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How do you mean he'll "reopen" the economy? The individual governors have been, properly, the ones shutting down individual states. Can't see NYS fully reopening for at least 4 more weeks absolute best case.

There's actually provisions for that in the Phase 3 bill that was voted down last night for those SBA Loans to be forgivable (aka grants) in the Division A - Small Business Interruption Loans provisions. (Thanks to @DerangedRhino for posting that last night.) That is probably the single greatest portion of the Phase 3 package (if it ever passes). Those funds are supposed to be available until the end of June and could go miles towards keeping businesses that are currently getting crushed like restaurants and barbershop viable and their employees able to pay their bills.

DR, do you have a link to the House's (or the Senate D's) bill? Couldn't find it on the house.gov website. You usually seem to find these pretty effectively. TIA.

His aiming nearly all his barbs at the Chinese government rather than other Americans certainly helps the approval ratings. (There's still a few shots at "journalists" but most of those are deserved IMHO.)

Can't read the article; only the headline. Would you mind giving a cliff notes version of the article?

Yep. 1 day after he mandated offices make 1/2 of their workforce work from home, he ups it to 75%. Yesterday's Executive Order seemed to exempt a lot of businesses / business functions. Not sure if the exemption list got adjusted with today's EO. (It won't publish on the governor's website until tomorrow.) Wife is now working from home 1/2 time. Not sure if that will increase as there are only 2 people that perform her function.

Agree that they accepted China's false information about the ability to transmit the disease from person to person and also that test kits in China were defective. Were the German kits the ones the Chinese were using? Had thought the Chinese used their own test protocols. And also understand that the WHO did NOT offer test kits to the US. But, haven't seen anywhere that the German kits (which were the basis of the protocol that the WHO shared to 3rd world countries) were defective. Were those defective too?

What do you suppose are the odds the person who wrote that note gave another copy to the woman that asked 45 why he keeps calling the Wuhan Virus the Chinese Virus? That question was EXACTLY as effective at preventing the spread of the virus.

Totally unscientific, but am expecting this to be done ramping up around April 1 & clearing to the point of being able to resume normalcy by around May 1. That article gives a reason to expect that could be plausible. Especially if there is any seasonality to how this progresses, it should be plausible. (Still won't visit my parents until there's way more to go on than just that though.)

If they can identify proteins that truly are specific to this virus, that's awesome. The question is, how many false positives would this test produce? If they can keep those to minimal levels, cool. Bring it to the public. Wonder if this is the swab test that 45 was discussing in his address just now?

Hoping that the Corona virus scare hitting about 3 weeks after the plastic bag ban hitting will get some reconsideration of that foolish ban. But, this is NY. Not a chance the idiots that enacted the ban will think about unintended consequences even though they're staring them in the face. So, basically all grocery stores have to work the BJ's model. No bags for you, next. It'll take 5 extra minutes to empty your car, but you'll still survive, so #### off.

Norm MacDonald had a great bit about her on Weekend Update back in the day. Paraphrasing "Alyssa Milano is in the news again upset that nude photos of her are once again appearing on the internet. She's having a hard time keeping nude photos from appearing on the internet because she keeps having a hard time keeping her clothes on in front of cameras."

Well, how else 'd'cha suppose he became a "top expert" on Latin American money laundering? He had to participate, purely for research purposes, naturally.

Everybody is concerned with how well the medical community is equipped to handle this potential inundation of hospitals & doctor's offices. And rightfully so. But nobody seems to be talking about the REAL crisis of care facilities. If there are no sporting events to go to for the next month and nobody is supposed to go to the movies or concerts; how in the world will our maternity wards handle the crush they'll face come Christmas and New Years? You can just watch reruns of Breaking Bad so often before it gets old.

There are "ice time" bonuses that guys on ELCs are eligible for, but those are aggregate and per game relative to other players (on their own team and league wide). There aren't any that kick in for x # of games played, so they shouldn't have to prorate them. Though could you imagine how frustrated Olofsson would've been had he not scored his 20th against the Caps should their season have ended after that game. Finishing the year with 19 goals would've taken $212k out of his pocket (or more accurately that 20th goal put it in his pocket). If games are lost, there's almost definitely a player or 2 that will lose out on a nice performance bonus. Oh, well.

Nothing would happen to next year's cap unless they expect this season's alterations to effect next season's revenue projections. However, if teams are having to refund ticket & television money (and losing concession money) the players could take a MASSIVE escrow hit (possibly even so much as to having to cover excess withholding directly from their own pockets). Doubt that lost revenues will climb that high, but if they have to reduce the playoff tourney which drops TV revenue there will be a lot of unhappy players as they split 50%-50% all Hockey Related Revenues (HRR) with the owners.

Hadn't thought of it, but yeah, teams that are using BF-LTIR (Sabres technically aren't in that group anymore since they dumped Bogosian's salary because ELC bonuses can slide to next season) could be in a world of hurt if the regular season stretches too far out. But if those guys are back for the playoffs then the teams don't have any issues as the player salaries have already been earned / paid and playoff money is entirely paid from bonus pools and don't count against team salary caps.

Well, if they do cancel the convention and simply anoint Biden it kills at least 2 birds: It pretty much guarantees that Biden is their nominee and most likely prevents him from imploding prior to the convention in Milwaukee. Considering there's no way the DNC would let Bernie get their nomination, having Biden drop out prior to the convention gives them a chance to nominate somebody that won't be a drag on their entire ticket. And, it gives further evidence to anybody that still doubts that the DNC is tremendously corrupt. At some point, the rank & file Dems HAVE to see how little their top dogs care about the people they claim to fight for. Don't they?

Not only that, but Eichel might be healthy again by the time they resume play.

Nothing the administration has done to date regarding the Coronavirus had gone uncriticized, so no surprise the speech last night was criticized as well. Really don't want to see martial law implemented, so people need to do their part. Clean your hands well (that last part is what gets everybody) and don't be a putz. Unless you're elderly &/or immunocompromised you are almost surely going to survive this. But take reasonable steps to prevent yourself from contracting it & more importantly from passing it on. The person 2 people down the chain that you pass it to could very well be someone that this is life threatening towards. Don't hoard, but be prepared. Our society is set up to allow an unprecedented level of teleconferencing / working from home. If you can do that, do so. If your job doesn't allow you to do that, then go to work but be smart. If everybody actually thinks about the welfare of their neighbor, we'll get through this quicker and more successfully than if they don't. Do your part & don't worry about whatever action / inaction 45 or Cuomo, or whomever your governor is takes. The economy is tanking & will take a short term hit. But we'll recover. Be smart & get through this people. We're all in this together.

Their call center has been much easier to deal with than they were 4-5 years ago. Have had XM / SiriusXM for the wife's cars for at least 15 years. Haven't ever negotiated down to the $5/month, but the $99/yr is our standard. It used to be at least a 20 minute phone call to renew (or more accurately argue, cancel, & renew). Now, have a notice pop up the day before the subscription ends and fall them and renew. The last couple of calls were only ~5 minutes each and not painful. Absolutely used to HATE making that call, because it was always a cluster. Now, still don't like it but it hasn't been an ordeal at least.

The Bee made an embarrassing mistake as well. Clearly a typo, as they must have meant the uncle was 62. A 52 y.o. would be a Gen Xer and smart enough to not go repeating CNN's garbage.

Pretty sure it'd be for the same reasons Geraldine Ferraro should've been the VP of the US. (No idea how that ACTUALLY makes her qualified to be the VP; but based on her track record, it can't be much more than that.)

While my preference would be for all the wackiness of the Democratic Party these past 40 or so months to result in moderates either taking control or splitting off into an actual viable 3rd party that resets them back towards the mainstream; until actual Democrats (besides DR who seems to have left that party) start predicting the party will break up / have a reckoning, won't put much heed into the predictions from outsiders that they will. Too reminiscent of when the predictions were that the Republicans were going to completely splinter back in 2008 & even 2016.

Funny. Can't stop hearing it in "L'il Opie Cunninghan's" voice.