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first big surprise of today! 😂

https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html ‘PSU football doctor: 30-35 percent of COVID-19-positive Big Ten athletes had myocarditis‘ Spooky.

More: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/introducing-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards/ More Specs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16057/nvidia-announces-the-geforce-rtx-30-series-ampere-for-gaming-starting-with-rtx-3080-rtx-3090 Wow! Looks impressive. Reasonably priced as well, at least compared to the previous gen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/01/908413181/fema-says-it-will-stop-paying-for-cloth-face-masks-for-schools

Thanks for giving us this great place to discuss the Bills SDS! Much appreciated.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/19/daughters-medical-emergency-pushed-tuukka-rask-out-of-nhl-bubble/ ‘Daughter’s ‘medical emergency’ pushed Tuukka Rask out of NHL bubble‘ Cant blame Rask at all if that’s what happened. I’d certainly do the same thing.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-with-a-vaccine-the-economy-could-take-many-months-to-return-to-normal/ ‘Even With A Vaccine, The Economy Could Take Many Months To Return To Normal‘

good!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/health/covid-19-superspreading-boston-study/index.html ‘Covid-19 superspreading event in Boston may have led to 20,000 cases, researcher says‘ They’re talking about the BioGen conference at the end of February in Boston and how it could have caused 20k total cases since then and led to sustained community transmission in numerous places in MA. It also mentions that some of the event participants took covid back with them to numerous different states and a couple countries. Link to the paper (it’s not peer reviewed yet): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.23.20178236v1.full.pdf+html its an interesting read. They also looked at a breakout at a skilled nursing facility. There were multiple introductions of covid into the facility but 1 specific one led to roughly 90% of the cases at the facility.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/health/covid-19-superspreading-boston-study/index.html ‘Covid-19 superspreading event in Boston may have led to 20,000 cases, researcher says‘ They’re talking about the BioGen conference at the end of February in Boston and how it could have caused 20k total cases since then and led to sustained community transmission in numerous places in MA. It also mentions that some of the event participants took covid back with them to numerous different states and a couple countries. Link to the paper (it’s not peer reviewed yet): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.23.20178236v1.full.pdf+html its an interesting read. They also looked at a breakout at a skilled nursing facility. There were multiple introductions of covid into the facility but 1 specific one led to roughly 90% of the cases at the facility.

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/08/22/maine-cdc-reports-32-cases-of-coronavirus-one-death/ ‘Maine CDC now links 53 COVID-19 cases to Millinocket wedding reception‘

https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/08/23/capitals-fire-coach-todd-reirden-after-two-seasons/ Capitals fire Todd Rierden after losing to Barry Trotz in the 1st round of the playoffs. 2 years after letting Trotz walk (when he wanted a new deal) supposedly because of how highly the GM thought of Rierden. He was getting head coaching interview opportunities and they didn’t want to let him get away. The GM also said he worried Trotz’s voice was growning stale. The offseason after the Caps had won the Cup. I’d have a lot of questions for Brian Maclellan if I were a Caps fan.

I feel the exact opposite of you. IMO If Adams doesn’t qualify him I’ll consider it a mistake. I don’t think he’s terrible. He had a down season but look at how he was used. Dude didn’t have a consistent partner,eve during a game. He was given a rotating cast of D partners and asked to play the left side, right side and sometimes even a few shifts at forward all in the same game. Last time Anaheim was in the playoffs (season before Montour was traded here), Montour was their best defenseman. He took over games. We haven’t really seen much of that player in Buffalo (maybe a bit under Housley) but what player has come to Buffalo and thrived? Skinner in his contract year riding shotgun to Eichel? I won’t be surprised if he’s traded and has a rebound year playing for a more competent organization. I am perfectly fine trying to trade him, especially if Krueger plans to continue to use him like he did last season, but he’s not the type of player you don’t qualify. He’s not in that class of depth/throw away players not worth their QO. He’s worth something. He’s a young top 4 right handed “puck moving” defenseman with good mobility, some offense to his game, a good shot and the ability to WB a power play. That’s a # of things teams look for and the type of asset that should at least hold some value in the current NHL. His contract situation and down season may hurt his value but if Adams has to let him walk for nothing to move him off the roster, it’s not going to fill me with very much confidence w/r/t Adams abilities as a GM.

Good! Hopefully he’s being honest (I think he is).

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/kevyn-adams-81820/t-277437090/c-5405542 new interview with Kevyn Adams from a few days ago. I thought this interview with the new Amerks head coach was pretty good (starts about 5min in)

Boy do I wish he had the same type of standards for the US...

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29703982/georgia-state-qb-mikele-colasurdo-diagnosed-heart-condition-linked-covid-19 Georgia State QB Mikele Colasurdo diagnosed with heart condition linked to COVID-19

Yeah, no.

The NHL is giving me hope that the NFL can complete their season, even if they have to transition to some type of bubble (like the NHL) at some point. Im feeling pretty good about how the Bills are handling covid so far. McDermott and Beane are very detailed and both seem to be taking this very serious. I don’t know that that’s the case with every NFL team (I doubt it is, with some of the coaches and GMs employed around the NFL...lol). I feel like we could have an advantage this season. Im just trying hard not to think about the “what if’s” and enjoy the bits of info we get about training camp.

I totally agree about reopening safely, and I agree you can’t avoid all diseases. But I have no intentions of ever getting this virus. I have multiple things that put me at higher risk (like many Americans do) and I am a caretaker for 2 people who probably wouldn’t survive if they got this virus. My plan is not to get it. ? I don’t ever remember talking like this for any other pandemic. SARS, MERS (2 other coronaviruses), Ebola, etc. This country NEVER just accepted that everyone would get the virus. AFAIK, We are nowhere close to everyone having had this virus. What have most antibody studies shown? Maybe 10% at best in most places? https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail If only 7% in NY had it and it was that devastating, I can’t imagine what 100% would look like. Especially nation wide. 170,000+ deaths already. We’d easily be looking at something like 3 million deaths. link to ongoing CDC study: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/commercial-lab-surveys.html

I didn’t say Florida spiked in April. I said they had a covid outbreak. I don’t see how anyone could say that 30,000 cases in Florida isn’t an outbreak. Again, I guess it comes down to our definitions of an outbreak. 30,000+ cases certainly qualifies in my book (and most experts). Florida and Texas has more cases in March and April than numerous places in the northeast that were said to have outbreaks. So why are Florida and Texas having a bigger outbreak now than the places in the north that dealt with lower case numbers before their lockdowns? Why don’t you think a place can have a 2nd outbreaks? What do you think is stopping a 2nd outbreak besides our mitigation measures? Herd immunity? Because we have not reached herd immunity anywhere in the world that I am aware of. Definitely not anywhere in the US. Not even close. What else would prevent a 2nd outbreak from being possible? Herd immunity is the only thing that I am aware of. Otherwise the virus can easily spread to the millions of people that haven’t yet been infected. We can mitigate the spread with safety measures, but that doesn’t mean an outbreak isn’t possible. Why are we still seeing 500-1500 people dying from covid every day? Is it still all just old people in nursing homes and people with pre-existing conditions (it’s not...)? Why aren’t we protecting them yet 5 months into the pandemic? Everyone makes it sound so easy. What do we do, completely isolate them? And that would somehow be ok? Everyone else can live their life like normal, unless you’re one of the 10’s of millions who fall into the higher risk categories? Then you don’t get that same right to live your life like normal? You have to stay isolated while everyone else gets to live their life? Why can’t we just suppress the spread of this virus like most other countries (and some US states) are trying to do? Also, if we flattened the hospital curve (which we clearly didn’t, as hapless showed), then why were hospitals in Arizona sending patients out of state? Why did Gov. DeSantis call in 1500 additional nurses to help with the covid fight? Why did a couple Texas hospitals announce that they were almost completely out of space? Hopsitals may not have been completely overrun but they’ve come damn close to capacity or reached capacity. It’s happened again and again in the places that disregard the guidelines. And Again, I don’t think this should be our bar to clear. It’s a really freaking low bar. We should be trying to suppress the spread of this virus. Not just barely keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. What about all our doctors and nurses on the front lines? And the terrible stories of what they’ve went through? We don’t owe it to them to try to limit the spread? Just reopen? Also, In many places, people haven’t gone back to their normal habits even though restrictions have been lifted. So how does opening up without suppressing this virus first fix that? People still aren’t going to go back to living life like normal if they don’t feel safe. The economy still isn’t going to fully rebound until we suppress the spread of this virus. What places in the country do you think are closed? Seems like most places are open. Maybe not fully everywhere, but we see the consequences of that. They may be following the CDC reopening guidelines, which is a good thing! Here in NY everything is reopening. Just slowly and as safely as possible. Nursing homes can have visitors. They’re just restricting the numbers (smart!). Look at Texas, AZ, Florida, etc. Places that opened with no regard for the guidelines. They’re getting slammed by the virus. Thankfully it seems to be trending in the right direction now, but they still got slammed again compared to places in the north that followed the CDC reopening guidelines. So is that what you think every state should do? Disregard the guidelines and reopen everything immediately? Now, If you’re saying that we need to just keep following the reopening guidelines and continue to reopen safely (like some states have been doing), then I agree. What we really need is a nation wide coordinated plan with the federal govt. truly joining the fight but I’ve lost all hope for that. Btw, we haven’t even seen what this virus can do during flu season yet...

There are a couple products (and TVs) that allow you to DVR programs broadcast over-air/antenna for free (no monthly fees). Like this, for ex: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-TV-Recast-over-the-air-DVR-500GB-75-hours/dp/B01J6A6H74/ref=asc_df_B01J6A6H74/ or a TV with “live pause” capability, but again it’s only for over-air channels, not cable. https://support.tclusa.com/rokutv-faqs/209528-what-is-live-tv-pause But otherwise any DVR service is going to have a monthly fee, unless maybe you get it included in your Tv package as part of a promotion for new customers (where are the promotions for existing customers?! Pet peeve of mine). IIRC I want to say I pay something like $20 or $25 a month for my DVR service, plus another $12.99 for the digital box.