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and I think the recent CDC paper did another serious disservice by not making clear the distinction between masking as a personal protection strategy and masking as a public health transmission reduction strategy. They are different things completely and even the professionals constantly forget to keep the distinction clear. Masks don't have to be particularly effective at preventing individual exposure to still be effective at reducing community spread. This had been a fundamental and continuing point of confusion about masking from the beginning of the pandemic and the clarity on it just never gets any better.

Appreciate that, thanks.

Getting tight with the parents is a crucial part of recruiting.

Vaccines do slow the spread. It doesn’t prevent everyone from getting it and spreading it but over time a mix of 1,000 vaccinated people will spread less virus than a mix of 1,000 vaxxed and unvaxxed. Even if it’s marginal, the act of requiring masks and vaccines is a small thing to ask. If people don’t want to do their part then don’t participate in society. To live in your hole. Going to a restaurant is not needed to survive. I’m not sure where the idea that you are just as likely to get infected and spread it whether vaxxed or not came from but it’s not true.

Looking up his stats, it is surprising that he had only 127 PA in 2021. I thought it was more than that. That isn't nearly enough for me to be sold on him.

Move your hands, I have a couple of steel needles to stick in your eyes.

It's interesting the contrast between Chicago's murders are out of control and why do I have to be inconvenienced with mandates even though COVID related deaths far exceed murders in Chicago.

Well, I enjoyed our one year reprieve from mediocrity.

if you come out with a quote like that about your bosses, you better be squeaky clean. because michigan's pr machine isnt going to take something like that lying down.

you're right, i shoukdnt have phrased it that way. i apologize. that bar is also open until 5 am, which invites trouble.

It's because they do actually like Trump but are too ashamed to admit it.

Tom Nichols should know. He wrote the text my class in grad school read on the Soviet armed forces.

That is interesting isn't it? Also they have an ancient shared cultural commonality with the Uyghurs for whatever that's worth. Erdogan might end up as a modern day Stalin, that piece of shit that you need as an ally.

Russians do love winter campaigns, Napoleon would vouch for that.

Not without increasing the vax rate in the US, the difference in vax rates has been the main reason for the difference in death rates.

this is pretty funny. Video - about 8 min. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/boris-johnson-party-scandal.html

Vax rates are probably a pretty reliable statistic to compare from state to state as one must got to some type of professional that documents the treatment. Covid rate is totally different and very difficult to accurately measure at this point. How many millions tested positive via home test or had symptoms and stayed home for 5 days without ever going to a doctor. There’s no way to account for these people. Nobody is self reporting these numbers. It’s certainly plausible that positive numbers per state are skewed not by the actual virus but the method people chose to test or get treatment.

RIP Sidney Poitier. One of the bests of the '60s and '70s

Muslim travel ban was/is a comparable atrocity to placing a sect of people in concentration camps. Also Americans killed people 50 years ago so that now enters into our judgment of how we see the current Chinese human rights violations. BECAUSE they brutalize their citizens but (Glass half full) they take Covid much more serious than mouth breathing dumb Americans. I got that right yes?

So let me get this straight. Chinas forcible lock down is ok in the name of Covid. Xi also gets a pass for current policy of genocide because uhh Vietnam which ended 50 years ago. I so want to move more of my views to the left. Then I see ideals like this and think this is how Red Hats justify Trumpism.