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There's another angle to this, at least in PA, in that all health systems are not created equal. There are certainly the haves and have nots, and most often, it's the for-profit hospitals and systems that buckle first because they super crunch the pennies. They staff the leanest, pay the least which inevitably fields the B and C teams, have just enough equipment on hand for normal every day operations, and all decisions are made states away. Its very fragile. Same deal in the nursing homes. Some nursing homes are run very well. Others are nightmares.

I don't think there's a lot there to the Packers drafting this QB. Teams today need quality backups and insurance policies in case players decide to just retire. Green Bay's achilles heel is that when Rodgers gets hurt and is out, the backup quarterback play is so terrible its no longer a guaranteed playoff team.

IMO, a thorny issue isn't going to be testing but keeping the sick people, after a positive test, from coming to work because they want to avoid the PITA of a 14-day quarantine, afraid they will lose their job if they are out that long, or using two weeks of sick time that may not be paid time.

That's what I saw - an exhausted elderly man. Since he's surrounded himself with sycophants and morons nobody will tell him the truth but he needs to step back, recharge and let Rex Bannon get back to doing these junkets. I think he's grossly miscalculated, personally, his base's appetite for the press warfare on a daily basis.

He needs to stop doing the daily press conferences because the bad days of a rambling, tired old man at the podium are starting to out number the decent days where you get a sense he's got things somewhat under control.

Herbert. He's in the Josh Rosen/Mitch Trubisky camp of weak mental toughness. He'll get drafted high and will likely encounter a lot of difficulty and setbacks. 90% of the time rookies flourish on conquering the mental aspects of football. The mental toughness to persevere. Can you run a specific route? Can you understand a play, not just memorize it? If it was just based on physical traits, C.J. Spiller and Leodis McKelvin would be having Hall of Fame careers. The team that drafts Herbert would be wise to do the Aaron Rodgers plan.

The irony is this dude won't hesitate to call in the national guard as he cowers deep inside the governors mansion. He doesn't like your guns but you will respect his.

The two best bank robberies movies in history are Heat and Percy Harvin's time in Buffalo.

I'm all for states opening their economies up but businesses do have to exercise responsibility. If that means they have to have an attendant out front taking a temperature or making sure each customer sanitizes hands, or maximum occupancy is 50% or whatever, that's the cost of being able to open your business. It's better than having zero business. I don't think business should be under the illusion that they just get to open the doors like it's January 2020 with zero f's given. TBH, I don't know how places like gyms and bars are going to pull it off.

As a Spurs fan, the 1999 championship is the one I remember most of their titles. Yes, it was in the strike-shortened season, but it was the first one for the team. There is nothing like living in the moment of it happening that first time.

The majority of hospitals are chomping at the bit to reopen because in most states, governors have prohibited their revenue generating elective and outpatient surgeries. They aren't all-pro quarantine as you might first believe.

Let them drown.

The schism is between those still with jobs and those that don't have jobs. It's a lot easier to be in the stay at home crowd when you can work from home and still collect your regular paycheck. The ***** doesn't get real for the Patton Oswalts of the world until the out of work barbarians burn his beloved Trader Joe's down in Week 10 of a lockdown.

These protests had a great opportunity to make a difference but showing up with the ARs, the load out vests, the camo, the Confederate flags and Alex Jones makes them caricatures. Don't understand the Trump support at the rallies either. The governors are the majority of the problem but he's the next 45 percent. Government is the problem. He's government just like the rest of them. Why don't people show up in the uniforms of the jobs they aren't working at currently? A lot more impactful in my opinion.

TO was good for Buffalo and he's one of my favorite players of all time in the NFL.

I won't be a bit surprised to see Pennsylvania's governor order the state police to stop any protest from reaching Harrisburg or York, where he lives. In the name of social distancing of course....

One thing I did not know about electric vs. gas chainsaws: The PPE chainsaw chaps are useless against electric chainsaws. Apparently, they will just keep moving right through the protective layers of the chaps, whereas the gas saws will get bound up by the threads by design.

You're both incorrect. Philadelphia is PA's biggest hot spot. It's in every zip code of the city but it's digging in like a tick in the north around Temple and in the nursing homes in the city. Monroe County and the Lehigh Valley are other areas that may be trouble.

People without money, without purpose and feeling helpless are formidable opponents to a civil society.

Same in Philadelphia. The hardest hit neighborhoods are the poorest, and largely black. Don't think it's so much race - the virus isn't hunting black people or Hispanics like it's some race bullet. It's the socioeconomics. Poverty, poor health outcomes (obesity, diabetes, asthma), poor healthcare (don't have a doctor or see one regularly), coupled with cramped living conditions, possibly living in multi-generational households which raises the risk of exposure, heavy dependence on mass transit which also raises risk of exposure. Throw in substance abuse, homelessness and inability to keep work due to previous incarceration (especially for males) and you've got a lot of potential issues.

The WHO, CDC and NIH will be breathlessly protecting their cozy crew of academia too. If China is #1 at fault, the academics doing this work and funding it are #1A. They knew of these labs, of the work, and the danger and they will all cover each other's asses because....grant money and some will believe the science must move forward, regardless of how many pandemics these idiots cause.

Absolutely. And that comes from a person who voted for him in 2016. It has never been one of his strengths, and this crisis highlights the weakness.

She's a lot like President Trump - a leader with zero personal intuition for how desperate/lonely/useless the average person may feel right now. None of these governors seem to realize at least publicly is that these lockdowns will never work again in most parts of the United States.

Elaine Chao's presence on the newest task force suggests to me the government may be looking at reopening states, and regions inside those states by MPOs. MPOs are organized by counties, and most states are tracking virus activity at the county level. Essentially the governors would lift restrictions in small groups of counties at a time, instead of piecemeal one here, one there.

The government creates the civil unrest. This is just an example of another click of the ratchet. They close the parks. They close the liquor stores. They tell you you can't go outside. They tell you what they think is essential for your family. 99 percent of it is unnecessary. The amount of time people are cool with all of this is running out. All that Michigan governor is doing is making for a dangerous situation at Walmart, Target, etc. between employees and shoppers. It won't take many weeks of that nonsense before it's Black Friday chaos.