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Reeeeaaaaally hoping we never see a President Cuomo.

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Hoping like heck that there is more nuance to this than 140 characters allow. Because if some twit in a position of authority & credibility really is recommending that people leaving the largest concentration of corona virus in the country not to self quarantine upon leaving, he is setting people up to unwittingly kill their new neighbors.

There is a strong chance this will backfire on them, but they still might have 1 more card in the deck. If 45 is seen as pushing too hard/fast to reopen society and we see a second wave after that, he will get hit harder by the D's and the media than he has been on anything else to date. (And they've hit him hard to date.) This whole episode is unprecedented and there will be missteps along the way. Those will be portrayed as apocalyptic. Remember, in the spring of '91, 41 had record high approval ratings. One very minor recession which we we coming out of by November '92 later and he was out.

That's essentially what B-Man said. Still trying to figure out where this "exchange stabilization fund" language exists in the actual bill. It must be in there somewhere as both sides are talking about it; but would like to see what it is as it is actually written to understand who, if one side, both, or neither, is being unreasonable about it.

Not intentionally being daft, but not seeing "exchange stabilization" funding in S. 3548. Is that from a separate bill?

Does anybody know where in the Senate bill the "$500,000,000,000 slush fund" talking point comes from? It looks like the "discretionary" money available for distribution to large businesses is $150B. Didn't see a cap on the size of the loan/ loan forgiveness program for small businesses, but did see a cap on individual loans at $10MM. Maybe that program is estimated to be $350B, but that doesn't seem likely. (Edit: the $150B doesn't include the business funds specifically allocated to the airline industry.)

How do you mean he'll "reopen" the economy? The individual governors have been, properly, the ones shutting down individual states. Can't see NYS fully reopening for at least 4 more weeks absolute best case.

There's actually provisions for that in the Phase 3 bill that was voted down last night for those SBA Loans to be forgivable (aka grants) in the Division A - Small Business Interruption Loans provisions. (Thanks to @DerangedRhino for posting that last night.) That is probably the single greatest portion of the Phase 3 package (if it ever passes). Those funds are supposed to be available until the end of June and could go miles towards keeping businesses that are currently getting crushed like restaurants and barbershop viable and their employees able to pay their bills.

DR, do you have a link to the House's (or the Senate D's) bill? Couldn't find it on the house.gov website. You usually seem to find these pretty effectively. TIA.

His aiming nearly all his barbs at the Chinese government rather than other Americans certainly helps the approval ratings. (There's still a few shots at "journalists" but most of those are deserved IMHO.)

Can't read the article; only the headline. Would you mind giving a cliff notes version of the article?

Yep. 1 day after he mandated offices make 1/2 of their workforce work from home, he ups it to 75%. Yesterday's Executive Order seemed to exempt a lot of businesses / business functions. Not sure if the exemption list got adjusted with today's EO. (It won't publish on the governor's website until tomorrow.) Wife is now working from home 1/2 time. Not sure if that will increase as there are only 2 people that perform her function.

Agree that they accepted China's false information about the ability to transmit the disease from person to person and also that test kits in China were defective. Were the German kits the ones the Chinese were using? Had thought the Chinese used their own test protocols. And also understand that the WHO did NOT offer test kits to the US. But, haven't seen anywhere that the German kits (which were the basis of the protocol that the WHO shared to 3rd world countries) were defective. Were those defective too?

What do you suppose are the odds the person who wrote that note gave another copy to the woman that asked 45 why he keeps calling the Wuhan Virus the Chinese Virus? That question was EXACTLY as effective at preventing the spread of the virus.

Totally unscientific, but am expecting this to be done ramping up around April 1 & clearing to the point of being able to resume normalcy by around May 1. That article gives a reason to expect that could be plausible. Especially if there is any seasonality to how this progresses, it should be plausible. (Still won't visit my parents until there's way more to go on than just that though.)

If they can identify proteins that truly are specific to this virus, that's awesome. The question is, how many false positives would this test produce? If they can keep those to minimal levels, cool. Bring it to the public. Wonder if this is the swab test that 45 was discussing in his address just now?

Hoping that the Corona virus scare hitting about 3 weeks after the plastic bag ban hitting will get some reconsideration of that foolish ban. But, this is NY. Not a chance the idiots that enacted the ban will think about unintended consequences even though they're staring them in the face. So, basically all grocery stores have to work the BJ's model. No bags for you, next. It'll take 5 extra minutes to empty your car, but you'll still survive, so #### off.

Norm MacDonald had a great bit about her on Weekend Update back in the day. Paraphrasing "Alyssa Milano is in the news again upset that nude photos of her are once again appearing on the internet. She's having a hard time keeping nude photos from appearing on the internet because she keeps having a hard time keeping her clothes on in front of cameras."

Well, how else 'd'cha suppose he became a "top expert" on Latin American money laundering? He had to participate, purely for research purposes, naturally.

Everybody is concerned with how well the medical community is equipped to handle this potential inundation of hospitals & doctor's offices. And rightfully so. But nobody seems to be talking about the REAL crisis of care facilities. If there are no sporting events to go to for the next month and nobody is supposed to go to the movies or concerts; how in the world will our maternity wards handle the crush they'll face come Christmas and New Years? You can just watch reruns of Breaking Bad so often before it gets old.

There are "ice time" bonuses that guys on ELCs are eligible for, but those are aggregate and per game relative to other players (on their own team and league wide). There aren't any that kick in for x # of games played, so they shouldn't have to prorate them. Though could you imagine how frustrated Olofsson would've been had he not scored his 20th against the Caps should their season have ended after that game. Finishing the year with 19 goals would've taken $212k out of his pocket (or more accurately that 20th goal put it in his pocket). If games are lost, there's almost definitely a player or 2 that will lose out on a nice performance bonus. Oh, well.

Nothing would happen to next year's cap unless they expect this season's alterations to effect next season's revenue projections. However, if teams are having to refund ticket & television money (and losing concession money) the players could take a MASSIVE escrow hit (possibly even so much as to having to cover excess withholding directly from their own pockets). Doubt that lost revenues will climb that high, but if they have to reduce the playoff tourney which drops TV revenue there will be a lot of unhappy players as they split 50%-50% all Hockey Related Revenues (HRR) with the owners.

Hadn't thought of it, but yeah, teams that are using BF-LTIR (Sabres technically aren't in that group anymore since they dumped Bogosian's salary because ELC bonuses can slide to next season) could be in a world of hurt if the regular season stretches too far out. But if those guys are back for the playoffs then the teams don't have any issues as the player salaries have already been earned / paid and playoff money is entirely paid from bonus pools and don't count against team salary caps.

Well, if they do cancel the convention and simply anoint Biden it kills at least 2 birds: It pretty much guarantees that Biden is their nominee and most likely prevents him from imploding prior to the convention in Milwaukee. Considering there's no way the DNC would let Bernie get their nomination, having Biden drop out prior to the convention gives them a chance to nominate somebody that won't be a drag on their entire ticket. And, it gives further evidence to anybody that still doubts that the DNC is tremendously corrupt. At some point, the rank & file Dems HAVE to see how little their top dogs care about the people they claim to fight for. Don't they?