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Post by bicentennial on Dec 17, 2021 20:05:00 GMT -5
I wonder if there is any chance that the Hoyas could still add another "transfer" player to the roster to help them in January. Hopefully they don't end up with only 7 scholarship players for any other games this year, but no one really knows when Tim or Kobe will be available. If you consider possible injuries, flu and COVID possibilities there is not much room for more player losses. There is one open scholarship now, with Tre leaving, so I guess they technically have space to add a player, but I am not sure if the NCAA would allow a player to transfer at this late date and be available to play right away. Does anyone know how that works? I don't but I do know players sometimes are allowed to transfer mid year. When I heard Turgeon was let go, I actually wondered about Qudus. I would think the team dynamics would be so terrible to bring back a player that chose to leave that no coach would ever want to bring that into the locker room. If a player who never transferred was at a school that let their coach go mid season, I would think there would be a reasonable expectation he might be allowed by the NCAA to play immediately mid year.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 17, 2021 19:47:17 GMT -5
Usually less than a 1/3 of the season should be eligible to red shirt. Did not play last game and we are 6-4. So as long as they play 27 games, he should be eligible for a medical redshirt. Historically GU does not usually apply a redshirt unless we want him to play a 5th (6th?)year when he is a senior! Not sure how that will work with the COVID eligibility rules. Does he get an extra year even though he is a freshman in 2021-2022 not 2020-2021?
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 13, 2021 14:01:14 GMT -5
GU 79 DU 69
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 7, 2021 10:55:18 GMT -5
I assume the administration can request an en banc review by all the judges of the 5th circuit.
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 3, 2021 21:24:06 GMT -5
Yeah kind of a deeper asking forgiveness vibe which is all you can hope for if you didn't ask permission!
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Post by bicentennial on Oct 18, 2021 23:15:02 GMT -5
I was at the GU toward the end of the years when the drinking age was 18. During my time at GU there were two falls from height off buildings involving alcohol but both persons survived and one fall not involving alcohol off the balcony by Harbin where the person did not. Although alcohol flowed fairly liberally at that time, I never observed any large scale fights. Young people then and today do things that are dangerous and sometimes sadly (despite adult guidance) are free to make their own mistakes. I do suspect that the lines in the sand lead to more severe punishments today than when I attended the hilltop.
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Post by bicentennial on Oct 18, 2021 21:21:05 GMT -5
. Why is predicting he’ll be back. Not on topic ? Please clarify Glad your back but no growth plates of bananas yet? I believe Dan was acknowledging his comment was not on topic, not yours!
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Post by bicentennial on Sept 23, 2021 21:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by bicentennial on Sept 13, 2021 13:18:01 GMT -5
It's almost like Nancy Pelosi is actually mandating the vaccine for Congress and it is working. Also Jackson is totally lying, I bet he jumped to the front of the line to get it, but can't admit that on Fox because getting a lifesaving vaccine makes you look weak and not part of Team Stupid. I actually really like this! This guy is saying that he got the vaccine because the democratic house leader bullied him into doing something to save his life. If only all bullies had our best interest in mind instead of trying to hurt us or take our stuff. I hate to hear what he thinks of his parents if they encouraged him to become a doctor and to be successful in life. I wonder if he bullied his kids into going to school or just told them to play hooky? I would question some of the above discussion about congress getting their health insurance through the ACA exchanges. While members of congress now have to sign up through the ACA, I believe Members of Congress get to sign up for free (or much reduced cost) for Gold (A) level plans. Most americans can barely afford to sign up for the Silver (B) level plans and many sign up for the Bronze level plans. I also suspect there are more Gold level plans available in the DC area then in individual states. Still it is good that the Members of Congress now have to sign up for plans that share much more with insurance the general public can purchase than the old Federal Employees plan. It was a long time position of the AMA that they favored a national health insurance plan that promised every American the same benefits that congress enjoyed.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 23, 2021 21:38:44 GMT -5
I have a close friend whose grandchildren attend a private school near Tampa. This school is not requiring masks. However, any child who tests positive will have to quarantine for two weeks, and remote learning will not be available. This struck me as a clever solution - to not require masks, but to imply that parents, you better damn well have your kids wear them. While it is Florida, I am nevertheless hoping that this works as planned. I'm just not sure having kids miss out on two weeks of schooling if they are well enough to learn remotely is ever a good thing. Illinois has perhaps gone to the other extreme. A wealthy private school in my town announce two weeks ago that they would not be requiring masks. This was despite the mandate for masking in schools ordered by Governor Prizker. The school received the notice that they were no longer a licensed school in Illinois from the Illinois Board of Education the next morning. This was the day before they were planning to start their school year. By that evening they had published a letter to parents explaining that they would be enforcing a mask mandate and thanking the Board of Education for their rapid attention to their licensing issues. They were able to open on time as a licensed K to 12 school in Illinois. Now that the Pfizer vaccine is fully authorized, I expect most hospitals and other health facilities to strongly consider imposing vaccine mandates for their employees.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 21, 2021 15:40:55 GMT -5
There was a study in Denmark last November that showed there was not a 50% reduction in cases in grade schoolers who wore masks relative to those who did not. There was a reduction in cases but it was not a 50% reduction and the study was not powered to be significant at a decrease of less than 50%. Garbage in garbage out. I suspect that with Delta being the dominant strain in Europe there will also be mask mandates in most of the European states that to not end up with massive pediatric COVID surges in the next few weeks. I am still amazed by the harms that are attributed to wearing face masks. If companies are making face masks out of materials that are unsafe then perhaps focusing on making safer face masks rather than not wearing them would seem to make more sense.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 21, 2021 14:27:56 GMT -5
School masking is not a black and white issue or settled science as todays article in NYMag points out. Unfortunately it is another isaue that has become political football in the US. Each of the WHO and European CDC do not recommend masking for children under 12 and countries like the UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark do not require. I like to come to data driven conclusions and I do not think there is strong data either way with respect to the effectiveness of school mask mandates at this point. nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.htmlI think there's a lot wrong with those comparisons. I don't think that it'll actually be the case that all those countries will be unmasked at the U12 or even the 12+ vaccinated level when school returns - I think people are punting the decision on masks till the last moment to avoid political pushback, and the Delta variant is causing last minute decisions that looked like they wouldn't be necessary in May and June when people started planning out policies for 2021-2022. I'm in MA and Governor Baker has said for weeks he is not going to require masks for vaccinated students, and our local Superintendent has been saying that too since May, and it sounds like they are both going to flip this week before school starts. Masks are just one NPI, and if you're not going to use them, you better have other NPIs in place to make up for the lack of them. All of those countries above have also used and are still willing to use other policy alternatives like strong forced lockdowns, mandatory testing, border control, and social distancing in schools that we've pretty much given up on and Switzerland is the only country in that group that isn't far ahead of us in terms of vaccination. From everything I've read, schools are the strongest nexus for spread in society - it's a perfect storm of lack of hygiene, close quarters on buses and classrooms that you don't see anywhere else in society, and mass congregation. When our government was researching pandemic preparedness in the aftermath of SARS and H5N1, closing schools came up as their best NPI for containing spread. We're unwilling to commit to any of the stronger NPI which affect our economy in any way. Masks in schools don't effect our economy, and I haven't really heard any good argument against them. I'm not sure where you are getting the information that masks are not being required in schools for Europe. The French Schools website indicates masks are required at all times inside buildings both for students and for teachers and depending on the pandemic warning level also in spaces outside. I took German in High School as well but did not feel my German skills would allow me to be certain looking directly at the german government's schools website. Anyways, at least in France masks are being required in grade school and older children similar to what is being required in the state where I live Illinois.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 17, 2021 21:58:33 GMT -5
At the moment obviously UConn bc I don’t even want to talk about regular season titles this until we are even in the top half of conference every year lol Not sure why you wouldn't go from 2013-14 on when the conference split. Then Nova has 7. Creighton, Seton Hal and Xavier each have one in that time period. Historically Nova has 11 to our 10 from the start of the Big East but Nova has either won it outright or shared the title all but one year since the Big East split. We have none.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 17, 2021 17:39:17 GMT -5
The problem with this is that E229 coronavirus does not seem to be developing variants the way COVID-19 does or if it does our immune response appears to be adequate for covering the variants and keeping them from being a severe illness. Unfortunately there are well documented cases of people with severe respiratory illness including need for ventilators and death following Covid Delta variant despite having recovered from COVID last year before Delta was circulating. The other issue with this is that historically children have far more colds than adults. As average grade school age child has about 6 upper respiratory infections each year. Some of these colds are with the circulating corona viruses. For the last 1.5 years children in most communities have been exposed to far fewer viruses than historically since many did not attend school or wore masks and had less frequent exposures to their peers. That appears to be ending at least in the southern states where children will be sent to schools that are not allowed to have mask mandates. I suspect it will be a very bad year for pediatric respiratory infections. Not sure the children's hospitals will be able to handle a flu, paraflu, rsv, human metapneumovirus and adenovirus spike all at the same time as more children than ever before are getting sick with the COVID-19 delta variant. In some ways Delta is really a second pandemic which is predomninantly harming the unvaccinated, even some who have previously been ill with the early variant COVID.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 15, 2021 13:17:33 GMT -5
Question for the medical experts on here. What do we make of Iceland. 96% of all women and 90% of all men over the age of 16 are vaccinated and the country has just been added to the DO NOT TRAVEL LIST by the CDC/State Department and is experiencing its highest level of "cases" in the entire pandemic. If the vaccine isn't the way out, what is? At what point will there a discussion on whether COVID-19 has become an endemic coronavirus that we need to learn to live with that will have seasonal spikes? At what point will a "case" be redefined as a positive test PLUS clinical symptoms? At what point does this stop being political football? For example, countries in Europe that aren't requiring masking in schools aren't trying to "kill kids" any more than countries that are mandating them are trying to "suffocate kids and prevent learning." Many of the country’s recent infections have occurred among vaccinated people, but they’ve been overwhelmingly mild. So even as new cases multiplied, Iceland’s rates of covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths have remained low. Of the 1,300 people currently infected, just 2 percent are in the hospital. The country hasn’t recorded a virus death since late May. www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-covid-surge-vaccines/2021/08/14/bdd88d04-fabd-11eb-911c-524bc8b68f17_story.htmlI don't know why the titles of articles on news feeds often have nothing to do with the actual reporting in the article. It is quite concerning that the title of the article about iceland on my news feed from AT&T says that iceland should be a concern to everyone getting vaccinated but when you read the actual article it notes that the only people being hospitalized in iceland are the unvaccinated.
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Post by bicentennial on Aug 1, 2021 11:47:01 GMT -5
Be careful, guys. The snowflake MAGA Republicans here may accuse you of the dreaded Rule 3 violation! 😁 Their inability to respond in any substantive manner demostrates the emptiness of their cult/party. Look the mods have a hard time trying to allow dialogues to occur without jumping in and invoking name calling all the time. I think Dan does a great job not jumping in too frequently so when he says hey knock it off, it is justified. I see little benefit from baiting Dan or the other mods to jump in. I have read about 20 posts asking the republicans on the board to comment and while I only find 10% of what Easy Ed says correct, his return answered that call and furthers the understanding of how people from different perspectives can have different views. That is not a bad thing.
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Post by bicentennial on Jul 31, 2021 18:49:42 GMT -5
14% of the population is under 12 and vaccine responses in young children have often been quite poor. Often vaccines for young children require multiple doses or often specially developed vaccines. Assuming the current pfizer or moderna vaccine works well in older children (say 5 and over), I think a 5-7% total increase in vaccination rate for the whole population might be possible with this strategy assuming that the 40% of adults who won't get vaccines are also unlikely to vaccinate their children. So, no this will not get us anywhere near to 80-85% of our total population. Since people don't want a free vaccine provided by our tax dollars which has been proven to to save lives, I suggest a new strategy. A dual strategy of making the vaccine have a cost past a future date as well as a "moron" tax fining anyone who does not get the vaccine by an even later date could be used to provide incentive. This would certainly be justified as people who are un-vaccinated are clearly a danger to public safety and health.
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Post by bicentennial on Jul 31, 2021 18:27:09 GMT -5
They need to hurry up and get kids vaccinated. That would push the vaccination rate up to the 80-85% range.
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Post by bicentennial on Jul 28, 2021 22:17:02 GMT -5
I wonder if Easy Ed would agree not that the republican party was against vaccinating but that certain conservative media personalities as well as the former president have used their platforms to support anti vaxers and to create fear of receiving the vaccination. I am part of the largest medical group in Dupage County IL which historically has been the one of the most republican counties in Illinois. In the last election the county swung democratic both as a result of changing demographics and as a result of a well educated but moderately conservative population responding to the horribly botched response to COVID. The county has achieved the highest vaccination rate of any county in Illinois. Unfortunately that number is still only just approaching 60%. Many of the people who are in our community and are not getting the vaccine have real fear that the vaccine may do them harm. This is a message they are not getting from their family members who have received the vaccine but a message they are getting from the media. That message does not appear to be on the network news shows, CNN or the news feeds from the local internet provider companies. I have heard from others that that message is coming from several Fox media personalities as well as from other more recent "conservative" news networks. Easy Ed, do you at least agree that news networks and personalities on those platforms who encourage unfounded fears of vaccination are responsible for some if not many of the persons who are choosing not to get vaccinated.
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Post by bicentennial on Jul 27, 2021 23:03:41 GMT -5
Three things I would like to see: (1) Republican and Democratic leaders, including the past and present Presidents, having a joint prime-time TV appearance urging all Americans to be vaccinated (2) drop the CDC mask recommendation announced today, and (3) go warp speed on a booster shot program. The key to getting COVID and its different variants under control is convincing the American people to get vaccinated. The mask recommendations today gets in the way of convincing the people. Number 1 will never happen, and we all know why. Just as an aside, my closest friend's daughter-in-law is chief of pediatrics at a hospital in Richmond, CA. She said that the ICU in her hospital is now at 90% capacity with COVID patients. Zero percent vaccinated. Haven't we been down this road before? This could have easily been avoided. The sad thing is I understand how fed up people are about wearing masks. I also agree that one of the selling points to get hold outs to vaccinate is no longer needing to wear masks. The data released this week shows that the delta strain of COVID is very good at passing from mildly ill vaccinated individuals to unvaccinated individuals who remain at risk for severe illness and death. This is very different from the data on the other strains (available earlier in this thread) which showed vaccinated individuals almost never passed on the other strains of COVID. Ultimately, I think that the CDC is now asking the 60% of our population who are reasonable and have taken steps to help society to protect the idiotic 40% of our society who won't get vaccinated. I am not sure that all the efforts of the 60% can save the 40% who are unwilling to listen to reason. Ultimately the difference between the current administration and the last one is that this administration is trying to help everyone, while the last administration appeared only interested in helping themselves!
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