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Blue_true's JournalThe Houston Texans will hire David Culley, QB Coach and
Assistant Headcoach of the Baltimore Ravens.
A lot of people are having heartburn over this hire. But I want to point out 2 things.
First
DeShaun Watson apparently admire the guy, so Houston now has a chance of keeping him.
Second
Before he became the Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, the NFL Hall of Fame Coach, the legendary Bill Walsh was a career assistant coach.
Will Culley find a Jerry Rice and the other receivers and running backs that Walsh found? Maybe, maybe not. If he can hold onto Watson and give him a few decent weapons, he certainly has a solid young QB that has a burning desire to win.
Interesting article on a near atomic detonation in North Carolina in the early 60s.
The article is in National Geographics. Interesting reading.
https://apple.news/AZQ4ng5GNQQ65TcanqBG4yg
Coronavirus: This could prove to be problematic.
If I understand correctly, the vaccines work by freezing changes to the spike protein. What the scientists that developed the concept of preventing the spike protein from shifting in copies of the original invading virus theorized was that if copies of the invading virus had the same spike protein as the invading virus, vaccines could be made that would be effective against the invading virus and any copies that it managed to have human cells make.
What the article at the link details is that the mutant Coronavirus that was first found in South Africa can efficiently infect people that had gotten the virus and recovered, as I understand it, the antibodies that people’s bodies made don’t affect the South African mutant, it infects people as if there is no immunity.
At least that is what I get from the article. To me, that outcome is not terribly surprising, the SARS-COV-2 is a distant cousin to the common cold, there is no known cure for the common cold.
https://apple.news/AN7MeX5DyR9ikZzJzfTby5g
Details on Biden's Science Team at link.
Some really impressive people.
https://apple.news/AZ4GruR4VRd2H_PngZz5G0w
People, we are living in historic times.
Never has a President refused to honor a tradition that has existed since John Adams transferred power to his successor.
200 years from now, Historians will analyze the events that we are witnessing with our own eyes.
Some thoughts, one unpleasant to some.
Now that we have apparent control of the Federal Government again, we should play like republicans, use any tool available to us to get our way, and be bloodthirsty MFs in doing so.
Justice Stephen Breyer should retire as soon as Schumer become Senate Majority Leader and we should induce him to do so if he is hesitant. We need a much younger, healthy progressive Justice in his seat. Ageism, yes, fuck it, this situation is war. We need to start reshaping the Courts NOW and we have ostensibly two years to do it, but, we never know what Democratic Senator may vacate office, so we need to shape the Courts with younger, healthy progressives ASAP. Sorry Merrick Garland, you were screwed by McConnell, but you are too old and need to be passed over for a much younger person. We should see whether we can nudge Roberts into retiring, I believe he sees the risk and may be open to being replaced under Biden. We should hope every day that Thomas and/or Alito have to quit for whatever reason, use your own imagination.
There are at least 45 vacancies in lower Federal Courts. We need to fill them forthwith and not only that, pressure old lower Court Justices that are over 70 to retire, even some that are sane conservatives and don’t want to see a Trump clone replace them down the line.
On social policy, we need to push to the very limit that a Joe Manchin will allow and massage him to the left, he is a morally decent man, I believe he realizes the urgency of the coming months. Get every fucking liberal dream policy in place that we can, screw what republicans think. Do the policy so that it will withstand Constitutional challenges.
We can’t sit back and say we have 2022. We have a lot of old Senators, we need to make haste as soon as the Georgia Senators are seated. We can plan for 2022, but the future is NOW!!!!!
Here is an interesting timeline of how work to develop the vaccines for sars-cov-2 started.
The article mentions the young PhD, Kissmayer Corbett that worked with Moderna to develop that company’s vaccine, near the end. BTW, it looks like she works in one of the labs that Dr. Fauci is responsible for. The work on the vaccine DID NOT START UNDER Trump, the original work started in 2008 and picked up steam under President Obama.
Link:
https://apple.news/ADZikonp2Spe32XRF7t04kA
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