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A new obsession There's something Lurking in the back of my mind... And lately I feel it sliding into the light...... I just need something To get me through the night, oh A new obsession Something to hold in my sights (Something to behold in my sights) I just need something To get me through the night, oh A new obsession Something to hold in my sights (Something to behold in my sights) Sometimes I feel it comin' on at the wheel Distraction Is the only thing keeping me sealed from breaking

The irony is that the vaccinated diabetic sedentary person with a BMI of 35 is now "healthier" than an unvaccinated person who is not diabetic, not morbidly obese who exercises regularly. Btw...the governor of Alabama...elderly and morbidly obese, vaccinated or not. She's got two strikes against her regardless how many vaccines she takes.

Keep in mind that CHOP is what I'd call a member of the virology academia "deep state" in the United States that benefits handsomely from annual research dollars. That hospital gets millions in vaccine and virology funding from .gov and your friendly vaccine makers like Pfizer. It pays a lot of bills. If CHOP ever says a vaccine shouldn't be pumped into a child, that'll be the day. The Philadelphia Inquirer has been running their doom pieces about how parents are sentencing their teenagers to death if they don't get them both the COVID and HPV vaccines.

I hate to say it...but he'll give you a great month of games before that injury gets dinged again. He has degenerative tears of the rotator cuff, probably genetic, probably exacerbated by the nature of being a defensive tackle. Absolutely repairable but results in a pair of fragile shoulders.

It's not going to matter. Too many star names haven't and won't get it. Teams are and will continue to fake numbers. If you think MLB teams are being honest about numbers, they aren't. All those people in the building get paid to win NFL games in the NOW, and come September all this safety theater becomes background.

It's your slippery slope you proposed. I'm just rolling with your idea that we shouldn't stop on the irresponsible persons tour at just an unvaccinated individual. It's too simplistic. Obesity and diabetes are perhaps the top two major comorbidities for Covid infection, also arguably at pandemic levels in the US. I'd expect a similar aggressive campaign to get people slimmed down for their safety and the safety of others. There should be mandatory food restrictions and mandatory levels of exercise for anyone with a BMI over 30. If you try to buy soda at the store, you'll need your FitBit to show the cashier you are under that 30. The FitBits are free, provided by your state government. There is no excuse to not wear one. There should be mandated weight loss medication taken, as it is widely available, safe, effective. Do your part. Of course that's deliberate sarcasm on my part. It's your body. I can't and shouldn't be able to demand you do anything to your body.

Are people like smokers, the obese, and those with herpes/STDs next on your irresponsible list? I'd argue a smoker who got vaccinated but hasn't stopped smoking and similarly, an obese vaccinated person who's made no effort to lose weight, are just as irresponsible according to your concept. They've done nothing to reduce their comorbidities of catching covid other than taking a shot and hoping they've got enough antibodies if necessary.

CMS, the largest healthcare insurer in the land, increased their inpatient reimbursement for COVID by 20% last year. Still in effect. How do you get that extra 20% from .gov? A positive test and your decision to admit the patient. That's all you need. There's no threshold on the severity of symptoms and there's no idea of how strong the viral load is in the patients because the PCR cycling is whatever the lab wants it to be and it is not disclosed to the patient or their physician. There are very likely truly sick people being admitted, but there's also just as likely patients who could be treated in an outpatient setting with the steroids, the inhalers, etc. The hospital admissions, just like case numbers, don't tell the whole story, and frankly, that's deliberate.

I don't have a problem with restraining someone who's tried opening an airplane door. I do have a problem with the tape over the mouth though. If the crew gets reprimanded for anything in this particular situation, it's going to be that detail. I think people who try to open doors mid-flight, charge the cockpit, and other let's crash the plane chicanery should face a mandatory jail sentence, mental health episode or not.

Somebody is "Libyaing" in Cuba. This "homegrown", "organic" protest feels awfully similar to those we saw in Libya and Syria.

I'd say 99% of the media health "experts" on TV aren't practicing doctors in where they have office hours and have a patient panel. I'd say 100% of them haven't touched nor treated a single coronavirus patient. Leana Wen: Scott Atlas. Just different channels.

Nobody wants to talk about it but there is no liability whatsoever in the event a covax injures or kills someone in the United States. Every one and every organization involved in the chain of manufacture, production and distribution has been indemnified from civil suit. Employers do not have to report vaccine injury as a workplace injury until May 2022 so if you get injured from a mandated vax, it's not a workman's comp claim. The covax is the only product I can think of where the consumer takes on 100% of the liability. That poor nurse who took the vaccine to get a job at Johns Hopkins and died two days later from swelling of the brain? Johns Hopkins has no liability whatsoever even though they mandated she get it to work there because when she went to get her shot, she signed the waiver that exempts Johns Hopkins from any and all damages you may receive. For all other vaccines but covax, vaccine injuries are resolved in the VCIP - the no-fault program set up as part of the 1980s law that indemnified vaccine producers from civil claims. If you are injured by covax, however, you get sent to the CICP that almost never releases money to victims, and you as the victim, are on the hook for all the legal fees associated with your claim.

That was a tense read. I made the same mistake in opening my eyes despite being warned not to. I haven't felt such pure, uncontrollable panic.

After a year of just plain OG Covid, it is odd that it's now suddenly pumping out all these new variants by the hour, and each new one is more evasive and evil than the previous.

MRI and CAT Scan machines. Breaks my psyche like nothing else can, especially if they need to put that cage over your head. I drove four hours to a sit-down style MRI. If the nearest one was in Singapore, I'd fly there.

I don't listen to podcasts so I don't know what Joe Rogan said about Vitamin D (good or bad). My info is sourced from what those European countries have tried to do to tamp down their wildfire flu seasons in the past and first-hand knowledge from working in healthcare that if you're a bariatric, geriatric or oncology patient, the Vitamin D levels are part of the routine workup, and those doctors want their patients to take it. In 2009, the Obama administration was considering a Vitamin D campaign of sorts if the H1 virus jumped to a pandemic level. I don't disagree with Dr. Walensky, I just don't think it's the entire profile of the deceased patients. I'd opine that those who died from coronoavirus infection were likely very unhealthy and likely Vitamin D deficient which made them optimal hosts for opportunistic bugs. Interesting thing about Haiti in this conversation since it's in the news - it has one of the lowest COVID rates in the world. Could be because of the massive import of fortified food to the country to battle the hunger issue. The US has been pumping millions of tons of fortified flour and food products into that country dating back to 2014 that by 2020, nearly 80% of the flour being traded in Haiti was fortified with Vitamin D.

My theory without belaboring the point: The UK's longtime problems with Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency, and it's similarly long time lack of fortified food products. Everywhere in the world there is a covid spike - the same deficiency is there. The most vulnerable populations to COVID are the obese and elderly, again guaranteed to be insufficient without supplementation, very likely to be deficient. If you did a Vitamin D blood test of 100 randomly picked COVID positive patients, (vaccine status, age, race irrelevant), I'd bet 90% of them will be insufficient or deficient in Vitamin D. Those people who have worked around COVID or been around others who haven't gotten it aren't lucky - they likely have above average levels because they supplement and/or regularly eat a lot of fortified products (millk, cereals, cheese, eggs).

Both of these players will exceed expectations in Year #1 because OLs haven't seen them and they are young and athletic. They will get some sacks and run down some backs despite having limited moves. They probably won't play much because the Bills will do the Espenesa training program - lots of learning and improving their physical condition. Year #2 is where you see what you have because to succeed as a defensive lineman, you need an array of moves + strength and players either develop or they end up like Takarist McKinley who is the exact same player he was in college. I didn't like the Rousseau pick because he was lined up over center in just one season of play. I think his sack numbers are exceptionally misleading. For the majority , if not all of those sacks, he was lined up over center, taking on those centers, usually the smartest player on the line but not the strongest or fastest, and that's not where he's going to be in the pros.

Conspiracy theorists simply report the news months ahead of the media. Can't say they've been far off the mark.

I suspect that decades of previous owners just kicked the maintenance can down the road. The first rule of being wealthy is never spend your own money. That condo association, past and present members, is going to be sued from here until eternity. Can't sue anyone else involved with the project as they are all dead.

I voted he'll be a little better. I expect defenses will deploy countermeasures. I think, however, Allen and Daboll can expect some of them, and quickly adapt to those they can't. Three key details: I think coaching consistency really helps. I expect the Bills to develop the running game to a degree to keep defenses guessing. I expect Gabe Davis and the TE to apply consistent pressure on the defense's second and third tier CBs. This is what someone astutely pointed out about Steve Tasker - he was a lot better than the defensive talent at the nickel position, and he exploited it.

If Adams gets knocked off in the primary, I think Fernando Mateo is going to pull the upset in November because he will be the lesser of the two evils, and if the violence this summer gets increasingly worse, any but the most liberal Democrat will want a change.

I don't think the county, or any organization for that matter, wants to be on the hook for providing an implied level of safety from a virus on the premises, especially one that hosts an event where people tend to drink a lot...and yell and scream. I think "reasonable protection" could take on enough definitions to be problematic. Unless you have every fan sign a very specific waiver before entering, if you say "hey, we're only allowing vaccinated fans in the stadium" and then, by chance, you have an outbreak that can be traced to that game where someone or some people get really ill, I feel you're in undiscovered territory from a liability standpoint as the owner of the facility. I wouldn't want to be there. In the vaccine world, no one involved is on the hook for product liability, so I'm sure when cooler heads think about it, they don't want to be the one party that inadvertently puts itself on the hook. Dropping that requirement lets the county wash their hands of the entire issue. You attend games at your own risk, as you always have.

As this thread hits 70 pages, a friendly reminder we're all Bills fans first. Next reminder comes at page 140. Are we staking out any virologists at restaurants with this one?

Cole Beasley is right. I'm a fan that supports his opinion on this matter. The union did a crap job protecting players from the pro-vax mob and management.