I try to stay out of the drama posts like this one. I deleted the political board because of the cancer it spread amongst the site. But I have to say that I would never go into someone's business and do what you're doing in this and other threads.
It's people like Cany, Lep and Dom, JPD, Pequa, Moejoe, and my entire mod team that made Noreast such a success that we're able to produce this site with zero income from it. I do it because it's my passion. I always thought you and I were good, yet you think it's fine to go into someone's home and tell them how much you hate it. I usually keep those thoughts to myself. Yet you find it "amusing" to come here and break balls. I'm glad I have much better things to do that amuse me.
It's also obvious you have no clue what we're achieving here, and you know zero about digital media. I wouldn't tell you how to run your boat so please don't tell me how to run mine.
I never understood why anyone would visit a website that they hated? I just don't get it. Is it so you can tell other people that you hate it? Ohh, that's right it amuses you.
I really hate these posts, but I feel a need to let my team, as well as all of our users, that I appreciate the great community we are building here. You will ALWAYS have my support.
It really amuses me - in a good way.
I do like you personally George and would never tell you how to run your business
But won’t constrain my thoughts or opinions on what Is a platform for thoughts and opinions
Perhaps "they", whoever they are, need to come up with some sort of proof of vaccination that can not be so easily forged, whether its a check of some database (let's face it, should be easily compiled given all the information provided when one lines up for the jab) or a type of passport (?) Hey, deniers and haters gonna hate, but if you want to travel, attend certain events, go to certain colleges, attend school graduation ceremonies, get the shot or simply don't go. Too many people worldwide have died the last 16 months to ignore that it can be a serious illness for some.
Perhaps "they", whoever they are, need to come up with some sort of proof of vaccination that can not be so easily forged, whether its a check of some database (let's face it, should be easily compiled given all the information provided when one lines up for the jab) or a type of passport (?) Hey, deniers and haters gonna hate, but if you want to travel, attend certain events, go to certain colleges, attend school graduation ceremonies, get the shot or simply don't go. Too many people worldwide have died the last 16 months to ignore that it can be a serious illness for some.
Good idea. Maybe something that's attached to the injection itself so it's not a document that can be forged. Maybe something like nanoparticles that can be scanned at the injection site. I've heard that can be done with a cell phone.
Way to drive the conspiracy theorists off the edge of the earth. :rolleyes:
Chrome warns this may be a phishing site. Well, Duh,... Stupid jerks can't even spell fishing right.
Perhaps "they", whoever they are, need to come up with some sort of proof of vaccination that can not be so easily forged, whether its a check of some database (let's face it, should be easily compiled given all the information provided when one lines up for the jab) or a type of passport (?) Hey, deniers and haters gonna hate, but if you want to travel, attend certain events, go to certain colleges, attend school graduation ceremonies, get the shot or simply don't go. Too many people worldwide have died the last 16 months to ignore that it can be a serious illness for some.
Ever hear of Clear that they have in the airports? Something that could work.
Otherwise a special tracksuit that says vaccinated on that back would be cool.
TB is a horrible scourge and there has yet to be an effective vaccine approved in the US, BUT it is a disease of the 3rd world and there are some relatively effective antibiotics as it is a bacterium.
America first. Discounting hiv, how many here?
Don't tell Rick but since it is predominately a 3rd World problem, here are the low US numbers:
*In 2019, the majority (51%) of U.S. TB cases continued to be reported from 4 states: California (23.7%), Texas (13.0%), New York (8.5%), and Florida (6.3%). In 2018, the most recent data available, 542 deaths in the United States were attributed to **TB*
Shall I go to heaven or a-fishing? - H. D. Thoreau Veni. Vidi. Cepi. - with apologies to Gaius Julius Caesar
Presumably direct descendants of Peter Stuyvesant and the Mayflower ?
No, mostly 3rd World Immigrants, look at the "High Numbered" states.
As far as NY, the sarcastic side of me wonders if most of the cases have been seen at LGA, which always reminds me of some of the worse 3rd World airports I've been too...
Shall I go to heaven or a-fishing? - H. D. Thoreau Veni. Vidi. Cepi. - with apologies to Gaius Julius Caesar
No, mostly 3rd World Immigrants, look at the "High Numbered" states.
As far as NY, the sarcastic side of me wonders if most of the cases have been seen at LGA, which always reminds me of some of the worse 3rd World airports I've been too...
So you're saying it's possible that people who just wander into the country without any kind of scrutiny may bring some serious diseases?
You know, there's a few people here who just love how politicians and bureaucrats have handled the Covid that might not appreciate that. ;)
Chrome warns this may be a phishing site. Well, Duh,... Stupid jerks can't even spell fishing right.
Umm maybe you missed it but the third world is running up through the border daily boys. But hey enjoy your stay. Welcome to the country that teaches you growing up not to be peer pressured to take experimental drugs to grow up and be peer pressured to take experimental drugs.
My comment was sarcastic as well, though I knew it would be spot on. Having been at LAX and Dallas airports, while cleaner and more efficient, blink and it could have been LGA as well.
My comment was sarcastic as well, though I knew it would be spot on. Having been at LAX and Dallas airports, while cleaner and more efficient, blink and it could have been LGA as well.
I got it right away. Too much time downeast will do it to ya!
My comment was sarcastic as well, though I knew it would be spot on. Having been at LAX and Dallas airports, while cleaner and more efficient, blink and it could have been LGA as well.
We need a sarcasm Emoji. All the nasties were initially been brought over by the Spaniards, not the Dutch nor the British by way of the Netherlands...
**[SIZE=6]The Story Of... Smallpox – and other Deadly Eurasian Germs[/SIZE]
Much of the credit for European military success in the New World can be handed to the superiority of their weapons, their literary heritage, even the fact they had unique load-bearing mammals, like horses. These factors combined, gave the conquistadors a massive advantage over the sophisticated civilisations of the Aztec and Inca empires.**
But weapons alone can't account for the breathtaking speed with which the indigenous population of the New World were completely wiped out.
Within just a few generations, the continents of the Americas were virtually emptied of their native inhabitants – some academics estimate that approximately 20 million people may have died in the years following the European invasion – up to 95% of the population of the Americas.
No medieval force, no matter how bloodthirsty, could have achieved such enormous levels of genocide. Instead, Europeans were aided by a deadly secret weapon they weren't even aware they were carrying: Smallpox.
Smallpox is a viral infection which usually enters the body through the nose or throat. From here the virus travels to the lungs, where it multiplies and spreads to the lymphatic system. Within a few days, large pustules begin to appear all over the victim's skin.
Starting with the hands and the face, and then spreading to cover the rest of the body, each blister is packed full of smallpox DNA. If punctured, these blisters become highly infectious, projecting fresh smallpox particles into the air and onto surrounding surfaces -such as someone else's skin. It is a disease that requires close human contact to replicate and survive.
The total incubation period lasts 12 days, at which point the patient will will either have died or survived. But throughout that period, if gone unchecked, they may have passed the disease to an enormous number of people. But the disease requires close human contact to replicate and survive.
Smallpox is a remarkably effective, and remarkably stable, infection – research has shown that over the course of 10 years, as few as three individual bases may change in a strain's DNA. The disease found an effective formula thousands of years ago, and there's no reason to change it.
So where does this deadly disease come from, and why was it linked to Europeans?
For thousands of years, the people of Eurasia lived in close proximity to the largest variety of domesticated mammals in the world – eating, drinking, and breathing in the germs these animals bore. Over time, animal infections crossed species, evolving into new strains which became deadly to man. Diseases like smallpox, influenza and measles were in fact the deadly inheritance of the Eurasian farming tradition – the product of thousands of years spent farming livestock.
These epidemic Eurasian diseases flourished in dense communities and tended to explode in sudden, overwhelming spates of infection and death. Transmitted via coughing, sneezing and tactile infection, they wreaked devastation throughout Eurasian history – and in the era before antibiotics, thousands died.
But not everyone.
With each epidemic eruption, some people survived, acquiring antibodies and immunities which they passed on to the next generation. Over time, the population of Europe gained increased immunity, and the devastating impact of traditional infections decreased.
Yet the people of the New World had no history of prior exposure to these germs. They farmed only one large mammal – the llama – and even this was geographically isolated. The llama was never kept indoors, it wasn't milked and only occasionally eaten – so the people of the New World were not troubled by cross-species viral infection.
When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
Smallpox is believed to have arrived in the Americas in 1520 on a Spanish ship sailing from Cuba, carried by an infected African slave. As soon as the party landed in Mexico, the infection began its deadly voyage through the continent. Even before the arrival of Pizarro, smallpox had already devastated the Inca Empire, killing the Emperor Huayna Capac and unleashing a bitter civil war that distracted and weakened his successor, Atahuallpa.
In the era of global conquest which followed, European colonizers were assisted around the world by the germs which they carried. A 1713 smallpox epidemic in the Cape of Good Hope decimated the South African Khoi San people, rendering them incapable of resisting the process of colonization. European germs also wreaked devastation on the aboriginal communities of Australia and New Zealand.
More victims of colonization were killed by Eurasian germs, than by either the gun or the sword, making germs the deadliest agent of conquest.
Shall I go to heaven or a-fishing? - H. D. Thoreau Veni. Vidi. Cepi. - with apologies to Gaius Julius Caesar
