oldmanfan

The person a mile away from the polling place, standing in line because there aren’t enough polling places in her district vs. others. At this point I assume you are being facetious; no one could truly be as naive as you are pretending to be.

Yes. Because helping a person who is thirsty is a decent and fundamentally human thing to do. Sorry you apparently have lost that part of your humanity, but having seen your thinking about the pandemic and that you would have preferred multimillions of people around the world to die I am not surprised.

People have not been allowed to hand out campaign material at polling places for a while. And yes I’m focused on water. You know why? Because not being able to hand a thirst person a bottle of water violates everything I know about being a basic, kind human being. Not to mention it is an affront to my Christian beliefs.

I would do what Beane did. That wasn’t too much of a coat. There is no way I’d trade say three first round picks to move to draft a guy. I only do something like that for a guy who’s shown he can do it in the league.

Every body is going to overreach for QBs like they always do. Look at Josh's draft. All but him either have had uneven progress or have/are bombing out. Same will happen this year. I project only one of the top 4 will become really good, and the best may wind up being the kid from Alabama who's not in the top 4.

Yes, I seriously think this was to keep people from standing in long lines to get a bottle of water, so that people will decide not to come vote. Most clear thinking people d the same. And if they have to pee I would hope that porta potties are made available, although I suspect that's next on the hit list. When it comes to voting regulations, this was changed because the current Georgia Secretary of State actually stood up for the law and ran a fair election. And now gets punished for it. And will get primaried and voted out quite likely, all because the previous President cannot accept he lost a free and fair election. Again I will read for you; 4 of the 5 people on the board will be Republican. what will you do when they decide a county that votes mostly Democratic they decide is "underperforming" and start invalidating legal ballots? When people have their constitutional right to vote taken away will you stand with them or against them?

Ok, let's read:. Within 150 feet of the outer edge of a building. Great. That means I can come down there and give water to someone standing in line for hours waiting to cast their vote because their voting districts don't have enough polling places because they were taken away because of partisan crap. Oh, but wait, let's read some more... Within 25 feet of any voter standing in line to vote at any polling place. Well, that changes things now, doesn't it? I can't now perform a simple humanitarian gesture and hand someone a bottle of water, unless my arms are 26 feet long. I wonder why. As for the link you asked for, read the law. The Secretary of State no longer chairs the State Election Board, he becomes an ex-officio non-voting member. And the board and thus legislature can intervene in counties they deem to be "underperforming", with the board made up of a chair appointed by the legislature, state house and senate each appointing one member, and each party appointing one member. which means in Georgia right now that would be 4 Republicans and 1 Democrat. That's really fair, wonder how long it will take for counties such as Fulton to be declared "underperforming".

How about the part where the state legislature can just go into a county and throw out ballots if they want? How about taking the power away from the Secretary of State to oversee elections.

Not being able to give a thirsty person a bottle of water is absurd. and yes, inner city folks especially the elderly have trouble getting around.

As to question #1, inner city folks, especially the elderly that have trouble getting around. Folks living in rural areas. As to question # 2, if they show up without any identifying info and are there simply to give people food and water, more power to them. If they show up with their NRA hats and such and as part of their handing out food and water they try to influence people's votes, then no. If this ridiculous thing stands up after being challenged in court, I will load up my car with water and drive down to Georgia to hand out water their next election.

Smallpox. Polio. Measels. Mumps. Diptheria. Tetanus. Whooping cough. Just to start.

Because a ton of people had to die to get there. You honestly believe we should go back a century and ignore all the advances made in science and medicine since. That is frighteningly misguided.

We should have done a lot more, and had less people die.

First, you are calculating mortality rates incorrectly. You calculate mortality rates based on the number infected, not the general population. The current mortality rate in the US is around 3.2%. But let's just take your approach for a minute. If you do it by the total population, then 550,000 Covid deaths out of a population of 330 million gives you a mortality rate of around 0.16%. sounds low right? well, let's compare it to the leading cause of death in the US, cardiovascular disease, which kills around 650,000 per year in the US. That gives you a 0.19%. So by your logic, can I assume you want to close down all the cardiovascular floors in hospitals, cath labs, stop selling statins, tell the cardiologists to switch to dermatology? Or maybe because Covid and cardiovascular disease kill mainly the elderly, perhaps to reap the most economic benefit we should just kill off the old folks before they get sick. Would save a ton in the long run. What age do you want to select to start? You mention suicide and depression, and I agree that this has been a tough, tough, year. I took the liberty of looking at suicide rates (https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Suicide/state/ALL) and it appears that suicide rates are not that much higher than previous non-Covid years. What struck me is that the rates seems to be highest in the Rocky Mountain states, which are among the ones lower in Covid infection if I'm not mistaken. Whether this is due to the economic impact of Covid or other factors seems hard to determine, but I would caution against randomly making claims that Covid is responsible for a big surge on suicide. You talk about needless isolation of young adults and children, and ignore the fact that one of the more unique aspects of the Covid virus is that it can be carried asymptomatically by young people. You also ignore the potential long term morbidity that might be suffered by younger and older folks that will affect quality of life going forward for these individuals. I do agree that as data was gathered it became clearer that young children of elementary school age do not transmit the virus readily, and I would be right there with you that I believe elementary schools should open, especially as teachers get vaccinated. No question businesses suffered. I have a daughter that is a professional actor/singer, and that business along with restaurants and such has been decimated. No question. The issue was how to get them going again, and that could have - should have - been done by aggressively taking steps to control spread by leadership all banding together and insisting on proper mitigation strategies such as masks, instead of making it into a political football and yakking about your freedom as if wearing a mask is somehow an affront to everything holy. Laboratory and epidemiologic studies all showed the benefit of masks wearing to help prevent - not eliminate, but prevent - spread, but instead you had way too many people act like idiots. We could have this behind us by now, but no. Dr. Birx the other day said if we had doen this we could have saved over 400,000 lives, but no. When historians look back on this years from now, they will ask: why in the face of a global pandemic did they treat this like a political rather than a medical issue? One last word on your comments on the economy, where I agree with much of what you said. We are trillions of dollars in debt because the people of this country screwed up. We demanded two things that are diametrically opposed: low taxes and high government spending. And because by and large we elect gutless cowards to Congress that are more interested in re-election that doing what's right, we have this problem. We have a critical need for infrastructure, Biden knows it, he knows we need tax increase to pay for it, yet now people are complaining about that. The real debate we need to have in this country is on what the exact role of the federal government should be, and once we decide on that (should there be a lot of government programs or not) then define the tax rate to pay for it. But we're too gutless as a country and the politicians are too gutless to have that day of reckoning. And the projection you speak of is we had done nothing to prevent the spread, which would have been ridiculous.

They didn't do a good hire with Rex. They did with McD. It is beyond sickening to blame them for bad decisions and give them no credit for good ones. The Sabres? People crow about the LaFontaine thing. he did the exact same thing with the Islanders and has not gotten a sniff at a front office position since he pulled his disappearing act with two teams. He probably held onto Regier too long, then hired two GMs that were highly regarded in the league in Murray and Botterill. They turned out bad - made bad coaching decisions and bad draft picks. Coaches? Let's look at the last several. Bylsma - Cup winning coach. Players including the boy toy Eichel tuned him out. Housley. another guy highly regarded with many thinking it was time for him to step up. Players didn't play for him. Kruger? Players lauded his selection then the players led by - you guessed it, Eichel - didn't play for him. I have said before if I'm Pegula I go out and get opinions from 5-10 guys that are well connected with a lot of experience in the league. Start by driving out to Dud's house. But for this team to go forward, you can bring in as many caches etc. as you want, but you have to start with players that have some heart and guts that want to play hockey. You saw last night, every player on that team should be embarrassed to have been on the ice the third period and OT. That was inexcusable.

I am so sick and tired of this claim that they were lucky in hiring McD. The NFL has an advisory committee to look at guys they think may be ready for a HC spot. McD was on that list, Pegula interviewed him and liked his plan and hired him. If you’re going to say he was lucky, then so was every other owner in history that hired a winner.

B word about the Pegulas all you want, but the current Sabres are a bunch of heartless, gutless players. No owner can change what’s inside a guy. They need to gut this roster and give Adams the authority to bring in guys that give a damn.

So a century later with all the advances made in molecular biology, virology, epidemiology, pharmacology and so on your answer is to let Mother Nature take her course and have hundreds of millions die. You have got to be kidding.

Some folks do not have ready access to a driver’s license bureau..

Ok, this is crap. At the beginning of the pandemic before the CDC and others had as much data on the mechanisms of spread, Dr. Fauci advised against masks to make sure that hospital personnel had enough PPE to take care of patients. As more data on cloth masks having an influence in droplet spread became available his opinion changed. This is precisely his science works. You know this, why do you insist on perpetuating a lie?

I am sympathetic with anyone with kids during the epidemic and apologize to you for getting too strident on that. I still suggest, however, that if you are telling your children this will never end you reconsider doing so.

No, he’ll get caught like Capone got caught. Tax evasion and such.

You as in the public health community genius. As far as Sweden and Florida, Sweden has a higher death rate than neighboring countries. And their citizens do much better at voluntarily wearing masks and doing other preventive behaviors instead of making a stupid political game out of it. Florida? Do we have their real data or not? I want your kids to have normal childhoods again. It seems clear to me you don’t, that you’d rather scare them by saying that it will never go away and that they’ll kill themselves.

All this crap started because Trump put it in people’s heads that if he lost it must be fraud. Absolutely no day to suggest that happened but because the Republican Party has ceded control and fealty to this guy, here we are. They’ve ceded control to a guy who lost the Executive and legislative branches. When the Republicans get beat in 2022 and 2024, because the extreme Trump supported candidates lose, we’ll get back to some sense of normality. Or until he gets arrested.

They are not all lying unless you count the former President. Vaccinations are the best way to prevent viral diseases. And if you can’t get a vaccine, like with HIV, you work like hell to find treatments to hold down infectivity. And while doing so you counsel people of behaviors to help prevent spread. Honest to God, you don’t have the first damn clue about science. The people fighting this aren’t lying and the only dupe here is you. Because your agenda is clear: you want people to continue to die and for your kids and others to suffer so you can go off on a message board. How sad.