oldmanfan

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.

Sounds about right.

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.

Teachers and parents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I remember him as a rookie in camp. Came out of nowhere and wound up being a solid guy for us for years. RIP.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because we have pretty good immune systems. But if the wrong one crosses over from animals to us look out.

Steven Wright is pure gold.

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.

We hope some of the animal viruses don’t undergo transmission to humans

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.

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.

And comedy tastes change with time. Vaudeville was an early firm of comedy and it isn’t around anymore. What you consider legendary is just your opinion. Others have a different thought of what is funny. But because they may not agree with you, it means comedy is dead? Get over yourself.

Maybe. It will be interesting to see the final roster for the D line.

And all three of them are doing successful shows and doing fine. So to go back to the original question: is woke killing comedy? Of course not or these guys wouldn’t be doing so well, would they? The woke crap is just that: crap. It is a made up issue.

Just stop. Stop. Chris Rock has a big 2021 tour planned. Seinfeld Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is up for another season and is very popular. Chappelle can do virtually whatever he wants. They are all working and doing what they want. If, indeed, to the OP's question Has Wokeness Killed Comedy, the answer for the guys you've mentioned is a resounding no. Comedians that aren't funny and think an act that just slams an demeans people without the subtleties of sarcasm and such may lose jobs, and rightfully so. Because they aren't funny. Some people keep saying they're sick of wokeness. I am sick of people thinking wokeness is actually a real issue and a way for the Trumplican party to try and win elections. There are real issues to be concerned about in this country.