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Because he's become a distraction and cast a negative light on the franchise. I respect his right to choose but not his childish, classless way of publicly dealing with it. Further expounded by getting on Bills fans for booing him. Like we should just look at him as a football player after he's gone out of his way to distract from that.

Do you remember how far the runner/ball got on that play? If it didn't go past the spot of holding, they should change the rule to deduct from the spot of the ball in this situation.

Bruh, how long would it take the government to mobilize all the proper equipment and personnel, identify suitable space and parking/transportation logistics, get everything down there and get it set up, functional and effective? Why do you think they choose to instead send the hospital ships? Or would it be better just to bounce patients (especially non-covids) to outlying hospitals and work within the greater system? I mean, I would like to think there's a plans for makeshift military hospitals but I don't have much faith it could be executed well in major cities.

Pretending? Feds don't run the hospitals, my hospital is Cuyahoga County facility (Cleveland) that functions mostly independently with President and executive committee overseen by a County Commission. Feds certainly don't run the Cleveland Clinic or anything other than the VAs. Feds can influence through $, but then they would have to financially support increases in capacity. I don't think either side wants that. I know exactly what happened to the Comfort. Do you know why they didn't use it? Because I don't for sure. I feel Cuomo is partly to blame with his ######ed nursing home policy, but there are considerable logistics to transporting patients to hospital ships and perhaps given the nature of the emergency they couldn't put a plan or adequate personnel together fast enough?

Well, your medical historian has an interesting and mostly incorrect argument. They have a good point that natural immunity will have an important role in mitigating this virus. Certainly states/areas with less natural immunity will be interesting to watch in future outbreaks. You have to wonder if low natural immunity influenced the current outbreak in Washington and Oregon. But we would have many more deaths and morbidity if we hadn't taken preventative measures. You can look to Russia, pessimistic philosophy and distrustful of their government, the populace mostly chooses to tough it out. Vaccinations were under 20% for the longest time and have finally climbed over 30%. Check out their graphs: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/#graph-cases-daily https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/#graph-deaths-daily No return to baseline after surges and escalating baselines and surges. Hopefully this data speaks for itself. Go look at how isolation and masking affected the flu last year. Experts think some substrains died out completely. Will we have record numbers this year? We'll see. But Covid will not die out. It is here to stay, it just needs to be better controlled and lower circulating. The more it circulates the more it mutates. Lockdowns allowed medicine and science time to understand/adapt to Covid, masking/distancing helped slow the spread to mostly manageable levels. Now we need to lower its circulation through vaccination, especially in the rest of the world. The interesting thing will be how China adapts, given its most prevalent vaccines are not very good and with no natural populace immunity. We are a global community and I suspect they will have a price to be paid in the future.

Well, our hospitals/hospital capacity isn't controlled at the federal level. I can tell you at my hospital, during Covid surges, they allocate more beds/floors to Covid patients and push off whatever surgical procedures they can to enable the reallocations. Since we mostly aren't a socialized medicine country, temporary beds would be the way to go (like USNS Comfort). Hospitals aren't going to commit to excess capacity long-term as it will incur financial losses after Covid reaches an endemic equilibrium.

Yeah. That's the old definition. The new definition is any racist, prejudiced or discriminatory thoughts, words or actions. I still can't believe the dictionaries haven't updated. I prefer the old definitions, but it's not reality. Everything is rolled into one, whether we like it or not. With big ears and at least calf-high white socks. 100% Polish here also!

While they would NEVER admit it, I think the Chiefs players would have to agree with the closed captioning. 😂

Just to add to your excellent post, living in Cleveland, it seems obvious to me the NFL has a playbook and trains their players to talk about and treat their team's fans as the best in the league. Browns players will say the exact same things about their fans as Bills players, so much of it is scripted. I'm sure Cole taking the booing fans to task really chaffed the Bills front office and was addressed. Personally, I think the lack of touches was a scheme thing as Diggs only had 2 receptions last night.

That's more like it O! What a statement drive. So much better than playing it safe.

Yeah, send her in an N-95 mask, sheesh. Definitely a bunch of political garbage here.

Well, Baker wasn't the one talking about it. No excuses from him. The thing is, it didn't noticeably affect his throwing in the Bears game but he was missing more badly than I've ever seen him last week. And I live in Cleveland, so I see a lot of Browns games.

You have excellent points and I as a scientist highly respect your reasoned approach and thoughtful questions. WRT immunizing kids, I personally am not in favor of it below 12 for various reasons. But for teenagers I am and look at it this way: What is most likely to have more far-reaching long term effects, the Covid virus or the mRNA vaccine? The mRNA vaccine is short lived and mRNA is easily broken down, no DNA is involved. Each mRNA molecule cannot replicate. The opposite is true of Covid, including a lysogenic component where the virus incorporates into cell DNA to go silent and possibly re-emerge later. Ok, vaccine side effects of clots and transient myocarditis. Are these strictly problems from the vaccine structure or would these people have the same or larger issues if it had been a live Covid infection? I have known 3 teenagers with confirmed or most likely covid: My two nephews and my son. My one nephew definitely had it while the other had no symptoms so it was never confirmed but my brother also had it so we suspect all 3 of them had it. So all 3 teenagers had mild/no symptoms while infected. Anyways, 2 out of 3 had bizzare side effects, my nephew had covid fingers (akin to "covid toes") for 2 months or so after recovery. My son had chest tightness and light headedness the week after he returned to football. Was it respiratory or cardiac? He definitely had headaches and brain fog and loss of taste while no problems breathing, just some upper respiratory congestion. Now, 3+ weeks later he seems full healthy but still hasn't fully regained his taste yet. WTF is that all about? I don't know but it's unsettling to me. So many sit here quoting death/cases/hospitalizations but do people take a hard look at the stories of the people who recover and factor that in? What other virus has these bizarre, lasting effects? And some try and pretend Covid is just a routine virus?

My 15 year old will be getting his vaccine in a couple weeks, he'll be far enough out from his natural infection recovery. Biggest reasons? It's a safe vaccine, he'll get an extra degree of protection, and at this point there's no reason Covid can't mutate to afflict the younger more. Mandating an emergency use only vaccine should not be allowed, and it mostly wasn't until after full approval. So a company, struggling to get back on it's feet after the lockdown, shouldn't be allowed to mandate a fully approved vaccine to create the safest workplace possible and minimize the risk of a super spreader event that would hobble their business and increase healthcare costs? That doesn't make good business sense.

I totally agree that it's a real shortcoming that natural immunity can't be easily quantified and used as a substitute. But please understand science is shades of gray and to the best of my knowledge: 1) we can only estimate the number of Americans with natural immunity, 2) there is going to be variability as to the strength of their natural immunity to the point that a certain percentage with "natural immunity" won't give them much protection against a significant exposure, and 3) there are a number of recent studies showing that natural immunity + vaccination offers the strongest protection of all.

I think the intelligent thing to do is to get it, but it's your choice. It's also a matter of public safety, healthcare costs, and stress on the healthcare system. So when your employer forces you to get it to maintain a safer working environment and keep their healthcare costs lower, either get it or find another job. It's your choice, but stop whining about it like a kitty. I've had to get flu vaccinations for years or lose my job. This is no different and will be supported by the courts. I don't like it, tbh, but it's my choice to go along. I prefer my job here. Choices have consequences, freedoms come with responsibilities.

Classic case of tweetardation. From the article: "The Swedish agency said the vaccine from Pfizer is recommended for these age groups instead." Cardiac inflammation, while a very small side effect in these groups, was a little more pronounced with the Moderna vaccine so they made these recommendations.

Well, it really doesn't make any sense in logical or scientific terms for our healthcare workers to refuse the vaccine putting their families, colleagues, and patients at heightened risk. Choices are to be respected but have consequences. And now everyone suffers from their choice. But it's their choice. How will effective (herd) immunity be determined? It will be determined by epidemiology, low numbers of hospitalizations and deaths, hopefully cases too. Outbreaks will be reduced and more limited. The quickest, healthiest, most controlled way is mass vaccination with natural immunity playing an increasing role over time until we have it under control. In the end, you can only really control vaccination, the natural immunity contribution is far more difficult to assess. So focus on vaccination and look to the numbers to tell when we've reached a sufficient combination. Of course the virus will mutate, and until it's controlled worldwide, we need to be vigilant and revaccinate against breakthrough mutants. While some see a giant conspiracy, it's simply a resilient pandemic level virus.

Here's some more facts for you https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/united-states/ Death chart on the right. Graphs start from December 2020. The greatest outbreak of deaths was winter of 2021, before vaccination got up to speed. Then in the late summer 2021 Florida, Texas and the south led the way with Delta deaths. But I'm sure the right wing Tweetards will try and sell everyone that the vaccines are useless. And the mindless sheep will suckle at this teat.

It's been about trying to get to a herd immunity, but keeping people healthy and alive and trying to keep our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed while doing so. Vaccination is the best option for that, at least in adults. You've seen from the other postings here that the technology isn't there yet to properly assess antibody levels, unfortunately. Also, research into the efficacy and resiliency of natural immunity is just starting to develop to fruition. It's not a given with any virus. Hence the focus on vaccination.

One thing that gets mentioned and is absolutely true is they should have an antibody card and ease of antibody testing to go with the vaccine card. That would alleviate these valid concerns of the naturally infected and be really beneficial to validate the efficacy of the vaccine in the immunocompromised.

Welcome to life. Your choice. Choices have consequences. Whine on, you crazy diamonds! 💎

Having seen her 2 years ago, I'm not a big fan of her voice but she loved to voice in inappropriate drama and excitement that I hated. She did far better yesterday and has improved. From a technical standpoint, she definitely is a little above average for me as a play-by-play.

Ok, So, just to review. I'm pretty sure the girl with the blue tank top in the still picture is the one who is grinding on him in the video. Why? The white belt. So cute she rests her head on his shoulder. I think the fingers up her butt was consensual. Good luck pretending it was just an unfortunate situation "thrust" upon you Urban. Too bad for the second recording or you might have had a chance at believability!

If you follow your own advice, Tyler Gilreath died from an abscess in his cranial cavity from a sinus infection that started during Covid and never completely went away. There is little doubt in my mind Covid compromised his blood-brain barrier(BBB), allowing the infection to cross over and the abscess began forming, unsurprisingly taking 2-3 weeks of development before becoming fatal. Why is there little doubt in my mind? Because Ace-2 receptors are present on endothelial cells, which are a major constituent of the BBB. If these become compromised, the barrier becomes leaky. While science is currently studying the exact mechanisms, CNS and behavioral effects are well documented, leaving little doubt Covid can affect the brain/BBB. My 15 year old son contracted and recovered from Covid around the same time frame as Tyler. He had headaches, mild fever, nausea and sinus issues too. All told, relatively minor issues. The week after he tested Covid negative he was back at football struggling with a tight chest and light headedness during sprints. It got progressively better each day and went away by the next week. Based on my research experience and discussions with the trainer, I strongly suspect that under exertion, he had bradycardia due to a transient, insufficient vagal response brought on by Covid. I'm definitely not a doctor and there's no way to study/prove it, but it's the most logical conclusion for his etiology. So, you can debate whether this is a Covid-related death, but there's plenty of evidence Covid has lingering effects post-infection. I'm going to trust a medical professional's opinion far over your myopic views. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-021-00719-9 "These data indicate that SARS-CoV-2 may infect brain endothelial cells, leading to increased vascular permeability, which supports the probability that SARS-CoV-2 crosses the BBB."