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Listening to Mark Warner and some doctor. I think they are calling everyone in VA for a phone town hall and Q&A session about COVID-19. Its good to see them doing stuff like this.

@bcl05 Do you have any thoughts on the concern of taking elderberry while having the Coronavirus and the possibility of triggering an overactive immune response and cytokine storm?

Also, people need to be aware that this virus has shown to still be contagious even 13 or so days after recovering from it. https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-spread-after-recovery.html

I can't help but think Trump has it too.

People need to watch that youtube video with Michael Osterholm. It is not just an old people virus. It is cutting down people in their 40's as well (in Italy), especially if they smoke or are obese.

In that Joe Rogan video with Michael Osterholm, he shot down that conspiracy theory and said this is more attributable to the wet markets in China.

Any credentialed people here have an opinion on Michael Osterholm? I know it's a joe rogan podcast, but still the guy he's interviewing seems legit. I've only watched a quarter of it, but he mentioned some stuff I hadn't heard yet, like how people in their 40's are getting hit from this in Italy and it's not "just an old person" problem, especially if your obese or have a history of smoking (which we'd heard before). This is also not stopping just because the weather will get warmer. Or at least so far, none of the models support that assumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw&t=1111s Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. Look for his book "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Deadly Germs" for more info.

I think we all should be worried to some degree. What is especially alarming to me is the possibility of getting the more virulent mutation and that article about some corona virus patients showing irreversible lung fibrosis

Has already passed the Senate and is currently making it's way through the house. Hopefully this paves the way for the next step of full legalization. http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB2 SB 2 Marijuana; decriminalization of simple possession, civil penalty. Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries) Marijuana; decriminalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50, or 5 hours of community service as an alternative punishment. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill provides that the suspended sentence and substance abuse screening provisions and driver's license suspension provisions apply only to criminal violations. The bill also provides that simple possession of marijuana may constitute conduct that presents a serious threat to the well-being of a child for the purposes of defining a "child in need of services." The bill defines marijuana to include hashish oil. The bill raises the threshold amount of marijuana subject to the offense of distribution or possession with intent to distribute from one-half ounce to one ounce. The bill contains technical amendments.

Yup, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you have the freedom to say xyz, others have the freedom to say zyx in response. I can't wait till people realize as truth that for every bit of freedom we have, there is an equal and counter-balancing requirement of responsibility.

It was irresponsibly stupid. There is an Atlantic article out about how it sent out a pro suicide message that ****ed with a lot of people and caused existential harm. It showed a complete failure in the understanding of meaning and the transformative nature of love and healthy growth. It discards responsibility and inter-connectedness for a finite life purpose of consumption and makes no attempt to utilize the importance of pacing and having a diversity of emotions in the afterlife. Which of course leads people to treating life or Heaven like a drug to grow an eventual tolerance too and then because their life has no more purpose or anything left to consume/experience it must therefore choose disintegration. Thats a junky ass way of viewing eternity and thankfully the universe has a better design than what these morons ended up with.

Ah, sorry man I couldn't tell.

Meh, only? What an overly reductionistic take. Change is everything, so to only have change is to only have everything, so why imply some kind of scarcity with a term that is inherently abundant? And desire is a combustion based sub-system, that's pretty awesome but not something to get so caught up in or depressed by. People **** themselves up thinking that particular fish bowl is the whole ocean, when there is much more out there. And I don't know about you, but my parts and energies have always existed in a physical sense. For something to be short in the ultimate/absolute sense, it would have to end in an ultimate sense, but it doesn't end/stop it changes and it's humans who through the pressure of their own perceptional limitations try to change, change into something against it's very nature by calling it death. Which is some stupid absolute term created by stupid humans who don't understand change and can't handle it's complexity, so they create finite, absolute concepts that match the finite capacity of their understanding and then try to project that finite nonsense onto the universe at large and the very substance of life that inhabits and includes them. At worst what people call "death" is a reduction in the connective complexity of a dynamic system, but even then there are so many layers and spectra to energy outside the bounds of our perception, that one cannot say with near absolute certainty that the reduction of connective complexity on this physical plane does not carry an equal opposite addition of connective complexity on a different plane. And even if it didn't we do have proof that the parts that make up our particular dynamic system (aka our body) don't just cease to exist, but are re-absorbed and re-distributed into nature to make up other connective dynamic systems, from plants to rocks, to other living beings with greater to lesser degrees of connective complexity. Which just leaves the question of our consciousness and identity, which if you peak behind the curtain of your mind enough is not this seamless unique thing everyone is so often hung up on about. It can change a lot and we can change a lot and in that changing lose the need to feel so anchored to what we feel to be uniquely "us" in this point in time. The very nature of consciousness and identity can change and in those changes are thresholds, which carry different characteristics of understanding, perception/cognition, conatus, and desire. TLDR: People can't contain limitless change, so they project limits on change to help them perceive it while at the same time ****ing future generations because the flaws of that projected cognitive short-cut are built into the paradigms that underpin our beliefs and expectations regarding existence and we forget how to weed it out of our mental source-code. Corruption of principle via a reduction into threshold-breaching simplicity.

This is probably late and may be an unpopular take but the ending of the Good Place was ****ing stupid as hell and it shows how unimaginative and disconnected humans are when dealing with eternity and change and desire. What a disappointment.

https://theathletic.com/1553985/2020/01/29/redskins-receiver-terry-mclaurin-breaks-down-film-of-catches-from-his-rookie-season/

Eh, but were these protestors really tested by counter-protesters? Didn't most of the pro gun-control people stay home and not counter-protest the event? So most of them basically just trotted around, got to look the part, and then went home right? I'm glad they didn't shoot anybody or do anything stupid, but this was an easy test for them and not enough for me to rely on their self-restraint in more contentious situations.

Yea, I had a feeling your reasons were coming from that place, rather than the energy I was focused on. That's why I wanted to put that qualifier in there for you specifically. I think there is more nuance to it than that. It's a brain thing and what people are doing or not doing to balance their brain thing. It seems to me that there are a lot of people who do not practice empathy or who do not self-examine their personal biases. And when both of those things occur in a person, you have someone who has a poorly developed empathy/understanding system that only initializes with the help or jump-start of an initial positive "setting of the emotional table". So, when you have light skinned people with those kinds of brains, they will have a behavior that will create understanding and sympathy for people who look like them and who they identify with, while being callous or harsh to others who don't and consequently aren't stimulating that initial positive bias. The same thing will also occur with dark skinned people who also have these kinds of brains, or male brains of this kind that have a negative bias to women, etc. So it's more 100% a certain kind of brain with a certain kind of development, rather than skin color. Which is also why I was able to make the right decision of not lumping Buzz into this category, because I believed his brain was writing his comment for different reasons than the brain type of these other simpletons I was making my original comment about.

Why does it feel like we have this phenomena in our country where we seem to be lowering the bar for white dudes like this and Trump, but everyone else has to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Why are some people so generous with sympathy and understanding for them, but have so little for others? I'm not directing this at you Buzz. Your comments sparked the thought, but it happens so many times in other instances and I'm not trying to pile on you personally.

Yea, for those having issues with Chase, watch his cut-ups, not the highlights. And then focus on his win rate against the o line first and then whether he gets a sack or a pressure second. Watch how active his hands are. Dude is not lazy, but he does pick his shots and doesn’t waste energy which can kind of look meh on tape.

From this and all the other stuff I've read about and from Scott, at the very least it says he will try and build a support system around Haskins and tailor the offense to his strengths. But, if that doesn't work, then yea, no problem cutting bait.

Ah, thanks for letting me know. I saw so many reporters tweeting it out as fact, but that place can be an echo chamber at times too.