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wvParticipantOk, my top draft-grade in round one goes to…the New Orleans Saints. They picked a Center at the 24 spot. Cesar Ruiz from Michigan. I will keep an eye on his career.
Centers are under-rated by fans.
I love Centers,
Picking Centers high is a good thing.And when the Saints get screwed out of the Super Bowl again,
by another bad-call, it Wont be because they had a bad Center.w
vwvParticipantThe narrative out there seems to be how bad the Rams messed up and they are way behind. I don’t feel a big negative about the Rams.
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I have a fairly negative Ram-view, I’d say.
They dont have an elite ballcarrier anymore, and the Oline is a mystery.
But mainly, what makes me negative has nothing to do with the Rams — its that the 49ers, Seahawks, and Cardinals all look playoff-caliber to me.
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vApril 22, 2020 at 4:50 pm in reply to: the one-shot tweets thread (diff'rent stuff, funny angry interesting) #113931wvParticipant“Every Billionaire is a policy failure”
In case you missed @AOC on @maddow last night here’s a short clip: pic.twitter.com/TMcM2moQZY
— Every Billionaire Is A Policy Failure (@DanRiffle) April 22, 2020
wvParticipantYeah, you know…stuff like this. This is a straight up Mob move, and nobody cares.
… and nobody cares.
…. Nobody cares. .
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Trump is Marlo. Um…Biden is Stringer Bell?
…but who are we?
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wvParticipantPS — as I’ve said a gazillion times, I dont have a problem with leftist voting for the ‘lesser evil.’ Thats a reluctant, but strategic and knowing decision. Makes perfect sense.
But tens of millions of Americans will vote for Trump/Biden/Clinton/Edwards/Gore/Obama/Bush/bush/Reagan/Nixon because…..well you know why. We’ve talkin about the what and why of it since 1998 now. 1998. Or there-abouts.
Did this Nation ever have a chance to be decent and truly democratic? I dont think so.
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vwvParticipantAnd tens of millions of people will vote for a guy who does that to America. All because he hates the same people they do.
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Thats the thing.
And the “opposition party” will get tens of millions of people to vote for the other Pirate.
Forget it Jake, its America.
Thai-land.
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wvParticipantWell, you and zooey are more optimistic than me.
At any rate, I’m old, and i have cat-videos to catch up on today.
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vThat’s not a cat, Magoo.
I’m distracting myself from the political/environmental/medical catastrophe du joir by tinkering with my koi pond. I’m making it a little bigger this year. If you want to feel old, spend the day digging a big hole. So far my lower back isn’t on board with the project.
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Ok fine. Here’s a fish video.
I have to go to the store today. I feel like scary background music should be playing.
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wvParticipantWVU is using smart rings, apps and algorithms to identify COVID-19 infections before symptoms occur
“….Within a week, 1,000 healthcare workers will be wearing the rings and using the apps with expectations that in a month participation will grow to 10,000 in West Virginia, Philadelphia, New York, Florida and elsewhere to determine how effectively the system provides early warning signs of infection.
“[Healthcare workers] interested in participating should contact us, and we’re interested in working in partnerships,” said Dr. Ali Rezai, executive chair of the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. “The key thing is, we’ve been doing this for three years, and that is why we have taken a big leap ahead with this concept.” ….
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….Rings, apps and algorithmsSensors in the Oura Health smart ring record and analyze physiological responses to assess sleep duration and quality, body temperature, and variation in pulse rate and heart function.
Each morning the ring provides a sleep rating based on length of deep sleep (REM) and light sleep.
Leslie Crossley, 51, of Morgantown, serves as RNI’s director of nursing and clinical programs, and is involved in enrolling participants, providing and instructing them about the apps and fitting participants with rings.
“It looks like a normal ring and has some sensors that you can’t feel,” she said. “It’s not uncomfortable, and its waterproof so you don’t take it off, and you charge it once a week. A charger comes with the ring.”….see link
wvParticipantRight now Biden is ahead in the polls. Though Hillary was farther ahead in the polls at this time last year.
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Yup. There’s nothing about Biden that makes him a worthwhile candidate.But 4 more years of Trump could essentially end democracy in this country.
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Well, you and zooey are more optimistic than me.
At any rate, I’m old, and i have cat-videos to catch up on today.
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wvParticipant“There are no others.”
Ramana Maharshi
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“Whenever we try to isolate anything in nature, we find it is hitched to everything else in the universe.”
John MuirwvParticipantBut, yeah. Sanders isn’t saying All in for Biden! He’s saying let’s dump Trump, get a foot in the door, and fight the status quo in all its forms.
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Yeah, I third that.
I also would add that I dont know a single solitary ‘progressive’ who votes based on “what Bernie sez.” Ya know.
Also, once you choose to even run as a Democrat, aren’t you bound by their by-laws or whatever to support the Nominee? I thought the corporate-dem-party had a rule like that. I think i remember reading somethin about that. Yes? No?
I still think this is gonna be a very very close election. Just like last time. Could go either way. A few thousand votes could decide it, I would think.
I would give Biden a slight edge at this point. I think the virus-bashed-economy has to help The-Biden.
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vwvParticipantFwiw. The age-old-question for Leftists.
wvParticipantLAtimes:https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-17/malaria-drugs-fails-to-help-coronavirus-patients-in-controlled-studies
Malaria drugs fail to help coronavirus patients in controlled studiesBy Melissa HealyStaff Writer
April 17, 2020
3:08 PMThe malaria drugs touted by President Trump as potentially “the biggest game changers in the history of medicine” have received a decidedly more sober assessment of their coronavirus-fighting potential from researchers in China, France and Brazil.
Both chloroquine and its close relative hydroxychloroquine offered signs that they may ease some of the hallmark symptoms of coronavirus infection in patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19. But the drugs largely failed to deliver improvements on other key measures when evaluated in rigorous research studies.
In research done in France, hydroxychloroquine reduced neither deaths nor admissions to intensive care units among patients who received it. In a study conducted in China and another in Brazil, the two drugs failed to help patients clear the coronavirus faster.
And in Brazil, two deaths and a rash of heart troubles among patients who got a high dose of chloroquine prompted a hasty alteration of the trial there after just 13 days. Concluding that “enough red flags” had been raised, the researchers halted testing of the drug in its extra-strength form.
“My own impression so far is that these medications are a colossal ‘Maybe,’” said Dr. Michael H. Pillinger, a professor of medicine at New York University and chief of rheumatology at the Veterans Affairs’ New York Harbor Healthcare System.
“Is there enough possible benefit that we could use these on a wing and prayer until something better comes along? I’m underwhelmed” by the evidence for that, Pillinger said.
In the Brazil study, two of the 37 patients who were getting high doses of chloroquine developed ventricular tachycardia, a dangerous heart arrhythmia that led to their deaths. Five other patients in this arm of the trial developed QT interval prolongation, a condition that makes the heart’s electrical system slower to recharge between beats. It can cause the heart to beat erratically, also raising the risk of sudden death.
The death toll among patients who were randomly assigned to receive high-dose chloroquine did not rise above that in a comparison group of patients who did not get the drug. But researchers had set out to establish that high-dose chloroquine would save lives. When it failed to do so, they concluded the risks of cardiac side effects could not be justified.
“Preliminary findings suggest that the higher chloroquine dosage should not be recommended for COVID-19 treatment because of its potential safety hazards,” the study authors wrote in a report posted Thursday to MedRxiv, a clearinghouse for preliminary research results.
After the two deaths, the remaining 39 patients were switched to a lower dose of chloroquine, which was already being tested in 40 other patients. All would be tracked for an additional 13 days, with results still to come.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has allied himself closely with President Trump and has echoed his extravagant claims about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. He has ordered the Brazilian army to ramp up its orders of chloroquine and told the public that the malaria drugs “could go down in history as having saved thousands of lives in Brazil.”
The authors of the Brazil study, which was conducted in the Amazonian city of Manaus, suggested that Bolsonaro’s support complicated their efforts to test the drugs as rigorously as they would have liked.
Normally, they would have conducted a head-to-head comparison by randomly assigning some people to get the drugs while others received a dummy pill, or placebo. But since the drugs have been “recommended at the national level,” the researchers were unable to assign anyone to a group that would not get chloroquine. Instead, they used “historical data from the literature to infer comparisons.”
The French study of hydroxychloroquine, posted Tuesday to MedRxiv, followed a more conventional design. Researchers there enrolled 181 COVID-19 patients who were admitted to four French hospitals over the last two weeks of March, then compared the outcomes of 84 people who quickly received hydroxychloroquine to 91 patients who never received the drug. (Patients in both groups got a range of other treatments, including antiviral medications, corticosteroids and breathing support.)
The researchers found that treatment with hydroxychloroquine did not reduce the likelihood that a COVID-19 patient would die or be admitted to the intensive care unit within a week of hospital admission. Nor did it drive down a patient’s likelihood of developing serious breathing problems.
Hydroxychloroquine did, however, raise some risks. Eight of the 84 patients who got hydroxychloroquine experienced changes in heart rhythm that required discontinuation of the drug, and another patient developed a related heart-rhythm disorder.
“The negative clinical results of this study argue against the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia,” the French researchers concluded.
Chinese researchers were just a bit more encouraging.
Their study, also posted to MedRxiv on Tuesday, found that COVID-19 patients who got hydroxychloroquine were no better at clearing the coronavirus from their systems than patients who didn’t get the drug. And at the 28-day mark, patients in both groups had the same number of symptoms.
But two weeks after admission to the hospital, patients who got hydroxychloroquine reported they felt better than their counterparts who did not. And they appeared to have lower levels of inflammation — a symptom of COVID-19 that can escalate and lead to death if unchecked. (In fact, in doses much lower than those tested in the COVID-19 trials, hydroxychloroquine is used to treat autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis because of its anti-inflammatory effects.)
Also, while 30% of the patients who got hydroxychloroquine reported a side effect, just 9% of patients in the comparison group did so. None of these side effects appeared to be heart-related.
The Chinese researchers referred to “shreds of evidence” that support the hope that hydroxychloroquine could help patients fend off bouts of inflammation that can damage the lungs and other organs.
But researchers in the United States cautioned that the small number of patients in the studies, their hurried execution and the difficulty of assessing any drug during a medical crisis made all of the findings far from definitive. And it doesn’t help that the drugs have become political footballs, they added.
“We kind of have the red pill people and the blue pill people,” said Dr. Michael J. Ackerman, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist who was among the first to warn that the malaria drugs can dangerously disturb heart rhythms. “I don’t think either side now has the ammunition to say these drugs do or don’t work,” he added.
Yale University cardiologist Harlan Krumholz agreed. He noted that the studies, none of which has been vetted in a traditional peer-review process, “can’t exclude large effects in either direction. They leave us a little bit where we started.”
But there is a troubling signal in these and previous studies, and they create a challenge for those who would advocate use of the malaria drugs, he said.
When a drug that could be widely used poses potentially deadly dangers to the heart, “we will need a strong amount of evidence that they provide benefit,” Krumholz said. “At the moment, there is no evidence” for that, he added.
wvParticipantwvParticipantThat’s the key. We’re not in court. There’s no evidence available for us to evaluate. No burden of proof has to be met. All we have is the word of a woman who is risking a lot by coming forward vs the word of a man who has a history of inappropriate touching and general creepiness. She may be lying or he may be lying. No way to know for sure. It sucks that it’s this way, but I’m not just going to dismiss it because there’s no way to know conclusively. The crime is too heinous for that. I’m going with my gut. I believe her.
For what it’s worth, the FBI says less than 8% of sexual assault claims are fraudulent.
And I’m still voting for Biden.
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I think Imperialist Rapists are going to get about 98 percent of the Vote.
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vwvParticipantJoe Biden a rapist ? Right. I’m sure Sanders has so little class he would support a rapist. Elizabeth Warren ? Oh, she doesn’t care either -she too would support a rapist. And all the rest of those candidates who support Biden. Obama, Harris, Yang, Buttigieg, Klobuchar. Clearly, they all have no morals since they are supporting a rapist. Then again maybe they too are all sexual predators so it doesn’t bother them in the least. Then again maybe they don’t even know about this “allegation”, huh ?
I believe it is this precise reason why so many undecided people turned away from Sanders-not so much because of Bernie’s policies but because of the vitriol spread by his supporters-which sadly taints a good man. A true progressive to me has always been a champion of the rights of an individual. Calling a person a rapist based on a “claim” only without knowing the claimant and or anything about that person other than they work for someone who you share political common ground with is more than simply distasteful. And I strongly suspect that if the tables were reversed with Sanders being the accused there would be no such fervor.
Most moderate democrats I know harbor no ill will toward Sanders, Stein, Warren, or for that matter any other progressives. Based on the language from progressives -I do know a few-plus media accounts, I can’t say the same in terms of how they relate to “other” democrats. The rapist claim is simply one example. It smacks of Willie Horton all over again. Maybe the far left and far right do share something.
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Sexual assault allegations are a nightmare. We dont know. He might be a rapist, She might be a liar. Its a nightmare.
How would you suggest voters and the media handle it?
We know how a court of law would handle it, but we are not in a court of law. So, people arent limited by legal standards. I have no problem with people believing her. Or him. Or believing they dont know. We’re not in court.
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vwvParticipant“…Stu Jackson@StuJRams
Rams QB Jared Goff said it was tough to see RB Todd Gurley and WR Brandin Cooks depart, but understands it’s part of business.
Moving forward, he says Josh Reynolds has shown the ability to fill Cooks’ role: “I feel so comfortable with Josh. I’m excited to see him grow.”…
—————–Enh. I dont think josh Reynolds is more than a C+ player.
Thats ok, if ya wanna go 9-7.
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vwvParticipantTo vote for the lesser-evil, or Not.
It’s interesting that in the progressive mindset-if your not a progressive you must be “evil”.
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Yeah, absolutely, I think Biden is ‘evil’. I think he’s aided and abetted mass-murder. He’s the poster-boy for Imperialism, the CIA and Empire.
Imperialism is kindof a neutral sounding word. But what it really means is mass-murder.I could go on and on about Biden, but mass-murder is enough for a post on a message-board.
Anyway, yes, we see it THAT differently. Its THAT big a difference in our perspectives. Its fundamental.
I’m not ’emotional’ about this anymore, btw. I know you will always see it differently. I’m just glad you have begun to see the fundamental difference between a leftist and a liberal/centrist.
And yes, i still think of you as an internet-friend.
I posted a message asking you a question about the National Lawyers Guild a few minutes ago, but it got devoured by the board Vortex. Maybe it’ll show up down the road.
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vwvParticipantThe allegation against Biden is testing some of the liberal-me-too folks:
April 15, 2020 at 11:24 am in reply to: (on the virus): Here’s how we got here (w/ Washington Post analysis) #113672wvParticipantI agree about the fan viruses. Can be benign or highly dangerous. The Rams virus, for instance, doesn’t cause too much misery, unless it mutates into its Warner/Bulger form, in which case patients end up throwing various virtual and inanimate objects at each other…
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Ahh. I see you call it the Warner/Bulger Virus. Only an Evil Warnerite would call it the Warner/Bulger virus. The fact is it was the Bulger/Warner Virus.
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vwvParticipantWell its an old, old, question for Leftists. The far-left has wrestled with this election after election after election for over a hundred years.
To vote for the lesser-evil, or Not.
Repeat of 2016.
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vApril 15, 2020 at 8:38 am in reply to: (on the virus): Here’s how we got here (w/ Washington Post analysis) #113657wvParticipantSpeaking of immunity, coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1960’s but have been associated with people for thousands of years. There are deadly ones – MERS, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, but most are relatively harmless and cause nothing more serious than the common cold.
However, many of the strains of “harmless” coronaviruses could have been as deadly or deadlier than the virus that’s causing today’s pandemic. They may have decimated ancient populations. They seem harmless to us only because we are the descendants of the survivors that were immune to those viruses when they first came in contact with humans thousands of years ago.
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I have a theory, myself. I think a Virus wiped out the Dinosaurs. It was a meteor-virus. A big meteor landed and there was an alien corona-virus on it.
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vwvParticipantI read Dune for the first time a summer or two ago and liked it. Never read the sequels because I heard they weren’t good. I was glad to see a new movie was coming out. I never saw the first movie with Kyle and Sting, and heard that I wouldn’t understand it anyway since I’d never read the book.
I think the movie has made the still suits a little…slight. At least in my head, the still suit was more of a mask/helmet thing. Not good for acting, however.
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I always liked the sandworm-riding-thugz.
April 14, 2020 at 6:52 pm in reply to: (on the virus): Here’s how we got here (w/ Washington Post analysis) #113645wvParticipantAt about the four minute mark, he alludes to somethin i never thot about: When the Europeans came to America the viruses they brought kilt 90 percent of the Native Americans — but why wasnt it the other way around? Why didnt Native diseases kill the Europeans?
There actually is an answer to that.
The greatest concentration of domesticable wildlife in the world was originally in the Fertile Crescent. Whoever first domesticated those animals also caught diseases from them. That means that that population, over time, essentially consisted of the descendents of the survivors of those diseases. Over even more time that means that wherever those descendents–the original Eurasians–went, they brought those diseases with them as immune carriers. So when Europeans came to the western hemisphere, they were the descendents of the original domesticators, and the new world populations they encountered were entirely vulnerable to them.
There is only one domesticable animal native to the entire western hemisphere–the llama.
It’s not just the natives in north america that were wiped out. That was equally true in central and south america.
BTW taming and domestication are of course entirely different things. Just to get that in.
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Well, the Doctor in the Vid answers the question too. I’m not sure if his answer is the same as the one you just laid out, or if its different. He didnt say anything about Fertile Crescents.
Anyway, my favorite part of this Vid (and its awfully good, imho) starts around the 36 minute mark. Just watch about five minutes starting from the 36 min mark. I love the part where he quotes the the CEO from Big-Poultry.
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vwvParticipantI dunno. The uniforms look like cheesy plastic to me. They always do. Gazillion-dollar movies, and the uniforms always look like plastic to me. Star Wars is unwatchable for me, because of the cheesy plastic uni’s.
I hope, at least, the logo is good.
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vApril 14, 2020 at 9:43 am in reply to: (on the virus): Here’s how we got here (w/ Washington Post analysis) #113621wvParticipantThis is a decade old, but I thought it was interesting. Domesticating animals leads to many viruses infecting humans, i guess.
At about the four minute mark, he alludes to somethin i never thot about: When the Europeans came to America the viruses they brought kilt 90 percent of the Native Americans — but why wasnt it the other way around? Why didnt Native diseases kill the Europeans?
wvParticipantwvParticipantIts being used in two London hospitals now, fwiw.
“..Hydroxychloroquine is being used at Barts in London and the Royal Devon and Exeter to keep critically ill coronavirus patients alive.
President Trump described the drug as a ‘game changer’ and it has been added to the Chinese guidance for tackling the disease, but up until now the NHS has strongly discouraged its use….”
wvParticipant31st NHS worker has died from the virus.
A 31st NHS Worker has now died from Coronavirus.
Rest in peace Nurse Elsie Sazuze who passed away 2 days ago. Elsie grew up in Malawi. Her husband says she understood the risks involved but wanted to do her bit to keep me & you safe. These people are the very best of us. pic.twitter.com/JkqdvLgmB2
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) April 11, 2020
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