study tried to pinpoint what ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna causes rare allergic reactions. It found that a widely-suspected culprit might not be at fault, and the vaccine reactions might be partially due to anxiety and other psychological factors. Such reactions are extremely uncommon, happening two to five times per every 1 million people vaccinated in the U.S. But national surveys show that possible side effects remain a sticking point for hesitant people, and misinformation about what the shots contain is still rampant. Scientists have long linked these adverse bodily responses to polyethylene glycol, an inactive ingredient that stabilizes messenger RNA (mRNA) — the genetic material that forms the backbone of the shots. Seeking to address this theory, a team of allergy researchers at Northwell Health — New York’s largest health care provider — conducted allergy tests with polyethylene glycol, commonly known as PEG, to see if they could adequately predict if a patient will have a serious reaction to the vaccine. “We thought it was most likely PEG, but that’s clearly not the case,” said Dr. Vincent Bonagura, a senior author of the study published October 23rd in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. “The vaccine is just made of a few other ingredients — lipids that are stabilizers, salts, sugars and the mRNA.”

I see a big fat “L”in this one - for Syracuse!

That pool and pool area is sleek looking! Love it.

That’s damn scary. Hope you are much better now. The weird symptoms like this are just as worrisome as the standard symptoms.

Talked to my Dad yesterday and he told me he talked to the guy who farms the land behind him a couple of weeks ago and mentioned “Everything okay, you look like you are behind this year?” The farmer said he was “helping out his neighbors.” Turns out the neighbors were a couple with teenage kids. The husband, who was also a farmer got COVID, mostly recovered, but was suffering from COVID brain/brain fog. He was really depressed and complaining that he couldn’t focus or do anything. Was really worried about all the stuff he couldn’t do. His wife was keeping a close eye on him, but he still snuck out one evening. He committed suicide - shot himself in the head. I’m so sick of this f*#kin BS. It’s destroying families and not sure I see an end to it anytime soon.

Liking the defensive hustle with this group.

100% in agreement with you there. Our government has failed so many people who were upended through no fault of their own. But what else is new? Sorry for the impact to your family. It’s going to take so many years, if not decades, to recover from this.

I work in public health, so will pretty much always come down on the public health side, which has admittedly pushed vaccination as the main thrust, and I haven’t been opposed to lockdowns in some limited capacity. But, as you said the damage done to those on the margins of society, and even to some who were doing okay before this is growing and should not be ignored. There is a pandemic of loss resulting from our failed efforts to control the pandemic. I hope that we don’t continue to gloss over that. When we first started entertaining lockdowns ands closures, it was clear that our government needed to step up to protect those impacted by these policies. But, we have largely failed under both administrations compared to our European counterparts. You can’t shut people down and then say you are all on your own. But this takes agreement by all of us to recognize that many people need help right now. And it takes people willing to give when they might not benefit. For instance, we don’t have children and never will. But, if our government wants to give people money to support childcare or childcare-related expenses, then yes, please do that. It’s hard (and expensive) to raise kids. My wife and I are DINKS (double income no kids). We each make six figures and have our own goals, issues. But I damn sure know how important it is to support children and families with them. So yes, increase my taxes to give more money to working families with kids. We will all hopefully benefit from that years down the line. Unfortunately, I see a lot of “me, me, me” during this pandemic. As in my freedoms outweigh your needs. That’s a recipe for failure, but I’m not sure there is a way around that in our current political climate.

Finally got to watch the game on Thursday night and agree with this, but also noticed that we just kept fighting back each time. It was almost like an old-fashioned heavyweight brawl for most of the second half. Archie’s teams wouldn’t have had the confidence to do that, and Crean’s wouldn’t have had the discipline. It’s a small sample so far, but I loved that game’s energy and our response. Am also glad I knew that we had won, b/c that would have been a stressful last five minutes.

Same thing here. Lot fewer workers going in to Manhattan and an insane increase in homelessness. I’ve been going into the office for a few months now, and it’s nothing like it was before the pandemic. As you said, the toll is way beyond hospitalizations and deaths.

Maybe doctors should be telling this to the more than 750,000 families in the US who have lost someone to COVID. Make them shut their yappers, as they dare complain about something so insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Can your good friend (and doctor) point to all the times that a 747 has landed in the lap of someone in their living room? Is there a peer-reviewed study on this? I’m probably just not seeing all the reports of this, but it seems high to me.

Remember when everyone suddenly cared about animal rights: Those attacks stemmed in part from a viral and false claim that Fauci, who leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had funded a medical experiment that involved trapping beagles' heads in mesh cages filled with diseased sand flies. Fauci received so many messages — 3,600 phone calls in 36 hours — that his assistant quit answering the phone, Yasmeen and Beth Reinhard report in a story out this morning. The claim was amplified by a little-known animal rights group called the White Coat Waste Project, which leveraged existing hostility among conservatives toward Fauci to further its cause, The Post’s investigation found. The outrage was supercharged by a bipartisan letter signed by 24 members of Congress that questioned the agency’s funding of medical research on dogs. The claim originated with an error by scientists. NIAID was initially listed as a funder on the study in a paper in a scientific journal in late July. Even after the researchers and the medical journal corrected the error, White Coat Waste continued to promote and fundraise off the false claim. The group said it does not believe NIAID's denial or the corrections.

Dude is a laughing stock. Not many people take him seriously. Not saying that miscounting of data hasn’t happened, but I’m going to need to see it from an actual scientist/journalist befoer I take it seriously. And there’s this: His (Berenson’s) 2019 book Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence sparked controversy, earning denunciations from many in the scientific and medical communities. REFFER MADNESS! 🤣

Yep, it’s a challenging world and it’s nice to see good things like this happen.