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I think it's the same twister, just kinda jumped you guys and touched back down. Either that or the same supercell produced a second twister. I heard about a security guard in a guard shack in PA getting hurt when the storm knocked it over.

He was practicing drawing the gun from a holster and reholstering it. It's pretty easy for me to envision a scenario where someone without much gun handling/gun safety experience would accidentally (or intentionally) pull the trigger in that situation. Since he was told it was a "cold gun" he might very well have pulled the trigger expecting to get only the sound of the hammer clicking.

This one hit pretty hard. It started in the marsh near Taylor's Landing, ended up doing some damage in Port Acres and Port Arthur. It continued on and it looks like it did some serious damage in Orange, Mauriceville, and Deweyville. I've seen some videos, and this isn't our usual EF-0 that touches down for a mile and knocks a few trees down and maybe tips a mobile home. This thing was blowing stuff up. Has anyone seen damage up close?

not much different than your time at papd where y'all had a chief that wouldn't back you.

both. and also staff morale plays a big part of it, and love of community. you have kids out here that respect their elders, love their school and community, and know they'll get their butts busted if they mess up. You have staff that loves their job, gets treated with respect by school officials, and are backed up by those officials when there's an issue in the classroom. The same is true for several districts in this area. But when you run into districts where there's no sense of community amongst students, no respect for authority, and where district officials don't back up their teachers, you end up with 6 lockdowns in two weeks.

agree, and stated as much.

Monoclonal therapies were very similar for decades, but in the past few years it's vastly different technology. Much like the mRNA vaccine is very different from traditional vaccines.

some school districts still enforce it. It's amazing how much better the students behave over here at my new district vs. my old one (BISD).

Why wouldn't it be? It's as safe as the original vaccine (because it's exactly the same). I'm going to get it because it's about to be deer season, and anything I can do to reduce the risk of bringing the rona to deer camp with several of my older family members I'm going to do.

To be fair, very new technologies in monoclonal antibodies (like within the past 2-3 years) means it looks very little like monoclonal therapies of the past. So to say it's safe because it's been around 50 years is like saying the covid vaccine is safe because vaccines have been around for over 200 years. The rest of what you say makes sense.

Let's get this one back on topic. I'm trying to be patient because I think it's good for the site to have some back and forth, but when it devolves into this sort of thing it defeats the purpose. As I said a while back I'll start issuing warnings if I need to. There's nothing that's overly offensive here, but you guys certainly aren't following site rules with this conversation.

On a thread on another site many of the same folks who are Reagan-level anti-vax were talking about having gotten the monoclonal infusion or being in favor of it. When I pointed out that the infusion has many of the characteristics that they used as arguments against the vaccine (new technology with unknown long term side effects, artificially made in a lab, not FDA approved) they got a little irrational.

Of course it is. I wasn’t telling them they couldn’t. Merely pointing it out. Nobody likes to be shown their own hypocrisy.

Brought this up on another site and a lot of people got upset. But the science itself is extremely close to that used in the vaccine that the same people refuse to take.

Finally stringing a few good weeks together after an awful start

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