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There’s live hockey on right now!! Philly vs Pittsburgh on NBC sports. It’s a warm up game but IDGAF it’s just awesome to have live hockey back!

I wish the Sabres were getting ready to play, but I’m still glad there will be hockey to watch soon. I think this will be the first time we’ve ever watched NHL playoffs in August. I really hope it goes well. If it does hopefully that’s a good sign for the NFL season.

I read that the opportunity wasn’t with another NHL team, so I have no clue who/what it involves. I just thought it was interesting. There’s not a whole lot of sports news these days... lol I love that new profile pic btw!

I don’t know if we even need a full national lockdown. I think some states have to start following the CDC reopening guidelines better, maybe roll back on some of the places they allowed to reopen too soon (the places that are the biggest drivers of covid spread, and I think some places have already started to do this), mandate masks in public places and do a lot better at delivering a unified message. Another lockdown would do little good otherwise. It would help the outbreaks but we’d eventually be right back to where we are now, with cases surging and hospitals reaching capacity. We need everyone to get on board and do their (small/large) part in this fight (especially with schools opening and flu season approaching), and I think that’s hard to accomplish when so many people are not on the same page. And I agree. I KNOW we can still do this. We have to.

This about sums up how I feel. Though Let’s see what they do with the picks before we start worrying about it. Joe Douglas might end up being a great GM or he might end up being just another crappy Jets GM in a long line of crappy Jets GMs... ?

Love it. It would be a great depth signing and a good addition to the LB room.

Wow, that’s awesome! I give the guy a lot of credit. That E:60 on what he went through was crazy.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/forecasting-us.html CDC revised its forecast of total deaths. They’re now predicting 160-175k by August 15th (3 weeks from today). We’re at 144k now. That’s 15,000 to 30,000 deaths over the next 3 weeks. I hope that ends up being an overestimate (especially the higher estimate). I’m starting to get worried that this could be another one of those really painful stretches. I pray it’s not. That month where we lost 2000+ a day was horrible. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/coronavirus-updates-us-death-toll-rising-187percent-higher-than-last-week/ar-BB178bZB Hoping for the best though. Treatments for this virus are much better than they were at the beginning of this pandemic. I’ve pretty much lost all hope for a coordinated national response at this point.

It’s all good. Nothing to apologize for. I understand. I think this stuff is taking its toll on a lot of us.

Something is going on with John Chayka in Arizona. https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/sources-coyotes-relationship-gm-chayka-fell-apart-new-opportunity/ wonder what the new opportunity was/is.

We will agree to disagree I guess. NY issued their state wide stay at home order when there was 21,000 total cases in the state. MA issued theirs with less than 1000 total cases in the state. MI had 1,791 cases when they issued their stay at home orders. NJ had 1,327 at the time of the stay at home order Those were all places considered to have early outbreaks. edit - my only real point was that Florida isn’t seeing this current surge because covid just got to their state.

CA is also seeing another spike. I probably should have included them with the other states I mentioned. I went over some of the numbers from Florida within the last few pages of this thread. I posted a timeline of covid in Florida. They had over 20,000 covid cases in April. DeSantis shut down specifically to get covid under control. If the above isn’t an outbreak, then what is? The first outbreak in Texas wasn’t as bad as Florida, but they still had an outbreak. Their first case was way back in March. and again, I don’t think you need to have a large outbreak before you’re able to start limiting the spread of covid. The goal of all these guidelines is to avoid these large outbreaks at all.

I agree. We are seeing spikes in places that already dealt with covid cases and shut down once. People keep saying these states with large outbreaks are just dealing with covid for the first time but that’s not entirely true. Texas issued disaster and emergency declarations way back in March. Florida dealt with a large covid outbreak in April. And AFAIK All of these states currently dealing with outbreaks have had covid cases for months. So, what was the national “pause” for if it wasn’t to get covid under control and stop these large outbreaks/spikes? Am I wrong for thinking that these large outbreaks still going on in June and July didn’t have to happen? I get that some covid spread is unavoidable. We can’t keep the case count at zero. But I don’t think you need to have a big outbreak before you can then control the spread. I feel at this point in the pandemic we seem to have a pretty effective method to control the spread - wear masks, social distance and avoid the indoor activities that present the highest risk to be covid super spreader events. Oh, and reopen following the CDC guidelines. That also seems to be a big factor so far in these spikes. The places that have followed the reopening guidelines most strictly seem to be doing the best. The places dealing with spikes, it seems like for the most part, did not follow the guidelines nearly as strictly when reopening. We will see how long it holds. I feel like the #1 lesson we should have learned by now is if you let your guard down, this virus will spread and it can/will spread fast if allowed. We can’t just go back to acting like everything is normal as places reopen.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/our-backs-are-to-the-wall-texas-hospital-to-turn-away-covid-19-patients-with-poor-survival-chances.html 'Our backs are to the wall': Texas hospital to turn away COVID-19 patients with poor survival chances ?

Wow!

Just came across this site today. I’ve read a couple articles so far and felt it was worth sharing. @Hapless Bills Fan I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this site get a chance to look at it some time. https://www.erinbromage.com Thought this article was pretty good/helpful. Edit - curious what you think of the advise in this article hapless. https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

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They passed on both player, what? 3 times? It’s like saying that you were going to draft Brady in the 7th. Nobody gives a ****! ?

Florida already had to shut down once a few months ago to get an outbreak under control. 30 day stay at home order, issued April 1st: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/04/01/coronavirus-florida-governor-issues-statewide-30-day-stay-at-home-order/ timeline of covid in Florida: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/03/20/timeline-the-spread-of-coronavirus-in-florida/ 6000 cases on March 31st. Over 12,000 by April 5th. Over 21,000 positive cases by April 13th (almost double in 8 days. Starting to find thousand+ new cases every day). Over 26,000 by April 19th. Over 29,000 by April 23rd and 1000+ deaths. 37,000 by May 4th. Then they started opening again in mid May, with bars, tattoo shops (etc) and some theme parks opening in early-mid June. I don’t know if I’d call it a second spike or just a continuation of their first wave?

Great news!

Forgot all about this. Thanks Wiz!

https://theathletic.com/1880791/2020/07/06/wheeler-the-top-50-drafted-nhl-prospects-ranking-2020-edition/ Dyland Cozens listed as the #1 prospect outside the NHL in Scott Wheeler’s annual prospect rankings (athletic subscription required).

I’d love to see this! Just as long as Josh doesn’t throw his arm out or something... lol.

Updated as of yesterday: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/states-comparison It’s not just more testing that’s causing spiking numbers in certain states either. Florida is 19th in testing in the US. Arizona is 36th Texas is 41st New York is 1st.

So it sounds like it’s not that they were reporting false positive tests. They just weren’t reporting the negative test results. If that’s the case that only changes the positive/negative test percentages, not the total number of positive tests for covid reported for that day. The number of people who tested positive will still be the same even if we know the number of people who tested negative that day. Obviously It’s wrong to say that 100% of the tests were positive, or 100% negative (which has also happened in Florida). But the actual number of positive tests would still be correct (unless they’re being reported more than once). It also sounds like it was limited to a number of small labs. By comparison, the state of Florida has done almost 3 million total covid tests. They have over 300k positive test results in total. https://floridahealthcovid19.gov I don’t think there’s any doubt that Florida is in the middle of an outbreak. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/13/890558022/spike-in-coronavirus-cases-overwhelms-intensive-care-units-at-florida-hospitals https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-coronavirus-icu-bed-reporting-rules-change-20200623-dmf4p5nf3few5mvjvh53vixewm-story.html As hospitals fill with coronavirus patients, Florida wants to know who is in the ICU beds https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/how-florida-is-allocating-nurses-covid-19-drugs-amid-strained-supply/67-90b7c310-544b-48d3-9129-05014829dea5 How Florida is allocating nurses, COVID-19 drugs amid strained supply (they called in hundreds of extra nurses and had to get extra covid drugs from NY state and the federal govt. to keep up with demand)