jimmy10

I’m pretty sure the Bills already announced a while ago that you can choose a refund or credit toward next year for any missed games this year.

Happy to see the announcement and updated policy. I emailed my STH rep just a week or two ago after the Giants announcement, and she told me if we opted out, we could preserve our seniority, but NOT our exact seats. I’m glad they went this way, and I don’t see how it won’t become the norm league wide. Not just for safety’s sake, but all the people hit with job losses and furloughs. I’m on a partial furlough this summer, and while we are fortunate enough to get by OK even with the furlough, it’s still $200/month I’m glad to not have to spend.

Yup. Only one “side” decided to turn simple public health measures into culture wars.

Well, the good news is now people might not be so pissy when they can’t attend games this season.

My folks are in their 80s too. I’ve been doing their grocery runs for them and visiting my mom from the porch walkway, over 6 feet away. My dad is severely disabled (since childhood, from polio - so we’ve got some up-close and personal familiarity with epidemics in my family) and unable to come to the door, so we talk on the phone. They both have a number of other underlying conditions. My mom’s a retired RN, so she gets all of the precautions, etc. So then last week my wife tested positive for the Covid-19 antibodies. She’s a frontline hospital worker, but nobody else in her department tested positive. So, it’s a good chance her infection came from community exposure, but there’s no way to know for sure. I haven’t been tested yet, but there’s a good chance I got it along the way from my wife. So my point, is that visiting my mom from the doorway and practicing social distancing wasn’t just borne out of “fear,” it was borne out of a sense of empathy, and strong belief in the concept of mitigating risk. My folks and I knew all along there was a non-zero chance I could pass the virus to them, and perhaps we avoided it by being careful. So I have a hard time listening to people who say “stop living in fear!” It’s not about fear. It’s about caring for others and taking steps to minimize risk.

There’s the disconnect. It’s not about fear, it’s about empathy and mitigating risk of infecting others. Fear implies selfishness. How do I know? The opinions of 6 doctors I personally know, but not in a biblical way.

Dunkirk Don was right all along.

That makes a ton of sense. I hope the Bills, and the rest of the league, adopt the same policy.

I’ve noticed an uptick in mommy-blogger types on Facebook posting about things like “educational freedom” and refusing to send their kids to school in the fall with any protective measures in place whatsoever, or else they will not pay their school taxes, because fear, and liberties, and reasons, and misspelled words, etc. I think all their husbands are posting here.

Build-a-Bears, Qbert, Zionist Planking conspiracies. Study it out.

Might be hard to believe, but science is often not binary, right or wrong. It’s constantly evolving, and in the case of COVID-19, that’s happening daily. There’s a real deficit of patience for nuance and uncertainty these days. But everyone always enjoys a good “durrr, eggs were bad, now their good, scienticians are stoopid” take.

I think the word you’re looking for is “snowflakes.”

This makes me dislike him a little less.

I was at an event in Rochester, the twilight criteria, which is a nighttime bike race through the streets downtown. Many corporate sponsors with VIP tents, wine and cheese parties, etc. I was in one of the tents, and saw a colleague over in another tent. He happens to be a black dude. I wanted to show him a piece of equipment we were demoing out on the street, technically away from all the VIP tents, but still close by. We both had glasses of wine in our hands. I was all, come on dude, bring your drink, come check it out! He hesitated and then said, “Nah, there’s a group of cops over there and I don’t want to get hassled for carrying a drink around in the street.” Now whether he would’ve been hassled or not in this particular instance is immaterial. (He’s also a close enough work friend and this piece of equipment was tangentially related to his work too, so I’m pretty sure he wasn’t just blowing me off. ) The fact that that was his line of thinking opened my eyes quite a bit. And I grew up in a very diverse town and have had POC around me my entire life. But even as “woke” as I think I am, there are experiences and perspectives out there that just never cross my mind.

Now I’m as bedwetting a liberal as there ever was, so my opinions on all of this are pretty unsurprising. But a good buddy of mine, Air Force vet from the first Gulf War, republican, and even had a couple stints as an elected official in local government, is sickened by many aspects of this, from the backlash against Kaep to Breese’s comments, and the belief that the flag, anthem, etc are somehow sacrosanct and untouchable. I’m reminded of a great rap lyric from the early 90s on the flag-burning topic, by the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: ”Any flag worth a sh** was woven from fire in the first place.”

Maybe, and I think in these football “insiders’” rush to get The Story, a great deal of suppositions and assumptions can be made. But I also think it’s more than a little naive to suggest multi-million dollar decisions aren’t made without some pretty complex circumstances.

“Maddy Glab” sounds like the result for asking an AI program to come up with a name for a female millennial.

It looks like Darth Vader’s hemorrhoid pillow.

I read no less insanity/inanity in yesterday’s NFL reopening/“Fauci can suck a bag of ****” thread.

you’re right, I’m a dumbass, looked at the grid wrong. Still, a nicely balanced schedule. One set each of b2b roadies and homies.

Cross post from the leak thread: Almost a perfect balance of alternating home/away games. Only back to back roadies are in December. I can’t remember a schedule being that “even.”

Almost a perfect balance of alternating home/away games. Only back to back roadies are in December. I can’t remember a schedule being that “even.”

Jets fans are idiots. At least Pats “fans” had the good enough sense to pick a winner.

Buddy of mine who is a Cowboys fan (and a former sports anchor in a SEC market) texted me during the Thanksgiving game to say how exciting Josh is to watch.

I’ll see your unsourced quote from an article and raise you one unsourced quote from an article. Daily deaths are expected to grow to about 3,000 by June 1 from about 1,750 now, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency document, which used numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the administration predicted that the number of new infections per day would jump to 200,000 from 25,000 — an eightfold increase — by June 1.