oldmanfan

I am not a neurologist but I do teach neuroanatomy and neurophysiology

You are not a neurologist. This kind of crap needs to stop. His predecessor babbles a lot too, but you don't see me calling him mentally deficient.

It is not. He has a stuttering issue since childhood. He has expressed himself in the way he does now throughout his career. He needs to quit with the no joke stuff; well all know these are not joking issues. But people need to quit playing amateur neurologists around here.

Vaccinated people have a much lower possibility of either contracting the virus or infecting others.

What is his stance on vaccines? If he doesn’t want to lock things down he should be pro-vaccine.

The President needs to stop with the jokes, needs to stop saying I’m not joking so much. This is a serious time for our country; we don’t need jokes right now.

Don’t get it then. But if and when you get infected, don’t complain. If you get really sick and have to be hospitalized, don’t complain. If you have to be put on a ventilator, don’t then cry to the doctors and nurses that you want the vaccine, because it will be too late. And if you transmit it to your child or grandchild and they get seriously sick from it, start figuring out what you’ll say to the child and the child’s parents. And how you’ll live with yourself if God forbid the worst happens. Your statement that you don’t think you need it crystallizes in a few words the entire problem we’ve had since the pandemic started. Selfishness. You only think of you. We are still in a national crisis with this pandemic, and historically when this country has faced such challenges we’ve come together to overcome. The Vietnam war might be the only exception. But what we have right now are people cloaking themselves in fake claims of freedom and rights, people deliberately spreading lies about the science of the vaccines, and so in. All of it just is a cover for selfishness. We used to have a country where the people would rise above partisanship in a time of need. Not anymore. So don’t get it. The anti-Vaccine folks? Don’t get it. People will die needlessly. Younger folks including children will needlessly die and/or have lifelong illnesses. But you do you.

The science shows that vaccinated people are much less likely to contract or spread the virus, and are at virtually zero risk of dying or contracting severe illness. The topic is simple: the NFL has a product they want to protect. They also have a vested interest in their players not dying or getting severely ill due to Covid, although we all know the NFL’s main thing is $$$$$$. The medical people for the NFL know the science and have I’m sure advised the league as such. The one thing I would advise the league is to not do testing of vaccinated individuals. Again because they are much less likely to contract and/or spread. The league is a microcosm of society right now. The CDC says vaccinated people can live their lives. The NFL apparently agrees. The league is favoring vaccinated over unvaccinated players. So is society.

God, how sad. Prayers for his loved ones.

The NFL is essentially telling its employees they need to get vaccinated, which is entirely within their right to do. The employee can either get with the program or leave the employ of the NFL. It is no different than my health care network mandating that we all have to be vaccinated. All the science supports the value of vaccination. The NFL understands that. Focus on science and not politics and this is a non-issue.

Solid reporter for years. Will miss reading his stuff

The delta variant is hitting the younger population more and is more infectious. The vaccines are incredibly effective and the risks of potential complications, myocarditis with the mRNA vaccines and blood clots with J&J, are extremely rare with around 5 cases per million, with the vast majority of these being non-fatal. And the idea that there are long term risks to the vaccines is not supported by the history of vaccines that shows any side effects are found within weeks of widespread application. The nonsense about things like microchips and the vaccines being gene therapy are just that- nonsense. And all the data show that vaccinated people are at much less risk of contracting Covid and if they do, that their risk of death or significant illness is minuscule. These are the actual facts. Yet you have states like Tennessee actively trying to keep kids from getting not only the Covid vaccines, but any vaccines. You have idiots like Carlson spewing nonsense. There is only one logical conclusion: they want people to die. They would prefer people die so they can promote political nonsense.

To quote a trite phrase used far too often around here with respect to your attempt to be cute: What a mess

Try again

Because they are black kids in a predominantly white town. You can call it profiling if you want; that’s another way of saying racism. Nice you took out the reference to slavery since you realize that was off base.

Interesting points. From a private employer perspective, you educate your employees on DEI (and not CRT, let's not artificially conflate the two), because it helps you in the marketplace. A more inclusive workforce attracts the most talent and as such should improve your bottom line. From an educational perspective, the school system in my town just added a DEI officer; they did so primarily in response to reports of bullying and racist actions by students. From a broader educational perspective, educators should not be afraid in introducing difficult concepts in class and having students discuss them. I think CRT does not belong in secondary schools as the content is more complex than should be taken on there, but certainly in college and grad school. Should we legislate against how an individual feels about another individual? No, and even if I thought we should it would be impossible logistically. But individuals that act out on their anger or feelings can do harm to others, and then the legal system takes over. I'd prefer it if things did not have to get to that extreme. One more thing. Training on things like DEI is educational, it is not indoctrination and such. I have no reason to disbelieve them. They're good kids.

Where did I say that? Don’t be ridiculous. My daughters each have friends that are African-American that live in my town, and upper middle class town where over 90% of the population is white. When I talk to these kids they tell me they get pulled over a lot and for no reason. That’s reality. Your comment just shows why this issue will likely never be resolved. Instead of a honest dialog you take things and throw them wildly out of proportion. So all you can do is deny and not face the fact this happens. You’re the problem, not me. And throwing around the Marxist label. Another classic deflection.

If you want an open and honest discussion then you need to acknowledge that conservatives have a politically driven agenda as well. I think we have made progress since the 60s in terms of race relations. But we have a long way to go. And when you have blacks still being treated unequally when say applying for mortgages, when I know young black men in my community who will tell you they still get pulled over for no reason and still hear derogatory comments directed at them by their white counterparts, when you have the George Floyd type events such as the young black man in Georgia who was shot and killed because he was jogging in a more white neighborhood, then sorry those are real world events and not fantasies. The reason why you have protests frustrations and such now from the black community is they see this and wonder when our society will truly be color blind. And because they know there are folks like Biden’s Basement who want it to be that way.

Great work as always, Shaw.

As if conservatives want to compromise. Give me a break. Racism is a real thing in this country, we all know that. Blacks that don't like whites, whites that don't like blacks, both who don't like Asians. Racism is a subset of the overall intolerance of others who don't look and think like the biased person. The crap that gays and transgender people have had to put up with and still put up with. The fringes on both sides preach hatred against those whose opinions differ from theirs. The only way we get rid of it is to bring it all out in the open and demand treating all equally, with everyone having the same rights as granted under the Constitution. Not more rights to make up for past injustices like the far left wants, not less rights for some people like the far right wants. The same rights. Oh, and the comparison to animals? One of the things that make humans a higher species is the ability of humans to reason. Unfortunately that is in short supply these days.

I agree.

Biden’s Basement doesn’t like this. Well, here the reality friend. There is no way you and the far right wing Trumpists ever control this country. If the Democrats had run anyone other than Hillary in 2016 Trumpism never would have occurred. And the same for the far left wing kooks. This country is still composed primarily of centrist type people. Conservative on some issues, more liberal on others. So go ahead and continue bowing down to Trump. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. He’ll lose elections for you again, you can continue to howl at the moon, and the country will move on. Enjoy your fantasy.

Arizona will stay blue given the inanity of the Trumpist party there. I saw a statistic yesterday that about 15.000 registered Republicans have so far left the party due to the nonsense going on there. And NC would have elected a Democratic senator had Cunningham kept it in his pants. It is amusing and somewhat sad to watch the party I used to belong to implode. And equally sad that so many in this country have chosen to be a lap dog to a huckster and con man. Under Trump the former Republican (now Trumpist) party lost the White House, the Senate, and the House. And for some bizarre reason they seem to think the way back to prominence is to double down on a bad bet. Watch the 2022 midterm. While historically the party out of the White House picks up seats, the Trumpist party is going to nominate people that are going to make former mistakes like Mourdoch in Indiana or Akin in Missouri look like choir boys. And while that may animate the Trumpist base, it will also animate Democrats to do what they did in 2020 to be sure they don't have nut cases elected. And moderates and Independents like myself are never going to vote for these kind of Trumpist crazies. The only chance some of these folks will have is if the state legislatures start overthrowing results of valid elections, and if that happens there will be riots that will dwarf anything seen in modern times.

Close agencies and cabinet departments that we don’t need because they assume responsibility for policies that should be under state and local governance (like the Department of Education). Take some of that money and significantly increase the number of agents and electronic surveillance on the border. Forget the wall because it’s ridiculous. And to really control it start putting employers who hire illegal immigrants in jail.

I can. Multiple experts in electoral law and policies, multiple courts, multiple Secretaries of State and such have declared so. The only, I repeat ONLY, reason some are questioning it is because Trump started crowing about it way in advance of the vote to give himself an excuse.