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9 people were able to pick 4 / 4 last week and we now have 15 people within the top 4. Picks next week need to be in by Friday @ 6PM. Standings are below:

If you watch him on returns he stops and is hesitant as soon as a defender is a few yards away from him. It looks as if he doesn't want the contact. And that indecision and stutter stops any possibility of a larger return. And no, it isn't always the blocking, he could make more gains if he just went for it.

This weeks picks need to be in by Friday @ 6:30 PM. Standings are below:

Happy Labour Day Classic Weekend! Picks this week need to be in by Friday Sep 3rd @ 6:30PM. Standings are below

Payback for a couple of years ago https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canadiens-tender-offer-sheet-hurricanes-sebastian-aho/

They claim it does work to treat but I think most effective at preventing. The problem I see with using it as an alternative to vaccines, is using it to cure means it won't stop Covid from spreading and mutating, and using it to prevent seems a logistical nightmare to implement at a societal level. Imagine if people who are against showing proof of vaccination had to show proof they were taking a pill every week.

I heard about Ivermectin and Covid a month or two back. As far as I can tell this is the origin of it. https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/06000/review_of_the_emerging_evidence_demonstrating_the.4.aspx Even if this does prevent Covid, it would need to be taken regularly (weekly I believe) by enough of the population until the virus stopped spreading and died out. Which seems more complicated and error prone then people getting a couple of shots.

To be clear I’m not an advocate for people to take Ivermectin for Covid in lieu of getting vaccinated. If you are healthy and able, go get ******* vaccinated. But Ivermectin has been used on humans for parasites for quite some time. https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/ivermectin-oral-route/proper-use/drg-20064397 It is also instrumental in treating river blindness in Africa. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-7-241 People self treating with Ivermectin and using versions and doses of the drug designed for animals and not humans because that is the only prescription they can get need to give their head a shake

Locking this thread and have removed a few posts. Lets all try to be civil to each other

You haven’t lost anything. The game just isn’t played.

No point this week for the Edmonton / TO game. It may still be rescheduled. If it does, we will add it to that weeks games. If it is forfeited, then no one gets a point for it and it wouldn't affect the relative standings.

Tough week last week with an average of 1.4 correct picks per person. Picks this week need to be in by Thursday @ 6:30PM. Current standings are below:

The original debate with you on this is there is no such thing as extreme leftism. Which you still do not want to acknowledge. As for the rest of this post, yes we should always find ways to do better. But not at the expense of repeating historical atrocities. Agree there can be a balance between socialism and capitalism in a democracy. This is what I’ve been saying all along. We get in trouble with extremes. As for no form of government, never took you for a libertarian.

Are you proposing that we have found a perfect, ideal form of government with no flaws? Because I have never said that. People are flawed and every form of government will have flaws because people run them. If you are suggesting socialism is perfect and not flawed, it is this exact form of thinking that is so dangerous that leads to communism. Yes, democracy led to Donald Trump. Thankfully it only lasted for 4 years. So while still flawed, I would propose it is the best form of government we've found to date, and his time in office was minimized. Extremism on either side is the problem. You seem to only think extremism on the right is an issue.

But this is the exact danger that extreme left / socialism / communism leads to. You can't simply dismiss it because it isn't your vision of leftist or socialism. By that rationale any person on the right can dismiss any extreme right groups and actions because it no longer fits their definition of conservatism. That is foolish and leads to repeating history. How many examples have there been where the thought was simply "Yeah, but no one has done communism properly, but this time...." The extreme version of the left leads to centralized planning to direct and distribute the production of goods equitably to a society, which cannot be done on a mass scale, and inevitably giving that type of power to limited people will lead to at best corruption and at worse the deaths and starvation of hundreds of millions of people. I have no doubt that every communist state was started with the best of intentions. But those people were dead and killed very early. If you haven't read it, this book is an enlightening read. https://www.amazon.ca/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1843430851/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3C4R8YNGQT7Q7&dchild=1&keywords=alexander+solzhenitsyn&qid=1629513724&sprefix=alexander+s%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-2

This is true for the majority of people though. This is human nature. All of us have said and done stupid things in our 20s but it never used to be on social media forever. “Cancelling” for something you said or did 20 years ago means as a society we no longer allow people to grow or learn. And that is sad because that should be what life is about.

I think it will be some time before we understand the full ramifications of long Covid. And yes, it is a real thing. Vaccinated people aren't 100% immune from catching Covid. That has never been advertised. This likely depends on a lot of of factors, but it has been shown that people at most risk of severe Covid ramifications are those with comorbidities. This is very true for people who are worst affected by Covid whether vaccinated or not. Full disclosure that is pure speculation on who is likely still affected. Covid isn't going anywhere. Especially with new strains coming out. We need to figure out how to live with it as a society. At this point, with where we are at and how widely it has spread, I don't expect Covid is going to be completely irradiated any time soon.

Picks this week need to be in by Thursday @ 9:00. Current standings are below:

You need to make your picks in the poll at the top of this thread. Or are you trying to change them?

Everyone can stop replying back to Polar Bear. The troll won’t be back.

First week is always tough with a few upsets last week. Picks this week need to be in by Thursday @ 8:30. Current standings are below:

It has been an extra long off season but CFL football is back for the 2021 edition! Pick 'Ems are also back with the winner taking home a $50 Blue Bomber gift certificate. How do they work? Each week you pick the winners for each CFL game. You get one point for every correct pick. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins! Picks will be done through the polling system. Polls close at game start of the first game of the week. I will accept picks for games that have not started yet through PMs if you are late getting them in. Week 1 kicks off with a Grey Cup rematch featuring the Tiger-Cats @ your very own Blue Bombers on Thursday at 7:30 PM. Get your picks in by then!

You need to upload it to a photo sharing site and use their link. https://imgbb.com is one of those sites. There are others.

Typically variants will evolve to have a higher infectious rate and a lower mortality rate. It is in the best interest of the virus not to kill the host to perpetuate its own life. Hopefully in time, this proves to be true with Covid as well, and it becomes just another seasonal flu.

Just a couple of examples: https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2018/11/13/tom-wilsons-suspension-reduced-to-14-games-eligible-to-return-immediately/ https://thehockeywriters.com/dennis-wideman-wins-appeal-has-suspension-reduced-to-10-games/