oldmanfan

If and buts are candy and nuts. If Tre goes down there aren't 5 CBs in the league that could replace his level of play. You go with who you have and if the worst case happens and Tre gets hurt, then you go out and sign somebody. If you sign someone now you have to cut another guy you may want to keep.

How the hell can the Secretary of Defense now say we can't guarantee that we can get Americans to the airport to get evacuated? Or the Afghans who have helped us for the last 20 years? Put 100,000 troops or more in right now. Make it clear to the Taliban that they are there to evacuate people who need to be evacuated, and if the Taliban interfere in any way then we bring in many more and change the mission to destroying the Taliban. The mission 4 administrations failed to pursue.

It is 10 times deadlier than flu. The amount of ignorance on this board is staggering.

I would agree if it were not the delta variant, but it is much more infectious and more kids thus are being infected. If the data in Missouri hold up, it would appear that the infection rate from delta starts to wane after a month or so. Kids can wear masks for a bit longer until the delta starts to wane, and as more and more people get vaccinated.

I cannot make sense of your post.

They want to win economically. The Taliban and other terrorist groups want us dead. I am saying we should be willing to stand up as the world’s beacon of liberty and stand up for women and children’s that are being enslaved and slaughtered.

If they are harboring those that want to destroy us, and using diplomatic approaches to have them get rid of them, yes. Again, the way to get rid of evil is to get rid of evil. Absolutely. Watch, in a year or so we will have to back in again because they’ll allow terrorists a safe haven to kill us.

Don’t give me the false equivalency crossing the border nonsense. That’s just stupid deflection. I have done research for over 40 years. Worked as a clinical lab director for just as long. You are either ignorant of how science works or, worse yet, choosing to be ignorant even knowing the facts. Vaccinated people can still carry the virus because it populates the upper respiratory epithelium, and the vaccines don’t generate an IgA response that would get them there. Even so vaccinated people still have much less chance of transferring virus. And while vaccinated people can get clinical Covid, the incidence of breakthrough infections are much lower than unvaccinated, and most importantly vaccinated people account for at most 1% of hospitalizations or deaths. Will we eradicate it? Hopefully but probably not. Can we keep it from becoming the 2nd or 3rd leading cause of death in our country? Yes. How? Vaccines. Will we need boosters to do that? Probably, because the virus mutates and the vaccines will be altered to hit those. People get flu every year and die, because they don’t get the flu vaccine, and because the vaccine is more or less effective each year based on the strain. And in the worst flu year in the last decade the death rate was 10 fold less than Covid. I could go on but people like you don’t give a rat’s ass. You’d rather die apparently. Good luck.

Show me that paper. And for people like you, you’ve been OK with smallpox vaccines, DPT, measles, mumps. Flu vaccines. But because the moron previously holding the office of president made this into a political instead of a health crisis, and because you can’t remove your lips from his backside, here we are with people including now ever more kids dying because of the games you want to play.

We didn’t try. We cut and ran. The Taliban wants to destroy us. It wants to destroy everyone who does not buy into their attempt to covert the world. Evil must be eradicated.

Anytime people have to resort to the Hitler/Nazi crap it is a clear sign of irrationality. This is a public health crisis. Public means just that, it involves all of us. And it involves benefit vs. risk ratio; the benefits of vaccination both for the individual and the public far outweigh the risks. Other than Vietnam, this is the only time in history our country has faced a national crisis and did not come together. All because folks like you have twisted a health crisis into some bull crap political game. So if you want to die, die. Just don’t take anyone else out with you.

Not nation building. Destroying our enemy. That is strength. You want weakness.

The I hope you and your employees don’t die. Good luck. Just don’t come back on the board crying about how you should have gotten the vaccine when you’re lying in the hospital struggling to breathe or on a ventilator.

We can do both. Why do you want our country to be so weak? I agree. And just because of the debacle of the last 2 days but the last 20 years.

The FDA needs to give full approval first. Then mandates need to happen. State governments should do so. If not businesses and such will have to.

No he’ll be supported in this because the majority of Americans wanted out of Afghanistan. He’ll survive the reprehensible botching of the withdrawal with time. Bottom line is this: Americans want our country to be weak. You have the liberal weaklings who have always wanted that, and the supposed conservative who like to talk tough but pee their pants when push comes to shove.

You can’t read. I have suspected that for a while. I used to think you deliberately lied about my posts and others, but the truth now seems apparent. You just can’t read. So I will repeat, and expand upon earlier comments. Biden screwed the pooch on this. The actions taken to abandon Afghanistan without ensuring that Americans in country and Afghans that have supported us over 20 years were evacuated are reprehensible and will stain our country for years to come. Biden has full and total responsibility for that, and will have to live with the deaths to come over the next days. Americans should, must, hold him responsible. But, and yes there is a but, progress in Afghanistan? Don’t make me laugh. The last 4 administrations have screwed this up. Trying to negotiate with the Taliban, trying to prop up puppet governments that never had the will to fight for their own country. We never did what America should have done; stand up for the values that made us a superpower. Stand up for the rights of the women and girls in that country. Stand up for good against evil. I have said this morning and will say so again; Bush should have done what his father did in Iraq and gone in with overwhelming military force and recruited our allies to do so with us. The Taliban should have been wiped out then and there, and because he didn’t Obama should have, and because Obama didn’t Trump should have, and because Trump didn’t Biden should have. Instead Afghans were given the illusion that things were OK. Women and girls were given the illusion they could be educated and have place in society. Muslims who did not share in the irrational militant views of the Taliban were given false assurance that they would be safe. And all that time the Taliban waited, because they knew they would win because we along with the laughable Afghan government did not want to win. Instead waking up today our country looks feckless and weak. Biden owns his part in it, the pathetic excuse for a withdrawl. Previous leaders join Biden in owning their part, thinking you can use diplomacy and limited military to deal with an irrational enemy determined to destroy us. You don’t negotiate with irrational thugs, you destroy them. We’ll be back in Afghanistan soon; the Taliban will soon start their genocide and the terrorist groups will start forming again. God hopes that when that day Biden will act like a Commander in Chief when it does and do the job. And if not we need a President that will. And a country that backs him or her.

I know we disagree on Afghan policy but thanks for writing this. The same folks criticizing him being in Camp David (which he should not have done in my opinion, but as you say correctly he had all the ability to manage things from there) had absolutely no problem with Trump sitting his fat ass on a golf cart when important events occurred.

Biden screwed the pooch on the withdrawal, no question. The images from the airport yesterday are inexcusable. But I will also say there’s a lot of chicken hawk people around here. Trump was going to get us out, too. He “negotiated” with the Taliban who no doubt laughed at us behind his back. Trump screwed the pooch too. Obama wanted to get us out and he screwed the pooch with Afghan policy. And Bush started the whole damn thing and didn’t have the stones to finish it. What we have needed is for a President with the strength to say to the America people that America stands for good in the world, and that the Taliban are evil. That we as a country stand for freedom and we will not stand by and allow women and children to be enslaved. We should have followed the model Bush Sr. used in Iraq. Convince our allies of the importance of destroying the Taliban, go in with absolute overwhelming land and air forces, get the job done, and leave a force their to keep control. We have tens of thousands of forces in Japan, Germany, South Korea to keep the peace. This is equally important. Instead we have people on TV all day, and so many posting here ripping Biden apart as if he solely is guilt. Rightfully so for the botched withdrawal. But when the women and daughters of Afghanistan get killed or enslaved again, and when terrorist groups start multiplying there again, and when China buys up all the rare earth minerals there and kicks our ass economically, what it will show is a failure of administrations over the last 20 years to stand against inhumanity, and a failure of the American people to understand the responsibilities of the strongest power in the world to live up to the ideals that made it such. We will be back in a Afghanistan within a year, mark my words. And when we are forced back in, I hope we will be America again.

Why in the hell did we not evacuate our citizens and Afghan allies before we took our troops out? I understand the idea that we can’t be there forever and all that. But I sure as hell don’t agree wit it. I haven’t agreed with Afghan policy for 20 years. This is good vs. evil and America is supposed to stand for good. At least we used to.

Yes I would.

I couldn’t be more right. Breakthrough infections may be happening with delta because the vaccines don’t generate an localized IgA response, but there is absolutely no question whatsoever that the vaccines protect against morbidity and mortality. No question whatsoever. Now, will boosters perhaps be needed? I anticipate such, probably yearly with the mRNA technology used to rapidly create vaccines against new variants. But to say the only people not getting Covid are healthy people with healthy immune systems is wrong. Plenty of physicians and nurses in my health care network will tell you so. There was a great article posted by a pathologist at the University of Iowa on this I will find and post tomorrow.

Equity should mean an equal shot as far as I’m concerned. What you do with it is on you. I agree that you don’t keep bad folks to meet some kind of quota, but the idea is to open up more opportunities for those who may have been closed out.

I believe people who are trained in educational process should design curriculum. What is going on now is right wing politicians trying to hijack the process for their political purpose, and left wing politicians trying to hijack the process for their political purpose. And worst of all parents using their kids as political pawns as mentioned earlier. And if a teacher goes off the reservation then that should be addressed with the teacher and up the chain if needed. Regardless of the situation. I have had to follow that process once when I basically had to teach my daughter Anatomy and physiology because the teacher was wrong on too many things. I did not, however, manufacture a crisis and go screaming in front of the school board totally disrupting things to do so. One of the right wing nuts manufacturing the CRT nonsense in our community, who also is one of the rabid anti-mask nuts, snuck into our high school and started taking pictures of classrooms because they had masks required signs. She started ranting that these are the same teachers want CRT and posted this nonsense. Now, the fact that those mask signs were from last year because teachers had not come back to school yet, and the fact that CRT is in fact not taught, we’re of course ignored. And several teachers have now been threatened. So yes, the attacks from organized groups are real.

Dude I have taken training in it every year as part of my workplace mandatory yearly requirements. My daughter is a DEI counselor. I understand it. The idea is to help everyone understand why we should all be judged by the content of their character. And my training has nothing to do with politicians, it’s because the board and CEO of our health network know it makes a better workplace.