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Hey, @Hapless Bills Fan, I was hoping you might shed some light on this. A dear friend of mine was presenting symptoms and went to get a test. It was a parking lot drive thru deal and all they did was use a regular Q-tip and swabbed the sides of her nostrils; not the 6 inch, brain poking swab to the back of the nasal cavity. The test came back negative, but we are not sure about its accuracy given the procedure. Are you or anyone you know acquainted with this kind of nasal swab? Is it reliable? Thanks.

Lotta catches, lotta yards, lotta TDS.

My bologna has a first name ...

About that upside down flag. Seeing as it’s a universal signal for distress and a mayday call for immediate assistance, if someone genuinely feels our country is in distress, might it be an appropriate symbol to convey that sentiment? I just don’t see it as an automatic sign of disrespect or unpatriotic intent given what an upside down flag is meant to signify.

Democracies are fragile and require constant vigilance and participation. I recommend reading On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. I also agree with Steve Schmidt when he said that fascism didn’t take Germany and Italy because it was strong, but because democracy was weak.

Attacking the media as an enemy of the people, questioning the legitimacy of our elections, and scapegoating a class of people for starters. Oh wait...

Yes, immediately after the fact. The fact CK didn’t seek permission beforehand does nothing to diminish the fact that his employers granted that permission moving forward. This might be about political correctness to some people, but to those corporations and other enterprises overtly showing support for the movement, it’s about their market analyses and what that data reveals about external and internal customers.

He also wrote a graphic novel trilogy called March.

Another quote from NFL.com:

Kaepernick and any teammate who wanted to, had the expressed permission from the 49ers to take a knee.

I’m guessing “No Clue.”

If you haven’t seen it already, I highly recommend seeing ‘13th’, a documentary about the inequities in our penal system. Very enlightening.

From this morning’s NY Times Our founders charged us all with making this a more perfect union. John Lewis dedicated his life to that proposition and did it with the rarest combination of courage, grace, and dignity.

Only if you’re into Russian bots, off the charts hypocrisy, and denial.

That ship sailed a long time ago. Sports, professional and amateur alike, have been part of the political landscape since their inception. That will never change.

The University of Facebook offers degrees in EVERY science known to mankind! Medicine is just a drop in the bucket.

My principals are at the very CENTER of my dissent. Make it about republicans vs. democrats if you must, but I can assure you I am not. This is about so much more than that. Anyway, I’ve said too much for this forum. I’ll let it go at that.

Rare strength of character and conviction to be sure. Something for all of us to aspire to. I wish him well.

We are all friends with MAGA supporters; I understand that. And I won’t go as far as saying they all advocate all of the same aims as their political leaders. Regardless, when it comes to certain things, including the idea that a pandemic which disproportionately sickens and kills a constituency of an opposing ideology that they otherwise seek to silence at the polls by other means, then I think that leadership is fully on board. No, I don’t think your son wants to see people die. But I don’t think the leadership of his political party cares one way or the other. What else explains the lack of a unified national plan to combat this thing after nearly seven months IN SPITE of the best advice from our own experts otherwise? While the very thought of my having these thoughts might sicken you, the very thought that our MAGA friends aren’t front and center in condemning what we see occurring on a daily basis sickens me even more. I’m sure this post will get deleted and perhaps it should if it crossed a boundary. But I’m not apologizing for it. I hope you can understand that.

If you or another mod feels the need to delete this, I will understand. But I have to say that, given the sheer demographics of which groups suffer most from this pandemic, I firmly believe that a certain political group thinks it is just fine with these outcomes.

You’ve got that right. I’m doing research on behalf of those who hypothesize that there are a few, singular legislative events that took place decades ago that directly led to the kind of tribal intractability responsible for our reluctance to embrace unifying themes as a nation.

Those bastages are all farging iceholes!