CardinalBacker

But if you were recovering from COVID with lung scarring, etc, an otherwise harmless knee on the neck could send you on to the promised land a little earlier than we’d all expect.

I only know of one person that I believe was a false negative... but she had all of the symptoms. Hopefully she’ll take the antibodies test at some point and clear up whether she’s had it. I think there are a lot that have had it but aren’t included in the official stats because they weren’t tested or never had symptoms. I also think there has been some “fudging” of the numbers in regards to COVID linked deaths as well... so many of the deaths were nursing home patients, and let’s be honest... a bunch of them had to have been on DNR restrictions. A freaking UTI can do you in when you’re 90+ years old. But it sounds like you kid probably had it.

But you can have both... how many have been reported as COVID when it wasn’t a factor? Technically George Floyd would count as a Covid death.... if he was active as has been reported.

Sounds about right. If I’m not mistaken, your bout with it won’t count as a confirmed case according to guidelines, will it?

I’d be excited for a competitive game after the last couple of years. You know that I was kidding when I said that about Lib/Sil being for third. I don’t think Silsbee is a lock for first/second anymore. They might still finish there (and I wouldn’t be surprised), but they are off to a shaky start. Kinda strange hearing about the o-line problems because I understood that was the Tiger King’s specialty. Dunno.

When an offensive juggernaut like HJ puts 26 on a team and the next week Silsbee can only find the end zone twice against the same squad.... something’s up. I’m fully aware that los Tigres tend to get it together as the season moves on... but we’re two weeks into district play now. I’m concerned, honestly.

Is it truly better to have loved and lost or to have never loved at all? Y’all ‘bout as impressive as us these days.

Mecca.... I said it.

Give him a little more time....

I haven’t really been following B-Unit this year... how are the locals feeling about the new coaching staff? Sounds like they hung a lot of points on the Port Neches Football Team.

And styrofoam.

You were in College for 10 years? Must be Dr. Bulldogs92.

Jeez.... this is the same Liberty team that HJ thumped last week? The Tigres are usually pulling it together by now.

One down....

Wrong again.

Yeah.... no offense, but we’ve been a small dog in 4AD1 and we’re well aware of what it feels like to play schools that were a lot larger than us. More bodies, bigger bodies, more athletic big kids. I’ve been saying for years that I’d rather get out-athleted by Silsbee or WOS than laid on by a bunch of fat boys from Huffman or Lumberton. We should be able to lay on teams like HF and OF. If we can’t, that’s on us.

“The board is doing away with "chain gang,” a long-time nickname used by the defense of the West Orange-Stark High School football team according to the announcement. The nickname is being dropped due to the “negative historical root of the phrase” according to the statement.” It doesn’t really matter how “fond” of the slur that your moderator is, or how accustomed he is to using that label now that they’ve asked all of us to stop using it. At this point he needs to stop using that insulting name and apologize for being insensitive, or give up his position of authority here. There’s no excuse for continuing to use a slur once somebody points out your shortcoming, and it definitely shouldn’t be excused like it sounds like you’re trying to do.

Dude... when mods are using slurs that protected classes have proclaimed to be offensive and oppressive... He needs to be called out. I thought I was supposed to call out racial injustice wherever I see it, right? Stop being a baby.

Not uptight at the board at all... it's just kinda nutty when the school/team announce that the name is insensitive and offensive and one of the mods says "who cares, I'll call them what I want." It's a slur. Plain and simple.

NO, SIR..... that term has been deemed racist and offensive to minorities by those who matter, and any further use of that type of language WILL get you banned from this site, sir. It's just like when my homosexual coworker changed his name from "Kenny" to "Brayden." We all respected his wishes and understood that our jobs were on the line if we taunted him with this former name. Do you understand me?

"Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No they can’t. They can’t count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning, they lost, it’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that." The only hoax is when Democrats (and you) keep claiming that the President called the virus a hoax. This is a transcript of the speech you are alluding to... If you've ever even heard it or read about it. He calls the Democratic criticism of the Adminstration's pandemic response as "their new hoax," likening their new criticism to their previous criticism of Russian Collusion, Impeachment, etc, etc... At that point, with 15 total cases in the US, the dems were already piling on. Seeing has to how you and others keep repeating lies.... he wasn't wrong.

The virus is definitely real. My thoughts are that if you subtract out the unfortunate cases where the patient had severe underlying conditions AND the numbskulls that won't even try to alter their habits (social distancing, voluntarily wearing a mask, etc....), the thing really isn't the Bubonic Plague. Not even close. Their ability to treat the thing has gotten much, much better as the thing has progressed. Most of us know somebody (or at least know of somebody) who has died from the virus. But we can't count the number of people that we've lost to cancer, heart attacks, car wrecks, old age, etc.... we need to do the best that we can, but keep moving forward.

If you take the CDC figures of 7.31 million confirmed cases and 208k deaths, (7.31m/208k) you end up with 0.0284. That's 2.84%. And I'm assuming that he's using US cases only, because that's all that really matters to me. The problem is that I know multiple people who have tested positive for the antibodies, but never tested positive for the actual virus. It's obvious that they've contracted the illness with no symptoms and also never appeared as active cases... Not in the 7.31 million. I also know a handful of people who had the thing in all probability (sick family member tested positive, then they exhibited the same symptoms after exposure but weren't ever tested. Those people aren't included in the 7.31 million confirmed cases, either. All I can do is estimate, based purely on wild speculation that the total number of people who have been infected in the US is at least 3-4 times higher than the number of confirmed cases. That would push the mortality rate down to negligible levels.

Son, I went to public school.

I felt like that with a toothache one time.... I wish we could have shut the country down then, too.