oldmanfan

You really need to measure memory B cell and Tcell responses ideally, both in vaccinated persons as well as those previously infected.

First an OAN video doesn’t inspire my confidence. Second, there is data indicating natural immunity gives protection, but to get that protection you have to get Covid and thus risk dying from the disease. Third, not all who get Covid mount a robust immune reaction whereas they do after vaccination. I would be all for people who have mounted a solid immune response to either not need a vaccine or perhaps get one shot of the mRNA vaccine as a booster; I think Israel is doing that. What you’d really need to have though for each patient is a measure of their memory B cell response and their T cell immunity, not just a simple antibody test. Those are what would confer long lasting protection. As for supposedy counting deaths wrong, no. Let’s say you have a heart condition but are managing it well. But you get Covid. Covid causes dramatic changes to your vasculature and thus your heart gives out. That is a death caused by Covid, not because you had heart disease.

If you are any of the others listed you wouldn’t make the list either. Transplant programs do psychological analyses to see if you will follow medical advice post-transplant. The three conditions you list indicate they wouldn’t. Quit being deliberately obtuse.

Showing lack of reading comprehension. There is a critical lack of organ donors in this country. Because of that, different medical conditions are historically used to distinguish who would get a donor organ when it becomes available. And if you have a medical condition that could put you at more risk of not surviving vs. someone who may have a longer life expectancy it comes into play. You cherry picked alcohol use but it could be a heart condition which was also mentioned or various other factors. And vaccinations against potentially fatal illnesses are factors that have to be considered, whether it be a Covid vaccine or hepatitis vaccine or do on. Organ donation is a horrendously difficult area of medicine, obviously for those who need the transplant but also for the health professionals who literally are sometimes put in the position of deciding who might live and who might die. I know folks that work in this field, and the emotional burdens are immense. So thanks for being a donor. Some day you are going to safe a life or two.

As a health care worker I am terribly sorry for anyone who is dealing with an illness so severe that organ donation is the only treatment opinion left. I work in reproductive medicine and have been called into ERs when a guy is lying brain dead, the wife wants you to freeze his sperm, and you have to tell her it likely won’t work. Not organ donation, but difficult decisions have to be made often in medicine under really emotional circumstances. In the case of organ donation you have limited resources. There are more people who need a kidney than there are donors. If you have to choose between two people who will die without a donor kidney, one is vaccinated and one is not, the vaccinated person is much less likely to get sick or die from Covid. I pity the medical professionals that might get put into such a situation, but selecting recipients based on medical history (such as history of alcoholism, severity of heart disease, and such) is unfortunately part of the process. I wish more people would consider organ donation for themselves and their loved ones.

About 5 years ago I predicted that the star NFL QB would become extinct after guys like Brady, Brees, Rogers, Big Ben retired. My logic was that the spread offenses and read option offenses that QBs run in college would never translate to the NFL game. Anyone surprised I’m not an NFL GM?

Spot on brother.

We need 537 people to step up, one in each congressional seat, one for each senate seat, and the president and Vice President. All who hold no allegiance to the extreme of either political party. 537 people who may be conservative on some issues, maybe more liberal on others, but willing to actually sit, deliberate, compromise and eventually pass legislation. 537 people interested in getting things done vs. playing cheap politics. I am convinced the majority of the people in this country fit into this model. For me you can start with a balanced budget amendment, term limits, and voting rights legislation.

Let them

If I were ever elected President, I would figure out what percentage of the debt each state owns, and which congressional district within each state owns, then tell the respective Senator and Congressperson they have two months to give me a plan to cut spending by 50% of what they owe. And if they don’t do it then I decide the cuts. I’d cut the executive branch budget by 50%. No more Air Force One, no state dinners, cut half the Cabinet departments. A budget would be written, and until accepted I’d veto every bill that came to my desk.

Despite the fact that it will hurt me as I contemplate heading towards retirement, let the debt ceiling expire. If one party has 50 votes to extend it it and the other party refuses to even vote, from a political standpoint you'd much rather be on the side of voting to increase vs. not. But to the main point, it is far past time for this country to reconcile its obsession with spending, and borrowing from our enemies to do so. Let our debt obligation collapse, let a true economic crisis ensue. That finally should convince not just politicians but all of us who vote for them and pretend that one side or the other pretend they are the party of fiscal discipline that is is time to really decide what the role of the federal government is, what it costs to do such, and to then craft a sensible tax strategy to pay our bills as we go and to pay down the debt that is killing our country.

Beasley has the right to express his views on vaccination as backward as they are. Athletes express their views on social media all the time and I’m not going to say only guys that express ideas I agree with should do so. But when any athlete does that, they have to expect blow back from fans who disagree with them. So for him to come out and basically insult the entire Mafia because a few folks don’t like his anti-vaccines stuff is way off base. I think part of this is he wasn’t targeted much Sunday. The guy is a great player for us, went out on a broken leg in the playoffs. He’s a competitor. Hope he catches 10 balls against the Chiefs. And I hope he either gets vaccinated or calm his overly aggressive social media posts.

An absurd statement. Back to Cole, leave his kids out of it - everyone should agree on that.

If true that’s ridiculous and I’d be pissed if I were Beas.

Maybe. That’s part of being a pro athlete.

I wouldn’t boo him, but people may be doing so because they realize his stance could disrupt a really good thing the team has going right now. He’s a key part of the team. Plus he’s probably a bit sensitive since he wasn’t targeted as much yesterday.

You like others do not distinguish things that are voluntary and can kill you vs. a viral pandemic which is not voluntary. The delta variant infects more young people, kill more and causes God knows how many more long term issues that the alpha. But you do you.

Read what I wrote above.

Your risk of contracting Covid is around 3%. Way, way higher. And then it's a crap shoot especially with the delta variant how sick you get. But your post really brings into clear focus the underlying issue with the pandemic from the beginning: so many think it's just about them. It's not. It's a public health problem and it's about all of us as a world community. Just like it was with smallpox and measels and mumps and so on. To defeat any virus, you have to deprive it of hosts where it can replicate and potentially mutate. You do that by vaccination or by getting it and surviving. Vaccination is way safer. The pandemic has exposed the self centered nature of modern society.

The risk of a serious side effect from the vaccine is around 0.0002%, way less than the risk of getting sick from Covid.

I guess. Boogie looked pretty good

Very solid effort. One thing I noticed was that Epenesa wasn’t in very much until mop up. Any idea why?

Is Epenesa not getting any time?

Threw off his back foot again.

Josh is tentative so far.