Lonnie Utah

Dang.

Over how many seasons?

All reputable dealerships do this all the time now. The hardest part is arranging transportation back to your home state. We bought a vehicle in Wisconsin and had it shipped to Utah. In some ways it was easier than dealing with the run around at a local dealer.

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Get you a glass of whiskey or something

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I think that's the problem....

All it does is give 1/2 the teams in the league an extra loss. In a world where the committee has shown that overall wins matter more than anything, I'm not sure this is a smart move.

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We sellout a stadium and have spent three quarters of a billion dollars on the football program in the past decade for a team that hasn't won a conference championship since the 1960s

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Big Whoop.

So does South Carolina and they've NEVER won ANYTHING.

Oh, and Willy B seats close to 20K more people than Memorial Stadium.

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A biologist of what? No offense, but a tangential relationship with the subject doesn’t instill a lot of confidence. My wife is a veterinarian. She has a tangential relationship with zoonotic diseases as well. But that doesn’t make her an expert on Hantavirus

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I don't think you're a jerk for pressing the issue. I think it's smart to vet people on the depth and breadth where their knowledge on a subject they talk about it. That being said, I'd say my knowledge of it is slightly above average but way, Way, WAY below anything approaching expert.

I have an advanced degree as well and deal generally with public health, but don't do real "science" anymore nor have i in quite a while. I've had all the microbiology/physiology/anatomy classes you'd expect as part of my training. This includes the appropriate subset of training on how viruses work/reproduce/spread as part of that curriculum (including the differences between DNA, RNA and reverse transcriptase viruses, but that was a LONG time ago and much of that knowledge has been erased from my brain). As i said, I'm no expert on hantavirus, but I have had more education in an advanced setting that a vast majority of the general population. I know enough about it to know it's a nasty disease. But I make no claims to be an expert on this or any virus.

I think your assessment of what happened during covid is fair. What's also fair is I never said if I would or wouldn't take a vaccine. Honestly i don't know at this point because there isn't enough information about the disease nor what a vaccine would look like. My ONLY statement is hantavirus, at least the N. American strain I'm most familar with, is not something you want to fool around with.

Now I might be hyper sensitive because one of my cohorts in grad school died in the 1990s from what they suspected was hantavirus we (his friends) never officially heard. They might have told his family, but they never shared that info with us if they did. When the CDC flies in from Atlanta and takes tissue samples of your lungs during an autopsy, it's serious. We never heard the official cause of death, but he went from a very healthy young person to intensive care to the funeral home in just over a week.

Please don't underestimate this disease because of our shared botched experience(s) dealing with covid. That was all I'm really trying to say.

Hantavirus is nothing to be trifled with.

:cheers: