southsider2k5

If you direct deposited your tax return it will be way quicker, but no one really knows yet.

We are looking at donating a chunk of ours to some local agencies.

I don't believe it for a second, but it also doesn't really matter at this point. The US didn't take it seriously, and now we are knee deep in it. You would think they could have trusted their pandemic response team, oh wait.

or that mutatinon is happening at some unknown pace.

This is one time it is really nice to have a 12 and 14 year old around as the wife is literally teaching classes from home, and I am doing involved conference calls. They get it better than the little ones do, and make adjustments on the fly. LIttle kids can't do that.

yeah, I think our school district was lucky we are in the lake effect snow belt, so we have to have plans for not being in school for up to a week at a time in general. This incident is pushing the limits though.

The big picture craziness is that in the trading world every single firm is required to have a stringent Business Continuity Plan, for how to deal with a load of different situations where you don't have access to your normal office site for one reason or another. They have plans for hacks, electrical outages, pandemics, natural disaster, etc. In education? Nothing. It amazed me how much go figured out on the fly as the school systems realized this was going to be huge.

We actually did it about two years ago as a way of not having to worry about the crazy amount of snow days we get. Our demographics mean they have similar problems with internet access for a fair amount of kids. They started giving kids chromebooks a couple of years ago for this eventuality. They have even put school buses with WIFI into neighborhoods to try to create hotspots for some of the kids who need them.

If you are into that I would also recommend The Road to Jonestown, Heaven's Gate: America's UFO religion, Member of the Family, and Prophet's Prey.

I was also ready to watch Under the Dome when it was on years back, but it died quickly and got awful reviews.

This is teh 3rd week we have been doing it in Indiana.

I have not watched that yet. I rarely pay for HBO. I got it during Game of Thrones and cancelled it after. My personal favorite of all of the King books is 11/22/63. The Hulu series is decent.

Also, we dug out The Stand mini-series to rewatch. Its a shame the acting was so bad, because what a great book.

If we get to 100,000 deaths, that is one in about 3300 people in this country. If we get to a million that is 1 in 330.

I have not, but with as much I have enjoyed everything by Larson, if I come across it, I will pick it up. Haven't done a ton of Civil War reading. Most of what I have done is related to Gettysburg. I was enthralled with battle after visiting the battlefield about a decade ago. The George Washington book I read was the one by Ron Chernow.

Right now, I am in the Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson who has become one of my favorites since Devil in the White City. Also have read Dead Wake, Thunderstruck (which might be better than White City) and Issac's Storm on the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Of all topics, I finally put John Jay on my list, and in an effort to find a book on him, bought an antique book from 1896 off of Ebay for about $10 to finally get his story. I had gone through Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, and Washington in the era, but John Jay is the one guy that pops up in every single person's story. He might have been the MVP of that era just from what I got through other sources. If you really want a long read, anything by Ron Chernow is amazing. He is the guy who wrote the book which Lin Manual Miranda took and adopted for Hamilton the musical. In this case the book is every bit as amazing as musical (and I don't say that lightly). I have also gotten through his books on George Washington and John D Rockefeller, which were every bit as riveting, and long. There are still books on General Grant and JP Morgan that I want to get to, but have not yet. I also have something open by Simon Winchester, who I had read before in Crack in the Edge of the World on the 1906 SF Earthquake, and Krakatoa. Currently I am in The Perfectionsts, but I am kind of bored with that one. Beyond that I the The Map that Changed the World. I also have Gettysburg an alternative history by Peter Tsouras cued up with the premise of how the South could have won the battle, and what it would have done for the war. On the TV front, we also rewatched the BBC Sherlock series, and it was every bit as good the second time around.

This estimates our deaths will peak in 16 days at over 2300, per day. https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections?fbclid=IwAR0DIjarzjYEh0yIhNO5FhrKxi4Z-ndQuJmOBNBJGiFy95rQg7RWFvxB7QI

http://shanghaiist.com/2020/03/27/urns-in-wuhan-far-exceed-death-toll-raising-more-questions-about-chinas-tally/

I can see why the religious right embrace him. We all remember the lesson of Jesus and F--- the Samaritan.

So what would you call the knowledgeable and intentional spread of potentially pandemic laced germs?

Italy had 6000 new cases on Friday. Do you read?

This is the easiest way to underreport deaths. Report them as dead of a heart condition, even though if it wasn't for COVID they wouldn't have died at this time. It is very similar to what we saw post hurricane in New Orleans and Puerto Rico.

And if you read the article, that would be obvious.

I would imagine a lot of players were also be smart to look at positional depth at the various levels as to where to go. For example, as loaded as systems like Tampa and San Diego are it is going to be much harder to find PT, versus a garbage system like Boston.

That's a really big risk to artificially limit yourself that much. I think more likely would be to go underslot in round 1, and they go big for the other nine.