Armed Polite Society

That is what I was thinking about.  Does looking only at hospitalized patients really tell you that much?

I find I can often learn quite a bit by how dramatic the claims are from overly specific studies.

WE FOUND THAT COVID IS DRAMATICALLY MORE DEADLY!*



_{* among left-handed redheads named Maury living behind the Wendy's down by the river}

Update on one of Hamas's guests

Kidnapped Shani Louk is dead, her family announces, after 'bone from the base of her skull' is found three weeks after she was abducted by Hamas terrorists and paraded on the back of a truck
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12687753/Kidnapped-Shani-Louk-dead-family-announces-three-weeks-abducted-Hamas-terrorists-Nova-festival-paraded-truck.html

Reportedly her body has been found.
Not sure how this meshes with the report above, maybe the bone from the back of her skull was blown out from her execution.

IDF find the body of Israeli hostage Shani Louk - seven months after she was paraded semi-naked in the back of a truck by Hamas in images that horrified the world
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13430945/Body-Israeli-hostage-Shani-Louk-paraded-semi-naked-truck-Hamas-October-7-IDF.html

My Dad has several longhorn cows.  They also know exactly where their horn tips are and how to use them.  They are very gentle around people.  You can walk up to them and scratch them on the head and feed them pellets.  However, they will use their horns and bodies against each other when trying to get to the pellets my Dad puts out most days.  He tries to be careful in how puts the food out so he is out of the way. 

Even when the issue has nothing to do with it being a Boeing it's all about Boeing.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/boeing-747-400-catches-fire-forced-land-flight-from-indonesia-saudi-arabia

Did that engine go out? 

I have sheep.  A small breed. Like rams top out around 80lbs.  I don't turn my back on him.  No way I'd trust a bull.

And it's not even necessarily meanness (though I think the bull in the link got aggravated). Sometimes it's just playfulness, and even cows are dangerous then.

Just yesterday, I was mowing down a paddock that was starting to seed (the cows won't touch stuff once seed heads form, but will eat the headed grass shortly after cutting it) and pretty much all the cows in the paddock were following me around, and a few of the young heifers were making runs at the tractor, from what I could tell, just for fun, almost like dogs playing. I've seen them do that when I'm in my UTV as well, and again, not out of meanness, but just playfulness. But when the animal weighs as much as a cow, playfulness can be dangerous if you're not protected by a vehicle. Even then, I have areas where T-posts (not flimsy garden posts but the 1/8" steel kind) are set, like the yardage markers on my shooting range, and they have gone through and bent those things at 90deg like they were one of those flexible straws or something. They are powerful animals, even when they don't mean to be.