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I don't listen to podcasts so I don't know what Joe Rogan said about Vitamin D (good or bad). My info is sourced from what those European countries have tried to do to tamp down their wildfire flu seasons in the past and first-hand knowledge from working in healthcare that if you're a bariatric, geriatric or oncology patient, the Vitamin D levels are part of the routine workup, and those doctors want their patients to take it. In 2009, the Obama administration was considering a Vitamin D campaign of sorts if the H1 virus jumped to a pandemic level. I don't disagree with Dr. Walensky, I just don't think it's the entire profile of the deceased patients. I'd opine that those who died from coronoavirus infection were likely very unhealthy and likely Vitamin D deficient which made them optimal hosts for opportunistic bugs. Interesting thing about Haiti in this conversation since it's in the news - it has one of the lowest COVID rates in the world. Could be because of the massive import of fortified food to the country to battle the hunger issue. The US has been pumping millions of tons of fortified flour and food products into that country dating back to 2014 that by 2020, nearly 80% of the flour being traded in Haiti was fortified with Vitamin D.

My theory without belaboring the point: The UK's longtime problems with Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency, and it's similarly long time lack of fortified food products. Everywhere in the world there is a covid spike - the same deficiency is there. The most vulnerable populations to COVID are the obese and elderly, again guaranteed to be insufficient without supplementation, very likely to be deficient. If you did a Vitamin D blood test of 100 randomly picked COVID positive patients, (vaccine status, age, race irrelevant), I'd bet 90% of them will be insufficient or deficient in Vitamin D. Those people who have worked around COVID or been around others who haven't gotten it aren't lucky - they likely have above average levels because they supplement and/or regularly eat a lot of fortified products (millk, cereals, cheese, eggs).

Both of these players will exceed expectations in Year #1 because OLs haven't seen them and they are young and athletic. They will get some sacks and run down some backs despite having limited moves. They probably won't play much because the Bills will do the Espenesa training program - lots of learning and improving their physical condition. Year #2 is where you see what you have because to succeed as a defensive lineman, you need an array of moves + strength and players either develop or they end up like Takarist McKinley who is the exact same player he was in college. I didn't like the Rousseau pick because he was lined up over center in just one season of play. I think his sack numbers are exceptionally misleading. For the majority , if not all of those sacks, he was lined up over center, taking on those centers, usually the smartest player on the line but not the strongest or fastest, and that's not where he's going to be in the pros.

Conspiracy theorists simply report the news months ahead of the media. Can't say they've been far off the mark.

I suspect that decades of previous owners just kicked the maintenance can down the road. The first rule of being wealthy is never spend your own money. That condo association, past and present members, is going to be sued from here until eternity. Can't sue anyone else involved with the project as they are all dead.

I voted he'll be a little better. I expect defenses will deploy countermeasures. I think, however, Allen and Daboll can expect some of them, and quickly adapt to those they can't. Three key details: I think coaching consistency really helps. I expect the Bills to develop the running game to a degree to keep defenses guessing. I expect Gabe Davis and the TE to apply consistent pressure on the defense's second and third tier CBs. This is what someone astutely pointed out about Steve Tasker - he was a lot better than the defensive talent at the nickel position, and he exploited it.

If Adams gets knocked off in the primary, I think Fernando Mateo is going to pull the upset in November because he will be the lesser of the two evils, and if the violence this summer gets increasingly worse, any but the most liberal Democrat will want a change.

I don't think the county, or any organization for that matter, wants to be on the hook for providing an implied level of safety from a virus on the premises, especially one that hosts an event where people tend to drink a lot...and yell and scream. I think "reasonable protection" could take on enough definitions to be problematic. Unless you have every fan sign a very specific waiver before entering, if you say "hey, we're only allowing vaccinated fans in the stadium" and then, by chance, you have an outbreak that can be traced to that game where someone or some people get really ill, I feel you're in undiscovered territory from a liability standpoint as the owner of the facility. I wouldn't want to be there. In the vaccine world, no one involved is on the hook for product liability, so I'm sure when cooler heads think about it, they don't want to be the one party that inadvertently puts itself on the hook. Dropping that requirement lets the county wash their hands of the entire issue. You attend games at your own risk, as you always have.

As this thread hits 70 pages, a friendly reminder we're all Bills fans first. Next reminder comes at page 140. Are we staking out any virologists at restaurants with this one?

Cole Beasley is right. I'm a fan that supports his opinion on this matter. The union did a crap job protecting players from the pro-vax mob and management.

IMO, she and the state of Illinois are lucky the Bears aren't considering leaving the state. Nobody wants to live in Chicago or Illinois.

EA should put a picture of the EA boardroom with all the executives laughing on the cover. They put the absolute, bottom line level of effort into that game year after year, and fans still buy it.

Logan Thomas and Alex Smith Zach Ertz and Carson Wentz Pressure release valves for their respective QBs. Whoever Indy has at TE will have an amazing year. I don't think the Bills missed on Thomas. I think Thomas found an ideal situation, and sometimes that just happens. We all back into good things at times.

You need to continually provoke that emotional reaction and have a foe to unite against to convince people to part with their hard earned money to support the cause. Leaders have to get paid you know. Know any of these "movements" where the leaders aren't coincidentally exceptionally wealthy? No different from the abortion groups, BLM, the NRA, you name it. It's all about the money.

HEAT. Every piece of dialogue in this movie pops. Runner-up: Die Hard

Gotta retire sometime. For a guy like him though, the current state of affairs in college basketball probably gets less inspiring with each passing season. You essentially work to capture lightning in a bottle for one year before all your freshman and sophomore superstars declare for the NBA Draft. It's something - since 1990 only Duke and Florida have won back to back championships. Duke did it in 1991 and 1992. Florida did it in 2006 and 2007.

I personally don't feel Fauci is covering up to protect his own ass specifically. He's 80, wealthy, and can retire before it gets really hot and escape any and all consequences of decisions he's made. Same goes for Francis Collins. These guys can retire and make money having their balls washed at industry conventions and being a talking head on news channels. He's ultimately protecting the clandestine world of virology research, the value of that research in dollars, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for it. He's a true believer in the cause, and in his eyes, one lab accident, even if it kills millions, shouldn't end the "important" research.

It'd make sense for all those millionaires with apparently cash to burn, to combine the three ideas into one, where you could have football in both the US and Canada.

That's the real bomb IMO, and answers a lot of the mystery about SARS. It arrived and disappeared suddenly. No natural origin found to this day. It escaped from numerous labs in China, which triggered spot outbreaks. Once it stopped leaking from labs, poof, gone. Hasn't been seen since. The West was occupied with the Iraq War, so SARS was a B-headline. Wouldn't surprise me whatsoever the United States was funding that research too. Fauci is just the face of the US side. The ugly truth is that you have an entire virology industry doing whatever the hell they want to in these labs.

He doesn't make the same mistake twice, especially in game planning. I really appreciate that as a fan.

The story of COVID likely goes all the way back to SARS. That little critter got out and *kept* getting out of Chinese labs, until poof, it just disappears, never to be seen again. Still, as of 2021, no natural origin has been found. No one can explain why it just...vanished. The bigger question is why is the world so interested in manipulating the coronavirus, largely out of the public purview? To what end?

People ask why it matters so much to find out if this lab was the cause of the pandemic. It's to prevent this worldwide League of Morons (it's not just these inept Chinese scientists) from doing it again.

If China is going to make a move on Taiwan, it'll be in the coming months. I don't think it's a Democrat or Republican issue - it'll be a calculation that Biden and his team will blink. They weren't ready in the Clinton era, and there's no way they'd try it with Bush, Obama or Trump. Obama is a lot of things, but a peacenik isn't one of them.

Conspiracy theories they said... When it comes to COVID, the so-called conspiracy theories have a tendency to be the truth simply being shouted down. My theory: This is 1) part of the push to "re-shore" the dangerous GOF research. Pegging it on China allows US-based virology academia to say to the White House, "see what happens when we don't do the work ourselves?" Besides COVID, don't be surprised new information comes to light about other mishaps at that lab and in others around the world. 2) to deflect blame from NIH, Fauci and Collins specifically, by focusing solely on the Chinese negligence and not that US government money was laundered via EcoAlliance to the Chinese to conduct the research the Obama Administration put a stop to stateside. 3) dovetails with #1 in that the Chinese continue researching things they can't handle at that lab.

The headline of that article catches my attention. In 2020, the "news" uses words like "just crushed" and instead of the President, it zeros in on Donald Trump the person. It makes it nice and personal. It's red meat thrown to the hysteric masses on both sides. Donald Trump is the villain, and Dr. Fauci is the most trustworthy individual in the government. Now if Fox News runs the story, it swaps it around: The President disputes Fauci's theory on origin of the virus." If this pandemic hit lets say in 1989, the headline would more or less read like "President, NIA Director disagree on origins of virus"