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I'm all for states opening their economies up but businesses do have to exercise responsibility. If that means they have to have an attendant out front taking a temperature or making sure each customer sanitizes hands, or maximum occupancy is 50% or whatever, that's the cost of being able to open your business. It's better than having zero business. I don't think business should be under the illusion that they just get to open the doors like it's January 2020 with zero f's given. TBH, I don't know how places like gyms and bars are going to pull it off.

As a Spurs fan, the 1999 championship is the one I remember most of their titles. Yes, it was in the strike-shortened season, but it was the first one for the team. There is nothing like living in the moment of it happening that first time.

The majority of hospitals are chomping at the bit to reopen because in most states, governors have prohibited their revenue generating elective and outpatient surgeries. They aren't all-pro quarantine as you might first believe.

Let them drown.

The schism is between those still with jobs and those that don't have jobs. It's a lot easier to be in the stay at home crowd when you can work from home and still collect your regular paycheck. The ***** doesn't get real for the Patton Oswalts of the world until the out of work barbarians burn his beloved Trader Joe's down in Week 10 of a lockdown.

These protests had a great opportunity to make a difference but showing up with the ARs, the load out vests, the camo, the Confederate flags and Alex Jones makes them caricatures. Don't understand the Trump support at the rallies either. The governors are the majority of the problem but he's the next 45 percent. Government is the problem. He's government just like the rest of them. Why don't people show up in the uniforms of the jobs they aren't working at currently? A lot more impactful in my opinion.

TO was good for Buffalo and he's one of my favorite players of all time in the NFL.

I won't be a bit surprised to see Pennsylvania's governor order the state police to stop any protest from reaching Harrisburg or York, where he lives. In the name of social distancing of course....

One thing I did not know about electric vs. gas chainsaws: The PPE chainsaw chaps are useless against electric chainsaws. Apparently, they will just keep moving right through the protective layers of the chaps, whereas the gas saws will get bound up by the threads by design.

You're both incorrect. Philadelphia is PA's biggest hot spot. It's in every zip code of the city but it's digging in like a tick in the north around Temple and in the nursing homes in the city. Monroe County and the Lehigh Valley are other areas that may be trouble.

People without money, without purpose and feeling helpless are formidable opponents to a civil society.

Same in Philadelphia. The hardest hit neighborhoods are the poorest, and largely black. Don't think it's so much race - the virus isn't hunting black people or Hispanics like it's some race bullet. It's the socioeconomics. Poverty, poor health outcomes (obesity, diabetes, asthma), poor healthcare (don't have a doctor or see one regularly), coupled with cramped living conditions, possibly living in multi-generational households which raises the risk of exposure, heavy dependence on mass transit which also raises risk of exposure. Throw in substance abuse, homelessness and inability to keep work due to previous incarceration (especially for males) and you've got a lot of potential issues.

The WHO, CDC and NIH will be breathlessly protecting their cozy crew of academia too. If China is #1 at fault, the academics doing this work and funding it are #1A. They knew of these labs, of the work, and the danger and they will all cover each other's asses because....grant money and some will believe the science must move forward, regardless of how many pandemics these idiots cause.

Absolutely. And that comes from a person who voted for him in 2016. It has never been one of his strengths, and this crisis highlights the weakness.

She's a lot like President Trump - a leader with zero personal intuition for how desperate/lonely/useless the average person may feel right now. None of these governors seem to realize at least publicly is that these lockdowns will never work again in most parts of the United States.

Elaine Chao's presence on the newest task force suggests to me the government may be looking at reopening states, and regions inside those states by MPOs. MPOs are organized by counties, and most states are tracking virus activity at the county level. Essentially the governors would lift restrictions in small groups of counties at a time, instead of piecemeal one here, one there.

The government creates the civil unrest. This is just an example of another click of the ratchet. They close the parks. They close the liquor stores. They tell you you can't go outside. They tell you what they think is essential for your family. 99 percent of it is unnecessary. The amount of time people are cool with all of this is running out. All that Michigan governor is doing is making for a dangerous situation at Walmart, Target, etc. between employees and shoppers. It won't take many weeks of that nonsense before it's Black Friday chaos.

I'd bet you that every single pandemic that has started in China in the last decade has originated from that lab.

Feel free but the facts bear it out - that system broke under the strain of disinvestment. A couple bucks in the north is wholly irrelevant.

To a degree, the models were based on Italy's experience with the virus because it was providing the most transparent data to model. I always thought that was going to jack the numbers up significantly. Italy is a flat broke, corrupt country that invests zero dollars in anything infrastructure related, including its healthcare system. You layer on top of it it''s one of the oldest and unhealthiest countries in Europe and just so happened to also be frequented heavily by Chinese workers and tourists in the months prior to outbreak, and you could see the disaster taking shape in hindsight. People thought the United States was caught off guard - it was 100 times worse in Italy in terms of shortages of equipment and hospital infrastructure.

IMO, we're on borrowed time after Easter on the eastern seaboard. The government has really ratcheted up that pressure here in PA - they've closed the liquor stores, closed parks and trails, and in Philly, they even removed the basketball rims. That's on top of weeks without work, school and pay.

In PA, inpatient hospitalization as a result of the virus is low. It's not being readily broadcast because people are idiots and many would blindly assume the crisis is all over and do all sorts of stupid things to erase the progress that's been made. Despite the media's absolute thirst for the bad news, some states are indeed beginning to turn the corner. Delaware hospitalizations are low as well. Ohio and Maryland hospitalizations are a little higher. NY and NJ are obviously considerably higher.

C.J. Spiller was a phenomenal athlete but a terrible football player. He couldn't understand a playbook and IMO, that was his downfall as a professional player.

Instead of saying all that, why doesn't he just say "hey, as President, I am going to make sure the United States ends its commitment to the WHO" and really send the shot? Why pull punches, which is what he's doing there?

Whoops, my bad.