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I'm confident the OSHA regulation will be thrown out by the courts. I don't think .gov has got a leg to stand on from several perspectives. I don't think anyone wants a POTUS weaponizing OSHA and workplace safety through emergency orders. That's why it hasn't been used as such.

The US needs to get back into the Afghanistan action, and that mechanism will be funding the Taliban to "fight" ISIS, although ISIS is more or less a irregular army financed by the Saudis. The US, Pakistanis, Saudis and Taliban have a common foe across the border - the Iranians. It's really no different from how the US, Russians and the Germans all jockeyed for favor in Afghanistan in WWII until 1973. It's just now the US, Russians and Chinese will be doing it.

I fully expect Biden will do something stupid tomorrow with his "six point plan" that will twist the screws. Newsom will enthusiastically follow it and it'll tip the scale a little more.

He might be let out to dry by the virology PTB. If all the focus is on removing him, that particular outfit would be delighted - the research can then continue with less prying eyes. Congress needs to ban the federal bureaucracy from funding this research and conducting it. You're not going to stop it entirely worldwide but drying up the US $$$ is a great start.

La Salle University. 90 percent vaccinated. The kids mask. They made the kids and staff vaccinate. Now...goes virtual for several days over an unspecified number of cases. Of course that number is nowhere to be found. School was in session less than two weeks. Full tuition and rents expected, however, rolling safety timeouts or not. https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/09/06/la-salle-university-goes-remote-through-friday-due-to-rise-in-covid-19-cases/

Everything happening in Australia is by design. They'd love to try it here. The population is entirely disarmed and protests nicely (during daylight, always in the town square) and the authority can ratchet up without a pause of hesitation.

Yep, you're free to keep visiting them. No need to worry about this one.

Did something happen? I think zealous moderation of PPP would turn it into a vanilla group think which is the antithesis of the forum.

I don't think you need 60,000 seats on an open air stadium in WNY today or in the future. I'd rather the money be spent on less seats, more first class amenities. Does the NFL of the 2030s need that many seats, or would you rather more space for things like sportsbook restaurants, and entertainment? Do you need that many seats to host an outdoor NHL game? I know that gets away from the purity of football and the Bills, and I don't like writing it personally, but creating big outdoor stadiums in cold weather cities seems out of date.

That's the picture of your prototypical severe COVID patient under 65. Those are the kids in the hospital. Those are the adults in the ICU. Color and race irrelevant. But...we can't talk about it.

That's a crazy video. Any other decade, at least 3/4 of that class wouldn't be wearing a mask just to give the middle finger to The Man.

Endless boosters? So surprised! (Actually surprised that they were thinking five months which is pure absurdity.)

After the Soviets left the country in 1989, they left behind many of those MI-28 HIND helicopters much like we left helicopters today. They flew for a few months and then just became scrap. No expertise to fix. No parts.

Next step: Ban GOF research and treat it like chemical and biological weapons research. SARS and COVID were research projects that broke containment. SARS and COVID have no natural origin smoking guns, and never will, because nature didn't make them.

Ehh. IMO, that's BB always saying Buffalo was a formidable opponent between 2001-2019 at every press conference. He's not going to create controversy.

I think the moderators and many of the fans on the main page are now emotionally invested in Cole Beasley and his opinions at a fever dream level. Having essentially a Ministry of Truth presiding over the whole thing amuses me. PFT (Florio) also has a weirdo obsession with Beasley and COVID. I don't think teams give a ***** about COVID. I think the media cares more about it because they need something to write about.

As of now, no. It's not a crime to be a bad, ineffective leader. As I said in the Afghanistan thread, if ISIS starts torturing or executing Americans left behind and things go from horror to barbaric there, I'd say yes. I think deliberately leaving American citizens behind, ultimately leading to their mistreatment and or death, is behavior incompatible with the function and purpose of being President. I can't fathom a President doing it.

This is moving towards an impeachable offense in my opinion. The threshold for me personally is if it turns into a hostage situation or ISIS captures Americans remaining in the country and starts executing them. We've impeached Presidents over stupid things like blowjobs and complete fiction, so I'm thinking this disaster is absolute fair game.

The Bills Wire article is conjecture. There is zero fact to substantiate the vaccination rate of the Bills is 80 percent, above or below. Zero. If there is fact, prove it. Show the class, cite the source. It could be 80. It could be 90. It could be 40. It could change by the day. I have no idea. You have no idea.

I apologize for calling you a fool. That wasn't cool on my part. FD: Suffered a debilitating, nearly fatal GBS attack from my one (and only) flu shot 20+ years ago that I took because I thought it was a good idea to get a flu shot. I battle its chronic beast of a cousin to this day. GBS treatment is extraordinarily expensive. One course of the primary treatment is about $50,000. My inpatient stay was $750,000. Over my two decades of treating it, I've estimated my insurance companies have spent at least $10-15 million dollars. Modern medicine has yet to identify what ultimately ignites the initial attack. There's nothing in particular waiting inside your body for the day you decide to do something to turn it on. You can't test for it, there's no particular group of proteins or cells that form to cause it. There's nothing to kill, nothing to target. I've been asked if I'm an anti-vaxxer. I don't think I am. I had all the vaccinations up until that point. I don't fault or judge people for taking any vaccine they choose to take. My biggest issue is that absolutely nobody accepts any liability whatsoever for covax injuries in the United States, and I think that's wrong. How can a product have no liability along the entire chain of custody? People get injured by these products and can sue no one, and have to pay their own attorney's fees and fight a bureaucrat who will gaslight them and fight their pittance of a payout. They can't even get a day in court under the regulations of the PREP Act.

It's not a dormant syndrome you fool.

Well...until it doesn't. It used to be two shots and you're golden. We were declaring Mission Accomplished. All that third shot does is goose up the immune system temporarily. My bet is it'll fade fairly quickly. We aren't performing miracles. It can only help so much. If your immune system is trash or running at half speed, it can only do so much. The reality is unless you want to boost yourself every six months, you're going to need a battery of therapeutics that don't start and stop with expensive monoclonal antibodies and start making people less attractive viral hosts.

The Bills are legitimate SB contenders this season. The Bills are not trading Mitch Trubisky this year. He's the Reich to the Kelly, the Hostetler to the Phil Simms, the Foles to the Wentz.

I am impressed with how crisp the Bills look in preseason. Regardless of the string that is playing, the players look fast, in shape and committed. The Bills collectively seemed to be a step quicker than the Bears all game.

We're not going to vaccinate our way out.