Joe Ferguson forever

Putin has "changed". trump thought he was his fairy godfather. Turns out he's a ruthless mass murderer. who could have guessed? The russians are openly threatening WW3 while fighting a 3 year stalemate with a much smaller country. And trump doesn't even put tariffs on Russia equal to those on the EU. Russian media is openly belittling trump while their government threatens him. Is this what great looks like? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-and-russia-clash-in-public-as-the-ukraine-war-heats-up/ar-AA1FCCvi

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14755911/elon-musk-donald-trump-bromance-doge.html It was bound to happen. trump cheapens everything he touches and then they move on. no sympathy from me.

the problem was solved in "Idiocracy". Stupid people have lots of kids. Smart people have few or none. Genetics gonna happen. fits right in with All Pro's thesis.

It’s a huge school. Academic dishonesty exists and in this case was rooted out.

The flu is a virus and masks were known to protect against transmission prior to COVID. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/swine-flu/expert-answers/flu-mask/faq-20057878 if u were a doc around influenza patients, would you wear one? No big deal, right? https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/29182/AAP-analyzes-pediatric-COVID-19-hospitalizations?autologincheck=redirected

last I knew, surgeons are still wearing masks to operate. If I need surgery, I'll insist my surgeon does.

exactly, the past guides the future. It was the best available evidence. We learn as we go. No one is denying we were flying blind.

yes....well, sort of. reaching voting age males that are foundering, necessarily involves lying. For too many, the die is cast. Universal healthcare is a pipe dream that I still sometimes have. There are unfilled factory jobs to spare. It wasn't the R's that proposed free 2 year college nor that offered education much of any a leg up. nevermind, nihilism rules tonight. The news is so sad. cynical and sad...

which S African Billionaire studied at Penn as a Foreign Student? Because you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. If the Chinese are benefitting from some arrangement with Harvard, stop it. But removing some of the most talented people in the world as a matter of policy is stupid. It's also political. It requires me to defend elitism while MAGAs can yell "trade schools" at me. Being elite is what every kid should aspire to. It's what makes us stronger and globally competitive. This is all about populism at the expense of knowledge and respect for it.

Why do you suppose Harvard has a massive endowment? Serious question.

I didn’t I also noted links to multiple scholarly publications supporting the positions of the scientists supporting school closures within the article.

Try again https://ballotpedia.org/Arguments_in_favor_of_school_closures_during_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020-21 the JAMA article shows the very positive effect on mortality which is a concrete endpoint. Unlike the effects of missing the prom or free school lunches which are more difficult to quantify…one could argue that free school lunches shouldn’t be needed in a country as wealthy as the US. orresponding to an estimated absolute difference in mortality of 12.6 (95% CI, 11.8 to 13.6) deaths per 100 000. Extrapolating these results to the US population, the authors estimate that school closure may have been associated with 1.37 million fewer cases of COVID-19 over a 26-day period and 40 600 fewer deaths over a 16-day period during the spring of 2020. It is important to emphasize these are estimates.

Ever wondered why they do?

No one can show him anything. He’s staring at a dank, dark cellar wall.

It’s called populism for a reason. It hasn’t been a highly productive political stance historically

Glad I’m out. Too many asshat patients like you. Heal yourself. Don’t go asking experts for help.

That was for all pro and the Sweden issue. This is for you https://ballotpedia.org/Arguments_in_favor_of_school_closures_during_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020-21 nice summary of the arguments for closing, at the time. Many still hold especially re overall mortality. Many studies showed closing schools lowered it significantly. I’ll post one from JAMA shortly. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769033

Already posted once. perhaps you'll read it this time? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45934-2 after my workout and hot tub. to be continued....

Did we reach white men? Nope. As I said many are angry and resentful for financial reasons for which there isn't an easy answer other than lying to them. sadly, for the country, one is a growing demographic and one is shrinking. Conversely, how do you think affluent, college educated voters are reacting to attacks on Harvard, NPR/PBS? I suppose, by the numbers, it's better to appeal to the former than the latter...

honestly, it's a shitehole. Go in August and see for yourself.

it's because they're "elites" which for many maga's means anyone over the 50th percentile for educational attainment or intelligence. We have all benefitted from work done at Harvard. Much of it is pure research that is later used in applied research that directly translates to the public. Some is applied research from the start. I read recently of the billions of dollars that foreign born Harvard grads produced for the US economy through American businesses they started after graduation. These students are, in fact, among the best and brightest in the world. There lies the stark difference between ideologies: We want those people among us. MAGA's don't. https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5316104-trumps-ban-harvard-foreign-students-economy-dhs-noem/

i don't stand for any of these nor do any progressives I know. re 5, we know why. people are angry and resentful often due to financial distress. Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. It appears we've reached our standard of living peak and are on the downslope. It doesn't look to me that's going to change regardless of party.

good. so you supported your claim. Finally. I asked you to and you eventually got around to it. I supported everything I posted as well. Isolation indeed decreased mortality just as it had in other pandemics through history that we learned from. That's how it should work. JFK would have us throw out all previous documented observations aka science. Perhaps we should do a study on the educational attainment of people with his opinions on covid.

Maybe it’s just me but that comes across as antisemitic transparency? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-temporarily-allows-trump-administration-shield-doge-docu-rcna208628

No doubt there is one. you search for and prove to me that it didn't reduce overall mortality. there are something like 6000 studies on the efficacy of isolation. I'm sure you can find one with kids in a subgroup. I posted effects on overall mortality. Whether or not closing schools improved that is your job. you made the claim that the majority of doctors disagreed. Have at it genius.