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The governatorial insanity is spreading far more rapidly than the virus itself. I have not looked closely at the issue, but I seriously question the legal basis for a governor’s ability to unilaterally close almost the entirety of a state’s schools and economy. Hopefully there are serious challenges to these orders in the legal pipeline—to the extent our court systems are still intact.

I think it is a bad thing. It’s one more step down the road of humans isolating themselves from other humans, which is a profoundly alienating experience. We are genetically hard-wired to live in close physical proximity to and mutually rely upon a group of other humans. As our society evolves more toward individuals being able to learn, work and play without close contact with others, we move farther away from that hard-wired core. The result is widespread alienation and unhappiness, with huge consequences in terms of things like mental health, PTSD, and suicide. This latest crisis seems likely to exacerbate those trends, and I would argue that it’s not a good thing.

B-Man, many thanks for this and similar posts on this topic. Also a special thanks for turning me on to Alex Berenson, who’s Twitter feed on the Coronavirus panic is absolutely invaluable.

All the distancing policies accomplish is delay of the acquisition of herd immunity, setting us up for another wave in the fall.

Except the 100,000 best case scenario model supposedly took into consideration the effects of social distancing. It is junk, pure and simple.

Wait, do you mean 100,000 -240,000 dead is no longer the best case scenario???? Who could have predicted that??? Hmmm, I wonder what other models on other subjects might also be wrong...

Remember when 100,000 to 240,000 dead was “best case scenario”? A week ago. Now the most influential model is projecting 60,000, and I’m sure that will be revised downward again. Time to re-open the country folks (or most of it, anyway). Oh, and by the way, there is zero evidence that shelter in place policies reduce the harm from the virus. At most, they delay the societal acquisition of herd immunity, thus assuring that the virus will hang around longer.

Bill, you’re wrong about Herbert. He definitely has question marks, but he has exceptional, size, mobility and arm strength. As someone who saw every one of his college starts, I recognize the concerns, but I would also like to point out that the offensive scheme he was forced to play in was straight garbage and a terrible match for his skill set. Add in the fact that he’s smart, competitive and a good kid and I would absolutely take him ahead of Tua. I would say Herbert is what Josh Allen would have looked like if he had started four years at a major program.

I had absolutely no idea he was a Bill.

I’m not so sure. I think people might need to prepare for the possibility that Tua slides down the board quite a bit. Just too many question marks. To me, he’s nowhere near the prospect that DeSean Watson was coming out of Clemson and yet Watson slipped to 12. FWW, Chris Simms had Tua as his QB 4, and said his tape is underwhelming. Combine that with his size, injury history and the fact that he played in an absolutely loaded offense at Alabama, I think he could slip to the back half of the first round. If I were a GM, he would not be on my board and I’ll be surprised if he goes before Herbert.

The second he put on a mask, these same people would mock him mercilessly.

They are doing that because they don’t want their employees to get sick, not to avoid being sued.

Plus, it’s opened up a whole new field of virtue-signaling opportunities.

The hysteria needs to stop. There are few cases in my area and the number of new cases is stable, as are the numbers of new deaths and hospitalizations. We have been sheltering in place for almost three weeks now, so that’s not going to change. It’s not not time to adopt new fear-mongering requirements.

Well, except there were only 48 states then, and Hawaii wasn’t one of them.?

A few days ago, according to the Oregon Health Authority, there were 770 ventilators available in the state and less than 40 CV19 patients who were using one. They’ve now stopped publishing that data. Maybe they fear appropriation by other parts of the country...

I agree. More people are going to start wearing masks around town. I won’t be one of them.

That would be extremely difficult to prove. That’s not why they are adopting those policies.

They can’t. They are limited to collecting workers comp. And only if they can prove they got the virus from work, which would be tough to do.

That part is true, but it’s not why grocery stores are limiting the number of customers who can enter at any one time.

Highly unlikely.

I disagree. More than half the counties in my state have 2 or less cases. Wearing a mask in grocery stores in most of the country is absurd and I guarantee very few people will do it. Those masks should be used by people who need them, like employees and residents of senior care facilities.

Don’t laugh...

So? It was FICTION. It was a Hollywood screenplay. And nothing in the article suggests that he knows the first thing about public health.

CDC telling 330 million people in this huge country that they should walk around in public wearing masks over their faces does nothing but erode that organization’s credibility. It’s like recommending a nationwide 25 MPH speed limit—it might make sense for certain parts of New York City or Chicago, but it is an asinine idea for most of the country. And once again, to his credit, Trump refuses to bow down to this kind of virtue-signaling nonsense and stands up for common sense.