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What jerks. Spending money to potentially save a bunch of lives and avoid what happened in Italy. They should have just stayed unprepared and ignored the virus as the hospitals in NYC were quickly filling to a dangerous capacity at the time. That’s what a real leader does, right?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/05/24/new-york-approves-opening-of-training-camps/

https://theathletic.com/1833050/2020/05/23/why-the-lightning-were-one-of-two-teams-to-vote-no-on-24-team-format/ (Athletic sub. req.) Sounds like players will be quarantined. I kind of figured they’d have to be.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/22/goldman-sachs-is-hosting-a-call-about-bitcoin-gold-and-inflation/ Goldman Sachs Is Hosting A Client Call About Bitcoin, Gold and Inflation

I saw that they have over 1 million mask requests. No wonder they’re overwhelmed...

https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries “SOME ARE WINNING - SOME ARE NOT WHICH COUNTRIES DO BEST IN BEATING COVID-19?”

I more/less feel the same way, that’s why if they weren’t going to go with the normal 16 team playoff format I thought it should have been 20 teams, or even 22. Chicago and Montreal’s mathematical odds of making the playoffs were just as slim as the Sabres. But If they are determined to go with this 24 team format, obviously I wish the Sabres were included in it like was originally mentioned. They drew the line right above Buffalo’s name. But I get it, They had to draw the line somewhere and they may as well include a few big market teams (to try and make up for lost revenue) sitting on the bubble. Im not mad or anything though. I accepted long ago that their playoff hopes were dead. That losing streak sealed it. Even if they were included and managed to make it past the 3 game play-in and into the playoffs, there’d be a big asterisk next to it. I will be pissed if we still don’t get a shot at the #1 overall pick though. IMO They have to at least let the 7 teams not included have a shot at the top pick. If they go with that other format that only allows the top 4 teams a shot at #1 overall I’ll be annoyed.

They expand the playoffs by 8 teams and Buffalo is STILL missed the playoffs. Only 7 teams miss. ? We better at least get a shot at the #1 overall pick. Originally they were talking about only drawing for the #1 overall pick and only allowing teams to move up 4 spots (like the old rules before they made all the changes to the draft lottery and the start of the Sabres rebuild), which means the Sabres couldn’t win #1 OA. But under that scenario they also would’ve been one of the 24 playoff teams, so I could’ve lived with it. It would’ve been cool if they had taken the top 6 in each division like they originally talked about. Bummer that a team like Montreal gets in and not the Sabres. They have 3 more points but they have also played 2 more games than the Sabres (we were set to play them the day the season was postponed). Sabres also have 3 more Regulation wins, and 1 more OT win (Montreal has more shootout wins. They’re 4-1 in the SO). Sucks to miss by a hair like this. IMO they should have went with a 20 team play-in format. There was a good article about this on the Athletic. https://theathletic.com/1817525/2020/05/19/which-teams-are-most-affected-by-the-nhls-potential-playoff-formats/ Going with 24 teams is unfairly changing the odds too much for teams that truly earned their playoff spots. This format kind of feels like it’s meant to get teams like NY, Chicago (huge playoff market) and Montreal into the playoffs.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis’

https://theathletic.com/1825510/2020/05/20/sabres-file-suit-against-immigration-officials-in-support-of-team-strength-coach/ (Athletic. sub. req) ‘Sabres file suit against immigration officials in support of team strength coach’ Crazy. Immigration says that he hasn’t risen to the top of his field, but how can they possibly say that? There’s only 31 NHL head trainer jobs in the entire world and he’s one of them.

https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/news/best-case-scenario-is-phase-2-will-start-at-the-end-of-may I don’t think this will apply to Sabres players since they won’t be playing if they go with that proposed 24 team format. But I wonder if Buffalo is potentially being considered one of the hub cities for games? With a hotel + the 3 NHL sized rinks all within walking distance of each other.

That’s great to hear!

@BuffaloBillsGospel @TheBrownBear How are you both doing? Hope all is going well.

https://puckpedia.com/agent-poll#P2 NHL player agent poll.

https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Hypoallergenic-Households-Sensitive-Protection/dp/B086WNNTNQ I ordered these. They came quick and seem to be pretty good quality. Definitely better than some of the thin paper ones I’ve seen around. They’re not medical grade, but none of these disposable masks on amazon are (at least that I can find).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/mask-shortage-for-most-health-care-workers-extended-into-may-post-ipsos-poll-shows/2020/05/20/1ddbe588-9a21-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html ‘Mask shortage for most health-care workers extended into May, Post-Ipsos poll shows’

@JohnC AHL it is.

Anyone get their mask for Dhvani yet? @Just Jack did you?

Wasn’t sure where else to put this. ?

Definitely sounds pretty cool. I’ll watch it if they have it.

It’s vitamin C and zinc, and in super low doses none the less. What a massive ripoff. 120mg of vitamin C. 11mg of zinc. 60 capsules for $45! You’d get more vitamin C eating an orange. For comparison, a 100 count bottle of 1000mg vitamin C is about $6-9. 500mg vitamin C is even cheaper. A bottle of 100 count 50mg zinc is about $2.50. Snake oil salesman taking advantage of people’s fears during a pandemic. What a douche.

My cousin is supposed to get married in early September. So far she has no plans to change it (she thinks this pandemic is no big deal and makes fun of people wearing masks ?). I already told her that if she goes through with it unfortunately my family won’t be able to attend. I apologized but said that we couldn’t take the risk (we have high risk family members). A number of others in my (extended) family have already told her the same thing. I feel bad but a wedding certainly isn’t worth putting my family at risk. My sister was supposed to get married in October. She already cancelled her wedding and is hoping to do it next fall. She didn’t think it was right to ask people to put themselves at risk for her wedding, and she said when she does have the reception she wants everyone there to have a good time, not to be worried about getting sick if they talk too close to someone or dance with someone (etc). I agreed with her.

So I wonder what happens if the “new hospitalization” rate holds steady where it is? 3 days ago it was at 20. 2 days ago it was 17. That’s an 18.5 average. If yesterday’s rate wasn’t below 15, we would technically fail the 1st metric, right? So what happens then?