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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

andyt said:
Panthers are nearing a 3 year/$60 million deal with Teddy Bridgewater per multiple sources.
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Old way: Player signs at club office, everybody goes to practice field/stadium where equipment manager brings new jersey, lots of pictures and handshakes, pictures go to all major media outlets.

New way: Player emails scan of signed contract to club, club emails equipment manager who, working alone, makes new jersey, sends it FedEx who drop it at the players front door. Player disinfects outside of the package, rips open and drops jersey into washing machine and runs cycle on hot, dries it, puts it on, takes selfie in man cave and posts on Instagram.
 
I wonder what happens the next time something like this comes along? Do we go through this all over again?

I would assume all proms and graduations are not going to happen. Also graduations for college or any level are not happening .
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
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I would assume all proms and graduations are not going to happen. Also graduations for college or any level are not happening .
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That is what I am currently assuming too. That sucks, but probably will be necessary. Really our question now is 'how are they going to complete the almost 3 months of instruction that is now in limbo? I know those with elementary school kids are all up in arms about e learning and keeping their kids engaged, but high school kids have real course requirements and grades that are critically important for college applications. How is this going to work if schools are shuttered for 8+weeks? (No one has that answer yet of course, but its weighing on my high school senior's mind).
 
My niece is supposed to graduate from Fordham Law School in May. She’s currently back home in Massachusetts, taking the rest of the semester online. The school hasn’t officially cancelled graduation, and we bought plane tickets and have hotel reservations just in case. But I don’t think I’ll be visiting New York this spring.
 
Brewgaloo has been moved to August 14-15. It was scheduled for the last weekend in April.
 
I guess colleges will just have to accept freshmen with whatever documents they can get from high schools. Most people already took the SAT or ACT and they have already been admitted to the schools. Same for Grad school, law school, med school, etc.

There was a guy who was accepted by UNC (I think) but then his grades went down in his senior year so they revoked his acceptance. That is very rare.

Rutgers already cancelled May 17 graduation.
 
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jeffbear said:
On the theater closings ... see my comments on bars and restaurants closing. It's painfully obvious that a big enough chunk of America is failing to take the social distancing thing seriously, so it's good to see businesses step in and do the right thing before governments are forced to do it for them. We're a stupid, stupid country it turns out. Shocking, I know.
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Let me ask you this.....Went to Tijuana Flats for lunch. They had removed 2/3 of the tables such that it was impossible to sit within 6 feet of others. Even then the tables were not full. So am I more at risk there (of getting or giving the disease)? Or going to buy groceries at Walmart where you encounter 1/2 dozen people in every food aisle and another 10 standing in line to pay?

I have no issue with the bar/movie/gym closings. And I agree guidelines should be in place and enforced for restaurants. However I don't see how a total ban on eat in restaurants is to the greater good.
 
tfahs said:
Let me ask you this.....Went to Tijuana Flats for lunch. They had removed 2/3 of the tables such that it was impossible to sit within 6 feet of others. Even then the tables were not full. So am I more at risk there (of getting or giving the disease)? Or going to buy groceries at Walmart where you encounter 1/2 dozen people in every food aisle and another 10 standing in line to pay?

I have no issue with the bar/movie/gym closings. And I agree guidelines should be in place and enforced for restaurants. However I don't see how a total ban on eat in restaurants is to the greater good.
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As neither of us are experts in infectious diseases, this is a statement of opinion on my part. I'm well aware of the economic impact of these shutdowns, but from what I've read if we don't take these measures now we will be taking much more draconian measures in the near future. I get that it sucks on every single level. No argument about that from a guy who has lost 90% of his income for the next 6 months in a matter of a week.
 
tfahs said:
Let me ask you this.....Went to Tijuana Flats for lunch. They had removed 2/3 of the tables such that it was impossible to sit within 6 feet of others. Even then the tables were not full. So am I more at risk there (of getting or giving the disease)? Or going to buy groceries at Walmart where you encounter 1/2 dozen people in every food aisle and another 10 standing in line to pay?

I have no issue with the bar/movie/gym closings. And I agree guidelines should be in place and enforced for restaurants. However I don't see how a total ban on eat in restaurants is to the greater good.
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The way we slow this thing down and prevent it from overwheling the capacity of our medical system and killing a lot of people is limiting interactions between people. Some interaction is impossible to avoid; everyone needs access to food and medicine to survive, but we don't need to consume food in public places to survive. This is why outside of keeping open essential services--supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, etc.--and shutting everything down is the best option, as much as it's going to do extensive damage to the economy and hurt a lot of people. It's less still damage than we would be dealing with if we didn't respond at all.
 
HeyKurtz said:
The way we slow this thing down and prevent it from overwheling the capacity of our medical system and killing a lot of people is limiting interactions between people. Some interaction is impossible to avoid; everyone needs access to food and medicine to survive, but we don't need to consume food in public places to survive. This is why outside of keeping open essential services--supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, etc.--and shutting everything down is the best option, as much as it's going to do extensive damage to the economy and hurt a lot of people. It's less still damage than we would be dealing with if we didn't respond at all.
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The strain of overwhelming the capacity of our medical system is really where this should be the point where it wakes everyone up. When you start to hear some states like New York already calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to start the process of setting up makeshift medical wards to handle an overflow of hospitals it really starts to sound the alarms to shelter down. You hope to never see any state in this country ending up looking like Italy has the past few weeks.
 
CanadaCanes said:
The strain of overwhelming the capacity of our medical system is really where this should be the point where it wakes everyone up. When you start to hear some states like New York already calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to start the process of setting up makeshift medical wards to handle an overflow of hospitals it really starts to sound the alarms to shelter down. You hope to never see any state in this country ending up looking like Italy has the past few weeks.
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Yeah ... this is basic stuff, really. ANYTHING we can do to cut down on the number of people requiring hospitalization is something we should be doing. Again, yeah ... it sucks in the short to mid term. Absolutely it does. And it's going to impact those in the marketplace who can least afford to take a hit. People should respect that and do what they can, but the other stuff is the real big picture.
 
CanadaCanes said:
The strain of overwhelming the capacity of our medical system is really where this should be the point where it wakes everyone up. When you start to hear some states like New York already calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to start the process of setting up makeshift medical wards to handle an overflow of hospitals it really starts to sound the alarms to shelter down. You hope to never see any state in this country ending up looking like Italy has the past few weeks.
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Since the two boats are densely populated, they are not able to handle people infected with coronavirus. Apparently they will be used for other types of patients
 
Macy’s is closing all stores until March 31 effective immediately. Employees are getting a 13 day paid vacation, they’ll be paid during the closings. Any warehouse employees affected will also be paid. Aside from cosmetics and maybe jewelry, I don’t know who else is paid on commission or if they’re a combination of base + commission.. The “beauty advisors” at the cosmetics counters are also usually paid by the cosmetics companies.
 
my nextdoor neighbor works for Hill Rom who makes majority of hospital beds. They are in a small town and in that town there is also a big casket maker company. You can go from cradle to grave with stuff made in that town.

REI closed all their stores through March
 
Aunt Betty's Cafe has reduced hours now, so had to go before lunch to purchase a little of Kentucky's finest antiseptic.
 
The Worldometer coronavirus page has some amazing stuff. The data geek in me could go on for hours but there were a couple of things wrt Italy that stood out to me:

1. 20% of the primary care physicians in Bergamo (Lombardy) are infected. The number nationally is 8.3%.
2. The mortality difference between Italy and Germany is astounding. While Germany has about a third of the number of reported cases as Italy, the number of deaths reported by Italy today (475, and counting) is 17 times the total reported by Germany (28) since the outbreak started in late February. The death rates are about 10% and 0.3%, respectively. More beer and sausages? Sure. Who knows.
 
HNIM said:
2. The mortality difference between Italy and Germany is astounding. While Germany has about a third of the number of reported cases as Italy, the number of deaths reported by Italy today (475, and counting) is 17 times the total reported by Germany (28) since the outbreak started in late February. The death rates are about 10% and 0.3%, respectively. More beer and sausages? Sure. Who knows.
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Germany may have just been able to test relatively more people and so their proportion of deaths to positive tests is lower. The difference in mortality rate may not have anything to do with how fatal the virus is in the two countries.
 
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