OT: Coronavirus

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@MaroonBells said:

@JimmyinSD said:

@RS Express said:

@purplefaithful said:
Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????

I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz

I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money. 

you werent going to but then you did... WTF?

That was a pretty benign comment from RS, Jimmy.  The pandemic and our response to it is wrapped up in politics. You can't separate the two. 

well if it cant help but go political then we move the thread,  because I guarantee  you that somebody will want to respond and its off the rails from there.  He knew his comments were not acceptable prior to making them or he wouldnt have prefaced them as he did.   if we want this thread to be informative about the virus then we need to keep it as such.  

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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ju...s/2262560/

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@purplefaithful said:
Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?

I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...

I ll be there in september.

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@kmillard said:

@purplefaithful said:
Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?

I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...

I ll be there in september.

i seriously have my doubts they will be playing in front of fans.

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@JimmyinSD said:

@kmillard said:

@purplefaithful said:
Not to get all negative, but does anyone really believe they're going to have 70k crammed into stadiums by Sept?

I say NFW without a therapeutic or vaccine...

I ll be there in september.

i seriously have my doubts they will be playing in front of fans.

I hope Millard is right...

I read somewhere the only way they could make it work is if the players were sequestered away for the season in a hotel or complex, tested weekly and no fans in the stands. 

In that case, the Wilfs can return my season tix $ I've paid for 2020 and ask for it again in 2021. 

We'll see how/if things change between April and Sept...I really dislike our new abnormal (sighs). 

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@Ralphie said:

You don't have to have a good time to have alcohol.

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U.S. Surpasses 1 Million Coronavirus Cases

More than 1 million cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the U.S., marking a grim milestone in the country with the most reported coronavirus infections in the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
U.S. deaths from the respiratory virus passed 57,000 on Tuesday, equal to the upper end of estimated flu deaths for the 2019-2020 flu season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
The true death rate of COVID-19 is still unclear because of a lack of widespread testing, but current numbers suggest a rate much higher than the flu, which infects between 9 million and 45 million people in the U.S. each year, the CDC estimates.
The U.S. has far more COVID-19 cases than any other country. Spain, which has around 50 million people compared with some 332 million in the U.S., has 232,128 cases. Italy, which has a population of around 62 million people, has 201,505 cases. China, where the outbreak began, is reporting fewer than 84,000 cases. Those numbers are as of Tuesday afternoon.

Among U.S. states, New York has been hit the hardest, with nearly 300,000 cases and 22,000 deaths, followed by New Jersey. But conditions have been improving in those states, which have reported success in flattening infection rates.
Now, more rural states are the latest to feel the effects of the pandemic, as they watch infection curves rise.
Cases are on the rise in Iowa, where the coronavirus broke out in one of the country's major pork packing plants. Despite a sharp rise in cases, the governor has begun to ease restrictions in some parts of the state.
Other states such as Georgia, Tennessee and Texas have also started to lift restrictions, even as cases in those states climb.


https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus...irus-cases

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1 million now, so to be a million more.

Defense Production Act will ensure this gets worse, get back to the slaughterhouse trump says.  

amazing how badly this admin can fuck up the easiest of government powers