StrangeSox

Contrast that against a number of actual scientific publications that have examined the efficacy of HCQ in treating COVID-19 I know I'm going with the Demon Seed lady!

If you guys want to give a listen to a bunch of immunologies, virologists, etc. talking about testing and how we could vastly improve it, you could listen to this: Basic idea is that we do less sensitive tests that might not catch people right at the start (or end!) of being infected, but that we can have everyone (or at least everyone potentially exposed) doing these $1 tests with results in ~hour at home daily. If we can get something like that off the ground, it means we can do a whole lot more things a lot more safely because everyone at risk of spreading the infection is being tested at least a couple of times a week. Not just baseball, but suddenly fully in-person school, albeit still with masks, becomes feasible to do safely, etc. Write your Congressional reps and Senators and state level people too to try to get more people on board. This could make a huge difference in getting a few big steps back towards "normal" before there's a vaccine.

What about other hotspot states?

Conclusions and Relevance In this study of a cohort of German patients recently recovered from COVID-19 infection, CMR revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and time from the original diagnosis. These findings indicate the need for ongoing investigation of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19.

The GOP bill out today slashes unemployment by 66% and has more money for military procurement than housing assistance as we're staring down the barrel of a mass eviction crisis.

The state with the lowest percentage of people facing eviction is at 22%

Trickle down pandemic spread

There have been plenty of young, healthy people getting wrecked by this disease, Death isn't the only risk. There are also more than players at stake here, plus the general increased spread. As was already pointed out multiple times, the Marlins' positive tests include coaches.

I mean, we're seeing the results of the whole "just have everyone go back to work whatever" approach, it's pretty terrible, maybe we shouldn't be doing that??

Sure, but as long as people continue to insist this is no big deal and that we shouldn't contain it as much as possible, the risk for actually essential workers like grocery store staff increases.

The Marlins numbers include at least some coaches. Players aren't the only ones at risk.

There are adverse consequences besides death.

Some may be pre-symptomatic in that they'll develop symptoms in the coming days/weeks. And it's not just the players but the staff, coaches, etc.

I've got some bad news about how smart the people running this multi-billion dollar organization are e: more accurately, how equipped they are to handle any non-normal situation.

MLB clearly did not plan at all for this nearly 100% likely scenario to occur:

10 day suspension/quarantine

People get pregnant using condoms or birth control, doesn't mean you don't decrease or increase your risk depending on your behavior.

lol

They know what'll happen to the economy and their revenues if the pandemic continues unchecked. Meanwhile, we have at least part of the federal government insisting that as many people go back to work as soon as possible and that we jam schools full of hundreds or thousands of people for hours every day. At the same time, here's how a much poorer country with one of the best COVID track records is responding: And a bit of a look at how "generous" our current (largely broken) UI system is: My mom's been waiting 15 or so weeks now for IDES to process her claim. Relying on intentionally underfunded and already broken state UI systems as the primary means of helping people was a predictably terrible idea.

probably should have thought about this fairly probable scenario beforehand, imo