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Greg gregged the shit out of this thread

And then we have this waiting for us at the destination

None of my favorite restaurants decided to open for seating. I just glanced over the San Antonio restaurants and it seemed like more touristy places near Riverwalk decided to open. I'm not in the business but I wonder if 25% seating works for lower margin neighborhood joints.

The wars were really just the easiest, most easily comprehendable examples. Not only in terms of lives, but in terms of all around damage. Slavery obviously is as well and is the original sin of the US. And its culmination was the Civil War. It is just too bad that the baptism of fire that was the civil war didn't completely purge the traces of that sin from our country. People were willing to fight and die for the rights of people to own people. Some citizens of the United States no longer wanted to be part of the United States so they could own people. Slavery always had the chance to undo the United States. The country had been on that collision course ever since the revolution. It wasn't just a crisis for America. It was a crime against humanity. That, whether you define it as slavery or as the Civil War, is clearly the biggest crisis to face these United States.

I don't agree that this is the biggest crisis in American history, but by the time it's all said and done (including a second wave), it's not hard to see more Americans dying from COVID-19 than in the wars you mentioned. Especially if the country re-opens prematurely, which seems likely. Moreover, I'm surprised you only mentioned wars. I think a better example would've been African-American slavery, even if it wasn't a single "moment", but I guess it depends on how you interpret the question.

This in not hyperbole in the least. Even if things quiet down in the summer, it is predicted that things will get bad again in the fall. Things are tense already and will worsen if we need to shut down again. And it will take more time for the economy to recover. The people who have dismissing this crisis are the mopes on Fox News. Oh, yes, it is just like the flu. Or Bill O'Reilly saying most of the people dying on their last legs anyway. Or Trump saying he had things under control when he didn't. There is another thing this crisis has demonstrated: Many can't go through even relatively short periods of unemployment without needing real assistance. There are too many working hard but living paycheck to paycheck because of wage stagnation. And real wages have not increased for decades. There is also a great deal of anger out there. Some protestors have guns. They are the minority, but don't think there isn't a real chance for violence. And I can understand that. If you don't have money and there is no end in sight, you're going to get angry. And we know there won't be a vaccine for another year. Opening up won't solve that problem. The crisis is exposing the cracks and polarization in our society. No, I am not using hyperbole. That belongs to the people who think that over 60,000 deaths are not a big deal because people are on their last legs anyway.

Here is the article https://blogs.fangraphs.com/top-38-prospects-chicago-white-sox/ 1. Robert 2. Kopech 3. Vaughn 4. Madrigal Robert and kopech get 60s, vaughn and madrigal 55s, no other 50+ prospects. Depth has suffered from graduations and injuries/underperformance but the top4 are as good as any other system still.

Well, Spicoli did need a haircut ....

Now look at how many the Sixers have: https://www.nba.com/sixers/team/staff-directory Imagine if Dunn, WCJ, and Lauri had been given a proper staff.

Maryland has the National Guard guarding their stockpile of Covid 19 tests they bought from South Korea in a secret location. They are afraid the Feds will take them. Jared wants the tests for his stockpile. Why are we pitting state vs. state vs fed government? This isn't the Apprentice.

Haven't been on this board in a while. But decided to check in as a temperature check. Like getting a balanced perspective from different groups of people - co workers, friends, small town friends, finance friends, etc. Reduced down - people are starting to get real antsy. We're in the "are we there yet?" phase. This is a cross country trip from Chicago to LA and we're in Kansas. There's about to be a blown tire, an engine blowout and many more issues along the way. By all accounts - buckle up.

To me Donald is all about shortcuts, not brilliance. It's easy to campaign by stoking people's fears about minorities taking over. Donald was born on 3B and made his way back to 2B. He routinely gives three different versions of events and seems to get away with it. Presently he wants to claim he was on top of CV early but that China somehow deceived us. That sigh of relief from his cult is for the black guy being gone.

Fear-based motivation is LAZY and psychologically damaging.

In South Korea they opened churches with assigned seating. Maybe they try same as yours. It will allow them to do tracing better afterwards if someone gets sick.

Thanks for your post. I feel for your situation in all that you outlined here. All of that sucks big time. I am sorry you are going through troubles and pray you and yours will be OK. Your first three paragraphs all are heartbreaking. Sorry. Thanks for the offer. I do stress that my moaning and groaning is because I feel like a lot of people don't understand we are going from being the most spoiled people in the history of humanity and it's difficult to go from having everything to being told we must stay inside. We must do this. Must do that. I feel as if local government are being jerks about it. Your problems are way worse than mine at this time. I don't personally see the problem if I express disgust at my situation on a message board. I feel mental health is important (or was important) and now people laugh and say "suck it up." Two months ago, only the rarest of the rare sucked it up. It's hard to go from a totally selfish society to immediately wanting to obey bossy government officials.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/

You keep jumping all over the place. There is always a place for one of the greatest players in nba history. And im pretty sure forcing Giannis to take 15ft+ jumpers all night is a recipe for success.