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I just hope illinois uptick in testing is picking up people it was missing prior. But then we are at another 2 weeks of this song and dance before we know if it's working. We have to start opening up places for people to quarantine without family.

This doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.

illinois cases growing again. 15k tests, 3100 new cases. Positive rate was dipping with more tests, now back to where it was. Nothing changes, 20% positive rate this entire month. I have no idea if it's spreading in places it wasn't before, not changing at all in chicago, what. But with everyone staying home this thing is at one person infecting one other person. They need to figure something out that's different.

Your wife shaved her head to go out?

FYI if anyone needs one in Chicagoland or knows of someone who does: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-coronavirus-chicago-area-mask-giveaways-list-20200430-6t66tjw2pfcrzmqvakusrj7oi4-story.html

In South Korea they opened churches with assigned seating. Maybe they try same as yours. It will allow them to do tracing better afterwards if someone gets sick.

There are a lot more people now. This will not pass the civil war's devastation on that front and hopefully nothing ever will. The Spanish Flu killed 650,000 people in the US with about 1/3rd of the population. Hopefully we won't even surpass the raw numbers. But at same proportion of the population that would be around 1.65 MM people. Lets hope we don't get anywhere near either.

today's illinois numbers are annoying to me. I have to wonder if it is time they make the declaration california did where all can get a test that want them.

We don't really know what the effects will be yet. America chose to allow UI benefits be its mechanism for now and that may end up being foolish. But more than half on unemployment are making more than they did on their jobs when this money can get out. That is different from the great depression, where it didn't exist until 1935, and it didn't pay people more. And in the great depression, it had a fed that didn't provide enough money.

The europeans will be able to thank the Fed.

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.

This has been discussed before: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200429000724 ”Reinfections” were false positives initially or patients who never officially cleared it from system.

Well, we are at 14k tests again. We are at 2k new cases again. Very frustrated at how illinois has been unable to bend the curve downward.

I think with Kukoc on the floor teams would A) pick and roll him to death and most guards would eat him up on switches B) Make him guard a stretch forward 25 feet from the rim where most all can blow by him and create a rotation His closeouts have to do with playing close to forwards who can now, like him, shoot the 3. But maybe he'd be as doncic had he come over at 21 and pace being what it is. Luka sucks defensively. He just seems a lot stiffer and more like a better shooting mirotic.

You think the only player too quick for Kukoc is 2010 Derrick Rose?

It's not really the same question anymore because it isn't even about being able to guard the 4s as much as how easy it is for teams to get favorable mismatches. Even if Kukoc was overpowered he at least had length. Length is still a big asset, but if you aren't quick enough to close out with it or keep a player from driving past you it's not that helpful. OTOH Kukoc was really smart as all the bulls were, so he again would be a good player. I just don't think he'd be the best player on a team very often. He'd almost certainly be the best player on the bulls right now though.

Right but you are only thinking about it offensively. Great, Tony could run the ball up the floor sometimes and create. He'd be good at that. He also would have to be able to handle guards on pick and rolls and switch on to wings, generally always be dealing with faster players with less ability to send them into a clogged lane like the 90s. He would be bad at that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/gilead-remdesivir-trial-for-covid-19-has-met-primary-endpoint

Yeah because trolls is not a disney/marvel movie, it's a marginal franchise. I mean, Mulan is almost certainly going to be a massive flop so they may take $100mm domestic.

It's positionless if you can guard multiple positions. I doubt he'd be able to keep anyone in front of him on the perimeter and he'd be pick and rolled to death. He'd no doubt fit better offensively in today's era but I don't know that he'd be an all-star.

uh hard disagree. A lot harder to play d when you can't just grab the player you are guardings jersey and push them with your hand constantly.

but the question with Trolls is whether the movie theaters are necessary to that success. I wonder what they think of their decision to put Onward on disney plus compared to on demand only like trolls.

I don't know, kukoc was talented offensively but I don't think he could hang defensively. He may very well have still been a 6th man spark plug.

The good news is I almost never get past the first book of a series so dune is tailor made for my habits.

yeah. all movie theatres will be amazon factories. I really like going to the movies, the lack of distraction and full sound. But it feels more and more like that will be like owning vinyl soon. Some independent theatres holding shop in olde town squares. But the big AMC box theaters, the writing was already on the wall but this is definitely going to hurt it.