There certainly are some issues on Bernie's platform that make a lot of sense. I wish he coulda focused on them instead of free college for all, health care for illegal immigrants, etc. And I wish Biden would have adopted the good ones and not the ones he did already.
I'm no bernie fan for how he and his supporters conduct themselves, but no reason not to listen to and adopt what actually makes sense.
All "hourly" employees? Not just Corporate owned stores? which I believe is in the less than 5% range. The rest are franchises.
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i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
I picture a tent hospital being destroyed by a tornado
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i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
People would be scared at first but I like the idea. Very Hollywood sounding.
now that you mention it, this is true, haha
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
I picture a tent hospital being destroyed by a tornado
yeah true, especially in MO.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
I am for it.
+1. I especially like the idea of cutting out red tape for efficiency.
I post a link to this earlier but I thin the who thing is worth pasting here. Michael Osterholm's work is great and I think this reccent article best sums up what we are presently up against and I'm curious as to what you all think about this:
Facing covid-19 reality: A national lockdown is no cure
Michael
T. Osterholm is regents professor and director of the Center for
Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Mark Olshaker is a writer and documentary filmmaker. They are the
authors of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs.”
Covid-19
will go away eventually in one of two ways. Either we will develop a
vaccine to prevent it, or the virus will burn itself out as the spread
of infection comes to confer a form of herd immunity on the population.
Neither of those possibilities will occur quickly.
It
is time to face reality. We urgently need a unified national strategy,
one informed by the best science about stopping diseases like covid-19
and from virus control efforts in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, as
well as realistic projections of the human and economic toll of any
option we pursue. Our way of life cannot survive an indefinite series of
short-term action plans.
We
have to ask what we hope to accomplish with limited self-quarantines
and shelter-in-place directives. Clearly, as one objective, we seek to
“flatten the curve” in an effort to keep our already overburdened
health-care system from being overrun. The ability of our hospitals to
continue providing care to a flood of covid-19 patients, while still
treating the other patients they normally have, all the while protecting
health-care professionals, will be a major factor in reducing bad
outcomes for victims of the coronavirus and other illnesses as well.
But
how do we actually accomplish this? What happens after a several-week
moratorium on normal activity? Does the president, governor or mayor
declare another? While California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has made a
courageous move by locking down his state, how long can 40 million
California residents be kept at home? And will it be long enough to make
a significant difference?
China
and Italy have imposed near-draconian lockdowns in an effort to halt
the spread of covid-19. But how and when will these two “test” nations
return to normal life? And when they do, will there be a major second
wave of cases? If that happens, should they simply “rinse and repeat”?
As a country, with momentum building for a possible national shutdown directive, we are on the verge of ringing a giant bell that we don’t know how to un-ring.
Yet
we don’t, for example, have good data on the real impact of closing
public and private K-12 schools on the spread of covid-19. Hong Kong and
Singapore, advanced city-states that experienced the outbreak early,
both attempted to respond quickly and efficiently. Hong Kong closed
schools; Singapore did not, and there was hardly any difference in the
rate of transmission. The second-order effect of shutting schools is
that hardest hit will be those least able to afford to miss work to care
for homebound children. And what of our health professionals with
children? Add to that firefighters, police officers, utility workers,
delivery drivers and other essential personnel, and the magnitude of the
problem is clear.
The Imperial College of London
has produced a sobering study on possible covid-19 strategies. Three
scenarios compare the outcomes of flattening the curve (mitigation),
suppression (long-term quarantine) and letting the virus take its
natural course (doing nothing), modeling the levels of disease and death
for each course. The stark takeaway: Significantly reducing the number
of serious illnesses and deaths would require a near-total lockdown
until an effective vaccine is available, probably at least 18 months
from now.
Consider
the effect of shutting down offices, schools, transportation systems,
restaurants, hotels, stores, theaters, concert halls, sporting events
and other venues indefinitely and leaving all of their workers
unemployed and on the public dole. The likely result would be not just a
depression but a complete economic breakdown, with countless
permanently lost jobs, long before a vaccine is ready or natural
immunity takes hold. We can’t have everyone stay home and still produce
and distribute the basics needed to sustain life and fight the disease.
We
are in uncharted territory. But the best alternative will probably
entail letting those at low risk for serious disease continue to work,
keep business and manufacturing operating, and “run” society, while at
the same time advising higher-risk individuals to protect themselves
through physical distancing and ramping up our health-care capacity as
aggressively as possible. With this battle plan, we could gradually
build up immunity without destroying the financial structure on which
our lives are based.
Very
soon, we may have to acknowledge that attempting to stretch out cases
in the hopes of keeping the curve reasonably flat is unworkable. Then,
as we wait for either our scientific or natural redeemer to come, we can
start trying to put things as back to normal as we can — doing our best
to protect those at high risk, but acknowledging that people will get
sick, some will die, and our health-care system is going to be overrun
to a great extent no matter what we do.
There
is no black-or-white option here. We will have to figure out what shade
of gray we can accept and apply. We will get through this, but hard and
painful choices are inescapable.
i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
I am for it.
+1. I especially like the idea of cutting out red tape for efficiency.
me too. let's keep the politics out of it because it only slows it down. if we can put these centers in remote areas like military bases it means that we would not have to evacuate patients that are inpatient for other reasons at busy metropolitan hospitals. let's use the military and have them use helicopters to transport the sick to the field hospitals. it will be faster than via ambulance and will be less taxing on the metropolitan EMS services.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
i was talking with a surgeon who is the head of the medical board at one of my accounts. he is a former army surgeon. he believes that the only way to get a handle on this thing is to mobilize the military. he suggests building field hospitals on military bases. he said most of the needed supplies like tents are already at the bases. he said that the bases have a ton of space for such a field hospital. he specifically suggested ft. leonard wood in missouri, to isolate and treat those missourians that have the virus. he said that with the military there is typically less red tape and this can be done so much faster at military bases rather than trying to convert hospitals to covid specific treatment and screening facilities. he communicated the idea much better than i am communicating, but i am paraphrasing. what does everyone think about this idea?
^ Brian, my honest takeaway to the article is that we are fucked in one way or another for the next year and a half. On one hand it is the health crisis aspect. On the other hand it is the economic fallout aspect. They'll both be present on some level.
When is the time to work from home... I'm still going to the office.. .work better here... it's a 10 min walk, so don't need to cram into a subway or bus... but if the numbers are starting to rise in Sweden like they are saying...
Better to err on the side of caution. Health > Economy
If you were mine, you woulda been chained to the bedpost by now.
^ Brian, my honest takeaway to the article is that we are fucked in one way or another for the next year and a half. On one hand it is the health crisis aspect. On the other hand it is the economic fallout aspect. They'll both be present on some level.
I'm more concerned about health issues than economic issues, b, but that fact is, we can't change overnight how we procure the things that keep us going- our food, water, clothing, housing, medicine. We can't have everyone stop working for 18 months and expect people to survive. I don't listen to what Trump says because... well, for obvious reasons, haha!... so I'm more interested in the science approach, and I think Osterholm is one of the best experts on that level. So yeah, I think you're right, I think the reality is that this situation is fucked not matter what we do. But I think we have to remember that most of us will get through this, that this virus will end and we will move on. Hopefully we will learn enough from this to not lessen the chances of something like this happening again.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
The question was ''What do we do now?''.. the answer is from Nick Cave..
The Red Hand Files has always been a space in which I could offer dubious existential notions, religious meditations, unsound advice, millennial senilities and general annoyances, while hopefully simultaneously extending a little human kindness and compassion. However, these sorts of ruminations came from a more privileged and fortunate time, when we had the oxygen to muse and to play. Things have changed, we are faced with a common enemy — impartial, unfeeling and of immeasurable magnitude — and it is no longer a time for abstractions. Now is the time to be cautious with our words, our opinions.
A friend called our new world ‘a ghost ship’ — and maybe she is right. She has recently lost someone dear to her and recognises acutely the premonitory feeling of a world about to be shattered — and that we will need to put ourselves back together again, not only personally, but societally. In time we will be given the opportunity to either contract around the old version of ourselves and our world — insular, self-interested and tribalistic — or understand the connectedness and commonality of all humans, everywhere. In isolation, we will be presented with our essence — of what we are personally and what we are as a society. We will be asked to decide what we want to preserve about our world and ourselves, and what we want to discard.
Eventually these questions will become of acute significance, but they are not for now. Now is a time to listen to those in more informed positions and to follow instructions, as difficult as that may be, as we step into the unprecedented unknowable. We should be careful about the noises we make — especially those with a public voice — and should not pretend to know what we do not. From within the clamour and tonnage of information and misinformation, of opinions and counter-opinions, of blame-games and grim prophecy and the most panic-inducing version of ‘Imagine’ ever recorded, emerges a simple message — wash your hands and (if you can) stay at home.
Love, Nick
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I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
The question was ''What do we do now?''.. the answer is from Nick Cave..
The Red Hand Files has always been a space in which I could offer dubious existential notions, religious meditations, unsound advice, millennial senilities and general annoyances, while hopefully simultaneously extending a little human kindness and compassion. However, these sorts of ruminations came from a more privileged and fortunate time, when we had the oxygen to muse and to play. Things have changed, we are faced with a common enemy — impartial, unfeeling and of immeasurable magnitude — and it is no longer a time for abstractions. Now is the time to be cautious with our words, our opinions.
A friend called our new world ‘a ghost ship’ — and maybe she is right. She has recently lost someone dear to her and recognises acutely the premonitory feeling of a world about to be shattered — and that we will need to put ourselves back together again, not only personally, but societally. In time we will be given the opportunity to either contract around the old version of ourselves and our world — insular, self-interested and tribalistic — or understand the connectedness and commonality of all humans, everywhere. In isolation, we will be presented with our essence — of what we are personally and what we are as a society. We will be asked to decide what we want to preserve about our world and ourselves, and what we want to discard.
Eventually these questions will become of acute significance, but they are not for now. Now is a time to listen to those in more informed positions and to follow instructions, as difficult as that may be, as we step into the unprecedented unknowable. We should be careful about the noises we make — especially those with a public voice — and should not pretend to know what we do not. From within the clamour and tonnage of information and misinformation, of opinions and counter-opinions, of blame-games and grim prophecy and the most panic-inducing version of ‘Imagine’ ever recorded, emerges a simple message — wash your hands and (if you can) stay at home.
Love, Nick
Beautiful Nick!
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
^ Brian, my honest takeaway to the article is that we are fucked in one way or another for the next year and a half. On one hand it is the health crisis aspect. On the other hand it is the economic fallout aspect. They'll both be present on some level.
I'm more concerned about health issues than economic issues, b, but that fact is, we can't change overnight how we procure the things that keep us going- our food, water, clothing, housing, medicine. We can't have everyone stop working for 18 months and expect people to survive. I don't listen to what Trump says because... well, for obvious reasons, haha!... so I'm more interested in the science approach, and I think Osterholm is one of the best experts on that level. So yeah, I think you're right, I think the reality is that this situation is fucked not matter what we do. But I think we have to remember that most of us will get through this, that this virus will end and we will move on. Hopefully we will learn enough from this to not lessen the chances of something like this happening again.
Loved the Rogan interview, and I'm not typically a JRE fan.
Thanks for posting the op-ed. sobering stuff, but a good read about the dilemma.
GIMME, Thanks for sharing some potential solutions. I love their ability to act quicker.
thanks Tish. Wasn't my idea. i was just passing along what the guy said because it made sense to me and seemed like a quicker and more reasonable solution. i will see that guy again monday and let you all know if he has made any traction with that idea.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
^ Brian, my honest takeaway to the article is that we are fucked in one way or another for the next year and a half. On one hand it is the health crisis aspect. On the other hand it is the economic fallout aspect. They'll both be present on some level.
I'm more concerned about health issues than economic issues, b, but that fact is, we can't change overnight how we procure the things that keep us going- our food, water, clothing, housing, medicine. We can't have everyone stop working for 18 months and expect people to survive. I don't listen to what Trump says because... well, for obvious reasons, haha!... so I'm more interested in the science approach, and I think Osterholm is one of the best experts on that level. So yeah, I think you're right, I think the reality is that this situation is fucked not matter what we do. But I think we have to remember that most of us will get through this, that this virus will end and we will move on. Hopefully we will learn enough from this to not lessen the chances of something like this happening again.
Loved the Rogan interview, and I'm not typically a JRE fan.
Thanks for posting the op-ed. sobering stuff, but a good read about the dilemma.
You're welcome, Merkin. Glad you found it useful.
That article presents some hard realities. My wife and I are staying home and isolating. We are over 65 and at risk and the bookstore is a non-essential business. Staying closed will hurt us financially, maybe even kill the business. But we have to help flatten the curve by staying home- it's the right thing to do. But as the article points out, because of the way our society is structured- not everyone can stay home and have the world keep on going. Somebody has to grow and distribute food, work in health care, keep the grocery stores, gas stations and pharmacies running, and so forth. So these are difficult choices we have to make.
On another forum I was told this kind of information is too hopeless sounding. I surely don't mean to be spreading doom and gloom. But I also believe our best chance of getting through this thing as well as possible is by understanding and accepting the realities that lie before us and relying on good science to best inform the decisions we make.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
The National Board of Health and Welfare has now developed new guidelines for who should receive care first. This is partly about the principle of human dignity, that is, prioritization must not be based on social situation or status, age, disability or whether the person himself contributed to his condition. Measures should be taken first for those most in need.
- We can end up in a situation where we need to prioritize, says Thomas Lindén at the authority at today's press conference.
The National Board of Health also addresses the need for protective equipment for healthcare personnel.
- The urgent need for protective equipment is assured, but there is still no long-term endurance, says Taha Alexandersson.
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
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I am for it.
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
+1. I especially like the idea of cutting out red tape for efficiency.
Facing covid-19 reality: A national lockdown is no cure
Michael T. Osterholm is regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. Mark Olshaker is a writer and documentary filmmaker. They are the authors of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs.”
Covid-19 will go away eventually in one of two ways. Either we will develop a vaccine to prevent it, or the virus will burn itself out as the spread of infection comes to confer a form of herd immunity on the population. Neither of those possibilities will occur quickly.
It is time to face reality. We urgently need a unified national strategy, one informed by the best science about stopping diseases like covid-19 and from virus control efforts in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as realistic projections of the human and economic toll of any option we pursue. Our way of life cannot survive an indefinite series of short-term action plans.
We have to ask what we hope to accomplish with limited self-quarantines and shelter-in-place directives. Clearly, as one objective, we seek to “flatten the curve” in an effort to keep our already overburdened health-care system from being overrun. The ability of our hospitals to continue providing care to a flood of covid-19 patients, while still treating the other patients they normally have, all the while protecting health-care professionals, will be a major factor in reducing bad outcomes for victims of the coronavirus and other illnesses as well.
But how do we actually accomplish this? What happens after a several-week moratorium on normal activity? Does the president, governor or mayor declare another? While California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has made a courageous move by locking down his state, how long can 40 million California residents be kept at home? And will it be long enough to make a significant difference?
China and Italy have imposed near-draconian lockdowns in an effort to halt the spread of covid-19. But how and when will these two “test” nations return to normal life? And when they do, will there be a major second wave of cases? If that happens, should they simply “rinse and repeat”?
As a country, with momentum building for a possible national shutdown directive, we are on the verge of ringing a giant bell that we don’t know how to un-ring.
Yet we don’t, for example, have good data on the real impact of closing public and private K-12 schools on the spread of covid-19. Hong Kong and Singapore, advanced city-states that experienced the outbreak early, both attempted to respond quickly and efficiently. Hong Kong closed schools; Singapore did not, and there was hardly any difference in the rate of transmission. The second-order effect of shutting schools is that hardest hit will be those least able to afford to miss work to care for homebound children. And what of our health professionals with children? Add to that firefighters, police officers, utility workers, delivery drivers and other essential personnel, and the magnitude of the problem is clear.
The Imperial College of London has produced a sobering study on possible covid-19 strategies. Three scenarios compare the outcomes of flattening the curve (mitigation), suppression (long-term quarantine) and letting the virus take its natural course (doing nothing), modeling the levels of disease and death for each course. The stark takeaway: Significantly reducing the number of serious illnesses and deaths would require a near-total lockdown until an effective vaccine is available, probably at least 18 months from now.
Consider the effect of shutting down offices, schools, transportation systems, restaurants, hotels, stores, theaters, concert halls, sporting events and other venues indefinitely and leaving all of their workers unemployed and on the public dole. The likely result would be not just a depression but a complete economic breakdown, with countless permanently lost jobs, long before a vaccine is ready or natural immunity takes hold. We can’t have everyone stay home and still produce and distribute the basics needed to sustain life and fight the disease.
We are in uncharted territory. But the best alternative will probably entail letting those at low risk for serious disease continue to work, keep business and manufacturing operating, and “run” society, while at the same time advising higher-risk individuals to protect themselves through physical distancing and ramping up our health-care capacity as aggressively as possible. With this battle plan, we could gradually build up immunity without destroying the financial structure on which our lives are based.
Very soon, we may have to acknowledge that attempting to stretch out cases in the hopes of keeping the curve reasonably flat is unworkable. Then, as we wait for either our scientific or natural redeemer to come, we can start trying to put things as back to normal as we can — doing our best to protect those at high risk, but acknowledging that people will get sick, some will die, and our health-care system is going to be overrun to a great extent no matter what we do.
There is no black-or-white option here. We will have to figure out what shade of gray we can accept and apply. We will get through this, but hard and painful choices are inescapable.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
If only some of those things could happen - crazy times.
I agree, it feels a little spooky but a huge impact of the efficiency I would imagine.
I'm more concerned about health issues than economic issues, b, but that fact is, we can't change overnight how we procure the things that keep us going- our food, water, clothing, housing, medicine. We can't have everyone stop working for 18 months and expect people to survive. I don't listen to what Trump says because... well, for obvious reasons, haha!... so I'm more interested in the science approach, and I think Osterholm is one of the best experts on that level. So yeah, I think you're right, I think the reality is that this situation is fucked not matter what we do. But I think we have to remember that most of us will get through this, that this virus will end and we will move on. Hopefully we will learn enough from this to not lessen the chances of something like this happening again.
the answer is from Nick Cave..
The Red Hand Files has always been a space in which I could offer dubious existential notions, religious meditations, unsound advice, millennial senilities and general annoyances, while hopefully simultaneously extending a little human kindness and compassion. However, these sorts of ruminations came from a more privileged and fortunate time, when we had the oxygen to muse and to play. Things have changed, we are faced with a common enemy — impartial, unfeeling and of immeasurable magnitude — and it is no longer a time for abstractions. Now is the time to be cautious with our words, our opinions.
A friend called our new world ‘a ghost ship’ — and maybe she is right. She has recently lost someone dear to her and recognises acutely the premonitory feeling of a world about to be shattered — and that we will need to put ourselves back together again, not only personally, but societally. In time we will be given the opportunity to either contract around the old version of ourselves and our world — insular, self-interested and tribalistic — or understand the connectedness and commonality of all humans, everywhere. In isolation, we will be presented with our essence — of what we are personally and what we are as a society. We will be asked to decide what we want to preserve about our world and ourselves, and what we want to discard.
Eventually these questions will become of acute significance, but they are not for now. Now is a time to listen to those in more informed positions and to follow instructions, as difficult as that may be, as we step into the unprecedented unknowable. We should be careful about the noises we make — especially those with a public voice — and should not pretend to know what we do not. From within the clamour and tonnage of information and misinformation, of opinions and counter-opinions, of blame-games and grim prophecy and the most panic-inducing version of ‘Imagine’ ever recorded, emerges a simple message — wash your hands and (if you can) stay at home.
Love, Nick
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Thanks for that, incredible. The "perfect health" part was the best, for me.
I saw these the other day too :
Haha! These are great!
Beautiful Nick!
my favorites are NWA, fleetwood mac, and the beatles.
did not want to quote it and take up an entire page of the thread, haha..
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."