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I barbecue my bacon... makes it nice and crispy, just the way we like it.

Choosing to wear a mask in public, keep distance from people, or staying home does not equal living in fear. Choosing to wear a mask in public can mean any number of things, including choosing to help others out if you aren't feeling 100% but needing to be out to get groceries. Of course you're not going to see people who are staying home and "hiding", if you did, that would mean they didn't stay home.

Comparing COVID to Cancer doesn't make any sense... Cancer is not transmissible. As observed by JCon, the vaccine helps to reduce the effect of COVID... yes, you may still get it, but you are much less likely to end up in the hospital because of it. The biggest reason for all of the measures and mandates was to not have everyone get sick at the same time to reduce the possible load on the health care system. The fact that most people are vaccinated now helps to keep it that way, though the health care system is so broken that wait times are still awful. I don't know about everyone else, but everyone in my family has all of their boosters, and we will continue to get them as they become available, no different than the annual flu shot that I get to help reduce the effects of getting that.

Too bad it will likely never be commercially available. I would love to see a company come out with a product like this, but the shortsightedness of capitalist companies will never allow it.

Fair enough, I hadn't seen that.

I don't think that Gary Stern is the majority owner. I'm pretty sure that's directed at the estate of the guy that Gary had partnered with to buy the team, based on some other tweets that have been floating around.

Demski was on some of the promo material as well, so by Baumming's logic, he'll be back too.

He's not Canadian so it's a different contract isn't it?

I think that they believe that given the "choice", a good number of that 83% wouldn't have got the vax... The government "coerced" everyone into getting the vaccine by putting in restriction and limited our "freedoms" if we didn't get it.

Justin Medlock: 2007-2019, mix of NFL and CFL experience... 8 of 12 in NFL (66.7%), 283 of 329 in CFL (86.0%) Sergio Castillo: 2014 - 2022, mix of NFL and CFL experience... 8 of 13 in NFL (61.5%), 124 of 145 (85.5%) Marc Liegghio: 2021-2022, all CFL... 37 of 47 (78.7%) The guy is just on the upswing of his career. We were lucky to have been able to bring in Medlock and Castillo when we did, but guys like that don't come available every day and we were lucky with the timing on both of them. It's very easy to say "bring in a guy with experience", but if a guy with experience if available you have to ask yourself why that's the case. I remember what happened with Lirim Hajrullahu where he was unceremoniously let go after a lackluster season, and he has turned his career around and done quite well for himself (averaged over 80% in all of his years in the CFL minus the one when we let him go). I didn't like that we let him go, and I wouldn't like it if we did the same with Liegghio.

The covidiots in the convoy were the biggest group of hateful people... between the white supremacist neo-nazis with their swastika flags and the F*ck Trudeau flag bearers, let alone whatever other groups were in there... Getting a vaccine is not living in fear, it's using well established science to help reduce the effects of a deadly virus. Wearing a mask is not living in fear, it's being courteous to your fellow citizens to protect each other from whatever sickness you may be carrying around... there was a reason why seasonal flu cases were down severely in the fall of 2020, because enough people were wearing masks and properly washing their hands. As for personal experience, I have a good friend who got Covid before the vaccines were available and although he didn't have to go to the hospital, he tells me that he felt like he was going to die. 2 years later, he got it again after having been vaccinated and he said that it was a night and day difference between the two.

Nobody ever said the vaccines stop transmission, they drastically reduce severe outcomes. The reason for boosters is 2-fold, decreasing effectiveness over time and mutation of the virus... no different than the annual flu vaccine because it is different strain(s) of the flu going around every year. As for the protest, if you think that honking horns all day and all night in the middle of a city is peaceful, then there's no reasoning with you.

option = mandatory around here, or haven't you been paying attention?

If the option year isn't really an option as you are suggesting, then it wouldn't be a 2+1 contract... it would just be a 3 year contract.

Slightly different, but once more for those of you in the back who didn't hear right the first time: option [ op-shuhn ]SHOW IPA noun 1. the power or right of choosing. 2. something that may be or is chosen; choice. 3. the act of choosing. 4. an item of equipment or a feature that may be chosen as an addition to or replacement for standard equipment and features: And this further definition of an Option Year: Option Year means the additional twelve-month period that is added to the term of the Standard Player Contract of certain Rookies if the option provided for in Article V, Section 4 is exercised by the Team. Bold emphasis is mine.

I'll just leave this here: optional [ op-shuh-nl ]SHOW IPA adjective left to one's choice; not required or mandatory:Formal dress is optional. leaving something to choice.

Option does not equal mandatory... that's all that really needs to be said about any of this ridiculous argument.

Josh Ross makes some sense too though because they had him on all of the early season Spotify commercials during games, so they likely expect CFL fans to recognize him from that.

You seem angry... 🤣

Pretty sure Winnipeg was pushing for either 2024 or 2025.... 2025 gets us to year 3 of Collaros' contract, so that will be the one to break Edmonton's record of 5 in a row. I believe that the league generally tries to alternate between East and West every year, but with the pandemic, that got all messed up too.

Sorry to hear that. It sucks that there are people out there who think like this because it's dangerous for everybody. My question would be, what did it take for him to become radicalized like that? I don't see that as a reason to not have restrictions again if they are warranted, but I understand that there are still many people who would refuse to follow them, just like the first time and a big part of why things got so out of control with the pandemic.

The problem was that there was confusion over what was a right (freedom) vs what was a privilege. Being able to go into a private business is a privilege, and being required to wear a mask to exercise that privilege is not a violation of anyone's rights. None of the restrictions took away anyone's rights, it may have limited their privileges, but that was based on their choices (ie. not wearing a mask or not getting vax'd). Choices have consequences, and losing a privilege is not a loss of rights or freedom.

Which isn't a bad thing until someone takes power and corrupts it into a dictatorship. The "communism" that the western world has been fighting for years isn't true communism.