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Good god

Bears trade up. Conviction. Fired up.

good thread on testing.

Pace and Nagy froze in time when the double doink happened. They are now obsessed with fixing the 2018 bears Achilles heels without realizing the rest of the roster is crumbling around them. Pace knows he’s tied to Nagy and he’s watching a coach in denial rubbing his head saying “if we just had a TE the whole dang thing would work!?”

God this team is in a rut. Garbage decision making.

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I've never heard of a backlog like that in illinois like california posts. Last week we heard that ILL had a breakthrough where a bunch of machines they put into hospitals in early april finally went online (they had been delayed weeks due to lack of technicians and installation errors). Also multiple drive thru testing places opened last week. I don't know how much of private labs illinois even uses to be honest (often the cali backlog comes from quest)

I just think it's interesting that when we test 5000 on a day it's 20%, when we test 13000 its 20%, when its 8k its 20%. But ideally we'd be closer to 20k and we are testing thousands that are just possible cases due to known contact.

also second round on it's a lot cheaper to move up. I don't think they'll have any issues.

Over 2500 cases reported in illinois, a new peak by a lot. The good news is nearly 13000 tests were reported, the first time illinois broke over it's goal in late march of 10k. Amazingly we seem to be at 20% positive rate each day.

there are obviously some players i really would like at 43...but i'd still trade down twice.

the orders buy us time to: - Ramp up testing - Build up medical bed capacity - Build up PPE You are currently at 20% of tests showing as positive. That's missin ga lot and still indicating we are still testing only based on symptoms. When we get down to something like 2-3% ideally then we'll be much better at preventing massive growth. We are currently at 1-2k per day at current levels. If you open up it goes much higher very quickly. By the end of may they expect a decline in those numbers through the build up of PPE ideally into places like plants, groceries, first responders and medical professionals. We are in better shape from where we were in march but not that much better in terms of infrastructure. They added 10k or so beds. But testing at 8k is still not where it needs to be, and ppe is still limited to medical professionals though from my friends anecdotes it has not been rationed among first line workers recently.

The thing with BIden I definitely underestimated two years ago is many many people already feel like they know how he'll lead since he was just a VP during a time many of them supported. So this whole idea of trying to paint him negatively is going to be harder because he has some of the incumbent benefits without the negatives of being able to be campaigned against as a current incumbent.

We were nearly at the point of putting my grandmother with alzheimers in assisted living this year and decided to give them more time per my grandfather. So far I've been lucky with immediate family, because I don't think my dad could survive this. He's near 70 with diabetes and heart disease. It's one of those things where with all of them you are prepared for what's coming for all of them. But I get so sad reading from the families who've had to deal with death during this time. The lack of funeral, the inability to be there. So important to have some feeling of closure and being there at the end for those relationships and just so terrible for them. Basically just talking through the idea that when we deal with the statistics of this, if my dad passed away from it it would be one of those "oh well it's only affecting people with multiple conditions". But dealing with it would be traumatic. Terrible times.

Elizabeth Warrens oldest brother died of coronavirus.

gotta be cool to be the kids of these GMs suddenly getting to listen in to all your dads calls.

lol sorry if not clear I'm watching the ABC feed of the draft which is basically the college gameday crew. Despite some awkward skype lags causing talk overs it's pretty damn slick.

I'm watching ABC but I think they are doing an awesome job.

highly encourage reading this thread from Pritzker. SIP extended through may, but state parks opened up, retail stores allowed curbside service. Few more things, targeted reopening.

1800 new cases in illinois, 9000 tests. We really did improve our testing capacity, still under goal. But yeah, we aren't going under 1k by end of april like I hoped on Monday.

Forgot to mention it was deleted, Cowley did say he heard he was in mix but that they were still interviewing

So hopefully a "jump the gun" report and not just outright false. But @Y2Jimmy0 had a tweet retweeting a report that bulls were closing in on Austin Brown for GM. Admittedly, had never heard of him because a lot of this GM stuff you need to be super inside basketball on. But he's a co-head of CAA, one of the biggest agencies in basketball. Arturas clearly sees himself as the one that will set-up the drafting / ops stuff, and it appears he's looking at a GM for pro personnel and relationships. This would be a super interesting hire on that front. Very exciting.

ugh. Really been a hard week. over 2000 new cases in illinois. The somewhat good news...we had over 9k test. And that is good news, that means it's essentially the same positive rate. And obviously in reality we knew we weren't capturing it all. But this is hard.

That's true, but that was also in 97 when he said that, and then they came back on 1 year deals. Smith said reinsdorf offered that jordan could do that every year if he wanted with everyone getting raises. (Rodman likely would have come back, pippen not so much). I think a modern FO that enabled jordan/phil could have spurred a lasting rebuild/pass the torch moment. But it's also probably true that for the longest michael window, trading pippen after 97 was likely the best move. They would have ended up with mcgrady.

I mean it was an hour long podcast, but I'm responding to the documentary's much more provocative thesis that krause pushed jordan and jackson out because he wanted to rebuild. But smith was criticizing the idea that removing krause and hiring jackson would have worked.