Jump to content

Sportsfanatic1

Members
  • Posts

    16,240
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    19

Posts posted by Sportsfanatic1

  1. 2 hours ago, Monte1076 said:

    Sorry, man...I think Barry's right here...

    The 12th Amendment supersedes part of Article 2. Specifically, part of Article 2, section 1.

    https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec1.html

    I think Bush and Cheney done it but Cheney wound up changing his address to Wyoming before the election if I remember right.

    No doubt the rule is confusing to say the least. Anyways, Trump is not picking Rubio for his VP. It's probably going to be either Scott or Noem. Either pick would be a slam dunk in people's opinion that count when it comes to elections. Landslides at that lol.

  2. 6 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

    Has been and will continue to be a simpering weasel 'yes man', so right up Trump's alley. 

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/one-vice-president-possibility-gaining-143359493.html

    One Vice President Possibility Is Gaining Traction With Donald Trump, NBC Reports

    Ron Dicker
    ¡2 min read
     

    Donald Trump is warming to the idea of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) being his running mate, according to NBC News.

    The network reported Wednesday that Rubio is “moving up the list” of candidates to be Trump’s vice president pick, citing six sources familiar with the search.

    Rubio, 52, is “young and telegenic,” could influence Latino voters as the son of Cuban immigrants and would be the first minority to appear on a GOP presidential ticket, NBC noted.

    He also has a record of Trump allegiance. Rubio recently endorsed the idea of the Republican National Committee helping Trump pay his mounting legal bills.

    The senator also downplayed Trump’s incendiary remark that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to other NATO countries. “He doesn’t talk like a traditional politician,” Rubio rationalized last month. “You think people would have figured it out.”

    Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he leaves the TikTok briefing in the U.S. Capitol on March 20.
     
    Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he leaves the TikTok briefing in the U.S. Capitol on March 20. Bill Clark via Getty Images

    “It’s pretty clear from Trump’s orbit that Rubio is in play,” a Florida GOP operative told NBC. “It makes sense because he checks almost every box if they can get past both being from Florida.”

    There are constitutional obstacles to a presidential ticket being from the same state (remember Trump changed his residence to Florida), but a workaround might be possible.

    In 2000 Dick Cheney changed his voter registration from Texas to Wyoming to remove a possible impediment to his sharing the ticket with eventual President (and fellow Texas homeowner) George W. Bush.

    A court later ruled that Cheney, a former Wyoming congressman who moved to Dallas to be chair of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s, was a Wyoming resident.

    Other possibilities for Trump include Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.).

    Someone in Trump’s camp told NBC the search was far from over.

    “The list is long, and it’s extremely early in any kind of process,” the adviser said. “No one has been directly reached out to yet, and I do not expect that for some time.”

    HuffPost reached out to Rubio for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

    LEFT BIAS

    These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation.  They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information reporting that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy. See all Left Bias sources.

    • Overall, we rate HuffPost Left-Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that favor the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks and the promotion of pseudoscience.

    Detailed Report

    Bias Rating: LEFT
    Factual Reporting: MIXED
    Country: USA
    MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
    Media Type: Website
    Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
    MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

  3. 11 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:


    Good news regarding the flu! Masking and social distancing played a vital part. 
     

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/covid-helped-to-kill-off-a-flu-strain-heres-how-that-will-affect-influenza-vaccines-in-the-future-225916776.html

     

    COVID helped to kill off a flu strain. Here's how that will affect influenza vaccines in the future.

    Natalie Rahhal
    5 min read
    359
    •  
     
    Flu shots will be different this fall. Here's why.
     
    Flu shots will be different this fall. Here's why. (Getty Creative) (Morsa Images via Getty Images)

    This fall’s flu shot will be designed to protect you from just three strains of the influenza virus, instead of the usual four, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That’s because an entire branch of the influenza family tree has died out, and experts say that's likely due, at least in part, to the COVID pandemic and the precautions many people were taking. Here’s what to know about the now “extinct” Yamagata influenza B virus, what happened to it and how its disappearance will affect next year’s flu vaccines.

    What happened to the Yamagata strain of flu?

    In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor emeritus of epidemiology at the University of Michigan and member of the FDA's vaccine committee, tells Yahoo Life that scientists got a clue that Yamagata might be on the decline because “it wasn’t diversifying the way that B Victoria did," which is another lineage of influenza B. "Victoria was doing all the weird, wonderful things that flu viruses do," says Monto, "but that wasn’t happening with B Yamagata."

    Then the COVID pandemic hit, and scientists stopped seeing Yamagata in samples taken from patients with flu altogether. “None at all — extinction,” says Monto.

    It’s impossible to say for sure what caused the death of the Yamagata strain, according to Monto and Dr. Pedro Piedra, a professor of molecular virology, microbiology and pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. But they and most virologists consider the various methods to slow the spread of COVID, like masking and social distancing, a major factor.

    One reason that might have led to the extinction of Yamagata is that influenza B almost exclusively infects humans, Piedra tells Yahoo Life, while influenza infects animals. “For viruses to stay alive, they need a host,” he explains. “So imagine for influenza B Yamagata, all of a sudden the ability to transmit is not possible, because the host is now protecting themselves through non-pharmacological interventions,” such as avoiding close contact with other people to slow the spread of COVID.

    The Victoria B strain was more prevalent than Yamagata before the pandemic and managed to hang on, but “the year prior to the pandemic, there was less Yamagata circulating, so that when it took a hit, that hit was more dramatic,” Piedra explains. Influenza A, meanwhile, had plenty of animal hosts to sustain it while humans hid out.

    Why this matters

    Each year, scientists have to guess which subtypes of influenza viruses they think will be most actively circulating in order to formulate the most protective vaccine possible. That’s a serious challenge because viruses are constantly recombining and mutating.

    There are four broad types of influenza: A, B, C and D. But types C and D rarely appear and generally cause only mild illnesses. For this reason, the CDC and the World Health Organization don’t consider them to be public health threats.

    Strains of influenza A and B, on the other hand, circle the globe seasonally. More than 130 subtypes of influenza A have been discovered in nature, according to the CDC, while influenza B has been divided into just two groups, known as lineages: B Victoria and B Yamagata. But vaccine makers can’t yet include more than four types of the flu virus in a given vaccine due to technological limitations. Since 2014, therefore, the vaccine has been made to protect against two strains of influenza A — H1N1 and H3N2 — and two strains of influenza B, Victoria and Yamagata.

    But with the disappearance of Yamagata, the U.S. and much of the world will use a shot based on just three strains of flu — or a trivalent vaccine — instead of a quadrivalent vaccine, which is designed to protect against four strains.

    Making a vaccine based on fewer flu strains could improve vaccine-making capacity globally, research suggests. “It gives you a little more leeway,” Piedra says.

    It means that making the vaccine won’t take quite as long, so scientists may have a little longer to pick the flu strains the vaccine is designed to block — a decision that typically happens in May. Or, as Piedra explains: “You will have the vaccine a little earlier, to be sure that everyone who wants to be is vaccinated. If the vaccine comes in late, it’s much harder to vaccinate everyone and have broad coverage.”

    How trivalent flu vaccines be as protective?

    Yes, say both Monto and Piedra. There’s no evidence that Yamagata B is still around, so the vaccine will be tailored to the strains that are circulating. “As a matter of principle, you don’t want to vaccinate people with something that you don’t need,” says Monto.

    It’s also worth noting that it's not impossible for the B Yamagata strain to reemerge, says Piedra. But he adds that there’s no reason to vaccinate against it now and no immediate cause for concern that it will come back. Also, according to Monto, there's a good reason to leave it out of the vaccine recipe. In the U.S., flu shots contain an inactivated — virology-speak for “dead” — bit of virus that’s incapable of causing infection. But the nasal spray form uses what’s called a live attenuated influenza vaccine, meaning it contains weakened, live viruses.

    This version of the virus is generally too weak to cause illness, but "the concern there was about not wanting to bring back something that was gone” by including B Yamagata in these vaccines, Monto says. So come the fall, the flu shot and nasal spray will protect against three subtypes instead.

    Fauci Lied Again! One Mask Isn't Good Enough Now! : Page 5

  4. 2 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

    It's your life's obsession to defend the poor, poor WASP man, and you do it so well. When did someone ever deny you a chance? When was your trigger moment? That's the only thing that puzzles me. 

    Bottom line Barry, give your job to someone "of color" or an illegal since you support them NOW! If you don't, you're as big a hypocrite as anyone that has ever lived.

    Free advice, get with your preacher on the latter.

×
×
  • Create New...