I lack knowledge.

My memory is
(1) The flu virus mutates rapidly, all the time.
(2) The flu virus can hop between chickens, pigs, people. Places that have a lot of those close together are the source for the flu for a season.
(3) Virus samples are taken from source locations in the pre-season and are used to make the vaccine. If the variety that takes hold matches the samples chosen then the vaccine will be effective. If it isn't a good match then the vaccine is useless.

Slavery extends to the Black Codes and Jim Crow and segregation.
Mass incarceration and the drug war are pretty high up there.

In terms of being the baddies though, the USA has treated people outside the country very badly many times.

right, there's plenty of too harsh sentences handed out in USA#1. Drugs, life without parole for a 14 year old kid, etc. Being outraged over some guy who gets like 3 months per broken bone he inflicts seems like kind of an odd hill to die on though.

I was on vacation with my family when I was 19. I had just gotten there that afternoon and had a pretty bad cold. This was a place we visited every winter so I knew a lot of the people my age there. However since I was sick I had been resting that evening.

I went over to where my parents where staying to say hi. On the way back to my room I stopped on the edge of the property. This place was right on the beach so there was a big open grass are separated from the sand by about 15-20 feet of shrubbery. In that shrubbery was a path to go between the grass and the sand.

It was dark and I could not really see onto the beach as I stood on the grass. I was just hanging out by myself when a group of four or five guys came up from the beach. I looked at them nodded and said “what’s up”. Not really recognizing any of them but not being able to see much.

One of the guys stepped up to me while saying “What did you say?” And open handed slapped me landing on the right side of my face. I instantly fell to the ground and blood was just pouring out of my mouth. He had broken my jaw on the right side and pushed it out the other side which broke as well.

The guy who did it was a local and besides the other guys there people I know knew who it was. I never had to testify in court because he took a plea but since he had a history he still ended up with five years.

I know some people might be skeptical this 19 year old kid said and did nothing to bring this on or antagonize 5he situation but it absolutely went down as described. The only thing I said was “What’s up”. I ended up in the hospital for Christmas and had my jaw wired shut for six weeks. I also had to hav3 a lot of follow up work done including additional surgeries. The weirdest side effect was my lower lip was numb for about eight years after the incident.

5) perpetrators of lawncare assaults

It's fair to say that the law is results oriented in some ways, but not to the absurd extent that's been suggested ITT. I mean, if you slap someone in the heat of the moment and set into motion some weird Rube Goldberg mechanism that leads to a completely unexpected death via pneumonia, that's treated a bit differently than hitting them over the head with a club because they owe you money. The intent and context does sort of matter.

I understand some viruses can go into latency for a while. A minute of googling and I'm not sure if that's the case for the flu or not.

Yeah I left out external horribleness because it just gets too massive.

I agree with you on mass incarnation/ drug wars and how our criminal justice system operates is up there.

Dunno why anyone would be skeptical. Dude out with 4 other aholes out to fight and bully people alone isn't unheard of. He must have hit you really hard in just the wrong place. That sounds pretty bad.

The Paul case is being treated differently than if Boucher had intended to break Paul's ribs! If he had maliciously and purposefully sought to injure Paul as severely as he ended up injuring him then he probably would be looking at ten years. And if Paul dies of pneumonia it would be treated differently than if Boucher shot and killed him. Probably 10 years in prison compared to life in prison. So of course the intent and context matters. But the injuries Boucher inflicts matter as well.

I had a friend that had a similar thing happen. He said whats up, guy said sucker, he gave them a the finger behind his back...then i found out when we had 10 guys following us. No broke stuff though. In Nantucket of all places.

Hmm. Well this episode of scifri may have been what I heard.

http://www.wbur.org/npr/169708755/ho...nd-off-the-flu

Whatever the law and sentencing are in practice, it's complicated because there's punishment, justice, deterrence, and reform/rehabilitation, etc. A lot of different concepts and some aspects should not be based on results at all and some probably should somewhat.

"...I stood on the grass." It seems like this is a key detail in both the markksman and Paul cases. Lesson learned, I would think.

In this US there are a lot of incarcerated people who shouldn't be there.

This guy is not one of them.

He was also required to pay me restitution but I got one check for like $4.52.

Manning is a confused idiot living in a strange and incomprehensible world.

rofl

And if it isn't clear that he intended to maliciously and purposefully murder Rand with a flying pneumonia tackle over a lawncare dispute, he probably doesn't wind up looking at ten years.

Aren't we all, though?

People get the flu year-round, but its rate of transmission increases during the winter for reasons no one really understands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season

I think the point about "never having the flu before" is probably not true, because it is pretty common. There's a lot of different subtypes of influenza, some of which are deadly serious and some of which are not a huge deal for healthy adults. If you have a substantial fever and you're laid out with exhaustion or body pains, my nonmedical understanding is that you typically have the flu.

Absolutely everyone should get the vaccine though even (or maybe especially) if it's not working very well that season. The flu is not going to kill you, but it could definitely kill someone you give it to.

Think of ol' Silverman every time I see one lol

Thanks that answers my questions.

Dude, one time that guy got 3 months for rape, therefore logic, etc, 3 months per broken bone is far too long. QED.

Go back to posting your misogynistic BS in the other thread.