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9 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
For some reason, I keep getting reminded of the movie “Psycho.” You have this lady that robs her employer and is on the run, and then suddenly this random crazy guy kills her, sort of disrupting the logical narrative. That’s the one thought that keeps lurking here— it is easy to point the finger at Laundry, but maybe it was some random serial killer who got these other two women too.Yeah, honestly can never say never. But, I have a big problem with Laundrie abandoning his dead fiancee so easily. I'd want justice.
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8 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:
Like you pretending it is provides true immunity. It does not and only you are pretending it is a permanent shot also
It does provide true immunity, you are the one pretending because this is not the real question. The real questions are in what circumstances does it provide true immunity and how long will it last? These are the exact same questions with natural immunity.
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54 minutes ago, Irv said:
Does anybody get the sense that nobody knows what's going on or what to do with COVID? I was fully vaccinated and still got it with four of my friends who went on the same trip. But Demented Biden says only 1 in 5000 fully vaccinated can get infected. What a crock of horse *****. Demented Biden is a liar and has botched the COVID so badly, nobody knows what to do. How many died because this idiot and Hyena Harris said they didn't trust the "Trump Vaccination". Killers. Should be tried for treason and executed for that alone. Cuomo and Demented Biden. Murderers.
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No. What's going on is far too many of us want black and white hard rules on this virus. That's impossible. What's going on is the virus is very widely circulating which increases mutations. It's changing and science is learning. Science is not a black and white hard rules system. It's shades of gray that trend to either black or white over long periods of time which require many studies and more studies and discussion to build on previous results.
The mRNA vaccines were a rare home run, closest thing to black or white against previous versions of the virus. They stopped or limited both infection and transmission over 90% of the time. That is simply amazing. Since delta, this efficacy has slipped, not failed, but slipped lower. And to be expected from a mutating virus to survive. But the ignorant black and whiters like to condemn the vaccines as useless now.
Of course the CDC and virus extremists are their own problem, convinced you can stamp this out if you just distance, mask, vaccinate.
The reality is we need to get this virus out of wide circulation to slow the mutation rate through vaccinations worldwide, distancing and masking indoors. Then, we can avoid mass outbreaks and bring things under better control.
What's the measuring stick? Hospitalizations and the taxing on our healthcare system. For states not governed by extremist numbnuts, you tighten up as the health care strain increases and loosen as it wanes.
I am fully vaccinated but wear KN-95 masks when in indoor public spaces. Why? Because paper/cloth masks offer almost no self-protection and are only effective if everyone wears them (as my school district found out this fall). I also believe the KN-95 makes a statement in doing my part to limit viral circulation. Don't get me wrong, I totally get and respect people who are vaccinated and feel they don't have to mask, they've done the biggest part.
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So, in terms of weird circumstances that may mean Laundrie didn't shoot Gabby, there's one somewhat far-fetched possibility: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/09/08/women-killed-moab-told/
Some people have been trying to tie Laundry to this crime as well, but these women had noticed a "creepy guy" near their campsite before their paths ever crossed with Laundrie. If it had been Laundrie, there would have been an incident in Moab when their paths crossed at the bar.
Both women were found in a creek, multiple gunshots to the back and side, naked from the waist down.
From what I have heard about Petito's death, it was somewhere near a creek. Really far-fetched that whatever creeper was at Moab came across and killed Gabby at Spread Creek but I suppose it's possible. It still doesn't justify Laundrie's strange behavior. Him leaving the scene probably destroyed any hope of evidence, and I think if he goes to trial for it his behavior will work against a jury far more than if he had sought out authorities after he discovered the crime.
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19 hours ago, B-Man said:
Not in this particular case...........as you can read.
Also, in my neck of the woods, OGH had to shut down a floor due to staffing unavailability.
It is a problem there is no reason to try and spin it
My hospital has had nurse staffing challenges since at least early summer because of burnout/leaving. One of the biggest reasons for nurses leaving was to become an independent contractor and earn 1.5-2 times the money. This was well before a vaccine requirement.
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8 hours ago, IronMaidenBills said:
What main evidence are they looking for? If nobody was around them that day/night, it will be virtually impossible to prove he did it. He could simply say a jogger came next to the van and strangled her and ran off. Then proceed to tell them he was afraid nobody would believe him so he took off and lawyered up.
I agree it's going to be a difficult case to prove without a confession. I don't understand why you're so caught up in unrealistic alternative scenarios.
Laundrie's actions are not that of an innocent man who just lost his fiancee to an odd outside circumstance. This is his fiancee. He told no one, was hitchhiking out, then went back and drove across country, using up some of her money. If he was truly innocent, his lawyer would know conviction would be difficult, especially if once home he turned himself in, explained it as a freakout, and started assisting law enforcement to solve the crime. His family would urge him to do the right thing also, as any parent would feel for the Petito family.
No, instead they helped him escape.
Laundrie also had no outstanding warrants and no prior criminal history or it would have come out. There's only one explanation for the sum of the actions of him and his family.
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2 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
but what about OJ?!Haha, actually right now this case right now reminds me of the white Bronco "chase" .
1 hour ago, IronMaidenBills said:What if Brian knows there was a hit and he was told to keep quite and run or his family gets whacked. It’s like a .1% chance but weird stuff happens.
Of course. You're an anonymous hit man in the middle of nowhere surrounded with countless wilderness acres and you opt to threaten the fiancee instead of just offing the both of them. 🤔
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35 minutes ago, Taro Nimbus said:
No. People don’t like her because she has a terrible voice. She is very intelligent and great at her job, but voice matters when announcing games. Same reason I can’t stand Collinsworth or Gumble.
For me, she is a version of a younger Brent Musburger. Annoying voice, constantly trying to force spots to hype and inject vocal excitement that makes her voice even more annoying. It took Brent about 20 out of his 27 years to finally meter himself enough for me to listen to him. Cripes, I hope it doesn't take Beth as long.
So sad that some reflexively turn to sexism as an excuse for her incompetence.
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5 hours ago, IronMaidenBills said:
Don’t get me wrong, I do think he killed her, but proving something is actually really hard. We just don’t have all the pertinent information the feds have. I always hold out a sliver of doubt because stranger things have happened. We don’t know, there could have been a hit against the Petito family and Brian could be framed. I put this at .1%, but we just don’t know. The best hit jobs are ones where the people ordering the hit know they have kompromat or leverage, and seeming how they could have known Brian had a domestic violence incident, what a perfect time to place a hit. All of this is strange that they didn’t issue a warrant out for his arrest for wanted murder, but they get him on unauthorized financial transactions. Chances are Brian is just a dumb criminal, but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.
I'd love to be open-minded on this one, but your fiancee goes missing and you pack it up and head home then refuse to aid search and rescue efforts in any way? No, they were hoping authorities would be unable to find the body and to just lay low for a year or two.
Just in case the body is found, they decide to go hide him somewhere. I think the Reserve was a ruse. But we'll see.
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4 hours ago, TBBills said:
With so many missing person stories going on I wonder what makes this one so popular?
For me, it's a fascinating story on so many levels. I've done that type of road trip to some of the same areas,dispersed camping, etc.
Then there's the first reports from her family, where the reflex response was he did it. Then the details painfully start to fill in that obvious conclusion while law enforcement is helpless to take action when it matters most. The fact that the entire family refuses to take any responsibility for the situation.
I can't imagine the utter frustrating anger of the Petito family watching helplessly as that inhuman family pretends it's not their problem while helping their son slither away.
I doubt Laundrie killed himself, but definitely want to know how it ends and any other details. A tragedy still unfolding in real time. Truly sad, but I also find it amazingly fascinating.
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11 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:
I have no idea how credible this is - or if it's been debunked, but a hiker resembling him was caught on a deer cam. Picture was grainy and inconclusive - and also 500 miles away.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/21/brian-laundrie-possibly-spotted-on-deer-cam-cops-say/
They said the image is a local guy, ID'd by a neck tattoo.
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6 hours ago, IronMaidenBills said:
I’m fairly certain he killed her, but we don’t know for certain. It’s pretty scary that a lot of the public is like this, seeming how they may be jurors someday. An autopsy on the body will help in some regards. If the body is found to have very little physical trauma, then the case will be wide open. Like some others have said, the fact that this dude still remains a “person of interest” and not formally a warrant for his arrest may indicate he might not be the killer either via phone pings or otherwise. His behavior is very suspicious though, considering he never offered to help find Gabby and immediately lawyered up. If he is indeed innocent, which I’m doubtful of, then its possible they got into such an argument that they went their separate ways. But even this doesn’t make much sense, because the car he drove back to FL was Gabby’s car, which means to go separate ways voluntarily means he stole her car. I’d say he is 95% guilty at this point, but no one here has the evidence, so we are all just speculating.
Certainly he would need to be found guilty first. But she was living with them and their future daughter-in-law. No way I would allow my son to hide then enable his escape from the situation regardless of his role. Who knows if he's truly in Carlton Reserve or someone picked him up later and drove him elsewhere?
As far as his guilt or innocence, he went back to pick up the vehicle and drove it home without alerting anyone.
So ironic that a YouTube video from Spread Creek was crucial to authorities.
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I hope some of his family goes to prison also for their cowardice and obstruction.
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I have kind of a different angle, I'd like a moderated subforum in PPP that focuses on solid discussion. No memes, no social media sources and warnings for posters who are only posting to disrupt a thread, or crusading.
Then keep the unregulated forum for the regular zinger jousting.
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On 9/7/2021 at 12:30 PM, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
Nearly as bad are the despicable attempts to leverage political capital from such nationally embarrassing moments by embellishing and deliberately cultivating fear. But the respective flock just fall into line without challenging the narratives.
What's truly bad about it is it happens on both the right and left and both sets of sheep point fingers at the other side but never themselves. And truly pathetic that each set of sheep considers their ignorance more reasoned and intellectually superior to the opposing sheep😂
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7 hours ago, Buffarukus said:
yeah seems to be the direction of the freight train is barreling but this is different then those others. you can still contract and pass it. the fact covid is still not being stopped means it most likely will continue mutating until it bypasses the vax to become more potent and thus more successful. i really have to wonder what that means in the end. if we are doing more harm then good simply giving it a reason to mutate instead of allowing the natural coarse of a virus to become less deadly by infecting naturally and over time mutating to a less deadly form. killing the host is not good for either. but that means lives are lost hoping that's the outcome. so i understand the route we are on.
welp its a freight train so i guess those decisions are above my pay grade but its not looking like kids can have a normal childhood anytime soon. vax or no vax.
Reading your thoughts, I come away with two distinct impressions. 1. You feel that the delta variant is now being contracted and spread routinely by the vaccinated and 2. That natural infection/immunity would push Covid to mutate to a less deadly form.
Neither is true (at least at this point).
Keeping it simple, WRT 1, just because delta has shown an increase of infection/transmission in the vaccinated doesn't mean it has completely broken down these vaccine-mediated protections. Science can change over time, but at this point the delta surge is very much a surge in the unvaccinated.
WRT 2, viruses infect, replicate, and mutate. The more it circulates, the more it mutates. Immunity, whether induced or natural, reduces circulation. Delta, or any of the other subtypes, did not occur because of vaccination, they occured because of widespread circulation.
There's truth to what you're trying to say about a natural course resulting in some kind of stasis, but what is the cost of allowing this to happen?
In 18 or so months, Covid-2 has proven the ability to overwhelm healthcare systems multiple times with multiple mutated subtypes around the world.
The least harmful/lethal way to any kind of stasis with Covid is mass vaccination coupled with any natural immunity picked up along the way. Kill circulation and thus mutation, then see what is needed to keep it at bay.
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Keep in mind this phenomenon also happens irregularly at all the great lakes and may account for some of the sightings in this thread:
https://www.abc57.com/news/mirage-of-chicago-skyline-seen-from-michigan-shoreline
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On 7/26/2021 at 8:02 PM, B-Man said:
GOOD LORD !
Well, their logo is far better than the baseball team's choice.
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1 hour ago, RobbRiddick said:
As far as Levy is concerned, he gets a raw deal by many because he was such a nice guy, and therefore is seen as not tough enough. In a lot of ways that is true, in the big game he was beaten by tougher coaches, in the same way the Bills were beaten by tougher teams. But he also beat so many of those tough NFC coaches in the regular season. His record against the NFC in the regular season was great. He beat Parcels a few weeks before the Super Bowl. He beat the Cowboys the year of Super Bowl 28 (admittedly Smith was holding out at the time). He beat a great 49ers team at Candlestick in the no punt game.
The Bills could and did beat anyone, but after the second SB loss they had two opponents out there, the Cowboys and the thought of "*****, what if we lose again". Psychology is a huge part of sports and I think mentally the Bills were really screwed after the seconds loss.
Levy was a very good coach but our defense got run roughshod by the Giants then same by Washington the next year. At that point, a great coach would have realized to take that next step you needed to step up and jettison Walt Corey for a new DC.
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31 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Am I'm with you on Mayfield. Mayfield was my choice, and I can see why the Browns went that way. And I give the Browns a pass because apparently it was a close call for them, Mayfield or Allen. And frankly, I can understand liking Darnold, too. What I really can't understand is New York and Denver, both with obvious QB needs on the near horizon, leaving Allen on the table. (Denver took Bradley Chubb, not the Browns.)
Apologies, I was thinking Nick Chubb the Browns RB, drafted later that round, forgot about Bradley🤪! Makes more sense now. What I understand from it is that if you need a quarterback, put every priority into it until you find that franchise guy, even if you just drafted a QB last year. Credit to Arizona and their way out of the Rosen mess. And they suckered in Miami to boot!
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1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:
There's a theory I hadn't heard before. That would have been one of the all-time great draft moves!
There's always uncertainty, but I don't think the Bills had any greater uncertainty with Allen than teams have with any top-10 pick.
The leap of faith is what it looked like from our perspective, because all we had to go on was some highlights, some lowlights, a mediocre record, etc. My point is that the Bills knew a lot more about him than we did, and what they knew meant they weren't taking the leap of faith that we saw. We had a big information gap; Beane closed that gap with careful scouting and interviewing.
Sure, I certainly understand and agree with all your points. I was more responding to this line of yours: "What still gets me is that the teams ahead of the Bills didn't see it. They were interviewing him and taking him out to dinner, and yet they liked Mayfield and Darnold and Barkley and Chubb better."
I was attempting to say that I understand the Browns taking Mayfield over Allen at the time. From the sound of the Browns FO, he was the most impressive one to them in the process. They put a lot of weight on his leadership for running his workout day, among other things. And despite his lesser physical attributes and more boisterous personality than Allen, he was far more impressive with his decisions, accuracy, consistency and mental speed for the game than Allen in college.
Totally with you on Darnold and Barkley though. The Browns liked Chubb better because they had just drafted Mayfield.
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3 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:
This just underscores how badly we were outcoached in at least 2 of the 4 trips to the Super Bowl.
Walt Corey was badly outcoached in every one. And yet Marv stuck with him. That's on Marv, much as I love him.
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14 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
They've said as much. They talk about the first time they met him, and they were a little puzzled about him. It was 15 minutes or something, and it didn't go particularly well. I don't recall, but I think it was because Josh didn't know how to handle the encounter. Then they had dinner with him that night, and that's when they realized how great his intangibles were. Josh relaxed, and the more they heard, the more they knew that his intangibles matched his outstanding physical abilities. From there, they kept doing all the usual digging to be sure that what they thought they saw at dinner was the real Josh. As they talked to more people and to Josh again, they realized he was the real deal. Then it was a matter of Josh falling the Beane figuring out how to move up.
On draft night, you could tell that McDermott and Beane were sure they got it right. They could see it.
What still gets me is that the teams ahead of the Bills didn't see it. They were interviewing him and taking him out to dinner, and yet they liked Mayfield and Darnold and Barkley and Chubb better.
I will be the first to admit that Mayfield hasn't arrived yet, but I also don't blame the Browns for picking him over Allen. He also has a lot of intangibles beyond his outspoken personality, and his excellent accuracy and ability to recognize blitzes and defenses in college. We should find out this year if he was even worth that pick.
Josh made some very unintelligent throws in college also. EJ Manuel bad. There was still a significant leap-of-faith drafting him, IMO.
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12 hours ago, Big Turk said:
The way I look at it is nobody in their right mind would want Allen handing the ball off half the game. This isn't 1970. Running the ball is pretty much an analytically wasted play these days.
The fact that some think that's a good idea with Mayfield says all you need to know.
If Allen is handing the ball off half the game (or more), it means we are in firm control of the game and saving wear and tear on Allen for when he is really needed. I'll take that every time.
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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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."