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What is even more sad, the EU really is reigned by a number of various countries and still managed through it better, vs. the US, which yes, has 50 states, but collectively under one federal government. Sometimes I just wonder - what if, at the very least, Trump preached the US of masks from the start (or at least once we shut down and CDC revised its recommendation). That one item - could have been the difference of us being on the same path as the EU vs. being the dumpster fire we are today (we will still survive as a country - but more people will have lost their lives (and our economy will be more impacted) all because of that one action in particular.

Well timed - I was just coming in here to say I moved all of those posts to the CoronaVirus thread that is focused on that topic.

This & lets have a mandatory federal mask order in place.

I love the Rivian truck (also the SUV they are developing looks awesome too).

Yeah - This was my reason to be skeptical. I get it and I personally debate, is it a sacrifice I just need to make or if I'm a lower risk, am I better waiting and observing. Its kind of scary how much we are rushing this through (and I am sure they are being as careful as can be and we need to rush it through - but you just never know what LT effects could come up). And I am no anti-vaccer. I get really irritated at people who don't vaccinate (and maybe I should be mad at myself for thinking like this).

Do you understand why some may not get vaccinated or at least not right away?

Yeah - I meant next time they got infected.

Would be curious - is the NBA also doing full antibody testing (I would think at a minimum teams would want to get a good perspective of who may have immunity - albeit who knows how long it lasts). Also would be curious, if you got it initially and it was asymptomatic, does that mean the next team you get it, it would also be or not.

Does this mean active infection or is this an antibody test?

Yeah - I would hope if antibodies break down that it starts being more like a common cold when you are re-infected.

It’s like a pox party but where you all get COVID.

Fair point Kyle & great reminder - lets get back on topic. We are going to have some baseball!!!

This is why we will never see eye to eye on politics. I will not ever point anything squarely on one particular side vs. the other. Woe is me, it is always entirely the other sides fault, etc. Not to mention this approach does nothing but alienate the entire country. It is this exact mentality that got us in this situation to begin with (and that mentality has been leveraged by both sides).

When I am referring to swinging far left, I am specifically referring to post Trump. I'm not referring to Obama who, in my opinion, was a relatively moderate democrat. What I would give to have Obama in office right now. Are there aspects of Obama's policies I disagreed with, absolutely, but was he a good leader and a solid human being who wanted, in his views, what was best for our country, absolutely. I feel that way about pretty much every president during my lifetime (Republican & Democrat), the lone exception is the current president.

I think what he is saying is that he is assuming you don't have any underlying conditions in professional athletes and thus he is saying that 99.9% of ballplayers would survive. I will caveat this is probably not a bad guess, but obviously we don't have data to come to this approach. I would also say I guarantee there are baseball players who have underlying conditions, whether heart disease or high blood pressure, etc. But in general, a ballplayer should be in as low risk of a bracket as possible (from a health perspective), albeit a higher risk perspective in terms of risk of getting the virus.

I've always said he's a pathetic leader, I've also said the left attacked him for everything he did, vs. focus on the big things that mattered that a dynamic was created that a broader swath of the right could actually believe what Trump says when he leverages the liberal media and the far left conspiracy theory. That in and of itself was a massive failure of the democratic party and the left which swung so far the other direction they indirectly created a larger pocket than they ever expected which would blindly follow Trump (which has always amazed me - just look at every post I've pretty much made on Trump). In the past, he said lots of stupid stuff on CoronaVirus, but it felt more like him trying to say things to detract from the fact that they just couldn't get as much done as they could have or should have. In this case, it really officially sounds like they have totally given up, which I guess as I type this, I don't really know what is worse...neither is good but I always say leadership is a two way street and there is just so little leadership to go around politics these days. Everyone is just using everything to feast on others for their own damn agenda vs. the true good of the people.

So we really are just going to stop testing and identifying who is positive? Is this really what our great nation has came to. We are just going to bury our heads in the sand and give up. I can't get over how significantly the US has failed relative to the vast majority of developed countries we historically claimed to be superior to. Unbelievable and just sad. Even if we get lucky and the ignore it and test less strategy works...it will only because of sheer luck of the virus going away. It will not because of any actual skill or strategic insights, it is just because we have demonstrated a clear inability as a nation to come together and actually respond to challenging circumstances. Instead we have decided that politics matter more than what is right.

This.

What did he confirm? That he is ready to play and expects to be on the opening day roster while ultimately serving as the closer during the Sox miraculous 2020 world series championship run!

So what does this mean? Was this a way for kind of everyone to agree in a somewhat amicable way, without directly agreeing? It kind of seems like everyone almost decided lets just go back to the basics with a couple exceptions and play ball. We can't keep doing anything else, so owners, you do that and players can't be that upset (since it lines up with the initial terms) and owners ultimately aren't that far off from what they more recently negotiated (other than they get to keep all of the playoff revenue - but without expanded playoffs which would have been an avenue for them to recoup a bit of revenue).

No - It was a shot out to a different rule being applied to Ken Griffey Sr. having his son (Ken Griffey Jr) on the field vs. Craig Nettles, who was allowed to have his son on the field. The directive came straight from Steinbrenner himself. Was back when Griffey Jr. was a kid but rightfully drove a hatred for all things Yankees. The article spells it out in good detail.

I don't know - if you clean the stadium and just have fans super spread out across the whole stadium, it seems super feasible. The hard part is probably the inefficiency of the concession stands (since you literally are using the entire ballpark to cater to 8K fans. You also presumably would need to be pretty strict in terms of people actually staying in their assigned seats, etc. In some ways, it might be awesome, because you have massive amount of space to yourself vs. being crammed at a game. While crowded/sell out games are fun because of the crowd noise, I also very much enjoy being able to go to a ballgame and be able to spread out and not be super crammed/packed in.

I get it - it is still click bait and masses will look at that headline and reach potentially a grossly inaccurate conclusion or at very least open article with a negative bias when reading it. I get it they want clicks - but I’d also tell you that isn’t what news and the media is supposed to be about.

Someone else could have said creates new opportunities for investors...with some caveat around risks. The entire headline has a completely slanted negative tone and is utter garbage. There are a lot of investments in a 401K portfolio that can carry similar risks to that of a PE type of investment. We can go ahead and have a conversation as to what makes sense for individual investors (more flexibility vs. less) but that headline is flat out fishing for clicks and bad journalism.

Kind of a loaded headline.