GaryPinC

It wouldn't have mattered if they had shut China travel earlier. It spread too quickly with 2 or 3 days of victims being asymptomatic and infectious, and longer for those that remained asymptomatic. China was also slow to acknowledge it, I know I first learned about it from Li Wenliang's warnings shortly before he died and the construction of field hospitals in Wuhan early Feb 2020. Think about how long it had been spreading to get to that point. Probably 2-6 months, plenty to get it seeded around the world. The Wuhan market was shut down January 1 2020 to test for viruses. Other than Trump's standard stupid spews about alternative remedies he did just fine. So many hind-sighters on both sides forget how in the dark we were those first six months of 2020.

Ok, so what? Anyone with a reasonable scientific/medical mind knew that. How is your point that Trump didn't have the vaccine while Biden did relevant to this? Trump would have also "failed" similarly if he had been president in 2021. I would say Biden's political promise was based on two things: pushing vaccination as quickly as he could with the general population and the fact that the mRNA vaccines had been proven to be hugely effective against the beta version of Covid at the time in clinical trials. That's why health officials were quoting 100%, fully stop transmission, etc. So for a non-scientific, questionable mental-acuity president who listened to his over-speaking health officials, I feel like he made a legit good effort to achieve this promise but essentially the vaccine wasn't as great as his health officials were proclaiming. Plus Omicron was first identified in the fall of 2021, has dominated since, and the vaccines have never been as effective against it as they were beta. WRT mass vaccination, the vaccines became available mid-December and by the end of May 50% (167+ million) of the US population had received at least one dose with 41% fully vaccinated. That is pretty impressive to me in such a short time. I am definitely glad Trump presided over the outbreak as Biden probably would have dictated precautions similar to NY or CA and they were the most delusional about being able to stamp it out entirely.

Which point is that? The point that Trump handled it better than Biden with no vaccine? You really think Biden wouldn't have done the shutdown pretty much the same as Trump? Or is it the point of September '21 to February '22 round of deaths where Homelander pointed out to you the states with fewer vaccinations weighed more heavily on the death count? In this case your point is irrelevant. Or is it the point that no matter who was president the virus was going to ravage the US? This is the closest to the truth, except that dumb Democrats foolishly thought we could stamp it out while dumb Republicans felt we shouldn't do anything and let it run it's course. The truth is we simply needed to slow the spread of the novel virus long enough to not overwhelm our health systems and allow science and medicine time to understand in order to minimize it until it was fully endemic. Masks to protect those around you, distancing and isolation to minimize exposure, vaccines to minimize illness and severity. It was ugly going, but it worked. Also don't forget in that Sept 21 to Feb 22 timeline most states were coming off masking and isolation, undoubtedly contributing to the uptick. People were also burned out on all the precautions and the vaccine gave a sense of security.

Wrong about no one being fully vaccinated. https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-sandra-lindsay-first-to-receive-covid-vaccination-is-bmccs-2021-presidents-medal-honoree/ I myself received Moderna December 21 and the second jab 3 weeks later, before Trump left office. All the hospitals were in overdrive vaccinating December-February as the priority was to get health care professionals vaccinated first. As a researcher, I was just fortunate that our hospital had extra doses with limited shelf life. As a physician, I should think you would be well aware of this.

After reading the article, this is essentially how I feel about Martin. I think he's trying to whitewash this past a bit to try and propel himself into the future with the self perception of being a stronger man and having grown. I hope it works for him. I have trouble buying it. The entire article is an overwritten fluff piece on all these bold things he's attempted (and failed) and how Richie and Pouncey have already peaked while Martin's just getting started. A "look at me" article. On one hand he blames his own mother, Wells, and finally himself for not handling the situation differently. On the other hand in present day, he refuses to reach out to Richie to discuss this situation he feels he allowed to get out of hand. I know if I felt guilty like that the honorable thing to do would be reach out and at least try to be accountable. Martin's an emotionally fragile personality. He showed it back then and I see it in this article. I hope this article works therapeutically, he finds some peace and confidence from it, and can finally move on.

To hell with KC, let's focus on why the sun doesn't seem to shine down enough in our 8 years of drafting.

For whatever reason Mahomes wasn't stepping up in the pocket or reacting to the pass rush until it was too late. For sure Josh would have done a better job of that and completing more of those passes on the scramble. That would have strained Philly's defense far more. Not saying we would have won but our offense would have fared much better.

Philly should thank us for fooling KC into thinking their O line problems were fixed!

Making strategic changes to the scouting department might also help.

There is a draft coming up in a few months, let's also not forget about free agency.

Yep. Lamar had the better individual season while Josh really took the Bills to the next level. The proof is in the playoffs. The voters got it right.

Yeah, I wonder if Cooper's role would have been bigger if they had sat Coleman more and why they didn't? I think he'll develop fine but his lack of progression really let us down in the playoffs.

Well, Knowles is in his mid-fifties and I think this picture is classless. Not happy to have him now and I think things will turn out for for the best with OSU. I'm about his age and clearly Knowles is emotionally immature. https://www.essentiallysports.com/ncaa-college-football-news-tensions-rise-for-james-franklin-as-ten-m-jim-knowles-gamble-sees-new-twist-adding-to-penn-states-misery/

If Cleveland 's smart, and I respect Berry, they'll deal Myles. With Allen, Jackson, Mahomes, and Burrow in the AFC, no team gets it done without an elite QB. That's at least 2 years away for Cleveland. Cleveland has been interested in drafting a QB this year but I have to wonder if they changed their mind and that helped Myles make this decision.

A couple things living here in Cleveland and following Myles' career: This is definitely not posturing by him or the Browns. Garrett isn't someone to do this or do it lightly. I 100% believe his post. He is a part owner of the Cavs and regularly sits on-court and sometimes does give-aways, etc. for the crowd during time-outs. This sounds minor and maybe goes away after the trade but is important for two reasons: -Underscores his request is legit because of the blowback risk -Buffalo isn't far from Cleveland, I realize he can fly from whereever, but Buffalo is the closest Superbowl contender if he wants to stay active at all with the Cavs.