Commsvet11

The nomenclature disease is synonymous to a viral infection, I mean we can split hairs about the terminology, you see it as syndrome and I see it as stage 3 in HIV.

None of those kill you with a healthy immune system. Those are what we call opportunistic pathogens. That is my point the actual HIV virus isn’t what kills a person, it’s an opportunist pathogen after the immune system has been weakened. In fact Kaposi Sarcoma was an indicator that HIV was an immunosuppressive disease, elderly usually are the patients due to a weakened immune system, but young men that seemed healthy had this skin lesion. Which in turn asked the question why does a young person show an elderly patient disease.

Well hopefully we continue to research it, but prevention is the best option either way.

It would probably blow some folks minds that HIV/AIDS doesn’t actually kill you.

You did know Obama was a smoker, right?

So this isn’t really a thing with global warming, as it is introduction of a species where it isn’t usually endemic. Now I see your trying to go with rising temperatures but East Asia is a temperante zone, so it’s not a stretch to see a tick survive in similar conditions even if it’s not endemic to that area.

Very interesting, looks like they are on their way medically.

You would have to have FDA approval, along with the DEA It would be hard, but I’m sure somebody is willing to do it.

It may not possess addictives, but it sure does seem hard for people to just quit, for example football players that get paid millions of dollars and still can’t pass a drug test.

This is such a good point. When they say it’s natural, so is tobacco, poppy plants, foxglove plant. When they do these studies for medical use, are they keeping track of the genetic strains of these plants? Will the effective doses really be more theuraputic when it’s all said and done? I almost hate to say it but every time I see a study it reminds me of reading a homeopathic article

For a drug to be used in a medical treatment to be effective it has to have maximum theauraputic benefits with minimum adverse side effects. A route of administration is another factor the fastest being IV administration. Oral in particular pill form is a popular one. So if the FDA one day wants to approve marijuana for medical treatment, you all realize you won’t be smoking it right? It would be probably be in pill form. My point is if you want legalize it for recreational drug use go for it, but if all you want to do is smoke it, medical angle might backfire.

So let’s say Mr. Barnett does dismisses his negative writers. He hires new ones, would the message change? Is is it the writer or is it your bias as a fan? Does a fan ever want to hear the negativity of their favorite team? I live in Pittsburgh, you would think there wouldn’t be any criticism or negative vibes because of their success, but you would be wrong, especially after a loss. We have a unique situation where someone has reached out and included fan columns, you want to voice your positive angle do so. Or is it just easier to complain about writers?

The poster had a good point that football wasn’t invented for children, I see their point and it makes sense. We we have adopted it as part of our culture, and their view is children play football as they would playing doctor. To some people football is more than a game and I can respect that view. I also get the annoyance of drunk rowdy fans, but rowdy fans are part of the live game experience, Could you imagine watching a steeler game without seeing those terrible towels?

Thats a good point, I just always associated football as a kids game because of backyard football when I was 10, or a kid receiving a football for a Christmas present. But it thinking it through, I also had an archery set and .22 when I was 12 and those things are not really for kids either.

If I get paid to play chutes in ladders with a bunch of other guys in their 20’s and 30’s in a highly competitive environment does chutes and ladders stop being a kids game?

So peewee football doesn’t exist? And your age limit pretty much proved my point, your considered old past your thirties in the NFL, the NFL is nothing but grown men yes, but they are young men and are playing a game they played when they were in single digits in age.

Well if we all want to be adults all the time maybe we should get rid of the NFL, it is after a kids game.

Seriously! Mad at grown folks acting juvenile at a venue where grown men get paid millions of dollars to play a..........juvenile game.

What is a qualified football fan? I have my phone out to check the other scores and my fantasy, and to take pictures. I stand up and cheer when plays are made, I don’t drink at the stadium, but I know full well if there is alcohol sold at a function there will be those who drink too much. If if you wish to avoid these things perhaps it’s best you stay home.

I’m sorry maybe it’s me, but isn’t that part of the fan atmosphere?

Jim and Pam? More like Micheal Scott and Jane-Levinson-Gould!

I don’t think a republic works without identity politics. We elect representatives to speak for us, so of course these elected representatives have the constitutes best interests in mind. Of course it is never perfect, but if a candidate comes close enough then that candidate will win. Trump has an interesting case, you have Trump supporters and Trump voters, the latter voting the lesser of two evils, it is just my opinion but that is how Trump won.

Fear of social significance dwindling is not a new issue, for example White Irish immigrants were discriminated against as well as Italians, and even poles, they lived in their ghettos, and assimilated as time went on. The same thing will happen again, if anything the worry is those who won’t assimilate. What is happening here is an idea old as time, is repackaged and sold to the gullible, to paint trump voters in a bad light. It doesn’t matter the demographic, people will still resist change at first, but eventually assimilation takes hold.

Yes, they did their job, now it’s time to evaluate if they did a GOOD job. That being said I am strangely comfortable with the pick, and I don’t know why, maybe it’s the optimistism, anybody else have that gut feeling you can’t explain?

You should probably rethink your ideology if high school teenagers make you think they have more sense than adults who actually live in the real world. This is is their first experience of the real world. Violence, in particular and so far they are not taking it well.