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I’ve got to think that Obama would have come up with something better than “drink bleach and shove a flashlight up your butt”.

What’s the death rate of the job force taking a hit? That’s all that matters. So there were 61,000 deaths from the flu in the year your article discusses despite no lockdown measures. There have been 150,000 in the past 4 months from COVID despite a nationwide lockdown, and half the country thinks we’re doing too much.

So hospitalizations don’t matter, only deaths. I guess we shouldn’t care if people lose their jobs, then. After all, it only matters if you die.

Remember when we put the entire country on lockdown for 4 months to stop the flu and it still killed 1,000 people a day for 4 months straight while cases continued to increase exponentially?

You understand that comparing what a disease does when there is a lockdown in place versus what a different disease does under normal circumstances is intellectually dishonest, right? If we knew that COVID would cause roughly as many deaths as the flu, I think most people would be okay with opening everything. That just isn’t the case, though. People were comparing this to the flu months ago. The flu kills around 40,000 Americans annually. COVID has quadrupled that in 4 months even with all of the social distancing and other precautions that have been taken. This is nothing like the flu. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

That list was really accurate based on what happened the following season. It underrated Lamar and overrated Rivers. Other than that, pretty hard to criticize it.

Your data consists of one projection from March that has already been proven incorrect and a study that won’t be complete for 2 years. Both are worthless at this point in time.

Nothing more sciency than taking individual sentences, stripping them of context, and spiking the football...especially when your own cherry picked sentence uses the terms “speculation” and “some sort of immunity” while acknowledging that 60-70% is “widely accepted”.

You may as well have linked Trump’s interview saying it would suddenly magically disappear. Hell, even the comments section of the article is littered with people talking about how it would go away when the weather heated up. You might also want to note that Levitt is a biophysicist, not an epidemiologist. Smart guy with some interesting insights, but not an expert.

Didn’t you get the memo? Diseases don’t count if you survive.

Exactly. The starting point should be “kids shouldn’t die unnecessarily”. That doesn’t mean that schools can’t be open until we can guarantee zero kids could possibly die. That’s simply unrealistic, but it should be the starting point. From there we can begin to assess what we are capable of allowing our kids to do without subjecting them to unreasonable levels of danger.

When people talk about “herd immunity”, it’s generally assumed that they mean permanent immunity rather than some short term resistance.

We aren’t even to the second wave yet, though. This is still the first go-round.

I love when people post that players have no leverage just because the team has years of control. It always ends the same way.

I agree with the Saints at 10, but I disagree with the Saints at 12.

Your grandma is Vince Neil? Dammit!

I’m higher on the Bills than the makers of this list are, but I don’t have too many issues with their reasoning. New England has an elite defense and the greatest coach in history. They have dominated the division and the head to head matchup for as long as anyone associated with either franchise has been around. I think that’s about to change, but it’s hard to fault anyone who is skeptical. That they’re only 1 spot ahead of Buffalo speaks to how even their futures are. That’s perfectly fair. Pittsburgh has an elite defense and a HOF QB returning from injury. Ben comes with question marks, but they were a .500 team with a horrendous third string QB. Roethlisberger could have thrown left handed and beat Buffalo last season given how terrible Duck was in a game that went down to the wire. Indy has a really solid roster and arguably the best GM in the league. Now they’ve got a capable QB and a backup with starting experience. I’d have them lower, but I can see them building a really good team if they can get average QB play. I’d have the Bills around 10, so 14 seems a little low to me but not unreasonably so. It really does come down to whether Allen takes a huge step (and yes, it absolutely needs to be huge). If he does, then Buffalo is going to be a contender for the next several years.

Allen “gave them the lead” by scoring in a sneak after fumbling the ball while scrambling, having it bounce forward several yards, and having his teammate recover at the one yard line for a first and goal.

If an employer has the ability to not pay players who are unable to work solely due to the fact that the employer has failed to provide a safe working environment, they have effectively terminated the contract. Don’t like a contract a player has signed? Just create an unsafe work environment. Problem solved.

They have contracts. Should teams be able to essentially terminate their contracts unilaterally by failing to provide a safe working environment? The players are millionaires, but the owners are billionaires. Should the public sympathize more with the old billionaires than the players who actually do the work and put their bodies on the line?

Tannehill is a mirror. He shows you exactly what your team is. If you put a good team around him, you’ve got a good team. If you put a bad team around him, you’ve got a bad team. He doesn’t make you any better or worse. He’s Alex Smith, Jimmy G, Derek Carr, etc.

They're good enough to make the playoffs, but they aren't a threat to knock off Kansas City or Baltimore IMO.

I really think the Bills are the only AFC team with a chance to prevent a Ravens/Chiefs matchup in the AFCCG.

The Chiefs have a top 10 defense. Frank Clark is an absolute monster, Charvarious Ward isn’t a household name, but he’s an excellent CB. Juan Thornhill had an outstanding rookie season before getting hurt just before the playoffs. Linebacker is a huge hole, but in a 4-3, you can live with that when your D-Line is elite.

He’s the best coach since Doug Lombardi.