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The 10:1 maps seem like a stretch to me. Is there enough depth of cold to support that? If there is accumulating snow at all, shouldn't we be thinking more like 6:1 or 8:1 ratios? Not complaining, it's still pretty cool to see this in May (though I have a new Mantis tiller and I want to actually use it before June).

Toddlers and little kids can tolerate much higher fevers than adults... but greater than 107 is shocking.

On the bright side, this has been great weather for digging up tree stumps with deep roots.

You’re a morally good person. Call it the categorical imperative or the principle of justness or the Golden Rule, many faiths see the moral rectitude of behaving in a way towards others that can be fairly reciprocated. Pence seems to have checked his moral principles at the doors of the White House.

One important value of this country is the right to practice religion freely. Many Hasidic groups are made up of descendents of handfuls of families from the same village or neighborhood in Europe who survived the Holocaust and preserve their culture and language here. I find that incredibly moving even if I don’t agree with their view of how to worship. And these huge weddings are very much an essential part of their view of how to be Jewish - this is an overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzvah_tantz. But their rights cannot put other people in harm’s way. For now, the big weddings have to stop.

They’re the very elites that they claim to hate. The rules *never* apply to them. It’s not the refusal to wear masks that will cause them to lose in a landslide but the fact that this is yet another example of how they act as though they’re better than everyone else.

Here’s the thing: no state is going to come out of a blanket refusal of the feds to bail states out without being ruined. Multiple red states raise most of their revenue through sales taxes. Tax collections have plummeted while the austerity budgets of the last ten years have left no fat to cut from spending. I think McConnell and others hope that they can obtain the policy outcomes they want by targeting the pain to fall on a few states, but that’s a fantasy. They’ll have to put multiple red states —including Florida and Texas — through the wringer to hurt New York and California. If they think they can manage that without paying a heavy price for that on Election Day, their arrogance has no limit.

Some of the Hasdim are creating real problems for lowering the prevalence of COVID by building a huge viral reservoir, and there should be accountability, but that tweet by Deblasio was ridiculous. This is sad, and by spreading the disease, many Hasids are putting health care workers at risk. That’s not ok, but neither is anti-Semitism. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/coronavirus-jews-hasidic-ny.html

This can’t be true. Even his devoted followers know that Trump often talks a lot of nonsense, and nobody would be so stupid as to huff Lysol or whatever. But maybe I’m wrong.

OK - I have a friend in the 79th.

Possibly, but there are also considerable deflationary pressures right now.

My thoughts are with your coworkers. Sorry if you mentioned this before - what precinct are you?

In most years, your LES season south of Buffalo would end, painfully, in early February, and in most years snow lovers on the NF and southern tier look at an open Lake Ontario is total envy.

This is a really big deal - the virus was freely circulating at least six weeks before things were shut down. On the bright side, it implies that there are many more cases that were non-fatal than previously thought, but that would need to be confirmed by a review of additional deaths. What's personally interesting is that this information may tend to confirm the experience of a number of people I know (including me) who had mysterious illnesses in February and later wondered if they had COVID-19. I missed a week of work with an illness in mid-February with cough but no congestion, fatigue, and a feeling of shortness of breath.

If you can avoid the hottest part of the summer, a including the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Zion, Arches, is a great driving vacation.

Lmao, he’s a clown.

I do accept your apology, thanks. We may think people who disagree with us are contemptible, but it’s another think entirely to throw around personal insults in this forum (except for “weenie”).

You must not have looked very hard. This tweet predated that Facebook page by a couple of hours. It includes a link to the Facebook account of the deceased, which has been taken down (you also can tell it actually once existed because his friends tagged him in their condolences and the tags are broken). https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeTall/status/1251990220007813120 It also doesn’t take much effort to find more MAGA chuds who were the echo chamber for their big dumb president’s lies about COVID19 and then died of it. I’d rather not link to their names because it’s actually very sad — I may think a few of my extended family members are a**holes and have the politics to prove it, but I’d still rather them not die after loudly shouting that COVID19 is no worse than the flu. I pray that they have the sense to let learning correct their bad judgement.

An economy that has seen income and wealth shifted to the top by deliberate changes to tax law, public policy, labor rights, etc. You’ve made it clear here that these decisions are fine by you because you claim you grew up incredibly poor and by sheer force of will you are thriving, while everyone not at successful as you is lazy and deserves nothing. But the consequence has been that a huge swath of society will be cut down and suffer, either by deprivation or by this disease, unless we do what we have been doing and use the vast wealth of society to provide sustenance for some people for a while. You disagree with that approach because of your political views, so in essence you’re saying: screw those lazy scumbags, they can go die.

I see, so you want to send other people off to die so some rich people can stay rich.

Do you have evidence of that? Are you saying that none of the Trump cult loudmouths who have been running their mouths and commenting online, repeating what their dear leader said about how COVID-19 just being like the flu or a cold, have gotten sick and died?

KENTUCKY REPORTS HIGHEST CORONAVIRUS INFECTION INCREASE AFTER A WEEK OF PROTESTS TO REOPEN STATE https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-week-protests-reopen-state-1498835

What percentage of people does it take to gain herd immunity? Are you proposing they all be volunteers?

That satire account may have shared it, but they didn’t originate it. More and more people who don’t take this seriously are going to be dying, but that doesn’t matter to the fake “pro-life” Trump supporters. I’m sorry for this guy’s family, but there will be many more like him if the death cult nuts get their way. https://www.snyderfuneralhomes.com/obituary/john-w-mcdaniel/

What’s in store for people who try to outsmart a deadly virus