Once upon a time (circa 1990), limiting scholarships was supposed to bring parity to college football. It worked for a time. Even Georgia Tech won a natty. But the playoff and the SEC super conference seemed to deflate that. To me, the bottom line, is that the SEC, O$U and Clemson seem to prioritize and operate football programs now in a way that is far beyond everyone else. Saban (LSU & Alabama) and Urban (FL, then to O$U) set these models. Look at USC. No one has the recruiting base they have. They should be a top 5 program every year, and pulling in top 1-2 classes, like Carrol was doing. The fact that they would even consider not firing Helton with a 5-year record of 40-22 shows that they don't take it seriously enough. He'd have been fired at O$U after going 5-7 in his 4th year.
Waiting for the poster who was excited that 99.7% of Notre Dame students reported to campus without CoVID, as some sign that the season was fated to carry forth.
Sure, what with Tom Brady getting a little long in the tooth and Ken Stabler pushing up daisies.
Bottom line is there is no way to know how a QB's game will translate to the next level. I've come to believe that QB is largely a position of cognitive processing speed. Some guys with all the tools physically end up pretty ho-hum or worse when they jump a level, and no one can figure out what's going on. Then some guys whom little is expected of cut it up. It's clearly a mental feature, and there's no cognitive domain more important to a QB than processing speed. When you see an all world dude suddenly stumbling at the next level, it's because they can't change their processing speed, it's a capped, natural dimension. And while their limit worked in Texas football or the Big 10, it just isn't fast enough for the next level. A close second, in dimensions of intelligence, IMO is working memory (the ability to hold multiple things in ones active, conscious thought). That's a huge demand on QB's as well, and as they move along they've got to process more and more in their conscious thoughts.
They're going to show up at Okie St in late August and learn the playbook and excel and raise their NFL value? Sounds like a great way to make yourself look much more clueless and inept than you really are. Not to mention that no conference is playing longer than the first set of quarantines.
Nominee for dumbest, most uninformed, unscientific post I have ever seen. And I was on the Michigan blog started in 1996 that was eventually sold to Rivals. So this is 24 years of some pretty asinine posts, I've witnessed. Yours however, is the cherry on top.
Since you will probably just become defensive and emotionally hurt, let me give you an analogy. Trade the words athletic director for Major General. Then pretend they aren't students arriving but young recruits to the army for a war. Well, it turns out that 99.7% of the recruits are in great health on their entry exam. So clearly then, the Major General could assure them that they have no chance of being hurt in the war, since they all arrived in great condition.
SARS Coronavirus in 2002 killed 10% of people it infected. MERS coronavirus kills %30, and it's still floating around. Fortunately, these viruses aren't as contagious as CoVID-19. But, since you have this all philosophically figured out, what percent of people dying is enough to justify measures that experts recommend? Since we have something killing 3-5% of American it infects (thankfully almost no kids), you obviously don't think that death rate justifies kids living with any restrictions. What death rate would justify it? 10%.....20%......?
Here's what makes that point of view irrational........every other country in the world's response and results......except Brazil, which has an even more naked emperor buying clothes from the new tailor. But you can't act like this was somehow the immutable fate of the richest, most powerful nation on Earth, when much poorer nations have had more effective responses. America has 25% of the world's cases and is 4% of the population. If it wasn't the president's job to better, then what is the purpose of government?
It's ridiculous. I'm in the Foreign Service and my kids have so far lived in China, Brazil, South Africa. More and more FS kids are going to college abroad. I'm already getting my kids ready to meet requirements for European Universities. Tuition at Oxford (where a colleague's son is going next year)? $12,000 USD/year. Univ. of Cape Town, where we live presently, and which is a pretty good school? $7000/year. Probably better experiences anyway.
Nacho is a great character. My problem is the way Gus got to him. He just wandered up, looked at the pills on the ground (which were prepared by a pharmacist and looked exactly like the originals because they were the same outer capsules), and somehow knew what Nacho had done. The pills looked so real that Hector had been taking them without question. From then on Gus had Nacho by the balls. That seemed incredibly implausible that Gus would know that, and that Nacho would acquiesce without any indignation.
LOL. If a team has an outbreak, they're not going to be ready to play the next week. An outbreak on a team is going to mean no practice and quarantines for 2-4 weeks, minimum.
You say this based on what logic/proof? Why are they more likely to be at risk "back home"? Wouldn't that depend on where they live and the status of COVID in that environment? Wouldn't spending 100's of hours a month in an environment of extreme physical closeness and exertion with 100's of other people be higher risk that a house with ~4 other people? Also, why does school being "a go" mean that sports also should be? With school at least appropriate measures like social distancing can be employed. That can't happen in sports. I read this as you just wanting your football, and not thinking it through beyond this.
It might be prudent to wait for actual epidemiologists to do a peer-reviewed study on this, than to extend legitimacy to a faux scientific article from an economic magazine that has an implicit bias.
A general rule is that you prepare for the worst, even if it's a low-risk contingency. This is why these perpetual climate change arguments, in which one side has sculpted talking points that say it's "unproven" so shouldn't be acted on, are totally irrelevant from a risk management perspective. If there is a 5% chance of man-made climate change with the potential to devastate humanity, then it needs to be planned for. COVID was/is the same kind of unknown. And it was met with the same anti-science, anti-government tactics. And here we stand.
And this part is just unbelievable too: the University wants to attract high quality students from all over the world. Sounds like a terrible place to be. Highly intelligent and motivated young adults from every corner of the Earth, together in one place to innovate.
Actually, somebody said exactly that to me today. Someone else told my elderly inlaws that yesterday. So, I can verify that at least 2 people are saying that.
It's true. It will occupy medical scholarship for years. The thing the public fails to understand, is that when the most effective approach is unknown, medical experts are going to lean on the most heavily conservative strategy, to avoid disaster. It's no different than air travel safety. One in ten million flights crashes. But is something is wrong with a plane that changes that risk to 1 in 10,000, that plane isn't flying. Even though the risks remain incredibly low.
Well, thankfully all the anti-science freedom lovers have shown me how Fauci is just part of the deep state conspiracy. So I can safely ignore this news.
Kind of a psychological paradox to have a favorite opponent. But, since his head will have exploded by the next time we play them, I'd say, hands down, Brian Kelly. Sure, he's beaten us a couple times, but except that blowout on that awful Hoke season, we've been in the games with inferior teams. We've also given him some absolutely wart-ugly moments and beaten him several times we probably shouldn't have. Nothing better than 2012, but watching him so helpless and pathetic in the rain last year was amazing. Dude gave up on the game by the third quarter. I don't think I've ever seen such a sad sack.
Which channel has only black people looting and rioting? The channels I have show a diverse group of furious young people whose emotions are, predictably based on the lack of change and accountability from their government, out of control. Police destroy private property, kill unarmed civilians (blacks at 2.3 times the rate of whites), but they aren't held accountable. They have extra-legal protections. But the fed-up kids in the streets, oh they're criminals and their rage justifies police brutality in this never-ending cycle. Why do you think other developed countries don't seem to have this problem with their police-community relations? We're literally the only developed country on Earth with this problem, but it must be because of the angry kids looting Target and Whole Foods. BTW, what "killing are the protestors doing". There are millions of young people out confronting police who are responding in many places with outsize violence. A few people, police included, are likely to be killed in this cauldron. But you say it like the protestors are targeting police for assassination.
Not illegal, but there is a subset of people who don't change their beliefs in response to verifiable facts, and instead choose only partial or misinterpreted facts that support their beliefs. They also don't make any effort to engage diplomatically and consider the opinion of those who disagree, and instead resort to name calling, ad hominem arguments, and specious, unscientific reasoning based on cherry-picked data. In my experience, these people are on both sides of the spectrum, but tend to be over-represented on the modern right. Also, while I'm not a huge fan of the current Democratic Party, a fundamental difference is that the Republican Party actively undermines science and expertise (most dangerously right now, public health experts), while the Democratic Party does not. That's a profound difference, IMO, an incredibly dangerous one, and is one-sided among national leadership.
Well, there go her hopes of becoming the authoritarian dictator of Michigan. Turns out she was thinking of the wellbeing of the people of the state, and making tough choices with uncertain information. Some might call that......leadership.
This, my friend, is why all politicians ask who said something before they comment on a quote. I've seen it many times, a reporter asking a politician to comment and reading a quote. And the politician won't comment until they hear whom the quote is from. It must be something taught in their grifters 101 class.
I don't find the response you're commenting on to be negative, but rather realistic. Also, viruses aren't too interested in faith and optimism. People are going to start doing "whatever the hell they want", and the virus will replicate based exactly upon that environment.
We don't really have good trends, as you imply. We actually have the worst looking curve in the world, we just happen to be over the hump of the first wave, and it's almost summer.
I'm like you as well. Almost all in cash, with a few equities I thought were at bargain prices and stood to recover well in the long. I also thought March would get down to a DJIA of about 14K, given a 50% crash in 2008 based on a much less significant overall economic setback. It is crazy how overvalued stocks are. But I'm wondering if traders are just so confident that the gov't will bail out the market no matter what. The gov't has shown that its priority is saving those with means over everyone else. I get nervous that the traders are right, and the gov will just power through a V-shaped recovery by throwing trillions at plugging any market falls. And I'll be standing here holding my dick with all my cash waiting for more bargains while the Dow climbs to new highs. (I'll be holding my dick either way, of course).
The WSJ is not what I read. And, as I posted, I'm expecting deflation followed by inflation. Those things matter a great deal in how one invests. Just the simplest of the simple, economic growth tends to be slower with high inflation, affecting equities. Equity growth also loses real value relative to inflation while many safe havens tend to be better sinks for money.
So far I've shorted Gilead and Moderna on just such ridiculous emotional events. Last week was a no brainer, though I wish I would have committed more to the short. Moderna is well behind multiple vaccine makers around the world that are already well into phase II. Suddenly Moderna goes up 30% because 45 patients in a phase don't get sick on the vaccine. Absurd.
I live outside of the USA and don't watch Fauci. But I am a physician and watch data. Which you have no command of at all, except cherry-picking for your gotcha links. That isn't how statistics work.
You obviously love you some Trump. So how come you've left out all the quotes when he's been wrong? And you started this absurdity calling out Whitmer as an authoritarian wannabe. A week ago the president's unelected son-in-law talked about postponing the presidential election? No comment about the dictatorial nature of that? You're a cherry-picking fraud.
I did bring the most important fact. The fact that the richest, most advanced nation in world history, with the most advanced medical systems on Earth, has 12X the international average of cases, despite 10 weeks of warning. Since you have such a command of science, explain how this was caused by anything but executive incompetence instigating entitled anti-science buffoons like yourself to behave dangerously.
As for wishing disease on you, that's hardly what I said. I said, if you're going to deny the expertise of physicians and scientists, who have nothing to gain and have devoted their lives to this endeavor of public health, then please just get the exposure over with amongst yourselves by having some infection parties, then staying at home with your symptoms instead of swarming ER's, and quit endangering the rest of us.
As for personal attacks, I don't know anything about you personally. But you've shown that your understanding of science isn't even at a dilettante level, and that you're a politically biased buffoon who sifts right-wing news for the word 'science' and then links it as proof. How come you never quote scientific papers, only right-wing media? Have you ever read a COVID medical paper from a prestigious journal like the NEJM, JAMA or the BMJ? Other posters have called you out for your clear lack of expertise to support your vitriol? You only respond with more faux-science links. What are your credentials to make these conclusions? I'm sure they don't exist, only your out-of-control political emotions.
He's a blow-hard oozing ignorance to support his opinion. They find a few doctors who support what they say and represent this as some large faction of experts. They comb Fauci's email for the use of a double negative and then accuse him of being part of the deep state. In short, they fit data to their opinions rather than change opinions based on data. In psychology it's called confirmation bias, the strongest human bias, and these people are pathologically afflicted.
And to the blathering moron who started this thread. Do you even look at the statistics of this pandemic? The USA has a third of the world's cases and are 4% of the world population. That means we have roughly 12X the infection rate of the rest of the world. That's us, the richest country in the history of the world. And the reason is people like you, who can't put aside their own self-absorption for the public good for even a few months, can't listen to any of their fellow human beings, and who are experts beyond all the experts on what's best for everything. Why don't all of you zealots just start having infection parties the way first-grade moms used to for chicken-pox? Those of you that survive will be immune, and the rest of us can follow the recommendations of public health experts. That should end the COVID epidemic quickly and slice 5-10% off your asinine ranks.
I'm sure she loves this crisis and relishes having the state on lockdown. Authoritarians often order lockdowns just to enjoy them. Yea, that makes a lot of sense.
Wonder how she got essentially the full medical community of the world to go along with her suggestion. I don't remember any times medical authorities in the democratic world when free-speaking medical authorities just went along with a dictator's decrees. But you must know history much better than me.
Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Norway, Germany, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Denmark......shall I go on? Also, if you want to look only at death rate, we have a tremendous advantage over most European nations, as most have older average populations than us, and are therefore going to have more deaths per capita. Italy, Spain and the UK, all had clownish initial responses, like we did. Lastly, Europe had their wave 2-3 weeks before us. So we had some time bought with their lives, with which we did nothing but politic.
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I'm just following the scent of money to the playoffs.
Once upon a time (circa 1990), limiting scholarships was supposed to bring parity to college football. It worked for a time. Even Georgia Tech won a natty. But the playoff and the SEC super conference seemed to deflate that. To me, the bottom line, is that the SEC, O$U and Clemson seem to prioritize and operate football programs now in a way that is far beyond everyone else. Saban (LSU & Alabama) and Urban (FL, then to O$U) set these models. Look at USC. No one has the recruiting base they have. They should be a top 5 program every year, and pulling in top 1-2 classes, like Carrol was doing. The fact that they would even consider not firing Helton with a 5-year record of 40-22 shows that they don't take it seriously enough. He'd have been fired at O$U after going 5-7 in his 4th year.
By "climate change", I think you mean poor forest management.
Waiting for the poster who was excited that 99.7% of Notre Dame students reported to campus without CoVID, as some sign that the season was fated to carry forth.
Sure, what with Tom Brady getting a little long in the tooth and Ken Stabler pushing up daisies.
Bottom line is there is no way to know how a QB's game will translate to the next level. I've come to believe that QB is largely a position of cognitive processing speed. Some guys with all the tools physically end up pretty ho-hum or worse when they jump a level, and no one can figure out what's going on. Then some guys whom little is expected of cut it up. It's clearly a mental feature, and there's no cognitive domain more important to a QB than processing speed. When you see an all world dude suddenly stumbling at the next level, it's because they can't change their processing speed, it's a capped, natural dimension. And while their limit worked in Texas football or the Big 10, it just isn't fast enough for the next level. A close second, in dimensions of intelligence, IMO is working memory (the ability to hold multiple things in ones active, conscious thought). That's a huge demand on QB's as well, and as they move along they've got to process more and more in their conscious thoughts.
Your logical and self-preserving argument is the only viable one. If only humans would use it on things like climate change and masks mandates.
Says everything one needs to know about plaintiff lawyers and their priorities.
They're going to show up at Okie St in late August and learn the playbook and excel and raise their NFL value? Sounds like a great way to make yourself look much more clueless and inept than you really are. Not to mention that no conference is playing longer than the first set of quarantines.
Wait? Is the CoVID play football equivalent of All Lives Matter?
Nominee for dumbest, most uninformed, unscientific post I have ever seen. And I was on the Michigan blog started in 1996 that was eventually sold to Rivals. So this is 24 years of some pretty asinine posts, I've witnessed. Yours however, is the cherry on top.
Since you will probably just become defensive and emotionally hurt, let me give you an analogy. Trade the words athletic director for Major General. Then pretend they aren't students arriving but young recruits to the army for a war. Well, it turns out that 99.7% of the recruits are in great health on their entry exam. So clearly then, the Major General could assure them that they have no chance of being hurt in the war, since they all arrived in great condition.
Just unbelievable.
Fear mongering over football during the most widespread pandemic in a 100 years. Love your priorities.
SARS Coronavirus in 2002 killed 10% of people it infected. MERS coronavirus kills %30, and it's still floating around. Fortunately, these viruses aren't as contagious as CoVID-19. But, since you have this all philosophically figured out, what percent of people dying is enough to justify measures that experts recommend? Since we have something killing 3-5% of American it infects (thankfully almost no kids), you obviously don't think that death rate justifies kids living with any restrictions. What death rate would justify it? 10%.....20%......?
Here's what makes that point of view irrational........every other country in the world's response and results......except Brazil, which has an even more naked emperor buying clothes from the new tailor. But you can't act like this was somehow the immutable fate of the richest, most powerful nation on Earth, when much poorer nations have had more effective responses. America has 25% of the world's cases and is 4% of the population. If it wasn't the president's job to better, then what is the purpose of government?
By natural selection, I assume you mean 'Jesus' selection'.
It's ridiculous. I'm in the Foreign Service and my kids have so far lived in China, Brazil, South Africa. More and more FS kids are going to college abroad. I'm already getting my kids ready to meet requirements for European Universities. Tuition at Oxford (where a colleague's son is going next year)? $12,000 USD/year. Univ. of Cape Town, where we live presently, and which is a pretty good school? $7000/year. Probably better experiences anyway.
Nacho is a great character. My problem is the way Gus got to him. He just wandered up, looked at the pills on the ground (which were prepared by a pharmacist and looked exactly like the originals because they were the same outer capsules), and somehow knew what Nacho had done. The pills looked so real that Hector had been taking them without question. From then on Gus had Nacho by the balls. That seemed incredibly implausible that Gus would know that, and that Nacho would acquiesce without any indignation.
LOL. If a team has an outbreak, they're not going to be ready to play the next week. An outbreak on a team is going to mean no practice and quarantines for 2-4 weeks, minimum.
You say this based on what logic/proof? Why are they more likely to be at risk "back home"? Wouldn't that depend on where they live and the status of COVID in that environment? Wouldn't spending 100's of hours a month in an environment of extreme physical closeness and exertion with 100's of other people be higher risk that a house with ~4 other people? Also, why does school being "a go" mean that sports also should be? With school at least appropriate measures like social distancing can be employed. That can't happen in sports. I read this as you just wanting your football, and not thinking it through beyond this.
It might be prudent to wait for actual epidemiologists to do a peer-reviewed study on this, than to extend legitimacy to a faux scientific article from an economic magazine that has an implicit bias.
A general rule is that you prepare for the worst, even if it's a low-risk contingency. This is why these perpetual climate change arguments, in which one side has sculpted talking points that say it's "unproven" so shouldn't be acted on, are totally irrelevant from a risk management perspective. If there is a 5% chance of man-made climate change with the potential to devastate humanity, then it needs to be planned for. COVID was/is the same kind of unknown. And it was met with the same anti-science, anti-government tactics. And here we stand.
And this part is just unbelievable too: the University wants to attract high quality students from all over the world. Sounds like a terrible place to be. Highly intelligent and motivated young adults from every corner of the Earth, together in one place to innovate.
Hmm.....and yet technological advancement continues at a pace beyond all of history?
My favorite part of your post, is that you supported your opinion with ZERO data. That made it clear you have a preconceived agenda.
Actually, somebody said exactly that to me today. Someone else told my elderly inlaws that yesterday. So, I can verify that at least 2 people are saying that.
COVID-2? The 18 year-old COVID from Hong Kong with a %10 mortality rate? So we have two COVIDs going now?
It's true. It will occupy medical scholarship for years. The thing the public fails to understand, is that when the most effective approach is unknown, medical experts are going to lean on the most heavily conservative strategy, to avoid disaster. It's no different than air travel safety. One in ten million flights crashes. But is something is wrong with a plane that changes that risk to 1 in 10,000, that plane isn't flying. Even though the risks remain incredibly low.
Well, thankfully all the anti-science freedom lovers have shown me how Fauci is just part of the deep state conspiracy. So I can safely ignore this news.
Mike K. gets 15 million a year, players get free shoes that explode.
Spread of COVID isn't the main topic anymore? Is there a way to get COVID if it doesn't spread? Please advise.
Kind of a psychological paradox to have a favorite opponent. But, since his head will have exploded by the next time we play them, I'd say, hands down, Brian Kelly. Sure, he's beaten us a couple times, but except that blowout on that awful Hoke season, we've been in the games with inferior teams. We've also given him some absolutely wart-ugly moments and beaten him several times we probably shouldn't have. Nothing better than 2012, but watching him so helpless and pathetic in the rain last year was amazing. Dude gave up on the game by the third quarter. I don't think I've ever seen such a sad sack.
Which channel has only black people looting and rioting? The channels I have show a diverse group of furious young people whose emotions are, predictably based on the lack of change and accountability from their government, out of control. Police destroy private property, kill unarmed civilians (blacks at 2.3 times the rate of whites), but they aren't held accountable. They have extra-legal protections. But the fed-up kids in the streets, oh they're criminals and their rage justifies police brutality in this never-ending cycle. Why do you think other developed countries don't seem to have this problem with their police-community relations? We're literally the only developed country on Earth with this problem, but it must be because of the angry kids looting Target and Whole Foods. BTW, what "killing are the protestors doing". There are millions of young people out confronting police who are responding in many places with outsize violence. A few people, police included, are likely to be killed in this cauldron. But you say it like the protestors are targeting police for assassination.
Not illegal, but there is a subset of people who don't change their beliefs in response to verifiable facts, and instead choose only partial or misinterpreted facts that support their beliefs. They also don't make any effort to engage diplomatically and consider the opinion of those who disagree, and instead resort to name calling, ad hominem arguments, and specious, unscientific reasoning based on cherry-picked data. In my experience, these people are on both sides of the spectrum, but tend to be over-represented on the modern right. Also, while I'm not a huge fan of the current Democratic Party, a fundamental difference is that the Republican Party actively undermines science and expertise (most dangerously right now, public health experts), while the Democratic Party does not. That's a profound difference, IMO, an incredibly dangerous one, and is one-sided among national leadership.
Look at a map. Highest rates of spread right now are in the US South, where governors haven't taken COVID seriously.
Well, there go her hopes of becoming the authoritarian dictator of Michigan. Turns out she was thinking of the wellbeing of the people of the state, and making tough choices with uncertain information. Some might call that......leadership.
This, my friend, is why all politicians ask who said something before they comment on a quote. I've seen it many times, a reporter asking a politician to comment and reading a quote. And the politician won't comment until they hear whom the quote is from. It must be something taught in their grifters 101 class.
So Sweden caught more fish?
So Sweden caught more fish?
I don't find the response you're commenting on to be negative, but rather realistic. Also, viruses aren't too interested in faith and optimism. People are going to start doing "whatever the hell they want", and the virus will replicate based exactly upon that environment.
We don't really have good trends, as you imply. We actually have the worst looking curve in the world, we just happen to be over the hump of the first wave, and it's almost summer.
They make good gins. Bain's Scotch is the best product of it's kind and isn't bad.
So the Fed will stop intervening so guys like me can get back in at the bottom? That's wonderful news. Sounds likely to be true.
I'm a fan of Stranahan's. Can't get much here in South Africa. It all gins and scotch.
I'm like you as well. Almost all in cash, with a few equities I thought were at bargain prices and stood to recover well in the long. I also thought March would get down to a DJIA of about 14K, given a 50% crash in 2008 based on a much less significant overall economic setback. It is crazy how overvalued stocks are. But I'm wondering if traders are just so confident that the gov't will bail out the market no matter what. The gov't has shown that its priority is saving those with means over everyone else. I get nervous that the traders are right, and the gov will just power through a V-shaped recovery by throwing trillions at plugging any market falls. And I'll be standing here holding my dick with all my cash waiting for more bargains while the Dow climbs to new highs. (I'll be holding my dick either way, of course).
The WSJ is not what I read. And, as I posted, I'm expecting deflation followed by inflation. Those things matter a great deal in how one invests. Just the simplest of the simple, economic growth tends to be slower with high inflation, affecting equities. Equity growth also loses real value relative to inflation while many safe havens tend to be better sinks for money.
So far I've shorted Gilead and Moderna on just such ridiculous emotional events. Last week was a no brainer, though I wish I would have committed more to the short. Moderna is well behind multiple vaccine makers around the world that are already well into phase II. Suddenly Moderna goes up 30% because 45 patients in a phase don't get sick on the vaccine. Absurd.
I live outside of the USA and don't watch Fauci. But I am a physician and watch data. Which you have no command of at all, except cherry-picking for your gotcha links. That isn't how statistics work.
You obviously love you some Trump. So how come you've left out all the quotes when he's been wrong? And you started this absurdity calling out Whitmer as an authoritarian wannabe. A week ago the president's unelected son-in-law talked about postponing the presidential election? No comment about the dictatorial nature of that? You're a cherry-picking fraud.
I did bring the most important fact. The fact that the richest, most advanced nation in world history, with the most advanced medical systems on Earth, has 12X the international average of cases, despite 10 weeks of warning. Since you have such a command of science, explain how this was caused by anything but executive incompetence instigating entitled anti-science buffoons like yourself to behave dangerously.
As for wishing disease on you, that's hardly what I said. I said, if you're going to deny the expertise of physicians and scientists, who have nothing to gain and have devoted their lives to this endeavor of public health, then please just get the exposure over with amongst yourselves by having some infection parties, then staying at home with your symptoms instead of swarming ER's, and quit endangering the rest of us.
As for personal attacks, I don't know anything about you personally. But you've shown that your understanding of science isn't even at a dilettante level, and that you're a politically biased buffoon who sifts right-wing news for the word 'science' and then links it as proof. How come you never quote scientific papers, only right-wing media? Have you ever read a COVID medical paper from a prestigious journal like the NEJM, JAMA or the BMJ? Other posters have called you out for your clear lack of expertise to support your vitriol? You only respond with more faux-science links. What are your credentials to make these conclusions? I'm sure they don't exist, only your out-of-control political emotions.
He's a blow-hard oozing ignorance to support his opinion. They find a few doctors who support what they say and represent this as some large faction of experts. They comb Fauci's email for the use of a double negative and then accuse him of being part of the deep state. In short, they fit data to their opinions rather than change opinions based on data. In psychology it's called confirmation bias, the strongest human bias, and these people are pathologically afflicted.
And to the blathering moron who started this thread. Do you even look at the statistics of this pandemic? The USA has a third of the world's cases and are 4% of the world population. That means we have roughly 12X the infection rate of the rest of the world. That's us, the richest country in the history of the world. And the reason is people like you, who can't put aside their own self-absorption for the public good for even a few months, can't listen to any of their fellow human beings, and who are experts beyond all the experts on what's best for everything. Why don't all of you zealots just start having infection parties the way first-grade moms used to for chicken-pox? Those of you that survive will be immune, and the rest of us can follow the recommendations of public health experts. That should end the COVID epidemic quickly and slice 5-10% off your asinine ranks.
I'm sure she loves this crisis and relishes having the state on lockdown. Authoritarians often order lockdowns just to enjoy them. Yea, that makes a lot of sense.
Wonder how she got essentially the full medical community of the world to go along with her suggestion. I don't remember any times medical authorities in the democratic world when free-speaking medical authorities just went along with a dictator's decrees. But you must know history much better than me.
Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Norway, Germany, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Denmark......shall I go on? Also, if you want to look only at death rate, we have a tremendous advantage over most European nations, as most have older average populations than us, and are therefore going to have more deaths per capita. Italy, Spain and the UK, all had clownish initial responses, like we did. Lastly, Europe had their wave 2-3 weeks before us. So we had some time bought with their lives, with which we did nothing but politic.
My first concert ever was this album tour, and they opened with this song. A bit later they had supermodels in high heels and G-strings dancing on stage. It was at this point that I fully realized what it meant to be a rock star.
I think I still have hearing damage.
Thinking of all those cheeseheads coming out to squint at the sun for the first time in months, makes me wish I had a chain of Dairy Queens in WI.