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It honestly never occurred to me that The Walking Dead might have started because boomers couldn't get their haircuts

Hey Greg can you explain to me how a governor shutting down the economy (which best reflects his/her administration, knowing that unemployment will go through the roof) indicates that they are trying to grab power? And also, how does this grabbed power exceed their current power, and how does that power benefit the governor? Thanks

Sorry Caulfield, I wish u the best. You are a good guy I bet. My frustration with this situation is some of these governors appear way too power hungry, including the one in Kansas who won't let me get my hair cut. I feel like there needs to be a balance here. The economic impact of this suggests people soon will be dying. Deaths of hunger and being homeless because of layoffs are real. We must compromise and put people back to work. And these power hungry governors need to shut the bleep up with their ORDERS and COMMANDS. I'll proably be arrested before this is all over cause I'm not going to wear a mask at all times. So I'll probably be thrown in jail. This situation makes me understand why so many people want to keep their guns. I never would be comfortable with a gun but I can see why people would feel the need to have one with possible chaos coming if not this pandemic but the next. Take care Caulfield. Hope you pass the tests so you don't get roughed up by that government there.

Yes, the economy is in shambles, the worst it has been in decades. But if you open up too soon, the deaths will mount up even more, and you will have to shut down again. And the purpose of the stimulus was to help people, imperfect and inadequate as that is. Any opening up will have to be measured. People have to realize this is pandemic, and even if we open up, we will have to do it with some care. Sending people back into infested meat packing plants Is not the answer. How about this? How about Trump using the full power of the federal government to help instead of dreaming of some fucking rally with 25,000? Wouldn't that be refreshing for a change?

Are you honestly trying to tell me that your mental health depends on a f@#$ing haircut? That is a kick in the nuts to those who actually struggle with mental health. You should be ashamed of a statement like this.

I want to throw some of the opposite out. While the federal government has been often terrible here in the places i think it can make the biggest impact (purchasing power, borrowing) - State and local governments have been doing quite well in addressing the pandemic, including some very ambitious and amazing work to get additional PPE and testing set-up. - The American people have answered the call, doing a very good job as a whole of staying inside. We can get upset all we want about the isolated stories, but in the times i've had to drive around - chicago is empty. My dad is in raleigh. Had a march of hundreds being idiots - but raleigh is empty. My mom is in SC, should be heart of the antagonistic audience right? Her town is empty. People have been sewing their own masks, buying medical workers lunches, donating to causes. - The federal reserve has been doing everything possible and incredibly dynamic to address anything within its power to ensure this does not only not become a financial crisis, but work to get money into hands of organizations that typically don't interact with the Fed. You also have the fed pushing HARD on the fed government to inject more money to cover the losses, ruining arguments that worry about borrowing now. - Congress deployed trillions within a month. It isn't enough, and could have been designed better, but in 2008 it took a year to fully respond and it was much less robust. It has taken a while to get money out, but that isn't just a US problem. - Tech companies did a pretty remarkable job to protect their workers and sound alarms of the severity before many, and may have saved many in california. Connectivity has been remarkable despite the surge. As a whole, companies have had priorities in right place, and it's fine to argue against those that have not. It's not enough and people should demand more because more can be given, a lot more in terms of resources to help people and businesses recover. obviously, the admin has been garbage and antagonistic to much of this work, but a lot of this country has mobilized very positively.

Starve and die with long hair or get a gun -- it's your choice. We need you out there helping to spread the virus. Without volunteers like you the virus will wither and die. Even in the US there are still vast areas with no reported cases. That's unacceptable. We need people infected and moving around. This is your destiny. This is your moment in time. Go get that hair cut. Someone has to have an underground barbershop in Kansas. Resist the man and his attempt to stop this virus. Take care greg775 and thank you for always taking on the toughest points of view.

There’s way too much whining about not being able to get haircuts, meat from the store, Starbucks coffee and then there is anger about layoffs, protests and the divide of those who want to open the economy and those who want to re-open after the orders end. There’s a lot of fearmongering out there. It’s annoying how people don’t consider alternatives like cutting their own hair, making meatless meals, making their own meals and getting a walk or run in if there’s a shelter in place in their state. I can understand the argument about Sweden’s way of combating the virus, but I am concerned about the elderly, people in their 60s, and a second wave of the virus with another lockdown, giving people more to b**** about. There needs to be a gradual reopening rather than some politicians in southern Illinois trying to re-open the state based on technicalities. Both parties could work together on a fair reopening strategy in phases than opening everything up at once. There’s too many variables in play and too much not known to go back to how things were, which some people seem to want to do immediately.

the only way to fix the problem is to get Ignore Herd Immunity, otherwise the posts slip through and reinfect!

Would this be the wrong time to point out that while I understand the green color behind this post, that the real George Washington utilized mandatory curfews both for soldiers and residents, mandatory vaccines for his troops, no movement orders, and when those didn't work he and his entire Government abandoned Philadelphia (Washington headed for Mount Vernon) for social distancing, all to fight pandemics like smallpox and yellow fever? Because if it is the wrong time, I won't do it.

Getting your haircut isn't mental health Greg, it's vanity. Everything you b**** about, Starbucks, shopping, haircut, vanity. Don't ever try and drop your bullshit in my lap, you have been whining about a haircut since you FOUND OUT ABOUT A SHUTDOWN. you want to talk about insensitive? How is a barber supposed to cut your hair from six feet away? Who is going to cover for a barber if they actually get sick because someone comes in and transmits the virus to them because "AWWW MY HAIR IS LONG IT MAKES MY HEAD HURT". Do you even know a stylist or barber personally? I do. She is fucking petrified of this, she is on meds To treat her chrones disease and she is scared she could be immunocompromised and get covid. but yea, you keep on whining about your hair Greg.

On one hand, you can't get a haircut. On the other hand, healthcare workers will likely be dealing with PTSD from this for years, if not their entire lives. States that opened up early for haircuts will probably have second spikes, burdening those healthcare workers even more. I don't need to link the story of the doctor who died from suicide.

I have to re-convince myself every day that those who are unwilling to listen will one day, eventually, realize the truth of what is happening to their country. Yes, I realize the odds of Greg reading Noam Chomsky are probably 1 in 10,000. Perhaps less. And there’s not going to be any hardcore Trump supporters changing their minds, that much is certain. But it’s worth it to me if just a FEW become more open-minded. I have zero illusions about Joe Biden even being able to reset the world back to November of 2016. I was a high school senior in 1988 back when he first ran and I participated in the Iowa caucus. I didn’t like him then, not do I particularly like him now. But something has to change, eventually. The country can’t keep going on this way and continue to be a shining beacon for the rest of the world, the greatest remaining hope for the future. Maybe it doesn’t matter. That’s fine, too. Next Thursday I have to do the nose swab and nucleic acid test here in Wuhan despite not going outside once since January 20th. Every teacher and student needs to do that before we can all go back to school on May 11th. Then my life will finally return to the new normal and I won’t have nearly as much free time. I will spend an hour each way going back and forth to work. So you can relax and turn your focus to bigger problems in the world than me. Good luck.

I wonder if those tend to be poorer people or POC....

It's to get low-wage workers off of unemployment. If the business is technically open and an employee gets called back, they have no choice - they can't turn down the job just because they're worried about being exposed - if they turn down a job voluntarily they lose their unemployment benefits. So the state saves some money off the top, and if some people who don't matter get sick...

You should get credit for obeying. Just like we all do when we don't run red lights or knock off a liquor store for crack money. We all understand that to feel good you have to look good. In fact it is better to look good than to feel good. I hear Washington actually crossed the Delaware to get a haircut. We should have seen this coming when we allowed those power hungry tyrants to paint stripes on the roads to keep cars apart. I have studied my history, Washington, Jefferson, and those leaders never demanded we stay on one side of a trail. There was freedom. Now they have even put up walls and guardrails to make it even harder to drive where you want. Of course they love making people stay at home. It greatly reduces the amount of money people pay in taxes. Greg775 If I thought for a moment you were actually serious I would tone down the comedy. But this is your act. I actually enjoy how you always find a path to a character that amuses. The haircut things is genius. I'm serious here when I say you really should find an improv class. I think you are a natural.

He doesn't even have to be attacked. He'll just make something up. The worlds biggest victim. Was born into hundreds of millions of dollars, skipped out on the war, dad paid for his degree, went bankrupt several times, and became POTUS when he had 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. The guy can't catch a break.

My mental health revolves around the need to shoot my AK47 into the air randomly. If a bullet comes down and hits someone, too bad, beacuse my mental health.

Dude's should just shave their heads. It's liberating and will grow back.

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.

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.

This is the length states are having to go through to avoid the federal government stealing their supplies.

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.

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. It’s frustrating when you are trapped for months on end in a foreign country...but can’t go home either. Or at least going home doesn’t even guarantee being able to see family members (in assisted living). Or, if you go home, you have to leave your wife and five year old, not knowing if you can ever return. Then, having to guess if Iowa’s political strategy will wipe out July, and if Trump will insult China to the point that the current flight ban on any foreigner into China might actually last into the fall semester (meaning you lose your job, in all likelihood)...then, on top of that, paying thousands of dollars for intl. flights that used to be $800-1200 typically.

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.

I actually enjoy greg775. I'd order the greg greg greg eggs greg greg and eggs if it was on the menu.

Or we need to all self-isolate from them until we find a Greg vaccine.

Been catching up on all these Covid posts and the one thing that still confounds me in this mess is that people still read and respond to Greg. I put him on ignore ages ago but still get snippets when people take his troll bait. His stupidity, whether real or feigned, is beyond baffling.

This is only half rivalry...but seriously, compared to Purdue's "Unfortunately we delayed herd immunity (and didn't kill a few hundred thousand Hoosiers)" statement from their president, or the "There will be football this fall!" that just came out today from Texas A&M, this statement from Indiana's president is so much more spot on. "We don't know what things will look like this fall yet, here are 5 possible things we are planning for, and we will make the best decision we can when we're able to do so" https://president.iu.edu/speeches/statements/2020/04-30-plans-for-restarting-operations.html

what do you think opening restaurants at 25% capacity is going to accomplish other than make someone file for bankruptcy faster? The way they are opening these states isn't going to generate much. How do you shop at a retail store? You can't touch the clothes unless you are buying them. You can't try them on, and you can't return them. And then people will get sick and all of your sitting at home will be for naught. You have to finish the social distancing job, or it's going to get bad again.

What is the point of shaming anyone. A lot of you are ignoring the fact that everyone is being impacted by this...everyone. Some worse than others but wow, some of you aren't willing to empathize with others as well.

So we think it's important for mental health and you are a champion of mental health. Oh that's right, only for certain people? So is mental health important or not? Can you answer? My response is appropriate by the way because you started this "altercation" with your insensitive response. We're offering solutions to business owners troubles. Certain amount of people in the shops, six feet apart at all times, holding masks to face to block transmission. Our solutions don't matter right? Stay in at all costs to the economy and mental health.

I agree. The reality is that people are irrational by nature, and he plays this really well to his advantage. His critics feel great when they criticize him and his supporters. His supporters double down because they feel they and their leader are being unfairly attacked. Thus reinforcing the loop. In essence, by making everything about him, he can move every issue from "how can we solve this problem" to "how can we signal that we are better politically than the other side." Good politics for sure. Good leadership? Well...

He's president of the US. He can be in a mess like this and his base LOVES him. LOVES him. They will fight tooth and nail for him. The loyalty he has created is beyond anything I've seen in my lifetime. He wasn't exaggerating when he said he could shoot someone.

lol numbers are numbers man, this isn't a subjective thing. Sweden's fatality rates is many times higher than the other countries in Scandanavia, and substantially higher than the US rate as well. You can agree or disagree on the approach, but the numbers are there whether you like them or not. It is simply reality. I agree. Certainly it might be the deepest crisis the country has faced in the lifetimes of some younger folks, that is true. But this "ever" thing reflects a very poor understanding of US history.

I spent a lot of my life convinced that Bill Clinton was the most effective con-artist of my lifetime. I now have a new #1.

He's playing to a bigger than we imagine base. I would argue he is the best political strategist in my life time.

Counterpoint: we could have done much, much more and chose not to. Millions will suffer and the damage will last for years because of the choices made over the past 8 weeks and the choices we'll make over the coming months. I don't think we should make excuses because we're a little bit quicker than the woefully inadequate federal response to previous economic disaster that doomed millions to unnecessary suffering. We are still a very long way from doing what we are more than capable of in this country but are simply choosing not to do.

It was the anti-barbershop-fa

Minor leagues are done for the year it sounds like

I have admired her ever since The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

It is time to have some common sense in the current political debate. But you won't get that as long as Trump is in the White House. People are dying by the tens of thousands and whistle dick Jared is talking about all the successes. Why is he even near a position of power? He is not even a functioning adult. And Democrats? It is time to find an alternative to Biden. Instead of endorsements, they should be looking for another nominee. Way to go, Hillary. The American political system is letting us down during the biggest crisis in our history. I don't care about the politics of it. We are up against it. This is bigger than Trump, McConnell or Biden. I am starting to think that McConnell is worse than Trump. That man is corrupt, as corrupt as anyone can be.

I still don't know how anyone can still predict a V shaped recovery. A large portion of these small businesses, if they opened them all up today, are going to go under. They won't get the volume of business they need until there is a vaccine IMO, it's going to be a long, slow recovery, even with all the Fed activity. It is funny, the guy Trump always seems to go after, Powell, is probably the guy Trump owes the most to in trying to fix the damage the adminstration's mistakes caused. And then there is Jared who said everything will be getting close to normal in July, during his victory lap the day the 60,000th US citizen died from this virus that the same people said was shut down months ago.

I have to re-convince myself every day that Caufield isn't just an article posting bot.

Isn't part of that equation also a first round pick, top 50 CF prospect who had gold glove potential as well has had hit pretty darn well in the minors? And the DH had put up close to 9 oWAR in the previous 2 seasons as well (not counting a very injury shortened 05...though I guess that would have to play in as well). I guess my take, is that even now, it is hard to second guess when the organization was so high on Anderson. It is the inclusion of Gio that makes it more questionable. Rowand for Thome should have been about a straight swap. But even that is probably just knowing what he would become in hindsight.

A reporter asked her about Trump singling out certain cities that have many immigrants and she responded with "we don't follow that racist and xenophobic ideology." Same reporter/different reporter went to ask about "Trump has said.." and Lightfoot interrupted by saying "he has said many questionable things in the last 3.5 years."

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Let's put it this way: It's questionable if Shaq or Ewing would have a place in today's NBA. Kukoc there isn't even a question about. If Shaq and Ewing would have a place in today's NBA, they probably wouldn't be getting huge minutes. And when I talk about Shaq, I mean LA Shaq not Orlando Shaq. Orlando Shaq would have a place, it's questionable about LA Shaq. This is coming from one of the biggest Shaq fans as a kid. I liked him as much as I liked Jordan.

Because the owners said so. Owners creative accounting where they don't include parking or concession sales because they are technically provided by outside vendors who coincidentally split the money with the owners. i side with the owners more than any other person on this board but even I don't believe the numbers they throw out there during negotiations.

24/30 = 0.8