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The vaccination status thing may have been a bit of personal bias peeking through, so I apologize for that. The point I was trying (unsuccessfully) to make is that refusal to take any sort of precautions isn't okay. Don't want to be vaccinated? As much as I may disagree with that point of view, that's an individual's choice. Being unvaccinated and acting like we're not in the middle of a pandemic (ie. refusing to wear a mask), not okay. Best analogy I've come up with so far is drunk driving- drinking is okay, driving is okay, but your right to drive is taken away if you've been drinking, because you're endangering the lives of people around you. As far as the pseudoscience homeopathy thing, I think it's fairly common for the parents to see criminal charges if their child dies because the parents used healing crystals instead of taking the kid to a doctor. I'm not a parent or a DCFS agent, though, so that assumption isn't based on much more than (hopefully not misplaced) optimism and what I've seen on the internet. No, the irony of using this as an argument against misinformation is certainly not lost on me.

The part you're missing is that by choosing to be unvaccinated, or choosing to spew misinformation, a person is violating those very rights of everyone they interact with. Liberty (as in "pursuit of life, liberty, and property") doesn't mean you're allowed to do whatever you want, otherwise we wouldn't have laws. It means you're allowed to do whatever you want unless it infringes upon someone else's rights to life/liberty/property. Being told that they're not allowed to tell others that horse dewormer is a viable alternative to seeing a medical professional is not a violation of a person's rights as an American citizen, because it was never within their rights to endanger others in the first place. See also: my previous comments on yelling "fire" in a movie theater, or "bomb" in an airport. Perfectly acceptable to use those words in most circumstances, and feel free to shout them at home, but intentionally doing so in a situation where it would create mass panic and could result in people being trampled? Not okay. Also, legacygt.com is still completely unaffiliated with the United States government, and is, as such, unbound by the Constitution, and has every right to dictate what can (or cannot) be posted on the site (within the bounds of Federal law). It's not communism, or a constitutional republic, or any other form of government- it's just the terms of use.

And is it? The ancient Greeks and Egyptians were able to figure out that the earth is round with basically just some sticks, their eyeballs, and their brains, and anyone who watched a ship's mast appear or disappear as it sailed over the horizon knew it too. Problem was, facts weren't good enough for certain people, so the general consensus was "the earth is flat, or you're a heretic- your call." Eventually, it was accepted that the earth was round, but then it was "the earth is the center of the universe, or you're a heretic." The difference here is that throughout the course of most peoples' everyday lives, being gaslit into believing the earth is flat won't kill them (with the notable exception of that one guy who built a rocket in his backyard to try to prove it). Everyone is welcome to have whatever opinions they'd like to have, but if those opinions are objectively false and could lead to someone dying or being disabled, they should probably expect to have their opportunities to express those opinions limited. I've probably already said it in this thread, but the best explanation I ever got was this: "your rights end where my nose begins."

Couple things: 1) thank you for your service. 2) you're free to say what you want, within limits- ie. can't yell "fire" in a theater, or "bomb" in an airport. 3) legacygt.com isn't in any way associated with the federal government, so 1A protections are irrelevant.

Fair warning: if you're going to continue making claims that are unsubstantiated at best, or patently false at worst, don't be surprised if some of your posts start getting the "red beast" treatment.

The best and worst part about the internet is that anyone can use it. Makes it hard to separate fact from fiction sometimes, especially for folks who may have grown up in a time when you had to go to the library and check out a book or read an encyclopedia to learn something, and may be wired to be a little more trusting of things they see online because of it. My first reaction to anything I read online is always to assume it's BS until I can prove otherwise, but I'm young enough to have been at the leading edge of "Wikipedia isn't a valid source" in school. I'm also old enough to have been able to get away with just referencing the sites cited on a Wikipedia page, so I'm usually good for at least one layer of source-diving...

Looks like your link didn't survive being copied and pasted, there's enough missing out of the middle that WebMD can't find the page.

You saying that jogged my memory, I almost forgot FLlegacy documented the process. https://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/engine-pull-walk-thru-errr-talk-thru-258809.html?t=258809

Looks like that depends- if the terminal numbers (or at least 1-2 of them) aren't labeled on the connector, I'd go based on wire color.

Civil discourse- who'd'a thunk it'd be that simple?

The Maverick is a front-wheel drive platform with AWD optionally scabbed on, and the Ranger is rear-wheel drive, so the transmissions would be completely different animals. Having no actual knowledge of how the two compare, I'm guessing that the Maverick is probably very similar to the baby Bronco, so it's a lot more likely that we'll see the Maverick hybrid power train show up in that. I don't know offhand what Ford has for RWD hybrid power trains in other platforms, but those would probably be easier to adapt. They might also be waiting to see how the F-150 Lightning does, maybe they'll skip the hybrid step altogether.

6 months would be next weekend for me, so I guess we'll see if they open it up to the general public between now and then. I'm out in the shop every now and again, maybe I'll try to pass myself off as a manufacturing worker...

He and his wife were just infected with a disease that's killed what, 740,000 people in this country so far, by someone who had the same mindset as you- his response was a lot more polite than mine would be, if I found myself in his shoes. Speaking of "classy", kindly check the "Chinese virus" crap at the door, please and thank you.

Now how the heck did I manage that? I think Firefox tried to be helpful by copying it as a link or something...

Try this: http://www.reddit.com/r/hermancainaward

I've had that same issue since I bought the car 7 years ago- never really paid it much mind, since I can probably count the times I've parked on an actual hill (not just a mild flat-lander hill) on one hand. From looking at the factory service manual and the parts breakdown, it doesn't look like that check valve is available separate from the booster, so odds of replacing just the check valve aren't all that great. Not really adding much, I know, but I'll be keeping an eye on this thread to see where it ends up.

I mean, you know that, and I know that, but it seems like there are still some folks out there who don't. Where I was ultimately going with that statement is that stats showing low ICU bed occupancy during the initial lockdown 18 months ago don't refute reports of full ICUs today. Of course there are going to be fewer people filling up the ICU if we're doing the exact thing that prevents people from ending up in the ICU.

So what you're saying is lockdowns flattened the curve?

You're not too far off- the yearly flu shot is a booster for the latest variants of the 1918 Spanish Flu virus. Every transmission of a virus is an opportunity to mutate, and the flu shot is based on known mutations at the time. Also, healthy folks and kids are dying from covid, too, especially the delta variant, so that "pre-existing conditions" line doesn't really work anymore. Had we taken this seriously at the beginning, our situation would have been substantially less terrible. Instead, some of us insisted that our freedumbs were more important than the lives and livelihoods of those around us, and well, here we are. The FDA issued emergency approval for some of the vaccines, which required clinical trials. The Pfizer vaccine has since been fully approved, following the FDA's established approval process, no shortcuts allowed. As far as multiple shots are concerned, 1) see your point above about new strains, and 2) as I understand it, the human body isn't all that great at long-term immunity to coronaviruses in general, and benefits greatly from booster shots. Good call on avoiding Fox and CNN, but getting some form of information from a trusted source would be a good idea. AP, Reuters, NPR, etc.- primary sources would be even better. Not saying this as a personal attack, but it seems as though some of your opinions could stand to be influenced by facts, rather than by what you see around you. As far as your last point, that's the crux of the problem. The reason for the whole "flatten the curve" thing was to keep our healthcare infrastructure from being overwhelmed. Right now, 99% (give or take a couple tenths) of covid patients in ICU beds are unvaccinated, and ICUs are full. Around me (about 5 minutes outside of rural NE WI), for example, there are about 2 available ICU beds (was actually 2 about a week ago, I'm sure that's changed)- covid has had a fairly minimal impact around here, too, so I'd imagine that areas that are being hit harder are in worse shape. If I were to have a heart attack or take my leg off with a chainsaw or something, they'd probably have put me in a helicopter and hope I survive the flight to Madison, because there's no room to treat me here. Hospitals nationwide are packed to the gills with anti-vaxxers, and their selfishness and/or willful ignorance is killing people. If they were just killing themselves, I'd be willing to live and let die, but they're not.

Social media is not a valid information source. Sort of like Wikipedia, if you want to go there for a synopsis, that's cool, but check out the sources before you take it as fact. For example, your point about Robert Malone "inventing the mRNA process"- he co-authored a paper about a study where mRNA was packaged into little lipid particles and inserted into a cell, which eventually led to the idea of mRNA-based vaccination. Suggesting that co-authoring that paper makes him an expert on vaccines is like suggesting that anyone who knows how to turn on a computer knows how to write code- just because he had a hand in the process way upstream, doesn't mean he knows everything. If those folks on YouTube are citing peer-reviewed scientifically-sound studies, then by all means, drop a link and I'll take a look. If they're repeating as fact something that some random person on the internet made up, that's another story.

Here's the quote that site cherry-picked from the official PHS document they referenced: ...and here's the rest of the paragraph, which they conveniently omitted: Amazing what you might learn if you look for primary sources. Also, opinion pieces, YouTube videos, and podcasts are NOT primary sources, please stop posting them.

Your point assumes that vaccination followed shortly by death (from COVID or anything else) is the same as dying from the vaccine. The CDC website you're referencing explicitly states that the publicly-available data (as opposed to the refined dataset not available to the general public, which includes updates based on medical records and corrections made during follow-up) cannot be used to draw the conclusion you reached, specifically because it doesn't (and, in fact, makes no effort to) separate "died from the vaccine" from "died when his car got hit by a train 12 hours after he got vaccinated". As far as what that form you get when you get your shot says, the only thing mentioned (on mine, anyway) other than general side effects is a remote chance of severe allergic reaction, and the symptoms described generally describe anaphylaxis. The form says to call 911 if you have a severe reaction, and call your doctor if you have lingering symptoms. It also, conveniently enough, includes a link where a person can go to self-report to VAERS. The fact that the dataset is built from self-reported records submitted by the general public is enough to tell me that it shouldn't be (and can't be) used to draw any scientifically-accurate conclusions. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that I don't think anyone has any adverse reactions, and that it's all sunshine and rainbows, but the number of people who would have a severe anaphylactic reaction to saline solution with mRNA floating around in it is going to be roughly the same as the number of people who would react poorly to saline with inactivated influenza in it, since the trigger for that reaction is the injection itself and not what's in the serum. My guess (as a mechanical engineer, so take this with a grain of salt) is that the true ratio of deaths to doses administered is probably right about the same for flu shots and COVID shots. Might see a slight uptick in 2020 and 2021 on account of the hospitals being over capacity and unable to treat everyone, but I'd wager you'd need a lot of digits before the decimal point to be able to see that in the data, and it would probably affect both categories equally.

Oh, I have- I'm just enough of a deluded optimist (and yes, I am a Cubs fan, how'd you guess?) that I think I can get through to people with logic and reason if I try hard enough. That reminds me of a saying on a coffee mug my grandma had: "never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig". Too bad I'm not a coffee drinker, otherwise maybe I would have paid more attention to that advice...

Please start citing primary sources, or I'm going to start deleting posts again. Also, did you read the disclaimer, or just click "agree"? tl;dr- you can't accurately reach the conclusions you're claiming from this data alone.

Or even worse, when their smell and taste come back, things that used to taste good now taste awful. Also, Idiocracy is good, but it's not quite an accurate documentary. The dumb people in that movie knew they were dumb, and actually listened to the smart people. Totally unrealistic.