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The country needs new leadership as it relates to COVID. You're not going to lockdown, mask or vaccinate your way out of it, but frankly the chances of that successfully occurring were always slim.

1. Find the meanest, heaviest free-agent RB, sign him, and have him terrorize the defense every single play of every practice until they figure out how to stop him. 2. Fix the penalties. 3. I'd put GR, BB and AE on seek and destroy. No elaborate assignments - I'd use the youth and turn them loose. 4. The Eagles have shown you can have a running game without a big OL or big RBs. I'd incorporate some of what they are doing into the game plan. 5. I'd get the best FA DT available that generally mirrors what Star does because you'll need him. Ed Oliver needs that Star/Star substitute presence.

They can do it. Talent and skill are there. There's no fight in this team though, especially when the plans go awry. They are challenged at keeping the energy and focus from one game to the next. They will smoke the Saints after being embarrassed yesterday and then turn around and come out flat against the Patriots. That's what needs to change.

The team gets punched in the face and they don't recover. That's leadership.

The problem with your argument is that all of those drugs have consumer protections the Covid vaccination products do not. Covid shot? You know how much you'll get? Zero dollars. I have a big problem with the government mandating its citizens to take more and more of a product they cannot collect compensation for should they be injured from it. If vaccine injury is allegedly rare as they say it is, there should be no issue in compensating such a small group of people. Mr. $500K/year salary Dr. Fauci can likely pay for his healthcare if he gets injured. What about the single mom who's child has GBS or myocarditis, or that mother dies from a vaccine injury and leaves that child behind? What if a person develops clots and can't work? Don't they deserve to be compensated for that loss?

Beasley runs precise, crisp routes and is easily in the top 10 of route runners in the entire league. You can't draft that consistently, and a lot of WRs in the league are lousy route runners. The Bills probably have one of the best, if not the best route runners in the league in Diggs. Jerry Rice is probably the all-time route runner. His success was because he was consistently to the spot Montana threw the ball to. You can't teach route running by the time you're in the NFL. You have to be dedicated to it and good at it as a college player. It's why you have a lot of college "names" flame out in the league. They are great athletes and fast but can't get to where the ball will be thrown to consistently. There will be many Bills players who will leave the team before Cole Beasley does.

I'll patiently wait for my Nobel Prize in medicine, but you could start to contain this pandemic in a more permanent fashion in months if everyone supplemented with Vitamin D. One pill a day, get it from anywhere you want. .Gov pays for two blood tests, get it where ever you want. Keep it above 25. It's a fact that if you are elderly, obese or have co-morbidity like cancer your D levels are in the tank and you must supplement. You don't need billions of $700 COVID pills. You don't need to vaccinate everyone 10x over. I hate how modern medicine has suddenly turned a blind eye to Vitamin D deficiency despite spending the last three decades trying to lower flu cases through Vitamin D supplementation. IT IS THE SAME PROBLEM - viruses find a way in through deficiency. I've yet to see a single study that looks at blood levels of people who've died from COVID, have had severe COVID, have had mild cases, and those that don't seem to catch it regardless of exposure. I bet that cases of death and serious COVID, that level is below 30 and those that walk around without catching it have high levels and that the reason breakthrough keeps happening is because regardless of vaccination, the patient's Vitamin D level is dangerously low.

IMO, it's a more simple explanation: The US has had back to back administrations of elderly, largely incompetent Presidents who can't see the curves in the road ahead, surrounded by inept sycophants, whom said elderly Presidents rely on to their own detriment. With Trump, it was rich people who hadn't worked a real job in a long time who treated running a country like a woodworking hobby. With Biden, it's people who've never held a real job. While different in their approaches, they deliver the same level of chaos, simply lurching the country from one crisis to the next. America should only be forwarding governors for office. Most of America's decent to above average Presidents were governors - FDR, TDR, Jefferson, Reagan, Monroe, Wilson, McKinley, Polk, Clinton... https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall

My panic button is in January 2022 when food and sundries prices will go through the stratosphere as companies price in their CY22 adjustments. I expect things like laundry detergent to go up $4-5 per overnight. I expect gas prices here in PA to start routinely topping at $4.15, and fuels like #2 heating oil and propane to easily go up $1 per gallon. I don't know how restaurants will survive because your $30 steak today will be $40 in a few months. Life is going to be painful. Tyson Foods is telegraphing what it's going to look like. The Democrats have zero chance in the midterms. The 2022 economy will be an event that defines both the 2022 election cycle and the 2024 cycle. Inflation was a blinking light in 2020 and Biden had to attack it immediately and he didn't.

The pearl clutching about COVID there amuses me every day.

As an every episode start to finish, yeah. I watched the premier and finale of Season 1, and a few of the tail end of Season 2. To me, it's a "western" Sons of Anarchy. The Dutton family is SOA, the Indian/casino interests are the Mayans, and you have various bad guys/groups that roll in and out of the story arc.

Yellowstone is the television show on Paramount. Kevin Costner is the star. Three seasons total, with the fourth just beginning this month. I was late to the Yellowstone party - I had heard more and more people talking about the show. My initial opinion of it was that it was a Hallmark network-esque generic western, but I was quite mistaken after deciding to watch Season 3. It's been quite a find.

Just pointing out that the origins have not been conclusively determined. Succinctly, if COVID-19 existed in nature pre-pandemic, mankind could find it. Polio. Conclusive. Numerous scientists can find the source independently. Flu is easy. Hantavirus outbreaks, conclusive. Ebola, conclusive, can find it in Africa every year. HIV, found it. Pandemics like COVID, SARS, and MERS, there's no source that can be independently verified, which suggests it's not nature's doing. Another thing I'll add - those murky, possibly non-nature pandemics are all fairly recent - dating back to the mid 2000s. You don't have these outbreaks of unusual respiratory viruses in previous decades.

The source of COVID-19 has not been confirmed.

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court votes 4-1 to throw out state's school mask mandate. Health Secretary had no authority to create the mandate.

If you want to turn a blind eye to the demographics of the NBA, no issues here. That's your opinion. I choose not to. I don't know how you know for certain NBA players would line up for it voluntarily without the mandate.

Lawlessness breeds more lawlessness. He's a stupid kid - but out of the six charges against him, I only see the transporting weapons across state lines one sticking.

It's an election year where the Democrats are forecast to lose a lot of races. What's COVID? PA's term limited governor decided yesterday the school mask mandate ends January 17. You know...in the dead of winter. Come now, it has nothing to do with PA having a high profile governor's race in 2022. You might have COVID protocols in COVID pearl clutching territory like New York and California, but for the rest of the country - COVID is going to be a distant topic behind all things economy.

If you're over the age of 18, you're Robert, not Bobby. Bobby is a name for children, pets and personal watercraft. Should have been a red flag during the interview. I kid. The Bills under the current regime are terrible at hiring OL coaches. We got duped by the best agent in the business - Juan Castillo's agent. No one is more elite at finding his/her client a job.

Rittenhouse walks after yesterday's testimony. His own stupidity was out done by the stupidity of guy who had his arm nearly shot off. These kids in the streets playing cops and robbers with real guns. You point a gun at someone with a gun - yep, you're probably getting shot. Not surprised, but few in the media are asking questions about all this "found" FBI footage, especially the drone footage in FLIR. You get the impression the FBI was all over that protest - which suggests they are all over every protest. I've often wondered how .gov ends up finding the specific people who torch police stations and loot stores months after the event. It's likely because the feds are in the mix quietly filming everything like a documentary, and then using facial recognition software with access to various databases (DMV, criminal justice, etc.)

Organized crime or hell just greedy organizations of any kind, globally, have an awful lot of people to "influence" to push the desired outcome of these games. "Hey, I see you've got three kids nearing college age...and boy, college is *so* expensive..." or "those gambling debts are piling up...shame you're behind on that mortgage because of them..." Just friends helping friends you know. If you were on the officiating crew or hell, the ENTIRE officiating crew, and you were smart, you could have a family member set up some shell corp or LLC and run your gambling for you, depositing the winnings into an account the NFL couldn't trace back to you. The Corp./LLC does something legitimately, sells used tractor parts whatever, on Ebay, who cares. Then, after your retirement, under IRS regulations, said family member simply "gifts" you money annually from said company or the company purchases real estate with it which they later transact to you for $1. Of course it's *your* gambling money the whole time, but neatly laundered through various legitimate business opportunities. As a crew, I wouldn't fix the outcome of the games because that'd attract too much scrutiny, but I'd be interested in the prop bets and spreads.

I agree with Joe B's analysis. I'd note the Eagles, behind a makeshift line and backup RBs, have become far more competitive in recent games because of deploying different running schemes and commitment to running the football. A lot. That OL and running backs aren't all-world and yesterday against the Chargers, they were routinely grinding out 1st downs. If their defense wasn't so bad, could have won it. A real running game can be a thing, but it starts with your plays.

The NBA is mandating booster shots for those who opted for the J&J product. You'll take this "shot" and keep these taking shots, and you'll like it. Don't be upset the "conspiracy theorists" among you keep telling you the news weeks, months in advance. Be concerned that they are. As it pertains to the NBA, I'm amazed at how little criticism has arose from a bunch of largely exceptionally wealthy white men telling a league largely comprised of black men....what they must put into their bodies or else they can't play. Just don't see it being so quietly obeyed in a different decade.

He probably doesn't need to say it out loud as a Governor, but he's not all that off the mark in his opinion. The CDC goal posts are on trailers hooked to trucks with the engines running, and when I saw University Hospital in NJ mandate their J&J vaxxed employees get *another* shot or else, I too think you'll have people trying to change the definition.

It's odd to me the therapeutics were worked on and publicized AFTER the vaccines. I mean I know why the order is in the way it is (massive wheelbarrows of money) but from a practical standpoint, wouldn't it have been great to have the arsenal of therapeutics (maB, these pills, etc. produced with equal vigor as the vaccine products) first that could have kept a lot of people out of the hospital? It's sort of like mandating the bariatric surgery and then months later, rolling out the weight loss drugs.