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Oldsouljer said:

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FlossyDFlynt said:

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Went to the Canes game at PNC last night. It was absolutely incredible to be back at a sporting event with a mostly full crowd. They were pretty strict with the mask rule, but otherwise, it felt almost normal.

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Glad you enjoyed it. That restriction would have a deal breaker for me, though.

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Brother, you must have more opportunities to enjoy playoff hockey than me.

I'm still jealous over my season ticket holder coworkers that got to enjoy the 06 cup run in person.

Closest I've ever gotten to a major championship otherwise was my parents taking me out to the Brickyard in my footie pajamas to watch the natty celebration bonfires in 83.

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It is good to see people back in the building. I think events like this will continue to boost public confidence (and get us back to full capacity in Carter-Finley in the fall).

Side note - I had a 10 game regular season pack in 06, and my dad and I bought the playoff package. It was a hell of a run. Attending a Game 7 Stanley Cup Final and seeing the Cup awarded live was definitely a top sports moment for me.

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Civilized said:

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Oldsouljer said:

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FlossyDFlynt said:

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Went to the Canes game at PNC last night. It was absolutely incredible to be back at a sporting event with a mostly full crowd. They were pretty strict with the mask rule, but otherwise, it felt almost normal.

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Glad you enjoyed it. That restriction would have a deal breaker for me, though.

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Brother, you must have more opportunities to enjoy playoff hockey than me.

I'm still jealous over my season ticket holder coworkers that got to enjoy the 06 cup run in person.

Closest I've ever gotten to a major championship otherwise was my parents taking me out to the Brickyard in my footie pajamas to watch the natty celebration bonfires in 83.

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This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board’s mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.

You’re going to want to watch this one… pic.twitter.com/8y7SwNOLot

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 18, 2021

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This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board’s mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.

You’re going to want to watch this one… pic.twitter.com/8y7SwNOLot

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 18, 2021

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RunsWithWolves26 said:

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I just got a call that a man I've known 30 years passed away after 16 days in ICU from covid. Could you, for the love of god, stop calling it a scamdeminic, fake, not real, whatever the hell it is you like to say? Damn, I sure as hell hope you don't have anyone close to you suffer from this. Even then, I can't see you changing your thoughts anyway.

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Mormad said:

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GuerrillaPack said:

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RunsWithWolves26 said:

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I just got a call that a man I've known 30 years passed away after 16 days in ICU from covid. Could you, for the love of god, stop calling it a scamdeminic, fake, not real, whatever the hell it is you like to say? Damn, I sure as hell hope you don't have anyone close to you suffer from this. Even then, I can't see you changing your thoughts anyway.

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I'm not saying a virus doesn't exist. Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from the flu also - until this year, when they claim the flu "vanished" worldwide. What I'm saying is that deaths are being falsely attributed to this and misdiagnosed, on a massive scale.

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Please, for the love of all that is Holy, give us one shred of evidence, in your vast experience with diagnosing and managing human disease, besides your opinion that this disease is misdiagnosed and falsely attributed on a massive scale. Just one tiny reliable, rational, and reasonable shred of evidence. If you can't (which you can't), then just stop. Many here have either suffered from this or have lost loved ones. And you continue to pound your chest in your paradox of complete ignorance. Those who understand the least are often the most vocal and confident in their misguided thinking.

Your opinion is a fallacy. You can't understand it, so you scream to anybody who will listen that it must be false. You keep screaming that people haven't died of covid, but of other issues falsely attributed to covid because of some stupid tweet by an ignorant person who can't interpret information and form a coherent thought. People don't die of car wrecks. They die of head injuries and other complications of car wrecks. Those complications are listed as the COD on death certificates, and yet no reasonable human interprets that as false attribution and uses such ignorant thinking to argue against seat belts. It's mind boggling that is so hard to understand for so many Americans who are looking for blame and rant about stuff they don't understand in ignorance.

We have postulated on this very thread the reasons the flu has disappeared. Your lack of understanding does not make covid false. It means you just don't get it.

We've also explained why those who die in accidents with covid still count in covid numbers (and that's a relatively small number in comparison to those who die of covid). It's called community health, and the numbers have to be tracked in a pandemic. You don't have to like how policy makers misuse that data by misunderstanding like you do, but the data itself and its purpose is not wrong.

I wish i could block your covid posts and still read your rants against liberalism and other things, buddy. Because i cheer you on in those threads and it makes me smile, but in this thread you're just wrong.

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BBW12OG said:

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So anybody want to chime in on the fact this was a weapon? Just asking....

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GuerrillaPack said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CPHMA7vg9-G

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Daviewolf83 said:

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RunsWithWolves26 said:

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7 day national running average now under 28,000 new cases per day. Is this due to the vaccine, warmer weather, etc or a combination? I'm gun shy at this point to get excited about it because I've seen it before and then it jumps right back up. Hoping this time is different.

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It is due to both vaccines and some seasonality is involved as well. If you look at hospitalizations (better measure than cases), you can see the effect of vaccines more clearly. The age stratification has been effectively removed by the vaccines.

However, in the data you will also still see the effects of seasonality, since not everyone is vaccinated and as such, the virus still has places it can go and infect people. For this reason, seasonality trends will continue and I fully expect an increase in hospitalizations and some deaths in the late June to August timeframe. We saw this same trend last year and it comes from the fact that it gets very hot and people go inside to the air conditioning.

Due to vaccines, I do not expect it to be to the same level as last year. I also expect that over 90% of those who will be hospitalized at this time will be those who chose not to get vaccinated and some of those people who already have significant health issues. We will see cases increase during this period if we continue to test vaccinated people who are asymptomatic, but these types of cases will not lead to hospitalizations and will not be significant transmission vectors for the virus. As far as hospitalization capacity is concerned, I do not expect any regions to see any issues with the next seasonal rise in cases.

Bottom line - we should stop testing people who are fully vaccinated that are asymptomatic. The PCR tests being used will pick up people who are shedding viral proteins that are not infected and are not transmitting the virus. This is now what is considered to have happened with the Yankee's testing a couple of weeks ago (players not infected, but shedding virus after coming in contact with an unvaccinated, infected person) and what happened this week with a hockey team.

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Daviewolf83 said:

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RunsWithWolves26 said:

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7 day national running average now under 28,000 new cases per day. Is this due to the vaccine, warmer weather, etc or a combination? I'm gun shy at this point to get excited about it because I've seen it before and then it jumps right back up. Hoping this time is different.

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It is due to both vaccines and some seasonality is involved as well. If you look at hospitalizations (better measure than cases), you can see the effect of vaccines more clearly. The age stratification has been effectively removed by the vaccines.

However, in the data you will also still see the effects of seasonality, since not everyone is vaccinated and as such, the virus still has places it can go and infect people. For this reason, seasonality trends will continue and I fully expect an increase in hospitalizations and some deaths in the late June to August timeframe. We saw this same trend last year and it comes from the fact that it gets very hot and people go inside to the air conditioning.

Due to vaccines, I do not expect it to be to the same level as last year. I also expect that over 90% of those who will be hospitalized at this time will be those who chose not to get vaccinated and some of those people who already have significant health issues. We will see cases increase during this period if we continue to test vaccinated people who are asymptomatic, but these types of cases will not lead to hospitalizations and will not be significant transmission vectors for the virus. As far as hospitalization capacity is concerned, I do not expect any regions to see any issues with the next seasonal rise in cases.

Bottom line - we should stop testing people who are fully vaccinated that are asymptomatic. The PCR tests being used will pick up people who are shedding viral proteins that are not infected and are not transmitting the virus. This is now what is considered to have happened with the Yankee's testing a couple of weeks ago (players not infected, but shedding virus after coming in contact with an unvaccinated, infected person) and what happened this week with a hockey team.

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GuerrillaPack said:

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RunsWithWolves26 said:

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I just got a call that a man I've known 30 years passed away after 16 days in ICU from covid. Could you, for the love of god, stop calling it a scamdeminic, fake, not real, whatever the hell it is you like to say? Damn, I sure as hell hope you don't have anyone close to you suffer from this. Even then, I can't see you changing your thoughts anyway.

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I'm not saying a virus doesn't exist. Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from the flu also - until this year, when they claim the flu "vanished" worldwide. What I'm saying is that deaths are being falsely attributed to this and misdiagnosed, on a massive scale.

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wolfman18 said:

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I've wondered about something, but I'm definitely no doctor. These vaccines are effective against the covid 19.

The common cold is a virus, no? It may be a stupid question, but would these vaccines create proteins that would help prevent the common cold?

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packgrad said:

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Some teenagers and young adults who received COVID-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group said, recommending further study of the rare condition.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in a statement dated May 17 said it had looked into reports that a few young vaccine recipients, predominantly adolescents and young adults, and predominantly male, developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.


https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-investigating-heart-problem-few-young-vaccine-recipients-nyt-2021-05-22/

Anecdotally and not the same, I've gone into Afib twice since the vaccine. Never before. Now, i have it in my genes as my dad and mom both get it, but they did much older. Additionally, I had contributing factors (alcohol, caffeine, and dehydration). But I've never gone into afib before, and have done so twice now since being vaccinated. Once for 4 days.

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Mormad said:

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packgrad said:

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Some teenagers and young adults who received COVID-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group said, recommending further study of the rare condition.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in a statement dated May 17 said it had looked into reports that a few young vaccine recipients, predominantly adolescents and young adults, and predominantly male, developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.


https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-investigating-heart-problem-few-young-vaccine-recipients-nyt-2021-05-22/

Anecdotally and not the same, I've gone into Afib twice since the vaccine. Never before. Now, i have it in my genes as my dad and mom both get it, but they did much older. Additionally, I had contributing factors (alcohol, caffeine, and dehydration). But I've never gone into afib before, and have done so twice now since being vaccinated. Once for 4 days.

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Ruh roh raggy. Have you gotten checked out by a cardiologist yet?

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