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82_VOL_83 said:
I don't know, if I am going to go out on a limb and discuss the career of someone who is a shining example to kids by his dedication to his sport and his legacy, I think I'd be quoting something other than my BS opinion. Although that seems to be what you are good at doing. Just toss something out there and see if it sticks.

P.S. We don't care what you give us credit for, your credit is worthless.
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That's what you consider going out on a limb? wow - I didn't view it that way in the least.
Sounds like someone has them a Ripen crush.
I've used him as an example many times in my career. Both positive and negative.
 
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MG1968 said:
No, the generation raised to believe that there is no virtue in being the best and that even the wrong answer is right because feelings are more important than achievement.
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Who raised that generation? Not the tuff muthers?
I have no idea what you guys see or where you see it, but you have some screwed up perspectives. It may be time for a change.
 
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Tastylicks said:
Its great. You get a sinus infection, simply walk into the pharmacy, tell the clerk what you want, $20 USD / 300 pesos and you got a whole bottle.

To get the same medicine in the US, you gotta set up an appointment. Doc gets you in if he/she is not on vacation, mayyyyybe you get an appointment before you get better anyway, but then the doc bills your insurance company for hundreds of dollars just to prescribe you the same damn thing you coulda bought yourself in Mexico.
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Or you could walk into one of thousands of Minute Clinic type places with your sniffles and the NP will write you a scrip and you’ll pay about the same amount. Access to healthcare in the US is nowhere near as hard as you dimwits on the left make it out to be.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
During his streak Ripken led the MLB in total bases, RBI, was second in doubles to Wade Boggs, and second in hits behind Tony Gwynn. He had a WRC of 114, meaning for the duration he was a better than average hitter. He's fourth all time in defensive WAR. He was an excellent player on a very mediocre to bad team. No one will ever break his streak. This is such a weirdly specific thing to have a hot take about, but again as you two seem content with each other it's not a surprise.
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It seems I'm not the one with the HOT take.
He had a great career. I hang his ornament every Christmas.....we always joke about the consecutive game streak.
 
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luthervol said:
Who raised that generation? Not the tuff muthers?
I have no idea what you guys see or where you see it, but you have some screwed up perspectives. It may be time for a change.
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I’m pretty sure you have a basement or garage full of participation trophies “won” by your kids for just showing up.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
It won't obsolete docs by any stretch but it would certainly free them up to spend more time with patients that might need it. You could provide value care instead of a treadmill where every sniffle and stomach ache requires a doctor's attention.
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Not even sure we get the right meds anyways. You seen doc penmanship? Pharmacist says yea close enough lol
 
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MG1968 said:
Or you could walk into one of thousands of Minute Clinic type places with your sniffles and the NP will write you a scrip and you’ll pay about the same amount. Access to healthcare in the US is nowhere near as hard as you dimwits on the left make it out to be.
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you can, but urgent care/ER visits are even more money billed to the insurance company
 
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luthervol said:
My wife has always made fun of the hoopla over Cal Ripken's consecutive games played.
She views it as the most selfish accomplishment in all of sports.
Her view is that there is no way that there were not days when he was a little sick or injured to the point where the backup would have been much better for the team.
She views going to work sick the same way. If you do not have a replacement that can step in during your absence, someone is not running the organization very effectively.
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Interesting perspective on the world.

Just curious, does she know how Lou Gehrig got his start and how Lou Gehrig lost his starting spot?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Interesting perspective on the world.

Just curious, does she know how Lou Gehrig got his start and how Lou Gehrig lost his starting spot?
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Not sure how much she knows other than how it ended, but her dad was a huge baseball fan so she grew up with some knowledge.
 
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TheDeeble said:
They took a process that is normally in the 10 year range and did it in a few months. I wouldn't expect any business would compromise the typical testing and safety protocols without some kind of immunity.
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agreed. but there is a reason they do 10 years (or however long) of research. the EUA doesn't say they checked all 10 years worth of boxes in a quicker time frame.
 
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GAVol said:
Good luck. It didn’t really bother me much other than getting a little cold. My wife basically shut down at about 12 hours and was ok the next day.
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I got my second shot a week ago and it didn't bother me at all. My arm was slightly sore for a day, but nothing close to my first shot. The real pain came when my dentist attempted to put on 2 crowns on my lower rear jaw and after 6 jabs of pain killer he managed to get my cheek almost numb. I hate the dentist!
 
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LouderVol said:
agreed. but there is a reason they do 10 years (or however long) of research. the EUA doesn't say they checked all 10 years worth of boxes in a quicker time frame.
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Right. I’m not saying they did 10 years of research in a few months. They just skipped a lot of the process to get something out quickly. I imagine they agreed to do so because the govt gave them immunity. Otherwise they’d be opening themselves up to lawsuits for any abnormal thing people that got the vaccine experience.

Part of the reason I’m not planning on getting the vaccine anytime soon.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Right. I’m not saying they did 10 years of research in a few months. They just skipped a lot of the process to get something out quickly. I imagine they agreed to do so because the govt gave them immunity. Otherwise they’d be opening themselves up to lawsuits for any abnormal thing people that got the vaccine experience.

Part of the reason I’m not planning on getting the vaccine anytime soon.
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Don't you think that vaccines are pretty much a proven concept by now? I don't care if you get one or not, but for the most part I don't recall anyone having a bad reaction to one.
 
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VolStrom said:
I got my second shot a week ago and it didn't bother me at all. My arm was slightly sore for a day, but nothing close to my first shot. The real pain came when my dentist attempted to put on 2 crowns on my lower rear jaw and after 6 jabs of pain killer he managed to get my cheek almost numb. I hate the dentist!
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Neither shot has bothered me. :)
 
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VolStrom said:
Don't you think that vaccines are pretty much a proven concept by now? I don't care if you get one or not, but for the most part I don't recall anyone having a bad reaction to one.
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Yes. I’m not an antivaxxer.

But mRNA vaccines had never been approved for human use. A new vaccine for a novel virus that bypassed the standard testing and safety protocols. If this were something super deadly I might have a different opinion. But covid isn’t that. And so far this doesn’t look like it’s a long term vaccine. I think it more closer will resemble a flu shot you’ll need every year? Unless someone has something recent saying otherwise?

Besides, I already had Covid back in early Jan.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Yes. I’m not an antivaxxer.

But mRNA vaccines had never been approved for human use. A new vaccine for a novel virus that bypassed the standard testing and safety protocols. If this were something super deadly I might have a different opinion. But covid isn’t that. And so far this doesn’t look like it’s a long term vaccine. I think it more closer will resemble a flu shot you’ll need every year? Unless someone has something recent saying otherwise?

Besides, I already had Covid back in early Jan.
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Do you think that after 100's of millions of doses that if people were going to fall over dead, they would start doing it by now? If you want to wait 20 years to test something go ahead, I'm not as risk averse as you are.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Yes. I’m not an antivaxxer.

But mRNA vaccines had never been approved for human use. A new vaccine for a novel virus that bypassed the standard testing and safety protocols. If this were something super deadly I might have a different opinion. But covid isn’t that. And so far this doesn’t look like it’s a long term vaccine. I think it more closer will resemble a flu shot you’ll need every year? Unless someone has something recent saying otherwise?

Besides, I already had Covid back in early Jan.
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MRNA vs traditional is why I went with the J&J vaccine.
 
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volinbham said:
and - what was the result? who was the back up player?
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Don't know. Here's one manager's take before the record was broken.
Ripken always has maintained that the streak is only a byproduct of his desire to play every day, but he has been criticized on numerous occasions for supposedly putting the streak ahead of the best interests of the team. San Francisco Giants coach Bobby Bonds ripped him for that earlier this season.
"That's idiotic," Bonds said in May, discussing the topic after a game in which his son, Barry, sat out. "If I were his manager, he'd be out of there. He's hurting the team and showing that personal goals are more important. He wants to break Lou Gehrig's record even if it'll cost Baltimore the pennant."

And his wife:
"It seemed at the time like it was a serious injury," Ripken said. "I was talking to my wife, and she said, 'Do you think you can just play one inning tonight.' I said, 'You, too?' She said, 'I thought that was the most important thing to you,' and I said, 'If I can't play I'm not willing to play."
 
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