Hank Skorpio

Sorry Speed, sounds like you're 0/2 on profiling people's political affiliation. Big Dog and I must be the fake conservatives - critical reading skills, care for our community - you know the type. Good luck with your continued owning of fellow Americans. I'm sorry to say I'll miss your eventual thread on how the libs and condescending azzes need to stop forcing their handicap parking ideology on you. "Sucks for you handicapped, don't look for help from me!"

I'm guessing based on your other posts that you're being willfully ignorant, whether you'd like to admit it or not. You're synthesizing shards of concern out of the articles that are pretty thoroughly debunking exactly what you're claiming. No one is saying the vaccines are perfect, but so far the scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to getting a vaccine as the right thing to do to reduce the risk of injury or death for yourself, your loved ones, and the community around you. If you truly believe you're in the right here, or that you're some badass freedom warrior, I'm sorry, you're not - you're just selfish and dumb. If you're doing it just to be a troll, than all I can offer is congratulations on this embarrassing segment of what must be a small existence. Please stop contaminating an otherwise very good football board with this nonsense. Either way, good luck developing a sense of empathy for those around you. Hopefully good people around you will give then, what you cannot give now, when some ill eventually befalls you or your loved ones. Again, from the article you posted: "AstraZeneca said there have been 37 reports of blood clots out of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the 27-country EU and Britain. The drugmaker said there is no evidence the vaccine carries an increased risk of clots. In fact, it said the incidence of clots is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar to that of other licensed COVID-19 vaccines. The World Health Organization and the EU’s European Medicines Agency have also said that the data does not suggest the vaccine caused the clots and that people should continue to be immunized. “Many thousands of people develop blood clots annually in the EU for different reasons,” the European Medicines Agency said. The incidence in vaccinated people “seems not to be higher than that seen in the general population.” The agency said that while the investigation is going on, “the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19, with its associated risk of hospitalization and death, outweigh the risks of side effects.”

The article you posted contradicts what you're saying - it's saying there's no statistical evidence at this point that the COVID vaccine is causing excess deaths compared to the anticipated general death rate of the population. With 109,000,000 vaccines administered in the US (57 million at the time of the article), we would see pretty clearly if the vaccine was elevating people's risk of death. It's certainly not causing the ~1400 deaths a day we've averaged over the past week from COVID. From the article: "Deaths among the more than 55 million Americans who have already gotten at least one dose of the vaccines are not higher than deaths among the general population, said Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan." ""When you're vaccinating an older population, this is always going to happen," said Monto, who chaired the FDA committee that recommended emergency use authorization for both of the COVID-19 vaccines now available in the U.S. "The way we look at this is to compare frequencies in the vaccinated with those who were not vaccinated and see whether there's excess. So individual reports should raise concerns if they are repeated and if they are in excess of what you would expect. "The purpose of all this reporting is to look for red flags to follow up." "There is no way presently to know if this vaccine had anything to do with the death," Pietrangelo said "This situation that we're talking about, about an individual dying in proximity to receiving the vaccine, is actually happening all over the place because millions and millions of vaccines are being given, and they're being given to that very population who have the comorbidities that would certainly predispose them to death. "And, in fact, the CDC has done studies comparing the population of non-vaccinated, with vaccinated individuals for about 21 different conditions. And the deaths occur far more often in the unvaccinated for various things like heart attacks and pulmonary embolism and stroke, etc., etc. than the vaccinated population. And what they are saying is that these stats are not using any signal that there is a problem with the vaccination."

Thanks for fighting the good fight Big Dog. It's frustrating that people are so proud to be so selfish when asked to make simple sacrifices. It reminds me of the Kansan obituary from a Covid death last December- "Marvin was born May 23, 1939 to Jim and Dorothy Farr of Modoc, Kan. He was born into an America recovering from the Great Depression and about to face World War 2, times of loss and sacrifice difficult for most of us to imagine. Americans would be asked to ration essential supplies and send their children around the world to fight and die in wars of unfathomable destruction. He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another."

I know how the block/ignore feature works. I'd like to move beyond hiding the useless, uninformed, name-calling drivel of a poster and move myself into the bliss of forgetting they exist. I also don't think we should stay closed indefinitely, and am not on the side of the aisle you think I'm on. Keep it up though, you're doing great! I'll say not more on that. Back to the football discussion.

Offered with a grain of salt given how quickly all this is evolving - I think CFB will end up taking the lead from what other "economy opening" occurs in the meantime - maybe advise that seniors/immunocompromised/currently ill folks take extra caution and stay home. More revenue comes from TV than tickets/onsite, so "just the players" could be an option, but would maybe not go over well with a local economy that makes a substantial portion of its income on football weekends and is likely already hurting. It's also crazy to think how quickly Covid could tear through a football team. Many would likely be asymptomatic, but I'm not sure how you ask the players to practice knowing that there's a good chance one or more get hospitalized from Covid and there's a nonzero chance of someone dying. Beyond CFB, it's also difficult to justify having any players/students back at school considering you're bringing in people from all over the country/world to live in close proximity to each other. It's kind of asking for a perfect storm of rapid Covid spread having 10,000 folks on campus. All that said, this boils down to money - football revenue and student tuition - so I'm sure students will be back and football will be played unless this takes a huge turn for the worse. Also, sorry to go off-topic - is there a way I can block someone on here so I don't see their posts?

Definitely right that those factors worked in their favor, jbrown. I think most of all I'm shocked at the clusterf*** that testing has been in the US when it seems so clear that the knowledge it provides is a linchpin to tamping down transmission. I'm also struggling with the balance of information sharing on patient location and travel history - where SK is sharing potentially affected locations down to the bus stop level and the best info I can get is what half of the county a patient resides in.

Friendly reminder to all that the the US and South Korea reported their first cases of coronavirus to the WHO within a day of each other. Not discounting the differences between the countries, but it's crazy to think where we could be right now if the right people had taken this more seriously...

I'm not disputing that everyone is scheduling soft. I'm just disappointed that the ND admin pretends everything is great when we haven't gotten near the ultimate goal under Kelly. To use Jack's criteria, I don't think anyone outside ND thinks we are truly "in the conversation" given our prolific under-performances. I have no problem with the trend of hiring young coordinators and coaches. I do think it's fair to be skeptical when a coach with a history of uninspired, comfortable, buddy hires makes this choice. As I said above, I thought the situation presented an opportunity to give Tommy a great mentor and still get a promotion. He may be a great mind with a promising future, but to this point, his in-depth exposure to non-Kelly offense/coach rooms/etc. is limited to a year each at Northwestern and San Diego. I truly hope Tommy excels in the position. I just feel strongly that Kelly/ND short-armed the hire just as we've seen them do in the past. In doing so, they are putting Tommy in a very difficult position and potentially not providing our student athletes their best chance to develop and win. At this point, only time will tell.

It's not even worth it to argue. ND, Cold Seat Kelly, and Savvy Jack are happy to coast to 8-10 wins against soft schedules. We should apologize for dreaming of more. I like Tommy and want him to succeed at ND and wherever else, but there's a lot of reason to be skeptical of this hire - chief among them that Kelly seems to be getting back to comfortable/buddy hiring mode again. In my useless opinion, the best path forward if Rees is so good and Kelly doesn't have his hands in the offense would have been to bring in a premiere OC and promote Tommy to QB coach/Passing Game Coordinator and let him grow into the role. A good OC would push the offense forward and have viable offers in 1-3 years so Rees could be full OC at that point.

That’s awesome Corysold. As angry as I was last night typing that post I’m super happy that this works out in your favor and that the crew would get to see a (hopefully) ranked ND team play. I hope prices move further in your favor and you have to dress warmly enough that no ushers notice you carrying in some snacks under your jacket. I can’t imagine what a concessions bill would look like for that big of a squad!

The streak is already dead. ND has been shoveling tickets at charities one way or another for a while now (which is nice, to be certain, but also likely a tax write-off). It's just finally reached a point where even the charities can't sell them for a song. And Jack and ND decision-makers are ok with it because they're selling enough tickets at premium prices that the University is still coming out ahead - for now. This is the beginning of chickens coming home to roost from the shortsighted vision ND has had, including: - squeezing out multi-generation season ticket holders with huge seat license fees and ugly 7-game home schedules - pricing ordinary families (and subsequently young future fans) out of any desirable games or good seats - increasing alumni donation requirements for the ticket lottery - price increases of 300-500% for some tickets over the last 15-20 years (especially galling since the luxury suites were lauded as pulling some of the wealthy fans out of the good seats in the bowl) - ditto for parking - multi-game ticket packs - buying an single game SC ticket this year meant you also had to donate and buy a BGSU and BC ticket - allocating scarce bowl tickets and hotel space to Anthony Travel for their overpriced bundles - monetizing seemingly everything with Irish Upgrades - gameday experience changes that some view as making the ND experience less unique (regardless of one's personal feelings, this certainly affects ticket demand) Of course, it also doesn't help that the last time we won a major bowl game, OJ Simpson was still America's sweetheart. It's baffling to me how ND continually squanders the goodwill and loyalty of so many fans who want to love it, just to squeeze out another 30 pieces of silver. What's going to happen moving forward? Prices will rise. Attendance will continue to decline. Long-time season ticket holders will continue opting out. Poor Jack will be powerless against those darned TVs and the far-flung fanbase that must have just recently scattered further (is Chicago slowly drifting westward?). The weather will be remarkable when convenient. Ticket prices and the crap schedule he builds and ND's status in the conversation will all remain blameless. Our legs will get wet. Jack will tell us it's raining.

Crist Hendrix Rees Golson Zaire Kizer Wimbush Book I'm not pretending this would be a list of Hall of Famers elsewhere, but can we honestly say any of these QBs showed improvement year-over-year? Tommy might be the only player you could argue got better, and most of the other QBs regressed. It seems to me that as this trend continues, more focus should be on the staff than criticizing the players. I recognize that Book isn't getting the ball out decisively and seems to be missing some windows. However, I think lack of QB development has officially become a trend. Also, our top two QBs right now are a former Mike Leach commit who can't throw the ball downfield, and the #4 QB in his class who has suddenly had to rework his fundamentals in year 2? WTF?

So the literal best that rich ole ND can possibly do right now is a coach who throws 30 times in a hurricane, inexplicably goes for two, can’t develop quarterbacks, can’t hire outside of his own coaching shrub, can’t fire clearly failing staff, spent 7 seasons blaming his players for losses, and tells fans to get used to it? And joining a conference will fix this how?

Oh, I see. You may have to log in with your cable provider's information to be able to watch the game there. I would definitely try to go through the login process sooner rather than later to verify it works. You may be able to watch without logging in, but I don't know for sure. I can't speak to any issues with provider conflict. Good luck.