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Well, they could soon decide to take in tourists from functioning countries. How many people would travel there if the virus was under control? If you rely on tourism you aren't making a better decision to have the virus running rampant.

This is nonsense. Throw a stone on a map and you could find countries that have done this without either.

well I don't see any reason we couldn't track the same progress as new york which is closer to 1%. They are up to 50k tests per day when IL has hit a ceiling of around 30k (which I still think is just failure to promote that they are free and open without referral so fewer are trying to get tested. I'd like Illinois to be closer to around 250 new cases per day by mid july. 700 in a day is too much.

I think I agree with everyone on the nursing homes. NYC/NJ forcing back still positive but recovered patients into nursing homes caused a surge of elderly death. But the only real way it seems to protect nursing homes is to crush the virus in the general population. But the PPE shortage didn't help either and even though it's better now Illinois assisted living homes still are facing shortages.

illinois is creeping down but feels like a plateau after such incredible progress in early june. 715 cases today but after a surge of tests (29331 tests so 2.4% pos rate). Chicago continues to drop precipitously in average cases. But needs to stay stable until contact tracing begins in earnest in late July.

man 60 games really hits home when you see 31-29 as your final record. Every game is going to be insane. I worry for pitchers because 60 games isn't that far off from it just being a huge tournament.

This is why I would like to see the state suspend their requirements on PE (I can't remember if it's only high school with the 4 year req). That frees up a huge space to use for additional lunch room but also frees up additional personnel. But I don't know that an individual school district could make that decision.

If you would have told me before the season started that the Sox would be tied for first place with 60 games left I’d have been ecstatic.

Yeah, I think this is good guidance, but definitely a lot of flexibility. I think it makes most sense to provide staggered schedules, but that runs into its recommendations to keep child care in mind. It's also just going to be a hell of a job for teachers, admins, and students. Bare minimum here is masks, distance, and a good amount of supplies. But there is a lot that can be deployed within it that I hope is done, like having teachers move classrooms instead of kids where possible. It was very thoughtful and they clearly took the feedback into account. But some of these recommendations run into each other and I feel for the school districts that are more over crowded.

Is the detailed guidance beyond what the governor released today?

plenty of people would like to know that cutting down on talking decreases likelihood of spread. People that may have answered a call may keep it quiet. And if a homeless person is asleep they likely aren't talking so not sure the issue there. There's also plenty of self-regulation by people on trains. There's a difference between making something mandatory (no masks on cars) and communicating to the public to decrease talking so that people will be healthier. They didn't make handwashing mandatory either.

Surprised here.

I think an important takeaway from the taipei and japan metros is talking, also airplanes themselves. I really wish chicago would have promoted being quiet on the train cars. Low-hanging fruit like that I don't know why they avoid it. What's the worst that can happen advocating that? So lunch time seems like a particularly dangerous time, and illinois should seriously consider suspending PE requirements. But there's ways around that. Cut lunch time in half, half half as many students at a time to eat spread apart for one part of lunch and then move to gymnasium or something for study. And hopefully with classes can add some plastic protection at ends of desks. I'd also hope they'll consider delaying school until the second week of september where air conditioning would be less necessary.

It really isn't clear at all that especially younger kids are strong transmitters of the disease. They are certainly capable of it, but the younger they are there has been studies that the viral load may be lower. Which is different than typical spread where their filthy hands get you sick. And I disagree that high schoolers won't wear masks. Israel is really the only place I've seen where schools reopening had spread. Southsideirish is right, this is a significant effect on education. Kids are falling behind from the shut down.

illinois had one of those days that essentially nothing changed but because less people got tested it feels like a nice drop.

I don’t see the players as being in a very strong position for a grievance anymore, am pretty surprised at them turning this down.

IL numbers have started to plateau, but tests have stayed really high last 5 days some of the biggest dips saw drops in tests. Chicago numbers look great however, I hope this isn’t growth in the rest of the state

Yikes. 4K reported by Florida. That only happened once in Illinois on its first big testing day.

meh day, 27k tests (good), 2.5% positive, 650+ new cases. Hopefully next week we are consistently under 500/day.

I'm not gonna lie. I think the boras stuff is B.S., I think he's being used as a bogeyman in leaks.

kind of a big caveat.

One of my prejudices around them for a while was I felt like our Yaris (hatchback) actually had better storage space than many compact suvs just because the trunk was a straight-up cube - no obstruction completely flat on the ground. Definitely with something like the Rav-4 it felt like we had more ability to stuff the yaris up with stuff, even many sedans felt like they had more ability than some of the compact ones. But yeah that's not the case with all of them, and holy crap the full size ones are going from a sardine can to a costco jar of beans.

I was this way and still am this way (i don't know anything nor car much beyond "ooh this is fast and my head doesn't hit the ceiling when I hit a bump unlike my 2008 toyota yaris"), but we got a 2017 volvo xc90 with our car settlement and gotta tell ya, much nicer having some space in a car, a nice quiet ride, and some subtle nice stuff to treat the driver to. I used to hate SUVs, and never expected something this nice. Daddington island changes stuff.

hoping he was signed for $1. $20k pays for several more employees through july.

pretty sweet, looks like halo, but I imagine WRs, RBs and Qbs will revolt if they have to wear something with sightlines that diminished.