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Quitting smoking is an amazing achievement. I'm happy for you. It's a big deal.

If you're in the money making business of vaccines, of course they are not. If you were in the altruistic, let's save the world by sharing our recipe with the world frame of mind, of course they are.

With her, you combine the Trump arrogance and the Biden incompetence into one almost unimaginable disaster of a leader.

The Bills are the better squad of players, and I don't think it's close on that front. However, Bill Belichick has the tenacious bastard mindset that adapts from series to series. That's not in the McDermott DNA, and that's where this game is going to be decided. You can't just sit back and follow *your* plan blindly, or wait till the half. When you play a coach like BB, you need to channel BB to beat the BB. Too many coaches don't.

If I were Carolina, I'd sell or turn him into a wideout.

Colts and Browns. Teams with a running back that will beat the life out of the defense. Titans would be here too if DH was playing. Until proven otherwise, the 2021 Bills can't beat a team with a throw back running back from 1987 running at them.

You NYers have a clearly insane governor.

He's Exhibit A of "well, it looks great on paper." He will continue to wow team executives and coaches in the off season. He clearly has a top notch agent, as well. The Giants need to burn that house down and excavate the basement walls and start all over. Gettleman and Judge are half measures - the mediocrity there is systemic and it goes beyond them.

. Serious question - what's the deal with it?

Short answer: Reading your own press and believing it. The team isn't hungry.

The country needs new leadership as it relates to COVID. You're not going to lockdown, mask or vaccinate your way out of it, but frankly the chances of that successfully occurring were always slim.

1. Find the meanest, heaviest free-agent RB, sign him, and have him terrorize the defense every single play of every practice until they figure out how to stop him. 2. Fix the penalties. 3. I'd put GR, BB and AE on seek and destroy. No elaborate assignments - I'd use the youth and turn them loose. 4. The Eagles have shown you can have a running game without a big OL or big RBs. I'd incorporate some of what they are doing into the game plan. 5. I'd get the best FA DT available that generally mirrors what Star does because you'll need him. Ed Oliver needs that Star/Star substitute presence.

They can do it. Talent and skill are there. There's no fight in this team though, especially when the plans go awry. They are challenged at keeping the energy and focus from one game to the next. They will smoke the Saints after being embarrassed yesterday and then turn around and come out flat against the Patriots. That's what needs to change.

The team gets punched in the face and they don't recover. That's leadership.

The problem with your argument is that all of those drugs have consumer protections the Covid vaccination products do not. Covid shot? You know how much you'll get? Zero dollars. I have a big problem with the government mandating its citizens to take more and more of a product they cannot collect compensation for should they be injured from it. If vaccine injury is allegedly rare as they say it is, there should be no issue in compensating such a small group of people. Mr. $500K/year salary Dr. Fauci can likely pay for his healthcare if he gets injured. What about the single mom who's child has GBS or myocarditis, or that mother dies from a vaccine injury and leaves that child behind? What if a person develops clots and can't work? Don't they deserve to be compensated for that loss?

Beasley runs precise, crisp routes and is easily in the top 10 of route runners in the entire league. You can't draft that consistently, and a lot of WRs in the league are lousy route runners. The Bills probably have one of the best, if not the best route runners in the league in Diggs. Jerry Rice is probably the all-time route runner. His success was because he was consistently to the spot Montana threw the ball to. You can't teach route running by the time you're in the NFL. You have to be dedicated to it and good at it as a college player. It's why you have a lot of college "names" flame out in the league. They are great athletes and fast but can't get to where the ball will be thrown to consistently. There will be many Bills players who will leave the team before Cole Beasley does.

I'll patiently wait for my Nobel Prize in medicine, but you could start to contain this pandemic in a more permanent fashion in months if everyone supplemented with Vitamin D. One pill a day, get it from anywhere you want. .Gov pays for two blood tests, get it where ever you want. Keep it above 25. It's a fact that if you are elderly, obese or have co-morbidity like cancer your D levels are in the tank and you must supplement. You don't need billions of $700 COVID pills. You don't need to vaccinate everyone 10x over. I hate how modern medicine has suddenly turned a blind eye to Vitamin D deficiency despite spending the last three decades trying to lower flu cases through Vitamin D supplementation. IT IS THE SAME PROBLEM - viruses find a way in through deficiency. I've yet to see a single study that looks at blood levels of people who've died from COVID, have had severe COVID, have had mild cases, and those that don't seem to catch it regardless of exposure. I bet that cases of death and serious COVID, that level is below 30 and those that walk around without catching it have high levels and that the reason breakthrough keeps happening is because regardless of vaccination, the patient's Vitamin D level is dangerously low.

IMO, it's a more simple explanation: The US has had back to back administrations of elderly, largely incompetent Presidents who can't see the curves in the road ahead, surrounded by inept sycophants, whom said elderly Presidents rely on to their own detriment. With Trump, it was rich people who hadn't worked a real job in a long time who treated running a country like a woodworking hobby. With Biden, it's people who've never held a real job. While different in their approaches, they deliver the same level of chaos, simply lurching the country from one crisis to the next. America should only be forwarding governors for office. Most of America's decent to above average Presidents were governors - FDR, TDR, Jefferson, Reagan, Monroe, Wilson, McKinley, Polk, Clinton... https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall

My panic button is in January 2022 when food and sundries prices will go through the stratosphere as companies price in their CY22 adjustments. I expect things like laundry detergent to go up $4-5 per overnight. I expect gas prices here in PA to start routinely topping at $4.15, and fuels like #2 heating oil and propane to easily go up $1 per gallon. I don't know how restaurants will survive because your $30 steak today will be $40 in a few months. Life is going to be painful. Tyson Foods is telegraphing what it's going to look like. The Democrats have zero chance in the midterms. The 2022 economy will be an event that defines both the 2022 election cycle and the 2024 cycle. Inflation was a blinking light in 2020 and Biden had to attack it immediately and he didn't.

The pearl clutching about COVID there amuses me every day.

As an every episode start to finish, yeah. I watched the premier and finale of Season 1, and a few of the tail end of Season 2. To me, it's a "western" Sons of Anarchy. The Dutton family is SOA, the Indian/casino interests are the Mayans, and you have various bad guys/groups that roll in and out of the story arc.

Yellowstone is the television show on Paramount. Kevin Costner is the star. Three seasons total, with the fourth just beginning this month. I was late to the Yellowstone party - I had heard more and more people talking about the show. My initial opinion of it was that it was a Hallmark network-esque generic western, but I was quite mistaken after deciding to watch Season 3. It's been quite a find.

Just pointing out that the origins have not been conclusively determined. Succinctly, if COVID-19 existed in nature pre-pandemic, mankind could find it. Polio. Conclusive. Numerous scientists can find the source independently. Flu is easy. Hantavirus outbreaks, conclusive. Ebola, conclusive, can find it in Africa every year. HIV, found it. Pandemics like COVID, SARS, and MERS, there's no source that can be independently verified, which suggests it's not nature's doing. Another thing I'll add - those murky, possibly non-nature pandemics are all fairly recent - dating back to the mid 2000s. You don't have these outbreaks of unusual respiratory viruses in previous decades.

The source of COVID-19 has not been confirmed.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court votes 4-1 to throw out state's school mask mandate. Health Secretary had no authority to create the mandate.