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I don't know how they are doing medically, but I can tell you from experience, they and the Mennonites *hate* wearing the masks, washing hands and being told only one of them is permitted in a store. They are slowly getting with the program. Slowly.

In Pennsylvania, the governor is threatening to pull liquor licenses and funding for the counties planning to defy the state reopening "sequence." I reside in a county that is preparing a plan to slowly winch up the middle finger to said sequence. https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/wolf-threatens-funding-license-cuts-if-counties-move-to-reopen-in-pa-without-his-approval.html https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/2020/05/11/gov-wolf-punches-back-consequences-going-yellow-too-soon/3110487001/

Major: The Bills do what they are capable of doing: winning the division and at least one playoff game. Minor: The NFL, after seeing the success of the draft, embraces "less is more" in it's programming.

I think in PA, push is coming to shove soon, and several counties, currently in the red zone, have informed the governor that they will not direct their sheriffs department to cite non-essential businesses that open. Other counties have written letters to the governor, pleading that the methodology being used to open the state is quite flawed (it is), which of course, has been ignored. It would be interesting to see if the governor would dedicate state police resources to citations if many counties in this state started making these declarations and businesses opened up.

Still not the worst part of their "presentation.". The correct answer to that is Suzy Kolber and all the NFL retirees. MNF needs a top to bottom house cleaning, *starting*, not avoiding, the creative department. Light the whole house on fire, burn it to the ground, ensure there are no survivors. Otherwise, they are just repacking the mediocrity, hoping you won't care.

Both the feds (what virus? there's nothing to worry about!) and the state of Pennsylvania (this is a super virus, it's going to murder everyone) have somehow managed to botch the pandemic response in uniquely different ways. I like that Pennsylvania has a pediatrician making the decisions on pandemic response. Not an epidemiologist from Penn or Jeff or UPMC or perhaps a committee of infectious disease specialists from a state with like 10+ academic medical centers. Nope, we've got a pediatrician from Hershey doing it.

I think the big movie twist is the Gates foundation, along with some US universities are deeply involved with the Wuhan lab and riding shotgun on pressuring the WHO. I think he's personally deep on this. I don't think the Chinese knew the depths of the research in Wuhan until the accident but I'll bet Gates did. He found a willing partner to push the limits in research and it backfired.

Another vote for Cornelius Bennett.

The GOP doesn't want to discuss anything Joe Biden yet. The furor over Tara Reade now is coming from unhappy Democrats attempting the Hail Mary pass. In many ways, the GOP is likely fine with Biden or Clinton as an opponent. He's going to wear down once let out of the basement and she's literally more unlikeable than Trump and that's hard to do.

These governors push...push...push...

I think Cam Newton will struggle to find work in the NFL in 2020 because unless he's changed his diet/fitness regimen back to what's required to fuel a body that can take the beating the NFL game provides, no NFL team is going to bother.

On a strategic level, don't give the opposition easy buckets. If he wears a mask for the 20 minute visit, there's no story. That's the real idiot part. On a leadership level, he's the face of the virus task force visiting virus patients in a hospital. Since we're all going to get back to work and school with these things on whether we like it or not, lead by example.

The people in this administration are just so dumb. When everyone in the room is wearing a mask and you're telling the nation to wear them and the press is there.... Yet there *you* are, defiantly not wearing one... That's calling in the artillery on your own position.

Why are people surprised the Packers and Eagles drafted quarterbacks that have some talent? Quarterbacks get hurt and they like to retire suddenly. A team's championship aspirations often depend on how much you paid attention to your backup plan at quarterback. The whole problem with the Packers way of doing things is that the entire enterprise lived and died on Aaron Rodger's ability to stay healthy. It was so fragile.

Can we stop trying to make A.J. Green happen?

Absolutely. Still don't buy a word Tyson or Smithfield are saying publicly about what's going on inside their plants.

Eh. They are doing this on purpose. I have a hard time buying this from a company that has lobbied intensively to enter the Chinese market in the last decade. What's next, some Chinese companies offering to ride to the rescue?

There's another angle to this, at least in PA, in that all health systems are not created equal. There are certainly the haves and have nots, and most often, it's the for-profit hospitals and systems that buckle first because they super crunch the pennies. They staff the leanest, pay the least which inevitably fields the B and C teams, have just enough equipment on hand for normal every day operations, and all decisions are made states away. Its very fragile. Same deal in the nursing homes. Some nursing homes are run very well. Others are nightmares.

I don't think there's a lot there to the Packers drafting this QB. Teams today need quality backups and insurance policies in case players decide to just retire. Green Bay's achilles heel is that when Rodgers gets hurt and is out, the backup quarterback play is so terrible its no longer a guaranteed playoff team.

IMO, a thorny issue isn't going to be testing but keeping the sick people, after a positive test, from coming to work because they want to avoid the PITA of a 14-day quarantine, afraid they will lose their job if they are out that long, or using two weeks of sick time that may not be paid time.

That's what I saw - an exhausted elderly man. Since he's surrounded himself with sycophants and morons nobody will tell him the truth but he needs to step back, recharge and let Rex Bannon get back to doing these junkets. I think he's grossly miscalculated, personally, his base's appetite for the press warfare on a daily basis.

He needs to stop doing the daily press conferences because the bad days of a rambling, tired old man at the podium are starting to out number the decent days where you get a sense he's got things somewhat under control.

Herbert. He's in the Josh Rosen/Mitch Trubisky camp of weak mental toughness. He'll get drafted high and will likely encounter a lot of difficulty and setbacks. 90% of the time rookies flourish on conquering the mental aspects of football. The mental toughness to persevere. Can you run a specific route? Can you understand a play, not just memorize it? If it was just based on physical traits, C.J. Spiller and Leodis McKelvin would be having Hall of Fame careers. The team that drafts Herbert would be wise to do the Aaron Rodgers plan.

The irony is this dude won't hesitate to call in the national guard as he cowers deep inside the governors mansion. He doesn't like your guns but you will respect his.

The two best bank robberies movies in history are Heat and Percy Harvin's time in Buffalo.