jerichoholicninja

I can't blame boomers for not taking this seriously. They've lived through: - polio - end of a World War - Vietnam War - race riots - Cuban missile crisis - MAD and the Cold War - Korean War - Chernobyl - Desert Storm - 9/11 - Japan nuclear tsunami - SARS, swine flu, bird flu, monkeypox - global cooling, acid rain, hole in ozone layer, global warming, climate change - multiple recessions They have disaster fatigue and just don't care anymore.

Depends what you mean by "severity". Getting infected, feeling sick, being hospitalized, and dying are all totally different things. There's about 44,000 cases in the US now, that's .01% of the US population. There's certainly a whole heck of a lot more than that though. Even if it's 10x more, that's only about 1%. How many things in life if you were told had a 1% chance of happening would you even concern yourself with? I've been trying to find any sort of over hospitalization rate but everything seems to be broken down into age groups because it varies so much. If you're under 65, it looks like it's about 20%-30%, 30% to 70% if you're older. That's of course just of the positive tests and of hospitalizations in general. So dehydration is being lumped in with ICU. The mortality rate is about 2%-4% depending on where you read and when you factor in all the people that have it but are never tested, it's much lower. I understand trying to slow the spread but you are dealing with such incredibly small percentages of percentages of the population. And just because someone isn't running around like their pants are on fire screaming "social distancing" and "flatten the curve" doesn't mean they aren't taking it seriously. I think most people see this as something to take seriously. You're only going to hear about the small minority that doesn't because it's newsworthy. As for posters here, I have yet to see someone totally deny it and say they're going to go about their life as usual. Everyone seems to recognize this as a matter that requires some action. Look, I'm diabetic, I'm one of those high risk people. I'm already self-quarantined by being a stay at home parent so I'm not really doing anything differently but on the list of things that cause me grief and worry, COVID doesn't even make the top 10. Maybe not even the top 20. Sure, I'll hunker down until the government tells me it's safe to come out but I'm not going to give in to the fear and hysteria they are either intentionally or unintentionally causing.

A bit over 24 hours later and it appears we sit at 457. This is an increase of 39. Negative test count is at 8237. According to the state, up to 1000 people could die in the next two weeks without more action. Assuming a mortality rate of 5% (which is quite on the high side) that would mean about 20,000 people infected. With so many people having it and not knowing it, not being tested, or not even being sick all these numbers are totally sketchy but 1000 deaths over two weeks seems borderline impossible. I understand taking this seriously but I feel so many people in charge are intentionally exaggerating things just to scare people into compliance. I suppose some may feel the ends justify the means but eventually the public is going to drown out officials out when they keep preaching apocalyptic disaster that never comes. And the media...early on the headline was "Wisconsin COVID cases double" when they went from like 30 to 60 and then today it was "COVID cases now more than 450". Of course things can easily double at such small numbers and then when I saw the 450 headline I'm thinking that's like 30 more than yesterday.

In the stories I read about Chris Sale the surgery date was unknown because it's non-essential. However, I have since read about a few pitchers that have had TJ recently. Probably depends on where you have it done.

There are none. Initially several anti-viral drugs already approved for other viruses were hoped to help. I believe 2 have been tried and the results are they FAILED to work as hoped. Both didn't do anything compared to controls to stop COVAD-19. Another hope is the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine. It has been used to treat the parasitic infection that causes malaria. One uncontrolled tiny "study" indicated hydroxychloroquine might help. How an anti-parasitic drug will be better than an anti-viral drug in treating coronavirus is not mechanistically clear. At this point hydroxychloroquine is a YUGE long-shot given that tens of thousands of drugs that show promise in small uncontrolled experiments end up with no positive result when properly tested in large studies. The greatest hope, to date ,was a japanese anti-viral that has been showing very good results with other viral infections and it failed. I'm not a medical expert, nor do I claim to be, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but I've been wondering if low doses of Chemo might work. Kill everything and hope the body can come back. At least get rid of the as much of the virus as possible so the body can try to repair itself. I'm sure people much smarter than I have thought of that though.

Not sure where this belongs, but since I believe it was related to covid-19. I'll put it here. Two nights ago I walked the dog and noticed the constellation Orion (about the only one I know and that is because I can't get enough of the show Ancient Aliens). Anyway, one of Orions feature is Orions belt - 3 stars on nearly a straight line. So as I am scanning the sky I notice to my west 4 stars in a straight line. Thinking that is strange I stared at it for a while and I realized the stars were moving. Not stars, but planes. I followed the line and counted 7 planes in all. Then there was 9 more. I went inside for a while and got curious so about 5-10 minutes later I went back out and saw 7 more. So that was 23 planes that I saw, and who knows how many before or after I quit watching, all on the exact same flight path, spaced about a minute apart. I have no idea what was happening. My first thought was reserves being sent to New York area, or supplies being sent that way. I mentioned it to my neighbors and she said that a pilot friend of hers had talked about all the cancelled flights and her guess was that they were sending all the planes to one airport for storage. She mentioned Indy, but I don't feel like they were heading that far south. So, if it is the latter then at least air travel has been significantly reduced. I can't say if that's what it was or not but they are running out of places to store planes. I was just reading an article about it yesterday. In Europe they are closing down runways and parking planes there and on taxiways. Airports charge several hundred dollars a day per plane. Most planes in the US are stored in the southwest because of the dry climate. The two biggest facilities are actually rapidly expanding and building more spaces for planes.

I'm just skeptical of how the policies actually accomplish that. Maybe there's a small handful of people who might be coerced by a governor's order, but for the most part, those who take this seriously are already following stay at home policies. Those who aren't really going to have their mind changed by a policy that let's be honest, isn't going to be legally enforced. Same with businesses. Aren't we already at the point where non-essential businesses have closed and we're only left with the essentials? Agree with all that. As for the legally enforced, I read this morning that the Green Bay police department will be enforcing it. My wife just texted me asking if she should pick anything up on her way home from work today. I asked her if she still has to go to work tomorrow. She said I think so. She works in health care but what she does is totally non-essential.

That was my morning today. Almost all of my son's Playdough is already mixed together but he had three containers that weren't. I wasn't paying attention to what he was doing and then I saw he had dumped all of it into a big pile. I was about to do something about it and then figured it wasn't worth the stress. My mother in law brings him Playdough every now and then and it last about 30 seconds before all the colors are mixed together.

Nolan Ryan: 284 innings, 326 innings, 332 innings, 198 innings, 284 innings, 299 innings, 234 innings, 222 innings, 233 innings Tom Seaver: 251 innings, 278 innings, 273 innings, 290 innings, 286 innings, 262 innings, 290 innings, 236 innings, 280 innings I remember the days when pitching coaches actually taught sound mechanics and didn't just focus on opposing hitters and pitch sequencing. Now the attitude seems to be, "good, this guy has a funky delivery that may mess up some hitters...I don't care if he blows his arm out four years from now because by then he'll probably be pitching for someone else." Can we stop using pitchers from 30+ years ago when talking about what's wrong with pitchers these days? The game is not even close to the same. It's like saying so and so QB today was better than some Hall of Famer because he has more passing yards and TD's. The way the game is played and rosters are managed has changed drastically and this is the result. As for Sale, everyone has been worried about him having TJ since he was drafted almost 10 years ago. Just about every pitcher these days is going to have some major injury at some point. Chris made it 10 years in pro ball before needing it. Considering how many guys are having TJ even in high school, I think he proved them wrong.

The same way I was before. Stuck with a 3 year old and a 4 month old and totally bored out of my mind.

Is this on any sort of network we could get in the states?

As with all people you'll get a wide variety of answers. My mom's a retired nurse and she has been nothing but eyerolls since this all began. Finds the lengths we're going to be laughable, stupid, and annoying. She was actually just telling me she ran into some former co-workers who are still working at the hospital. Because of cancelling all the elective surgeries most of the staff has nothing to do so they're having them screen in the ER, where they are also doing much of nothing. My wife is a physical therapist and they have no more patients in the hospital than usual. The nightmare her and the other departments in her clinic are facing is that almost all appointments have been cancelled. There's no work to do. I get it, this is serious and in some places it may be a borderline disaster, but let's not make this to be a zombie apocalypse and you're going to die by simply stepping outside your house. Wash your hands, stay away from older and sick people as best you can, limit your social interaction, and wash your hands again.

No matter what you think about how much money owners are actually making or how much they can actually spend, it will be interesting to see what kind of contracts are given out in the next year or so because the teams are not making money right now and could very well lose a lot of money if they are wind up paying players and staff with no or very few games being played in 2020. I wonder if we will see a bunch of players nearing free agency sign extensions knowing there might not actually be much money to go around the next few years.

That's what I've been thinking this whole time. People making your food could have it and not know like so many people already. Even one person working one night could infect a hundred people directly and then extrapolate from there. Our house will be making all of our own meals for the foreseeable future.

How is pretty much every other sport in the world cancelled but this isn't?

You know how some places set off their weather sirens during severe thunderstorm warnings and you watch all the people outside MAYBE start to head to their car or something but most people do nothing because the sirens go off all the time and nothing ever comes of it? Unless there are massive casualties from this the general population will not be cooperative next time something like this comes up.

The school year is done. I don't see any way it's not. Going into summer just isn't an option. Between the hot weather and the farm and tourism jobs you just can't do it. But how in the heck do you make up for almost 3 lost months? I think you have to just move on and head into the 20-21 year. Whenever that may even start.

Interesting to see how they handle service time in a less-than-162 game season. Let's say it's a 100 game season and a player spends the whole year on the 25 man roster will they only count the actual number of days that is or will it be like a pro-rated amount.

If there is anything positive to come of this it's that. We are going to face that someday and we need to be more prepared than we are now. This might be the wake up call needed to get our house in order for the day when a major killer disease comes knocking. I worry that all the social distancing will do what it's supposed to and next time people won't think they'll have to do it because "It was no big deal." Like most things in life, the majority of people have already made up their mind about whether we did enough or didn't or if worked or didn't and nothing is going to change that.

That's just it. I get closing schools. It makes sense on the surface. Except all the kids, instead of congregating at school, are just going to congregate somewhere else like daycare or the library or the YMCA or whatever else is going to remain open. Not to mention the hassle this is going to cause parents that are now going to have to figure out childcare. Not just the potential monetary cost of it but the logistics of it.

I read that Seattle is going to play its first two home series at their Spring Training complex so who knows exactly what is going on. It seems likely that games will be played in Peoria. They are refunding tickets for Opening Day. So that's a pretty big deal! We may eventually progress to all 30 teams playing the first couple weeks in AZ/FL. Aside from tradition, that's not a terrible idea to do every year. Baseball when it's below 40 is terrible.

I read that Seattle is going to play its first two home series at their Spring Training complex so who knows exactly what is going on.

He wasn't the same player after he was suspended for steroid use... Maybe it's just a clever excuse but isn't that also when the thumb injury popped up?

It will be interesting to see what team Zack goes in for. He'll have spent more years with the Royals than any other and became the great pitcher he is with them but, I don't know, it just doesn't quite seem right to me. If Zack has any say in it I'm sure he'll chose the Angels because that's just the kind of guy he is.

Cardinals released INF/OF Yairo Munoz. Reports indicate Munoz felt he was not going to make the team so he got on a plane and flew home to the Dominican Republic without notifying the club. His agent said he "saw the writing on the wall." #CardinalWay