Forum: Basketball
Wed Jun 03, 2020, 11:05am
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The Myth Is A Myth ...
Journal of the American Medical Association
May 27, 2020
Comparison Of Clinical Characteristics Of Patients With Asymptomatic Vs Symptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 In Wuhan, China
... For the...
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Forum: Basketball
Wed Jun 03, 2020, 10:19am
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Replies: 66
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Wash Your Hands ...
Agree. However, JRutledge recently posted some great comments bringing us back to the topic of officiating.
For my part, I was just trying to debunk some health myths with the intent of keeping us...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 07:36pm
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Replies: 66
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King Coal ...
Agree, but as you stated "primary", it's not the only reason.
China loves its coal burning plants, spewing out lots of particulate pollutants, that can be sucessfully filtered by surgical masks....
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 05:32pm
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Replies: 66
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Not Molly Malone ...
Not COVID-19, but typhoid fever (a bacterial infection).
In New York's fair city,
Where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Mary Mallon,
As she wheeled her laundry barrow,...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 03:57pm
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Replies: 66
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Blood Vessel Disease ...
And now there's a new study that indicates that COVID-19 is a disease of the blood vessels.
https://news.yahoo.com/evidence-suggests-covid-19-may-195153450.html
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 03:31pm
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Replies: 66
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Viral Pneumonia ...
I've just about finished reading The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry, about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Most deaths were caused by pneumonia, but...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 02:57pm
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Replies: 66
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Asymptomatic Spread ...
Citation please.
The British Medical Journal Thorax (British Thoracic Society), and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), both say otherwise.
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 02:24pm
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Replies: 66
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Typhood Mary ...
While 100,000 deaths is pretty bad, the worse part of COVID-19 is that one can walk around with the virus for several days, maybe a week, while being completely asymptomatic and unaware that your'e...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 12:39pm
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Replies: 66
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Who Was That Masked Man ???
Tell me about it. I haven't been on a date since 1975. Married for thirty years, divorced for fifteen.
I recently had to visit my bank in person to deal with a credit card issue. It felt really...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 12:34pm
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Replies: 66
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H1N1 Coming Soon To A Theater Near You ...
Not sure what that means. There is not a single "flu today". H1N1 caused the Spanish flu in 1918, and Swine Flu in 2009, but there are about a dozen different types of viruses that cause human...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 12:17pm
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Replies: 66
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Hero ...
She does this, despite putting her own health at risk, and isolating herself from her family and friends, because she feels like she's making a difference, she's preventing the spread of this virus,...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 12:09pm
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Replies: 66
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Laugh Out Loud ...
Sneezing, coughing, talking (especially talking loudly), singing, whistling, laughing, or breathing (especially breathing deeply) all may spread respiratory droplets that may contain large numbers of...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 11:19am
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Replies: 66
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My Health Care Hero ...
That's my daughter. When Connecticut first started COVID testing she stepped up and VOLUNTEERED to do the testing, more dangerous back then due to a shortage of personal protective equipment for...
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Forum: Basketball
Tue Jun 02, 2020, 10:55am
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Replies: 66
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Gesundheit ...
Many people certainly stifle their sneezes and coughs, but how many stifle their talking loudly, singing, whistling, laughing, or breathing deeply?
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 04:19pm
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Replies: 66
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Gesundheit ...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 04:10pm
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Replies: 66
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Useless ???
Surgical masks are not stopping the tiny corona virus particles, they're stopping the larger diameter respiratory droplets (that contain tremendous numbers of the much smaller diameter corona virus)...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 01:23pm
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Replies: 66
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Not Just Part Of The Way Around ...
What? How can we play the game without shaking hands with both head coaches and all eight quad-captains, telling coaches to be sure that their players know how to tuck their jerseys in, and without...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 01:08pm
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Replies: 66
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Who's On First Eating A Turkey Drumstick ...
We can start a new tradition, Thanksgiving baseball. Big-time rival high schools playing a game of rounders in front of alumni, students, cheerleaders, mascots, teachers, family, and friends,...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 12:52pm
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Replies: 66
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Thoughtful ...
Sounds reasonable.
I'm a big advocate of showing a "professional look" for interscholastic games, especially for games at the high school level, but under these corona virus circumstances, I'm...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 12:33pm
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 12:21pm
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Replies: 66
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Who's Scared ???
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIF.yhv37%2bq%2b6S9N6azA7nbfOQ&pid=Api&P=0&w=272&h=182
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 12:10pm
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Replies: 66
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 11:58am
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Replies: 66
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Peaceful ...
I don't believe that any of them were, which is specifically why I referred to them as "peaceful" and never even considered the possibility that some of them could be considered "rioters". Here in...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 11:03am
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Replies: 66
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Fall Foliage And The Crack Of The Bat ...
Here in Connecticut we're starting to think about fall interscholastic sports. While some fall sports may be easy to socially distance (cross country), others like football, with twenty-two players...
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Forum: Basketball
Mon Jun 01, 2020, 10:42am
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Replies: 66
Views: 4,834
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