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Another breakthrough case! Chaz! Get vaccinated against his posts. Ignore! Quoting makes him show up for those of us who don't!

There is a thread on the Politics Forum specifically about this topic and it is just waiting for you guys to show up and contribute. 😉 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

There's very little truth in these statements. Why you would want to pooh pooh a pandemic that has killed over 825,000 Americans, and is still killing over 1,200 per day, has hospitalised millions and left them with long term health issues, all despite worldwide mitigation efforts and the miraculous arrival of the vaccines, is beyond me. I get it, you're sick of it, we're all sick of it, but calling it, " a common cold", and distorting statistics to minimize it's impact is just odious.

well, you can't just turn on hospital capacity like a faucet. No-one knew/knows how long or severe this is going to to run. Omicron might wash over the population causing little harm and leaving everyone resistant, or the 'RHO' version could show up tomorrow with double the mortality of delta. Facing that kind of uncertainty throwing billions into hospital construction as opposed to other public health efforts (vaccines etc) isn't so simple a question. Building out hospital space to modern code and practice requirements is phenomenally expensive - esp if done in a hurry, and if that capacity ended up empty in 24mo the people that spent the money would be fish in a barrel for the political 2nd guessers. It may come to it, I just don't think it's an easy or trivial decision to make.

Why should we wait for an attack on the scale of 9/11 before do something? These people that want to do bad things need to get in the country and its well known thats its easy to through the southern border.

I’ll definitely be checking my email obsessively in about 24 hours for results. If it shows positive, I’m so so happy that I’m vaccinated and boosted.

Fusion is still a long way over the horizon - but I do think we will see safer more modularized fission reactions systems as part of the transition away from fossil. To me, Crypto is the purest of pure speculations. Crytpo is worth exactly what anyone wants to pay for it at the moment, which could be something or nothing. It's completely unmoored - which is precisely why it will never actually replace government issued money. The crypto creators held the concept that money detached from gov could be more stable and thus more desirable - that governments are evil manipulators of their currencies, but they had it exactly backwards. Despite what the Von Mises school adherents believe, the methods in systems like the US Federal Reserve are powerful stabilizers of the value of the dollar. Sure it's 'manipulated', but manipulated with the object of stability and predictability, which is why people like to use it. That is exactly what crypto lacks. Plus currenty the issue with the 'mined' cryptos is that the only profitable way to mine them is to steal the power and/or CPU cycles to mine them because the power and CPU to create one is worth more than the crypto is - so the whole process has become based on massive theft.

When you get scammed, you are usually sold a product that is too good to be true. I don't get what's so great about crypto. The pitch seems to be that it's going to be our monetary system of the future but the arguments that it should be or will be are not at all convincing to me. It does seem like a scam. I am hearing a lot about nuclear fusion as our energy source of the future. There aren't a lot of ways to invest in that yet, but that sounds intriguing to me (if I were a betting man). I'd rather just stick to index funds.

She's there at least for the night. I hope she gets better care than she did at Beaumont.

Best shape of his life alert: Tigers prospect Alex Faedo has been throwing off of flat ground up to a distance of 200 feet. The right-hander underwent Tommy John surgery in January of 2021. The 26-year-old hurler has regained the weight that he lost during COVID and feels he's now in the best shape of his life. The plan is to have him begin throwing bullpen sessions in early January, though there's still no timetable on exactly when he'll return to game action. He remains one of the Tigers' top pitching prospects and will be someone for fantasy managers to keep an eye on early in the year. SOURCE: Detroit Free Press Jan 2, 2022, 7:57 PM ET

Actually it was right wing terrorists (Boogaloo and Proud Boys) DISGUISED as BLM that caused the violence. Again... White Trash Bigots causing murder and mayhem in the U.S. and you are COMPLETELY SILENT on that...

At least get back to pre traffic roundabout times.

damn straight, Liz!

When forming these new countries, can Michigan just be annexed by Canada?

Or have been elected to Congress.

Nice basing your argument on what you Don't know and also admitting it.

Don't forget BLM and Antifi. They've caused more violence and damage than right wing groups.

We already have the proud boys and other Jan 6 terrorists here.

referring people to go to the political forum is such an awful thing to do, lee. shame on you. lol.

Can somebody get Karen a manager, please?

Regional manager (step below a VP) at a Fortune500 (my boss's boss) was a good guy and he had no illusions about the fact that even at his level (maybe even especially at his level) the company was most definitely not his friend. He wife's long term health was not good and he had been counting down to retirement for a number of years but couldn't go early because he needed to keep his health insurance (pre ACA days....). So he puts a screen saver on his company laptop that counted down the days, hours and minutes to "Bob's Retirement." Then he forgets to shut it off at a regional meeting when he had a presentation to make. Divisional Prez was not amused when it flashed on the screen, but Bob actually was too valuable to fire over it. ⏲️

walton had bad feet. zion has a bad diet.

I prefer Kansas City's method of building a team and then drafting Patrick Mahomes rather than the... Cleveland Browns method of drafting: 2005, 3-67 Charlie Frye 2007, 1-22 Brady Quinn 2010, 3-85 Colt McCoy 2012, 1-22 Brandon Weeden 2014, 1-22 Johnny Manziel 2017, 2-52 DeShone Kizer 2018, 1-1 Baker Mayfield I have a better idea: Let's pick the CORRECT QB rather than taking a QB just for the fuck of it.

RIP Joan Didion.

Not sure if I posted anything about it, but for the past week my wife has had some medical issues requiring a few ER trips and a short stay in the hospital. Another ER trip today and no guests allowed at this hospital. My wife calls me from the waiting room. She was ushered to a spot and some guy near her tells staff he's Covid positive, one of the staff members see's my wife back away and laughed as she told her 'oh honey, everyone has Covid here'. So yeah, that's awesome.

Another pick 6 today. I love Stafford but he makes some boneheaded throws.

Yes, I am extremely sick and tired of hearing people treat COVID as some kind of death sentence. Recent Gallup polling indicated that the public waaayyy overestimates the severity and risk associated with COVID, thanks to the media hyping it to death. IF you are unvaccinated, and/or are over 65, and/or have an underlying comorbid condition, you have a small chance of being hospitalized (less than 2%), but otherwise.... IF you are vaccinated, below 65 years of age, and have no underlying co-morbidity, you should be more worried about your next car ride than getting COVID. Delta is a little more virulent, but Omicron is basically a common fucking cold for the healthy and/or otherwise vaccinated. I suspect that Omicron is a minor issue for otherwise healthy people with a prior COVID-19 infection even without the vaccine (I haven't seen data on this one way or another yet).