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For the purposes of this scenario, the dog passed out from the smoke and cannot run out beside you.

For the purposes of this scenario, the parents of the toddler have passed out from the smoke.

For the purposes of this scenario, there are no other loopholes or situations that somehow allow you to miraculously save both.

What do you choose?

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disguise the force as a "recommendation"

i clicked on an insta thot on my phone and it redirected me to the insta websight. i get blocked with a popup that says "instagram is better in the app! you should log in or sign up to continue!"

they say it like it's a choice, or a recommendation, when it's not

so disingenuous


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DJquackquack posted...

Mad Men is better.

this is cap

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So well written. So well casted. So well delivered. Clever, occasionally emotional, and extremely funny at times.

Real good show. The dropoff after Sorkin leaves is noticeable but it's still entertaining enough.

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The county then started to see breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated elderly residents in long-term care facilities. The hospitals began to fill once more. Nine vaccinated people died, seven of them since the delta variant's arrival, though it's still unclear whether the variant is to blame. All were at least 75 years old, and seven lived in long-term care facilities. Now, Kuhr estimates, "above 90%" of cases in the county are delta variant.

The county is seeing the same trend as the state: The vast majority of people testing positive for COVID, and people being hospitalized with it, are unvaccinated. "It's a superspreader strain if there ever was one," Eric Topol with the Scripps Research Institution told Scientific American. But he said people fully vaccinated with Pfizer or Moderna shots "should not worry at all." There is less information about the protection offered by Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.

Festival going in a hotspot

Mesa County health officials considered canceling the music festival, but "it was really too late," Kuhr says. After the announcement that the festival was on, about 23,000 people bought tickets.

Officials weighed banning alcohol or trying to get attendees a Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine in the weeks leading up to the festival. In the end, they settled on messaging: signs warning people online and at the venue that the area was a COVID hot spot.

According to CDC guidance, outdoor events were low risk. A sporting event at the end of May in Grand Junction that filled a baseball stadium had resulted in only one known case, which made Kuhr optimistic.

"We put messaging on Country Jam's website, and then in their social media pages, saying, you know, 'Mesa County's a hot spot. Be prepared,'" Kuhr says.

A stormy Friday dampened concert attendance at Country Jam. But on the last day of the festival, the sun was out and throngs of cowboy boot-clad concertgoers stepped around prairie dog burrows and kicked up gray-yellow dust on the path to the venue entrance.

Many reveled in being able to attend a summertime event like an outdoor festival, taking it as another sign that the pandemic was waning.

"COVID is over in Colorado," said Ryan Barkley, a college student from Durango who was playing beer pong in an inflatable pool at his campsite outside the gates.

That day, 39 people in the county were hospitalized with COVID, and a CDC investigative team had arrived just four days earlier.

Inside the gates, an open field was filled with stages, concession stands, and vendors selling cowboy hats, coffee mugs and hunting clothes and crowds of people. Chelsea Sondgeroth and her 5-year-old daughter took in the scene.

"It's just nice to see people's faces again," said Sondgeroth, who lives in Grand Junction and previously had COVID. She described it as one of the mildest illnesses she's ever had, though her senses of taste and smell have not returned to normal. Watermelon tastes rotten to her, beer tasted like Windex for a while, and her daughter said Sondgeroth can't smell certain flowers anymore.
Sondgeroth said she's holding off on getting vaccinated until more research comes out.

Waiting in line at the daiquiri stand, Alicia Nix was one of the few people in sight wearing a mask. "I've gotten people that say, you know, 'That stuff is over. Get over yourself and take that off,'" said Nix, who is vaccinated. "It isn't over."

Amid the music, beer and dancing, a bus turned into a mobile vaccine clinic was empty. A nurse on duty played Jenga with an Army National Guard soldier. Just six people of the thousands attending were vaccinated on the bus.

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink," Nix said from behind her blue surgical mask.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/08/1014162040/with-delta-variant-surging-in-colorado-a-country-music-festival-goes-on

Dr. Rachel LaCount grasped a metal hoop at a playground and spun in circles with her 7-year-old son, turning the distant mesas of the Colorado National Monument into a red-tinged blur.
LaCount has lived in Grand Junction, Colo., a city of 64,000, nearly her whole life. As a hospital pathologist, she knows better than most that her hometown has become one of the nation's top breeding grounds for the delta variant of COVID-19.

"The delta variant's super scary," LaCount said.

That highly transmissible variant, first detected in India, is now the dominant COVID-19 strain in the United States. Colorado is among the top states with the highest proportion of the delta variant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mesa County has the most delta variant cases of any county in Colorado, state health officials report, making the area a hot spot within a hot spot. A CDC team and the state's epidemiologist traveled to Grand Junction to investigate how and why cases of the variant were moving so quickly in Mesa County.

At her hospital, LaCount has put in orders for more rapid COVID tests as the caseload has grown. She's seen the intensive care unit start filling up with COVID patients, so that hospital officials are placing two in a room against normal practices.

Despite these alarming signs, it appears many in Mesa County have let down their guard. The rate of eligible residents fully vaccinated has stalled at about 42%. LaCount has noticed that few people wear masks anymore at the grocery store. Thousands of people recently flocked to Mack, 20 miles from Grand Junction, to attend the Country Jam music festival, which could accelerate the variant's spread to the concertgoers' hometowns.

"We're making national news for our COVID variant and the CDC is here investigating, but we have a huge festival where people aren't masking," said LaCount. "Are we going to get herd immunity over here just because everyone's going to get it? I mean, that's probably going to happen at some point, but at what cost?"

LaCount's worries aren't necessarily for herself or her spouse they are both vaccinated but for their son, who can't be vaccinated because he is under 12. She is uneasy about sending him to school in the fall for fear of exposure to the variant. She is reluctant to take him to birthday parties this summer knowing there's a good likelihood he'll be teased for wearing a mask.

A few yards away from LaCount and her son on the playground, a man fished in a still pond with his 10-month-old daughter in a backpack. Garrett Whiting, who works in construction, said he believes COVID is still being "blown out of proportion," especially by the news media.

"They got everybody scared really, really fast," said Whiting, slowly reeling in a sparkly blue lure from the water. "There's no reason to stop living your life just because you're scared of something."

Whiting tested positive for COVID about three months earlier. He said he doesn't plan to get vaccinated, nor does his wife. As for the baby on his back, he said he's not sure whether they'll have her vaccinated when regulators approve the shot for young children.

Warnings from around the world

The delta variant is one of four "variants of concern" circulating in the U.S., according to the CDC, because the delta strain spreads more easily, might be more resistant to treatment and might be better at infecting vaccinated people than other variants.

The delta variant has raised alarms around the world. Parts of Australia have locked down again after health officials said the variant leapfrogged its way from an American aircrew to a birthday party where it infected all unvaccinated guests, and after it also is reported to have jumped between shoppers in a "scarily fleeting" moment in which two people walked past each other in a mall.

Israel reissued an indoor mask requirement after a spate of new cases linked to schoolchildren. A leading health official there said about a third of the 125 people who were infected were vaccinated, and most of the new infections were delta variant.

A rise in delta variant cases delayed the United Kingdom's planned reopening in June. But public health officials have concluded after studying about 14,000 cases of the delta variant in that country that full vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalization. Studies around the world have made similar findings. There is also evidence the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are effective against the variant.

Los Angeles County recently recommended that residents resume wearing masks indoors regardless of vaccination status, over concern about the delta variant. The World Health Organization is also urging vaccinated people to wear masks, though the CDC hasn't changed its guidelines allowing vaccinated people to gather indoors without masks.

A delta surge hits the unvaccinated

The variant arrived in Mesa County this spring, when it accounted for just 1% of all cases nationwide, says Jeff Kuhr, executive director of Mesa County Public Health.

"We were winding down just like everyone else. We were down to less than five cases a day. I think we had about two people hospitalized at one point," Kuhr says. "We felt as if we were out of the woods."

He even signed off on Country Jam, which bills itself as the state's "biggest country music party."
But in early May, the delta variant appeared in a burst, with five cases among adults working for the school district.

"It started to hit the children, those that were not of the age to be vaccinated," Kuhr says. "That was telling me that, you know, wearing masks in school was not providing the protection with this new variant that it had previously."

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"We put messaging on Country Jam's website, and then in their social media pages, saying, you know, 'Mesa County's a hot spot. Be prepared,'" Kuhr says.

A stormy Friday dampened concert attendance at Country Jam. But on the last day of the festival, the sun was out and throngs of cowboy boot-clad concertgoers stepped around prairie dog burrows and kicked up gray-yellow dust on the path to the venue entrance.

Many reveled in being able to attend a summertime event like an outdoor festival, taking it as another sign that the pandemic was waning.

"COVID is over in Colorado," said Ryan Barkley, a college student from Durango who was playing beer pong in an inflatable pool at his campsite outside the gates.

That day, 39 people in the county were hospitalized with COVID, and a CDC investigative team had arrived just four days earlier.

Inside the gates, an open field was filled with stages, concession stands, and vendors selling cowboy hats, coffee mugs and hunting clothes and crowds of people. Chelsea Sondgeroth and her 5-year-old daughter took in the scene.

"It's just nice to see people's faces again," said Sondgeroth, who lives in Grand Junction and previously had COVID. She described it as one of the mildest illnesses she's ever had, though her senses of taste and smell have not returned to normal. Watermelon tastes rotten to her, beer tasted like Windex for a while, and her daughter said Sondgeroth can't smell certain flowers anymore.
Sondgeroth said she's holding off on getting vaccinated until more research comes out.

Waiting in line at the daiquiri stand, Alicia Nix was one of the few people in sight wearing a mask. "I've gotten people that say, you know, 'That stuff is over. Get over yourself and take that off,'" said Nix, who is vaccinated. "It isn't over."

Amid the music, beer and dancing, a bus turned into a mobile vaccine clinic was empty. A nurse on duty played Jenga with an Army National Guard soldier. Just six people of the thousands attending were vaccinated on the bus.

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink," Nix said from behind her blue surgical mask.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).

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nothanks1 posted...

not ip locked
just voted no twice

It's broken then. I forced myself to click IP locked before adding the "IP LOCKED" part to the topic title.

You sure it accepted your vote? I tried on an alt and although it did show the results, it didn't show the "vote accepted" item like it normally does.

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Should SBAllen add an Opt Out Of Redesign button?

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Who is the greatest quarterback of all time?

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80/80
https://twitter.com/MarielleMohs/status/1400653455874793484

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/uptown-minneapolis-shooting/89-070ac371-5567-4a36-9d18-a7abc7e048a7
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/06/03/us-marshals-kill-man-atop-uptown-minneapolis-parking-ramp/

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https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/05/26/neighbors-feeling-bullied-want-activists-to-leave-george-floyd-square/

A year after the murder of George Floyd, some residents who live near the four-block area now graced by his name want the people running the autonomous zone to remove the barricades and leave. They say people in the neighborhood have been shot at, robbed, carjacked, threatened with deadly weapons and sexually harassed.

This is our home. It does not belong to the world. It does not belong to anyone, Amina Harper said on Instagram. We live here and we deserve to be safe while we live here because most of us cannot afford to live anywhere else.

After being invited by a leader of the square to Tuesday events marking the one-year anniversary of Floyds killing, artists Harper and Tori Hong responded publicly with lengthy social media retorts about the group running the square, Meet on the Street.

Those barricades and that fist need to be removed so we can rebuild toward something that actually involves community, instead of a bunch of invaders who only want a stage to perform on and a means to gain political and social capital, Harper wrote.

Hours before a street festival was to begin Tuesday, some 30 gunshots rang out near the intersection as reporters were covering the anniversary, with some recording the gunfire live. Police said one person later showed up at a hospital with gunshot wounds.

Harper said thats what its been like living near the square for the past year.

The gunshots themselves already prove my point, she said.

Three Meet on the Street leaders did not respond to a request for comment, but they have said they wont leave the zone until a long list of demands are met, including $156 million in investments in the neighborhood over a decade.

Marcia Howard, a high school teacher and one of the main organizers of Meet on the Street, told the Reformer last year that she will resist any city encroachment: I am here for the safety of my community. And Im standing my ground. Theyre going to have to kill me.

In her telling, shes been given no choice: Its not my fault that they did this 270 steps from my house that they killed a Black man.

The conflict about the squares future which was evident to neighbors but largely submerged for months has broken out into the open, complicated by the return of summer temperatures and rising violent crime. The Bloods gang is known to be active in the area, including providing security for the square.

Amid the tension, city officials have said they will remove the barricades and reopen the street and bus service, although they have not said when.

Harper, an artist and writer who has lived near the square for nearly 20 years, wrote on Instagram that Floyd was murdered by people who were supposed to protect and serve communities like hers, and then afterward, people who claim they want to protect and serve the neighborhood showed up and use his name to further selfish agendas that cause more death in the same place George Floyd died.

She said people in the square have harmed Black people who came to pay respects to Floyd, Black immigrants who live in the neighborhood, Black-owned businesses and homes.

Im just sick of my neighborhood being in the crossfire of its failings, Harper wrote. They never cared about us, it was all about using our neighborhood as a combination stage/group therapy session.

Harper said the people occupying the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue are colonizers by way of their class and access who prioritize personal and political agendas over community.

Time and again, they chose to make endless TikToks and (Instagram) posts espousing how wonderful the square is, as opposed to meaningfully engaging with, listening to and supporting the neighborhood. Their time for showboating is up.

She said many neighbors are scared to speak out.

There is no love for any of you in this community anymore because those holding space in the zone have been hostile, unwelcoming and downright cruel, she said.

Artist Hayden Minh lives near the square and also does not want Meet on the Street there anymore, and has tried to talk to them about his concerns.

Tori Hong, an artist who also lives near the square, said Black and Asian visitors have been verbally and physically intimidated by the gatekeepers of the square, with a report of a gun being flashed and verbal intimidation of a Black person trying to pay their respects.

Hong wrote that after someone tried to rob her and she helped a carjacking victim, she joined a neighborhood group chat run by people controlling the square that was created for safety communication, but after speaking out against them, they removed her from the chat, and then deleted the chat.

They cannot keep occupying, silencing, gaslighting and harming our neighborhood a largely poor, working class, Black, brown, immigrant, queer and trans neighborhood, she wrote. Its time for them to get the f*** out. Now.

Howard has said Meet on the Street is about community, telling the Reformer last year its a community before its anything else. We maintain community we forged it and sustain it through holding space, and feeding people and being here. I think we are providing a model for the city, let alone the country, of what it looks like when we put community first. Its the community that brings a semblance of safety, and justice would guarantee it.

tl;dr: https://www.instagram.com/amina.harper/ (cited in the article) is a resident of the area around the square. She has a long series of stories (which are unfortunately very difficult to read due to instagram's inability to pause/screenshot stories + the short duration for each segment's run time). But the stories are titled "GFS Callout" (GFS = George Floyd Square). You can read her experiences along with experiences from other neighbors in the area by clicking through her stories.

The City began the process to move parts of the memorial in order to re-open traffic to allow access for business as well as emergency vehicles, but "activists" are setting up makeshift barriers to re-block traffic:

https://twitter.com/ChristianeWCCO/status/1400489419535233024

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For the purposes of this scenario, the dog passed out from the smoke and cannot run out beside you.

For the purposes of this scenario, the parents of the toddler have passed out from the smoke.

For the purposes of this scenario, there are no other loopholes or situations that somehow allow you to miraculously save both.

What do you choose?

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https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1396888828611342337

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Hollingsworth shocks Greene with a stun gun within seconds through the driver's side window as both troopers demand he get out of the vehicle.

Greene exits through the passenger side as the troopers wrestle him to the ground. One trooper can be heard saying "He's grabbing me" as they try to handcuff him. "Put your hands behind your back, bitch," one trooper says.

Hollingsworth strikes Greene multiple times and appears to lie on one of his arms before he is finally handcuffed.

At one point, Trooper Kory York yanks Greene's leg shackles and briefly drags the man on his stomach even though he isn't resisting.

York was suspended without pay for 50 hours for the dragging and for improperly deactivating his body camera. York told investigators the device was beeping loudly and his "mind was on other things."

Hollingsworth, in a separate recording obtained by AP, can be heard telling a colleague at the office that "he beat the ever-living f--- out of" Greene.

"Choked him and everything else trying to get him under control," Hollingsworth is heard saying. "He was spitting blood everywhere, and all of a sudden he just went limp."

Hollingsworth later died in a single-vehicle highway crash that happened hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the Greene case.

DeMoss, meanwhile, was arrested in connection with a separate police pursuit last year in which he and two other troopers allegedly used excessive force while handcuffing a motorist.

Exactly what caused Greene's death remains unclear. Union Parish Coroner Renee Smith told AP last year his death was ruled accidental and attributed to cardiac arrest. Smith, who was not in office when that determination was made, said her office's file on Greene attributed his death to a car crash and made no mention of a struggle with State Police.

The AP last year also obtained a medical report showing an emergency room doctor noted Greene arrived dead at the hospital, bruised and bloodied with two stun-gun prongs in his back. That led the doctor to question troopers' initial account that Greene had "died on impact" after crashing into a tree.

"Does not add up," the doctor wrote.

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NEW ORLEANS Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase footage of the man's last moments alive that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release it for two years.

"I'm your brother! I'm scared! I'm scared!" Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.

The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greene's case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.

Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-old's death. Troopers initially told Greene's family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.

Only now in the footage obtained by the AP from one trooper's body camera can the public see for the first time some of what happened during the arrest.

The 46-minute clip shows one trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a "stupid motherf---."

Greene wails "I'm sorry!" as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, "Look, you're going to get it again if you don't put your f---- hands behind your back!" Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.

Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave the heavyset man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.
"I hope this guy ain't got f------ AIDS," one of the troopers can be heard saying.

After a several-minute stretch in which Greene is not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.

In many parts of the video, Greene is not on screen, and the trooper appears to cut the microphone off about halfway through, making it difficult to piece together exactly what was happening at all times. At least six troopers were on the scene of the arrest but not all had their body cameras on.

"They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned," Greene's mother, Mona Hardin, said Wednesday. "He didn't have a chance. Ronnie didn't have a chance. He wasn't going to live to tell about it."

An attorney for Greene's family, Lee Merritt, said the footage "has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it."

"He apologized in an attempt to surrender," Merritt said.

Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the contents of the video. In a statement, the agency said the "premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and ... undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome."

State Police brass initially argued the troopers' use of force was justified "awful but lawful," as ranking officials described it and did not open an administrative investigation until 474 days after Greene's death.

"Police departments have got to stop putting roadblocks up to information that is, in the public's eye, questionable. They have to reveal all that they know, when they know it," said Andrew Scott, a former Boca Raton, Florida, police chief who testifies as an expert witness in use-of-force cases. "It suggests that you're hiding something."

While noting Greene "was not without fault" and appeared to resist the troopers' orders, Scott said dragging the handcuffed man facedown by his ankle shackles was "malicious, sadistic, completely unnecessary."

"That should never have never happened," he said. "You've got the guy completely compromised. He's not hurting anybody."

Charles Key, another use-of-force expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant, questioned the troopers' decision to leave Greene unattended, handcuffed and prone for several minutes, calling the practice "just dead wrong."

"You don't leave somebody lying on the ground, particularly after you've had this fight," Key said.

"The training has been for a number of years that, as soon as you get someone under control, you put them on their side to facilitate their breathing ... and particularly this guy, because he was very heavy."

Gov. John Bel Edwards allowed Greene's family to view the same body camera footage last year and pledged to release it to the public after the federal investigation runs its course.

Greene's family has filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging troopers "brutalized" Greene, and "left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest" before covering up the cause of death. His family has released graphic photographs of Greene's body on a gurney, showing deep bruises and cuts on his face and head.

Greene, a barber, failed to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation shortly after midnight on May 10, 2019, about 30 miles south of the Arkansas state line. That's where the video obtained by AP begins, with Trooper Dakota DeMoss chasing Greene's SUV on rural highways at over 115 mph.

Seconds before the chase ended, DeMoss warned on his radio: "We got to do something. He's going to kill somebody."

As DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth rush Greene's SUV, he can be seen appearing to raise his hands and saying over and over, "OK, OK. I'm sorry."

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