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oldmanfan

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  1. I think kids such as yours and mine give us hope that things will change. I have given up on my generation. And no, I am not being manipulated and I suspect you know that. There is a big controversy in my community right now because the school district hired a diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator. People are up in arms about it being CRT, when the district has explicitly stated they are not and will not teach CRT. I disagree with the concept of CRT but for the life of me cannot understand how promoting inclusion and acceptance of all regardless of defining characteristics such as skin color, economic status, gender identity and such can be thought of as negative.
  2. This is reprehensible. Political extremism is going to destroy this country My daughter is Chinese by birth. While some of what you say here is well reasoned, she would point a few things out to you based on your thoughts. When you say “they” you are lumping all those of Asian heritage into the same category. They are not; Chinese culture is much different than Japanese and such. Not all those of Asian descent excel in standardized tests. And so on.
  3. Sorry you don’t like being challenged on the whataboutism, but that form of argument is used far too often around here in my opinion. I do agree with the issue being larger and involving power and such. But when it comes to race, the original stain of slavery will always make the issue of race different, because unfortunately there are some in our country who to this day see nothing wrong with that concept. Sad but true. You and I could have a lot of positive influence in this country when we take office in 2024.
  4. The whataboutism argument never flies. My response is simple: teach about ALL of the parts of history where people were treated horribly. The more light that is shined on this crap the better the chance to make meaningful change. And sorry, but recent events such as Asian Americans being beat up for no reason or George Floyd and such shine a light on specific groups whether you like it or not. When someone starts picking on the Irish or Italians again then a light will shine on how those immigrants were poorly treated when they came to the country. People in this country will be treated equally when all prejudice is eliminated. An ideal that may never be reached but a good one to strive towards.
  5. But there are things that many Americans don't know about our history. As you know one of my daughters is Asian by descent, and when I put out some stuff about the anti-Asian hate stuff going on to the parent forum for her college, I hade about a hundred responses from parents saying they never knew Asians suffered through a lot of what they suffered through. For me personally, I had never heard about the Tulsa uprising against blacks until just a couple weeks ago. Unless we understand all of our history we may be doomed to repeat aspects of our history that should never be repeated.
  6. Most won’t remember this one, but it was back in the 70’s during our losing streak to the Fish. We finally had them, we were leading near the end of the game, we’re psyched that the string would be cut. And Don Nottingham runs right up the gut to score, with not one Bill coming close to touching him. Never forgot that.
  7. I agree that the risk to elementary school kids is low enough to forego masks. It would help too if their elders all got vaccinated.
  8. I am OK going without masks in schools, but your statement that not one kid died without a complicating condition is categorically not true. I know of two myself.
  9. I said I would consider it, not do it. I tend to favor your side of it with the kids. But doing that, you'd have to know there would be some isolated cases of kids getting it and then either dying or having long term complications and you'd have to be willing to live with that.
  10. Propoganda door swings both ways though. As far as where to go from here, I have evolved my thinking to say that we should open things back up again. That would be fairest to the vaccinated. And for the unvaccinated, if you're going to be so pig headed by now that you refuse to be vaccinated, wear masks, etc. then you deserve what you get if you become infected. Only thing I'd do is still consider masks in elementary schools this fall if kids that age are not eligible for the vaccine by then.
  11. I remember him as a rookie in camp. Came out of nowhere and wound up being a solid guy for us for years. RIP.
  12. I hope all the players listen to the advice from team physicians and get vaccinated. The benefits are great and risks if any are very, very minimal.
  13. I have to disagree unfortunately. When presented with actual facts and saying they are wrong or don’t believe them - or worse, saying that scientists or physicians are lying - people that took an oath to help people and have dedicated their lives to such. That is not ignorance - ignorance is not knowing or not having knowledge. This is a willful denial of knowledge and even more insidious.
  14. Perhaps not my finest moment. But as someone who has dedicated his life to research and patient care it sometimes gets to me when people are so ignorant of how medicine helps people.
  15. Sometimes one has to resort to hyperbole. There are folks here that refuse to recognize the value that vaccines have provided to the world. Refuse to acknowledge actual fact. So that was my intent -I used examples of different viruses that have been largely controlled or eradicated through vaccines. It sounds harsh I know but it was to make the point.
  16. Then let me propose a solution. Let’s take you and folks like you and give you a state to live in. South Dakota maybe. Then what we’ll do is open up a few vials of different viruses while we have some in a nice enclosed area. Let’s say smallpox, Ebola virus, Covid-19 as starters. Maybe some anthrax. Throw in some meningitis bacteria, and some shingles virus to add some pain. Then out you go. We won’t provide masks of course, and we’ll throw parties every night for you, maybe have Trump come in and do some rallies for you. Just want to make sure you have plenty of opportunity for you to interact with others and ensure everyone gets exposed. We’ll build a wall around the state border (because we know how much you love your walls), and those of us who understand and appreciate how science and medicine and the development of vaccines have essentially saved the world will sit by and watch. I give you a week at the outside before all are dead.
  17. Because we’ve developed effective vaccines against many deadly viral diseases. Your complete lack of understanding of science, medicine, and just basic facts is stunning.
  18. Because we have pretty good immune systems. But if the wrong one crosses over from animals to us look out.
  19. Steven Wright is pure gold.
  20. Depends how many new strains become infectious and how deadly they would be. It is quite conceivable a pandemic involving several new viruses could wipe out most of the world’s population. Bottom line is viruses are nasty little things.
  21. We hope some of the animal viruses don’t undergo transmission to humans
  22. Here’s the math. The post you responded to indicated there are hundreds of corona viruses. He overestimates but he’s closer to reality than you saying there are 8. There may only be 8 that have caused human diseases thus far, but no one knew about Covid-19 and its devastating effects until it became infectious to humans. so yes you are mistaken yet again. Not surprising of course.
  23. The family Coronaviridae has at least 47 different viruses. Some thus far have infected humans but as we see with Covid-19 animal to human transmission is certainly possible. So you’re wrong yet again.
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