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I like all the top 5 qbs despite I'm sure 3 of them probably being terrible, but after that I like Davis Mills and Mond. Trask does nothing for me, personally.

oh joy

So they were late to move to signing deals with vaccine makers, late to approve, and then have invested next to nothing to help the supply chain and have been entirely dependent on AZ to do all of that, and also haven't even approved many of their suppliers. There is a reason UK wasn't in the same place. There's a reason the US wasn't in the same place. There's no excuse for a bloc with their resources.

They screwed themselves, and in typical fashion are trying to regulate their way out of it.

Garbage

Well, kudos for really committing to some darkhorses.

I like

I can't like, imagine how good it will feel to sit in a seat at the park and hear crowd noise and the crack of the bat again. That is such a distinct, big atmosphere and there is nothing remotely like that feeling for the last year or so.

hahaha Man I know Aaron Gordon shoots 3s ata 40% rate but if I'm Boston I feel like Tatum/Brown/Sabonis >>> Tatum/Brown/Gordon, but maybe it would be too easy to clog up.

Of the vaccine resistant groups, I find this one to be the least worrisome. One - if anything it's the opposite of vaccine hesitancy. Two - there actually should be a decent ability to have a choice in pretty short order, and really it's harder to get J&J now than to even get an appt in general Three - Anecdotally, I know several friends who want to get J&J because they hate needles so much. Push comes to shove, they'd take what they can get, but to me there isn't much of a difference between the two, and there may be more needle-hesitant than J&J-hesitant. J&J will be great for that group that is the general pop, I don't really blame someone in the high-risk groups or 65+ for getting the mRNA vaccines that were just so ridiculously good. It's also just easy to talk about preference when you actually don't have a choice yet. Look at how we start every offseason saying stuff like "ugh if we have to settle for Keuchel or Odorizzi" in September then all the top free agents go off board and we sign one and everyone is like "OH MY GOD WE LANDED KEUCHEL HE ROCKS". And he did rock, but people are pickier in hypothetical circumstances.

I uh, wouldn't do that deal without protections

I did see some big companies were hoping to help with the immunization verification thing https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/big-tech-helps-set-standards-for-covid-19-vaccine-verification-11616151614

I saw somewhere Brogdon may be available, which would be ideal

Fulmer worked with Driveline, who Katz is not associated with. https://theathletic.com/822743/2019/02/19/why-carson-fulmer-trained-at-driveline-this-offseason-to-reclaim-his-college-dominance/

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/22/biden-administration-frets-j-j-may-miss-vaccine-goal-477602 "Biden administration officials are increasingly concerned Johnson & Johnson may not deliver the 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccine it promised would be available by the end of this month, according to three senior administration officials. The full tranche of vaccine Johnson & Johnson committed in February to delivering may not be ready to ship until the second or third week of April, the officials said, potentially complicating preparations for states expecting millions of J&J shots." There was an initial wave of mass vaccination 24 hour places who just used the new J&J shots since the other places had been aligned for a two-shot operation. I haven't seen any recently and the stats looked flat. I'm not surprised, but the vaccine makers have done such a good job getting close to production goals that this is a big disappointment as it seemed for most of last week that May 1st for all eligibility seemed conservative.

No I think the outdoor stuff is fine. but Sox park at 100% capacity you'll have lower risk than like the Vic at 20% capacity. But, whatever I don't really mind, simpler policies are easier.

Were the white sox aware of his 2018 stats?

also Shams is reporting bulls are listening on Lauri

Yes

Good, still funny to me they are treating indoor and outdoor as equal.

illinois's state allocation for this week doesn't look much different than last week, which is a bummer. I was hoping a lot more J&J vaccine, who said they were still on track for 20 million before march to be delivered. Guess it's like, dropping at 11:59 on 3/31.

Yeah, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of nobody teaching it because nobody wanting to learn it and nobody learning it because nobody teaches it. But, this stuff inevitably figures itself out when they are forced to figure it out.

Maybe not but they have to balance being able to attack him as an RFA in the offseason. I don't think Sato + a 2 gets it done, but I also don't think it's going to be a particularly large package.

Ha, that's actually amazing. I keep picturing 20 years from now where the top paid employee at JP Morgan is going to be this like 75 year old programmer who is the only one that knows all of the systems that they keep throwing more and more money at to stay out of retirement.

This stuff is pretty hard. And yeah, it's bad that a lot of government software runs on COBOL, but there's still an pretty extraordinarily high number of banking functions running on COBOL too, and those are private firms with plenty of need and capital to improve that. Federalism also makes it harder. Overall, just letting a bunch of places figure out the online scheduling is probably one of the smarter decisions (probably was just the absence of a decision, but I'll still give credit)