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Not sure. The last I saw the original folks in the original study were still not getting sick. Even if it only lasts 6 months that will go a long way towards ending the pandemic.

I'm not a fan of big govt, but they've always controlled our lives to some degree. i definitely do not like the trend of what they're controlling or trying to control these days.

I think homemade masks help some, but obviously not like an N95 would. I was never uncomfortable wearing a cloth mask into a gas station for two minutes, but if I was a nurse on a Covid ward I'd be demanding N95's as well. I think a rope around your waist is better than nothing, but a seatbelt is a lot more effective. I totally agree with you about people wearing them incorrectly. I feel like things will get back to normal at some point. With the vaccines showing an efficacy of 96%, and basically a rate of 0 for hospitalizations and death, having 60%-70% of the country get vaccinated will make a huge difference. Factor in the folks who get covid and develop natural immunity, and those that get it and die, and there are going to be less and less possible hosts. We're already seeing an incredible decrease in cases in most places.

Fauci is a quack, but I don't think there are only two reasons that he could be wearing a mask. I think the most obvious reason is that he's the chief medical advisor to the president, and they're pushing for people to wear masks still. So if they're encouraging people to wear masks, it wouldn't make sense for Fauci to be running around without one, vaccinated or not. when he comes on TV telling people to wear a mask, he's going to have one on.

yeah, it works, but like Big Girl said, there's still a slim chance you can get infected. In another three days I'll be considered fully vaccinated. At that point I don't plan on wearing a mask unless it's required (I'll still have to for work, for instance). I've already been foregoing the mask some since a couple of days after I got my second dose of the vaccine.

looking at their stats from last year, I'd say lamar came out far ahead over McNeese on this one as well. McNeese and Lamar had similar records, similar schedules, etc., so it's not unfair to compare stats. Kasen outperformed Bush by a wide margin in basically every statistical category. As good as Bush is, I think he's reached a level of play where his size is a factor. He didn't have a terrible season for McNeese, but last season he was more of a role player instead of The Man like he'd been in high school.

I don't really mind background checks. For safety reasons, it's important to make sure people are who they say they are when guns are purchased. Kinda the same way it's important to make sure people are who they say they are when they're voting.

Tough matchup for the falcons. Boerne definitely has to be the favorite to win it all. They won their regional final game 7-0 over Hidalgo.

The great run continues! Congrats!

Are you at the game? On the feed that looked like it could be a legit pk that got called back

I'm not sure if it's because it's govt police, or because he shot someone from a group that was so radical they literally broke down doors to the govt. I think there's a legitimate argument that he's in danger if his identity is released. I honestly do not don't know if any agency involved has any legal obligation to identify the officer since he's been cleared. @tvc184 probably has a much better understanding of this.

I just watched clear videos from two different angles. the videos do show the tactical officers coming up the stairs behind her. They didn't get there in time to keep her from breaching, though. Maybe if they had they could've kept her from trying to go through. But at the time she tried to breach there were still politicians in the hall she was trying to enter. It was a little different later when a bunch of idiots were running around an empty building stealing podiums and stuff. I admire the white house police's restraint throughout the whole ordeal. They could've legally and justifiably shot a LOT of people throughout the invasion, insurrection, whatever you want to call it.

questionable shooting? you're joking, right?

tough to say. not really anything to compare it to.

grand jury cleared him so his identity wasn't released for his own safety.

Huffman Hargrave (15-7-6) plays district rival Splendora (21-7-2)tonight at 6 PM, at Randall Reed Stadium in New Caney, for a chance to advance to the state semifinals. Splendora advanced this far with wins over Bridge City (7-0), Houston Furr (3-2), Columbia (4-1), and Sealy (3-2). Huffman defeated Silsbee (4-3), Stafford (2-1), East Chambers (1-0), and Brookshire Royal (2-1). These two teams met twice in the regular season, with each team winning at home (2-1 @ Huffman, 2-0 @ Splendora.) The winner of this game will face the winner of Boerne and Hidalgo in the state semifinals.

Fortunately these are token moves that will have no real effect on any of us. That said, he's definitely pushing congress to take actions that will have a massive effect on legal gun owners.

Just like the last debate, which is why I'm done debating. You ignore being proven wrong, you ignore having your sources proven wrong, you ignore having accurate sources provided. you then deflect by posting one politician's biased observations without addressing the fact that you've been completely proven wrong by real sources (including your own), and then just scream "What did the doctor in my youtube video say?" over and over again, and act like you're somehow being done wrong by not getting an answer to the question. I provided you with all of the numbers you asked for at the beginning of this thread. you didn't like them. your assertion that the death rate in the US has not increased has been entirely disproven. a biased youtube video is not an accurate rebuttal. i'm done

all i can do is provide sources and accurate numbers. I can't make anyone quit being intentionally ignorant to those numbers and sources because acknowledging those numbers would mean they're wrong.

No doubt things have been reported that aren't accurate. But there's a difference between political spin from the left-controlled media and actual concrete numbers from multiple sources. there's also a difference between questioning sources and motives versus ignoring concrete facts because they don't jive with what you want to believe, which is what some folks on here like to do.

I love how I can make five valid points, back them up with numbers, refute your argument with your own sources, and you just consistently ignore all of that and continue to pound your own misguided point and your one youtube doctor. I'm not going to do what I did last time and spend a lot of time trying to make you understand the researched and cited answers that I've provided to your questions. You don't want those answers. You'd rather play dumb, which is annoying (or sad, if you're not actually playing). When faced with facts, often from your own sources, your fallback is completely ignoring those facts and citing anecdotal information from a biased youtube doctor. So, here's my last comment on here, and I won't respond again, because I already know what your response will be, and it won't have anything to do with what we're talking about: you have a consistent pattern of demanding that others provide you with numbers and proof that your argument is wrong, instead of being willing to provide your own proof that your argument is right. In this case, you "were still waiting for someone to provide you with death numbers for the last ten years". I did this, sourced and cited, and you didn't like that the numbers didn't match your erroneous argument. you intentionally posted a chart that you knew was inaccurate, or were too dumb to notice the bright red box above said chart saying the chart was based on trends, and did not reflect the pandemic (I don't believe you did not see this box). I proved your chart was wrong. you ignored this, and posted your biased youtube politician. So in two debates with me in a row, you've provided erroneous sources, I've proved those sources wrong, you've ignored my legitimate sources (one being your own source), and then you've fallen back to youtube videos from a politcal shill as sources. 400,000 more people died in 2020 in the US than the year before. it's inarguable, even if a biased politician/physician claims differently in an interview.

i admire your tenacity, no matter how misguided and ridiculous it is. over and over you say things like "I'm still waiting for someone to provide me data for death numbers for the last ten years", because you're apparently too lazy to do it yourself, or more likely, you figure if nobody takes the time to do it then you can keep claiming whatever you want. Then I spend 5 whole minutes researching, and provide those numbers, with links to all sources, which are all legitimate. Those numbers don't jive with your argument, so all of a sudden you're capable of finding your own information, because you don't like what mine says. Of course, you completely ignore a giant red box on the top of your source that clearly states that the data is inaccurate. Why? Because it's a chart based on yearly trends, not on concrete numbers, and does not factor in the covid pandemic of the last year and a half. That's literally what the giant red box says. So I copy and paste the giant red box, which states your numbers are wrong, and you counter with youtube videos from one ultra-conservative doctor/politician that is clearly downplaying the severity of the covid pandemic for political reasons (not unlike liberal politicians who exploit it to look even worse than it actually is for political reasons). The funniest part about this is the last time you asked for numbers and they were provided from reputable sources, and you didn't like how badly wrong they proved you, you linked a different youtube video from the same politician/doctor and said the same thing ("Of course there are many doctors with the same story across the country."). This would be no different than you and I having a debate about the immigration problem at the border and me linking videos from Kamala Harris saying there isn't a border problem and pretending like that's a valid rebuttal to you providing me concrete numbers from a valid source showing that vastly more illegal aliens are crossing the border now than 6 months ago. You asked for concrete numbers. Here they are: 2000-2019- on average the US had 19K more deaths a year than the year previous 2020- The US had 405K more deaths than 2019. There's no refuting that, no matter how many politically slanted youtube videos you use as "sources".

It's your source, not mine. It appears that the answer to your question is "yes." Did you purposefully ignore the big red box at the top that said "NOTE: All 2020 and later data are UN projections and DO NOT include any impacts of the COVID-19 virus". Something tells me you saw it and ignored it on purpose, because you wanted some numbers that support your viewpoint.

Literally at the top of your source, above your chart, meaning that this chart is not accurate at all for 2020 and 2021, because those years on the chart are not concrete numbers, but simply projections based on 70 year trends that don't factor in covid: NOTE: All 2020 and later data are UN projections and DO NOT include any impacts of the COVID-19 virus.

you're right. 21k average increase per year in deaths from 2000-2019, 405k increase last year.