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Let's hope that one passes scrutiny when it gets peer reviewed.

My hope is that he ended up with enough money to buy the WaPo.

Welcome back, DR! PLEASE put Gary & Billztime on ignore. :beer:

Hoping that is true (that there really were only 14 COVID deaths in FL yesterday). But what is Cardillo's source. Not seeing that claim ANYWHERE else.

Am saying the people that were in charge should have done better. (And, as you know, per the way our government is set up, those that were legally in charge were in those positions.)

Until they've actually been tested and shown to be effective & without significant adverse side effects, we BELIEVE we have them. And, until we actually have them, we don't have them.

Umm, the Navy Hospital Ship arrived on March 30. You really think that nobody in the NYC medical community could've figured out the logistics of using it for care of hospital discharged nursing home patients that were still contagious within 2 - 3 WEEKS? IMHO somebody should've been able to figure that out in that sort of a time frame. Had they started using that ship (or other available facilities) to house them by the 15th-20th they could've saved 1,000's of lives. Not giving them flack for making poor decisions in the heat of the moment. But at some point the leaders have to step back and say 'holy ####, we have to rethink what we're doing.' And that can't happen 1-1/2 months after assigning death sentences to the most vulnerable IMHO.

The original plan as of when the ship docked was to use the hospital ship to take non-COVID patients so the COVID patients could be kept together and non-COVID patients wouldn't come in contact with it. No data on why that plan flipped. News reports made it seem like that was an 'oops' on the part of the people running logistics but don't know that that was the case. Also don't know why neither the ship non convention center was utilized in any meaningful way. But would really know to know why that was.

A couple more comments like that and ALL of upstate will turn on him. (We won't be able to get rid of all D run government at the state level, but maybe we could get a different gov. C'mon Andy, talk trash about beef on weck and Zweigels too. Double dog dare ya.)

The hospital ship was supposed to be for NON-COVID patients, but they were sent COVID patients anyway, so that plan changed and there were several hundred available beds for nursing home patients on the ship. (IIRC, only 77 patients went to the hospital ship & only 3 went to the Javits Center; which could've worked wonders to keep non-COVID Nursing Home patients COVID-free.)

Agree with a lot of this. But, unless the plan is to drag out the virus spreading until after there is a vaccine (which could be available anytime between Friday and never) eventually a complete lockdown will end and the virus will spread through the population when the lockdown ends. We delay the inevitable, but don't prevent it. And if the idea is to get to "herd immunity" then lockdown the vulnerable tightly & don't lockdown the rest until the heavy transmission starts & then lockdown just enough to keep from overwhelming the healthcare system in that particular area. Try to keep the transmission rate manageable. If the goal is something else other than 1 of the 2 extremes, state it explicitly and let people know what the plan is to reach THAT goal. And getting back to Cuomo, won't criticize him for decisions made in March; but by mid-April at the latest he needed to rescind that Nursing Home directive. He still had the Navy Medical Ship & the converted Javits Center available both sitting nearly empty to use as temporary housing for the nursing home residents to stay after they were well enough to leave the hospital but were still contagious. How many lives would've been saved changing that order 3-4 weeks earlier than it was? And the subways were handled about as poorly as possible- they cut down on the # of trains running, crowding the remaining riders into tighter spaces but didn't stop train service at any hours to allow for ACTUAL disinfection rather than simply wiping them down for a few minutes at night. The disinfection via UV should've been happening by April 15 as well. Really expecting we'll find in hindsight that what finally slowed the spread in NYC was they'd already reached / approached herd immunity after having it rage through for close to 2 months. Would explain why LA & other major cities are getting hit hard now, but with similar behavior by its residents that NYC isn't seeing a 2nd wave commensurate to these other places initial waves.

Hmmmm, BladieBlah doesn't like others scoring political points off of the increase in the NYC crime rate. If only there were a way to keep people from making a big deal of increasing crime rates? Perhaps not implementing policies that can easily be predicted to cause crime rates to increase? Nah, too easy.

It figures that you would prefer to have go past your chosen route & cut across oncoming traffic 3 times rather than simply turn right where it's appropriate. Astounding.

The freedoms to deface others' property, the freedom to destroy public property, & the freedom to assault others for starters.

That sounds about right. Good luck w/ it.

Ra-cha-cha. Would assume those others as well.

Teams are able to rent ice starting this weekend. So, they're pick up games for adults, but it beats no hockey.

Hockey rinks are opening back up in those areas of NYS that were in the 1st regions to enter Phase 4.

Could be their 3rd best source of intelligence behind their facilities in DC & the Bay Area. (May be behind Boston area as well?) Major research in medical, aerospace, & petrochemicals at a minimum there. (Probably IT as well.)

Umm, newsflash, EVERY consulate is a massive spy center. (Glad it was closed down due to ours not being reopened, but just sayin'.)

Be thankful for small favors.

Can somebody please explain when painted text on pavement became a "mural." We've had murals before railroad tracks & school zones for decades and nobody knew. Maybe it's the yellow paint that makes them "murals?"

Wonder if anybody on the right will be smart enough to come after these platforms for violating campaign finance laws via these "in kind" removals of speech that would be/ were opposing leftists? There has to be a great value to the left leaning groups otherwise Twitter & others wouldn't be doing this. Realize that they're trying to get them considered to be "publishers" as they are now editing the content rather than just hosting it. And that seems like it should be a successful tactic, but it seems there's room to target their actions from a different angle as well.

Yogi, you want your pizza cut into 4 or 8 slices? 4. Not hungry enough to eat 8.

Without seeing the details of the other "Broward County emergency orders" not sure what situations would call for the mask in a person's own home. Though on the surface, that does seem ridiculously onerous. But would expect it to be as ridiculous as it seems at 1st blush as this is one of the 2 counties that were so bad at counting votes 20 years ago EVERYBODY ELSE had to get new voting machines. (Presumably to mitigate the possibility somebody from Broward or Dade county might move elsewhere and spread their ineptness. )