NoiseInsideMyHead

Any chance that Burgum engineered this whole youth sports thing simply to troll Walz? I mean, the timing couldn’t have been better, AND with ND skating, Walz is gonna get like 10x the pressure from hockey parents in his state that he was already assured to get. How does he not cave? After all, ND has the highest f**king mortality rate IN THE WORLD, right? The arguments practically make themselves.

Those who would call others out for "dismissing COVID deaths," need to be called out for "elevating COVID deaths above all others."

You keep trying to make this political. It really belies a lack of intelligence on your part. Recommendations I can handle. In fact, I dare say we all agree that everyone has an absolute right to curtail their own activities.

Please tell us about all the wonderful work you've been doing to raise awareness about -- or find cures for -- the other causes of death for persons over 80? You can abbreviate the names of the associations and foundations to which you've contributed and whose boards you serve on to, you know, conserve space in your answer.

You'll be relieved to know that people aren't dismissing COVID interventions because they disproportionately impact young people.

New rumor out of Hollywood is that "Outbreak" was to be based on a respiratory virus that mimics the flu and only kills a small number of people. The producers changed it to a hemorrhagic fever only after Dustin Hoffman informed them that he wasn't willing to overact that much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaK75RHhEEw

Ice? Mr.? Dr. __ and the Women? What the hell are you even talking about?

Do I look like Jack Klugman to you? According to the ND Department of Health, I'd say old age.

Somebody ought to adjust those numbers for changes in testing availability and methodology over time. Targeted strategies vs cattle call. The "positives" alone are meaningless. Test more, find more. "Cases" is crap data. Give me "sick." Also, until we get 50-state comity on reporting deaths "with" vs. "from", meh. Oh, has anyone reminded you recently that we have never...EVER...conducted surveillance testing like this at anything close to these levels? The numbers are of novel interest only, a curiosity. Virtually ZERO scientific value. People need to stop lapping up the media slobber and open their own eyes. If you look outside your window, you will see that the world, she keeps a-spinnin'.

One of the dumber measures, for sure. That, and napkins. Can't let folks access their own napkins. Yet at some restaurants, it's still business as usual.

Worst. Law and Order episode. Ever. https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/government-and-politics/6768195-Grand-Forks-police-taking-education-first-approach-to-statewide-mask-mandate Makes the cringeworthy, occasionally amusing small town 'police blotters' look positively riveting by comparison. If your first instinct upon seeing an unmasked individual is to call the police, you may need to re-examine your priorities.

I urge everyone to get out in the next 48 hours and eat somewhere - ANYWHERE - in EAST Grand Forks. Those businesses need it.

Please elaborate. Or feel free to provide your own cogent analysis.

Covid Kai, we gonna die.

#science Now we've got that out of the way, can we get down to the business of scaling back mandates to a somewhat more reasonable scope?

I stated that for a non-infected person to wear a mask is pure folly. The first word out of your mouth in response was "But". And you then proceeded to rebuke my assertion of folly with a meaningless, subjective, social/moral comparative value assessment ("small price to pay") that would seem to justify people engaging in said folly for entirely non-scientific reasons. So if you're not denying the science, you're diminishing it, or deflecting it. De-something-ing it.

You are a science denier. And a mask may be a small price for YOU to pay, but how dare you assign that value to others.

But that means you have to HAVE the virus to render a mask effective. So requiring a non-infected person to wear a mask is pure folly. #science

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/health/coronavirus-masks-denmark.html #science

We need "I survived..." t-shirts.

(Patiently waits for global humanitarian relief.) On the positive side, because of our strong UAS ecosystem, North Dakotans are uniquely well suited to receive drops of food, medicine, and other survival supplies by drone.

All this talk about canvassing is really in tents.

I don't get the "pause" mentality. Ostensibly, the ONLY reason you do ongoing, surveillance testing is to have real-time information at a very micro level. If there is one positive test, then you can remove that person (who can then re-test and confirm, a la Nick Saban), but the surveillance testing continues so the team activities should continue. You would "pause" only if you had so many positives that the ability of the team to prepare, travel and compete was compromised. What am I missing? Why bother testing with precision if your response is entirely lacking in precision?

Well, most of us do have two feet.

Ever hear the expression "shooting yourself in the foot"? These are girls youth hockey tournaments that were to be hosted in Grand Forks during Burgum's miniature reign of terror. Hotel revenue. Restaurant revenue. Poof! Grand Forks gets a black eye in the regional hockey community. God, I hope the GF hockey association can find a way...some way...to end this nonsense.