3 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Quality player. 

Dumpster team 

3 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

I miss Cronkite, Brinkley, etc.....when there was only one set of facts.

My dad and I would watch the news and we would argue about the war in Vietnam Nam.  When my dad was in his eighties, he and I were sitting together eating and he leans in and says "you were right”.  I asked about what and he said that the war in Vietnam was wrong.  Now my dad always played a bit Devil’s advocate with us to make sure we had put the effort into deciding our positions.   I thought this might be one of those times because he was a prolific reader of histories in his retirement and I thought he might be preparing to challenge some of my forty year old reasons so I clarified that I heard what I had.  He just leaned back and smiled and said, "I was wrong and you were right.”  Whenever we would visit, we would watch the nightly news together and discuss it 

6 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Quality player. 

Disagree. He was not very good last year. His name was bigger than his play. It isn’t just his PFF grade being a 64 last year. Titans reporters on the athletic discussed his play. It wasn’t that good. I much rather have prince Amukamara then him. He wasn’t much better but at least I’m getting an outside corner 

3 hours ago, eagle45 said:

On a case-by-case basis, it is an unanswerable question.  I've evaluated about 1,000 neurological-related deaths in COVID+ patients.  

I've seen obvious deaths due to neurological reasons recorded as COVID deaths.  I've seen neurological deaths in COVID+ patients that very well may have been precipitated/accelerated by the COVID infection.  

At the population level, it would take some major AI-driven computing and statistical horsepower to dissect through the incidence of various deaths (MI's, pneumonia, cancer, even trauma) in a normal year compared to what we have seen in COVID+ patients with these same comorbidities to actually get a handle on it.  No one is doing this, despite a few weak papers that make a passing attempt to tie it all together.  There are true COVID only deaths, COVID accelerated/contributed deaths, and COVID coincident deaths.  It's very, very hard to get the numbers on each category.  

And there are deaths not attributed to Covid due to a lack of a diagnosis and autopsy that were caused by the disease.  

47 minutes ago, Asg 15 said:

Follow the $$$$$. Hospitals are reimbursed my Medicare/Medicaid at 3 times the rate for treating COVID as they are for other diseases.

shhhhh facts don't matter here

 

4 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

shhhhh facts don't matter here

 

fact- Hospitals struggled financially though the height of the pandemic. 

Like many other businesses hospital employees were not safe from furlough or layoff. 

Many in my hospital have dealt with that. Those of us who had work are also not getting a raise this year. We also have a hiring freeze so will be short staffed for quite a while. And are already working extended hours to try to catch up on patient load since there is such a huge backlog of patients who we werent able to see for months. 

The system lost a TON of money. Hospitals throughout the country did. 

COVID has not been a moneymaker for hospitals. The exact opposite is true. 

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

fact- Hospitals struggled financially though the height of the pandemic. 

Like many other businesses hospital employees were not safe from furlough or layoff. 

Many in my hospital have dealt with that. Those of us who had work are also not getting a raise this year. 

The system lost a TON of money. Hospitals throughout the country did. 

COVID has not been a moneymaker for hospitals. The exact opposite is true. 

Great. So companies who are losing money are faced with death from something else vs death from Covid which brings in more money. Exactly the point...

Just now, Diehardfan said:

Great. So companies who are losing money are faced with death from something else vs death from Covid which brings in more money. Exactly the point...

If hospitals "admitted" (though not correct) that COVID was a hoax, itd be much more lucrative. You have no idea the kind of money health systems hemorraged. 

Had we been able to operate business as usual, and get ALL of our normal business while also getting a few COVID reimbursements, itd be better. Much, much better. 

And thats the thing people dont like to mention. Hospitals didnt make extra money for COVID diagnoses. They were re-imbursed what it costed to treat a covid patient. It comes out even. Not a money maker. 

11 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

fact- Hospitals struggled financially though the height of the pandemic. 

Like many other businesses hospital employees were not safe from furlough or layoff. 

Many in my hospital have dealt with that. Those of us who had work are also not getting a raise this year. We also have a hiring freeze so will be short staffed for quite a while. And are already working extended hours to try to catch up on patient load since there is such a huge backlog of patients who we werent able to see for months. 

The system lost a TON of money. Hospitals throughout the country did. 

COVID has not been a moneymaker for hospitals. The exact opposite is true. 

Yup. 

7 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

If hospitals "admitted" (though not correct) that COVID was a hoax, itd be much more lucrative. You have no idea the kind of money health systems hemorraged. 

Had we been able to operate business as usual, and get ALL of our normal business while also getting a few COVID reimbursements, itd be better. Much, much better. 

And thats the thing people dont like to mention. Hospitals didnt make extra money for COVID diagnoses. They were re-imbursed what it costed to treat a covid patient. It comes out even. Not a money maker. 

Yup. 

22 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Disagree. He was not very good last year. His name was bigger than his play. It isn’t just his PFF grade being a 64 last year. Titans reporters on the athletic discussed his play. It wasn’t that good. I much rather have prince Amukamara then him. He wasn’t much better but at least I’m getting an outside corner 

I don’t see Maddox being all that successful as the number two this year. Certainly hope i’m wrong with that assumption. 

1 minute ago, greendestiny27 said:

I don’t see Maddox being all that successful as the number two this year. Certainly hope i’m wrong with that assumption. 

Oh i agree with you about maddox. Had an entire discussion about it a couple days ago. Frankly i think you are hoping maddox can play the outside competently and consistently cause if he doesn’t jones and Douglas haven’t shown much and can’t stay healthy. 

58 minutes ago, Desertbirds said:

Great. People also believe that the Earth is flat, that Elvis is still alive, and the QAnon BS.

Dont forget that

Walt Disney is frozen in ice under the castle

2Pac and Biggy are alive sitting on a beach on a private island 

 

1 hour ago, Desertbirds said:

Great. People also believe that the Earth is flat, that Elvis is still alive, and the QAnon BS.

Elvis died of Covid in a FL nursing home earlier this year.  Official cause of death was old age.

3 hours ago, downundermike said:

I am not mad at all.  I just do not understand why you are doing it or the need for it.

Why don't you speak the language the way it was taught to you in school, I know you can do it, I have seen posts in the hockey thread.  

The only real interaction you have on this message board is people getting on you for it.

Why not just be normal and discuss football like the rest of us.

He talks normal in the Phillies thread too lol

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

He talks normal in the Phillies thread too lol

It’s literally just to troll the blog 

5 hours ago, RLC said:

NFL players not getting Covid-19 because they're practicing social distance, wearing masks and getting daily tests is not proof that Covid-19 is a hoax. 

 

5 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Like every other developed nation that has taken the disease seriously and decreased the spread of the disease.  

 

4 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

What else is new? Lets keep spreading meme's and conspiracy theories instead of just accepting it, doing something about it, and moving on from it like almost every other country. 

Absolutely right. It's almost as if millions of idiots holding close-quarters protests in the middle of a global pandemic just as the curve is flattening was a bad idea!

But Trump, amirite?

37 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

My dad and I would watch the news and we would argue about the war in Vietnam Nam.  When my dad was in his eighties, he and I were sitting together eating and he leans in and says "you were right”.  I asked about what and he said that the war in Vietnam was wrong.  Now my dad always played a bit Devil’s advocate with us to make sure we had put the effort into deciding our positions.   I thought this might be one of those times because he was a prolific reader of histories in his retirement and I thought he might be preparing to challenge some of my forty year old reasons so I clarified that I heard what I had.  He just leaned back and smiled and said, "I was wrong and you were right.”  Whenever we would visit, we would watch the nightly news together and discuss it 

your dad sounds like a decent man. i miss mine too.

5 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

It’s literally just to troll the blog 

Well u can put two and two together and look at his avatar. 

However I do still believe he took the small bus to school and had to wear a special helmet. 

Its good for him to have this as a social outlet. 

Ooops forgot to add...............Dam smh

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Is it cause that’s the sound of when the dove’s cry or you just want to party like it’s 1999?

I refuse to give a laughing emoji for this corny jokes we need an eye roll emoji for these dad jokes! Lol. 🙄

13 minutes ago, Westbrook#36 said:

 

 

Absolutely right. It's almost as if millions of idiots holding close-quarters protests in the middle of a global pandemic just as the curve is flattening was a bad idea!

But Trump, amirite?

You’re right, bad idea. I said people are idiots, what’s that have to do with Trump?

6 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I refuse to give a laughing emoji for this corny jokes we need an eye roll emoji for these dad jokes! Lol. 🙄

All i can say to that is 

 

Philadelphia’s mayor is facing criticism after a photo has emerged of him dining indoors in Maryland while his city's restaurants are only permitted to serve customers outside.

 

Gotta love politicians

21 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

He talks normal in the Phillies thread too lol

Also gives some top notch flyers analysis lol 

54 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

shhhhh facts don't matter here

 

Can you guys take this crap to some tinfoil hat blog or flatearthers.com or something 

31 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Great. So companies who are losing money are faced with death from something else vs death from Covid which brings in more money. Exactly the point...

You probably believe the BS from the oil companies that did not want PA to tax fracking production that 600k jobs would be lost to a fracking ban in PA that I get in the mail every other day. Reality is there are around 27k jobs in oil exploration and production in PA.  There are a little over 6 million jobs in PA.  We aren’t losing 600k jobs from fracking. Math doesn’t add up.   Bottom line is no real new well production is happening in shale at this time.   Plus offshore drilling rig counts are way down too. Has nothing to do with fracking bans and everything to do with the sustainability of domestic drilling at $40 a barrel. Fracking is break even at $60. Fracking isn’t new.  Shale fracking is but because there are no geologically natural reservoirs, what made shale fracking work was horizontal drilling but that is expensive, just like offshore deep water drilling.  Russia glutted the market and drove crude costs way down. Saudis wouldn’t lower their output either until we saw negative cost future contracts for May WTI.  Think our friends in Russia and Saudi Arabia were doing this out of friendship to the US?   They were doing this to drive the US domestic market to unsustainable levels.   What happened?  In March the biggest player in the Balkan reserve (North Dakota) had to declare bankruptcy.  ExxonMobil is trading at 50% of its stock price from two years ago and just got delisted from the Dow Jones Industrials. 

You are just so die hard sold on the propaganda.   I think I will believe HE, pretty conservative himself, when he points to the nonsense of inflated Covid numbers driven by hospital profits.  It’s BS propaganda.  Then why didn’t they fake JR’s results to a positive when he clearly seemed to have Covid and at 73 is a Medicare recipient?