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That's the picture of your prototypical severe COVID patient under 65. Those are the kids in the hospital. Those are the adults in the ICU. Color and race irrelevant. But...we can't talk about it.

That's a crazy video. Any other decade, at least 3/4 of that class wouldn't be wearing a mask just to give the middle finger to The Man.

Endless boosters? So surprised! (Actually surprised that they were thinking five months which is pure absurdity.)

After the Soviets left the country in 1989, they left behind many of those MI-28 HIND helicopters much like we left helicopters today. They flew for a few months and then just became scrap. No expertise to fix. No parts.

Next step: Ban GOF research and treat it like chemical and biological weapons research. SARS and COVID were research projects that broke containment. SARS and COVID have no natural origin smoking guns, and never will, because nature didn't make them.

Ehh. IMO, that's BB always saying Buffalo was a formidable opponent between 2001-2019 at every press conference. He's not going to create controversy.

I think the moderators and many of the fans on the main page are now emotionally invested in Cole Beasley and his opinions at a fever dream level. Having essentially a Ministry of Truth presiding over the whole thing amuses me. PFT (Florio) also has a weirdo obsession with Beasley and COVID. I don't think teams give a ***** about COVID. I think the media cares more about it because they need something to write about.

As of now, no. It's not a crime to be a bad, ineffective leader. As I said in the Afghanistan thread, if ISIS starts torturing or executing Americans left behind and things go from horror to barbaric there, I'd say yes. I think deliberately leaving American citizens behind, ultimately leading to their mistreatment and or death, is behavior incompatible with the function and purpose of being President. I can't fathom a President doing it.

This is moving towards an impeachable offense in my opinion. The threshold for me personally is if it turns into a hostage situation or ISIS captures Americans remaining in the country and starts executing them. We've impeached Presidents over stupid things like blowjobs and complete fiction, so I'm thinking this disaster is absolute fair game.

The Bills Wire article is conjecture. There is zero fact to substantiate the vaccination rate of the Bills is 80 percent, above or below. Zero. If there is fact, prove it. Show the class, cite the source. It could be 80. It could be 90. It could be 40. It could change by the day. I have no idea. You have no idea.

I apologize for calling you a fool. That wasn't cool on my part. FD: Suffered a debilitating, nearly fatal GBS attack from my one (and only) flu shot 20+ years ago that I took because I thought it was a good idea to get a flu shot. I battle its chronic beast of a cousin to this day. GBS treatment is extraordinarily expensive. One course of the primary treatment is about $50,000. My inpatient stay was $750,000. Over my two decades of treating it, I've estimated my insurance companies have spent at least $10-15 million dollars. Modern medicine has yet to identify what ultimately ignites the initial attack. There's nothing in particular waiting inside your body for the day you decide to do something to turn it on. You can't test for it, there's no particular group of proteins or cells that form to cause it. There's nothing to kill, nothing to target. I've been asked if I'm an anti-vaxxer. I don't think I am. I had all the vaccinations up until that point. I don't fault or judge people for taking any vaccine they choose to take. My biggest issue is that absolutely nobody accepts any liability whatsoever for covax injuries in the United States, and I think that's wrong. How can a product have no liability along the entire chain of custody? People get injured by these products and can sue no one, and have to pay their own attorney's fees and fight a bureaucrat who will gaslight them and fight their pittance of a payout. They can't even get a day in court under the regulations of the PREP Act.

It's not a dormant syndrome you fool.

Well...until it doesn't. It used to be two shots and you're golden. We were declaring Mission Accomplished. All that third shot does is goose up the immune system temporarily. My bet is it'll fade fairly quickly. We aren't performing miracles. It can only help so much. If your immune system is trash or running at half speed, it can only do so much. The reality is unless you want to boost yourself every six months, you're going to need a battery of therapeutics that don't start and stop with expensive monoclonal antibodies and start making people less attractive viral hosts.

The Bills are legitimate SB contenders this season. The Bills are not trading Mitch Trubisky this year. He's the Reich to the Kelly, the Hostetler to the Phil Simms, the Foles to the Wentz.

I am impressed with how crisp the Bills look in preseason. Regardless of the string that is playing, the players look fast, in shape and committed. The Bills collectively seemed to be a step quicker than the Bears all game.

We're not going to vaccinate our way out.

That's why despite the media's exuberance at NYC's use of it, my guess it's only being followed in places patronized by the upper crust. Your corner store in the city doesn't care and won't care. The restaurants and gyms checking for vax status in Philly are for rich white people or those that cater to the crew that work at Thomas Jefferson.

IMO, for whatever the reason, President Biden is back in Delaware for the same reasons he hung out there for nearly all of 2020. He gets infusions, he gets rest, whatever it is they do to recharge that battery, but they make sure it happens in a private setting on private property. It's on cue. He hits that inevitable low period, then comes the blackout period, and then boom, he reappears, full of energy, ready to go.

No I'm not. We are both...correct. See below. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/world/asia/Afghanistan-withdrawal-contractors.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/16/afghanistan-military-collapse-private-contractors/

Two of the most damning things I've read about the US leaving the country that are pinned not on only Biden but the US military are: 1. We didn't even tell the Afghan military we were leaving. We just got up and left. In the middle of night. 2. We prohibited contractors from remaining in or entering the country to maintain and repair the helicopters, vehicles, etc. The Afghans barely knew how to operate them. Fix them? Once broken, stays broken. A helicopter in that environment needs *daily* maintenance just to remain airworthy. 3. We did absolutely nothing to ensure the safety of the THOUSANDS of Afghans that worked with us until there were days to go. Unless the Trump plan of withdrawal specifically said to do those types of things, that's a disaster that falls on the shoulders of the Pentagon and State.

Of interest, you'll start seeing pediatric physicians start to talk about the dangers of RSV instead of Covid as we enter the fall. It'll be the new Boogeyman for parents. Not lost on me...guess what new toy Pfizer has for kids...an RSV vaccine they'd like the FDA to grant EUA for use.

You could only fully eliminate the Taliban by cutting off their Pakistani and Saudi funding, help and safe harbor, and that would have required killing a lot of Pakistani and Saudi politicians, intelligence and military. 9/11 doesn't stop with the Saudis - it also includes the Pakistanis. Those two go way back. A little known story is that the Saudis and Pakistanis helped the Afghans in the 80s not out of goodwill towards their neighbor, but that the Soviets had their eye on invading Pakistan in 1981 and using Afghanistan as the base.

Eh. It was improperly filed. Even if properly filed, it was a terrible legal approach because they weren't asking the Supreme Court a question. That's a dumb lawyer. They essentially wanted the US Supreme Court to issue a stay on the IU action while their case was on appeal. The Court can't do that. IMO all they had to do was make IU defend it's claim it's not a state institution which is an absurd claim, but all the detail they'd need. The Indiana legislature prohibited the state and state "organizations" from enacting mandates.

Keep protesting nicely NZ and Australia. Don't get too rowdy. The army would appreciate you wrap up your organized shouting by 5pm, a few hours before curfew.

There's not much he can do about it. This was going to happen in the Trump presidency timeline too.