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Don Johnson

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  1. "Yeah, we don't have Clemons and Bonds, but guess who we do have?......Larry Walker!"
  2. Another reason to avoid being more like Canada.
  3. Probably not saying anything not already known, but show evolved out of the movie The American President, which had Sheen playing the Chief of Staff. Written by Sorkin as well. A lot of the same sets were used for both. Sorkin said his script for The American President was like 350 pages long (needed to be 150) and what they cut out became the pilot for West Wing. I used to listen to a bunch of Bill Simmons on the Rewatchables and the one on The American President goes into it. Linked below. Also linked the one to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where Sorkin was a guest and discusses some of it. https://www.theringer.com/2020/11/2/21547090/the-american-president-with-bill-simmons-amanda-dobbins-and-van-lathan https://www.theringer.com/2019/9/2/20844139/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-with-bill-simmons-aaron-sorkin-and-sean-fennessey
  4. The CDC makes recommendations that multiples businesses, entities, schools etc use as a guideline for their internal policies. I'm complaining that their most recent recommendations place no value in being fully vaccinated, as defined by 2 shots more than 5/6 months ago. A fully vaccinated person is treated the same as unvaccinated. Exposed - Someone "up to date" does not need to quarantine. If you are "fully vaccinated" you need to stay home for 5 days. Same as unvaccinated. Masking indoors - If you are not up to date, you need to wear a mask indoors. So, at workplaces across the country you have people who did the right thing and got vaccinated, many of who also have also had a prior infection, who are treated by the company as unvaccinated. They must wear a mask around same as the unvaccinated. As mentioned, the NCAA has changed their definition of "fully vaccinated" (their words not mine, so take up the nuance with them). That's essentially a booster mandate for probably the healthiest segment of our society, with what I can only imagine also has an extremely high rate of prior infection. They state that they changed the definition based on recent updates from the CDC. You can dismiss the following as complaining about something that hasn't happened yet, but you know its going to have a trickle down effect. Lower, Middle and Upper schools are going to start to treat fully vaccinated students the same as unvaccinated. Cities that require vax cards or negative tests are going to start requiring fully vaccinated individuals to provide a negative test, same as unvaccinated. There's a huge difference between being vaccinated and unvaccinated. There is not a huge difference between being vaccinated and up to date.
  5. You're probably due for a 4th shot. That booster is at about 40% now.
  6. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm?s_cid=mm7104e2_w#T1_down Omicron data not out yet, but for delta, booster drops death rates for 65+ - 3.1 per 100,000 (fully vaccinated) to 0.5 (booster) 50-64 - 0.4 to 0.2 18-49 - 0.0 to 0.0 Still funny to me we often categorize 18 year olds with 49 year olds. I've always believed that was to make things look worse for young people.
  7. As you are quoting me, I have no idea what your "nuance" discussion has to do with any of my posts on this subject. Being fully vaccinated does not mean what it used to mean. Its just a statistic they don't want to change. For CDC protocols, up to date is the new fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated is the new unvaccinated. Unvaccinated is still unvaccinated. A fully vaccinated 20 year old that recovered from alpha or delta is treated the same as an unvaccinated 55 year old.
  8. I linked the article so not exactly trying to hide it. She's changing it without changing it. As the article says, Walensky previously stated they would not change the definition of fully vaccinated, so they can't really do that. All they are doing is creating a new category "up to date" that has all the benefits of the previous "fully vaccinated" and the people who are fully vaccinated with just 2 shots will now be treated similarly to unvaccinated.
  9. Sounds like CDC is about to change a few definitions. First, "fully vaccinated" will no longer be used. Will now be "up to date." Second, fully vaccinated/up to date will include a booster if you are eligible. Not going to go over well when you start treating people with two shots and prior infection like they are unvaccinated. And the fully vaccinated/up to date percentages in the US are going to plummet. https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-plans-apos-pivot-language-160632718.html
  10. Its been my elliptical go to lately. Perfect for a 45 min workout. I'm about halfway through season 2.
  11. 3 peas in a pod.
  12. Some of y'all are probably excited about this
  13. Federal system, no. But places require it and just accept your card or a photo of it. That's pretty easy. And I agree/defer to you on NYC in March 2020, which was a whole different animal. Beyond that, most anyone that tested positive was known for a period of time.
  14. You travel a lot and that's just part of it. May be too early to comment, but I'm interested to know if you believe you need a booster in May or if you'll just do it because of requirements. Personally, I make health decisions based on what I believe I need (my doctor plays a large role in that) not what someone is requiring. For example, I'm vaccinated, not boosted, just had a mild case of Covid two weeks ago and will likely get a booster at some point. But I feel that I'd like to stretch that out longer than some policies might allow/recommend (especially as my results are from an at home test). And I'm not going to change my mind based on policy that tells me my recent case doesn't matter or doesn't count because it wasn't documented.
  15. As Omicron will "find just about everybody" we may not be too far off from accepting that everyone is either vaccinated or has prior infection, or probably both for most of the country. Without needing a card or a blood test or a national database. The reality is that half the country doesn't require anything anyway. I'm almost a year away from my first shot, and since I was given my vaccination card early last February, I think I've shown it twice (once to enter kid's camp and weekend in NOLA). So it really will just come down to if the other half wants to continue to hamstring themselves. People are so worried about people lying about prior infection. But honestly faking a vaccination card would be 1000 times easier than faking a 21 year old drivers license. Both times I've provided my proof of vaccination, a photo on my phone sufficed. Could've been a photo of anyone's probably. And there have to be a bunch of fake cards floating around. Hell, I have a blank one sitting in my car. When I went for shot two, my card was wrinkled and I asked if they could fill out a new one for me. Nurse gave me a new blank one and told me just to transfer the info onto it. After thinking about it, that didn't sound kosher but still have it.
  16. IMO, they need to incorporate prior infection into the policies/recommendations. And it can't just be "ok from this point forward" because millions have had it. If it has to be a blood test for a few, I guess so be it. And they need to find a way to incorporate all these new government at home test results into it. We have no problem telling an employer that they should trust an employee who says they tested positive on an at home test, but everyone says fuck the honor system with regards to this. Until then, I don't think anyone should be punished by a mandate and definitely no redefining of fully vaccinated without factoring in prior infection. The study released on delta shows that the #1 most protected group are those that were double vaccinated with prior infection. Yet, today there are people who fall into that category that are treated as unvaccinated. That is absurd.
  17. Yes, many on here have said prior infection doesn't mean shit. It could've been as easy as verifying vaccination but we made the choice to ignore it. And in the beginning, we did keep track of it very well. There were no at home tests and anyone who tested positive was recorded and got an e-mail that read them the riot act. Only since Delta have we not been able to officially keep up with positive cases because we decided no matter what, we weren't going to accept it.
  18. I don't think measles policies should have anything to do with Covid policies, but CDC considers you protected from measles if you have written documentation (records) showing at least one of the following: You received two doses of measles-containing vaccine, and you are a(n) — school-aged child (grades K-12) adult who will be in a setting that poses a high risk for measles transmission, including students at post-high school education institutions, healthcare personnel, and international travelers. You received one dose of measles-containing vaccine, and you are a(n) — preschool-aged child adult who will not be in a high-risk setting for measles transmission. A laboratory confirmed that you had measles at some point in your life. A laboratory confirmed that you are immune to measles. You were born before 1957. https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html
  19. Sleep comfortably knowing the scientist call Tubbs* way more often than they call me. *He doesn't value prior infection at all but we still get along.
  20. Yes. Based on multiple studies, policies from other countries, and anecdotal musings, I will continue to speculate that immunity from prior infection contributes to positive outcomes. If you disagree with my speculation - okay, then. Are you arguing that no value should be placed on acquired immunity with regards to Omicron until the inevitable studies are done? Because the CDC continues to roll with its 90 day window for those with prior infection regardless of whether its alpha, delta, or omicron without Omicron studies in the books. If many of our policies and recommendations, including vaccinations, are based on prior variants, I'm comfortable with my personal speculation based on prior variants.
  21. I didn't say that as there obviously haven't been studies yet on Omicron. But you can speculate based on the Delta study published by the CDC. So its not just coming from Facebook.
  22. Sounds like neither the vaccine or immunity from prior infection stopped the second bout. But I'm sure they avoided a negative outcome.
  23. Honor system is bullshit. But when you set up the "testing apparatus" placing no value on immunity from prior infection you find yourself in this position. You recently had it and took a home test. When you are making decisions about when to get your next booster, you will factor that in won't you?
  24. Vaccines that were needed. Boosters in college students, who are already double vaxxed and many who have had prior infection, are not needed.
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