The Coronavirus, not the beer

[acesfull86]

https://www.econtalk.org/nassim-nich...-the-pandemic/

Some interesting stuff re forecasting

[nsacpi]

I want to make a joke about thethe coming on here and saying challenge accepted, but I like him and won't be mean.

compassion...we will have to get our entertainment somewhere else

[cajunrevenge]

Here's a good contender

Wait, I thought bad projections were a media plot to defeat Trump. Why would they try to dupe Sweden too? Their comittment to this con is something.

[cajunrevenge]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ntent=business




Aaaaand Trumps current National Security Advisor tests positive for the rona. Not to be confused with his previous National Security Advisor who said Trump sold out his country repeatedly to try to boost his political campaign.

[sturg33]

This will never be addressed

I had big hopes that nsacpi would give it a whirl...

[sturg33]

Nates first point here is precisely why the coronavirus won't get better until November 3rd

[goldfly]

and think

if he would have taken it serious in jan or feb

he possibly wouldn't have had to worry about any of that

but that would have taken leadership

but i like that trumps 2nd plan is thinking it will magically just go away if we elect biden

i mean, the plan of hoping it magically would go away didn't work the first time but i'm down to give the "elect biden and it goes away" plan

[sturg33]

Seems to me, that if you remove handful of liberal states in the country, that the US would have outperformed the great majority of the world.

But somehow, those states are being lauded as great responses from you and the media.

TDS is a brain killer

Bump

[cajunrevenge]

This is your logic twisting itself into a pretzel to fit the narrative you want. Imagine saying "hey that deadly virus is worst in Red States so its not Obama's fault". This is a ****ing national emergency that need leadership from the ****ing top not a whiny little bitch who thought this **** would go away if we just ignored it.

[sturg33]

This is your logic twisting itself into a pretzel to fit the narrative you want. Imagine saying "hey that deadly virus is worst in Red States so its not Obama's fault". This is a ****ing national emergency that need leadership from the ****ing top not a whiny little bitch who thought this **** would go away if we just ignored it.

Thats a good answer.

If the Northeast governors didn't invoke policies to wipe out the most vulnerable, the US would stack up among the worlds best in this pandemic.

[nsacpi]

[msstate7]

May 22nd?

[57Brave]

Scott Miller
@ScottMillerBbl

Am told that on owners' call today there was no talk of canceling the season.

#Marlins news is sobering for the game but plan remains to try & manage pandemic

I will take that to mean it was the topic of discussion
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So what happens when instead of the clubhouse it is the teachers lounge ?

[msstate7]

Scott Miller
@ScottMillerBbl

Am told that on owners' call today there was no talk of canceling the season.

#Marlins news is sobering for the game but plan remains to try & manage pandemic

I will take that to mean it was the topic of discussion
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So what happens when instead of the clubhouse it is the teachers lounge ?

I'm a pretty big baseball fan, but I don't think baseball and kids' educations are equal.

[cajunrevenge]

"Look, most of the thousands of Americans dying from the virus everyday were practically on deaths door already"


We really at this point in America?

[nsacpi]

May 22nd?

For the sunbelt states it will interesting to see how the numbers have evolved...for the NE states the large majority of the deaths had already happened by then.

Latest number from Mississippi is 47%. A little lower than the 51% in the map. I imagine most states have improved some on that number, but probably not much.

[nsacpi]

Unemployment Rates

Sweden 7.5 in Jan 9.8 in June

FINLAND 7.2 in Jan 7.9 in June

Norway 3.7 in Jan 4.6 in June

Denmark 3.7 in Jan 5.6 in May (June not yet available)

[nsacpi]

I offer a parable (for those curious as to why New Yorkers approve of Cuomo and Floridians are less impressed by DeSantis)

two boys are playing by the side of a pond

one of them jumps in and is eaten up by an alligator while the other boy watches

after a while the second boy jumps in and also gets eaten up by the alligator

both events are tragedies, but some people will be less charitable in how they feel about the second boy

[Tomahawking4life]

Scott Miller
@ScottMillerBbl

Am told that on owners' call today there was no talk of canceling the season.

#Marlins news is sobering for the game but plan remains to try & manage pandemic

I will take that to mean it was the topic of discussion
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So what happens when instead of the clubhouse it is the teachers lounge ?

Silly comparison is silly

[sturg33]

I offer a parable (for those curious as to why New Yorkers approve of Cuomo and Floridians are less impressed by DeSantis)

two boys are playing by the side of a pond

one of them jumps in and is eaten up by an alligator while the other boy watches

after a while the second boy jumps in and also gets eaten up by the alligator

both events are tragedies, but some people will be less charitable in how they feel about the second boy

You're gonna need 10 more boys to jump in