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Sadly they will likely be drafting players we won’t see suit up until fall 2021. Maybe sports will find a way to play without stadium attendance by then; but then the teams will lose a huge chunk of revenue so that probably isn’t viable either.

As our society grows more fragile and values every single life at a higher and higher level, "pandemics" (or any illness than instills panic and fear) might occur on a much higher frequency. I agree it seems ludicrous to maintain such an inventory, but I bet that 5 percent of the annual military budget could support an entire system with almost full yearly replacement indefinitely. Seems like a lot of bang for your buck. Your last sentence is important, many many people have surmised and envisioned this exact scenario. We really should have done better. This entire thing was mismanaged world wide nearly every step of the way.

I'm sitting here in awe of these markets. As you stated, the earnings reports coming in the next quarter or two are going to make peoples heads spin. The market is going to implode so hard in the coming 6-12 months. Hang on tight.

And the other thing we need is medical overhead. The only reason this disease has paralyzed us is because our medical system is just barely able to function during nominal levels of need. It sounds outrageous, but we need large facilities that are "moth-balled" but always ready to be sprung into action in the event of a pandemic. We a million ventilators (at a minimum) stored in a giant repository along with all the other PPE, this must be staffed and maintained perpetually. We need the ability to quickly convert the medical system into a temporary setup that doubles its capacity. I understand that is a wildly complicated, but the alternative is the entire collapse of modern society. Our hospital system can't be at capacity all the time, and it can't be for profit.

Testing Testing Testing. If we could magically test every American over the next 3-4 weeks and actually quantify the real levels of infection and exposure we could make informed decisions. We need both regular testing for the active virus and antibody testing. We need a system ( a COVID card, if you will) where we know who is vulnerable and who is relatively immune or safe and we give the safe people a pass/app/card that gets them access to specific locations. We need to shelter the ones at high risk and get the rest of back out there. We just need testing, massive incredible testing. Without it, its all speculation and fear.

Once we slowly begin to emerge from this lock down people better learn to hold their sneezes and coughs. The slightest hint of sickness will get people chased out restaurants and stores, its going to be a weird paranoid existence for a long time. Not cool.

The average middle schooler probably knows the difference between a virus and bacteria and how an antibiotic works. This from the guy who considers himself a genius and thinks he’s a natural medical doctor. Lol. Imagine proudly supporting him..

Every single summer festival all they way through August has been canceled in Rochester. I can’t imagine it will be long before the state fair finds the same sad fate.

Correct, Bernie would have been nice but the US isnt ready for socialism just yet, a bit ahead of his time so to speak. Joe Biden will have to do but certainly has a better chance of losing than winning at this time. To be honest, I would take any single republican candidate over trump. Literally any other person, anyone, but Trump. This isnt about dems or republican, I just want a coherent normal human with some form of empathy and intelligence.

It always easy to remember that one because its basically the only "lie" in his entire 8 year career. Trump is over 17,000 blatant lies in 3 years, often making more than a dozen an hour. Try to keep up.. Anyway, hows the hoax working out for you? LOLz

Thats a very interesting article. A damn shame it had to be spun into a strange trump dick sucking direction. Trump doesnt know an ion, from an electron, or how iron has any part of human blood chemistry. Someone much smarter probably told him it had hope and now he is somehow getting praise as if he came up with the medicine or idea to use it as a treatment himself. We don't need any medical advice from any president, Whether its Trump or Obama. Leave that shit to the professionals who have spent decades working and studying in a lab. Cool article, shitty spin. Hope we can get this virus figured out soon.

4805 cases. 685 deaths Italy definitely seems to have peaked scroll down for nice graphics https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Looks like they have truly peaked and have begun the slow decline. A long brutal decline at that. What a long lasting nasty bug for those who catch it and develop moderate to severe symptoms. Seems like 3-4 weeks until recovered.

Coworkers wife is in ICU. Expected to be on a ventilator for another week.

I remember stumbling across the stat that Greenland has a population over 50,000 people. Kind of blew my mind. Lots of little harbors and fishing ports/villages.

It's not a misrepresentation, its simply another piece of the puzzle. I can infer accurate trends in either graph. Those graphs distinctly show when transmission rates drop off, typically as a result of stringent social distancing. Link me some useful graphs that show the total available infectable population, I'd be interested to see those too.

I already posted a far more accurate way to track it, and it shows a similar thing. https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?fbclid=IwAR0rJQtPzhVZjylG_TcF51RlEVCs6j8B0y11cT4t75-PjvYWEOjVeItMJuA This is just another visual to show how far outside the norm in terms of absolute numbers that we are right now. (Half the time, twice the numbers, it's not pretty) China likely under reported, but what if they didn't? Will we ever know? We we should just throw them out altogether.

That sure as heck isnt flattening for the US.

This just seems wildly hard to believe. The solution to pollution is dilution. After even a few seconds of air flow, you have to imagine concentrations are dropping dramatically as air moves and mixes. Secondly, there is an infectious dose threshold. Just because a virus can be detected, does not mean it can be contracted. Point in case is that cruise ship where they detected COVID19 17 days after. Sure, it may have been detected (DNA remnants), but could you get sick from it, seems unlikely if not impossible. Anyway, I don't know what magic room that doctor was in but air moves, and as it moves it dilutes. I see little risk to just breathing in normal air if no one else is within 6 feet.

I agree with pretty much all of this. Here is the big question.. How well do we really know the flu numbers? What if the denominator is actually far larger than we realize because similar asymptomatic carriers and mild symptoms. In that scenario, COVID19 is once again 20-30 times more deadly. I really wish we could just get some solid data but its a daunting task.

This a great 7 minute video on exponential growth and a really nice way they have found to graph it that exposes when exponential growth slows and begins to move linearly. I highly recommend giving it a watch. https://digg.com/video/coronavirus-exponential-growth-graph?fbclid=IwAR3EG6jWfBL-RDk-DWTbWBwtp62W37WLz7L9a1S6rBjz-UDseqNXR6nIOuM Using their technique, it would appear Italy is close to slowing this thing down while the US is a rocket ship. https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?fbclid=IwAR3vFckAwNVY8YFm7bFjHLPB-AgEOQDMnz0YpnCeHRE27wWOVftYB_qjxVU

Another story casting serious doubt on China’s numbers. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020182846.html

Well it’s better than the nothing I see occurring at all the other stores that are open like wegmans, gas stations, most takeout places, Home Depot, etc etc. Those places are basically functioning exactly as they always did. Anyway, I’m not here to defend game stop. I was just trying to make a positive that they found a way to stay open for the customer and pay their employees. Good grief.

Well im not advocating one way or another just saying that as a brick and mortar they rely on selling from their storefront, and their financials have been pretty weak as of late.

I imagine quite a few people are playing video games while sitting in quarantine. This is game stops big moment to turn an otherwise shitty situation into some profit! Sounds like they at least have something in place to limit exposure.