KFsdisciple said:

If they worked to stop or significantly reduce the transmission of airborne viruses, they would have been pushed every cold and flu season by your PCP since we knew they were effective.

I've never been to a doctor that said, if you don't want the flu shot, at least wear a mask in public it's a viable alternative to taking the shot. Yet, we are to believe we killed the flu for 2 years by masking up if you believe Joe's place.

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The Covid virus killed off influenza in 2020 and 2021. The original strain of the virus and variants until Omicron overpowered and dominated all other viruses and they had no way to grow and spread. Surprise, surprise, now that the current Covid variants are not as strong and dominated as in 2020/21, influenza and RSV cases are right back where they were pre-2020. Simple science, but most failed that growing up and have zero real clue about healthcare, just repeating what they see/hear in their echo chamber of information.

cidsports said:

When did Tim Lester coach at Kent State where Collin Schlee was previously 🤔

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I was mistaken. My bad.

TNHAWK79 said:

I don’t believe that number. If you died in a car accident and were treated for Covid, it went down as a Covid death. Half those deaths they claim were Covid were something else. Hospitals received a kickback for dealing with Covid, which is why everyone died from Covid. Anytime money is involved there is corruption. This doesn’t diminish Covid and the effects, my neighbor was a long hauler and I saw it firsthand. However, I’m young and healthy and had minimal impact. However, if I died in a car accident with Covid, I would count towards the 1.2m.

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Can't believe people still believe this falsehood. Hospitals lost over $300 billion in 2020. There was no kickbacks, only reimbursement from CMS (Medicare/caid) for treating COVID patients. For example, one patient in an ICU that was on a ventilator for 30 days would run over $1 million in hospital charges, CMS still pays the same flat rate(~$39K) for the patient no matter length of stay or outcome. Yes, I know Medicare offsets most of the hospital charges, but private insurance companies sure do not.

Also, when someone died Covid positive in the hospital, it was one of the contributing factors reported to coroners and the state. Just like when someone with Stage 4 cancer dies of sepsis. Cancer was a contributing factor to the death and needs to be included when reporting the death. There was one case in Florida that I remember that a motorcycle death was considered a Covid death because the individual was Covid positive at the time of death. It was removed from the Covid death number later. That was a one in one million occurrence.

There were no falsehoods or skewed reporting of Covid cases by hospitals or doctors. The fines for committing fraud against insurance companies or CMS are ridiculously high and why would doctors risk their reputations and licensure for this.

Being a frontline RN in an ICU, this stupid claim about kickbacks and padding Covid deaths is quite personal to me and my fellow healthcare workers. We had no pay increase and lost 401k matching in the hospital I worked in. Many auxiliary workers were put on furlough and some lost their jobs. Hospital administrators took pay cuts, granted it wasn't much, in order to try to balance the budget. Nothing good happened within hospital walls in 2020 besides death, despair, animosity and PTSD.

Tenacious E said:

Looking back, I forgot how many fewer games were played due to Covid. 109 games in the past 4 years. 2 fumbled!cked passes per game is 218, which is hundreds. Maybe 100 because of fewer games. In any event, I would say she had many more sweet passes go unconverted than improvident turnovers, by a country mile.

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Clark played in around 140 career games, and missed around 8 I believe from Covid..

Entirely expected that Fran would be pursuing another slow twitch front court player given his roster building history.
Desperate need for athletic guards, goes after the other end of the spectrum. If there was an award for most unbalanced roster in the worst way Fran would be a regular contender.

LuciousBDragon said:

Nothing says support union workers by letting in thousands of undocumented workers who work for less!

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You mean like the undocumented workers Trump hired for his golf ⛳️ courses and hotels?

God forbid one of our 3 guards gets dinged up. Start your prayers now.

Huey Grey said:

But Lia Thomas.

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I didn't see his name on the list

shikreto said:

I’ve asked this elsewhere but I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on what happened to AJ. She was ranked right around where Hannah as in HS but has had a very different career. Why was she so highly ranked and why has that not translated to minutes? Is there any way Bluder could to adjust things to better utilize her? The CW seems to be “too short, not athletic enough” but if that’s the case I don’t get why she was ranked in the top 50 kids in the country. She must have other skills we’re not seeing (or that she hasn’t been given the opportunity to show).

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I can tell you when Jan and Raina identified and offered AJ early in HS she was a different athlete then. She was good inside and was developing a good outside game with deep range, this is what lead to her HS rankings. As she progressed through HS her body type changed and she wasn't the same athlete, so they've only been playing and developing her at the 5 during her time at Iowa although she does run a few sets at the 4 from time to time. She did get in better shape and stayed healthy as this year progressed and got more time, she has a lot of game most haven't seen yet.

AJ's situation was almost the reverse of former Hawk Shateah Wetering.

Damn, the wrestling community has had some tough blows lately. Robb, Sasso, and now this. Tom Ryan is a Gable trained Hawk though, so this setback doesn't stand a chance against him. Hoping for a quick recovery coach!

edquinn06 said:

I don’t think so.

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Care to expand? I watched him wrestle Cullan at the SS and I don’t think there was that much difference between the two. With Kale being younger I would expect more of a jump out of him than Cullan.

If between those two I think I would lean Kale. Unless you think there’s a portal option out there, and at this point I don’t see a difference maker at 133 available for purchase.

longliveCS40 said:

I understand the argument of going with the current players but the roster is young so having a 1 year player to come in and contribute, to me, would be the perfect fit.

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The roster is not young. All these kids will be 3rd, 4th or 5th year players. Hailey is not a perfect fit by any stretch. Her style of play does not match Bluder’s. She has now transfered twice — huge red flag about her commitment to any team. And her interest in Iowa is CERTAINLY less than zero. It’s crazy that people don’t see why that is after all this time and all the discussion about recruiting over the years. Hvl is neither a good fit nor a realistic target for Iowa.

longliveCS40 said:

In order to get back to the Final Four next season, I think you have to pull in one more proven veteran player. By doing so, I don't think you hurt culture or recruiting. I think you actually help those things if it works out that you make the Final Four and continue this success without CC. Whether The Swarm has the money to bring in another big transfer would be the question.

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Iowa is not going to the final four next year, with or without Olsen. We should all accept that now and cheer on this team to what could potentially be a very exciting sweet 16 / elite 8 berth.

We certainly would not go to a final four with HVL either — if anything she could hold them back. She doesn’t play great defense and she is very ball dominant. She doesn’t share well and loves to shoot in the midrange, a luxury Bluder only affords to select players. A roster of transfers will not take Iowa there either. Look at Ohio State, Maryland, the list goes on of schools that bring in multiple elite transfers and then fizzle out bc there’s no chemistry/continuity, and now they have 5-6 transfers out every single year. It’s a bad look and their fans hate it.

Iowas system is unique in that we don’t rly play in the half court — execution in transition takes time to perfect, no team of transfers is going to learn it all quickly enough to go that deep. The players we have coming back know the system and their role in it.

If we did want another player to come in and help, there are at least 10 other players in the portal who are better options. I’d rather have Scherr than HVL since she plays great defense, has size/length and distributes well.

Jensen recently said that they don’t look to the portal as though they’re shopping for the best players. They go there to fill gaps. Thats why they brought in Davis and now why they are bringing in Olsen. We had a gap, now it is filled. We were all thrilled when we landed the recruits that are now gonna be juniors / seniors, let’s give them a chance to prove themselves. It has never been Bluder’s style to hit up each and every elite transfer/prospect, she’s not gonna change that now. We have a talented team of kids who are now largely upperclasswomen, it’s time to let them shine. We have multiple options at every position outside PG, where we now have a star ready to shine as a hawk. And we have the best top to bottom recruiting class coming in as freshman. We’re in a very good position as we enter the next era of Iowa WBB and the future only promises to get better.

CyberJJ said:

You don’t see Payton as the starting three?

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They’re a Wisconsin fan talking about the Badgers.

In heaven there is no beer

Ellis has taken a plea and cooperated in
Georgia, so she seems like easy pickings to plea and flip on the others.

Grabbed a new driver…boy, did it pay off.

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Watched Otto Black today at the US Open. The kid is a Greco animal. Extremely curious to see how he does in college with folkstyle. Excited for him to be a Hawk.

HawkRose said:

The biggest thing going against us getting a good portal QB is the word is out on KF and how loyal he is to QB1. QB1 has to be on his deathbed to get replaced. Why would anyone come here expecting a fair competition. KF is just going to give Cade the keys until he sputters and dies.

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What is the likelihood that Cade plays:
All Games 5%
9+ games 15%
6+ games 35%
5 or less games 45%

MSU158 said:

IF, and it is a BIG IF, they land Parco and/or Teemer, they could have a really solid lineup.....

125: Ayala-Title Contender
133: Schriever(would love to see a transfer here, but I just don't see any better options)
141: Block-No idea what to expect here. Is he going to be healthy and fully DI ready?
149: Parco-Possible Finalist, likely top 5 AA
157: Teemer/Caliendo-Possible Finalist, likely top 5 AA
165: Caliendo/Teemer/PK-Possible Finalist, likely top 5 AA
174: Arnold/PK-Should be a solid AA candidate
184: Brands/Ferrari-Should be a solid AA candidate
197: Glazier/Ferrari-Not sure what to project here, but still a top 10ish type guy
285: Kueter/Hill-Should be a solid AA candidate

For all the doom and gloom, Parco and Teemer would really solidify this team as the next man up after PSU. I know that isn't enough for many here, but it would still be a hell of a lot better team than many thought it would be right after NCAA's...

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If Ferrari is on the team at 197, he not losing the spot to Glazier, who converted back to the Zach we’ve know the previous 4 years in the NCAA tournament. Anthony should be on the team, and should be a factor at 157 or 149, especially if this parco/teamer thing doesn’t come true.

ZachJump said:

Ya could actually try to know what you are talking about before you post.

Since 2021 UConn had 9 players enter the portal. South Carolina has had 6 in that time.

We have had 5.

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Not sure where you are getting your info but UConn has had 4 transfer out, 1 leave to turn pro and now have 2 additional ones in the portal between 2019-20 and now.

I’m getting an image of Snoopy dancing in that mustard pattern. I’m going with North Dakota due to the toast under that pile of luscious goodness.

A bit of insurance for the Georgia cases in case the MAGAts gum that up even more. Nice to see Bobb, Roman and Meadows on the list.