snowman21

Low of 60 here. Guess I'll have to wait until September to see the 50s again.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I still think the spike in pitching and decrease in hitting this season is not a direct result of pitchers suddenly and collectively using sticky stuff to increase spin rates. Before this season, offense/home runs was surging so pitchers had to find ways to negate the ‘juiced ball’. MLB made changes to the baseball in the offseason to help pitching so with record breaking no hitters to date, suddenly the sticky substance becomes a talking point...I’m not completely sold on it. The spin rate sample size is way to small for me to declare that this is the case.

Go look at Kyle Crick's slider. It's ridiculous trying to even hit a pitch with nearly 2 feet of horizontal movement - it doesn't even look real. He spins up to 3500 RPM which is crazy because I think high 2000s used to be the god benchmark that few could reach.

What do UFOs have to do with religion? Obama mentioned something like that too, and I don't get it.

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

We should come up with an AMXCoin, we'd all be rich.

It's easy. Look at the dude that created SCAM coin as a joke and suddenly found himself a multimillionaire.

Samsung Galaxy phone can record in 8K and capture 1 billion pixels of image data per second and costs $1000 and can fit in your pocket, but the military which blows $715 billion every year still only has cameras as good as your local gas station security system.

5 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

True, but we all still need to get up and go to work in the morning, aliens or not.  
Seriosly though, if aliens are visiting I doubt there would be a full reveal.  That would cause some issues for religions and governmental power structures.  
My take on it has always been that if “they” are here they have probably been here for a long time, maybe longer than us.

If the aliens are here just visiting over many decades, then so far they aren't looking to do what the aliens in Independence Day did and blow up the planet. If they are peaceful and just visiting maybe they could help us make faster ways to travel or with technology in general that would take us the next 1000 years to figure out on our own.

6 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

I wonder how long many of these testing sites will last.   CT is down to a couple hundred cases per day and falling....I'd guess you can always get a test at your dr's office....

Probably going to need to keep some around for the rest of the year. Much of last summer saw infection rates below 1%, so despite doing tons of testing the positive rate was at times coming in as low as 0.2% with only about 50 people hospitalized statewide and that was without vaccines. Have to wait and see how much improvement is just the seasonal cycle, and the state is going to be aggressively monitoring to try to get ahead of any localized outbreaks.

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

Dominoes falling now.

What dominoes? Weren't most states already planning on lifting restrictions in the coming weeks?

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

So the mask thing ends now correct? No specific dates by state ?

Last I heard, weeks ago, Lamont was leaving it up to individual businesses to decide, but DPH was recommending we continue wearing masks. Probably not anymore though so as not to be in conflict with CDC guidance.

Just now, CT Rain said:

nightclubs, standing at a bar, 100% stadiums/concerts, <6ft distance at restaurants. Will be on the 19th. 

We still have nightclubs? Thought those things were relics of the '80s and '90s.

Just now, CT Rain said:

He's gotta do it soon. Connecticut is 100% open in 6 days. 8/1 makes no sense with vaccines widely available. 

What in Connecticut isn't already open?

3 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

What's the over/under on Baker rescinding the mask order?

He has his time line, I have mine.

Why is Mass. so much more restrictive than CT? Or is that just the impression I get from the people complaining on this site?

4 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

What was actually said was that so far, of the 6 months of real world data we have, that immunity was still measured.  I’m not blaming you for misunderstanding. The media has been AWFUL with messaging.

Some how this got misconstrued as the vaccine only lasts 6 months.

I should have phrased that better as I understand the vaccine to start declining in effectiveness at the six month mark or there about. So if that's true that there will be a decline at some point, I'd rather just get the max protection when I would need it most which is next fall/winter and not in the summer when we're all outside where transmission is very low. Last summer we had positive test rates well below 1% and as low as 0.2%, so I'm expecting a repeat of that meaning no point in wasting a few months of vaccine maximum effectiveness when the risk is low. Kind of like there's no point in getting the flu shot this time of year.

3 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

Who said it was only good for 6 months?

Well there is some question about how long it will be effective until a booster is required.

Would it be better to get the vaccine now or wait until August or September? If it's only really good for six months, and the summer isn't an issue as we saw last year, maybe it's better to wait to get it right before you'd expect a surge in cases like we had in the fall heading into the holiday season?

6 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

I don’t know. Depends on where you live. I swear 90% of people on the street in Boston and Cambridge are still covered up like their fighting off a flesh eating plague. 

Who cares though? If people want to wear a mask for the rest of their lives let them. If you don't want to wear a mask then don't. Isn't that what freedom is all about?

13 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

shouldn't there be jobs that people aren't expected to live on? you know, minimum wage jobs for high school kids. a high school kid is just looking to buy some weed, not support an entire family. 

part of the problem is that many of those high school kids don't want to work.

Have you been to a fast food place or grocery store recently? I'd say the older folks well outnumber the teenagers. Why are people in their 40s/50s/60s working there? I assume for the most part out of necessity and not so much because they enjoy stocking shelves and making  hamburgers. is the answer for them to simply just go get a job as a plumber or web site designer to earn a real livable wage?

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

There it is!

That phrase cracks me up. Yeah, let's force the entire business under so 25 people lose their jobs instead.

Or just pay them all 35/hr like they do in VT tourist country and charge the tourists 30 bucks for a pepperoni pizza.

You are going to pay to make up the difference between their wages and cost of living one way or another. They can either make it on their own through wages or they will fill that gap with your tax dollars.

26 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

We are hitting a point in next 30 days where the August 1 preliminary reopening date will look foolish. Should be June or July latest. Cases will drop off a cliff with vaccine numbers. 

Things are still closed in Massachusetts?

1 hour ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

Just for informational purposes. 
The analogy to mask wearing to be equated with going into a store barefoot isn’t a good one. Masks are mandated by the state and feds. So stores really have no choice, even if they don’t enforce it.  
However, there’s no law nor ordinance nor mandate in any state nor fed that says you can’t go in barefoot. The business may say you can’t, but there’s no law. I have a friend who is an ardent barefooter and they have  this whole society and culture that research this stuff. They have whole forums that are devoted to where they can get away with going barefoot. They take it as serious as James takes a 360 hr GFS run that shows a cape blizzard. 
(just kidding James)

Could you walk down your street with no clothes on?

5 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

All the CT people rolling in too.   Looking like it will be legalized here but won't go into effect until May 2022...classic CT giving money to other states for another year....reminds me of the no booze law that was here, we were the 2nd to last in the country to fold on that stupid law.

Nah the classic CT way would be to commission a study for $10 million, then do nothing, revisit the issue 5 or 10 years down the road and repeat the cycle. Is there a more conservative "liberal" state than CT?

Just now, DotRat_Wx said:

I'm in your boat. It's like passing an std test and the girl still makes you wear a condom just to be safe. Whatever gets the pleasure 

Maybe the girl doesn't want your herpes or HPV?

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

I am referring to this idea that the government is going to mandate vaccine passports. Whether it’s the govt, sports teams, airlines ... whomever. It is a socialist concept . This is a free country. No one should be forced to prove they had Covid vaccine or be shunned if they chose not to . This is not communist China or Cuba.

The federal government isn't going to do anything like that, and state governments can already require proof of vaccinations for things like enrolling your kids into public schools, so the precedent for the government doing that is already there. A company requiring a vaccine probably wouldn't be great business, but it is their choice. That's called freedom.

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

Nothing wrong with making an informed choice. No one begrudges you for making a choice. I can tell you from the "refuser" side of the debate, none of us care if you get the jab. Feel free. It's wonderful and a remarkable achievement that such an effective vaccine has been made available so fast. Just don't mandate your choice for everyone else, is all we ask.

The problem is not a government mandate, but a societal one. If airlines won't let you fly or stadiums won't let you in without your digital certificate proving vaccination, then what? At some point there are things we have to do that we don't like but are required to participate in a modern society.

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

everyone's ignoring most of the stuff here now (except masks indoors) example-  Grocery stores still have the one way stickers on the floor and 6 feet markers by the checkouts...worthless...

No one ever paid attention to those stickers. Interesting idea at first, but after a week or two largely ignored, and stores at that time were more concerned with disinfecting carriages and checkout lines. I'll be curious to see how many businesses continue with the precautions in a month from now like restaurants with the plastic dividers, gyms with all of their PITA rules, etc.