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Assuming the Dems win, we’re right back to Tea Party and austerity/Federal debt clock politics the next 2-4 years. Without the Senate, any more trillion plus bailouts are pretty much dead in the water. Joe Manchin and Doug Jones’ votes (Tuberville) will be blocking things unless the Dems run the table in all the closely contested seats. ObamaCare barely passed, let’s not forget, and the appetite for more Federal bailouts will be almost completely curtailed since nearly everyone will have their hands out...

You could have written this in 2008-09. Romney wanted to let all of Detroit go under. Market forces. Survival of the fittest. In the end, Obama punished exactly nobody. All those who lost their houses...who ended up benefitting greatly, besides Treasury Secretary Mnuchin? They weren’t made whole, any more than truly small and medium sized business owners who are not politically connected are not going to be protected by either Dems or Republicans (because they don’t matter unless they can donate $100,000+ to a party or candidate or simple soft money contribution) this time around. It’s going to end up as everyone having to act in their own best interests, it’s basic human instinct.

That will definitely be the case two years from now if governors order states open (see Florida)...but where restaurants and bars and airlines and theatres and baseball teams are still only at 15-35% of capacity and previous profit levels because we are still in Stage 2/3/4/5 since we’ve never even successfully conquered the first wave. It’s just going to be death by 1,000 cuts. Only the massive restaurant franchises will survive. It’s the exact same thing that will happen if the Supreme Court outlaws Obamacare and Covid-19 is not protected as a pre-existing condition any longer in the middle of the worst health care crisis in American history. We will suffer millions of medical bankruptcies. Taxes will continue to increase on the top 20% of Americans who can actually afford to pay them without going into debt themselves. Social Security and Medicare will be slashed. The top 1% will be fine, the 538 Senators and representatives will also be fine, and K Street lobbyists will never be in bigger demand. Eventually, massive tech oligarchs and Wal-Mart will own pretty much everything in America, just like Potter in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” There will be no Jimmy Stewart to save the remaining 99%.

Don’t forget much of Reagan’s second term, as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/03/trump-covid-1918-flu-struck-woodrow-wilson-pandemic/3607579001/ Woodrow Wilson downplayed the 1918 flu pandemic. Then, he got violently sick. If they were smart, they would invoke the 25th Amendment and let Pence go ahead and debate Kamala Harris this upcoming week as acting president...but Trump’s ego is simply too big to allow it.

Now, the trend has become just to assume pretty much any abridgment of freedom (we prefer not to surrender) is unconstitutional. Incorrect. Let’s not forget what President Lincoln did with writs of habeas corpus during the Civil War. With over 205,000 dead and counting, it would be quite easy to argue these are the equivalent of wartime conditions in terms of preventable deaths suffered already with simple but effective policies already enacted by well over 125 countries to contain Covid-19, many of them third world/developing or least industrialized nations lacking in modern medical equipment or access to every therapeutic drug in the world. A Compelling Governmental Purpose Charles "Rocky" Rhodes, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, told Houston Matters host Craig Cohen that the First Amendment can sometimes be overcome in situations where there is what’s known in the judicial circles as a “compelling governmental purpose.” “And this is the highest order — the apex — of things the government does, things like winning a war, or preventing an imminent attack, protecting children,” Rhodes said. “And, of course, another one of these is protecting the public health from a pandemic." Pandemics Aren’t New — Just New To Us While this global situation is new to most Americans, pandemics used to be much more commonplace. The last one was the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918, which resulted in our Constitution being tested by local and state regulations. And throughout our nation’s history the court has issued multiple rulings that have established legal precedent when it comes to distancing and quarantine methods. One such case was Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905. A man named Henning Jacobson wanted to refuse a smallpox vaccine and maintained he had the legal right to do so. However, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state, stating that “a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.” https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/04/10/366511/how-the-constitution-gets-tested-in-times-of-crisis-like-a-pandemic/

The planes can be used to send ballistic missile commands and are a key part of the US defence system in the event of a crisis - earning them their ominous nickname. But officials were quick to dismiss any speculation that the two planes were a show of strength and a warning to enemies not try to take advantage of the political turmoil brought about by Mr Trump's illness. “These flights were pre-planned missions. Any timing to the president’s announcement is purely coincidental,” a US Strategic Command (Stratcom) spokesman, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, told the Sunday Telegraph. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-seeks-dampen-speculation-doomsday-135852335.html

Danielle Breed Long was the victim’s name...owner of a pandemic-closed bar and grill called the Tipsy Coyote in Scottsdale.

If someone in the US blamed Africans for weaponizing HIV/AIDs, Mexicans for trying to destroy the Obama admin. with the swine flu or claimed the US was responsible for all the drug and crime problems in US inner cities because of CIA collusion with Colombian and Sinaloan drug cartels...would we go along with it if we simply heard it on t.v.?

Here's the thing. I'm on the Chinese version of Hawaii, 4-5 months after the most recent active symptoms of ANYONE in Wuhan...2+ hour flight away to the south at Sanya/Hainan. Every single Chinese person under 40 is wearing a mask at the luxury shopping mall. Everyone still wearing to enter. Even in Wuhan, you still can't board a bus or subway or enter the best malls without mask. Part of it's cultural, part of it is previous experience with SARs and the other aspect is government control. While that wouldn't work in the US, nobody on the freedom/protection of business side has ever explained why the approaches in South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand were impossible to implement in the US.

Florida Senator Rick Scott claimed he tested positive, then his staff walked it back. Weird how you can misspeak on that. They’re in danger of losing majority in Senate with so many out...

In January, he was named pitching coach of the Chicago Cubs' Double-A affiliate, the Tennessee Smokies, though the season was later canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Michigan native previously served as the assistant pitching coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2911913-former-mlb-pitcher-charles-haeger-wanted-by-police-on-suspicion-of-murder

Are the Marlins willing to pay $12.5 million for a veteran in his final contract year for a full season? Without fans?

2018 collapse at end and then getting knocked into WC by Milwaukee, then nothing last year. 2-7 in post season since the Workd Series. That said, the same number of postseasons (this decade) as the White Sox going back to 1993...and just two more gets you all the way back to 1959. We better get at least 3-4 more in 154-162 game seasons for this rebuild to be considered a true success.

Hill and Rosenthal from the Royals, Adams from the Mariners...and then Morejon and Patino internally were/are two of their top 3-4 starting pitching prospects. Pagan in the offseason from the Rays to take off some of the late inning pressure from Yates and Stammen/Strahm (Royals). Pomeranz (nearly everyone questioned that contract, but he was a huge factor) as a FA. Pierce Johnson was at one point a Cubs’ starting pitching prospect. HUGE amount of tinkering to get the exact right combination over the last 24 months,

Starling Marte.

Yates is a lot like Marshall. He got on a huge roll in 2019, but not sure he can ever repeat that. He was terrible in the early going in 2020, although obviously part of that was injury-related and partly a loss of confidence...an inter-related combination. And I’m not sure he will have sunk all the way from the “best” or at least most effective NL reliever for the majority of 2019 all the way down to a $3 million Make good contract if you look at the money for guys like Herrera or even Cishek. Thinking at least $5-6 million with the possibility of doubling that number with achievable incentives. Like Colome, he can quite frequently be a tightrope reliever...the second half of last season and early this year, he was more like late career Bobby Jenks. Of course, as noted, Rosenthal and especially Hendriks will get significantly more. Glad to see more and more are now on the Gausman bandwagon, though.

So if every city/municipality, state, etc., makes or enforces their own rules (or not), instead of one uniform policy across an entire outbreak area, we don’t have contact tracing and the majority of people are reluctant to accept vaccinations...how can we realistically expect an ending to this whole situation if we just keep on supplying an unlimited number of virus incubators/super spreaders?

But it's not. We can't speed, drive drunk or choose not to wear seat belts unless we are willing to face the consequences for those behaviors that could potentially endanger ourselves or others. Can grocery stores and restaurants provide customers expired foods, or pharmacies expired drugs? Sure, one is unlikely to get sick, but there's a huge fine/penalty to endanger their business model if they get caught. Why take risks that are not necessary and that could potentially result in the death/s of fellow human beings? Freedom is more important than one's life if they are "only" senior citizens who are put at risk?

Would be first shutout from entirely bullpen game in MLB history. Looks like Lamet will be back, but Clevinger doubtful. Big test will be going for it by bringing up Mackenzie Gore. That's asking so much out of a rookie to debut in the playoffs against the best team in baseball.

Because you're not only relying on businesses enforcing policies...but individuals also behaving responsibly. How much money are they still losing at 25%? How much more money would they be earning now if everyone just followed the rules for 2 1/2 - 3 months instead of just blowing the whole thing up early? Businesses would have had at least June through October revenues...prime earning months for many, and normal returns to school would have been possible. Think of all the theatre failures that could have been avoided, or airline jobs preserved.

Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, who's in the middle of a huge re-election battle in NC. Not to mention impact on potential SC hearings.

But the government or municipalities regulate DUI's, seat belts, speeding, food and drug safety, protecting us from environmental harms/negative externalities. Why would the scientists, FDA and CDC (compared to politicians) have LESS&nbsp%3

Because they finish 1/2 in the AL or Lynn starts over Keuchel somehow? Still not sure how that changes Bassitt's start?

Jamie Seidelnews.com.au America’s doomsday planes are in the air following news that the nation’s commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, has COVID-19. Two US Navy E-6B Mercury nuclear war command posts were observed in flight Friday, one on each coast of the United States. They were initiating the “Take Charge and Move Out” (TACAMO) defence protocol – essentially dispersing the command and communications facilities needed to control the US nuclear arsenal. These aircraft are activated by the Pentagon when it is deemed necessary to communicate with the US Navy’s secretive nuclear missile submarines, stealth bombers and missile silos. The move underscores the potential severity of the situation.