Hockey East 2020-2021

[Chuck Murray]

is that the place where the guy has leveraged all his giant learnings from his (sort of) Ivy League education to launch 80K (wait, let me spell that out....) EIGHTY THOUSAND (80,000) posts over that past couple decades?? Asking for a friend...

Yes, that would indeed be the place. "Pathetic" only begins to scratch the surface.

If you're old enough to remember the Manson Family, well, that's how this guy acts - complete with his brainless sycophants like numbnuts (and the others) who follow along blindly, I almost fell off my chair reading posts on this thread this morning, when numbnuts invoked the term "cult" in describing the GOP. Talk about a serious case of totally lacking in self-awareness.

Mr. 80,000 won't say boo to anyone outside his circle ... he lets them sniff his throne a few times a day, sure, then tells his followers what they can think and say, and who they can or can't interact with. And once in awhile, they find their useful idiot (three guesses who that is, and the first two don't count) and send him out to do their bidding - annoying as it is.

On another note, Zlax45 hasn't chimed in with next weekend's CFB postponements yet.

I do hope he is OK ... first Metcalf, maybe Zlax45, we can't go on losing folks at this rate ...

[net presence]

From World Population Review 2020: "There are currently no countries that have a universal basic income model in place. There are many debates, movements, and discussion for them around the world, and even some experiments..."

I'll agree that there are a number of ongoing experiments, pilot projects, etc., but to state that, "Most of the other industrialized democracies are doing it to a certain degree" is quite a reach. And I don't consider China and Iran to be "industrialized democracies." (China has the "industrialized" part down but fails miserably at democracy.)

Mark Cuban is a man I admire and respect but not all of his opinions and positions align with mine. That doesn't affect my opinion of him or mean I'm going to stick pins in his likenesses. It used to be that people could agree to disagree, move on, and still be friends.

Split... I meant a temporary UBI to help with pandemic caused job loss. Not a "business as usual", non-Covid situation. But, thanks for providing the info. Definitely informative.

[net presence]

Numbnuts, i believe in science. I believe brassbonanza alluded to this in response to the person who has written numerous letters to get everything shutdown but again we are talking about college hockey here where players are being regularly tested.

We're not talking about little Johnny at the local rink where nobody is being tested in order to play etc. Not that I support shutting down youth hockey either but there is a clear difference between than and trying to proceed with college hockey. But I get it, you and zlax don't want anything involving unnecessary and preventable human infection to take place right now.

J.D....I fixed that for to reflect how folks like myself and Zaks view it. Again, I actually make my living from games being actually played so, not playing is far from ideal for me. But, I just happen to believe that greater good of society outweighs my temporary hardship.

[net presence]

What have I said that isn't accurate? I am not regurgitating falsehoods about COVID.

You've accused specific schools of being "afraid" to play. They're not "afraid", they simply prioritize athlete and greater community safety more than you apparently do. Remember, a decent percentage of these athletes (currently as high as 20%) who contract Covid, even if mildly or asymptomatic, will develop some form of myocarditis and lung scarring or other long-term health issues. Which, will all meet the definition of "pre-existing conditions" from a health insurance standpoint. And, without the current guarantee from Obamacare in place if that law gets overturned, there will be literally thousands of high school, college, and pro athletes that will somehow have to pay for the associated medical care on their own.

[net presence]

Jesus there is a whole lot of stupid on this thread. And almost no BU or UMass fans are a part of it.

First time for everything Nick...

[J.D.]

If I only knew how to quantify the impact of a college athlete testing positive has on society. I don't even know how these players got COVID to begin with.

Nothing like that pesky, "temporary" 8 month (and counting) hardship.

[J.D.]

I don't think i have said the word afraid but even so, schools being afraid to play because of COVID is absolutely not inaccurate. You can get into semantics about that if you want but please stop pretending I am spreading falsehoods about COVID.

[net presence]

For college players to be regularly tested and then once cleared to play you make em wear a mask while skating up and down the ice? Yes I think that is stupid. If you wanna make youth players do that just so they can play, so be it i guess.

J.D., first, I actually agree that it's very difficult to do any type of cardio activity wearing a mask as I have tried numerous times the last few months. However, you do realize the testing only tells you if you were positive at the moment you have the test done? That means that just because the 40 athletes and say 20 total coaches and auxiliary staff were negative on Thursday, doesn't mean a number of them may not be infected on Friday. Or...maybe that they were infected but, hadn't developed enough active virus at the time of the test and thus didn't elicit a positive result. And, are now highly contagious on Friday or Saturday. You wear the mask to both protect yourself and others in case someone is infected but the infection is unknown to both you and them. That's the big challenge when 40% are asymptomatic.

[J.D.]

Then you better take that up with the health experts who Hockey East worked with in coming up with this plan to play. Clearly they aren't as smart as you. It's not like I developed this plan to play.

[net presence]

You want to see stupid up-close-and-personal? Check out the Faculty Lounge a/k/a USCHO Cafe.

Numbnuts is the mutant radicalized offspring of the Stalinist socialist "thinking" going on over there.

He's stuck so far up his own rectum that he's gonna need the Jaws of Life to pull him out ...

And you accuse ME of not being able to have a respectful discussion/disagreement? Wow Chuck...you ARE a beauty....

[net presence]

Wow, for a bright guy, you debate like a junior high-schooler....

For the record, I have not voted for an R since GHWB in ‘92. I am a libertarian in the most objectivist way one could be. Have been for 25 years. And, I don’t watch Fox. But, as J.D. says, whenever your ilk are called out, we are called racists or accused of using Fox talking points. No. I was responding to the following direct quote from you:

“However, after the last four years, I acknowledge that I now view the Republican Party as a legitimate cult who only care about protecting the 1%'s ability to maximize their already bloated wealth.”

Do you understand how dumb and sensationalist that SINGLE quote makes you look? And when you got called out for this slice of idiocy, you ran to Obamacare and Pelosi and stimulus and and and...

I’m done with this conversation, and apologize to Split-N. Looking forward to HEA discussion on this thread.

wildcat....Libertarian is just a different shade of current Republikkkanism... Not accusing you of being racist. However, Trumps supporters are cultists. Just look at the behavior for God's sakes. I will completely own and double-down on my current views. Again, don't be afraid to open up your mind to new ideas. We could raise taxes on the 1% and big corporations to 50% -- as long as they all actually pay that -- and have enough money to properly fund Medicaid for all, two years of free college, a massive infrastructure bill, and increase military spending. Again, come on over to the Cafe with an open mind and actually read the articles and stats that various people link to. You just might learn something.

[net presence]

I never meant to get political. I even said I think Trump is a moron. But when it turns into being called selfish for being ok with college athletes being routinely tested and playing games in empty arenas, ya that sets me off.

You should learn to control your emotions better then...

[J.D.]

Thanks for the tip. How's this for self control? Go f yourself.

[net presence]

I do browse the political threads from time to time. Quite the bunch of incels over there. We should just be glad many of them will never reproduce.

Again, I'm not surprised. The dopes on the board have been dopes from Day 1 and I could have picked them out in advance for posting what they do in the pol. threads in the cafe.

Sorry Nick, I already have three kids

[Patman]

wildcat....Libertarian is just a different shade of current Republikkkanism...

see, you use the wink but those of us who have been around the block know you don't mean it and you meant the slur. Grow up.