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It’s the same thing Einstein, when you use it the way you have been. I comprehend just fine. Maybe you should realize what you are actually saying and have been promoting on this board for some time now. Are we to believe that you actually think masking works but mandates don’t? That’s just plain brilliant. I know one thing…masking sure as hell won’t work without a mandate. It only sort of worked because a bunch of knuckledraggers decided they didn’t want to comply with any mandates. These simple concepts shouldn’t need to be explained to you ad nauseum. Yet you act like it’s others who don’t get your point about mandates How many fewer people would mask without a mandate? Your argument and position on this is garbage.

Still yammering on, yelling at the clouds, not reading any of the articles that question the rigor of the study that purportedly "put's a nail in the coffin of mask mandates" all to make political "gotcha points" is really the quintessential symptom. Whereas someone more balanced might say "hmmm...ok. Let's see what others in the field say, that's see if more rigorous studies come out, let's not go all in on a study that has been shown, clearly to have it's limitations, even by the authors". No, better to just dig the heels in because it's too debasing to see one's self over it's skiis on some random, anonymous internet forum. It's a self fulfilling prophecy by the right to refuse to comply because of "muh freedums" then spout off about it with the first inkling of the practice not being 100% effective.

Utter f#&%ing brilliance. Masking doesn’t work because mandates aren’t followed. JFC Did you come up with this pure gold nugget of wisdom on your own? #self fulfilling lack of compliance

now that side is proudly proclaiming that mandates don't work because compliance was so poor. amazing how that works, isn't it?

The problem with your argument is that the non compliance was due to people who didn't believe the pandemic was anything to worry about and many were instead believing the crap conspiracy theories being thrown around by people with ulterior motives.

I don't know, man. I look back at portable truck freezers full of dead bodies, hospitals overrun with patients, no vaccine available, limited knowledge how to effectively care for sick patients. The least thing I personally could do was wear a mask and abide by mask mandates as much as possible. No point in me being an a$$h@!e about it because i don't like how it feels on my face. Even when we started to figure some of that other stuff out such as having an available vaccine, I still could still tough it out for the benefit of others. But some people were so selfish, they couldn't even fathom the idea from day one. Just constantly complaining about everything they see as an inconvenience to their lives. Never willing to make the simplest sacrifice to try and make a difference.

Of course that book should be banned. It's about a black kid growing up in a very racist society, dreaming of doing great things and then succeeding at that while motivating other black kids to do the same. I'm sure it's banned because it dared to portray America as being a racist society. That s#!t can't be tolerated. Can you imagine if the movie Roots would be filmed today? That would be way too woke. Kunta Kinte would have to be portrayed as buying a ticket on the ship to leave Africa and being welcomed with happy open arms by nice white people in America.

The first "mask" I wore was a doubled up neck gaiter. After that it was cloth masks from Amazon. Didn't start wearing the N95 masks until much later, when stores weren't constantly sold out. America was completely unprepared for a pandemic like this. Sad thing is, not only have we not learned anything, half the country is sure we've learned the wrong things and will actively push back on future directives from the CDC. Republicans politicizing everything about the pandemic really bolloxed this whole thing. Extra death stats very much bear that out. For a country that tells itself it's the greatest country in the world, we certainly showed our a$$ during the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/park_neb/status/1621560085209038849?s=20

I don't think he needs to either. Any moderate faction of the Republican Party has slowly but surely been consumed by the MAGAtts. That Party is completely unrecognizable. Basically a skeleton of its former self.

This only supports the inevitable fact that every option was wildly imperfect. Of course a lot of folks immediately jumped to hysterical extremes, but the experts merely claimed masks were the easiest tool at our disposal; that they were pretty good at preventing the oral spread of viral particulate, not so good at preventing inhalation. People who wore masks out of fear weren't lowering the risk factor for themselves as much as they were lowering the risk for others, including the maskless. The surgeons who wear masks during every operation aren't worried about getting cooties from the patient. Without compliance, it really was a wash. Option 1 was to just say "f#&% it." In hindsight it might not have made much difference. Others likely have evidence it saved thousands of lives. Also, the "mandates" were all over the place; decisions made by individual businesses and localities. We had high schools three miles away from each other with completely different COVID policies. Some towns never closed down their restaurants or bars. Meat-packing plants and assembly line operations courageously forged ahead in those early days until too many people started dropping dead. And of course you prefer the insinuation that mask mandates were an over-reach by U.S. Democrats, but nations and governments as diverse as Brazil, Russia, Peru, Sweden, India, Mexico, Germany and the UK were hammered by COVID and none of them arrived at the magic balance of public safety and personal freedom you want to pretend was obvious from the beginning. Asian nations have a lot more experience with pandemics than the U.S., and zero of them rejected masks as ineffective. Are mask mandates inefficient when a significant portion of the population sees them as a political litmus test, or don't believe the science because a conservative ideology is working overtime to discredit the government and science itself as elitist? You got me there.

I think we can all agree that the people in charge of all of this have learned a lot from this pandemic. The modern world has never experienced anything like this before and we were all learning on the fly. Two things are true: 1) The people that freaked out and went way overboard, were over reacting to the pandemic to a certain degree. 2) The people who think it was nothing but a flu and that the experts trying to control it are evil and started horrible rumors that certain people created the virus to control the masses...etc, are only saying that to do their own version of "controlling the masses". The world was in a very difficult situation and I firmly believe that the experts (as a group) were doing the best they could with the information they had. Hopefully, everyone has learned from the experience. The problem is, most of the people in group one, probably are looking at science and learning from it. The people in group two, have used it to learn how to spread mass disinformation and create new and worse conspiracy theories that are only going to get worse and harm people.

this isn't wrong

This has to be your shortest post ever.

At this point it's up to the Republicans to differentiate themselves from rage-fomenting extremists. Biden should just call them "Republicans" and make them all accept credit/blame for the obstructionism and discourse until proven otherwise.

Knapp....come on, man, just let me have this.

They are guarding against splash in case you didn’t know or understand. Whether that’s cooties or actual liquid splash, I will leave that up to you. An unnecessary policy by any politician regardless of party. I don’t differ by political party like you seem to be doing. As usual.

How bout we beat them 42-0, but they make a bowl game played at 11 AM on Dec 16th against a directional school and hang 60 points getting his 25.0 ppg average and he receives an extension and a raise. But I would take you scenario too.

desantis didn't ban the books...he only passed the law that allows these people to ban the books and his followers think it's a great victory. i wonder why this book was banned?

Like clockwork it arrives and by all means continues to prove that the study in question was not read and if it was was, not understood. Double down to avoid ever admitting being out of it's element. A hallmark symptom. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-of-death-in-the-us-average-number-daily/

I’m sure you will soon be presenting your findings that the mask mandates were a boon to fighting Covid spread. If you aren’t too busy making clown memes that is.

Kinda one of the points they don’t work.

The amount of vitriol all the way up to death threats that legit virologists, epidemiologists, and public health officials received over the past three years is easy to see in real time by looking at the timeline on some of their Twitter feeds. If anti-vax, anti-masker, and anti any mitigation steps wackos had their way we'd jump back 200 years when our life expectancy was 35 years. It absolutely does not bode well for the next time a coronavirus jumps species to humans or whatever else will inevitably come our way. But as long as there's political hay to be made by the likes of our next President, Desantis, they will continue to seek "advice" from the crazies like the dermatologist Covid advisor he has that wants to put Fauci in front of a firing squad.

Do the conservative news sources you cite talk about the growing influence of white supremacists within the mainstream Republican Party?

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.

looks like she kept her same script from last year

Nick Naylor….. Oh man. Good one

Could they make a more boring video?

Ha, if you can't laugh at yourself. I mean could you imagine Trump laughing at himself over something like this if it was him instead. I can't. Trump's not the kind of guy I'd have a beer with because of that. Biden on the other hand? Yeah I'd have beer with him. Well maybe it would have to be an ice cream cone.

Huh. Not canelled...

Still not actually reading or comprehending what others are writing. Please don’t change.

McCarthy can go f#&% himself for all I care because of a lot of things. But, I would agree with him on this. Biden would be better served to not dive into this tonight.

this guy should be on TV more than the far right hero who killed 2 people.

The same party that is going to haul Dr. Fauci in front of congress. Doh.

you forgot to list the "do not comply" faction of the republican party telling their constituents to ignore masks

Here's my hope: they're at 24.5 PPG by the Nebraska game, score enough to bump that to 25, but still lose so they have to retain him.

It would be quite fair to say this language is attached to a great deal of studies with post hoc analysis. Doesn’t make the data inside it any different

She's pointing out that the Cochran study was mainly based on studies conducted BEFORE the covid pandemic While also pointing out she wouldn’t expect different results based on it being Covid instead of Flu or SARS

At some point, there will be a much worse pandemic and the death count will be much higher because of all the anti-vax/anti mask crap that was spewed during this situation. Then, the people trying to find every ounce of internet information they can to prove all the vax and mask stuff was totally worthless....and believing it.

Hopefully we get to the bottom of: who is actually controlling the Jewish Space Laser? But in all seriousness, this isn't surprising. The GOP has always been this. All Trump did was rip off the mask so people could see the crazy in all its glory.

Oh no. Ts n Ps

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.