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    Southwestern Indiana Top 10 Power Rankings - Week 8 - 2020

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    9 hours ago, 2017statechamps said:

    How does a Sagarin rating have Central so far off of their poll rankings?  Sagarin has Central at 27th in 4A, but yet they are #2/#3 in the polls.  Something seems off.....

    The SIAC has zero non-conference wins so it gets hammered in Sagarin.

    Sagarin currently rates Tecumseh, South Spencer, Washington and Princeton all higher then Reitz.  That should tell you all you need to know about comparing a closed conference to the rest of the state using mathematical rating systems (Hint:  you can't do it)

    SIAC Week 7

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    Sagarin currently rates Tecumseh, South Spencer, Washington and Princeton all higher then Reitz.  That should tell you all you need to know about comparing a closed conference to the rest of the state using mathematical rating systems (Hint:  you can't do it)

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    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    On 9/29/2020 at 1:27 PM, Muda69 said:

    Anybody else have a problem with the sentencing of someone to a year in prison without a jury trial,

    Absent more information I would expect the defendant waived a jury trial to have a bench trial.  One should not be entitled to a lesser sentence for choosing to avoid a jury trial.

     

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     as well as prison time for misdemeanors in general?

    One year is generally the typical threshold for misdemeanor vs felony.  Had the misdemeanor sentence been greater then one year I would have answered "yes".

    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

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    On 9/29/2020 at 1:27 PM, Muda69 said:

    Man refused to disband party that violated COVID order, gets year in jail: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/man-gets-year-in-jail-for-throwing-parties-in-violation-of-covid-order/?comments=1

    Hmm.  Anybody else have a problem with the sentencing of someone to a year in prison without a jury trial, as well as prison time for misdemeanors in general?

     

    No and no.

    Laws restricting peaceful assemble are another matter.

    42 years without a loss (SIAC)

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    Last night, after a hard fought game, Jasper lost its first SIAC game since 1978.  That is 42 years between loses in the SIAC.  For perspective, the median age in the US is 38 so over half the people in this country weren’t alive the last time Jasper lost a SIAC game.  That is a phenomenal accomplishment and a testament to the hard work and dedication players, coaches, and parents have made over that time.

    Congrats on the accomplishment and to the next 42 years.

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    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

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    10 hours ago, Muda69 said:

    It's mostly more safety/security theatre. 

    The article you linked to above regarding school transmission has a glaring obvious omission.  You even bolded the important part of covid management. "It just takes planning, hard work, and testing, testing, testing."

    That quote and the article left out one critical component.  Quarantine.  Testing is completely useless if you don't quarantine people that test positive.  How far that quarantine should be extended to close contacts (1, 2, 3,degree contacts etc) is an ongoing evolution and our policy should adjust as knowledge improves.

    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    10 hours ago, Muda69 said:

    I generally oppose them.  How about you?

     

    I generally support them except 1 which is unreasonable and arbitrary and 3 which is just unreasonable.

     

    The guidestone link was your response to my asking "why so many dead people?"  Am I to assume you believe nefarious guidestone followers are behind covid?

    SIAC Week 6

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    11 minutes ago, TigerFan20 said:

    That a big no, it is a scam. Most of the those "Jasper-Central Football livestream" links are fake, unless it is 14news or an reliable regional network. But never click on those scam links that ask for any personal information or your credit card. 

    The livestream should be on Central's FB page I heard 

    My experience is the following links in order.  The third one is lushweb and asks for credit info.

     

    Is this legit or is the central fb page linking to a scam?

     

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evansville Central High School/108518592506724/

    http://cbs.livedirect.tv/hs.php?fbclid=IwAR1inoNG7Bx_stNqMTeVYfcNDfYrPDVhb4YUs1fN_6C3kb52Xuz3DWfsTQA#.X25hFO0pCUk

    https://signup.lushweb.net/en/html/sf/cc/eone_m3dsc.html#&sf=eone&lng=en&m=sports&ref=5171088&prod=604&sub_id=&_sign=e6a5b62b88d83b5e33dab2e379f1483a&_signt=1601069410&utm_expid=

    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

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    8 hours ago, swordfish said:

    You are assuming I don't think COVID exists.  You are wrong.  I believe it does exist.  However, I don't believe it merits the panic-level mania that was portrayed early on, resulting in the wholesale shutdown across the nation.  As it is appearing now after months of accurate data, "pandemic" was not even close to accurate........Did COVID add to the overall mortality this year?  Sure it did.  But when a person gets a bullet in the head and their cause of death is listed as COVID, one should be suspicious......

    The point I was making was in response to your asking "...what has changed.?", the answer is obvious.  There are significantly more dead people this year then previous years.  Currently we sit at 208,000-274,000 excess deaths on the year and that is just six months of Covid related deaths.  By comparison 30-40,000 people die each year by firearms so I guess using your metric there are lots of extra firearm fatalities this year.

    Follow the Science? How COVID Authoritarians Get It Wrong

    in OOB Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    11 hours ago, swordfish said:

    So, before this year, what was the standard protocol for someone that had pneumonia?  Just as dangerous to basically the same demographics and pretty much the same spread rate.  Your sick, you stay home until you feel better.  The rest of the world goes on.  My point is, what changed?  The introduction of COVID, followed by the crazy increase in deaths in New York following the panic signaled from the Governor after he put COVID positive patients in nursing homes among the elderly which inflated the death numbers, followed by including "probable" data from patients not even tested, which brought the numbers higher and instilled a level of fear that is dictating the "new normal".  You don't hear anymore about the NY Governor screaming for the help that he actually didn't need.

    Notre Dame has postponed a game this weekend because 7 players tested positive yesterday (they have daily tests btw) not one has symptoms, but they and there contacts have to be quarantined.  One year ago, a player gets sick and has symptoms bad enough he just doesn't play, gets back in the game when he gets over whatever he had, but the rest of the team goes on.  Not anymore.

    Can you explain why there are significantly more dead people each and every week this year relative to previous years?  Not just Covid but all deaths.  (Hint:  It's not pneumonia)  Ignore the NY nursing home deaths (basically every death in April.)  Why are more people dying all summer and in places not called New York state?

    24 of the 31 weeks that have had excess mortality since April 2017 have been this year.

    Scroll down halfway to the graph and explain what has happened this year.  Also, the dip at the end of the graph probably will look different a month from now because not all deaths from the last several weeks have been counted yet.

     

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

    RBG

    in Out of Bound Forum

    Posted · Edited by Alduflux

    7 minutes ago, Bobref said:

    There has been talk of “packing the Court” before, but it goes nowhere. The number on the Court was fixed at 9 over 150 yrs. ago, and has been unchanged since.

    The point I made is the constitution does not restrict changing the number.  The number 9 can be unfixed the same way it was fixed at 9.  The constitution is not a barrier to that happening.

     

    ...and for the record I do not endorse changing the number for political reasons...or choosing justices either.

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    RBG

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    33 minutes ago, Bobref said:

    Yeah, but there’s that pesky constitution...

    The constitution does not restrict the number of Supreme Court Justices.  Congress and the President set the number.  A Biden presidency and Democratic Congress can up the number to any number they want.  I'm not sure why they would stop at 13 and not just add a couple hundred for good measure.

    "The answer is that under the Constitution, the number of Supreme Court Justices is not fixed, and Congress can change it by passing an act that is then signed by the President. Article III, Section 1, starts with a broad direction to Congress to establish the court system: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”"

    https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/packing-the-supreme-court-explained

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