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    Biden Begs OPEC to Boost Oil Production to Combat Rising Gas Prices After Canceling Drilling and Keystone Pipeline

    This response reaffirms literally everything I stated above. You do realize that, right?
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    Biden Begs OPEC to Boost Oil Production to Combat Rising Gas Prices After Canceling Drilling and Keystone Pipeline

    Trying to explain the actual mechanisms that produce pump prices to people who view public policy the same way they do a spectator sport (my team versus yours) invariably leads to, well -- less than thoughtful responses like this one. Telling you how this actually works does not equal "grasping...
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    Biden Begs OPEC to Boost Oil Production to Combat Rising Gas Prices After Canceling Drilling and Keystone Pipeline

    The Federal Government is on pace to issue more permits for drilling on federal lands than either Trump or Obama. The higher fuel costs has everything to do with OPEC's ramping down production, as well as U.S. frackers more or less following suit in order to pay off debt and reward investors.
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    City of Clemson Votes To Extend Mask Mandate

    Herein lies the most obvious challenge facing researchers trying to quantify all of this. There are a lot of moving parts to a pandemic, so you're not going to find a study that perfectly controls what you need to control, isolate groups the way you need to and keep data applicable to others...
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    City of Clemson Votes To Extend Mask Mandate

    A systematic meta-analysis of 162 studies published in arguably the most well-respected medical journal in the world, the Lancet, suggests otherwise. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext Also, the study itself says its findings were inconclusive...
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    City of Clemson Votes To Extend Mask Mandate

    To be clear, that study didn't report "no significant impact." It was inconclusive -- failing to reach "statistical significance," or confidence the results were non-random or attributable to the phenomenon being tested.
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    City of Clemson Votes To Extend Mask Mandate

    But many of the droplets and aerosols on which they travel are not. And again, though I know nuance is not very popular on this board and the internet in general, the argument in favor of masks is that while the protection provided at the individual level may or may not be comparatively small...
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    City of Clemson Votes To Extend Mask Mandate

    Actually, the masks probably did lead to the drastic decrease in influenza transmission. SARS-CoV-2 has an R0 at least two to three times greater than the flu, meaning that the rather drastic measures taken to combat Covid will have an even greater impact on similarly spread, but less infectious...
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    Great economic news coming from the Fed....

    Goldman Sachs is even more bullish. Projecting 8%. The economy is going to, in the short term, explode. Vaccinations and the end of Covid on the horizon means the economy opening back up. The stimulus also means tons of spending. The real question is how things bear out long-term.
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    OT: 5 Army Soldiers Killed, 1 CIA ?? During Frankfurt Raid?

    This entire thread--from the OP, to the name calling, to the default belief by both sides in the absolute worst motives of their fellow Americans across the aisle, to the rampant hyperbole and lack of anything approximating grace-- is pretty illustrative of our country right now, and makes me...
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    OT: Iran's top nuclear scientist assassinated.

    payback?
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    Who wins tomorrow? - Poll

    Without getting into who I voted for and why, I do think Biden wins. The second wave of Covid could not be hitting at a worse time for Trump, and I just think in general people in the middle are getting Trump fatigue. I know the 3 am tweet storms fire up his base, but over time I think they...
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    Resident Epidemiologist help please

    I think we should play college football, and I wouldn't disagree that the broader national news media has an apparent allergy for any type of good news re: the pandemic, but.... H1N1 killed 12,000 Americans. Covid has killed ten times that.
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    Washington Post article with recruiting tidbits

    Gosh, I honestly don't know how some of the people in this thread function. It must be incredibly difficult to exist in a state of de facto hostility to any viewpoint that is the slightest bit critical of your program or coach. Dabo Swinney is an incredible person. He is an incredible coach. He...
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    How many times have you been falsely accused of being a racist?

    "We know that police kill more white people than black people, that police shoot more unarmed white people than black people, that police shooting and killing of black people is not out or proportion to crime committed by black people, and that police homicide of black people is a tiny piece of...
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