GaryPinC

My simple point with the graph is for those who scream and denigrate claiming the increase in cases is simply due to increased testing. That's without even citing New York, the facts of which completely oppose this opinion. Your point about the 30% is taken, however, given the delays in test results you would have to provide some evidence that the 30% did indeed test negative for Covid. It's a tricky virus and sometimes medical professionals have to use their best judgement. WRT temporary lockdowns, they delay and dilute the inevitable. Was it necessary? At the time yes, because so much was unknown. Now? No, though it's debateable because there's too many petty people who think wearing a mask is akin to ripping up the constitution instead of seeing a simple, temporary measure to help limit the spread of a public health threat.

Here's the hospitilization data from Ohio ( a few days old and has continued to increase through today) And my docs who work the ER here at Metrohealth in Cleveland tell me they've reopened the extra Covid and ICU space, definitely many more Covid patients they're seeing since June and younger (40s-60s) and definitely very sick. WRT new cases and testing, many more tests administered, positivity rate remains mostly the same (bottomed out in June, now very slowly rising). So you're correct that a large portion, though not all, of Ohio's situation is due to increased testing. However, hospitilizations have always told the true story so I attempted to make this graph nice and big for someone as willfully ignorant of the full story such as yourself. How ironic that you perceive an epidemic of morons.

I did, and my take from it was that provided there was no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the 911 call, the officer is allowed to simply pull over the car for a basic investigation. If I'm hearing your argument correctly, your concerns seem to be that the officer would issue a moving violation citation based solely off the 911 call? (speeding, reckless op) That doesn't appear to be the case, though Navarette vs Cali did not deal specifically with this issue. But getting back to EO, the police were allowed to simply pull him over to investigate the possibility of DUI/DWI based on the 911 call. Perhaps they did not observe or bother to observe him driving unsafely, or perhaps they chose not to cite him for unsafe driving behavior they did observe. I have called in a driver one time because they were driving so erratically it appeared they had to be DUI. I imagine when any driver 911 calls in another driver a high majority of the time DUI is involved, and perhaps police stop the car regardless of their observations. If they don't and the car is later involved in a DUI accident, that would seem unethical.

As are you. He provided a sound reference pages ago on a California case that was upheld by the US Supreme Court. Basically, as long as the 911 call seems legit and police ID the vehicle, they are allowed to stop it immediately and conduct a brief investigation. Doesn't say they can simply write a ticket based on the call, but they can pull it over at their discretion. I imagine if they want to get a reckless op or speeding, I'm betting they're going to wait until they witness it first. But simply put, he's right you're wrong. Sorry.

Well, it wasn't obvious to me, so thanks for enlightening. It's a question of what's reasonable. If 911 call says swerving , etc. I could understand if the officer was required to follow and witness the behavior to establish probable cause. My understanding is that you can't just get a search warrant purely on an anonymous tip. You have to investigate specific assertions and justify the validity of the tip before getting a warrant, right? So I could see those being parallel arguments for what's reasonable but certainly allowing the officer to stop the car in question and do a brief investigation is reasonable when you consider the consequences of impaired driving and road rage.

You're right, disagreers are clearly wrong. Police are allowed to make a brief investigative stop based on a reasonable 911 call.

Well, if you feel there is a person driving so erratically, they could cause a serious accident or injury why would you NOT call it in?

LOL, I too know it's not just whites. And let's not get started about how wrong white males are. But sometimes it's best to shut up and lead by example.

Um, considering many states have a legal breathalyzer limit of 0.08, "zero point zero" doesn't really mean anything in this instance.

I'm on the same page as Shaw66, but for me old-school racism, as I think you're referring to, is a big minority. New-school racism, which for me includes also prejudice and discrimination is very much alive and well. While I used to think those weren't as big a deal, it's clear from reading honest feedback post George Floyd that those small indignities add up to a big problem for most African Americans and other minorities. So, as a white majority-type person, I can either stick to my ideas or listen to the people most affected and do better. It's time to stop passing it off.

No it doesn't. Police officers do things like verbal and written warnings. I myself was in my early 20's and totally busted for coasting through a stop sign at 3 AM and the cop let me off. It's always a possibility that they were so focused on this formidable looking man with a possible DWI, empty beer can, and resulting illegal weapons charge they never bothered to cite him for speeding and reckless driving charges. But I don't know what the truth is and since we weren't there at the scene, respectfully, neither do you.

According to some reports someone phoned in that EO was switching lanes erratically. A deputy spotted the vehicle and was trailing doing 80 in a 45 and observed him passing in a no passing zone. https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/court-records-buffalo-bills-ed-oliver-admitted-to-drinking-taking-adderall-prior-to-houston-dwi-arrest/285-df7cfad6-f1d3-422b-bab3-9e99dbe845c5 The beer Ed drank was at 1 PM, a beer can was in the door, not between his legs. Perhaps after he drank the beer at 1 PM he left the empty can in the door? One of these articles says he blew a 0.0 in the field, also that the DWI unit was called to the scene. If that's all true then they took him in for bloodwork over potential adderall. I can see them cutting him a break on the empty can with a spotless breathalyzer and blood test, can't understand why not a speeding ticket? Maybe the officer never actually matched his speed before pulling him over. Good for EO!

If you actually read the entire article you are completely guilty of that which you rail against. Here's the very next line from Dr. Martinez which you omitted: “This is a morbid topic and it’s not one we enjoy talking about, but it really does underscore the severity of COVID-19 in our community,” Martinez told the outlet. "Neighboring Hidalgo County also said it will share a FEMA trailer with Cameron County, KRGV reported. The truck, which can hold an estimated 50 bodies, arrived several weeks ago, according to Hidalgo County officials, but has been sitting unused. Hidalgo County officials said Cameron County’s morgue is filling more quickly. “I’m going to let them take this one, because they are in dire need,” Hidalgo County emergency management coordinator Ricardo Saldaña, told KRGV. Cameron County has 79 coronavirus-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins data. Hidalgo County has 183." This entire article discusses different counties in Texas with large surges in Covid deaths and problems with morgue capacity and any health officials quoted chalk up the truck need due to the Covid death surge. Certainly postponement of funerals is a factor but is very far from the "gist" of the article.

Happens everywhere. I was working for a small biotech company and it was happening. In that case, it took one exec and a group of 20 somethings. 20 somethings always looking to go out, exec willing to put it on the company card and away we go. This guy was fairly charismatic and would jokingly make mildly flirtatious comments and the ones who seemed to enjoy that attention he would build into a full court press. It comes in many forms of ugliness. You get more than one exec/manager working together and ugh.

"You are a C___" I mean, if you really want to ruin it, let's just go for the jugular and leave nothing to chance.

TT's longballs lost some of their accuracy IMO, not because receivers were dropping them. Whether he was 0-2 or 2-0 he still stunk and was lousy against the Jets also. Mayfield was an epiphany on offense the moment he came in, sealing TT's fate in CLE.

Looking at both QBs most recent season with Buffalo (TT 2017 JA 2019) at PFR, it appears Allen bests Taylor in passing TDs 20-14. Allen also bests Taylor in rushing TDs 9-4. I would argue if the Bills scored more points under Taylor, it wasn't because of Taylor. Also, I felt like TT's long ball tanked in 2017 compared to 2015. Last but not least, defenses had really begun to figure TT out. Next year in Cleveland, I watched all 3 TT games and though not the best conditions, TT was largely ineffective and shut down against the defenses. And same old checkdowns and late game scoring tanks. My good buddy (huge Browns fan) couldn't understand why we let TT go until he witnessed it himself and the same frustration set in. His concussion against the Jets paved the way for Mayfield but he wouldn't have lasted as starter anyways. Though you never know with coach Huge Jackass. He was tough to figure at times.

I think the negativity is because of the disappointment that Tyrod has enough raw physical tools to be a great QB but failed to do so when we needed it the most at critical points in games. With all the great things about him, it was obvious the team had no future with him so you magnify the negatives to compensate.

Give me a break with the "magic cure" crap. But any solution has to come from mostly within the black community. Sadly, Bill Cosby was on the right track before all his past crimes caught up with him. Personally I think the black athletes, if convinced to give back and work within their communities, even with outside funding support it would really go a long way.

Slavery tore apart an entire ethnic group's family, sense of justice, morals, means to educate, ties to their homeland, most of their culture, to name a few. Precisely the things every other ethnic group relied on to pull themselves up by their bootstraps upon coming here. Then couple that with 100 years of widespread racism in a society unwilling to help. Then another 55 years or so of slow improvements and here you are today. Still struggling. 150 years. That's 3 generations. Ever look at how alcoholism affects generations of families? And that's in white people. But that's why the effects of slavery still influence today.

Yep. But F social media. Empowered cowards. Face to face and do more listening then talking.

You bring up excellent points that impact my thinking and that I briefly wanted to expand. Even beyond the old country, immigrants in this country banded together in their own communities and those most motivated helped each other where they could. Yes, there were a ton of struggles and discrimination but Italians, Irish, Slavs, etc pulled together when and where they could. You still see this today with the Chinese community at the very least (I work with many Chinese). Contrast that with the black community. Slavery "ended" in 1865, after families had been totally ripped apart, suppressed and people were forbidden to educate or even read/write. The black ethnic group went through complete disempowerment unique to any other ethnic group in this country. Beyond societal discrimination, they had almost a total lack of resources and ability to help each other within their community. And things didn't begin to meaningfully change (Jim Crow laws, segregation) until MLK about 100 years later. That's two generations removed for a child born today. It's a unique and tragic history and it's going to take a unique solution with wisdom, help and understanding from the rest of us. One miniscule personal example, I was against Kaepernick et al. kneeling because I found it disrespectful to the flag, but truly the least I can do and have done is to listen to their reasons and accept their stated intent is not to disrespect and be supportive despite my personal feelings. Let's be real, black athletes helping their community is certainly one high-profile excellent way to help empower. Oh and WRT race relations, I'm happy to respectfully discuss wherever with anyone who approaches the same. In these polarized days, honest, respectful discussion is sorely needed.

Glad you're ok and doing well! So much more the reason to control as much as possible to reduce future risk.

I don't mean to be argumentative but how can you say diet changes won't affect LDL? That's simply not true.

Watching but barely. They only see enough of what they want to see. The funny part is I've experienced these street clearings a few times because there's a yearly festival in a part of Cleveland called Little Italy. It's a tight area and in the past there have been many fights late at night so it now ends at 10 PM and the Cleveland police form a clearing line with search-lighted choppers overhead and mounteds among the officers on foot. They go right down the street and scare hundreds in front of them to leave, while not friendly they will stop and professionally engage people who come up to them, as happened to me when my car was on the other side of them. I've also watched drunks and various jackholes come right up to them and never any shoving, either the person clears out within 30 seconds or they end up in the police van. They have no problem stopping one or two officers while the rest of the line fills in and continues. True professionals.