Everything posted by southsider2k5
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Yesterday we hit 1 million cases in the US, and 3 million world wide.
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2020 MLB Draft Thread
This draft is going to be all about how much you trust your scouts at its core. Think about how little cross-checking is going to happen. A guy like Kenny Williams isn't going to be on the road to check out the final few selections. It will also be interesting to see how much the willingness to negotiate down from slot weighs in this draft for individual players as in a shortened draft, one player holds a lot more weight than the would in a normal draft.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
How many people are acceptable for you to kill in the pursuit of economy? Where do you draw the line?
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Ugh. The whole all deaths are Covid thing is garbage. Again, if you look at the numbers there is a clear statistical analysis that points to underreporting. I am going to trust that, especially when the argument doesn't make sense. The county I live in has recorded exactly 5 covid deaths in a month and a half. The state has 900 deaths. Do you really think a state with 6 million people has only had 900 people die in 2 months time? A county with 100,000 people has had way more than 5 deaths in 6 weeks. The Post analysis actually dug into the numbers into how and why.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
The China numbers are obviously trash, and that should have been obvious from day one. They shutdown a City bigger than NYC. The question is why the President trusted them.
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Will There Be a 2020 Season?
I'm not going to lie, I never watch the NFL draft, except for bits and pieces around when the Bears early picks are. I watched a ton just to have something different to watch.
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Official NHL COVID season thread
And a Wirtz got put into the job. I wonder if this is the start of the selloff or a last gasp run?
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
If that were true, the % of tests that are positive should be dropping, but they aren't. We also lag a good chunk of first world countries in terms of testing saturation. There was also the WaPo article today that seems to clearly show that deaths from covid are also much higher than what is being reported.
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2019-2020 Official NBA Thread
Seems like they are making the right moves. Hopefully this will awake this sleeping giant of a franchise.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
It will be interesting to see the stats diverge now between more and less strict states.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Some sobering numbers, on how much we are probably undercounting deaths. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/covid-19-death-toll-undercounted/?arc404=true&fbclid=IwAR1WMfe5T6TFAb_7tXt4qeR9MCCeHFew2S3Kp85eD7tTQQvEytIgerVhbso
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Both deaths and cases are being underestimated significantly according to anecdotal evidence. It is also incredibly clear that if you are getting more deaths from something in a month, than you do over a six month season, it is WAY more deadly.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Which again SHOULD go to prove how important isolation is, and how dumb it is to open up too soon.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
32 days. That is the difference between these two charts. On March 26th, the United States had 75,000 COVID cases and just over 1000 deaths from it. As of this morning, we have 900,000 MORE cases or just under a million cases nationwide. For the record, that works out to 1 in every 330-ish Americans having recorded a positive test. On the deaths side, we are looking at a 5000% increase in 32 days or just under 55,000 deaths. Deaths per million US citizens has gone from 2 to 166. Case saturation has gone from 227 cases per million to 2950, or about an increase of 1300%. Finally for those who want to use the "just a flu" line of argument, the worst flu season we have had in a decade was 61,000 deaths over an entire season for the 2017-18 flu season. It took an estimated 45 MILLION cases to get there. COVID-19 done very close to the same number of deaths (55k vs 61k) in about 44 million LESS cases. At the pace we are going at, COVID will pass this flu season in 3 more days. To close this thought, The United States military recorded the deaths of 55,220 troops in Vietnam between December 1956 and when we left the country in April 30, 1975. COVID is going to pass that death total today in about 14 weeks worth of time from the first case in the US until today.
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2019-2020 Official NBA Thread
So who is he, and what is his background?
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2020 NFL Draft Thread
It would have been nice to take a developmental QB in all of this. They have their chances.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
If you expect instant answers, sure. These are things that take time. It takes testing and more testing, along with good information. This is still in its active phase, and still largely anecdotal at this point.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Meanwhile the President has talked publicly about being sexually attracted to his daughter.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
According to Worldometers, today set a new high for positive tests, at almost 38k so far today. This passes the old high from April 4th.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
This is unreal in a prison about 15 minutes from where I live.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
In reality, it should be a deal breaker. But welcome to 2020. On your right you will see President Trump, on your left Bill Clinton. Look across the street at the Supreme Court and say high to Justice's Kavanaugh and Thomas. No idea why that isn't a deal breaker, but it isn't. In the reality we live, these are our choices. In this reality, all of the things that get leveled at Biden are things that the President has against him in multiples.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Politicians sell out there morals to win and gain power. Everything about Mike Pence is contra to Donald Trump. Given the opportunity, he jumped in a heartbeat, and is one of his biggest cheerleaders today.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
This is where the US failed more than anything in the two months between the situation getting serious in China and the outbreak really getting to pandemic standards in March. Even if we didn't have preparations in place, such as testing, facilities, and PPE, those two months were when we should have been ramping up. The Congressional Brief's were scary enough that multiple members of Congress sold stock against it, so even if a few randomly selected public statements were trying to be soothing, there was plenty of information indicating that the Government people who actually understood this stuff knew this was really serious and really dangerous.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Sometimes I wonder if he just states everything, that way he can always take credit for being right. Its either that or he doesn't remember what he said before.
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COVID-19/Coronavirus thread
Why does every Trump supporter default to this when Trump's actions are brought up? I mean Trump talked about having sex with his daughter, and has settled numerous serious sexual allegations, in addition to all of the charges that have been leveled against him. He has encouraged people in inject Lysol into their system. If Biden is senile, Trump is mentally ill.