I could give half a shit about your props. As for your foreknowledge.....

For one thing, vaccinations don't 'take' for everyone. -- SchmHoo 11/21/2023 4:29PM

I will give you props for... -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 7:24PM

Nonsense. ** -- SixerHoo 11/22/2023 08:55AM

I could give half a shit about your props. As for your foreknowledge..... -- SchmHoo 11/21/2023 9:32PM

About 200 more words than that useless jerkoff of a troll deserved, but -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 5:11PM

+100, and I learned a new word: nescient. Thanks! ** -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 4:51PM

Me too: turd donut ** -- southdenverhoo 11/21/2023 5:52PM

This thread suggests that we had an education problem -- HoosWillWin 11/21/2023 11:22AM

Covid magnified the flaws ** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 11:24AM

By gluing a whole generation of stupid, gullible, tech-retarded boomers to -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 2:13PM

Our education system did not have flaws before Covid? Maybe not in your -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 2:40PM

He was pointing out how dumb and gullible some of the “educated” posters on -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 2:47PM

Not MISinfomation. That implies unintentional. Actually DISinformation, -- Hoo TV 11/21/2023 2:20PM

Importat distinction, there. ** -- SchmHoo 11/21/2023 3:51PM

Buh chapeau ** -- ResistHoo 11/21/2023 11:02AM

^^^ Wears one at the sandwich station ^^^ ** -- TomGlansAski 11/21/2023 2:30PM

A quality piece from the NYT. Yes- school districts that didn't reopen -- Capital City Hoo 11/21/2023 10:35AM

It was 14 months out here, causing my kids to… -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 10:55AM

I do genuinely feel sorry for your kids…. -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 2:51PM

Thanks. I’ll let them know. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 3:23PM

And yet he wonders why he's dubbed a pathetic Little Man. ** -- Hoodafan 11/21/2023 3:56PM

You really don’t think anyone pays attention to the childish names -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 5:06PM

OK Groomer. ** -- Hoodafan 11/21/2023 6:57PM

You misspelled “Gomer”. ** -- FrankGallagher 11/21/2023 8:53PM

(Link). Look it was just non-governmental choices. -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 11:43AM

The degree of shut down seems to have some linkage to population densities. ** -- NJHoo 11/21/2023 10:42AM

Hat tip on the Hostage deal. Looking very promising. ** -- Lazarus 11/21/2023 09:46AM

Yep...kinda' stinks that its 3 turds for every 1 hostage...but the IDF can -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 10:02AM

Go back and look at what the Israelis traded for one of their soldiers -- hooshouse 11/21/2023 11:08AM

Years back ** -- Lupos 11/21/2023 11:26AM

Yep...and our Bowe Bergdahl was worse (5 for 1) ** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 11:20AM

3 terrorists for every 1 hostage? Well, if it gets on the headlines, then -- Lupos 11/21/2023 10:33AM

Here crybaby. Wikipedia: -- hooshouse 11/21/2023 11:12AM

And of those 1027 Arab isoners how many went on to participate on Oct. 7th? -- Lupos 11/21/2023 11:24AM

Notice how every leftist post always has a 'But...' -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:55AM

It’s spelled and pronounced “buh”, me. ** -- ResistHoo 11/21/2023 11:06AM

Hamas is evil and needs to be destroyed. That said, it’s not a -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:06AM

Buh wuddabout green apples.** -- ResistHoo 11/21/2023 11:09AM

I’m not sure how this got into this thread, but this is the problem with -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 10:16AM

Believing Hamas needs to be destroyed and that they can be destroyed are -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:26AM

Yeah I just heard now that it isn’t a permanent “truce”, so I guess we’l -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:08AM

Well put. The answer - if there is one - is for Israel to figure -- Lazarus 11/21/2023 10:43AM

Those Joos sure did wear a short skirt, amirite?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 11/21/2023 1:51PM

I wonder why Israel did that. I mean the Gaza residents are just -- BocaHoo91 11/21/2023 12:20PM

They could offer a bounty on each member of hamas but it would have to be -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/21/2023 12:02PM

Yeah, it’s all on the Israelis. Should Palestinians figure out what they -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:16AM

Israel needs their version of General George Marshall to rebuild Gaza (and -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 10:54AM

The Gaza they turned over to the Palestinians in 2005 was better than -- CharlestonSC 11/21/2023 12:50PM

I actually think that would be wise, but it won’t happen. Not right now. -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:20AM

Plus the Germans and Japanese were ready to embrace democracy and -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 11:22AM

The Germans and the Japanese were ready to embrace democracy? -- Lazarus 11/21/2023 2:03PM

Umm…yes they were. At the end of WW2 the allied sections of Germany -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 2:17PM

I think most Palestinians now are consumed with the struggle to survive. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:25AM

Gaza has always been a quagmire. Even when Egypt administered Gaza before -- CharlestonSC 11/21/2023 1:49PM

I don’t know that’s entirely on the residents of Gaza. It’s just certain -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 2:02PM

Of course...but I don't think Germany and Japan were picnics for their -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 11:29AM

Those were wealthy countries whose dreams of empire failed, but wanted -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 12:47PM

I agree ** -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:34AM

I have not studied the deal...does Hamas get to pick who gets released? ** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 10:08AM

Don’t know. Film at 11 (I hope). ** -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:13AM

If Hamas gets to pick from the terrorist portal...they will be the worst ** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 10:30AM

Castrate them prior to being released, that will put a kink in their step ** -- Lupos 11/21/2023 11:36AM

No doubt. ** -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:32AM

Two comments… -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 09:17AM

They want to learn lessons from it, they say -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 08:47AM

There were two sorts of people calling for… -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 10:05AM

It's unfortunate that your opinions weren't more widely disseminated as -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/21/2023 1:33PM

Nonsense. Lunacy ** -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 11:36AM

Is lunacy worse than or not as bad as Luposy? ** -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 12:09PM

What were the “propagandists” motives? ** -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:34AM

The portion of easily propagandized is likely the Venn diagram -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:21AM

The Venn diagram of... -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 10:38AM

Yes. Many such cases. -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:49AM

You are dead on about the… -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 11:01AM

When you’ve found a cure for your liberalism hysteria we can talk. ** -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:43AM

Stack of fluffy pancakes 😂 ** -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 10:41AM

Lol ** -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 10:26AM

The "propogandized" :). I like it ** -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 10:12AM

^^^ 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 ** -- WaxHoo 11/21/2023 10:10AM

I disagree this is mainly a govt overreach issue. I think that’s a framing -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 09:24AM

Pathetic ** -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 09:44AM

How so, precisely. ** -- WaxHoo 11/21/2023 10:11AM

Fair points. I think one aspect I’m lumping in with -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 09:33AM

Fair. Social media and angry (or frightened) people are a bad combo -- Capital City Hoo 11/21/2023 11:55AM

I totally buy that concern. And govt played a hand. I’m happy to see -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 09:39AM

And the attempts to silence was about misinformation that was dangerous -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 09:48AM

For the sake of argument assume the government -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 09:55AM

Let’s stick with what really happened. We had a pandemic, thousands of -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 11:32AM

This isn't rhetorical. They support and celebrate it ** -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:37AM

That’s a pretty broad generalization. In the heat of the moment, do human -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 09:53AM

Will never know for sure because of China. And in that case the pushback -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 11:23AM

Honestly, I think that’s a bit of excuse making. Too much of the anti- -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:27AM

Because Trump made the pandemic, a political dispute because it was -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 11:35AM

Yeah, I agree, but I wish the rest of us depoliticized, instead of going -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:38AM

Compared to most developed nations, our govt -- BocaHoo91 11/21/2023 09:15AM

You may want to parse this retrospective study of covid shutdown effects -- NJHoo 11/21/2023 10:26AM

Probably true. Still there should be a heavy bias -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 09:43AM

I think it's easy to say that with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. But at -- BocaHoo91 11/21/2023 10:15AM

A lesson I’d like to see examined - if we should have been more -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 10:25AM

For sure, but this was literally a once in a century (knocks wood) -- BocaHoo91 11/21/2023 10:56AM

No disagreement with any of that. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 11:35AM

At the risk of being accused of cynicism… -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 09:52AM

The flatten the curve argument is the only argument I ever -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 10:19AM

Excellent post. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 1:19PM

To not consider the additional risk to all of the citizens in a community -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 11:41AM

If you want to get vaccinated get vaccinated! Who's stopping you or anyone -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 11:51AM

I have a hard time believing you’re serious and not just another troll, -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 2:06PM

LOL. This is how they've lived their life and the reason for their being -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 12:26PM

You spread it to others and you keep it circulating which increases the -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 12:04PM

I won’t argue that mandates may have been continued too long, but -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:32AM

Devil’s advocate: we initially thought of vaccines as a way to head off the -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 09:59AM

As I try to say in my post, I think “govt overreach” is just sort of a -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 09:32AM

The biggest problem we had was a cowardly narcissist being in charge of -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 08:59AM

I’m not sure who they is that you’re pointing to, but responsible people -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 08:53AM

....while he'll vote for the candidate who believes the Constitution -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 08:51AM

I have not and will not vote for Trump ** -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 09:03AM

Dems never say this. -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 09:54AM

As a matter of policy I agree with Trump way more than any Dem -- SysHoo 11/21/2023 10:01AM

I just hate when -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:15AM

He has taken over the Republican Party due to..: -- Los Angeles Hoo 11/21/2023 10:14AM

Exactly. ** -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 10:38AM

Character matters immensely when the character in question -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 10:18AM

We’re sorry you missed prom, but let’s be honest — you were going stag -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 08:00AM

Hey, look at the bright side... the poorly educated overwhelmingly vote -- BocaHoo91 11/21/2023 07:18AM

(Pic). They were/are evil. They need to be dealt with. -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 06:26AM

They live in a state of fear, fear of covid, fear of Trump, fear of -- Lupos 11/21/2023 06:59AM

Bingo. POTY! ** -- Hoodafan 11/21/2023 09:04AM

^^^ proof positive you are an imbecile ** -- WaxHoo 11/21/2023 12:29PM

Fear of “imaginary global warming” is your POTY. -- hoolstoptheheels 11/21/2023 10:06AM

SPOTY -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 09:26AM

Hooduh is not only a dumb, pathetic weenie…he is a kiss ass to even dumber -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 10:22AM

So you hate people who have fears? Do you hate yourself? Because you are as -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 08:31AM

And ignore the roving bands of violent criminals coming for our white women -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 08:07AM

LOL! MAGAts are afraid of everything. -- SixerHoo 11/21/2023 07:42AM

Amen ** -- hooshouse 11/21/2023 10:00AM

(Pic) And they want the normal man to die for them. -- ryno hoo 11/21/2023 07:31AM

Just because you don't want to spend your days under the bed... -- ResistHoo 11/21/2023 07:13AM

Yeah pandemics have consequences, saving lives requires trade-offs -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 05:44AM

Trade-offs? That's what a childs education is, a trade-off? -- Lupos 11/21/2023 06:16AM

You seemed to have lacked the kind of education that would have -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 08:58AM

For the people in those states, -- NJHoo 11/21/2023 10:04AM

My childhood home was just miles from the WV line, about as close as -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 10:10AM

I never knew that 18 year olds could buy alcohol in WV -- NJHoo 11/21/2023 10:40AM

In the early 80's we would on occasion drive from Blacksburg over to -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 1:54PM

As an aside, I'm talking 1974ish. I'm sure it changed not that long -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 12:30PM

The largest employer near my home was a poultry plant. -- Shenhoo 11/21/2023 11:01AM

Appreciate your story -- NJHoo 11/21/2023 11:12AM

During the pandemic, decisions were made to save lives. Go back to 2020 and -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 06:26AM

I suspect Lupos is a townie who rarely gets out of C’Ville, so prob not -- WahooRQ 11/21/2023 08:02AM

I wonder if other industrialized nations saw similar education gaps from -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 06:09AM

I’m really not too concerned about comparisons, but if other countries -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 06:15AM

They are ultimately our competition...and we already had receded -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 06:23AM

Competition for what? ** -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 06:30AM

Innovation and Leadership…among many others** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 07:53AM

Yeah, well I worry more about their well-being and -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 09:12AM

I don't think it was the kids' well being that was at issue as much as the -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 09:27AM

It was the unknown. While prevailing wisdom was that healthy kids probably -- 111Balz 11/21/2023 09:50AM

.** -- Tuckahokie 11/21/2023 07:53AM

I could give half a shit about your props. As for your foreknowledge.....

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