Jack Parkman

This x infinity. In my mind, there's not enough concern nationally. Do I think people should panic? No, but the fact that I'm taking things seriously and there's a large segment of society that thinks that anything beyond business as usual is unnecessary panic is a huge fucking problem.

This post rules. Nice. BTW I voted no fans until more information goes out. Most of the MDs on TV are people who study epidemiology at major university medical centers. Bottom line is that people should be staying home with the exception of essential travel(work, grocery shopping, going to the doctor, etc. ) They(epidemiologists) keep talking about social distancing being the only effective measure to slow or stop the spread of this. The issue is that Americans have this FU attitude and aren't taking it seriously. In Italy, they're assigning neighborhoods hours to go eat, shop for stuff, etc. but nobody's going to work or outside for recreation. It's not a complete shutdown, but it's as damn near close to one as a democracy can get.

20% of infected people have respiratory failure. Quit understating how serious this is. This is non-discriminatory and there is no way of knowing what will happen to you if you're infected.

People like you are part of the problem. This shit isn't the end of the world, but it's not no big deal either. People will die because of people with your attitude. People should be at somewhere between 5-7/10 on the alarm scale, depending on if you live in a rural or urban area.

Again, I tend to think that putting areas on lockdown is probably inevitable. Good luck to everyone. Right now, I wouldn't be going anywhere except work/grocery shopping. I've made that decision as of a couple hours ago. Part of this decision is that I have a horrible nail biting habit, so I'm at higher risk of becoming a "carrier monkey"

It looked almost slurvy to me. I saw it, I get what you're saying.

Kopech also has a curveball. I think those 81-82 mph guys are curveballs. His slider is somewhere between 85-88 mph. (I went to his first start)

It's going to get really bad once Madrigal/Robert/Kopech/Vaughn graduate, 3 of which are likely to happen this year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/

I don't think anyone would have complained had they landed Machado.

I just saw that the Bay Area in California has placed a ban on large gatherings. It seems like things are following the same trajectory as China/Italy.

I just think that there's a middle ground between ignoring this and full fledged panic. Most of what I'm saying is playing devil's advocate to the minimizing in this thread. I'm not trying to incite panic, but instead trying to get people to take this more seriously. That would explain the conflicting messages. If I'd rate my concern on a level of 1-10 I'd put it at a 6.

I'm saying that if it is an inevitability they should just do it now. I don't have all of the info to make that decision one way or another. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding there. The major question is whether or not mandatory quarantine is inevitable. Once it becomes fairly clear that it is, they should act, and that scenario is much more likely than most want to admit.

And like I said, I'm not even doing that. I just think that what's happening in Italy and China is going to happen here and worldwide. I'm not doing anything differently until more info comes out.

Nobody's ever been alive for anything like this, so we have no idea what a "rational" response is. There's not a person on the planet that knows what the correct course of action is, and when that it the case, overreacting is probably a better choice than under reacting. Have you ever heard the term "better safe than sorry?" Idk what you want me to say, I'm just giving my opinion that I'd be surprised if this doesn't get really, really bad by April. I get why you're minimizing it. I tried to do that for as long as I could. At some point, you have to come to grips with reality.

Mostly because I see what is happening and am reaching a logical conclusion. I'm saying that you can be proactive or reactive. Being reactive is always the worse decision. I think that a nationwide quarantine is an inevitability and probably unavoidable. It's just a matter of how bad this gets before they decide to do it, which is why I'm saying to do it now.

I'm actually not panicked at all, outside of washing hands and other hygiene stuff I haven't changed anything about what I'm doing. I'm just looking at what's going on elsewhere in the world and extrapolating that to here. I'm sounding the alarm because the logical conclusion is what happened in Italy happening everywhere.

It's not fatal for everyone, and I wouldn't go unless I got sick and things got really bad. You don't seem to realize how easily this thing is transmitted, how it starts out with similar symptoms to a common cold, and that it's related to it. This thing is super infectious and the only way to prevent spread is to not go in the public. I think the truth is somewhere in between business as usual and shutting everything down, but I do believe that business as usual will result in a shutdown anyway. Please, tell me how business as usual doesn't end like Italy.

You don't seem to understand what's going on. If we allow business as usual, then it's going to overwhelm the healthcare system. There's really no good option here. If they can shut it down for 6 weeks, they can contain this. If they allow business as usual, there is no telling how bad it gets. It's really a lose-lose situation, and shutting down is the lesser of the bad options.

The alternatives are worse, so what the hell are we supposed to do? Just let this thing take its course and let people die? I've yet to hear a viable alternative. We can either shut it down now or later but it's going to get shut down eventually. We've had 2 countries already declare at the very least a regional quarantine, with a national one in Italy. It's just a matter of time before it happens everywhere else, so why endanger more people than you have to? So I ask you, what's the alternative?

Yes. I know that we're not prepared....but this is the right course of action. I understand the ramifications. It's the right move though, because of exactly what you said. And BTW, I am the food delivery guy so you don't have to lecture me about that. Everyone should stay home and we shouldn't gaf about where(as in what company) the food comes from, how much it costs etc. Send in the national guard /army or something to make food deliveries to people. That's what they're there for.

THIS x infinity. Nice post.

Hit in the majors. If he doesn't get that chance, it's unfortunate. He's a 27 year old career minor leaguer who profiles as a DH only. I don't know what's going to happen with him. It is quite possible he never gets an opportunity in MLB.

That's why. Italy had 20 cases 18 days ago. The fact that they aren't adequately testing is a public health risk. Honestly I think the situation here is much, much worse than people are letting on, and the inadequate testing is a political choice to try to stave off the inevitable for as long as possible. BTW Pritzker just declared a State of Emergency in IL, sooo..........

The economic hit is going to be devastating either way, might as well minimize it. This is what it is.