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They are in a difficult position made borderline impossible by their inaction and failure at the start of this. Much of the developed world struggles...but some countries clearly had better approaches to keep it from becoming as dire. It was the strategy (or lack therof) at the beginning that put us in a worse position...so them now throwing up their hands and saying "eh, it is what it is" to try and absolve themselves from responsibility doesn't quite work, imo

Wouldn't this go in the other thread?

Man! We gonna see this tick west to the same dang spot again? COME ON!!

Err....2020 chaos leading to us fluking into something? But seriously though, do we have much other choice but to hope for fluke(s) in a nina?

Yeah the "long haul syndrome" is another part of this where there is still much to be learned...praying that you don't have any lingering effects and can be 100% again--glad to hear you are recovering!

And even more ironic that we see over 80,000 cases right after he, once again, said that we're "rounding the corner" repeatedly last night, smh There's trying to be "positive" and then just continuously speaking an alternate reality. It just makes things even more frustrating

Didn't think this season had an eye like that in it, haha (kinda funny how it's been so active yet sloppy in shape overall) Very nice!

Are you forgetting what year this is? Would not put it past 2020 AT ALL, lol

Was actually referring to the solar minimum

Yeah I don't think we can call it "snake oil" unless it doesn't yield any results this year. But if we manage a blocked miracle or two that somehow gets us to at least 18" then it still counts in my book

Only magical escape routes...this being 2020 and the last "history" trend that hasn't officially failed yet in the solar minimum Both of those things don't deliver then yeah...lol But it's funny...with stuff being so whacky since 2016, with the rug being pulled out with bad surprises of things not working the way they looked to be in the pre-winter forecasting...you wonder why we couldn't get a good surprise for a change...with stuff not work the way it appears to be right now, lol

WOW...lol Sweden...the biggest used and abused excuse for covid lackadaisicalism....is now starting to rethink things? I'm just sorry it took their their mortality rate per to jump up to 3rd worst (and a 137% increase in cases over the last month) to do it! It must be getting worse over there...

I can believe it...I guess if it weren't for all the other 2020 chaos going on, it may have gotten more notice!

Think it'll be the same here in the city/Baltimore county?

And that's something you can do without doing full-on March 2020 lockdowns...See, explain this to me: If mask wearing is the thing that could help diminish the spread and help to prevent the very lockdowns that people don't want...why in the world are folks up here saying "Eh, don't make people wear masks" yet they say "We can't lock everything down!"

You rang?

And that would be unfortunate...as this is the last thread on the entire site that has managed to stay intact!

And there ya go...nothing new under the sun! And how's this for another eerie similarity...This was the doctor who was the lead epidemiologist at the time: He kinda looks like... How weird/funny is that? Lol

Hey I'd take that I wonder why the average went up following the October -NAOs? Do we just kinda chalk that up to chaos and it being, as you said, too small of a sample size to say there's a definite correlation?

He's been busy celebrating his 250th birthday year.

And it seemed like the affected ages were different too...20-40-somethings were dropping like flies (and that ironically that included the grandfather of the president)

Source(s)?

I'm wondering if we are ridiculously (and somewhat jokingly) splitting hairs over what's defined as "equally awful" here...Like the whole 6" of slop vs 1.8" of slop. I approach the argument in the most literal sense: that if we get 6 inches instead of 1 it's still better. Even 4 inches instead of one would mathematically classify as "not as bad". However in the less literal, more subjective sense? Probably not, lol But mathematically, seeing as it won't take much to beat 1.8"...I'd like to believe there's enough "chaos" in the equation to beat that (or else it would be a historic occurrence that hasn't happened in our 140 years of records...Even stretches of bad years you'd get a 6-8 incher in there, lol)

Don't disagree about the comeback problem...he has to learn how to do that. But where I do disagree is your proclamation of it already being a done deal. Now if it's not fixed before the end of the season, then perhaps--but until then...too soon to say.

Just like how folks thought he'd been "figured out" by the league after the first playoff loss in 2018-19...lol Too early to say that, dude...He's 23 years old (not mention still the reigning MVP)...so we cannot know for sure yet. Now by the end of this season we'll have a better idea. League adjusts, but now we have to wait to see what he does to adjust. This is essentially like a sophomore season for him, imo (despite it being year three).