Iād be pissed if I paid for classes and they were indefinitely suspended and switched to online classes for any other reason.
Keep in mind a lot of schools are on spring break right now so kids have been traveling all over the country and world. Who knows how many new cases are going to pop up on college campuses in the next 2-3 weeks. KU is also hardly the only school taking this step. A lot of schools beside KU are doing the same thing to minimize the spread of the disease.
His announcement weāre banning European imports only to tweet almost immediately lol jk is not exactly confidence inspiring. A travel ban and $50 billion in SBA loans is Nero fiddling type stuff.
@BeddieKU23 Self texted Gassnola, "we good?" which seems to fly in the face of what people are saying here that KU is being punished for something they they didn't know anything about.
I think most folks are just going off Gassnolaās testimony that the schools didnāt know and his conviction of defrauding said schools.
Canāt imagine theyāll cancel the whole thing unless a player or coach comes up positive. The NBA was moving forward until Gobert tested positive. Then it makes sense to hit the pause button for a bit.
I bet the NCAA's revenue is partially insured. TV is the bigger deal than ticket revenue. Would be a royal dick move to tell fans A) they can't go and B) they have to pay additional funds to watch
I wish theyād do an Olympic village type setting - all games one venue. Then you could test enough people to fill that sucker a couple times over with sequestered, healthy people for the duration of the tourney.
So since thereās no point in playing the games in big domes, I move we play the whole thing at Allen. Itās reasonably sized and about halfway for everyone. And since thereās only 1 case in Kansas and it only kills old folks, just let the students in. Canāt hurt anything.
And just for the record? If Dem voters wouldāve voted Amy or even Booker? You might of captured my vote. Not so much booker, but Amy yes. But no the dem voter was like screw the country we have to beat Trump. Now we are stuck with Biden and Sanders. A brokered convention.
I donāt want corporate welfare. Let me compete in the market and weāll win. Weāve done it forever. Just get out of my way. We were doing really well! Sure there were big fluctuations because of forces beyond our control but governments just canāt fix that.
The D race is over. Biden will easily get to 1991 and the convention will be pretty uneventful if they even have it. I think they should make all the voting virtual so we donāt have a bunch of old folks in Milwaukee and Charlotte where the virus is already a big issue. Televise the speeches, fine. But donāt bring the delegates to the conventions.
Also @FarmerJayhawk dont be ashamed for taking the money. You earned the right to take that money. Thatās why trump pushed for the money for American farmers. He knew what he was about todo was going to create waves, but it had do be done.
Iām not ashamed, Iām pissed this was entirely avoidable and the stupid trade war cost me a shitload of money for a bunch of non-binding targets the Chinese have no intention of meeting, and now with coronavirus Iāll be lucky to get half of what we were promised by the administration. The Chinese will bail on their non-binding targets and buy a small fraction of what they kind of promised but not really.
Oh so you rather be at the mercy of a foreign communist country? A country that steals our patons. The country that mass produces items with child labor. Okay I got you.
I mean Iād rather sell the things I pour my soul into to China in the free market than take taxpayer cash because the government ensured we couldnāt make it. I donāt want public money. I want money people pay me for things they want to buy. Sure, Iām at the mercy of the market and thatās fine by me. Iām not entitled to anything other than what we can trade for in the free market. Donāt charge me an additional tax my competitors donāt have to deal with. Because remember, tariff incidence applies mostly on consumers. And in the commodity market, China can buy tariff free soy from Brazil instead of tariffād soy from America.
Also @FarmerJayhawk dont be ashamed for taking the money. You earned the right to take that money. Thatās why trump pushed for the money for American farmers. He knew what he was about todo was going to create waves, but it had do be done.
Iām not ashamed, Iām pissed this was entirely avoidable and the stupid trade war cost me a shitload of money for a bunch of non-binding targets the Chinese have no intention of meeting, and now with coronavirus Iāll be lucky to get half of what we were promised by the administration. The Chinese will bail on their non-binding targets and buy a small fraction of what they kind of promised but not really.
The crazy thing? If trump acted like Biden? The media would be all over him. Talking about how he lost his mind. Yet you donāt hear nothing from the lib media on Biden. Nothing. Shows you how bad the Dem party really is. I mean you have all the media giants in your corner except Fox News yet you still canāt fool the American public. Sad days. It appears the only thing the Dems have left is to play the race card.
Trump is a clinical example of a malignant narcissist.
His followers/worshipers are dweebs and gullible marks.
Lookie, no race card!
Nah we are middle America something you dem elites on the west and east coast for got about.
Iām from literally the middle of America (s/o to Lebanon, KS!) and have been working to stop Trump for years. Iām not a Democrat, voted for Romney in 12, Jeb! in 16. The Trump trade war has nearly cratered my familyās livelihood. I donāt like the personal attacks, but Trump has been a disaster for a lot of middle America, which is why we spent about as much on farm bailouts as auto bailouts. I took my check not because I wanted to, but because it was that or live off savings and my modest salary. We all knew this, warned our people on the right, and they still nominated him. So forgive me if Iām peeved at the āBUT HE SAYS WHAT I THINK ABOUT STUFF I SAW ON FACEBOOKā voters.
So you would rather be at the mercy of a foreign government communist government? Trump helped farmers a big-time
Yeah... no he didnāt. I was doing pretty ok (not awesome, getting by) until Trump started the trade war and my costs went WAY up and my revenues went WAY down. If thatās help Iād hate to see how heād hurt us. USMCA is garbage. Itās NAFTA but harder for US producers to import things from abroad. Again, my costs are going up. Not great. John Deere, et al. are having a harder time sourcing steel because the trade war put US manufacturing in recession, so also not great.
Might want to google? US manufacturing is on the rise. Hell we make steel in this country again
The crazy thing? If trump acted like Biden? The media would be all over him. Talking about how he lost his mind. Yet you donāt hear nothing from the lib media on Biden. Nothing. Shows you how bad the Dem party really is. I mean you have all the media giants in your corner except Fox News yet you still canāt fool the American public. Sad days. It appears the only thing the Dems have left is to play the race card.
Trump is a clinical example of a malignant narcissist.
His followers/worshipers are dweebs and gullible marks.
Lookie, no race card!
Nah we are middle America something you dem elites on the west and east coast for got about.
Iām from literally the middle of America (s/o to Lebanon, KS!) and have been working to stop Trump for years. Iām not a Democrat, voted for Romney in 12, Jeb! in 16. The Trump trade war has nearly cratered my familyās livelihood. I donāt like the personal attacks, but Trump has been a disaster for a lot of middle America, which is why we spent about as much on farm bailouts as auto bailouts. I took my check not because I wanted to, but because it was that or live off savings and my modest salary. We all knew this, warned our people on the right, and they still nominated him. So forgive me if Iām peeved at the āBUT HE SAYS WHAT I THINK ABOUT STUFF I SAW ON FACEBOOKā voters.
So you would rather be at the mercy of a foreign government communist government? Trump helped farmers a big-time
Yeah... no he didnāt. I was doing pretty ok (not awesome, getting by) until Trump started the trade war and my costs went WAY up and my revenues went WAY down. If thatās help Iād hate to see how heād hurt us. USMCA is garbage. Itās NAFTA but harder for US producers to import things from abroad. Again, my costs are going up. Not great. John Deere, et al. are having a harder time sourcing steel because the trade war put US manufacturing in recession, so also not great.
The crazy thing? If trump acted like Biden? The media would be all over him. Talking about how he lost his mind. Yet you donāt hear nothing from the lib media on Biden. Nothing. Shows you how bad the Dem party really is. I mean you have all the media giants in your corner except Fox News yet you still canāt fool the American public. Sad days. It appears the only thing the Dems have left is to play the race card.
Trump is a clinical example of a malignant narcissist.
His followers/worshipers are dweebs and gullible marks.
Lookie, no race card!
Nah we are middle America something you dem elites on the west and east coast for got about.
Iām from literally the middle of America (s/o to Lebanon, KS!) and have been working to stop Trump for years. Iām not a Democrat, voted for Romney in 12, Jeb! in 16. The Trump trade war has nearly cratered my familyās livelihood. I donāt like the personal attacks, but Trump has been a disaster for a lot of middle America, which is why we spent about as much on farm bailouts as auto bailouts. I took my check not because I wanted to, but because it was that or live off savings and my modest salary. We all knew this, warned our people on the right, and they still nominated him. So forgive me if Iām peeved at the āBUT HE SAYS WHAT I THINK ABOUT STUFF I SAW ON FACEBOOKā voters.
I have a follow-up. Would you rather the tournament be canceled and KU be crowned champ since theyāre the unanimous #1 or play it out, knowing thereās less than a 50% chance we cut down the nets in Atlanta?
The crazy thing? If trump acted like Biden? The media would be all over him. Talking about how he lost his mind. Yet you donāt hear nothing from the lib media on Biden. Nothing. Shows you how bad the Dem party really is. I mean you have all the media giants in your corner except Fox News yet you still canāt fool the American public. Sad days. It appears the only thing the Dems have left is to play the race card.
Seems to me the President isn't exactly the paragon of mental acuity. He always has a hard time staying on topic and formulating coherent thoughts.
I'm an unaffiliated libertarian with mostly liberal friends (or at least not Trump supporting friends, regardless of ideology) and a family that are MAGA die hards. So I get where most folks are coming from, but the Trump thing just mystifies me.
@FarmerJayhawk In answer to your loaded politically-correct question, he should be kicked off the team. There has to be rules and repercussions. Sorry Silvio, I realize that you have a girlfriend on the softball team, but picking up a chair and getting ready to bash a guy in the head - after you started the altercation in the first place by standing over and taunting a fallen player - is a no-no.
I never said that and you know it. Have a lovely day.
@FarmerJayhawk Thanks for giving your permission for me to do me! And I give mine for you to be you.... In moments of duress the true version of a person can and will show itself.
Correct. So we can all label a guy who realized his mistake of grabbing the stool and putting it down within about 2 seconds a bad guy for the rest of his life. Makes total sense.
@BShark Well, I guess what I'm saying then is that I hope that he doesn't want to. Sorry, not buying into the "he's a good kid" theory. He was getting ready to possibly kill a guy with a chair.
Itās not a theory. Ask anyone around campus or the program whoās been around Silvio and they all say how good a guy he is. If weāre all judged by our worst moments I guess weāre probably almost all bad people. Not my style but you do you.
@FarmerJayhawk "Well, he has a girlfriend on the softball team, so we obviously have to keep him here"? I don't get it...
Not what I said. Iām saying he wants to stay and thereās no real reason to boot him because some jagoffs in the press think itās ābad optics.ā
We live in complex times. All I want is my kids to be safe, and I weigh the risks on both sides.
How much formaldehyde is safe to inject into my kids?
That is just one component found in all (I believe all) vaccines today. It's a toxin and linked by our government to respiratory disease.
The number of vaccines they give kids today continues to grow. Depending on what a parent selects, that child may receive up to 100 shots.
There has been a huge spike in respiratory disease in children today.
But there fails to be a study done on this possible link.
I can't answer that question on formaldehyde (which is just one of the toxins in vaccines). When I can feel comfortable with how much toxin I can inject into my children I can then feel safe to give them injections.
If I'm an optimist I believe answers are coming soon on vaccine research where we won't have to include extreme toxins in vaccines to get the results we want. Sometimes I am optimistic... other times not.
I wanted a PhD in science but it wasn't offered at my school and I didn't have the funds to go elsewhere. Had to stick to my academic scholarship. So I stuck it out for my Masters of Science. It required the same PhD work of performing a formidable study, defense before peers and publishing results.
I do respect your posts on this and am considering your point of view.
Please do! Iām not saying youāre a kook or anything like that, you seem like the type to look at things critically, which is good!
Itās an easy topic to get overwhelmed with conflicting information and takes a certain degree of know how to really figure out and filter the wheat from the chaff.
Who would benefit by spending millions and millions to perform an acceptable study proving vaccines have a causal relationship with autism?
Pharma? nope
Parents? yes
Parents can't afford to run an acceptable study. Our gov can do it, but we don't have the resources to blow in science any longer.
I'm not totally disagreeing with you. I'm just "questioning authority" and those making billions off of this. I question if they have our interest at heart more than making big cash. Those same players sure didn't stick up for us while they pushed through Congress the application of opioids, saying they were safe to administer beyond a short term use. We see what happened there! But on vaccines, they are angels... hmmmm...
Thatās a red herring. First, weāve already done the heavy lifting on vaccine science and found zilch in terms of risk.
Second, Pharma isnāt doing this work. Itās people like me at public universities. Zero dollars go in my pocket when I get a government grant. I spend it all on the study, and thatās what almost all of us do (or else itās fraud).
Third, parents donāt have the technical know how to do the study. Iām even trained in these methods (PhD candidate at UNC) and wouldnāt feel good about doing a vaccine study. Health just isnāt my thing. I could run an experiment on curriculum, but not vaccines.
I'm with you and I question Wakefield's work on this.
And you are right that there could be selection bias. But that could be countered by increasing the study size. These studies are performed every single day in all areas of science. That's why I mentioned confidence level.
Why wouldn't the CDC reference that study in their court case? There are thousands of studies that are not well accepted by the science world. I think Wakefield would fall in that category.
Selection Bias doesnāt go away with additional sample size. In fact, it gets worse (for math reasons I wonāt get into). Like I said, we canāt do them because A) we know vaccines are very effective and B) thereās no compelling argument to expose FEWER people to them since we know as vaccination rates go down, more people get sick and die. Would violate all the rules of ethics we all subscribe to as professional researchers.
We can get away with it in other trials because most diseases arenāt contagious and thereās a much smaller impact on society. For example, if weāre testing an intervention for heart disease, itās not contagious and benefits are questionable. In this case, vaccines are almost exclusively for communicable diseases and have a big societal impact. Exposing society to measles for a RCT to test MMR is highly unethical (again, equipoise).
I bet they just ignored the case because frankly they have better things to do than fight a case with almost no policy implications from a group of cranks.
Most of these vaccines have been around for decades. It wouldn't be too difficult to form double-blind studies giving a reasonable level of confidence based just on those who refuse vaccination comparing with those who do.
The CDC had a perfect opportunity to shoot the anti vaxxers in the head by showing their mountain of studies and they didn't do it because those studies must not exist. They have also had to deal with a whistleblower employee stating they rigged some of their stats. Seems like they would love to end all of this controversy.
Thatās not a valid research design since itās wrought with selection bias. I donāt know what the CDCās case is exactly but check out my post above. They even maintain a page full of evidence vaccines are safe: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/research/publications/index.html ā
We know with absurd degrees of confidence vaccines donāt cause autism. The study that opened the door to that line of thinking was obviously fraudulent. The study was retracted and the PI lost his medical license for publishing indefensible garbage.
The burden of proof is on people that have a causal claim to show one. If there is one, show it. I gave you an observational study with over 1 million subjects and found ZERO effects. Disprove it or trust the medical consensus. Itās not groupthink, itās sound science.
I remain open minded. I followed along with the doctors on my dad until they almost killed him. I found a wellness doctor and we figured out what meds we could pull him off and he is doing well today, very stable 87 yr old.
I'm not an anti vaxxer. I also don't just follow the herd.
My biggest concern... why no double-blind studies? It's the gold standard used for all new pharma medications. Why not for vaccinations?
Most vaccines were formulated in the 60s. How much technology do we use today that is stuck in the 60s? At that time they were not focused on many of the chemicals used. I have little doubt that they could come up with much safer formulas today, also more effective. But that costs a fortune to retest. Our kids' health evidently isn't worth the expense.
Vaccines donāt cause autism. There isnāt a single rigorous study that shows that result. The only rigorous studies we have on the topic explicitly find NO LINK. This isnāt difficult or that complicated. Like I said above, doing RCTās on vaccines weāve already established as safe would violate every ethics standard we have as researchers.
Iām in education policy, and I couldnāt do a double blind study on assigning kids to not learn math and see how they develop. That would be child abuse. Same principle here. You canāt randomize kids to not get vaccines when thereās a substantial risk to both them and society.
Technically, itās the principle of clinical equipoise. With new drugs, we have no clinical evidence the new drug works at scale in humans, so we can do RCTās since both treatment and control groups are in equipoise. In the case of vaccines, weāre deliberately exposing both the research subjects and society to risks we KNOW we can mitigate to almost zero, so we donāt have equipoise. Itās not about money, itās about fidelity to the scientific method and ethics.
@FarmerJayhawk To be honest, I hope that he does transfer. Thought the same about Grimes, and that worked out pretty well for both parties.
As long as he has eligibility, Iād love to have him stick around. Heās a great kid and is close to getting his degree. That diploma is a big source of pride for a lot of guys.
