MacDre
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I believe most African Americans have conservative Christian values, especially in the southern states. So, I don’t see it as a white and black thing.
Let Them Play CA
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I am advocating for housing. My preference is high density, but I’m not that picky.
Market rate. CA is a few million homes short. You’d bankrupt the state if you tried to subsidize it all. Even then you wouldn’t make a dent in the problem. 4 million homes * 500K per subsidized init. = 2 trillion dollars. That’s not going to happen, so let’s stop pretending.
The people in power seem to think like you. Invite in lots of corporations. Build a big office building. Rich people will move in, and poor people will move...... somewhere.
On the rare occasions when they do think about housing, it goes something like this: We just displaced another 50K people. Maybe we’ll build 500 low income units and call it square.
Now, I have no problem with inviting tech companies to Vallejo. But, when you do it, don’t forget to build enough housing for all the techies you just asked in. Otherwise, people like me will bid up prices and young poor folks get screwed.
MacDre
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I couldn’t tell by how much prices have gone up.
Bacca? I've learned more in two years on this forum then I did in all my years in school. I think we have some super smart and educated folks here. What a free education
I love reading about all of our backgrounds. Dre, I got with my in laws this last weekend. Gramps finally let it all out after knowing this guy over 24 years. Both of them have always thought I was British for some reason. Can you imagine that? Alzheimer's has set in and I had to correct the record. I went all Scottish Highlander on him and let him know to stop having false perceptions of me because I have blond hair and green eyes. He told me the stories of growing up in Guatemala and all these rich blond hair green eye folks took all the wealth away back on the day. He is 100% Myian and lets me know. He now know I'm 100% Scottish Highlander and not British and my peeps land was taken away as well. We now have common respect for each other and I love him more today then ever.My grandfather who was born in the early 1920s had a cigarette pack holder in his closet for years. It said " Smoke Coffin Nails" on it. He smoked Pall Malls for 50 years. There were concerns about the health risks of smoking beginning in the 20s. The first scientific studies regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking began to emerge in the 1950s with the studies being published in 1964 clearly linking smoking to lung cancer and other health risks. By the 1980s, there were warnings on packaging and the risks were well known. If you started smoking after these reports and warnings came out, that's kinda on you.
That’s the single cause fallacy. You are arguing that, if weather causes covid surges, then masks must not prevent them. There is no logic there. Weather increases transmission, masks and distance reduce transmission.
You’re just looking at a system with multiple causes. As soon as you say “the primary driver“, you’re going to get it wrong, because in the next step you will ignore the impacts of all the secondary drivers.
I suspect that’s the goal. People don’t want to trade their restaurants and dinner parties for hikes and tennis. So they are searching for a way to pretend that the restaurants and dinner parties are not a problem. Blame everything on weather is an easy way to take no blame ourselves.
Now, if you want to argue whether a specific NPI is worth the cost, we may have some agreement. Some NPI have been useless or counterproductive, and we should drop them. But other NPI work, and it’s long past time to get with the program.
This is crazy. The weather does not spread Covid-19, people do. The weather only makes it far more spreadable. It is all the more important to socially distance when the weather makes Covid-19 more dangerous. All of you act like this is some “it is what it is” problem.
As for last summer, it is ludicrous to claim that Governor Newsom should have known it was not a big deal for many reasons. First, it was still a big deal. Second, so little was known, and is still unknown, about the virus, so blaming any leader for being cautious even before it came clear how spreadable it is stupid. Third, even if he had been certain that things would get bad as the weather got worse, the weather gets pretty bad as fall semester wears on. Sending everyone back in person with no idea how bad the weather might make it, how virulent it would get, how mutations would make it even more spreadable, is stupid compared to trying to create an online plan with the entire summer to prepare, instead of just having to do it in November.
Masks aren’t “the primary driver’ either. Masks are one of many variables.
Masks, distance, and being outdoors are some of the the variables we can control.
Age, variant, and weather are some of the variables we cannot.
Hey, check it out. Silent transmission is the primary driver.
No, it’s children, except when go to school or soccer tournaments because they become impervious there.
Health experts: children primary driver of COVID transmission
About 13 percent of the cases of COVID-19 in Douglas County are in children.
www.3newsnow.com
No, it’s young adults
Governor: Young Adults Are ‘Primary Driver’ of Coronavirus as Iowa’s Cases Become Worst in Nation
DES MOINES, Iowa — Younger people are a significant reason for Iowa’s current standing with the Trump administration as the worst state in the country for the spread of the coronavirus,…
who13.com
No, it’s traveling
Worldwide COVID-19 spreading explained: traveling numbers as a primary driver for the pandemic - PubMed
The spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the distribution of cases worldwide followed no clear biogeographic, climatic, or cultural trend. Conversely, the internationally busiest cities in all countries tended to be the hardest hit, suggesting a basic, mathematically neutral pattern of the new coronavirus...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
No, it’s stupid people in Southern California, which we all know has some of the worst winter weather anywhere.
Southern California is a main driver of state's record COVID-19 deaths, with no signs of a letup
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 2020
No, it’s going to restaurants and the gym.
How to stop restaurants from driving COVID infections
US mobile data suggests restaurants, gyms and cafes can be COVID hotspots — and reveals strategies for limiting spread.
www.nature.com
No, it is Marmalade-a-lago
Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump (Published 2020)
Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the “infodemic.”
MacDre
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I disagree. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink. People in this community take advice from their religious leaders not from corrupt nerds that write biased reports for companies that hate small businesses. You see those reports were put out by liberals because they want you to come work in their factories etc. etc. Many of these folks prefer to pray and “leave it in god’s hand” rather than seek medical treatment. So the fact that there were reports of adverse health effects way back is meaningless if you don’t analyze it in the proper context.
More strong signs we might be back soon!! Hopefully Newsom is not telling another story. @EOTL says Newsom cares about us and wants what's best for us, so hopefully he is right about this one, because he @EOTL hasn't been right about too many things!!! Newsom said, “I share that and we are processing that, and I am very hopeful, very hopeful — I really mean this — I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here and I believe that’s possible as long as these case rates continue to move in the direction they’re moving.” He even said I REALLY MEAN THIS, so he must be telling the truth. There is a coaching group meeting with Dr. Ghaly today so we'll see.
www.mercurynews.com
COVID-19: Gov. Newsom addresses prep sports lawsuits, return-to-play status
Gavin Newsom on prep sports: “I really mean this, I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here”
www.mercurynews.com
All we have is hope and prayer. Some have hope and wish for luck. Hope plus good vibes works as well. Hope and fairness is all I want. I do pray for peace but that is personal choice. I dont like hate and division. I want love & mercy taught to all. Love others and teach with mercy is one hell of a place to live.More strong signs we might be back soon!! Hopefully Newsom is not telling another story. @EOTL says Newsom cares about us and wants what's best for us, so hopefully he is right about this one, because he @EOTL hasn't been right about too many things!!! Newsom said, “I share that and we are processing that, and I am very hopeful, very hopeful — I really mean this — I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here and I believe that’s possible as long as these case rates continue to move in the direction they’re moving.” He even said I REALLY MEAN THIS, so he must be telling the truth. There is a coaching group meeting with Dr. Ghaly today so we'll see.
COVID-19: Gov. Newsom addresses prep sports lawsuits, return-to-play status
Gavin Newsom on prep sports: “I really mean this, I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here”
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More strong signs we might be back soon!! Hopefully Newsom is not telling another story. @EOTL says Newsom cares about us and wants what's best for us, so hopefully he is right about this one, because he @EOTL hasn't been right about too many things!!! Newsom said, “I share that and we are processing that, and I am very hopeful, very hopeful — I really mean this — I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here and I believe that’s possible as long as these case rates continue to move in the direction they’re moving.” He even said I REALLY MEAN THIS, so he must be telling the truth. There is a coaching group meeting with Dr. Ghaly today so we'll see.
COVID-19: Gov. Newsom addresses prep sports lawsuits, return-to-play status
Gavin Newsom on prep sports: “I really mean this, I am very, very hopeful that we can find a compromise here”
Good to see he may be coming around. Unfortunate that he has waited until his political career is in possible tatters. My guess is that kids get back on the field, but I think this has come too late in the game for him to save himself.
I heard a few Seniors who missed out in recruiting this school year are looking to file. 45 states playing ball and all these kids are getting deals, but not the average Cali athlete. The California kids are getting left behind and told by coaches: "I need to see you play live and in person." Plus recruit would like to visit campus as well but can;t visit. Basically, we've all been locked out of the process except the very very best. Not all of us are the best so we need fairness to make it fair for all.
Yeah, but now we are arguing about if we are going to have pepperoni or vegetarian pizza. We are still going to have pizza no matter what we do.
The next step is to figure out how much of a primary driver. My guess is (from all the curves we seen around the world) it's a lot....it's the pizza, not the toppings. So we have to subtract the portion that we can't have any impact on (short of a mass lockdown Australia style which means keeping people separated in their homes). To that remaining portion we have to apply a cost/benefit analysis. E.g., cloth masks indoors for going to the market (marginal benefit for little cost, particularly if you don't force the screaming 3 year olds on airplanes or the autistic kids to wear them); closing schools (very little benefit for an enormous cost). The health experts and politicians didn't do that....they assumed we could get to zero (remember the hits? "masks are better than vaccines"....."lockdown for 6 weeks and it will go away"....."this will be over by summer") and they failed to apply costs (instead just whacking at the low hanging fruit in an effort to do something.
1.4 million today baby (and several regions are holding back signatures collected but not turned in yet).....need about 100,000 more since Newsom's people will no doubt fall in love with signature verification and hanging chad the thing out of it.
It is God’s will whether or not one dies of Covid-19. So don’t worry about it. Get back to the gym, The bar. Wherever. There is no better way to unify than to get Covid because you don’t care about others and then spread it.
It does make one wonder why he likes the Chinese so much better than Americans though. He isn’t killing any of them.
I love how people think that social distancing is all or nothing. If you lock down completely it works, but if you allow anything, you may as well just allow everything because, you know, the weather.
The simple truth is that the more aggressive the social distancing, the fewer interactions that contribute to spread, the more lives get saved. Period.
The folks dying with Corona are not at the gym or bar. Their all alone at the "end of the line" hospice care, where one dies all alone. The other ones all got whacked by a car, a gun, heart burn or had a heart attack or a stroke. Something like that is where the true deaths comes and then if a Doc has a suspension they have the Rona, they get tagged "Rona Death." Next month is our 1 year anniversary of Covid 19 BTW. Can you believe it;s been 11 months of this?