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Maybe part of that problem is that we didn’t see enough pictures or video of young people with COVID on ventilators, the same way we saw pictures of children in iron lungs seemingly everywhere in the 1950s. Some of it might be the difference between old people and children, and some of it might have been the willingness back then to publish the iron lung pictures.

The vaccine would be the end all of COVID, if everyone would take it as seriously as they took the polio shot, which did end up being the end all. Instead, as you say, COVID will be here for a long time because instead of doing their part to help eradicate it, too many people are willing to accept millions of somebody elses dying from it every year.

Bottom line: COVID is simply not the same as the flu. It is epidemiologically a different, deadlier disease that cannot be treated the same any more than appendicitis and cirrhosis of the liver can be treated the same.

Oh well, if were talking worldwide, now were talking about 5.4 million COVID deaths. Still a factor of multiples higher than regular flu.

Well, of course wearing masks is harmful. After all, what else could explain the thousands and thousands of doctors and nurses dropping dead in operation theaters every year?

Now we see one of the fictions you're belching up that helps feed right-wing politicization of COVID. The flu kills nowhere near a few hundred thousand a year. For the past ten years flu deaths have averaged about 35,000 per year, whereas COVID has already killed over 800,000 in less than two years. But as long as the people with fox in their head tell us that flu kills hundreds of thousands a year, they can feel better about politiminimizing the effect the COVID virus has on society. How can COVID be such a big deal, they'll tell us, when the flu kills just as many people and we weren't making people wear masks? Well, it is a big deal because COVID and flu are not nearly equivalent in the number of people each kills. COVID kills ten times the number of people that flu does. And that's even before we contemplate other attributes like COVID's greater rate of transmissibility and the delayed presentation of its symptoms. GTFOOHWTS

When it comes to COVID, your freedom ends where my respiratory system begins.

Except it was well-known that Correa's goal was to exceed the 10/341 Lindor contract, so everybody, including the Tigers, knew he would reject the 10/275. So in that sense, it can be said that the Tigers didn't make any effort.

Newsflash: COVID isn't the flu. It's a different disease from the flu.

You know who else says he didn't say the things he was documented or even audio-recorded as having said? Trump.

I remember being knocked out by going to an Orioles game in a suite when I worked in Baltimore, picking up the food menu, and seeing a dozen crab cakes selling for $108. Not so bad, you might say? Well ... that was a quarter of a century ago, in 1996.

You flat out said: Which reads as though you believe we, the other posters, are those who are taking or limiting your freedoms. Are you backtracking on that?

There may be something to this. It seems unlikely he lands on the Yankees because those players who are left are still sore at him from 2017. Some believe Houston cut ties with him for good but I think they might be the frontrunner to get him back, even if it's shorter length and much higher AAV. But if the unlikely happens and nobody else offers as much as 10/275, does he come back and ask for the offer again? And are the Tigers really up for committing $400+ million to just two guys after getting burned on so many other big deals lately?

@Archie? Do you agree?

Said who? Serious question.

I’m not clear on what the Tigers were trying to accomplish by offering 10/275 to Correa, since it was well established that his asking price was well into the threes.

Who ever said that the vaccines were the “end all”?

Why do you keep blaming the rest of us for “taking or limiting” your freedoms? Do you think we are the government?

RIP Joan Didion.

Rice did!

Taken any $15,000 vacations lately?

My real agenda is living my life where I want and not moving away because people I don’t respect tell me to.

No need, someone else has got you covered on that.

But what good is the extra longer life and healthy years if you're just going to endure them in a peaceful socialist hellhole?

Well, there are 332 million people in the United States and 73.5% of them are either white/non-Hispanic or African American, so, you do the math.