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To continue that last post... This is pretty remarkable. Ohio State has had the highest picked ... • Non-QB in 3 of the last 5 years ('16, '19, '20). • Defensive player 4 of last 5 years ('16, '18, '19, '20). • D-lineman 3 of last 5 years ('16, '19, '20). • DB 3 of last 4 years ('17, '18, '20).

So OSU gets two guys drafted in the top three but somehow UW's offensive scheme is the reason they can't beat them. (and the #1 pick started out there and couldn't start)

Good lord that took 25 minutes.

1. Cincinnati - Joe Burrow, QB, LSU 2. Washington - Chase Young, DE, OSU 3. Detroit - Jeff Okudah, CB, OSU 4. NY Giants - Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia 5. Miami - Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama 6. LA Chargers - Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon 7. Carolina - Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn 8. Arizona - Isaiah Simmons, LB, Clemson 9. Jacksonville - CJ Henderson, CB, Florida 10. Cleveland - Jedrick Wills Jr, OT, Alabama 11. NY Jets - Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville 12. Las Vegas - Henry Ruggs III, WR, Alabama 13. 1Tampa Bay f/SF - Tristan Wirfs, OT, Iowa 14. 1San Francisco f/TB - Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina 15. Denver - Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama 16. Atlanta - AJ Terrell, CB, Clemson 17. Dallas - CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma 18. Miami f/PIT - Austin Jackson, OT, USC 19. Las Vegas f/CHI - Damon Arnette, CB, OSU 20. Jacksonville f/LAR - K'Lavon Chaisson, LB, LSU 21. Philadelphia - Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU 22. Minnesota f/BUF - Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU 23. 2San Digeo f/NE - Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma 24. New Orleans - Cesar Ruiz, C, Michigan 25. 3San Francisco f/MIN - Brandon Aiyuk, WR, ASU 26. 4Green Bay f/Miami - Jordan Love, QB, Utah St 27. Seattle - Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech 28. Baltimore - Patrick Queen, LB, LSU 29. Tennessee - Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia 30. 4Miami f/GB - Noah Igbinoghene, CB, Auburn 31. 3Minnesota f/SF - Jeff Gladney, CB, TCU 32. Kansas City - Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB, LSU 1 2 3 4

I've done that a few times on Jet Blue at the Long Beach airport. At smaller airports, not much of a security/safety risk. At larger airports, a much bigger safety/security risk. Yeah they'd have to get new jetways.

Switching to the 3-4 seems like it's been a good thing for generating LBs. Could just be a coincidence I guess but I wonder what would have happened to guys like TJ Watt, Baun, Joe Schobert, Biegel, etc. under the 4-3 that Bielema ran?

Happy draft day!

1st Round #26 - Jordan Love, QB, Utah State Full Scouting Profile Overview Challenging evaluation for quarterback-needy teams balancing traits and potential against disappointing 2019 tape. Staff turnover and new starters across the offense are partly to blame for his regression, but self-made flaws in process were also concerns. Love's accuracy took a step back, and his delayed reaction from "see it" to "throw it" when making reads is troubling. He has the arm to stick throws into tight windows but needs better eye discipline and anticipation to keep windows open. His size, mobility and arm talent combined with his 2018 flashes could be a winning hand that leads a team into the future or a siren's song of erratic play and unfulfilled potential.

I used to donate when I was in college. Basically it's the same as donating blood. They filter out the plasma and then return your blood to you the same way they took it. That's assuming they do it the same way for this.

They should let you board and deplane from both the front and back doors.

I feel like a lot of teams latch onto the players from their first run to glory and over-retire numbers from those teams. Avalanche retired Ray Bourque's number even though he played 94 total games for them. Padres retired Steve Garvey's number even though he wasn't really that great with them. Brewers retired Rollie Fingers even though he was only on the team for four years.

Yes I think that's what the antibody testing is. My wife can get that through her work (she's at a research hospital and they want to do it as part of a study).

We've had documented cases of Covid in the US since January. That's not really new news. CDC has had this on their website since the beginning. So while the CDC might have said "8 cases on 2/1" it could very well have been 100 cases or 500 or whatever. It takes a long time for it to hit critical mass and then a very short time to explode and that's exactly what happened. I believe the first documented death (before today) was 3/1 and we didn't get to 50 deaths until about two weeks later. So regardless of when it got here we've had 40,000 deaths in a span of like 5 weeks. I would be interested to know if the regular flu ever had a death spike that bad. I'm guessing it did not.

My point is we don't know if temperature or humidity have an impact on this virus. It might but we just don't know as there is no consensus. Population density seems to be the biggest culprit like you said.

Supplies are a factor for some places. Makes sense since a highly infectious disease you need to replace more stuff more often I'd imagine. This is from Wash Post. Behind a paywall.

I just don't want Kmet in the 1st. I have a feeling Gutey will trade down and accumulate picks. Maybe not the 1st rounder though.

Igor have you read Range by David Epstein? Right up your alley.

That would be true if most other countries had plenty of PPE on hand, which isn't the case, of course. Just ask the UK as a quick example. But just a few posts ago you said it's the hospitals fault for not preparing better. Then a few posts before that one you blamed governors. Looks like you're leaving one entity out. I'm guessing it's purposeful.

Apparently planning for a pandemic is quite rare. That's a failure on the part of health care providers. We're not talking about having an extra 10,00 cat scan units on hand, gloves and face shields are pretty inexpensive- especially when bought in bulk at the right time. So maybe for profit, decentralized healthcare isn't well suited for pandemics?

Your point was that it all came from the CDC. And from I've read...it's all voluntary. They could switch it up and go back to scheduled surgeries if they wanted to. These are just guidelines.

Is Dr Lawler with the CDC? https://www.mwe.com/insights/how-to-handle-elective-surgeries-and-procedures-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Re: elective surgeries Looks like every major healthcare advisory group recommended this including... On March 1, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued Interim Guidance for Healthcare Facilities: Preparing for Community Transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. The CDC recommended that inpatient facilities reschedule elective surgeries as necessary and shift elective urgent inpatient diagnostic and surgical procedures to outpatient settings, when feasible. On March 13, 2020, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) released COVID-19: Recommendations for Management of Elective Surgical Procedures, and recommended minimizing, postponing or canceling electively scheduled surgeries and invasive procedures On March 14, 2020, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, retweeted ACS’s guidance, urging hospital and healthcare systems to “please consider stopping elective procedures until we can” flatten the curve. On March 15, 2020, in response to these recommendations, the American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Children’s Hospital Association and Federation of American Hospitals sent a letter to the surgeon general requesting that he clarify his comments by recognizing the gradients of elective surgeries and offering guidance on how to classify the various levels of necessary care. The associations explained that “elective” simply means that “a procedure is scheduled rather than a response to an emergency,” and could therefore include, for example, replacement of a faulty heart valve, removal of a serious cancerous tumor or a pediatric hernia repair. The associations stated that the delay or cancellation of these procedures often rapidly worsens the patient’s condition, potentially turning it into a life-threatening condition and making the patient more vulnerable to COVID-19. The associations recommended that physicians determine what is in the patient’s best interest and make a case-by-case evaluation of many factors, such as the current and projected COVID-19 cases in the facility and in the surrounding area, and the urgency of the procedure. March 17, 2020 "White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recommended that hospitals and dentists cancel all elective surgeries over the next two weeks in order to free up hospital beds and space. The task force has stated that its recommendations are not mandatory."

Plan to open things up gradually released (contingent on testing and case count....no dates on this yet): https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2020/04/20/file_attachments/1431309/EMO31-BadgerBounceBack.pdf

I'm a decade older than you, have been doing the same with IRA, 401K, and feel the same way. I'm terrified of outliving my retirement funds...I probably won't but it's why I live very frugally. I can't really make up lost ground when I'm 80 but I can while I am still able to work. This is why I’ve been working the past several years toward being able to sustainably trade stocks. Zero desire to work for the man, I want to be financially independent, and I want to know that I can work when I want to work, anywhere I want to work. Taking a paycheck from somebody else for the rest of my life is going to leave me right in the position you feel insecure in in 15 years (I’m 31). If you have interest in the markets in general look into it as a second hobby, maybe you find you love it and maybe you won’t. There’s no better feeling I’ve ever experienced though than a hard day “at the office” and going home with high 3 figures-4 figures to show for my work. I then cut lawns for exercise and extra income in between watching our little one ($450-500/week for child care with 6-18 month waitlists is asinine to us). I have a couple friends working the 9-5 and doing the same, strategy just has to be adjusted a bit. For the record I think I understand investing as well or better than the average Joe. And I am comfortable with how much I sock away and how much I will have when I retire. My fear, which is probably irrational, is that the cost of healthcare will continue to rise dramatically and that what I am putting away now won't be enough should me or my wife get a serious illness. I don't have the stomach to day trade. I dollar cost average into equal weighted S&P funds so I tilt a little more towards small caps. I am 100% invested in stocks so I do take more risk than most people my age. I do wonder, though, how people like you who are day traders and have never experienced a bear market are approaching things. This is my third big downturn since I started investing (dot com crash, great recession being the other two).

There are a lot of studies and models out there and its easy to follow those that support one's biases. I fall into that trap once in a while. There's that Stanford study in Santa Clara County right now showing something like 50 - 80x more people have had the virus than have tested positive (which is all the more reason for massive uptick in testing) and people are using it as justification for the "it's only the flu" argument when the researchers themselves say it's just one study in one very specific (self selected) population group. If they can replicate that all over the place then sure then by all means adjust accordingly but you can't use one set of results to do that. That isn't how science works. The fact remains that we don't know a lot about the virus which is why continuous study is so important. Equally as important though is to not assume any single study is conclusive.

Higher humidity doesn't seem to have impacted the virus in Louisiana.