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I wasn't going to come back for more abuse, but when I found out I was guaranteed at least 4 right I figured I better take advantage. 1. Tomball Memorial 2. PA Memorial 3. North Shore 4. Allen 5. New Caney 6. Manvel 7. United 8. Vidor 9. Silsbee 10. WO-S 11. Lumberton 12. FREE 13. East Chambers 14. Woodville 15. Bridge City 16. FREE 17. FREE 18. Warren 19. Hardin 20. Kountze 21. FREE 22. Tyler Chapel Hill 23. Summer Creek 24. Liberty 25. Shelbyville

I respect that, and also the fact that you can have a conversation about the subject without it devolving into an argument. I don't think they're super effective, but I personally believe they do help some. If, as the article states, schools that had mandatory mask mandates had 21% less cases, I feel like that's a pretty good result from the masks, and 20% is probably about how effective they are. But paired with other safety measures, I think they can help. This year, with no restrictions at the start of school, vs. last year with distancing, masks, desk shields, etc., there've literally been ten times more cases in schools in three weeks than we saw the entire last school year. That's not an exaggeration. Now, is that because Delta is more contagious, or is it because the governor has discouraged safety measures? I have a feeling it's a combination of the two.

Why Isn’t Biden to Blame for COVID Deaths? (msn.com) I agree with a lot of this.

I don't think masks are close to foolproof, but I believe they help some. I have a couple of issues with the article here: first, it's about a CDC study that they don't post a link to. I find that suspicious. When you click on most of their source links about studies in the articles on WND, it just sends you to other WND articles. It's not particularly reliable. Second, this quote is in the article: "The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional," the CDC said. "This finding might be attributed to higher effectiveness of masks among adults, who are at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection but might also result from differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements." I guess I don't know much about how scientific studies work, but I would think that a 21% difference would be extremely statistically significant. If your school has 50 cases for every 100 students, and my school has 29 cases for every 100, I'd say my school appears to be quite a bit safer. Also, why would differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements matter if the masks "don't make a difference."

Honestly, I read this and it felt like a propaganda piece to promote vaccinations. Vaccinations are clearly helping people get through Covid with lesser symptoms, and are stopping some folks from getting infected, but I don’t think it’s even remotely possible to prove that all of these cases came from the teacher. The kids could’ve gotten it from anywhere. She could’ve given it to 2 kids and they passed it on. Clearly for that many kids to get sick in one class it was spread around, but who gave it to who? Who really knows? How could they prove this?

Now I remember why I don’t do these things.

I honestly don’t disagree with most of this, but I do think his stupid Twitter rants lost him the election. It pushed away a lot of swing voters, and when you have a country divided almost 50/50, you have to get the votes that toe that middle line. His obnoxiousness also pushed apathetic democratic voters to the polls, that weren’t excited enough to get out and vote for Biden, but annoyed/angered enough to get out and vote against trump. That said, I thought he did a decent job, and I lean more right than left, so I would definitely prefer to have him in office right now instead of Biden.

If there are no other issues (a drug arrest, or something like that), then the judge is way out of line.

I’m as shocked as the rest of the world. Not sure if Columbus graduated most of their team, or had a lot of folks out with Covid or what. But it was a heck of a win for the raiders, dropping down a classification not withstanding.

Woodville played okay against Newton, who’s always excellent. Orangefield looked great against Anahuac, who was supposed to be pretty good. I’ll take Woodville, but orangefield could surprise me again

Haha. I’m against personal stupidities. I notice that you post all of these misleading or outright false articles, and then anytime someone shows a little proof of their falseness you never respond. I’m not surprised that THIS is the post you responded to, and that you ignored the real point. That said, if you were making arguments regarding personal liberties, I’d be fine with that. I’ve said on here several times that I can respect someone’s choice to not get the vaccine. But I have zero respect for someone who spreads lies to influence other people’s decisions, and that’s literally all you do, all day long. You post fake articles and fake studies and slanted news in an effort to “prove” the vaccine doesn’t work. No source is too dubious or misleading. As long as it fits your lies, you post it. The local hospitals have been posting their hospitalization numbers lately. On an average day they’ll be something like: 260 patients, 20 fully vaccinated. 85 in ICU, 7 fully vaccinated. 40 on ventilators, 1 full vaccinated. You’re the kind of guy that will read those numbers and say “there’s a fully vaccinated person on a ventilator at St. Elizabeth. Vaccines don’t work!” And then devote an hour trying to convince people not to get vaccinated. It’s asinine.

100 people die of Covid and 2 are vaccinated and to you that’s proof that the vaccine doesn’t work. I’d suggest you quit wearing a seatbelt as well, but I’m sure you already don’t to protect your “personal liberties.”

The beauty of these tabloid style websites is they can spin stuff and there’s always someone dumb enough to believe what they’re pushing. So, having taken a whole ten seconds to google “England Covid deaths”, i can explain what’s going on. If you google those magic words, there’s a handy chart that shows deaths in England from Covid. Last year in august, which was well before the first major spike there, there were a couple of weeks where they had a nice low death rate in England. A few people a day. Keep in mind, this was before Covid had fully taken off. Covid deaths in England started rising shortly after, and skyrocketed to well over 1000 deaths a day from December to February. Then the vaccinations started. And guess what: deaths dropped to single digits for months. Now we’re seeing reduced effectiveness in the vaccines after 6 months or so, and mutations in the virus because not enough people did enough to achieve herd immunity, and cases are rising again. But, in what is England’s 2nd worst outbreak so far, England is still currently averaging under 100 deaths a day. At their peak in February they averaged over 1100 deaths a day. I wonder why the author of your brilliant investigative piece didn’t compare current death rates to the last major spike that England had in cases, but instead chose a time with a lull in cases before things got bad there… oh wait, so people like you would read it, do no research, and regurgitate their stupidity. Perhaps the author should look into why England is seeing their second worse outbreak so far, seeing roughly 70% of the number of cases that they had in their worse outbreak, but only seeing about 8% of the number of deaths.

You are correct. Found it on another site. Tatum won 68-26

No clue. I just updated scores off max preps

Katy St. John 41, The Village 0

China Spring 49, Trinity Christian 15

Rusk 33, Fairfield 12

Tatum 68, Center 26

Waskom 45, Garrison 0

Timpson 61, Frankston 0

Quinlan Boles 31, Overton 6

Grapeland 50, Shelbyville 30

Palestine Westwood 23, Carlisle 21

Centerville 27, New Waverly 14