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Well, if social media users are your standard for medical data, I guess you can use that. Certainly opinions matter but you we’re not talking about opinions when you posted an article and said, “ I stand corrected. It’s a 99% survival rate“. Yes it is, according to Facebook users. Again, there is absolutely nothing in that article from any kind of medical data from any source whatsoever that says Covid has a 99% survival rate.

Yes, I read past the first paragraph. Apparently you did not or maybe you were just scanning it. I can accept that. You probably saw something interesting that fit your agenda and stopped. As you can see from your first paragraph, the 99% comes from, “social media users”. Apparently they are getting some of their data from this forum. Here is a quote from later in the article from the actual author…. “While the exact mortality rate of COVID-19 is still not known, a hypothetical rate of 1% would still result in a massive number of deaths if left to spread unchecked.”. As you can see, they are using a hypothetical rate of 1% to show that even if it was that low, it would still be a serious issue.

I’m kind of afraid to ask the context of that.

Out of curiosity, did you read the article? No where in the article does it say there’s a 99% survival rate. The article makes a case for the Covid vaccine to be very effective, in comparing the potential effectiveness of the vaccine to the survival rate is almost meaningless.

I have never understood the flu deaths argument.

Okay, a reply. You never know. WOS might have scored 3 touchdowns and won 27-14. But, WOS had 130 yards of offense in almost 3 full quarters. Nederland had almost 300 yards. Yards are meaningless and don’t count for anything but the game was not exactly going WOS’s way. Nederland’s wide receiver Fuselier had more yards and touchdowns than WOS. We will never know “what if”. A turnover? A couple of long runs? Merely looking at the score doesn’t tell the way the game was going. Nederland might have collapsed the way PNG did a couple of weeks ago but if a frog had wings, he wouldn’t hit his butt every time he hopped.

No, it’s just s way to clear your cases!! How many unsolved robberies do we have? Oh, 8? Ok, this guy matches the clothing description on 8 robberies…… 😂😂😂 Yeah, it was probably him. They didn’t need 15 years of experience and eight years in detectives to figure that one out. From the comments I saw on Facebook before they released this information, about 80% of the public had that one figured out.

Only that it had something to do with a crane.

I can’t believe he only got 27 months.

Sure. If you can’t tell from my posts, I love talking law and in particular Police work. I teach college credit courses at LIT in Beaumont on the Texas Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, report writing and my favorite, arrest, search and seizure which is basically constitutional law and statutory law on what is legal for the police. I know personally about a lot of the cases that are in the news and sometimes discussed in this forum but I simply cannot give me information. It is not illegal to give the information unless it is a juvenile suspect’s name but it can sometimes destroy an investigation. I would even sometimes like to discuss why the police don’t give this information. They aren’t hiding it, They are simply going by the law that tells them what evidence they could used in court (Code of Criminal Procedure). Up until five months ago when I retired, many of the times if you saw an article in the newspaper or the television media, the words were exactly mine cut and pasted from a news release that I had written. I might have been the only seen supervisor but I only release with the police department want me to. Once the charges have been filed, I can discuss a lot of the issues that I will not beforehand.

I made that point a couple of days ago in another forum. In the 2008 presidential election, the Republican stance was that the Democrats would eventually come up with death panels to determine who lives and who dies. Of course that was scoffed at as a scare tactic. I said this mandatory vaccination talk from the federal government is exactly what the Democrats denied 13 years ago. If a person was denied life-saving treatment because of a personal choice not the take a vaccination, that is one more step toward those death panels that we heard would never exist.

I am not disagreeing with the policy:…. But it’s why we “jokingly” call them second responders. 😀 But you know when I first started, we never heard the phrase, EMS and fire are staging. They would generally go in and then if they saw something, slow it down or back out and tell the police to come in and maybe step it up. With the crazy world we live in today and not 40 years ago, I agree with the policy. 👌 For the second responders….. 😂

Yes, Thompson probably wasn’t the top of his class. His staff tried to play it off later and said he was just using it like a joke or a metaphor or something because of too much military personnel. With all the lead up questions about the size in the shape of the island, you can tell it was not a joke. Anyone can understand the joke if during the discussion a congressman laughed and said, “We are going to get so many people on the island it might capsize“. I believe he thought it could roll over like a ship because it was long and narrow. I don’t really think Water is stupid though, she is just filled with hatred. Her hatred is so embedded in her mind……

You know when somebody tells you a juicy secret but then says I will tell you but please don’t tell anyone and you say, don’t worry I will never mention it. But it is such a good story, you break down and go to your best friend and tell him but say, please don’t tell anyone because I promised not to tell. The friend goes then to another friend…… My old Cajun boss used to have a saying that went…. ”Don’t tell but if you tell, tell the one you tell not to tell”. But I will not compromise a police investigation or cut myself off from information because I could not keep my mouth shut. One time another detective came to me with such juicy information. It was actually within his business to tell me because it involves him. My friend said don’t tell anyone else because you are the only one I have told and the only one I am going to tell. He was not compromising anything but just did not want anyone to know just yet. A couple of days later I heard the same story but from another person. I went straight to my friend and said hey, I have not told anyone because I gave my word but I just had another police officer give me the same information. He admitted that yes, he broke down and told a couple of other people. Oh well…… I am not that person though. But wow…..

It’s killing me too. I want to say, “Man y’all aren’t going to believe this…….”.

We kind of jokingly now call EMS and the fire department, second responders. Something that changed from when I first started, it is a routine police call now to say be en route to a certain location for whatever, EMS and fire are staging three blocks away.

I mention my experience a lot of times but in almost four decades, I would have never guessed this. I suppose maybe I would if I was just trying to make up a bunch of different scenarios like if someone said, make up 20 different ways this might’ve happened, but just thinking about a person in a restaurant shooting someone, I would normally have never come up with this conclusion.

Okay, 2 men were shot….. 😂

I honestly do too. Actually I wish video would come out. WOW !!!!!!!!

Actually probably 4.

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I went to the police station for the first time in about 11 weeks since fighting off Covid (still a way to go physically) and spoke to a detective about the case. WOW!! Talk about an incident. With all the speculation I saw on various forums, I don’t think anybody could believe or guess this story. I have probably worked on 150 homicides and I would’ve never guessed this one I was wondering exactly what happened like everybody else. Was this guy in line to get chicken and just pulled his gun and started shooting or what? Inquiring minds want to know……. But for all the speculation on was this guy justified or did he endanger customers, why did he get involved and blah blah blah, all I can say is, WOW!!

In my 37+ years in Port Arthur, I have never seen a person defend themselves or someone else and get prosecuted. I have seen a lot of people claim self-defense when it obviously was not. There are several cases that I know of where it was clearly someone breaking into a home or robbing a store, etc. and none were prosecuted to my knowledge and not even close. It’s not like they had to hire an attorney to try and justify it. Of course it is not the police department that makes a judgment on self-defense or any criminal situation for that matter. That is done by the district attorney or having the district attorney present it to a grand jury. The police investigate and hand over their findings to the attorneys. On one case probably 25 years ago, somebody broke into an old man’s house through a living room window (I think but so long ago). Anyway my best friend was on patrol that night and came upon a dead man in the middle of the street and you could see that he had been shot. In fact there was a good blood trail and he followed it back up the road may be a block or so all the way to the window where the now deceased guy tried to break in. There was an old man sitting in the living room with a .410 shotgun. My partner said the other guy made a statement something like, “Officer, that guy broke into my house last night and I said by God if he tries it tonight I’m gonna shoot him. I let him get halfway through the window and then shot him “. The old guy had brought like a kitchen chair into the living room and just sat there and waited. He was going to stay awake all night to see if the guy came back… and he did. Cleared/justified.

Beauty to you, pain there the butt for the masses. I grew up with gardens (I loved dragging the garden house out and picking beefsteak tomatoes, rinsing and eating right there), going to farmers’ markets, had one stretch until late junior high school that we milked our own cow, how about 3 dozen chickens for eggs where we had to sell some because we couldn’t eat a couple of dozen a day….. It’s just hard to make time to do all that.