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Right, I get uncomfortable when defending journalism and people lump in CNN/msnbc/etc. We are 4 years away from their hyperventilating coverage of that one plane disappearing. Watching 24 hour news networks for 4 hours a day will not make you smarter. You will get looped each hour and listen to people with provocative, baseless arguments. However, I'll admit when there is actually breaking global news they suddenly find their journalism pants and you see correspondents you didn't know existed with excellent stuff. But reading a full newspaper, especially with rich local sections, will absolutely make you smarter. And you don't have to read the editorials! There isn't a single editorialist at the chicago trib I like, and their editorial board has an almost comical ability to be on the wrong side of everything even while trying to avoid the appearance of opinion, but the paper does great job all in all, with some terrible articles here and there. It's coverage of covid in illinois is incredible, including repurposing the dept. of health daily stats with a data viz center.

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/2020/04/10/its-not-about-debt-or-stock-buybacks-or-whatever-its-about-the-virus/ Let's not fight over who gets what as if we are in a position of scarcity. Just push for faster and more. More and faster.

jeeze the gender spread is getting huge. 72% male. edit: nevermind, when i moved to the visualization it opened it up to all deaths.

1344 new cases, 66 deaths. I'm a bit relieved. I think we are really starting to plateau.

Unfortunately we don't get that data often from illinois. I just bake in a 30% to total cases for hospitalization rate. IL has had decent mortality rates, it would be nice if they were pushed lower rather than just ride the higher # of cases from the last week.

New data out in 20 minutes for illinois. I'm a bit scared for today. Almost hoping any death toll under 100 as a positive.

One thing that's probably attractive is you are essentially building a modern nba org from scratch. The bulls had smallest scouting staff in league, smallest analytics staff. While that sounds bad, I am sure there are a bunch of people in those departments that would love that challenge.

I'm optimistic about Karsinovas. 1) Unlike what we thought just last month, he was not hired to be a GM, he was given VP of basketball operations and is hiring his own GM 2) He really does have a great track record, and the denver f.o. has done excellent for really the 21st century and just never got that truly exceptional player to lead them over the hump in the west, but that is luck. They did everything outside of luck to succeed. 3) He is not coming in as the old school, we know how to do basketball type hire that paxson was and bulls have acted like they are. His background is houston and denver, that's great. I'm still unimpressed with michael reinsdorf, but he did pull the trigger here. 1) It's embarrassing for all involved that paxson and gar have not been fired. Like, guys have some damn integrity and resign! But regardless, if Karsinovas is good, I'd expect forman gone right away, and paxson quietly exit out the backdoor next year. If you leave people in this org to backstab you they will. 2) I dislike their process. No reason to announce you will not go after agents. And while I liked many names, I still did not see that shift that shows the bulls aspire and believe they are the marquee franchise they give lipservice too. No going after actual presidents of successful teams. Specifically seeming to target GMs that succeeded without stars or money, because the bulls still think that the michael jordan era was actually about being scrappy underdogs. 3) Of their initial four targets, 3 just backed out. And then their other interviews are embarrassing. Danny Ferry got fired for talking racist shit about a revered bull in luol deng, a player the bulls nearly killed. Bryan Colangelo resigned out of embarrassment for "his wife" having a burner account talking shit about players. What players want to then join up with that front office in a stars driven league? That's being nice to bryan who absolutely sucked after his dad stopped whispering to him what to do. But, I think Karsinovas is a good hire. I think he can gain power and push the pathetic tendencies of this org to the side. There will be brighter days ahead, I'm sure of.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-illinois-20200409-qusa53emd5avldhzk2l6prc7hi-story.html an excellent rundown of where testing is in Illinois. The trib has been essential.

But on the positive side: - Despite it climbing, I feel confident chicago can meet capacity. We will not become new york. - This:

ugh, still climbing. 1529 new cases. And we seem completely stuck at 5k tests per day. Nearly 500 known deaths. Tough week to get through.

So ... both Singapore and South Korea have shut down in response to a second wave (S Korea not a full shutdown, shut down bars and restaurants). Singapore full shutdown. Both are the right thing to do, and both have avoided mass death on their populations. But yeah...this will not be rolling, and whatever bills pass need to not just be one-offs, they need to literally create triggers to consistently be available so local authorities can act based on whats on the ground.

That's terrible.

You can’t make plans? Of course you can make plans.

It's a sad day. Numbers did not go down, but still on a modest trajectory. But 73 people died, and the deaths over the next week will be terrible. That said, I think Chicago in this first wave has avoided being overrun. That said, we are below the IHME forecast in both beds needed and deaths so far, and mercifully we may be lower on our peak where they had 200+ people die in a day on 4/12. Thinking of all the families who are dealing with grief and the inability to grieve. Shitty day. here is IHME link: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/illinois Here is a screenshot of where illinois is at

We made the inside fabric a different color to know where your mouth was, then storing in a paper bag. Washing often but not every time. I don't have it on while driving, but mostly outside except while running.

There is a lot more noise than I was expecting. But I think the sweet spot is hospitalizations down + 15% or less on percentage positives from the day's testing. Illinois has been noisey, and maybe just false hope, but if it falls today I really think it's the start.

amen. And after a week of games, the thought of none at all will seem painful, not a better solution to the ones who don't want it at all now.

How are we to know that arizona is in fact the correct place to play baseball, and we have instead been playing in fake baseball environments?

This depends how ubiquitous testing can be.

Oh my god this is dumb. People act like Arizona is Mars playing on zero gravity.

Honestly, me too. You are getting to watch the best players in the world play against each other. Yes, fans add stuff. Stadiums add stuff. But put crappy players to play in the best, packed stadium in the world and it's not as important to me as point #1. The idea that not having any of that is better than having this is so strange to me. The players are playing against each other...how is that fake?

I'm going to second the person who said to read the passan report because it really was fascinating and I definitely was missing a lot of the creativity around this (including 7 inning double headers to fit in a 162 season - which is of course interesting because that massively changes how you manage pitchers) But at least for this part, there was discussion of expanded rosters. This is attractive to mlbpa because of service time accrual. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29004498/mlb-union-focused-plan-allow-season-start-early-arizona I have to say, the respect I'd have severely appreciate and respect the players for doing this. It is pretty silly to pair sacrifice with players making hundreds of millions during these times, but separating yourself from your family for potentially 4.5 months is a sacrifice from the player and their partners/parents/etc. A lot of these players probably have very little kids, and while they see them little during regular season, there's a big difference between little and none.

And obviously, those were Illinois numbers not Chicago

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