FirefightnRick

Yup...trust the experts like Anthony Fauci- Newsmax Jan 21 “This is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States should be worries about” CBS March 8, ‘20 “Right now in the United States people should not be walking around with masks” “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,....it’s not providing the protection that people think that it is” May 12th ‘20 “Some sort of mask like facial covering I think for the time being, should be a very regular part of how we prevent the spread of infection”.. After saying it’s fine to have sex with people you meet online..he stated On April 7, 2020 in an interview in the Wall Street Journal “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. Not only would it be good to prevent corona virus disease, it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.

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This is why your one of my favorite people. A working man doing what he has to do. God bless you sir! Rick

Rest assured Fauci isn’t suffering though. Rick

The same risk liabilities can be applied to just about anything? What if they break their neck getting tackled, What if they trip and ruin a knee at the steps at the Super Pit? What if they get meningitis or staph from dirty showers and die? What if they get run over at the cross walk? What if they get killed driving in from College Station trying to make it on time for August practice? What if because of stress from school and sports especially from that position coach that’s never happy about anything they do....causes them to take their own life?...and on and on and on. Might as well never leave the house? Rick

So we’re all Mean Green Sports fans here. Other than a couple of individuals you wouldn’t even be posting on @Harry ‘s gmg.com unless you love Mean Green Sports and the University of North Texas. I would expect everyone here to be hoping and praying that Mean Green Sports return as fast as possible? If not then I would be wondering why your here at all? So we all want Mean Green Sports to return. I certainly do. And I know there’s not going to be a vaccine any time soon. So that means Sports, mainly for us football,...will have to return and if fans attend to watch they will have to do so with risks. How much risk is the $64,000 question? And so the questions to risks involved in attending an outdoor football game need to be...”At what risk is someone facing outside in heat and humidity and wind at a football stadium?”. I’ve been studying and researching this for a few days. One study that was 5-6 weeks old out of China says the virus in a lab setting needs an environmental temp of 39-76 degrees F to survive and thrive. Looking all that up led me to Aerosol Science(I didn’t know that existed to be honest). Here’s a link to the latest research I’ve found concerning Cov19 The coronavirus pandemic and aerosols: Does COVID-19 transmit via expiratory particles? Yall can read thru it and tell me what you think but for the most part I take from this is they just don’t have any idea what risks anyone is at outside in a weather related environment? So I have no idea how anyone can predict or make decisions for an event four months from now? Thoughts? Rick

I’ve always read it’s the other way around. A vaccine helps population jump start towards herd immunity (natural) or community immunity and that makes sense to me considering only a third of the population gets vaccinated for flu during an average season. https://www.webmd.com/lung/what-is-herd-immunity Rick

........”Here’s a timeline of the key moments and news articles of the efforts, per Obama’s direction, to prevent the Trump administration from learning about the FBI’s operation against it.”..... https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/08/obama-biden-oval-office-meeting-on-january-5-was-key-to-entire-anti-trump-operation/ Rick

I’m not sure folks are thinking this silly mask issue through or remember how miserably hot it gets at games in August & September?. You think they itch now? Wait till your sweating your socks off. You’ll be constantly scratching and messing with them and putting your hands to your face, thus defeating the purpose of having them in the first place. What about the band? Can’t play a horn instrument with a mask on unless they are constantly putting them on and off defeating the purpose As well. What about concessions? Same thing...can’t be selling anything that’ll encourage people to constantly remove and reapply their masks with their hands. And if there’s no concessions......anyone remember what happened the last time we had a near capacity crowd in 100 degree weather and no water to drink? Disaster. Hopefully common sense prevails and it’s a non issue in four months. Rick

Hundreds of thousands have died of the flu the past several years yet we still saw you at the games. I don’t know how you found the courage? Rick

North Texas released our latest branding, which includes the SOW in May of 2003. The committee,... assembled by Dr. Norval Pohl and the URCM department, led by Deborah Liliyeart(ret),...now the UBSC (University Brand Strategy & Communications)Department...spent a large portion of 2002 and into 2003 designing the new marks. If I recall correctly the designers were a compilation of 5 or 6 graphic & design students and professors from UNT and maybe one outsider? Somewhere I have a box of FOI papers that described the process they went thru to come up with everything,, and I believe the university spent around $200,000 for the process to be finalized? Anyhow, the SOW derives it’s design and name from the 1970’s stylized Eagle used on the 1970’s era football team helmets. Coach Hayden Fry asked that the university hold a campus-wide design competition but a member of the athletic department staff, an extremely talented alumn named Rick Spears drew it up on a restaurant napkin and showed it to Coach Fry and he loved it and that was it. But many did not care for it at first and called it “The Fly’n Worm” and that nickname stuck. Mr. Spears hated that it became known as that “The Fly’n Worm” but like I always told him it’s now become one of the most unique and legendary logos in our history and he should be proud of it. And he was.. So when the new logo came out it was very well recieved, plus it was stated that the new logo’s designers took some of the Fly’n Worm’s characteristics....so everyone started affectionately calling it “The SOW”...Son Of Worm,..and here we are. I think it’s a great tribute and honor to one of our greatest coaches, eras and alumns. As for Mr. Spears he was quite the character and posted as “GreenGrenadeII” here on gmg till he passed away back around 2010 I think it was? He was one of the most talented dudes I’ve ever known. He was an artist,..accomplished pianist and marketing genius and knew more history about the Mean Green and more stories than you could ever imagine. He gave several of us a large print copy of what he imagined Apogee would look like years before the stadium was ever built and it truly shows how great of an artistic imagination he had.. I really miss him. Rick

That’s interesting. In Fort Worth there were thousands out and about last night...and have been for a while now. Rick

It’s about control. Rick

Very cool. Wished I could have seen that team play. Rick

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Maybe coronavirus's aggressiveness could be changed by adding or subtracting sugar molecules from its spike protein https://theconversation.com/amp/maybe-coronaviruss-aggressiveness-could-be-changed-by-adding-or-subtracting-sugar-molecules-from-its-spike-protein-137388?__twitter_impression=true “Many physicians noticed that people with high blood sugar, not only those with a history of diabetes but also unexplained new diabetes, were showing up in the hospitalwith the novel coronavirus. This indicated to me that something could be going on with the addition of sugar molecules to the virus, or the receptor it latches onto to infect cells, that influenced the severity of the disease. I am a medical oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh who treats women with breast cancer. Colleagues of mine at the University of Pennsylvania have trials where we use the drug hydroxychloroqine to try to keep breast cancer from growing in the bone marrow, only to regrow years later. We call this tumor dormancy. It turns out that among other things, hydroxychloroquine can serve as an oral hypoglycemic agent, lowering blood sugar”.... So HCQ can also be used as an oral Hypoglycemic to lower blood sugar. Its interesting to me to see discoveries of use for certain drugs made for one thing can help with othrers...(Viagra-blood pressure, Glucogen-Hypoglycemic-smooth muscle relaxant, Remdesivir-Ebola, HCQ-Malaria). Rick

I’ve posted & mentioned several trials and here’s another, the full peer review of Dr.Raoult’s trial on HCQ. . Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920302179

Promising COVID-19 Treatment Faces Political Hurdles https://theeconomicstandard.com/covid-19-political-hurdles/ ....”Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is part of recommended treatment for COVID-19 in modern healthcare systems around the world, and every day brings new evidence that appears to support this judgment call by overseas public health authorities. Sadly the U.S. is the only country on earth where the drug has become a toxic political football — due entirely to President Trump’s endorsement With over 150 trials underway in the U.S. and worldwide to see if HCQ does indeed help COVID-19 patients, we must remove our partisan glasses so we can clearly interpret the results — and maybe even gain valuable insights into the functioning of the virus itself“.... Rick

How silly is it to criticize the safety of Hydroxychloroquin? Per CDC.gov 😎

....”Hydroxychloroquine-treated patients were more severely ill at baseline than those who did not receive”....... The HCQ group’s BMI is on the left, the non HCQ BMI is on the right. Think there wasn’t just a little bit of bias in this “study”? Lol

Michael Flynn was railroaded by Comey's FBI https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-flynn-was-railroaded-by-james-comeys-fbi?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true ...”The final nail in the coffin of those who pretend political bias did not influence the FBI’s decisions in 2016 and 2017 is a text exchange between Strzok and Page on Feb. 25, 2016, discussing how to approach the Clinton interview: Rick

UV light = disinfectant to viruses. So they really can inject disinfectant into the body?

I couldn’t have possibly been referring back to my position since March 14th that warm weather and UV sunlight would slow things down allowing people to get outside rather than shut themselves inside...which I’ve been questioned on several times since, right? Or my post on March 28th about Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic which was followed by a post by @CMJ about How Mexican American workers handled that 1918 pandemic better due to being in the sun. ,right? Rick

NY subway cars to be disinfected with ultraviolet lamps https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/495977-ny-subway-cars-to-be-disinfected-with-ultraviolet-lamps ............”The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will use ultraviolet light to clean the New York City subway system, adding to the daily disinfecting process Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced last week. The MTA will partner with scientists at Columbia University who had previously explored whether the light could be used to kill other diseases being spread through public transportation, the New York Daily News reported Sunday. Transit officials told the Daily News that UV lamps will be placed inside cars and buses at two MTA rail yards and a single bus depot beginning next week While research is ongoing into whether the lights kill the coronavirus specifically, it would be “inconceivable to me that it wouldn’t kill this particular virus,” David Brenner, director of Columbia University’s Center for Radiological Research, told the Daily News.“...... Imagine that? Rick

Not surprising at all. Rick