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What's frustrating is for coastal elites to make reckless assumptions about the rest of the country that have zero basis in fact. I'm sure you think you know what's going in places like North Dakota, but I can assure you that you do not. We are doing fine. We are not dropping like flies. We know all about masks and we even have doctors and hospitals with running water. Thank you for your concern.
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Well, not ALL of us. There's this one...
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Due SOLELY to the difference, no. There are other variables as well. But you would have to admit that a five-fold increase in testing in a particular locality would result in an increase in detected "cases" there. The problem with comparing cities to cities, states to states, and countries to countries -- as so many people are inclined to do -- is that there are far too many disparities in data to do so meaningfully. Until one normalizes for local variances in how tests are conducted and reported, it's a fool's errand. You'll be happy to know that we are North Dakota are also doing well with COVID. You just won't see it reported in the media.
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Math not your strong suit?
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Virginia is, like, 43rd in terms of tests per capita. How confident are you in the numbers knowing that you're not testing anywhere near the level of someplace like ND (3rd), which I presume you would say is 'not doing well.'
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There are (at least) 3 kinds of justice: 1. Retributive 2. Restorative 3. Rehabilitative If for any reason you just can't get past (1), you are likely a cretin or a neanderthal. At the very least, you don't have a sufficient grasp of the concept. Opportunities missed, sadly.
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Of course. Everyone knows it was Mitchell Miller who did the wet work for the deep state. And, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Mitchell not wearing a mask at Blue Moose last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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Somebody call 911...new dumpster fire smoldering. When has this ever not been the case? The old and infirm have ALWAYS been vulnerable to diseases contracted from healthy and asymptomatic carriers. The solution has never been to restrain movement of all to lower the risk to the few. Why not let the young go about living - or at least have the choice to do so, and let the vulnerable population self-isolate - or at least have the choice to do so. “Rejoice, O young man in thy youth.”
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One thing that's been noticeably absent from the recent news coverage of the USPS is historical context. If I'm not mistaken, the USPS is always changing its service model. Reacting to trends. Adjusting postage rates. Upgrading and retiring equipment. Consolidating services and facilities. Locating and relocating postal drop boxes. Changing PO retail hours. Altering delivery schedules. Hitting Congress with almost laughably regular funding ultimatums and threats to eliminate six-day residential service. Someone just watching the news these past few months might think that none of these things had ever happened before. That Trump was single-handedly dismantling the USPS and solely for political purposes. Or that a venerable blue mailbox had never, ever been taken out of service. Or that a sorting machine had never broken down. That fed-up postal carriers had never dropped a load in the garbage. I think that may not be the most accurate impression. Anecdotes by politically motivated customers do not tell much of a story.
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Takeaways: MILLER - neutral. Don't know the kid. Don't condone bad behavior but also not going to second guess anyone who had far more information than me. Remorse and contrition are internal to the individual, and not for you and me to judge or quantify. There's a reason why we seal juvenile records (don't yell at me, yell at your legislators). There are civil lawsuits to redress harm done; ironically, an NHL contract deepens the defendant's pockets. Lots of hypocrites out there screaming for blood from the safety of anonymity or the secure knowledge that their past transgressions shall forever remain buried. COYOTES - down. Way down. Had a chance to not draft the kid...passed on it. Had a chance to explain their motivations at the time...apparently lied through their teeth. Had a chance to stand by their stated convictions...caved to pressure. Zero character. Hope Berry and UND do better.
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It's gotten a hell of a lot more play here than when it came up in the Committed Recruits thread in late June...that was only a couple of pages. I guess the draft and the proximity of the season are to blame. But I do wonder if some of the kid's harshest critics will change their tune if he starts putting up points. Will there be darts thrown when people see "UND GOAL - MILLER!" posted in a game thread? Or boos at the Ralph, assuming fans are in attendance?
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Your exact quote was "I don't understand..." and now you're saying the issue is not on your end? Seriously.
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As a ND resident, I would respectfully beg to differ. I'd say things in ND got pretty f**king quiet for a while there. Hair salons and restaurants did not re-open until early May, and even then very slowly. So many media observers and pundits were basing their 'assessments' of local activity solely on gubernatorial proclamations, which obviously did not tell anything close to the whole story. Even states with "orders" that were hailed by activists as sensible were chock full of countless exceptions and carve-outs for "essential" activities. Bottom line, nobody "fully closed down."
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Sports has a unique and powerful capacity for change, and redemption. There is a good story for every bad. A good outcome for every poor. Maybe you should binge watch Real Sports on HBO...they do a great job of humanizing a lot of these issues. Forgiveness and opportunity are hallmarks of both Christianity and Americana. Only a cold hearted SOB or a blatant hypocrite would take a hard line.
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Do people seriously expect something more than has already been said? You do realize that athletics departments have since the dawn of time embraced minimalism vis-a-vis SA behavior. Do either of the phrases “the team is handling this matter internally” and “federal student privacy laws prevent us from...” ring a bell?
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If only they could convert the Dumpster Fire thread into some form of reusable energy...
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Setting aside all of the non-sports issues...how much pressure is on jurisdictions with brand new stadiums? I have to admit, when all this nonsense started, I found strength in the notion that there was NO way that places like LA, Vegas, Arlington, Minneapolis, etc., with brand-new or new-ish, pricey sporting venues, would EVER permit their badly needed revenue streams to be choked dry. Yet, seven weeks into the NFL season, here we are. What are the short-, medium-, and long-term economic repercussions here? Not just the game-day jobs lost, and the collective impact on the local psyche, but on municipal, public-private, and private funding vehicles? It has to be nothing short of catastrophic. Those arenas were built with only one business model in mind: butts in seats. Lots of butts in seats.
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Everyone can express their opinion by not going to UND games this season. That'll show them.
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The solution is tell people to grow the hell up. Old people die. Sick people die. Sometimes younger and healthier people die, too. It's part of the human condition that, until March 2020, we all just kind of accepted. Stop publicizing COVID like it's anything more than a respiratory bug with a ludicrously high survival rate. People can't handle the information they've been fed and worse, I think there are people who are addicted to the data and will want a fix perpetually going forward. We've made rock stars out of epidemiologists and public health advocates; they've tasted the limelight and will not give it up easily. There will always be people working to solve humanity's problems, and ease human suffering. Ain't nobody gonna solve the ultimate problem, however, because people die. Add COVID to the list of conditions for which medicine will search for better and improved treatment and prevention, but not at so great a social and economic cost. Hate capitalism? Hate the modern economy? Tough, because without those we're in real trouble. Trouble that masks and distancing won't solve. Look what we're doing to our children. Look what we're doing to ourselves. It's cliche, but pick a color and hand out COVID ribbons. And don't let anyone give you any BS about prejudice or marginalizing a micro- or sub-population that is disproportionately affected by disease. We've managed to co-exist with sickle-cell anemia for a long damn time, and that draws some pretty awkward social lines. Throw a benefit, raise funds. It doesn't bring anyone back but it would certainly be better to have more people gainfully employed, and more people feeling confident in society and the economy to support the cause. If I'm wrong, and COVID is the global killer I've been denying since day 1, so be it. But I'd rather go out living, than not. And if I'm right...start the apologies now because the list of people to whom they are owed is long and growing.
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Two things: 1. If you profess to be a Christian, and you can't square UND's move with this kid, shame on you. Go back to Sunday School and apologize to that poor lady. 2. Would you rather see the skeleton in the room, or all of the ones in the closets that you don't yet know about? I would say the people who have had their sins laid bare are always a far safer bet than the "angels."
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Only at autopsy can you really know what's in someone's heart, and even then, it's kind of mushy. Who gets to be the arbiter of "remorse", anyway? It's a silly notion, frankly, but ripe fodder for the smug internet hit mob, for whom no apology is ever genuine or sincere enough.
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2020-21 University of North Dakota Hockey Season
NoiseInsideMyHead replied to Frozen4sioux's topic in Men's Hockey
So the NCHC just retweeted a UNO picture of the ice at Baxter, and the red and black O is painted at center ice. Open question...should it have been painted neutral for the "pod"? Maybe a conference logo at center? Was there no potential for ad revenue for non-UNO games? Maybe the conference could have sold some dashers and ice real estate and distributed the revenue among the conference teams, or to defray pod-related expenses. (As I recall, the NHL changed out dashers between games, so that is obviously still a possibility.) Not saying the REA would or wouldn't be down with the same thing, and I get that UNO has obligations, too, but should the conference have stepped in? Mostly curious what Sioux fans think. -
I'm not sure what's worse...thinking that "control" is within our grasp due to human arrogance, scientific ignorance, or partisan politics. Control is an illusion. Have we controlled influenza? The common cold? Hell, polio took decades. Has anyone even bothered to try to define what "control" is?