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Even if you accepted that no other country is comparable to America, and that no other outbreak was comparable to this, the idea that you can't criticize the president of the united states for not doing a good enough job at something novel and new is not compelling. The federal gov't is good at scaling up and mobilizing production that makes coordinating nationally a lot easier than by state. The US approach has been incredibly water-fall like. It first had to build out medical capacity and protective gear then it built out testing then it is now building out tracing and just now has the tsa starting to do prevention with temperature checks an forcing mask wearing. This stuff was happening all at once in other countries that have been more successful. Alaska has had a comprehensive tracing system due to TB to its advantage and has done exceedingly well. NOLA had good amounts of testing early on and bent its curve earlier. But state by state they were competing with other countries purchases and slowing everything down. For the last century the US public health infrastructure has been so good at not just preventing things in the US, but assisting at preventing outbreaks from occurring. Now the US response was at best average compared to other countries instead of world-leading. You could ask why that is, or you could say that you are being mean. Or worse - that some unelected people with much less information at their disposal than the president of the united states didn't know exactly what to do in february so therefore nobody is allowed to say that the president misstepped.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-18/vaccine-from-moderna-shows-early-signs-of-viral-immune-response?sref=vuYGislZ Nice hopeful news but info from pharma CEOs on early results will be overly optimistic (and even if it wasn't there is so much still left to do). But better than "the results were trash"

I like Sarah Lang’s tweets, I’d give her a break. You guys may have noticed there is no baseball currently.

Another good day for IL. 20k+ tests, 1700 cases, 8.5% positive rate.

I’m not sure the way it is quantified indicates winners. It’s basically the biggest star trades in history I guess. Kind of a weird way to think about the trades since it just puts career WAR, not WAR while on team traded to.

Another good day. 2088 new cases, 23k tested. 9% positive rate.

At that point they also were only testing people that were symptomatic and not even all of them, just those seriously enough to be near hospitalization.

Unless they are doing something like mixing serological testing in with new tests, they had a nice amount of new testing put online. The % positive has stayed stable, which is only at 5%. if that starts moving toward and above 10% that will be the bigger sign of things getting out of control.

Chicago has some different rules which are stricter and may override, but yes I think we are finally on our way.

oh my gosh, what a wonderful way to end the week in illinois. 26,565 tests run (!) 2,432 cases 9.2% positive rate

ding ding ding.

Hmm

Save us...um...big tobacco https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-15/cigarette-maker-s-coronavirus-vaccine-poised-for-human-tests?sref=vuYGislZ

Soooo..how many 5th rounders do we see going for between 21-50k?

Tough to say. We may give our kids some time with their grandparents before going back to daycare since after that seems unlikely. but definitely need some time with friends just likely to stick to outdoors.

Yes this is correct. It’s not hoarding though. Hard to build up that capacity in weeks.

Pritzker says Chicago on pace to move to phase 3 by 5/29. Here is the run down article on that if you are curious: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-pritzker-plan-reopen-illinois-20200506-erfvitdovffmzd7ativx4hj57q-htmlstory.html

I am in general very pro player. I think the players positioning is getting better, the first "no salary cap!" positioning was idiotic. Players have a harder time since any one of hundreds can break off and say something dumb, while owners know from years not to speak ever. But, I think it's harder this time to just take the "owners signed the agreement in march, can't negotiate!". Clearly things are way worse than I think many anticipated when everything canceled. The loss of revenue you are talking about is not something that happens without everyone feeling it, though it could very well be short term. It is an outlier, and I think the way to bridge that while allowing positive or negative changes is a year of revenue sharing (though matched to typical % of players salaries +1/2%) Yeah, the owners are billionaires, but here's a good illustration of the reality in action. Bu-whah!? You are [redacted: millionaire] OWNER! You can't just keep paying your employees! You are ignoring rent!? Just pay with your millions! edit: well apologies to Patty Light here, I figured he had more than a cup of coffee. Soooo...not a millionaire What do you think will happen in FA next offseason if players "win" this? A lot of the problem is manfred sucks. You can see silver in the NBA meeting with players constantly, making sure they have a voice. Manfred just tries to plop his shit on everyone and make them feel like a zero sum game rather than something the league needs to get through with everyone as close to whole as possible.

well no such luck with keeping consistently good news. 22.5k tests 3300 positives 14% Still overall nice trend with lots of more tests online but really hope we can start openign more places to allow quarantining away from family.

I mean david robinson getting shown up against the other big men of his era is kinda his thing. And yeah, that's a clip. I'm sure he'd get embarrassed a few times. He'd certainly get scored on. But he just needs to slow him down enough, and the lakers would be at an overall disadvantage defensively.

Could Draymond do enough to contain shaq to allow the superior offensive lineup to stay on the floor for a good chunk of the game? Yes.

Well if we were all going to be tested as much as baseball players, other restrictions would be unneccessary.

or there's very little new info out, and so there is a herd mentality. Sorry not buying at all the "sox need a catcher in their system" logic, and then backing into "sox always draft college". There's little new info on players, there's no "tracking where the scouts are", so we are left with heuristics like that.

good stuff on travel procedure into HK.

Not sure you could pick a player I’d want less than Bailey.