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I think the tube is kind of fun and makes light of the circumstances. If this sort of thing makes people comfortable enough to participate then it's better than the alternative, but I can't help but laugh at it. Most people are not isolating anymore. They're exposed every day at work, the store, their kids going to sports. I live next to a school, I see what these kids are doing at 3:05 every day, once the masks come off. Also, just sounds like the end of that tube will be a saliva and booger hand reservoir more than just an open bowl of candy. If you're in a risk group just shut the light off. Otherwise I just don't see why ToT can't happen. It's not presenting a risk that isn't already being taken by most people. I'm venturing to guess that most participants are exactly what I am describing, people who are already participating in a bunch of activities. I think calling it "insanity" is a huge stretch.
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It's about as low risk of an activity as you can get. Sit around outside at a card table with a bowl of candy while kids grab it and move along. Nobody is getting Covid by grabbing a Snickers and walking around the block. The simple solution is not participating if you are worried/at risk. There is no reason for mass cancellations of a voluntary neighborhood activity. I'm sorry but this stuff is just getting silly. We can't continue to cancel every thing that brings to joy to everyone for multiple years while waiting for a vaccine that we were once told might be ready last month. I have a really hard time believing that a Covid outbreak anywhere will have its roots in ToT.
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That's why they don't overly concern me. I like the Packers chances against that kind of one-man show, where I'm not really concerned about them being unable to score points. That offensive line is not good either. It's been better this year, but the talent is just not there on it, and I don't worry about us being unable to at least get to Wilson sometimes. We have a better balance. We can survive a few big plays from him.
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Seattle has been cardiac arrest every week and most of their opponents have looked good, or competitive, against them. An OK team that uses the Herculean skills of one guy to look really good. The amount of close wins that team has eeked out for the last 2 years specifically is incredible. The Seahawks right now remind me a lot of what the Packers were from 2012-2016. A good offense with a QB that will have them in contention every year if healthy and often needing everything he's got to win.
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That doesn't change that none of those teams are good this year and that is who the Packers have beaten. I don't know what their forecast coming into the season has to do with it. The Falcons stink and Minnesota does too. The Saints were a good win and they were pushed pretty tough by them. I'm not sure I agree on the others anyway. Atlanta was a 7-9 team that many thought was in decline and should've canned Quinn last year. I'm indifferent as to MN. Probably saw them as an 8-8 team going into the season. Packers have exceeded expectations as they don't control who they play. We'll find out how they do when they play better teams. SF should be much healthier by the time they go there.
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IMO, it's just presumptuous to think this away. I don't expect Green Bay to go 16-0, and the two teams don't play each other. Home Field throughout is not guaranteed, and given the expanded playoff field, also carries with it the lone first round bye. I do think this is a very good Packers team, especially since Rodgers has the pinpoint accuracy back on his deep throws, and the offense has enough wrinkles to it to put pressure on the linebackers and safeties, even when the top WRs have been hurt. I'm more worried about beating Tom Brady after the bye than anything else. That and the Packers haven't exactly been taking out top teams. Three of their wins are against a combined 2-12. 5-14 overall. They have been pummeling most of them though which is a good sign. Tampa will be a decent test.
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I'd get on a plane tomorrow. The problem is what you do once you're there and if the destination will even let you in. I had a trip to New Mexico for November I just cancelled due to their quarantine. I officially killed one to Japan for March, as there is just no way we go from banned to leisurely in five months.
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This + the enormous number of people in this country who are just not going to bother with any of it or can't. Do you really think mass tests are being run in Appalachia and backwoods Mississippi? There is a whole poverty/access issue here that doesn't really get mentioned.
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People need to wear their masks and unplug and avoid most or all of the news for a while. It's not helping anybody to get frustrated with people who are going to do things their way. It is not going to help you through this in any way.
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Adam Gase was a horrible hire and should be right behind Bell.
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Game 5: Packers @ Buccaneers - Sunday, October 18th, 3:25PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
They have great 2nd level speed, it may be as good as any defense in the NFL. It's a very hard defense to get to the edge on so I would anticipate the Packers do most of the work up the gut. If it's a difficult game I think it will be because they slow us down. Brady doesn't concern me all that much. The Packers usually do OK low mobility QBs. I think it's probably the best team they've played to this point. -
Or it becomes habit to throw on a mask for the four minutes you're inside a Kwik Trip. Last week I went into auto zone to get a wiper blade. This dude came in behind me and immediately just starts this "I NEED A HEADLIGHT THAT MATCHES MINE AND I WON'T LEAVE UNTIL I KNOW IT MATCHES!" routine. He literally started screaming once he had a foot in the door. In part of his rant he went off about how he couldn't even hear the cashier through the mask. That guy is never going to wear a mask. Most people aren't that bold, but in my neck of the woods the masks are all but done. You have to wear them at school, and I wear one anywhere I go out in public, but I am about 25% of people here. There are pockets like that all over the country. It's just never going to go over with a whole bunch of people. It's not the sort of thing that can be effective with 60% compliance. There are so many people in my area who are not just apathetic, but are convinced the mask causes CO2 poisoning, is a ploy to advance facial recognition software, etc. Once those seeds are planted they don't go away.
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It's a waste of time because it is obvious at this point a ton of people are not going to wear a mask no matter how many times you end a post with "wear a mask." And the longer it legs out, the number of apathetic people will continue to grow. People aren't conditioned to do this for two years. They just get over it eventually.
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Sheboygan is going virtual effective 10/16. There is a rumor Evers has urged all superintendents to do it.
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Game 5: Packers @ Buccaneers - Sunday, October 18th, 3:25PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to homer's topic in Other Sports
Rodgers has 4 career 3INT games. Two were at Raymond James, both losses. He also got hurt there. -
If accurate, and I don't think it's far off, everything we're doing now is a complete waste of time as far as trying to coerce people to comply. Whatever portion is still going along with things now will be significantly smaller in 6 months or a year.
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Only one bye week, plus, in January there *may* be some fans, particularly in WA which is progressing better than most of the country. A loss to Minnesota would have also been a common game with the Packers, so it was significant. I think the fans will be inconsequential, but I guarantee the Packers would rather be at home and in their facilities all week. Today though, I don't see an NFC team that can beat the Packers. That includes Seattle, which I think *could* beat them, but we'd have to mess something up. That defense isn't better than ours and everything runs through one guy over there. If SF can get right, they are scarier to me.
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Is 2020 Braun’s last year in Milwaukee?
OldSchoolSnapper replied to TexasCheesehead's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'd just like to point out that Braun coming back for 2021 in no way ensures he's getting a "proper send off" at this rate. It could be the same crap again next year. It's probably time to move on. When we can pack the house again, have Braun weekend and roll out the red carpet for him. -
This is the perspective that I don't really understand. Which guidelines are life changing? I can't think of anything I've done recently that feels like my life has changed and I've traveled, dined indoors, and been in social gatherings while following the rules. I just canceled a trip to NM in November due to their 14-day quarantine for high-risk state visitors. I am almost definitely not taking a planned trip to Japan (probably can't if I wanted to) in March. I think generally speaking, not THAT much has changed locally, at least nothing I would categorize as life-changing. As an aside, my mother passed away in March and we have not services due to her family being on the East Coast, mostly 65+, and not able/willing to travel easily. I'm sure there are many instances of that sort of thing. On a larger scale this thing is killing many businesses, big and small. My employer has been decimated and laid off 1,000 people since the start. Small retail businesses are getting crushed. Travel-related jobs have been obliterated. If you are safely employed, the overall impact has been fairly minimal. But, there are always people who aren't you.
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There is no way to explain the completely insane disparity between WI and Japan by using a testing or comorbidities argument. I would just as easily say WI is full of people who avoid a test for the sole reason that they cannot miss work for 2, 4, 6 or 8 weeks. I think the health of Japanese people was absolutely significant. But it does not account for the disparity between it and WI. Sacrifice is embedded in the culture and they would ostracize people exhibiting the kind of defiance that is rampant in the US. I am closer to FTC's general outlook than my last few posts sound, but this idea that the spot we're in was inevitable is just not true. We could have done better. I think we would still be under capacity limits and masking, but we could have kept a lot of people alive.
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Masks and distancing was never, ever presented as a surefire solution. They are precautionary measures that simply buy time in an effort to keep the country's medical infrastructure from being overwhelmed until a viable vaccine is available. The problem is that the restrictions were never really relaxed in Wisconsin. They were simply not followed to begin with, from probably the end of April on. I mean this is sort of a half-truth. The spiel was that after a few months of masking we'd be in a spot where we could relax. The masking and distancing in most of the US was pretty half-assed though, as you said. However, even with better compliance, I think it's obvious by now we'd still be doing masks and distancing like much of the world still is. The expected date of a vaccine and when we'd be able to to be "normal" was and is constantly pushed back. There were a lot of people claiming we'd be out of this by now if only we'd listened and I'm not sure that's close to true. I think we could have put a big dent in the numbers, but we'd still be under all kinds of restrictions. I think it's fair to say that drugs are the only way out of this.
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I don't think Aaron Jones is on the team next year. You can't pay market value for a 5'9" RB when your QB is on a $100 million guaranteed deal. The wrinkle here though is that Williams is also a UFA. I think the Packers would be totally fine moving forward with Dillon and Williams but it may be Dillon and someone else. If you have to make the difficult call to let someone go due to cap constraints, RB is going to be at the top of the list. Adams is a UFA after next season by the way. I just can't see a way they keep Jones around because I don't see him as their priority amidst all these other guys. Not when they used a 2nd round pick on his position.
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I'd heard months ago he did not want to play in Green Bay and only would have as a last resort. Could have been hot air and money talks but I read it somewhere.
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That may be so on the whole, but based on my personal first-hand observations in the current horrendous hot spots of the Fox Valley and Brown County, mask compliance is very, very low. I think the current 'this is just the virus running its course' mantra is the latest attempt de jour to try and minimize the human responsibility for the current situation unfolding as poorly as it is. There have been immense failures on a personal, business, and federal/state/local governmental level, and attempts to diminish culpability in that regard are plentiful. Mask compliance has got to be less than 1/3 in Washington County. I think the mandates were effective in places like Milwaukee where there was already a lot of compliance and now there is near universal compliance.
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Nobody thinks it's fake. Well, sure, there's a handful of people that believe anything. What a large percentage of people DO believe is the concern isn't worth changing your entire life for a year, or maybe two. Not saying we're right or wrong, that's just where we're coming from. Masks or no nasks, this virus will take it's course. It's why certain spots pio up, ir dies dow, pops up somewhere else. It's what viruses do. I was speaking in hyperbole, but first off, some absolutely do believe it's fake, but it's probably more like 1/20. Then there is another set that believes what you describe, and there is another set that think it is an exaggerated flu used to influence an election. None of that is my opinion, just what I have seen. At this point, yes, I believe we're just busy ants and the virus will take its course. But that is not how this had to go, and if you're suggesting that, I don't agree and there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that. There are large countries all over the world that handled this about 1,000 times better and while culture and general health are factors, they don't explain Wisconsin having more cases and as many deaths as the entire country of Japan. We had some influence on this and we blew it. At this point it is beyond our control. I believe both are true.
