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She's pointing out that the Cochran study was mainly based on studies conducted BEFORE the covid pandemic: Plus the study doesn't have sufficient evidence to draw strong conclusions (like you are doing). And the study doesn't take into account whether masking mandates were complied with: Not quite the slam dunk that you are claiming.

Someone better tell the tens of millions of medical professionals wearing masks in hospitals, ORs and ERs that they're all wasting their time. OR people could stop being stupid about wearing a bit of cloth on their face from time to time and we can all be adults.

This was always nothing more than a very expensive political stunt for the dimwit in the governor's office. What a total buffoon. And, Republicans bought into it being some big major win for the buffoon. All he was doing was trying to punish a company that said something he didn't like. He does NOT belong in the White House.

Maverick would have got that F-22 to 66,000 feet!

Why would they cite fake news?

All I know is that the well-armed militia of Montana was as helpless as kittens against a goddamn balloon and needed the government to step in and do the job for them.

she has no place in the future of the republican party...or so i've been told

because walls stop people

If there is one thing I have found to be true it is that mask lovers will NEVER stop loving masks even though they don't actually ever wear them anymore, at all. The anti-maskers are just as crazy and will also never wear a mask, ever. Then you have like 99% of the population that is normal and they wore masks but didn't really like it or care for it, then they got used to it but still didn't like it and now they don't wear them anymore.

This has to be your shortest post ever.

I think us Nebraska fans have had our mindset shifted to pure pessimism after this last awful decade, but from everything I've seen, I really do think we are the favorites here. Obviously USC/UGA would be the smarter choice but that's not always how recruits pick. Gut feeling but I feel pretty good here and have since he decommitted from OSU.

People like Nina just have no clue at times

Pedantic I know, but a radar guided missle was used I believe. And no the guns would not have been better, I just saw an article in my news feed about a rogue balloon that evaded Canadian CF-18s after they fired 1000 rounds at it, as well as US and British planes. The bullets pierced the balloon, but it only created a slow leak and balloon made it past Icelandic airspace. https://www.businessinsider.com/runaway-weather-balloon-fighter-jets-history-2023-2

Was it the songs Mamba #1 - #4? I always wondered what happened to those songs.

Yep @Archy1221didn't read nor understand it

I mean you can keep being mad about wearing mask or you could move on.

From the Politico article it sounds like you didn’t read “This information was discovered after the prior administration left. The intelligence community is prepared to offer key officials from the Trump administration briefings on [China’s] surveillance program,” one of the officials said. The official, along with several others, asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive information.

Looks like SEC still likes the brown bag method of paying players. Old habits are hard to break

You know who else stood at a podium and told people what to do? Adolph Hitler. Look it up.

I think I have heard of Rufo. He pirated a presentation from FSU and a link to the documents. https://www.city-journal.org/florida-state-university-adopts-dei-programming https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23594672-fsu-dei-materials?responsive=1&title=1 Is “dumping” what Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp? “Coordinate grass roots or constituent support for position to achieve an elected officials shift in stance on issue, act as expert witnesses, attend conferences (Task Force, 1986) • Socialize and develop relationships with political operatives, legislative staff and elected officials, provide timely information to become credible resource to those in positions of power to effect change (Vincent, 1990) • Gain knowledge of substance of policy and legislative procedures, reduce complex data into simple, yet informative memos and talking points within political Organizing to change status quo (structural change activism) • Petition drives, picketing, performance art,teach-ins, vigils, overloading administrative systems, rent withholding, strikes, walk-outs, protests, marches, blacklisting, slow downs, sit downs, dumping, demonstrations (Sharp, 2010) • Mobilizing volunteers, boycotting,fasting, being arrested, • nonviolent civil disobedience, community”

Kinda like equating the masking protocols in an OR suite to walking around the general public and mandating masks.

There is a huge difference between February 4th and 5th 2023 and the summer of 2020 as far as knowledge of the virus, how fast it really was going to spread, how deadly it was going to be and....one era has nobody vaccinated while the other era has many people vaccinated. Really meaningless to try to equate sitting around a room today with a group of people and the early months of the pandemic.

Having the goal of abolishing poverty does not mean the current system didn't reduce poverty dramatically. The dramatic improvement also doesn't mean that capitalism is the only way to abolish poverty (or even that capitalism could ever abolish poverty). And reducing poverty broadly doesn't mean capitalism didn't create poverty in other ways. We can both acknowledge the successes of the current and past systems and want to do better in the future.

First he would have thought it was too big...but Yoda would show him it was possible.

Just to put a bow on how ridiculous the comparison is…. This past Friday/Saturday I worked a Society meeting of medical/surgical professionals meaning they see both clinic based patients and surgical patients. The meeting was held inside a hotel ballroom with at least a hundred attendees grouped together. Want to know how many wore a mask during the meeting?? 2 that I saw. Now remember, these are the same people you are saying we should tell that they are wasting their time

Mad.. I mean I and most of society has moved on as teach said earlier. Why you so mad about learning that societal mask mandates didn’t work? The only ones who seem mad are those who had their narrative busted yet keep trying to hold on to it

Ahhh, going with the operating in a surgical suite with open wounds is the same as walking around society argument

Just checking to see if you read her thread? If you did, you would realize she didn’t dispute the study outside of saying it involved RCT’s. Yet on post 7, she says the earlier non-RCT’s came to the same conclusion. Hmmm She is basically just complaining that there isn’t more data on the subject while stating all the data to date agrees with the outcome of the Cochran analysis Do you understand this?

A long thread that I don't expect @Archy1221to read nor understand.

Puts the nail in the coffin on mask mandates. Study comes from the Cochran Institute even. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html

I am guessing this is a much more well rounded approach, but it isn't nearly as fun. You know what is the most fun however? Winning. So I will hope for a heaping helping of that.

Put this one Democrat in the pot with all the other idiot Republicans.

People saw this guy in all his glory and voted for Trump anyway. And, even now, in a Biden vs Trump rematch they're going to do it again.

there is a difference between outrage and laughing at someone.

A saying comes to mind. Stupid: You can’t fix it. The proof has been in for a long time. The typical right-wing R voter is indeed stupid. They don’t want the truth, they only want their rage crops fed. Reasonable people’s first reaction is rightly that it’s a hysterical clown show. Unfortunately this thought falls by the wayside when we realize how real and dangerous it really is.

Sure, in a year we don’t play them, I don’t think about them as much. But, CU still sucks and I wish they could go 0-12 every year.

I’m also concerned about the “anti-woke” revolutionaries. They actually seem a bit more dangerous.

Performative outrage is all they have left. The Ballon, The upcoming debt ceiling fiasco, everything about the conservative movement can be summed up by understanding that their motive is simple: outrage theater.

Classic Archy: get debunked? Create a strawman! I'm not claiming a specific way the grid went down. The fact it's not the same cause as the last times the grid went down doesn't change the criticism. Abbott (or any of the Texas politicians) could have addressed the previous ways the grid went down or even used some fore thought about other ways the grid could go down and then set about looking at ways to prevent those things from happening. I mean, you could argue Abbot or the other politicians couldn't have foreseen ice storms causing branches to down power lines, but that's pretty weak since as you point out it has happened elsewhere.

Georgia still has my money

Would you say you're....waisting away? I'll show myself out

He shows so many outward signs of mental illness when he posts. Disgusting that we've got millions of people thinking that he can lead a country, and a lot of those think he was chosen by god to do so. Everybody know the story behind the deaths of Ivan The Terrible, King Edward IV, Oscar Wilde, Al Capone and what was suspected with Hitler, Lincoln?

is it me or does the alarmism sorta get drowned out by laughter when the word "balloon" is in it? They sound stupider than usual with this one, and I thought the gas stoves focus was pretty damn stupid.

Yes, I'm aware of this. Nothing about this changes the outcomes that Texas power grid keeps failing during cold weather events. I'm totally fine with criticizing any politicians that are not trying to solve this problem regardless of party. By all means, show us what those politicians have or haven't done. Abbott (and the state government) can pass laws requiring the power companies (or others) to take different actions. Yes, the state could pass laws requiring tree management near power lines (example). The state could also pass laws for burying power lines where ice storms are likely to down power lines or bury existing power lines that get downed by an ice storm, which Abbott could be proposing right now in order to prevent this from happening again.