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And Veleno going off for tripping.

Wings playing like crap out of the gate. LA with 8 shots in the first 3:30.

not quite yet to border line panic about his shooting.

Not to mention that testing is now another moving target. It appears that antigen rapid tests may not even detect Omicron until a couple days past your point of infectiousness, so the the messaging even if we could figure it out correctly is getting to be more complicated than much of the public is going to have the patience to parse. The problem is structural though. Public health in the US has never been located in the Federal gov - it's largely a state and even county responsibility in most places. And then you have GOP govs and legislatures hamstringing their own public health depts that are trying to respond. For the fed to build out something like a massive testing capability they have to start at ground zero. Simply paying for tests, as they have been doing so far, doesn't really control the supply as we have seen the manufacturers pull back when they anticipated demand would fall. To do it right you really need a package of enabling legislation to set up some new capacities, but what are the odds of anything getting done legislatively? What maybe they could have done, and probably should have, is set up a standing federal governor's conference where they could have tried to get coordinate to keep state govs on the same page - but again, what would that have looked like when most of the GOP govs refused to show up?

the question is overkill for whom of course. It may be overkill for the young parents, but from the standpoint of the group, their stance is simply a fact in evidence that is beyond our control, all we can do is deal with it to the best advantage of our friend.

but OTOH, it what happens when you have group of people with a sense of mutual obligation to each other - it's the very thing lacking in the larger society. That is what should have been the thing motivating people to get vaccinated even if they didn't fear or care about getting sick themselves.

but it never bothered him to spend all that time with hundreds of unmasked people. It's probably part of his psychosis - in the sense that he persuades himself of the truth of his fabrications, because it's a good point that Trump's behavior in public places has for certain not been that of a germophobe. Or maybe he just got over it.

yeah - pretty pointless construction to use in relation to Trump but what else can you call it?

correct. the big effect was to harden right wing opinion against masking but more importantly vaccination. I admit it's not certain the right would have listened to him or not even in the beginning, they certainly don't listen to him now on vaccines, but he had a moral obligation to try and failed pretty miserably there.

IDK, a lot of possibilities. FWIW I can give you an anecdote for a bunch of tests that will be done in the next few days. We have a group of friends - all vaxxed and boosted, that have a ski weekend planned for next week. One has an infant grandchild. Parents are very strict about making sure Grandma stays 'clean' if she is going to be allowed to see grandaughter, so in deference to her, we are all going to test before the trip so grandma can assure son & daughter in-law she has not been exposed. Probably over kill since for 'O' we now have the shorter 5 day quarantine but it is what it is. Lot of people want to know their status for lots of reasons. And to be honest, anyone with an accurate thermometer (a lot of new digital ones are not so much!) and the willingness to track themselves say, 4 times or more time a day - or better yet something like a bio sensor ring, can probably detect their status before a quick antigen even shows it. Even if you never get a clinically relevant fever, your body temp usually will still show enough shift to pick out if you are tracking it.

Politically, things are going to depend on how Omicron affects the vaccinated. If the initial reports of "not very much" are validated by the actual experience, the Admin is not probably not going see much political cost from its existing supporters since according to all reports, they are highly vaccinated. What does seem to be growing is the resentment of the vaccinated toward the unvaccinated as being responsible for the Omicron break out. TBF, that might actually be an unfair charge as it would appear the vaccinated do become infected with and spread Omicron quite well even if they are not significantly affected by it.

It was before the crackdown but wasn't Kapler a PED poster child?

the responses from her followers are frightening. I'm sure there are probably lot of instances in history of people going with the ship based on some nutcase belief, but I can't think of any in my lifetime at nutz as this.

LOL - My early Lions memories include my grade school friends making fun of Karl Sweetan's name - don't ask me why it struck 12 yr olds as particularly funny, Bill-no-touch-Munson throwing every pass at 90 mph and nearly killing little Earl McCollouch with them, but mostly watching the incomparable Lem Barney be the best player on the field for either team.

no-one is going to give up on him in his 1st season, but no doubt we had to have hoped that a 1/1 could be a little more dominating out of the box.

LOL. When my kids were young there was a computer game called Lighthouse, a puzzle, mystery type of thing, and at one point you wander into this world full of automatons and various odd devices and there is young female robot named Liryl, and her main line is: "I am alone here, with no one to help me. No pretty stones for Liryl. Nothing but tears, nothing but tears!". The world is sort of broken down so she speaks with little catches in her voice. "I am alone here" is still a joke between my daughter and me 20 yrs later. Along that line you might appreciate this one MC. On 97.1 today Doug Karch was working the early afternoon shift from home solo because he and Scott Anderson had both tested positive. So Doug is talking college football and all of a sudden he is just gone. So about 15 seconds later the guys in the studio realize it and get on the mikes but they haven't been listening and they have no idea what Karch was even talking about so they just riff off in another direction. So Karch finally reconnects after about 3 min and when he comes back they tell him he dropped an hour ago. Had him for a second...

I didn't say that at all - what I said was they have quite a different legal framework than we do and iI would disagree it has worked worse for them than for us in the US. In the UK Obama could have had Trump in court before he ever got his primary campaign off the ground. And within that framework the UK may ultimately have more flexibility to respond to the future than we may. In the US's case it's going to depend on 9 people pretty much completely divorced from any contact with real life re-parsing another bit of 18th century text . Sounds like a recipe for success.' Being too much in love with a failing system is one the US's biggest problems. We need to stop believing our own myths of perfection so much.

I guess I had thought Ty Madden was assumed to be a future relief pitcher.

I was hoping Landrieu would have done some public resume building after NOLA because I liked what I had seen of him so far.

History has shown you can have democratic socialism without becoming the CCCP, you can have libel laws far stricter than ours and still be Merry Old England. Americans have to get over the idea that there is no other way good way to do thing than the way we happen to have done things in the past - it's just silly really. You can require responsibility as the price of freedom. If anything I would say in the the US we have actually forgotten the truth that if you don't do that you are dooming yourself.

actually the hospital budget is completely separate from the rest of the U. If they make money it doesn't come back the academic units and if they lose money it doesn't get made up from there.

it doesn't necessarily have to be negative reinforcement, maybe you have a quasi-independent organizations that help do credibility ratings on sources, maybe you manipulate the economics a bit, all you really have to do is take take the profit out of telling lies on public media. If people had to pay to do their own distribution you wouldn't violate the 1st amendment but you'd stop probably 90%. The point is it's time to start thinking about what's is and isn't possible/acceptable. Like the man said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, if/when the exercise of a 'right' begins to imperil the society, you have to stop whistling past the graveyard with comfortable absolutisms.

actually what I think is most important for engineers in terms of arithmetic is to be able to easily estimate orders of magnitude of a result and that is something I don't see much talent for in modern students so I don't think either core math or old math spends much time on it. But what an engineer should able to do is tell you quickly the scale of an answer - IOW just do the exponents, or given two bits of arithmetic, which answer must be bigger than the other without bothering to get the exact numbers. In engineering those are the skills that save you a lot of time doing detailed calculations are going to be dead ends anyway.

Same as it ever was. In Rome it was "Panem et circenses" - "Bread and Circuses"

LOL! yeah, I could get to 2740 - 274 easily enough - but then I can't do the subtraction!