StrangeSox

I think part of the deal NBC got when they paid for the broadcasting rights was they most popular events in the US being scheduled to fall during primetime in the US. Google loves to shove news headlines into my notifications with random results, and if you go to nbcolympics to watch coverage of some other random sport that won't be covered in primetime, you're likely to get spoiled

Good lord that last 50 and even 25m by Finke in the 800m race, incredible to make up that gap with that little left

No, not Phelps. He doesn't start screaming every time there's a somewhat close race. There's the main play-by-play guy, Phelps who speaks sometimes in a clear baritone voice, and then the annoying guy who starts screaming all the time. e: it's Rowdy Gaines

Whoever the color guy is on the swimming broadcast who starts screaming on the last 50 of every race needs to go

Salary cap space thing I think

Gahhh

Love 2 watch winning baseball

God damn that's some good pitching

The ihme model was always obviously trash, though. It was a pure mathematical curve that kept projecting the whole thing would be over in 60 days.

Epidemiological models? They provide a somewhat broad projection but it's not so unknown that it's impossible to make reasonable estimates.

Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are trending in the wrong direction again. Peak of this next wave isn't expected until late August or September.

I sincerely hope the source in this NBC News report is wrong. Public statements for months now have been "Pfizer submits EUA data for 5-12 in September, 0-5 a few weeks later" with the expectations that it'd follow the same timeline as previous EUA submittals, i.e. shots starting late September or October. Pushing this back to "midwinter" means those of us with young children are looking at closer to another year before they are fully vaccinated. Covid vaccines for kids under 12 expected midwinter, FDA official says

media literacy is more than just reading a bunch of different sources suffice it to say, all cable news is extremely bad, each channel in its own way

Need a big ol' chart showing these trends by year going back a couple of decades to get a good perspective on this. Is this just noise in regular variability or something real? If it's real, to what extent?

Over a hundred million people in this country have been vaccinated. Even still, we've had hundreds of thousands of deaths with thousands more to come. With zero NPI's, we'd already be over a million.

This got buried but it is true that hospitalizations and deaths aren't rising as fast as they had previously in the UK. Probably because the older population is even more thoroughly vaccinated than the rest of the population.

edit: this could apply to some of my past posting as well!

Everyone from the WH on down through governors' offices and mayors etc. want to declare this pandemic done and over with. Outside experts will scream, but nobody will listen.

Man, remember when Pence wrote that really stupid editorial last May declaring "there is no second wave"? Unfortunately, I don't think anyone at any level of government is going to be doing much in the way of NPI's regardless of how much things ramp up again. And of course, more cases=more chances for variants. It's a horrific cycle that so much of the world is locked into right now.

I don't want overweight people getting sick and dying, either. I'm not sure what the point of all those posts are. The vaccines aren't 100% and the newer variants seem to be having measurable impact on efficacy.