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Sayonara to the NBA playoffs in Orlando, trips to Disney World and “extended” extended Spring Training.

Might have actually worked in SEC, ACC and Big 12 territory....

The risks to the rally were underscored by an extraordinary series of events that began Thursday night when Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum set a three-night curfew, citing the expected crowds of more than 100,000, the planned protests, and the civil unrest that has already erupted in the city and around the nation. The tighter security meant Trump supporters lined up for the rally had to be moved further away from the 19,000-seat BOK Center. Some supporters had been camping out for days to get a good spot and the curfew raised questions about whether they would be able to remain near the site overnight Friday. By Friday afternoon, the three-night curfew was lifted after Bynum and Trump spoke by phone – a decision that was announced first by Trump on Twitter and then confirmed by the mayor. Coronavirus: Health experts fear Trump's rally could turn into a 'super spreader' event Trump is expected to touch down in the Sooner State – one of the reddest states in the nation – around dinnertime and host his first rally since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. As he strolls onto the stage in the BOK Center, with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” pouring through the speakers, he’ll face a dramatically different political scene than the one he was navigating three months ago. https://www.yahoo.com/news/turning-point-massive-risk-trump-080009674.html

23 on the Clemson Tigers with Covid-19 now

Therein lies the problem with society in general today. Nobody has the patience to actually read a real investigative piece anymore. It’s all sound bites. The attention span of teenagers is falling by the year. When I was growing up, the majority of our parents subscribed to either Time, Newsweek or US News & World Report. WSJ, Forbes/Fortune or New York Times/WaPo for the “elites” of Iowa. Maybe the Christian Science Monitor. At any rate, those first three mainstream publications aimed at the middle 65% of Americans on the political spectrum simply do not exist anymore. They are instead People, US Weekly, Reader’s Digest/TV Guide (older Americans) and The National Inquirer. There’s absolutely no interest in policy discussions or being wonkish. The polarization has practically forced everyone to choose sides. If you read a Rick Newman article at Yahoo Finance, you only need to go the comments section, and they always follow a reliable pattern.

Last ride for the General Lee? 'Dukes of Hazzard' streaming future uncertain as Confederate symbols face renewed scrutiny. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/last-ride-for-the-dukes-of-hazzard-shows-streaming-future-uncertain-as-confederate-symbols-face-renewed-scrutiny-150059550.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6 According to this article, based on a Chinese study among the population infected the earliest with Covid-19, any immunity gained via antibodies may only last 2-3 months. Comparatively, the figure for SARS is 1 year and for MERS 34 months. If this initial research is correct, the theoretical principle of 70-80% 'herd immunity' is almost pointless, and even a vaccine may be of limited short term value, since the purpose of a vaccine is to have the body’s own immune system produce antibodies. The negative implications of this early research are staggering...not just for the 2020 baseball season. Florida and Arizona are particularly worrying, Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, tells Yahoo Life. He describes these areas as “new hot spots.” As of Friday morning, data from COVID Exit Strategy found that Florida had a 141 percent increase in positive cases over the past 14 days. At the same time, there is low availability of intensive care unit beds in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other public health officials in the state have repeatedly come under fire for the handling of the state’s response to the virus, both for delayed stay-at-home ordersand reopening beaches in April. In Arizona, where a stay-at-home order expired a month ago, cases have also increased 108 percent over the past 14 days, according to COVID Exit Strategy data. ICU bed use and ER visits have hit new highs for the state because of COVID-19 cases, according to the Arizona Republic.

Sure, but a headline with “new opportunities” or mentioning PE, what percentage of readers would even understand to click on it? 5%? 10%? I doubt the writer even had the opportunity to choose the headline, there was probably an editor that decided. Yahoo has been like this for years. 80-85% of the articles are just collected from other sites and redistributed there. Most of their writing staff got laid off years ago. It’s simply a matter of profitability, right? It has shifted from newspaper layoffs to online aggregators laying off staff and that pressure will increase due to slashed advertising budgets. Subscriptions to quality sites like The Atlantic are going up, but they’re still cutting and cutting staffers. The only window of opportunity is slashing budgets for office space leasing by almost everyone working at home, but the crash in that market creates yet another array of problems, right?

Waves are for countries that flatten curves into waves. America teaches us what happens when we don’t flatten a curve. It just turns into a tsunami.

If they left “Trump administration” out of the headline, it probably would have generated negligible page views, except for those in the financial planning and investments field. All about the clicks. That said, who exactly should we say is responsible?

Trump administration move could add 'significant risks' to retirement accounts https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-administration-move-could-add-significant-risks-to-retirement-accounts-115443201.html

Well, since the Germans have been way ahead on this, why aren’t we following their Bundesliga or even the English Premier League protocols?...inarguably more direct physical contact in that sport.

Baghdad Bob or Comical/Chemical Ali https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html Another teenager died from COVID-19

Still can’t actually believe 19,000 Americans are going to fill an arena with no mask requirement to enter...in the same exact state out of 50 that has had the highest growth rate in Covid cases. It’s beyond even idiocracy or similar derogative phrases like American Idiot. Seems like every other week, we experience yet another surreal moment that doesn’t even seem possible in the America we all grew up in.

The campaign will be distributing face masks and hand sanitizer at the event but won’t require that the face masks be worn. The temperature of everyone entering will be taken, according to the campaign. In advance of Saturday’s rally, Gov. Kevin Stitt was in Washington on Thursday for a televised discussion with Trump and two Oklahoma business owners — hotelier Pete Patel and restaurant owner Lori Burson. Stitt told Trump that Oklahomans are excited for his upcoming visit, saying over a million people have requested tickets for the event. Stitt said the rally will be “amazing.” “Oklahoma is ready for your visit,” Stitt said. “It is going to be safe. We are really, really excited.” “One of the reasons we chose your state, Kevin, is you have done so well with the COVID,” Trump said. “You have handled it incredibly well.” Stitt thanked Trump for his administration’s support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neither mentioned that new cases in the state and in Tulsa County have skyrocketed in recent days. https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/whirlwind-of-activity-surrounding-trump-visit-descends-on-tulsa/article_a7cf501f-20b9-5952-bffb-8c1b31648571.html

Even as we now have official permission starting this past weekend to “unmask,” 90-95% of Wuhan is still wearing them outside despite growing heat and humidity (we’re a lot like Augusta, GA if you’ve been there in the summertime, a blast furnace with 85-90% humidity.) Feel for you. We’ve got three weeks of online classes, only 37 days of actual summer holiday...and now Beijing outbreak is making it nearly impossible to travel long distances, even inside the country. Starting to lose many of our teachers still trapped in limbo unable to return to China due to ban on foreigners entering. To top it off, they cut teacher pay for local teachers to 30% for five months...now they have been forced to come into school for office hours (820-440) from June 15th through August 15th despite no actual classes, online or offline, available for them to teach on the schedule. Some are having to teach 9th graders on Saturdays as well (Grade 6/9/12 are only students who returned in the entire province), as students have had national exams to enter 10th grade pushed back from early June all the way to July 20th. It’s crazy. And HR director is astounded, wonders why nobody wants to come work in Wuhan!!!

Stop hyping up the second wave, MSM! (The first one actually isn’t going to pass until September or October.) Mike Pence accuses the media of 'fear mongering' over a second wave of Covid-19 in a misleading Wall Street Journal op-ed that praises Trump.

Oklahoma judge refuses to require social distancing at Trump’s Tulsa rally amid coronavirus concerns Perhaps the most shocking news of the year! Coming up next after the commercial break, OK judge involved in massive civil lawsuit... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oklahoma-judge-refuses-to-require-social-distancing-at-trumps-tulsa-rally-amid-coronavirus-concerns

Texas, Arizona are getting clobbered and soon Oklahoma/Arkansas...parts of southern KS and SW Missouri.

Especially that cytokine storm aspect. Before, in NY/NJ, going on a ventilator was essentially a death sentence roughly 80-90% of the time at the peak of that eastern wave. I haven’t seen any recent numbers for those emerging from critical condition and improving, but it has to be much lower. Secondly, patients are getting more time devoted by doctors and nurses because shutdowns kept the majority of hospitals from being inundated. An area we seem to be lacking is in nurse to patient ratios, where Germany seems to have gotten over the hump through utilization of that niche advantage embedded in their health care system, as well as early and much more effective testing and tracing from the earliest stages (one of the first, if not THE first, EU countries to be hit.)

I believe that I read somewhere recently from another source it was settling in at a tick under 0.3, still roughly three times more deadly than the common flu, and still obviously lacking a vaccine.

So glad I was basically born a White Sox fan...as this would be incredibly difficult to stomach, even if it is “just” a brother.

Memorial Day was the end of this to many. It’s going to take massive K-12 and university closures, or a complete shutdown of NCAA and NFL to get the public’s sustained attention back again. In that sense, news about the three upcoming books is also making it easier to bury things under the rug.

Coronavirus Is Taking a High Toll on Sweden’s Elderly. Families Blame the Government. Discontent is growing over official triage guidelines critics say too often deny elderly patients vital care https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-is-taking-a-high-toll-on-swedens-elderly-families-blame-the-government-11592479430?mod=hp_lead_pos10 When 81-year-old Jan Andersson fell ill with Covid-19 at a nursing home in the Swedish town of Märsta, a doctor consulted by phone ordered palliative care, including morphine, instead of trying to help him fend off the infection.

Cue video from late April with the mayor on Anderson Cooper already pushing a reopening in quite ignorant fashion.