Balta1701

A serious question from Twitter. Why are flags not at half mast? Or a week/month of mourning?

Laremy Tunsil signed a new deal today, 3 year deal worth $66m. It makes him paid $4 million a year more than any other OL in football, and beatsd Nate Solder's deal by more than $6 million. The market for OL was just reset.

Apparently "finding a way to use this one type of bleach to kill it inside you" is actually a fringe idea that has some group in Florida and former republican candidate Alan Keyes supporting it. They wrote a letter to the President last weekend and got a nice quick endorsement by the President. So, there's already resources out there for people to do "research" by watching a few conspiratorial videos and determining that it's a great idea. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

to be fair, Senator Warren published a Coronavirus response plan on January 28, so...

Yes. But take a look at where we are right now. We have the choice between 2 people with credible allegations against them. 1 of whom didn't react to warnings of a pandemic and still, 6 weeks into this thing, has adamantly refused to organize anything resembling a plan. Everyone who said "sure he's a racist but her emails" and either voted for Trump or did some sort of a protest vote last time voted for where we are right now, an economic and societal disaster. We just didn't know what kind. Ready for the next one?

At least based on last night, there doesn't seem like a lot of teams racing to move up right now.

The Onion is trending because they wrote this a month ago.

I’d be fine with Harris. We cannot give Trumps party a Senate seat.

The young are absolutely carrying it and still dying, just at lower rates. They make great transmitters, as no one is spending tests on them. A group of UT Austin students went to Mexico on spring break and 50 tested positive when they got back. Tests are so rare that 20 year olds usually aren’t the sickest so they don’t get them. one of the interesting things I’ve seen in the past week is that even if it isn’t putting them in the hospital, it seems like the virus damages a bunch of other systems like kidneys and liver and circulatory system. So even the people who have few to no symptoms could have internal damage that takes years off their life down the road.

That is also one reason why we want Warren in the Senate where she is working on legislation. Also important, Massachusetts has a Republican Governor, so if Warren gives up that seat in January then when the Republicans decide that deficits are bad and vaccines shouldn’t go to people who can’t afford them like they did in the last crisis, that vote is huge. Stacy Abrams avoids many of those issues and is probably just as well prepared, although less experienced.

also important is we need a national strategy on these because when our southern states decide the doors are open and they don’t have testing or isolation capacity, they are going to create 5 or 10 more peaks in their own states, and those will be exported along the roads. But since that’s not happening....well...

As is usual you didn’t bother listening to me.

He's the President of the United States. His official public statements should be treated as non-credible ramblings that are inherently dangerous every time they are heard? I'm pretty sure you just stretched so far that you accidentally gave a complete justification for the 25th amendment being invoked.

Household toilet paper demand has increased by about 80% over the past 2 months. It's not hoarding, it's actually that more people are at home and fewer people are at work, so people aren't using the bathroom at work. Unless you have one of the large industrial sized dispensers in your house, the factories have to retool to adjust to demand and that takes time.

1. The owners of those places have to realize that they can either figure out what they need to protect their workers or shut down. It would be nice if they had a functioning federal government to assist. 2. Alternatively, things become more acute this summer and fall. I'd say the latter...seems somewhat more likely, but not guaranteed.

Nobody thought the Nets were a destination even after they moved to Brooklyn, but then they brought in a good staff, got themselves into the playoffs and looking up, and suddenly they had 2 free agents breaking the tampering rules to sign there. The Clippers looked like they would be in a rebuilding period after trading Paul and Griffin, but quality front office work made them a destination that beat out competitors including the Lakers for Leonard. The non-Lakers teams that made the big moves last offseason did so because of ok markets where they are the #2 team most of the time, but quality front office management.

How to make a mask out of a destroyed T-Shirt.

Meatpacking plants are turning into perfect transmission settings. Low wage workers, limited space, management putting pressure on workers to cover up symptoms and come to work even if they're not feeling well. We've seen Iowa, South Dakota, and Indiana all have meatpacking plants shut down after this over just the past 3-4 days. We're not fully to harvest season yet even in California, but finding workers to clear fields and doing so in a manner that is even remotely safe will be a challenge, especially when the owners don't want to spend the money on protective equipment.

So, you can't see how the courts in Wisconsin, the same state where 2 weeks ago the state supreme court ordered an election to happen in the middle of a pandemic probably infecting dozens, would also order an end to closures related to the pandemic?

I don't think that would have done it either, but that's also at least in part because both Jordan and Jackson, as well as everyone else, was tired of Krause. Because Krause created that situation of fighting for glory, where behind the scenes things were crashing down with management on one side standing against everyone else, those guys were extra tired. Removing Krause at that point would be spraying water onto the house that has already burned down - the damage was done during the previous years. Consider the alternative of Krause not worrying about his legacy, and being the one to try to proactively create supportive environments behind the scenes. Probably a good chance he's still feuding with Pippen over the contract, because they weren't going to tear that up. Rodman would still be creating his issues, but if you've got an amicable relationship that isn't adding stress, and they approach Phil with a multi-year deal that makes him the highest paid coach in the league, does he take it? I'll get you to at least maybe. Dude came back to coach twice more so clearly he wasn't done coaching, he was done with the Bulls situation.

No it won't. But if you can stop outbreaks at 25 or 50 cases, and especially if you keep it out of vulnerable populations, then you can run much of the country with some reasonably thought out restrictions. It's the virus sneaking into nursing homes or meatpacking plants or wherever else and sitting undetected for days to weeks that really gets you. The South Koreans, when they see a case, they send off alarm bells to literally everyone in the area through phones, media, in person efforts - to try to track down every possible person they could have come into contact with and test them. If you can do that, then you can reopen things. If you have no national strategy to do that, then yea when things reopen you're just going to create the next wave. Given that there is no functioning national government right now, how much confidence do you have in your local and state leaders to run something like that?

Saying "Phil and MJ were done" though misses the fact that Krause played a big role in them being done, and the fact that the GM was making the off the court stuff so difficult was a major factor weighing on them over a period of years. It's like saying "I'm exhausted from my job over the last month and want to retire" without noting that there's a few slight difficulties making the situation more difficult over that time period.