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The rate of infection can be slowed but probably not stopped given that there are tens of thousands who have been diagnosed so far and the fact that CV-19 is highly contagious. This makes me think that the measures we put in place to flatten the curve may do that but may also lengthen the curve considerably. That could mean this shit will be with us for years not months, unless and until a vaccine is invented. That also does not bode well for baseball this year. I am laughing at all the people that whined about Bernie's socialist agenda but now want government to bail out their business or pay them unemployment. The rationale for helping a low income person who cannot make ends meet is not much different than the rationale for bailing out businesses when they need help.

And 1200 isnt going to save anyone home or job. The jobs are gone. This is going to be the third batch of corporate welfare in 15 years; these same lobbyist are the same who shame people for having safety net benefits. The system is broken and needs heavy reworking. Throwing 1/3rd of the GDP at the problem with very little revenue income following the massive tax cuts is a disaster. Companies didnt reinvest in their employees or systems/r&d last time - they just did massive stock buy backs and rebuys -and got rich off low interest government loans. Convenient capitalism. The same party and lobby who has endlessly pushed to roll back all regulations in the name of "free market capitalism" is the same group of people that put their handout first and take the majority of the distribution. Breaking news: trickle down economics is fake and 100% does not work. Period. End of story.

What is really amazing is that this is something that had to be fought for.

Reacting to the changing work place is important. My school district announced they would be paying our substitutes while we were distance learning. That made me very happy.

How do the super-quarantined 25% of society get food? How do we get to the pharmacy? How do you deal with the huge numbers of seemingly healthier people who still come down with severe cases? You still dramatically overwhelm the hospitals. How do businesses deal with the huge numbers of people out of work for weeks/months who came down with severe cases of the illness? Are you ok with hundreds of thousands of deaths because it's not millions? What about the 30 year old with cancer who can't get a hospital bed for the next 6 months? Or the 40 year old who has a heart attack? Bad timing, shame?

Nobody was pushing Kasich ever, and you'd be referring to the Lieberman idea in 2008, Lieberman was a democrat along with Gore in 2000.

Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.

Gotta love how some of the media is trying to say LeBron is the MVP when Anthony Davis is the one leading the Lakers in PPG, RPG, SPG BPG, Win Shares/48 min, BPM and PER. Also better than LeBron in FG% FT% TS%. Currently does help having another top 5 player in the game eh? Should be Giannis in a landslide. Hell, I'd put Doncic ahead of LeBron too.

It sounds like the stupidity (ie greediness) of canceling the draft is over. It also sounds like they will move it back a couple weeks to the end of June. I think that's a mistake but oh well. There's no perfect solution to this mess but I woud rather it screw up one draft instead of two.

To some Obamacare is the worst thing that has ever happened to the United States and it will always remain that way.

The election will be a major uproar regardless of polling. I will shelter in place Nov 3.

This is ridiculous.

There are better candidates in my view, but less fit than Trump? LOL, come on man. And I don't just mean my view, look at how he matches up with Trump in all the key states. Also one of my main points is that Dems and Indies won't show up because they love the candidate - notice I didn't even mention Biden. It's that they despise Trump. And even though people certainly liked Obama, it was despising everything Obama and Clinton are/were that in great part drove people to Trump. In our current society, anger wins over love in politics.

Cuomo, right now, would win in a landslide.

able to crush Yeti coolers with his refurbished arm able to slash jerseys barehanded He's angry pitcher!

There’s one other factor. Joe Biden. That guy is somehow less fit to be President than Trump. It’s incredible. People see it. People that really hate Trump don’t see it. But smart, calm folks see it. Cuomo would be better

Not a chance. He was already teetering before this hit. First, keep in mind the Presidential election is really about just 8 or 9 states (PA, FL, OH, MI, WI, MN, IA, NV, AZ), and remember he really has to win all of them (or all but one depending on the one). All the other states are locked in already. Now look at how he's doing in those states today - he's down big in all but two, one of them (OH) he's pretty strong. The polls have error in them you say? Of course they do. So don't take them at face value, compare them on trend. Look where he his now versus November of 2016. He won by a whisker in 2016 and he's collapsed back in support in almost every state in contention for this cycle. Second, there is a crisis curve when it comes to Presidential support. Typically when a crisis hits, very shortly after, support for the President spikes up, no matter who the President is. Then, after some months of seeing the effects, they settle back. Now look at Trump's approval ratings in the past two weeks. They didn't spike, but didn't go down either - they are really in the same place they were. So best case for him, his numbers are inelastic to events, which takes me up to my first point. Worst case for Trump, he gets the slide down, and will be in an even worse position. Third and finally, this race will come down (in my view) to one thing - turnout among Democrats and Independents. Why? Because Republicans turn out reliably anyway, cycle after cycle. Democrats and independents don't. This is something the left has always struggled with. They didn't show up in 2016 because it looked like the race between two evils to a lot of people. This time? Look at the 2018 midterms. There is a deep anger among those not very conservative, against Trump. It drove huge turnout in 2018, and boom, blue wave. If the left and center are still angry in November 2020 (and I'd bet they will be), they will show up in much larger numbers. And then not only does Trump lose, he loses big. Feel free to call me on this in November. This is my guess. I could be wrong, but I feel pretty good about it. Trump's chances in November are less than 20%.

well this is bleak.

Is anyone else seeing an uptick in "busy work" at work? Damn, it's like my athletic department opened a file of "if we have time lets . . ." projects.

Duh socialism is for corporations. Bumpkins don't get this.

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I know this is the last thing on anyone else's mind but I'm both morbidly fascinated and terrified how the small to mid level music industry is going to come back from this. Baseball is going to bounce back. I'm not sure something like the Metro will.

Instead of expanded UI maybe, just maybe, what we could do is pay people a livable wage that allows them to save for times of hardship. Crazy town thoughts. Instead we'll continue to excuse away 4 trillion more in QE because it's not "my money" and bailouts that turned into buybacks, as well as fake trickle down economics, further depressing the wage gap and government dependency. The system is broken; throwing trillions at a broken system will likely just break something else. Until there is real change, all your doing is kicking the can down the road to the next bailout.

Chicago's full year GDP in 2018 was estimated at $650 billion. $350 billion is half of all business in Chicago. You're right it's not enough to survive the full year. It's enough for small businesses to survive a month or two. If we don't contain this thing in the first step because we insist on reopening on Easter...then this won't be the last batch of money that needs passed.

potentially good news outta NY

That kid sounds like an ideal candidate for the expanded unemployment benefits.

No, they're supposed to pay their employees using these funds so that their employees don't lose their homes, cars, health insurance (which may be particularly important). And on the others, I said this before about student loans. Who the F*** cares if bailing out an overleveraged company keeps them in business too long and it's terribly unfair? So is throwing 50 employees off their health insurance and having them lose their homes during a pandemic. It's this or you suspend all rent payments, all utility payments, shut everything else down. Either you print money so people can pay for those services, or you make them free.

The idea is you just keep paying people to sit at home even if your business is closed via this "loan" that you won't actually be expected to pay back

How are you not seeing that by requiring businesses to pay employees...they're supporting the employees?

I'm not going to spend all day going back and forth on this; businesses needed assistance reopening and etc when the market returned and the demand normalized. People needed assistance holding over until then. This bailout will not keep those businesses afloat. I know companies bleeding 2 million a week that generate about 125 million a year in revenues. There margins are small. The government is going to pay AP owed from prior to shut down? They're going to pay insurance renewals for the next 12 months for a company? This isn't as simple as we'll leave the lights on for you. Many small businesses in Chicago just paid property taxes and it's already a slow time of year. LOANS are not revenue. This is much more intricate than you are portraying it. Unemployment will approach 20% and it's because theres a demand shock. The government needed to support these businesses when it was time to reopen and assure no one lost their business because of this and support the people until then. They didnt need to tell the businesses to keep their employees to receive assistance; keep them with no business to actually execute.

What? If you have no revenue, and then take out a loan you then pay your staff and liabilities with that loan, and if you do that without layoffs you don't have to pay the loan. They have an option to hire back people by a certain date to be eligible if they did do furloughs.

There's a $17B provision that seems to have been written specifically to bail out Boeing, who has spent >75% of their free cash flow in recent years on stock buybacks and recently said they didn't actually need a bailout if it came with strings attached. The UI expansion, especially the parts to cover self-employed, contractors, and people quitting jobs for COVID-related illness or caregiving is really really good (and should be made permanent).

Perfect...I can dump the Andrew Romines, Cheslor Cuthberts, Ross Detwilers of the world.

The bill went from crap to very good in 2 days, and another phase is going to pass. Schumer did very good.

The entire bill was not the checks. It included a huge expansion of UI benefits which provided states benefits + $600/week. It expanded the qualifications for UI to include self employed and contractors, who will get a fully fed funded amount since states/employers can't fund that. They are getting 1/2 state amt + $600. So if you are laid off, you are getting very near your full amount, plus the check. UI is delayed but should be faster than end of may for many. Small businesses can apply for SBA loans and re-hire staff to get things like rent/utilities/payroll provided by gov't. So it's not just a check .

Very good that support was added for those coming from self-employment/contractor work. Feds picking up full bill (since states do not pay that out) at a level that will keep people afloat.

Can't wait to find out how much money of this stimulus is allocated to the -ESSENTIAL- cruise industry. Where would we all be now if not for all of these metal typhoid mary's weren't floating around the ocean, docking in international waters and setting up offshore shell companies to avoid paying taxes.

Let's hope they learned something and dont keep trying to throw the ball through a wall everytime. That's just too much stress on the arm.

:23 struck out his future teammate (Encarnacion).

I think the only hope for sports until we have a vaccine is MAYBE games without fans. I would say this season is over. But maybe next season could start in June with no fans. No chance for NBA, NHL the rest of this season and next (seasons start during flu season). College football season is out of the question unless it's deemed safe with no fans. College basketball season will be wiped out in 2020-21, hiopefully 21-22 will be played maybe with no fans. Just my takes.

Apparently all we have to do is mention a pitcher as a White Sox now and he needs TJ surgery.

Probably will still miss time even if whole season is cancelled, some come back after 12 months but average is like 15-18 months, sometimes even more. More likely timeline for him is like after all star break 2021.

Perfect FA acquisition target. Fits timeline, lowered cost/risk, expertise in organization dealing with numerous TJ recoveries...

What planet do you live on? In what way is the media majority NOT right wing? At the end of the day news media companies make their money selling to advertisers, and anything that upsets those people will be censored. Maybe you and I have a different opinion of what "right wing" is because I prefer to use the international context and by that standard both political parties in the US are right of center, with the GOP being radical right.

Its nice to be optimistic. But when the person is attacking people who are giving legitimate medical information, Im not going to give them a pass about "hope."

My point was this is another failed "what about"ism effort to try to excuse the President's irresponsible actions by falsely attributing them to someone else.

You realize he's the President of the United States and the President endorsing a medication untested for a condition that is causing panic is going to cause people to take that drug immediately without regard for whether or not they need it or have other issues? Apparently not.

Do you ever get tired of overreacting, apologizing, being mature for 13 minutes, overreacting, apologizing and then repeating that cycle over and over?

Any candidate willing to keep Boylen on should mean disqualification. Can anyone really think anyone outside of GarPax and the Reinsdorfs,think anyone capable of being an NBA GM, let alone a good one, thinks Jim Boylen is the guy to lead them to championships?