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Haha I forgot they are kind of irrelevant these days. Point is I think the slight risk of poor conditions (cold) is much worth it over neutral sites. Something 100% assured to be embarrassing for the league. The attendance alone would be sad and the lack of fans for each team would be even more embarrassing. If you want to showcase how no one likes baseball and/or is boring then neutral sites is a great idea. The Cardinals had a hard time fully selling out HOME games last year in the NLDS and they have an almighty great fanbase. How is Miami going to sell out a fraction of their stadium for two teams no one cares about down there? $5 tickets? I just have a hard time seeing that and to be honest I don’t want to.
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Neutral site postseason games would not be an achievement...it would be an embarrassment. Chicago average November snowfall: 1.2 inches New York City average November snowfall: .12 inches This is suppose to scare off games even though Denver sees an average of 2.37 inches in October. If the world would keeps spinning for October baseball for Denver in a normal year I think we can figure this out.
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Neutral site postseason games would not be an achievement...it would be an embarrassment. Chicago average November snowfall: 1.2 inches New York City average November snowfall: .12 inches This is suppose to scare off games even though Denver sees an average of 2.37 inches in October. If the world would keeps spinning for October baseball for Denver in a normal year I think we can figure this out.
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I don't see any reason for neutral sites in November, that would be incredibly dumb and shortsighted. What city would even be an issue? The Twins would be the only one that could create some really cold baseball temps and even snow. Milwaukee is indoors, Chicago would have workable temps in all likelihood, and the NE is fairly mild for November. Colorado is fairly mild for November too I do believe. Snow would be very unlikely to be an issue anywhere. Just leave it as is. Odds are half the teams or more are in the south anyway.
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Scott Boras Plan: https://www.yahoo.com/news/scott-boras-pitches-162-game-123039356.html Basically calls for a neutral site postseason. I am not entirely sure if MLB would go for something like this, I just have a hard time seeing them go with a neutral site postseason. THAT being said it does buy another month of time to get going. Outside of maybe Colorado snow won't be a huge concern in November. Temps may be chilly at times, but not much different from April. Again, I don't see it...but it isn't totally crazy.
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Funchess is a solid FA pickup assuming it is cheap. I still would like them to get someone a bit more relevant in FA and then draft someone somewhat high....not sure what is left on the open market though. He isn't flashy, but an upgrade none the less.
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I don't think we can reliably compare ourselves to any other country. China and Italy both had much stricter lockdowns than anything we have in the US. Both of those countries (especially China) have had very questionable statistics that are potentially false and they aren't testing in the same way we are. Their timelines just aren't accurate for us. The biggest thing people can do right now is stop traveling out of their home area. Don't make the NYC problem a bigger problem or on the local level here the Milwaukee problem.
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No, just needs to kill someone they know. All fun and games till it hits too close to home. Think that would change some people’s minds real fast.
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Still not as bad as the California governor claiming half the state was going to be infected in a matter of two weeks. That was about 100x the entire world had seen at that time in months.
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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. 506 according to this link. https://www.tmj4.com/news/there-are-now-459-covid-cases-in-wisconsin Still not growing exponentially, so that's good. Milwaukee and Madisom are obviously the problem areas as expected. Guess it is too much to ask for DHS to have semi up to date numbers on their own site.
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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.
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Safer-At-Home goes into effect at 8am tomorrow....will last till April 24th unless another order overrides it.
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Many have, ones that have lost incredible demand for their products usually. I know there was a furniture manufacturer in Wisconsin that did, car assembly plants have shut down (though may produce healthcare supplies). Reality is many of those places are essential to keep the supply chain going.
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It is our way of life that is the problem. We would never do crazy shutdowns because we simply won’t put up for it. States etc. are too scared to get sued like crazy and have businesses stake their claim as essential. If you watched Evers talk today the attorney for the state (or whatever he was) always jumped in any time someone asked anything about what would be closed or essential. Part of why we don’t know that answer yet is because they have to figure out all the legal aspects of forcing business to shut their doors etc etc etc.
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What a horrible graphic. Did Milwaukee County slide into the lake? Sadly not, that would sure help slow the spread.
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The CDC will be the main gatherer of that information because knowing who survives and recovers is just as important as who doesn't. While looking at mortality associated data can give you an idea of what the at risk group looks like, you can't accurately predict risks without also knowing the numbers for recovered and their associated data. Didn't say it wasn't important, but I do not believe that information is gathered speedy fast. When someone dies everyone knows right away. To me the recovery statistics will not be as up to date as the deaths. You can be days late on that information and it doesn't matter as much. I am sure they are beyond overwhelmed when it comes to keeping track of everyones current condition that is not in critical hospital care.
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I think there is a very very low priority of trying and figuring out if someone is fully better or not. If you aren't getting worse and going to the hospital the concern for you probably diminishes a lot.
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New York qualifies liquor stores are essential...its just a big joke. One state they let bakeries and ice cream shops stay open as essential. This changes little to nothing. Blocking gatherings of more than 10 people is essentially the same thing. Closing a few different stores does not do much if at all. Actually, the biggest thing this does is probably cause another mad dash of idiots buying out the grocery store. So...great.
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Someone was kind enough to get my almost 4 year old playdoh for Christmas. He loves it and it may be the most stressful thing he insists on playing with. One of them is pizza themed and he always insists on cutting the pizza before it goes in the little box. A part of me dies every time that little wheel smashes a line into all the colors. I then spend 5 minutes trying to separate it best I can. Speaking of mixing things together someone gave me this scented putty for Christmas. One day we were both playing with one and he was like, "Here Daddy let me show you something." So I hand over my putty and he instantly slaps them right together...they were attached like super glue. If anyone is wondering cinnamon eucalyptus is not a very good scent, they were much better on their own.
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This country won’t ever take the measures necessary to try and stop this in its tracks. Compare our comical quarantine and lockdowns in place to Wuhan...it is a complete joke. If we wanted to stop this quickly cities like Seattle/NYC would be on a complete lockdown. No leaving the city or coming in...close the borders of the respective states and so on as necessary. Pretty sure at some point people couldn’t leave their house for any reason. That is how you get done in 3-4 weeks time. Not letting people leave to visit the liquor store, get an ice cream cone, get to-go fish fry, or hoard toilet paper. Not to mention the droves of people (many infected) dashing away from the problem areas. I’d love this thing to be done by May or sooner, I would do back flips. I don’t see how we have that happen though.
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Additionally it is not recommended to flush your tortilla shells down the toilet when you resort to using them when you run out of toilet paper.
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I joked maybe this will get some companies to get out of the dinosaur ages, put material in the cloud instead of on paper, and increase a willingness for WFH opportunity. I don’t think it will though.
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Italy has announced 99% of Coronavirus deaths had another illness. This was after an 18% sample of the deaths. 25.1 had one other illness 25.6 had two other illnesses 48.5 had three other illnesses High blood pressure was in 75% of cases, 35% had diabetes, and another third had heart failure at some point. It skews exponentially towards people 60+, 80.5 being the average age of death. People under 40 were men with serious health conditions. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says
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I doubt the spread is terribly worse than we are aware. We are picky testing and a sliver of those people are actually testing positive. It will get worse, but I don’t think a crazy number of people are trotting around infected. Rural areas have fine internet...this is 2020, not 2003 or something. The real problem (if there is one) is many schools aren’t equipped to go fully online and the populations can veer more poverty enriched. The main problem is figuring out who has a computer to use and who has internet they can use. Many kids don’t have one (or even both) so they are trying to figure out how to get those children the resources they need. Of course this isn’t much different than poverty enriched school in say Milwaukee...so not necessarily a rural exclusive thing. Probably more likely for a poverty household in rural areas to have internet versus a bad part of a bigger city. More need for personal internet in rural areas to stay connected. As far as jobs, yes many have factory jobs and service industry jobs...but not as much as you may think. A lot of people will travel to a more urban area for a more conventional office job. I would say rural areas are much more likely to have at least one parent dramatically affected job wise though.
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Well this seems like a good time to wish everyone good health to them and their families. Regardless of whether it is an overreaction or justified people of all ages are ending up in the ICU...even those healthy are probably being negatively impacted one way or another. What isn’t debatable is this virus is quite dangerous for many at risk populations. I am sure we have numerous forum members that fall into that category or at least know many people that do. Seems like a poor time to call people names etc...it’s all a big joke till someone close to them dies or ends up on a ventilator.