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  1. Terrible idea IMO for both NBA and NHL. Bad enough stopping for a meaningful tournament like the Olympics. NHL playoffs is one of the great tournaments in pro sport, the season is already too much of a grind and could easily be shortened by 10-20 games. I think the idea of expanding the playoffs is better, drop to 72 game season and add a round of playoffs or a play in round like in bubble.
  2. Loved Norm’s comedy. Subversive, smart, deadpan. ‘RIP
  3. Best to think of wait times between shots as minimums. Generally a little longer delay has had better responses. That being said, the original research protocol was 3 weeks so 19 days is little short and 28 days is probably better.
  4. Absolutely. I am actually very curious to see what happens with common cold rates over the next few years as 30% of the common colds are coronaviruses. Another fun point is that as mRNA vaccines get more data and more variable usage they could broaden their use and could be much more rapidly tailored, it is a very plastic technology. Think of mRNA production like a printer. You can punch in a sequence and it punches out the mRNA. It can very rapidly be adapted to this years or seasons emerging pathogens. Could this finally be the cure for the common cold?
  5. There was a release a few weeks back that seemed odd and potentially problematic outside of the physician community and that is that Delta is as transmissible as the chicken pox. I was worried about this statement because so many people minimize varicella and would see it as further validation to not get vaccinated. What this statement was really saying is that even with vaccine this infection is not going away, like varicella. So yes we need to learn to live with it and most importantly mitigate the risks of living with it, and the best and only way to do that is through mass vaccinations.
  6. I have been telling my patients to expect this for months. Only makes sense.
  7. Yeah, a number of the players ahead played little or very sheltered minutes. A lot of big bodies and poor skaters on that list, really shows something about the heart Brock brings as he is a little guy on that list.
  8. Lehtinen was one of the most under-rated forwards even with three Selkes. Man he was good. Peca is a great comparable and had a longer, better overall career than Kesler. Datsyuk and Federov are not even comparable, they were on a completely different level. Good set of comparable overall. Kesler was great player and had some truly amazing flashes of brilliance like the Nashville series where he carried this team. The resume isn't long enough or successful enough overall for the Hall. Not even close.
  9. This is very well stated. Even if we assume that all the deaths reported on VAERS are vaccine related that is 0.0020%. Even the people quoting the survival numbers for the original COVID strain see that this is much lower than the death rate for COVID, or even living in an area with COVID. I do think we need to stop applying logic here, it is not a logical problem any more it is emotional. I talk to a lot of people about this and some of it is clearly mental health issues, some of it is redirected anger and people trying to retake control of their bodies after personal traumas and getting down the rabbit hole of angry online communities but the vast majority are snowflakes that don't like to be told what to do. While these snowflakes chant you can't take my freedoms they are making the rest of us live under the tyranny of the minority by prolonging everything they are protesting against.
  10. I would take a flyer on Staal or Chucky at league minimum. That being said want to get some youth in the bottom 6, time to see if Gadjo can sink or swim.
  11. He is Not Canadian. He escaped Czech Republic during juniors in Calgary if I remember correctly.
  12. He might be the type of player that would of excelled in the 90s but I don't think he would have. His issues are more about reads and puck handling as well as his pivots and turns. There is enough there to carve out a career and maybe a bit better than he has now, still would have been a disappointment for such a high pick. That Flames D is going to be big and Sutter may be the coach who gets Gudbranson playing salvageable minutes because of his structure. I think the Flames will be in tough in the regular season because speed will kill them, if they can make the playoffs though they are built to be a tough out much like Montreal.
  13. Well in the parameters described, at his best (clearly not with Vancouver) Messier is probably the best player to play for this team. Oh, I do feel dirty saying it. Trevor Linden is my favourite Canuck player of all time but at their peaks Bertuzzi was still the better right winger.
  14. Sorry to hear about your mom. That sounds horrible. Was a bench scientist, doing a lot of research in a similar field to the mRNA development. Even studied a similar system for developing monoclonal antibodies. Have been doctor for last 15 years. That being said, any comments made are not meant as direct medical advice but more personal and scientific (CYA statement).
  15. 1. The ultimate truth about the two mRNA vaccines is that they are generally safe and certainly much safer than living in a pandemic as nasty as the Delta pandemic without being vaccinated. There are a fairly high number of minor side effects, mostly fever, sore arm and headache. The serious side effect profile is actually excellent with very rare serious cases. It seems like more cases and more frequently than other vaccines because a number of factors including a massive vaccine roll-out that is immunizing hundreds of millions of people over a few months in an environment where there is a well organized very aggressive anti-vaxx movement that has been honing their online bullying skills. Add to that massive disinformation campaigns out of China, Russia and Republicana. These add up to people being worried about something they are in more danger driving too than getting. As a general comment though mRNA vaccines have 15 years of study, this is just the first commercial use. Was there an urgency to release yes, that urgency is called a pandemic. 2. The effectiveness of these vaccines is striking, it truly is amazing how effective it has been. Yes you can test positive after getting vaccine sometimes even get an active infection though this is exceedingly rare and almost all those cases are in the immunocompromised, morbidly obese or frail category. Breakthrough infections are actually quite rare and there is lots of easily accessible data on that. But the simple answer as to why so many cases are coming out is that they are in the unvaccinated and Delta is a nasty piece of work. 3. Is it over-reach to protect your citizens? I don't trust the government either but protecting citizens seems to be their core role. I want to be very careful about commenting on your mom as none of this is meant with any pejorative intent but vaccines don't mess the immune system up they boost it. The immune system has the capacity to handle 10,000 vaccines at once but man you would be uncomfortable. Now some auto-immune issues can result from this but that is a different story. I would be careful about making blanket health decisions based on the suspicions of your sister, especially ones that put you and yours at significant risk of illness and passing illness to others. Regardless, comparing a flu shot to an mRNA vaccine is like comparing an apples to a red Ferrari. One obvious similarity but nothing else is the same.
  16. Part of that is the manipulation of the text. One of the things King James did was take out a lot of the humanizing aspects about Jesus. The idea was to stress the mystical and make Jesus less man more God. Talk about unforeseen tragic consequences. To argue of fiction or not I think is intentionally inflammatory. I think the problem is the interpreter and the interpretation for those who want to take such a manipulated text as literal. There is no question that Jesus existed and was a peace loving, wise Rabi in the true sense of the word. The hate and bigotry is more on those who hold the book in their hands while desecrating it with their actions. This is not a Christian only problem though clearly. Muslims have been painted with a horribly violent brush in North America because of the action of a few violent extremists. I am a scientist and very much not religious but do believe there is room for faith in science and scientists, I just believe in the balance, organized religion has given us more problems than benefits today. I think there is great benefit to the sense of community but when it turns that around to a culture war the benefit no longer outweigh the problems.
  17. Tough as EP nowhere near his prime yet, still… EP Henrik Daniel Ohlund Markstrom Edler Naslund (was never that fond of Naslund, soft, disappeared in playoffs, carried by the best power forward in the game at the time)
  18. I have been hearing this kind of crap from patients. New World Order, One-World government… amazing what crazy theories people will cling on to because they are having temper tantrums about a virus with a nearly 100% effective treatment. ‘I don’t want a sore arm and don’t care who has to die to keep my arm from being sore’
  19. I was thinking when saw this question that Benning could be both the best and worst GM in Canucks history. Seems contradictory but that is sports. Tortorella was one of the worst coaches we ever had and was great with Columbus.
  20. The number isn't anywhere near that high but it does happen. It becomes a very complex question as you can imagine. They actually do train you in medical school that if your not sure, just don't say anything at the time (ie don't blurt out "Its a girl, maybe?")
  21. I forget the details, was 20 years ago and in an era with only the proto-internet.
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