I remember watching those A’s teams in the WS like it was yesterday. I pulled for them and Catfish Hunter was my favorite non-Astro. I have thought this Astros run has reminded me of their great few years which started to fall apart when Hunter signed one of the first big FA deals with the pinstripes.
Commander Cody is bad-ass. Love their version of “House of Blue Lights” as well.
The Lost Planet Airmen had some good players, anchored by guitarist Bill Kirchen.
Raul Malo is awesome.
I don’t need much more.
Yes he is one of the greatest singers ever and very much alive. You freaked me out for a second posting that here.
Colin Powell. Covid.
Fully vaccinated of course. I am grateful for the vaccine, I wish it was good enough to prevent infection.
I think the idea of having different endpoints or measures of success in clinical trials has been difficult to convey. It would have been much more costly to test every subject on a regular basis after their vaccine/placebo to see if the vaccines prevented infection. Rather, the trials primarily looked at rates of infections serious enough to lead to hospitalization and death. That’s the efficacy number commonly quoted.
We do now know that the vaccines do prevent infections, just not at as high of a rate as they prevent serious illness or death. Many of these data are from the routine screening of essential workers.
If we had 100% vaccination, then 100% of the deaths would be in vaccinated individuals, but the total number would be much, much lower. Of course, if we had 100% vaccination, then the hope would be that there would be so few susceptible individuals around that infections would dead end rather than continue to propagate. Alas…
“Reduces risk” is the more accurate terminology.
Covid vaccines reduce the risk of serious infection. Greatly.
The data is in the trials and in our hospitals.
Here’s current data for COVID patients from one large hospital system in North/Central Texas:
86% of hospitalized are unvaccinated
89% in ICU are unvaccinated
91% on ventilators are unvaccinated
Encourage any vaccine hesitant people you know to get vaccinated.
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“Powell had multiple myeloma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell” according to one report. The majority of the breakthrough cases are people with comorbidities, such as cancer, heart disease, weight issues, etc. Which is why we should all be vaccinated and should mask when appropriate.
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Basically, this…
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Pat Martino
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Actor Peter Scolari, who costarred with Tom Hanks in “Bosom Buddies”.
Second most appearances in club history.
Just 45.
Dean Stockwell. 85.
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I loved Stockwell in Blue Velvet, but I also loved Quantum Leap. A very underrated show.
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I still can’t believe the punch in the gut of that finale.
Can you spell “R-E-B-O-O-T”?
God bless, Sam.
I liked him in, The Boy with the Green Hair.