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Same. I’ve never seen anything like this before in my lifetime. My 87yr old aunt says the same thing.

Follow up on the AP story from the previous page of this thread: https://apnews.com/9c4d5284ba4769d3b98aa05232201f88 ? [Edit: Hapless sez, bear in mind that per AP writer and long-time board member @john wawrow, AP publication requires two sources that have to have personal knowledge ie it can't be "heard it from someone who heard it...."]

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/marcus-williams-new-orleans-saints-5-toughest The 5 Toughest Players I’ve Ever Faced BY MARCUS WILLIAMS

I know strength of schedule rankings aren’t that meaningful, but for anyone interested: https://www.sharpfootballstats.com/2020-strength-of-schedule.html they use forecasted 2020 Vegas win totals and have us right in the middle as far as SOS.

Wow! 4 prime time games! The Bills got some respect this year. I hope this is the start of a new trend and we earn a place more often in prime time moving forward. Hopefully this year is the Bills national coming out party.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20200506/110747/HHRG-116-AP07-Wstate-RiversC-20200506.pdf This is Dr. Cainlin Rivers opening statement to congress from the house appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday. It’s worth reading. She also said that to her knowledge no state reopening meets all the gating criteria.

(from the facts thread) man, this virus is a real monster. Scary.

This is a good twitter thread. Worth reading IMO.

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I wasn’t crazy about the Johnson pick at the time. I wanted one of the skilled forwards that was available. I thought this was a “safe” pick. But ive been impressed with him so far. He might be our best defensive prospect (outside of the NHL) right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/955k2OBOFW Wow.

IMO the biggest mistakes have been made by our federal government. It was their policies that kept us from being able to test and screen in the very crucial early days of this virus. It was federal policies that didn’t screen passengers traveling from virus epicenters in Europe. It was their policies that put super strict guidelines on who could get a covid test during the early days of the virus. It was their policies that banned states from being able to produce their own covid tests (until early March anyway). It was the federal govt. that ignored the early intel they received from their health agencies. Washington state defied the CDC’s orders and produced their own covid tests early. That’s how they identified their outbreak. IMO it did NOT have to get this bad in the US. We are capable of fighting this virus so much better than we are. Our CDC is a world leader in fighting infectious disease. and it doesn’t have to get worse (but it likely will by reopening before we’re ready, and it seems they’re kind of even admitting that they’re opening before we’re ready and things are going to get worse).

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Should I put the jar of yeast I have up for bid on EBay...? ?

All these doctors, nurses, microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, and other medical experts keep telling us how dangerous COVID-19 is... but all these people I went to high school with who barely passed science say it’s not dangerous. It’s so hard to know who to believe anymore.... ?‍♂️ ?

Congrats! Jealous of the way you guys have handled this. The US isn’t doing nearly as well. Check out this chart of the 10 worst hit countries. It appears that we are #1 in new cases by quite a large margin.

Friday May 8th at 9pm (EST) description: https://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-american-portrait-shares-how-americans-are-adapting-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-in-new-broadcast-special-produced-by-radicalmedia-airing-may-8-2020/

Nice weather is absolutely not a reason to reopen the country. Reopening has to be driven by science and the data. Cases are still rising in many states. We still don’t have enough PPE for our frontline workers. We still don’t have enough testing. We don’t have screening in place yet. We don’t have tracing in place yet. Death totals are holding steady between 1500-2000 per day, and that’s with all the stay at home orders. How much worse is it going to be now that people are starting to crowd together again? And even when we reopen, you should still follow social distancing guidelines whenever possible, and wear a mask (esp. indoors and in places social distancing might be tougher). I honestly don't get why why some people are so dead set against wearing a mask. Is it really asking that much? Especially considering what some of our healthcare workers and first responders are going through? Yeah I know. I was just trying to be a wise ass/funny.

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-gov-cuomo-announces-coronavirus-state-purchasing-coalition-2020-5 Smart idea by Cuomo. Maybe we should have a consortium of all 50 states for situations like this. You know, like a federation.... Im thinking we could have a centralized federal government and call it something like “the United States of America”...? (I’m still working on the name) ?

https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/05/04/nhl-makes-case-to-teams-for-early-june-draft/ ‘NHL makes case to teams for early-June draft’ There would be no draft lottery. That sucks. I guess at least we couldn’t move back 3-4 spots. Buffalo would likely pick 7th (or 8th at worst). But I’d still rather have a draft lottery. This current draft idea would likely put all of the top 3 picks in the draft right in our division. #1 to Detroit #2 to ottawa #3 (SJ sharks pick held by Ottawa) That would Suck! I guess thee would also be no player trades because NHL rosters would remain frozen for a potential resumption of the end of season/playoffs after the draft. That would really hurt the Sabres ability to make changes to this team.