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Don Johnson

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  1. Who called it bad? Unfortunately it is necessary. It is obviously funny to tweet that we always pay our debts by taking on more debt.
  2. This. Things are so good that many people have no purpose in life. No important cause that needs to consume them. So they desperately search for their generation’s revolution, civil war, civil rights battle, etc.
  3. Simple. It was a big story when it “happened.” As in the most famous people in the world drawing attention to it. That’s when I learned who the guy was Only natural that it would still be a big story once the truth came out. I imagine if it was a minor story when it “happened”, it would’ve faded away even when the truth came out.
  4. A transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania women’s team continued to smash records in the pool over the weekend. Lia Thomas won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:41.93 at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday to break the school’s all-time mark and establish the best time in the nation this season, according to the university. On Sunday, she won the 1,650 freestyle by more than 38 seconds in 15:59.71 to set another university record. Thomas, from Austin, Texas, could become NCAA Division 1 swimming’s first transgender All-American or national champion, Outsports reported. The championships are in March in Atlanta, and Thomas has established herself as a strong contender. Swimming is “a huge part of my life and who I am. I’ve been a swimmer since I was 5 years old,” she told Penn Today in June. “The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that’s usually really solid. Realizing I was trans threw that into question. Was I going to keep swimming? What did that look like?” Thomas, who’s competing as a senior after the Ivy League canceled the previous season due to the pandemic, added: “Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding.”
  5. Fauci yesterday. I find it hard to believe things changed drastically in the last 24 hours. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/06/omicron-covid-variants-risk-profile-starts-to-emerge-with-early-data-.html “Clearly, in South Africa, omicron has a transmission advantage,” Fauci told CNN, adding that “although it’s too early to make any definitive statements about it, thus far it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it.” “But we’ve really got to be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe, or really doesn’t cause any severe illness comparable to delta, but thus far the signals are a bit encouraging regarding the severity,” Fauci said.
  6. Like I said, it may be bad, but impossible to tell from the article you linked. They are not showing us hospitalization rates. So I guess I don't see enough evidence to say that Fauci's optimism was premature. Didn't everyone expect this thing to spread like crazy through South Africa?
  7. Its hard to tell how bad it is with the numbers in that. Using whole numbers in regards to cases, but percentage increase in regards to hospitalizations. Omicron is supposed to be more contagious than Delta. And if cases rise by 700% in a single week (2300 to 16,000), I would expect hospitalizations to rise by a similar measurement. Which is what 30-40% increase in Covid beds would be. But that still doesn't mean its bad. There's a big difference between going from 1 Covid patient to 7 Covid patients in a week or going from 1,000 patients to 7,000 patients. Both similar increases, but vastly different hospitalization rates. What is the hospitalization rate? What is an "alarming number of children under the age of 5?" I wish these articles would always just lay out the data. It may be terrible and if so, we need to know. But feel like they try and present it in a way to get a "welp" or "that....seems really bad."
  8. True, but most states have fetal homicide laws. So while endangering may not be equal, taking a life is. In California, it's the unlawful killing of a fetus beyond 6 to 7 weeks of development.
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