Recruiting Forum Off Topic Thread III

[Bassmaster_Vol]

We've tried to be lenient, but we're gonna have to kill the coronavirus talk, or remove folks from the thread if you guys can't discuss it like adults without the name calling. (posts removed, but you know who you are.) This is the very reason we try to avoid politics and hot button social issues in the recruiting forum.

/rant

Ftr I didn’t call anyone any names

 

[GroverCleveland]

Well, I feel bad. Never got hazed when I first posted.

Of course, I was POTUS...

 

[Catbone]

This covid talk reminds me of the council of Elrond.

 

[GojiraVol17]

@Freak does a drive by and I’m here like

 

[UTSuave’]

Initiation and some hazing, , makes us stronger.

It does!! For sure but with how my personality is I have always fit in here because I’m a extremely blunt and direct A$$hole with a good sense of humor so I’ve never taken offense to anything that’s ever been said in here..if anything I laugh my A$$ because I’m surrounded by posters who are actually funnier than me.

 

[VolBalla2014]

Yall remember TheDooley?

Don’t forget “PalardyLikeARockstar” who would give his “insider info on spring practice” but really he was just watching from his dorm room

 

[UTSuave’]

Don’t forget “PalardyLikeARockstar” who would give his “insider info on spring practice” but really he was just watching from his dorm room

Bro!..”LEGEND”

 

[Devo182]

Albright officially visited and ole LA couldn’t explain to us cretins how he could still blueshirt.

When did he OV? 247 doesn't show any.

 

[VOLSONLY]

Frank rolling in and dropping the hammer

 

[Devo182]

A VQ mod was pushing the same thing about how Albright didn't really sign and how this isn't the first time fans thought someone signed a loi and they weren't actually. Then again...they themselves show him as signed. Either a conspiracy or they don't really know.

 

[Crazy Ivan]

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Or why they put WARNING!: Do Not Open on the inside of the door of passenger jets.

 

[butchna]

When did he OV? 247 doesn't show any.

Does it always? When did Jerrod Means officially visit?

Edit: December 2018. It also shows Albright unofficially visited twice after he committed...and signed in December 2019...moot point.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

well I hope errbody stays safe and dont get it. I'm out, dont do the arguing thing, cant change people's minds when they have it made up.

It is out in the world now...it is never going away..you WILL ABSOLUTELY get it five days, five months or five years from now.

Do none of you guys understand that? Avoiding contracting Covid-19 for any us was never a possibility once it got out of Wuhan China.

Even if a vaccine becomes available, it will not be 100% effective...that is a fact.

I am not wearing a mask around everywhere I go for the rest of my life.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

No that's not it at all. It's about common courtesy. It's about not spreading your germs to those that could be vulnerable. It's about making a small sacrifice to help others. Some don't see it that way. They can't even answer why.

Then if you don't wear a mask everywhere you go for the rest of your life..you are a hypocrite. This is not the only virus that can kill people.

 

[85SugarVol]

I miss @eazyTD

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Well, Fox has picked up the "numbers" issue on COVID this AM on their website. They must read VN RF.

We are messing this up as a nation, especially in the medical research industry. Knowingly analyzing flawed numbers to make recommendations will not lead to good decisions. It makes those who use logic question the motives and the people doing it. A study of point of view contrasts are Fauci and Birx. Fauci rolls with it and says it is worse than stated. Birx says she cannot trust the numbers. Which of those two is actually paying attention to all of the proven flaws of reporting and which is glossing over all of the proven flaws in reporting? Who stands to profit the most for the cases being higher or lower? Think your answer through if you read this. Who is all about vaccines and therapeutics development and who is all about the immediate reduction of cases regardless of method for getting there? Who blew off POTUS recommendations on an internationally reported inexpensive therapeutic and prophylactic solution despite singing the praises of its primary med's success in treating a related disease with a common host receptor to COVID-19 in 2005? How much will Remdisivir cost per dose and how does the developer financially benefit from a patent on same? The open promotion of that drug occurs even though the success for just reducing symptoms and having no ability to cure is just in one third of patients.

Why are the actual CDC numbers not being reported? Where do the other reported numbers come from?

The reporting system is so bad and that states did not even get dying "of" versus "with" consistently applied nationwide. Even that had to be political. Follow the money, it usually leads to the motives for doing and not doing things the right ways.

The Tanzanian President may be smarter than all of them.

What did panic get us as a nation? More division, more economic loss, other forms of death and suffering. Who benefits from that?

Again - who benefits from more national division, more economic loss, other forms of death and suffering?

Look what all of it has done on here amongst us for a sample.

OMG... you just dropped the effin

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Chi-coms, non-Chinese globalists within and around the world, and anybody in league with them. We are at war. They are at work trying to change not only the economics, they are working on gene mutation and other aspects of population control.

Why else would the simple solutions not be endorsed while complex, convoluted solutions are promoted that can only be verified and authorized by "experts"? Why else would acceptance of natural causes of death be no longer acceptable to leaders, experts, and our more panic filled fellow citizens? COVID-19 is just a virus, a disease, like untold numbers of diseases. Why no lock down for pneumonia? It kills more than COVID or flu strains every year? The list goes on and on.

Example: Social distancing in and of itself is a common sense solution when applied to communicable diseases. However, it is not a common sense solution long term in non true pandemic environments as it creates societies where people are detached from one another. If one is religious, that works in direct opposition with most religions that promote well being and relations between all people. Even for the non-religious, physical and close contact with others is highly desired. Example: for football fans - can you imagine not being able to tailgate, sit next to each other, celebrate with each other, high five/fist bump/hug, etc.? Ridiculous. The totalitarians, communists and fascists throughout history have all used techniques such as these of sensory deprivation to create people who are slaves to their system.

Herd immunity is included in the natural laws of humans and animals. It is natural adjustment to the environment by the species. IT does not matter if it was God created like I believe or occurred due to matter's evolution like non-religious believe because it is what it is. Yes, science can enhance the response by the species when exposed with therapeutics, vaccines and such. However, should science and government leaders create the long term damage to society with mitigation techniques that may cause much larger problems long term. Fauci says, "yes". Gates says, "yes", etc. They fear porn us all of the time. Why? Trace their backgrounds, their associations, their public stances on issues, the money, the control, etc. The Chi-coms are proven to be using AI to perfect the grading of compliance by every single person. Each Chinese citizen is required to carry a cell phone to be able to do anything that has all of their information stored on it. What is Gates promoting? Markers within vaccines to track. Technology/software that tracks people based on COVID-19 presence or not. It goes on and on.

Has nothing to do with mask or no mask, vaccine or no vaccine, whatever. Has everything to do with fear, anxiety and panic creation. Live free or die.

Dropped it again..

 

[SmokeMSJ]

What about Orange Venom (I think that was it). Wasn’t he legit. Knew a lot about GA kids. He not around anymore?

He was a friend of Mecole Hardman...
He’d drop recruiting nuggets between Home Ec, and Band practice.

 

[JacketVol]

Ain’t the first time I’ve been called a POS and won’t be the last time. I do have a competitive drive and have always pushed myself and others to perfection because that’s how a team can achieve excellence. If you can’t fight together then you can’t win together. I respect the heck out of Michael Jordan and know that winning doesn’t also mean you are popular and well liked but a good leader is always respected and leads by example.

 

[SmokinBob]

The fact is, this thing is extremely mild. You can’t trust the death numbers because so many people are being counted as covid deaths when they aren’t covid deaths. That is an indisputable fact. As Volatil said, Bama fans have gotten hold of the mortality rate of covid.

Further, of those who are dying, majority are over 85 years old, many of whom are already in nursing homes. Not people I encounter very often. To nearly everyone else on the planet, this virus is harmless. This is not the Black Plague people.

When I go to the store and I see an elderly person, I avoid them. I go down a different aisle. I don’t walk beside them. I go out of my way to give them space. But I feel no need to wear a mask around when the majority of people I interact with through the week are people my age who are practicing social distancing. How unchristian of me

No taking sides - I’m more a “you be you”. This ^ is pretty much how I’ve been in public. I keep at least a six foot distance, I turn my head if someone passes me in an aisle, and I wear a mask when required (eye doctor cornea transplant follow up yesterday). Y‘all are all good people cause you’re all Vols - I am so tired of us fighting and judging...

 

[InVOLuntary]

Then if you don't wear a mask everywhere you go for the rest of your life..you are a hypocrite. This is not the only virus that can kill people.

Lutz

 

[butchna]

I miss @eazyTD

Yeah that was a loss to the board.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Georgia had 397 yesterday. Texas has 29 million population, but the panhandle is becoming a hot spot.

The panhandle becoming a hot spot is weird..

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

And you bitch and moan about even wearing a mask carrying your old folks to and from the doctor. Forgive me if I don't give to ***** about your sacrifices.

See ya..

 

[SmokinBob]

All of this will be moot as far as knowing what to do and what is the situation with each of us. We just need time and for people to test if they are concerned or have symptoms. The tests for COVID determine both both active and asymptomatic. It tells you if you have the active virus in you or not. You can have a test at drive-up locations all over the place. There are 3 locations available most days of the week in the Knoxville area. Gov. Lee wants people to be tested if they have any question at all or are active/work with at risk folks. They are not all that concerned about your current condition. Just tell them you are around elderly daily, are a care giver, have low immunity, felt bad recently - whatever the case may be. They have lots of test kits, that's not an issue anymore. Until you do that you will not know if you have as active or asymptomatic case of it and need to self quarantine.

Another group of folks like me want to know if our previous respiratory issues we recovered from before this became a huge thing were COVID-19 related. That's where the antigen test for antibodies comes in that was recently FDA approved and in production/distribution. That will tell us if we have the antibodies and that we will likely be immune to some extent going forward.

Since I have been recovered since March, I cannot transmit it if I had it in January/February as I suspect. It is no longer in me, just the antibodies that were created by my immune system to fight it. So I can sneeze, spit, wipe my hands on stuff, whatever; and it will not transmit the virus if I test positive for the antibodies and am not active with it. I plan to have that test with my physical in July as the kits should be distributed widely by then. If I have the antibodies, I will not be all that concerned come fall and winter. I do not depend on people to wear masks or not. I carry hand sanitizer and space a bit away from folks. I bring a mask if it is crowded in a store and will use it if I am sneezing from allergies so as not to alarm others. My wife and I are older and we have continued to live our lives and go. Just use common sense.

The Flu/COVID, etc. comparison charts on cases have been out for awhile. Amazingly the flu cases hit a wall and dropped off the chart in the third week of March. Virtually every year in the past it continues and trends down steadily through April, May and early June. Funny that.

My daughter and g-daughter had their blood drawn Friday for the antibody test....If they have the antibodies, Mr Smokin and I will do it.