Tom Cowan

The easiest way to handle this would be that they take the same damage that they would if they were thrown straight down, just a few segments later.

Hoo boy....
 
We crossed the 300 million case number a while ago...and at this point, we can barely see it in the rear view mirror.
According to WorldOMeters...over 18 million new cases worldwide *in the last week*.  
Yeah...highest we got before was a tick over 900,000 new cases a day.  Right now it's pushing 3 million.
 
I never got measles.  I vaguely remember getting the vaccine tho, as a kid.  I did get mumps...hadda be around 5 or 6, I'm pretty sure, because I remember which house we were in.  There was just NO QUESTION, tho, back then...we stayed home, we isolated.  End of story.  
 
If you want a reminder...Ancestry.com used to offer a trial period, or even pay for it for a bit.  Chase down your family tree.  When you're getting back into the 18th and 19th centuries...start looking at how many of the kids never made it to their teens.  It can be quite the eye-opener.  Or look at things like life expectancy estimates back then.  Most of em exclude deaths under the age of 2, in that even today, the risks are higher in that period, and they'd skew the data badly.  The biggest changes in life expectancy come when the childhood diseases stop being a massive threat, I believe.  You can also search cause of death statistics.
 
Unfortunately, the anti-science, anti-vax crowd won't care.  

So it has to go through you? You know a gauntlet? Sorry couldn’t resist. Good luck!

The IHA book has been written and submitted, just waiting for it to go through all the hoops for publishing. 

"The Community"
Never intended to become a name, just like the classic name for the Mafia: "La Cosa Nostra" is literally just the phrase "our thing", used to refer obscurely to the crime organisation you're running. In the case of "The Community", it was a case of people involved always providing themselves with plausible deniability and even a veneer of respectability, as they do things on behalf of "The Community".
 
They don't expect you to pay for protection or anything. They simply prefer you to be a generous donor, providing the community with "necessary funding". They don't try to recruit impressionable young mutants or metahumans, to serve as lieutenants of a street gang. No, they simply welcome them to the super-powered community. And if it ends up with them implicated for, or even involved in, some initial crimes, that's just more evidence that the rest of the world is out to get people like us, and only people in The Community really have your back. The super-"heroes"? They're all just sell-outs.

I regret some of the things I said last night, because I came up with better insults this morning.

Your school/district probably don’t know what they’re doing either. 

Bring me fish you will

Likewise, this past year has sadly shown that some folks aren't trolling -- they really are that ignorant!

Just overheard my father-in-law telling his sister that I made oyster stew better than his mom.

The Tiananmen massacre occurred in 1989. Hong Kong was returned to Chinese control in 1997. That's why the monument was allowed to go up, because the PRC government had no say in the matter at the time. That it's coming down now is just one more sign of how the Chinese government's control of the city has grown. Other such signs preceded this, more are coming.