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Opposing a vaccine mandate is not a hill I would die on. In theory, making someone inject something into their body as a condition of employment sounds shady and big brother ish... but.... we all need to do our part to make society function. If I don't want to breathe dirty air I can go live off the land in the country and if I don't want to get a shot then I can figure out how to not work.

and many states don't allow electors to go against the wishes of the state. It's all ceremony. Just say "If you win CA, you get 54 points, if you win MI, you get 18 points, whatever it is... don't call them "electors".

I think in this case the burden is on those wanting to change the zoning to make their case as to how it will improve the area. When you own farm land and it no longer has use or owners have the desire to farm there, then is that really the problem for the community? Life is about taking risk and we have zoning for a reason. There's also the dynamic of people moving out to "get away from it all" then they complain when thousands of others do the same thing they did.

He's the reason John Amos left Good Times. He thought he was a sad caricature and not a good role model for black people. If you study comedians you know that at one time Jay Leno and David Letterman were living in Walker's apartment in the 70's writing jokes for him.....

Cue the old crusty Boomer meme "BUT THEY NEED ID TO GET WELFARE!"

we were on a path to that until Omicron. The problem we face is too many people have this attitude of "well nothing works 100% so why bother trying anything". Circumstances change and instead of understanding that they just say "Well they don't know what they are talking about... one minute they say this, another they say that" People had this belief that the doctors and scientists knew everything there was to know about the virus, including future variants, in February 2020 and all of this changing is due to them being bumbling idiots. That said, the CDC has done a horrible job at messaging. Not everyone reads twitter all day for information from people who research this stuff.

depends on the contagiousness of whatever strain is dominant at the time. Omicron is on a different level than what we saw prior. The vaccines do prevent spread. Not every vaccinated person will get infected if exposed. And not every infected vaccinated person will spread it and if they do it's at a much lower rate.

it's amazing to see how infectious this thing is when you look at all the charts.... it's a straight line up for every region/target that is in the Omicron wave. NYC thinks their peak is over. Boston' tests their wastewater which has been a great indicator to predict cases and they are showing decreases. Michigan appears to be pleateauing, although at a very high rate still. The question will be how much immunity this provides for the future. This could be the transition to an epidemic stage.... What is troubling though is volume. A lower rate and mild cases doesn't mean a lot in terms of hospital impact because, for reference compare a 5% hospital rate against 100,000 infected to a 1% hospital rate against 1,000,000. You could say "It's 80% less severe" but 10K patients is still 10K patients and twice what you had before for a "mild" illness.

The vaccines aren't as effective at preventing initial infection but the backup T cells are still there to keep the disease mild. Which was the point all along. It's milder for most people but can still be dangerous for those compromised or unvaccinated. You can still get infected and transmit but at a much lower rate than if you were not vaccinated which if everybody did their part then overall transmission would be lower.

I hope the GOP runs on "we gotta keep people poor to help the crappy owner who doesn't know how to do a budget or business plan" The funny thing is by lowering the minimum wage all you do is hurt those businesses because now their employees will be more likely to go elsewhere that pays more. Then they will go on TV and complain about "nobody wants to work" when in reality nobody wants to work for them because they are shit bags.

I recall early on the experts wouldn't say it prevented transmission and spread. I wanted to know that info and there wasn't enough data to support it and nobody of credibility would go on record. The closest I saw was "it looks like it might".... something like that. They couldn't test that in the trials without delaying it and it wasn't considered critical.

I don’t think the medical community have that impression at all. Their message was whatever our vaccinated rate was, it wasn’t good enough. We are where we are because of the unvaccinated. Its their fault. If we had higher numbers then we wouldn’t have the hospitalization stress. The community always warned of variants breaking thru and causing infected people among vaccinated

It’s natural for white guys who look like an astronaut to assume there’s no way they can lose to not only a woman but a black woman. Had to be fixed.

It was like they decided to do a reboot of “my two dads” but Paul Reiser didn’t participate.

he didn't say 'Him'. He said 'us'.

solutions in search of a problem

He's not my village idiot. I'm not in a cult. I don't follow people. I follow ideals and principles and his collide with the US.

I have been wondering if things will start to crack with him. He’s not the president anymore. Even media still shows some respect with the use of Sir and all that. But now he’s just a washed up D list celebrity and how will he react when treated like one when he’s around people who don’t work for him?

Nah. Mitch believes in tradition. Like presidents serve 4 year terms and get to have their Supreme Court nominees have their day before the senate regardless of where we are in the election cycle. he also believes in the long established tradition that presidents in an election year can’t have their nominees for the Supreme Court go before the senate since it’s an election year.

What does “going against the US” mean because I have it on good authority that to 40% of the voting public and nearly half our federal legislature that it’s not the US they are in support of but rather a guy who was on a TV show in the mid aughts. If the interests of the former guy and the US collide they are aligning with the orange fella.

I didn’t see anything from the press conference. Is this a real job or just an Al Kaine/Willie Horton thing? Is he moving back to Detroit? In other words is he Vice President of hockey ops or a Vice President of hockey ops? There’s a difference.

Can you imagine if this nation had to do WWII style rationing? Would never happen today.

they need to make the players hit fewer foul balls.