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To those who accept the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other national experts, the response to vaccine skeptics is: the polio vaccine. It eradicated a debilitating disease. But to a certain cadre of Americans determined to believe anything but science, the coronavirus vaccine is a fascist, world-order, takeover drug created by the Chinese to speed things along. Even if further investigation finds that the novel coronavirus escaped through a lab accident in Wuhan, as some have long suspected, wouldn’t one still wish to inoculate oneself against such a potentially deadly disease? Let’s just say, logic isn’t exactly humming along these days. Fiscus, who is a pediatrician, knows this deeply. In interviews following her firing, she has said that her dismissal is symptomatic of a trend around the country that has resulted, as of May, in more than 250 public health officials leaving their jobs — either by firing or through protest resignations. She says Tennessee, which initially boasted one of the highest vaccination rates, is bowing to “saber-rattling of some of our legislators who felt that it was inappropriate to share the Mature Minor Doctrine that has been Tennessee Supreme Court case law since 1987.” Thanks, surely, to political rhetoric, Tennessee’s fully vaccinated rate is about 38 percent, compared with roughly 48 percent nationwide, just as the more transmissible delta variant is sweeping the nation. To deal with this looming crisis, Tennessee has halted all vaccine outreach to adolescents, not only those related to covid-19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/16/when-we-run-off-our-health-experts-we-get-what-we-deserve/

Then go with Imperial College if you prefer the more academic ones…

Nothing to see here. ‘Merica in 2021.

The scout who signed Burger left the White Sox for a job with OU baseball the same year he was drafted….fwiw. He had been a White Sox scout for 18 years. https://soonersports.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/clay-overcash/553 https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/chicago-white-sox/what-draft-analysts-say-about-white-sox-first-rounder-jake-burger Love the pessimistic Keith Law quotes on his defense.

That IHME model/Murray/University of Washington was always based on 3 if not 5 different levels of mitigation, best-case/worst-case/medium, etc.

Burger is okay?

Attaboy Jake, very nice piece of hitting there…

Looks like the bigger crowd size is amping up Giolito’s fastball a couple of notches… Now sitting exactly on a 4.00 ERA.

Why in God’s name is he hitting ahead of Vaughn?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/entertainment/biz-markie-dead/index.html

You can even package him with Abreu to your heart’s content.

You’re forgetting they are based out of Hong Kong. Nobody has ever claimed mainland China press is objective…CGTN doesn’t even come close, but are perhaps the most benign example in terms of propaganda. Honestly, I think the fact that more and more nations are becoming leery about Chinese vaccines means we will never pull out of this Covid-19 mess, globally. Too many variants, moving way too fast, and with the rest of the world basically waiting on Pfizer and Moderna, and not 100% trusting AZ, it’s going to take years and years to catch up unless China or India can start to mass produce mRNA vaccines. We are at least six months at the earliest from that happening…that’s being overly optimistic.

We’re not the Dodgers yet. That requires winning at least 1/3rd of the 8 consecutive NL West titles…likely nine in a row with Bellinger back and Seager not far behind, chasing down SF. Now if the Sox sign Bauer for 2022…(obviously not serious), realistically, it means a “big/ger boys” $150-$165 million payroll. We have an argument with ALL our key starters back and healthy for 2022. Both teams have bullpen weaknesses, and the Dodgers are getting a surprisingly pedestrian showing from Betts, but that offense has so much firepower up and down the lineup and they almost all of them consistently take professional at bats and work pitchers to death.

They’re a much better source of information for Covid-19 than 90-95% of world newspapers, but they’re going to be forced to slant even more to mainland government positions with the independent Apple Daily shuttered. Knew you couldn’t come up with a serious answer…oh, well. Back to Fox News I guess.

Giolito moving on will leave him a man without a mission…

Seems like a big risk to give up Cease and basically leave you an injury away from garbage next season…and Keuchel’s already on his last legs as it stands. JR is not one to get rid of the cost controlled player in favor of the much more expensive and fading veteran. Last time a similar move happened was Daniel Hudson for Edwin Jackson, or the Todd Ritchie deal. The other one, Bassitt and Montas hardly had any major league time. Crochet seems much more likely.

Sounds like a Formula 1 driver or Italian striker…

SFG NYM/NYY Boston Houston (probably not) LAA/LAD Anaheim feels like a good bet. What other teams can give Rodon 4/$80 and not blink if it goes bad? Doesn’t feel like a typical Cardinals move…Toronto, if they can increase their revenue the last 2-3 months playing north of the border. Padres are already extended and have Clevinger coming back next year.

What’s Hector’s take? Nelson Cruz on the way to help at DH, with Vaughn moving to RF?

Assuming we can somehow avoid Houston along the way…I know, I know, totally different team with Robert, Jimenez, Grandal, etc.

Okay Ron, which are acceptable sources of fair and balanced, objective infirmation? AP News Reuters ABC/CBS News NPR (probably will disagree) Newsy? PBS (probably will disagree) Bloomberg (owned by conservative centrist Dem) WSJ (editorial leans right) Axios Politico NY Times (no conservative will agree there) Washington Post (see above) Financial Times (very few free articles) The Economist BBC The Hill The Christian Science Monitor CNN is shown in two places…maybe CNN Headline News or International Business Insider OZY The Atlantic Quartz https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/media-bias-chart?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-is-helping-president-biden-and-dr-fauci-convince-young-adults-to-give-covid-19-vaccines-a-shot-11626193151 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/tech/misinformation-covid-facebook-twitter-white-house/index.html 12 people online are responsible for majority of Covid/vaccine misinformation

The center right like Biden are the moderate Republicans of the 70’s and 80’s and the progressive left has gotten so lost in the weeds arguing hot button social identity issues that the majority of the country has given up, since pretty much nobody represents them any more. Only the Top 20% and corporations are winning. The intellectualism…if you want to call it that or such as it is, is being utilized to make the majority of people apathetic and cynical about change being possible anymore. Labor or union movements like Corbyn or Sanders can get up to 20-25% but hit their ceilings when they start threatening the careers of politicians, the elite and corporate profits.

What still amazes me is that nobody on the right has come up with a legitimate health care plan since Mitt Romney in MA. Trump made no effort whatsoever, to predictable results. Once upon a time, in the era of Buckley and then George Will, Jack Kemp or even Paul Ryan…there was at least a governing philosophy and policies to represent that belief system on the right. What does it mean to be a smart Republican now? It’s called RINO to actually use your brain and question the direction of the party. Obey, or be run over and left as road kill. So I will blame Trump, Grover Norquist and Rupert Murdoch, haha. And it happened everywhere around the world, the Le Pens in France, Brexit, Germany, Scandinavia, anti-immigration beliefs taking over gradually over the last decade or so. Cult of authoritarian personality in China, Russia, India, Brazil, etc. All different versions or systems of controlling people. I read a lot about Thailand after spending two years there and the military government/junta actively seeks to undermine independent education, preferring the people get addicted to Facebook (but then also following the lead of China in internet censorship) and daily soap operas instead of thinking for themselves. Covid 19 has only exacerbated this, many of the countries that China sponsors trending in the same direction. The best European examples are probably Hungary and Turkey.

Politico, how many have the time and attention span to read long, informative nuanced articles? 3-5% of the country, maybe 10-20% if being charitable, but the majority of that group probably are already vaccinated. I guess the next argument will be that the Emergency Use authorization and lawsuit protections don’t expire until at least next year…the belief from skeptics everything was rushed and that we’re all essentially human guinea pigs for Big Pharma. This will be the case especially if boosters for variants or third shots start getting required. But yeah, as a teacher we just go along with all those tests for measles, mumps/rubella…nobody is fighting those in an organized way, right? In fact, a student here in China just had TB last semester, they just informed us over the last week or so we had to get a chest X-ray and another test so specialized that only two hospitals in Wuhan have it, and those are being used only for treating Covid patients (for some reason they allowed a plane with 30+ cases in from Afghanistan) so I can’t get that skin reaction test but still a pain. But you have to provide proof or no teaching job.