Doc Brown

The same reason you test drive a car I guess. Get a feel for what safeguards will be in place and then make a decision.

What?

Your family basically has to quarantine for five to six months if he wanted to see them and that's weighing on his mind. He mentioned the false positive with Stafford and that had him freaked out. The NFL's lack of a plan and pressure they're putting on these guys to make a big decision with a deadline sucks. Can Bills Mafia come up with a #staytrestay hashtag on twitter? Our cb's without him will do six feet of social distancing from the WR's on accident.

Listening to him it didn't sound like that was even on his mind but you never know. I think he's opting out unless Beane/McDermott can convince him otherwise. What a backbreaker.

That's where it tells me he's trying to score political points. Most of the protests have been peaceful. He made a good point that Fauci has advocated for businesses to be shut down, avoid restaurants and bars, etc but wouldn't commit to urge people not to protest. Jordan would've looked better just making that point.

Not a good look with the undecided swing voters he's trying to win over. Also not a good look, apparently not being able to comprehend (or pretending he doesn't) the concept of deaths per capita are and why it matters when comparing the US response to COVID to other countries. I don't know why he booked this interview with an actual non sycophant reporter who did his homework but he might need another campaign manager. It was like watching McDermott throw Peterman into the lion's den against the Chargers.

Only logical conclusion is we're freeing up cap space to sign Clowney.

True although a lot of other countries made the same mistakes because of how quickly this virus escalated and how little we knew about it. If the Nordic countries creep up in similar death rates and Sweden doesn't experience a second wave then that should be the model to follow. I think the ultimate blueprint will be somewhere in between Sweden's model and South Korea's model.

That's a good one but nothing beats this...

I'd like my boss to also not see me as a human.

I don't think Biden has anything to worry about after watching Trump's Axios interview.

Libyans

Winters is coming.

Pederson could be in the presymptomatic phase where he has it but hasn't developed symptoms yet (some people develop minor symptoms and don't even realize they have it (feeling lethargic, dulled tasted buds, slight cough, etc..). It's common to spread it while in that phase as that seems to be where the virus is most contagious. If he remains asymptomatic it's unlikely but still possible that he can transmit the virus to someone else based off what research has been done to the best of my knowledge. I'm hoping that the NFL executives and players can learn from MLB's mistakes and develop policies that increase the likelihood of being able to play a season without being in a bubble.

Then he spreads it to somebody much more vulnerable who dies. How is this hard to comprehend?

Purposely infect all players, staff, media members, etc... right now and have then quarantine for a month. Proceed as usual with no fans allowed. If they die they die. Rocky 4 is the best bad movie of all time.

It's frustrating because the virus ranges from no symptoms to deadly symptoms depending on your age and overall health. You'd think not having any symptoms would be a good thing but not with this virus. Without knowing your carrying the virus you're more likely to go out and spread it to somebody else extremely vulnerable.

We're not.

It'll be interesting to see if Belichick takes a different approach with Newton.

Depends on my financial situation.

It could just be I need a break from Belichick for a year and I'll sacrifice money to do it.

Logically, if deaths per capita were only slightly higher than Norway and Finland with Sweden only having moderate damage to their economy than they absolutely got it right. They're not at this point though. If there's a similar overall death rate in 2020 between those countries because those that went down with Covid in Sweden were going to die anyways then Sweden got it right. If this virus eventually just burns through all the countries anyways then Sweden got it right. However, if the overall death rate is significantly higher than Norway and Finland when this virus is finally gone then there's a strong argument that they got it wrong. There's psychological factors to consider as well as I'm sure Sweden had less suicides, drug overdoses, cases of depression, domestic violence cases, etc.. Meanwhile, their were more grieving families in Sweden. It's just too soon to jump the gun and say that Sweden was right and most other countries were moronic with their draconian lockdown measures.

Italy, France, and Spain got annihilated in March like NYC did so of course you're going to see few deaths when almost all the vulnerable have already died. Here's the deaths per million. Trump's argument is also just as dumb. Confirmed deaths (absolute) Daily increase (# deaths)¹ Population (in millions) Deaths per million Belgium 9,840 4 11.42 861.49 United Kingdom² 45,999 38 66.49 691.83 Spain 28,443 2 46.72 608.75 Peru 18,816 0 31.99 588.2 Italy 35,132 3 60.43 581.35 Sweden 5,739 9 10.18 563.58 Chile 9,377 99 18.73 500.66 USA² 151,826 1,339 327.17 464.06 France² 30,137 15 66.99 449.89

I realize there's more than deaths to consider but the vast difference in them between its two border countries is difficult to ignore. I suspect their policy will be the best in the long run but if Finland or Norway's overall deaths from Covid are still significantly lower than Sweden's at this time next year I'm not going to call there unique approach a success.

If I lost a loved one in Sweden to Covid I'd be looking at my neighboring countries right now and are asking why didn't we have those draconian shut down measures like they did? There's no easy answer in balancing the economy with the loss of life from a virus, but that's quite the difference in death rates. If this thing does burn out through all the population like we think it will then it's obvious they made the right decision. I'm just not there yet.