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I hope the below was reported incorrectly because if not this makes no sense. You swab upfront to check for active infections. You don’t test for antibodies to determine who needs a swab test. Just makes no sense if true. The limited research I have seen indicates if takes a couple weeks for antibodies to show. By then, an asymptomatic person would have very likely be rid of the active infection and test negative. Conversely an asymptomatic player with an active infection probably wouldn’t register antibodies yet. Even the swab test might show negative in the earlier stages of infection. You swab them all, repeat 10-12 days later. Then antibody tests if you want to see who had it at some point during the months prior to arrival. “The school’s football players are taking blood tests for COVID-19 antibodies upon their return. Players who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies are immediately given a follow-up nasal swab test and are isolated to prevent an infection from spreading.” CDC on antibody tests: In general, a positive antibody test is presumed to mean a person has been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at some point in the past. It does not mean they are currently infected. Antibodies start developing within 1 to 3 weeks after infection. Antibody test results should not be used to determine if someone can return to work. Antibody test results should not be used to group people together in settings such as schools, dormitories, and correctional facilities. Serologic tests detect waning or past SARS-CoV-2 virus infection indirectly, by measuring the host humoral immune response to the virus. Therefore, serology assays do not typically replace direct detection methods as the primary tool for diagnosing an active SARS-CoV-2 infection, but they do have several important applications in monitoring and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

glad to see the LSU players were taking things seriously

Shaun King IMO is a fringe guy. Some of these statute things will happen but probably mostly in the heat of the moment. People like King take radical positions because it’s radical. Most rational people at this point ignore him. On your other point, I think churches that are anti-LGBTQ should be allowed to be so. They are allowed their opinion but their members should not be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ persons in federally protected areas. The Supreme Court said the same. But on a technical point , they literally are bigots. They are allowed to be, but they are bigots. No interpretation needed. Definition of bigot. : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.

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Oh we sign 4-6 each year but they lack offers and are rarely capable of playing tackle. I feel like we have 40 interior linemen on the roster.

Well not from the Southern perspective. From the Northern perspective it was better than counting slaves as “people” but they still allowed Southern states to increase (maintain?) their influence. The Senate and Electoral College also created insulation for the sparsely populated Southern states. They still do in fact as we have seen this century.

Well yes. With all we go through in my line of work, there are still traitors that somehow get through.

You were unhappy with responses that didn’t address your assertions so I tried to answer you directly paragraph by paragraph. I am also including some excerpts from my bio terrorism and public health textbooks as backing evidence to my statements. 1) Yes we DO know that more people are dying and they aren’t all old people. Plus - as I have said ad nauseam - it isn’t only about deaths. People are suffering from heart and kidney problems from this, in addition to lingering lung problems. “Recovered” means not dead, not free of sometimes serious health problems. 2) It is wrong to not wear a mask in enclosed public places like bars, especially if you generally don’t practice physical distancing or use a mask. It protects others from you. 3) You likely won’t die. You are more likely to just help spread the virus and not know it. Take a look at the rising cases in FL, AZ, and TX. My current city relaxed measures and people stopped wearing masks. We went from around 25 cases a day to today’s reported 192 within a week. Has been rising all week. I think you can do the math. Masks aren’t perfect but they help. The problem with your belief is that it probably affects you less than it affects others around you. The drunk driver usually survives the crash, if you get my analogy. 4) I wish I could see you at Apogee but I can’t make it. If I could, however, I would skip that beer. You are one of the people I look forward to seeing but I would not expose my family to you because of what you practice. Not this year. 5) The virus wasn’t completely avoidable but we did little to prevent its spread in the US. We didn’t have early testing capacity. We didn’t adequately try to do contract tracing of incoming infected patients from overseas. We are the most powerful nation in the world and we had advanced notice. We should have tested everyone coming from China early on and then from Korea, Europe, and a few other selected countries at a minimum. As I understand that still isn’t happening. We could have require a two week at home quarantine upon arrive with or without testing. That rarely happened. We should have encouraged masks earlier but we didn’t because we didn’t have sufficient masks for medical professionals so we couldn’t. Then masks were stigmatized as not cool or not manly or some bullshit. Our political leadership didn’t follow their own guidance and even blatantly disregarded local regulations when visiting. Not to mention downplayed the virus and it’s seriousness while pushing false curses and false hopes for vaccines. It was almost a complete failure all around. New Zealand zeroed our COVID recently and then apologized when two cases popped up. We have over a 100k dead and rising and we haven’t had a task force briefing in over a month. Simply put, we knew how to deal with this kind of thing and chose not to. I hope this adequately addressed your questions, Thomas. Stay healthy because I look forward to that next beer with you sometime. Ben

I think this board is plenty of proof a four year degree doesn’t inoculate people from racism and ignorance. I am curious about the background investigation. For my job, mine was about six months. And I don’t carry a gun. I think the screening probably weeds out a lot of bad actors but I am curious if the process is ongoing. I have to answer for my actions regularly and have a full review every five years. And medical.

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The generals whose names are on army bases knew what the fight was about. Most were commissioned US officers at the time who took up arms against their fellow colleagues. I am good with calling them traitors. My ancestors were among them. I don’t even need a degree in history to figure it out (although spoiler alert I do have one).

Given the shortened evaluation time available to coaches, I am good with extending the competition into OOC games. As you pointed out, the outcomes of the first two games are likely already all but decided so might as well see how the top 2 contenders perform in meaningful live action.

The thing that worries me about Gilmore is that Kentucky lost three QBs during the season and chose to play a WR and run the ball over putting in Gilmore. Not sure why but it is a concern to me.

Not for nothing but I might be your dissertation advisor.

And much like most Confederate monuments it wasn’t a contemporary act. Donated by Virginia in 1921. But kind of cool the British put it there. By then the UK and US had finally been on the same side of a war at least!

Well we all know that CBL is an expert on wood. Interesting side note: many scotch producers buy their barrels from - you guessed it - Kentucky bourbon makers. Further side note, bourbon barrel aged beer is pretty damn tasty as well. Willett Pot Still is really good stuff. Plus a cool bottle if I am remembering correctly. Not a lot of bourbon options in Moldova or Kyrgyzstan so it has been sparse for 4 of the last five years. I generally ship some Buffalo Trace and Blanton’s when I move and pick up what I can in duty free stores when I travel. Usually that is Bulleit, Makers, or Woodford. Not a huge fan of those but Makers 46 is quite good and I like Bulleit Rye, especially in a Manhattan. Currently on my last half of a bottle of Blantons and last 1.75 of Jim Beam. The struggle is real. Any fans of TX bourbon? Tried it a few years about and enjoyed it. Also Treaty Oak Red Handed. Are they still making those?

Well there are lots of factors that are beyond the control of colleges to address. Most notably that schools are funded by property taxes. Thus rich areas have better schools bc they get more money and therefore can hire and retain teachers with much higher salaries. Not to mention modern classrooms, equipment, extra curricular activities, etc. Often these kids from lower income areas don’t have extra money for tutors or SAT test prep, and student athletes won’t have personal athletic trainers like many affluent students might. So one thing colleges can do is to recruit those areas. For example, UNT has (had?) a program called Emerald Eagle Scholars that packaged financial aid for first generation, lower income students and then provided additional academic support, staff mentors, and tried to get them to participate in extracurricular clubs and activities. In my time at NT I mentored a couple of these kids and they definitely struggled with the adjustment to college life and didn’t have parents with the experience to guide them through it. Overall, a university can try to make sure its student and staff populations are inclusive and generally reflect the make up of society overall. Addressing racism on campus when it rears it’s ugly head is important to keep the trust of the students. A bad reputation on racial issues will keep well-qualified minority students from applying to a certain university. I have been out of higher education for more than a decade now so my perspective is not as fresh as some others on this board. I think a lot of issues need to be addressed long before college or even high school to make sure every student has a level playing field.

Yes we might be a little late on this guy.

I think we are probably his first FBS offer based on a brief scroll through his Twitter feed

@SteaminWillieBeamin Technically Washington was a traitor to his country - England. But to that point - are there Washington statues in London? Because there is a Jefferson Davis statues in the friggin’ US Capitol building!