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Joe Biden wins Florida. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 17:02 5
- by likely a LOT of net delegates -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 17:09 4
  - Wouldn't he win all of Florida's delegates if he won the popular vote there? - Bacon Mar 17, 17:11 3
    - No, there are no winner take all states in the Dem primary -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 17:13 2
      - It's important to keep to routines in times of crisis - Reagen Mar 17, 17:15
      - Haha!! I didn't click on that link - Bacon Mar 17, 17:14
Someone on the Falcons board just pointed out that the NFC South now has three MVP QBs...and Drew Brees. -- (edited) - David Mar 17, 16:58
And there's the last of the notices I was expecting. Gem Theater is 'postponing' the final weekend of Guys and Dolls. - Meg Mar 17, 16:56 1
- And now it's *any* gathering outside the home. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 16:58
"It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus." -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 16:42 21
- Also anyone calling it the “China Virus” is a massive racist and also a moron. - Tim Mar 17, 16:48 20
  - I've been trying to refer to it consistently as the "1918 flu". -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 17:07
  - Trumpers are unable to function without blaming. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:58 3
    - I blame Obama for this. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 17:07
    - There is a lot of truth to that. -- nm - David Mar 17, 17:04 1
      - I have Trumpers in the family. I am painfully familiar. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:08
  - It's all about intent. "Anyone" is a loaded word in this case. Someone catching a news conference by dummy and not knowing any better wouldn't in my - Bacon Mar 17, 16:53 4
    - If they don't know better at this point, they have brain damage. Only Fox News cult members use that language. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:59 3
      - I still call it Corona Virus, people around me evolved to Covid-19. I am just saying there is a possibility someone parrots it not knowing better. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 17:04 2
        
        SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, in the family of corona viruses, and COVID-19 is the disease it causes. So both ways work. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 17:09
        
        Either is fine. Calling it China or Wuhan is a deliberate racist choice. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:06
  - All evidence is that the 1918 flu originated in Kansas. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 16:51 9
    - I heard it today. Do you recommend any sources? -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:59 4
      - News article referencing primary sources at the time -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 17:02 3
        
        from the 1st paragraph on wiki: - mud Mar 17, 17:05
        
        thanks! -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:03 1
        
        Smithsonian article published a few years back also mentioned this. -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 17:10
    - Huh, I'd never heard that. -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:54 3
      - I had just read it a couple of weeks back and was like 'huh' -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 17:05
      - Yeah, that's news to me. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 16:56 1
        
        Quick, everyone post it on Facebook! -- nm - Max Mar 17, 16:56
I hate that people had to wait this long to vote but kudos to them on the distancing in line -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 16:39 1
- I walked in and out in 5 minutes. No line. 3 voters(including me) and 4 judges. - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 17, 16:55
It would be really helpful if I could order a palette of a specific food product that one of the children ravenously eats. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 16:35 1
- Someone in my local community FB group is desperately seeking wagon wheel pasta. Her autistic son wont eat much else. -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 16:46
there's a lot of idle cruise ships, wouldn't they make decent quarantine sites, certainly would make security easier -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:33 3
- They're more of a petri dish than quarantine site. I've said for years they are a medical catastrophe waiting to happen. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:01
- Wouldn't they all catch norovirus? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 16:34 1
  - you say novo and I say novel...let's call the whole thing off -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:35
Dropkick Murphys live stream concert on FB is live -- (link) - Beaker Mar 17, 16:32 1
- 115,500 and counting watching now. rising fast -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 16:36
BC schools closed indefinitely. -- (link) - Reagen Mar 17, 16:27
Ok. How about this one for the service industry? Instead of / In addition to billions for banks/airlines, how about a relief package for restaurants - JD Mar 17, 16:26 1
- restaurants haven't been donating to pol's campaigns nearly as much as pharm/insurance etc -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:34
Not popular here but another post of good news from a doctor friend in Staten Island -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:21 19
- I'm kinda shocked by how China has gone down to almost zero new cases. I figured it would re-emerge. -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 17:08 2
  - SO, I defintely never trust their numbers. That being said, they used the strongest methods, and that is the expected result of that. -- (edited) - loosilu Mar 17, 17:11
  - I for one do not believe their numbers. That's just me. They control the story over there. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 17:10
- I saw this yesterday, googled some of it, its true though some is overly enthusiastic -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:30
- I’ve seen this pop up in a few places on fb. I’m skeptical it’s 100% accurate. -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 16:24 13
  - The Italy one is nonsense. -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:25 11
    - This is what they're using for that quote and it's misinterpreted, I'd say. - Dark Callisto Mar 17, 16:51
    - Makes sense that excessive smoking older population and closed social quarters society would be hit harsh. What’s nonsense about it? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:26 9
      - That’s not at all why they were hit hard. They had a misinformation campaign that made them slow to react, too. -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:31 8
        
        Too, implies, both, then? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:33 7
        
        I mean us in the too. -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:34 6
        
        Ah well we certainly have had a lot of that sadly. I don’t know enough about Italy but instinctively given their horrendous government I’d bet dollars - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:35 5
        
        My little brother has lived in Rome for years, and he is in lockdown. Italy's response was bad. The US response is much, much worse. Donnie's actions - loosilu Mar 17, 17:03
        
        If I may translate - age may be a factor in mortality, but it's not a factor in spread. -- nm - Reagen Mar 17, 16:43 3
        
        Correct. Equal morbidity but unequal mortalityl -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:05
        
        Makes sense -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 17:05
        
        except for all the grandmas who pinch everyone's cheeks -- nm - Max Mar 17, 16:56
  - Yes -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:25
- I'm not sure who State Island is unpopular with here. ty? -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:23
LIR - Marlowe, JD was referring to the O.C. in California. That's him, CY, Budice, and me :/ -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 16:20 3
- Well not me on a day to day social distanced basis as I'll be at home up here in LA County - JD Mar 17, 16:22 2
  - Oh, I thought you were in O.C. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 16:27 1
    - I used to be until relatively recently and I still spend significant time down in the OC - JD Mar 17, 16:30
My albeit mostly selfish suggestion to help out part of the service industry is that they ought to let bars sell delivered drinks - JD Mar 17, 16:16 11
- it may be cheaper to have the grocery store deliver alcohol & mixers. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 17, 16:21 2
  - But that's a step...well...one of those steps that David's posting about. This is a vague effort to help the service economy - JD Mar 17, 16:24
  - "Craft" means "sourced" ingredients. Not just something out of the supermarket -- nm - con_carne Mar 17, 16:24
- Admitting you have a problem is the first step. -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:18 1
  - I believe the problem is that bars are closed! -- nm - Qale Mar 17, 16:29
- NY (NYC at least?) and DC (I think) are allowing to-go alcohol from bars IINM -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 16:17 5
  - Wait really ? To go booze? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:21 3
    - pretty sure I read that -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 16:29 2
      - Ah, they were still working on the rules yesterday, apparently only with food. -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 16:31 1
        
        Originally they made it sound like bars (without food) would be able to do so as well, which would have helped them. -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 16:34
  - Do you hear that Gov Newsome?!? -- nm - JD Mar 17, 16:19
On Feb 27, a group of people set out on a 25 day rafting trip of the Grand Canyon. No cell service. No news. March 14, they emerged from their trip -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 16:15 5
- Having done that trip, you do get news at about halfway. -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 16:55
- How did they lose 8 days on their trip? -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:18 3
  - time travel. (also: heh) -- nm* - Beaker Mar 17, 16:19 2
    - That is what I'm thinking. Wormhole in the Grand Canyon. I'm coming up with all sorts of sci-fi scripts today. -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:20 1
      - We'll call it... Grand Hole! - Cuzzin Todd Mar 17, 16:21
FLA 11% in: Biden 59.5%, Sanders 18.4% ..! -- nm - mud Mar 17, 16:12 2
- I threw it to Bernie just for the hell of it -- nm - JaxSean Mar 17, 16:22
- I don't know what to expect with results (in any state) with the virus, but Biden was polling heavily there and early counts are absentee - ty97 Mar 17, 16:16
I'd be upset if I still cared about football -- nm - Tim Mar 17, 16:08
Pentagon to release 2,000 ventilators and 5m medical masks -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:06 7
- We have a national stockpile. I'm sure many people informed Donnie of that fact, but, you know. Military has their own stockpile. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:07 2
  - I didn't understand the distinction from the story, well I guess this is what the stockpile is for -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 16:27 1
    - National stockpile is civilian. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:08
- Did they....just open the storage closet door and find them? -- nm - ty97 Mar 17, 16:06 3
  - There's 440 military bases in the US. Plenty of places those could supplies could be at -- nm - JD Mar 17, 16:10 2
    - Caveat: THey need those supplies for the people who live on the bases. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:11 1
      - As well as for some of the original quarantine efforts at places like Travis AFB in northern California -- nm - JD Mar 17, 16:13
Max asked on the last board how it is in all 50 states. My personal opinion NOT OFFICIAL, is that it has been here since November/December. - loosilu Mar 17, 16:05 42
- Folks I waited a bit before looking back. That's a lot of interesting data. I personally believe this thing has been here. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:16
- I got stuck in January and immediately thought it was the flu. I tested negative but the clinic said they were seeing quite a bit of a “mystery -- (edited) - kelly Mar 17, 16:57 3
  - Isn't that interesting. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:15
  - I still have this damn cough 6-7 weeks after my flu. It just doesn't give me a break. I have to chain coughdrops bags a day so my customers - Bacon Mar 17, 16:59 1
    - spoiler: You might have corona. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:17
- Not in 2019, but in January I was one of multiple East coast acquaintances with an unusual 48hr 'flu' that was sinus-only with no cough. -- nm - Max Mar 17, 16:42 1
  - Hmm, based on your description I would think not covid. Lasts for weeks and is defined by cough. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:17
- fwiw a friend from HS runs a centre for communicable diseases at Harvard and says genetics for WA suggest January. - mafic Mar 17, 16:41 4
  - I suspect she thinks it's earlyer. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:18 1
    - given the language she used so do I. I'd bet that's the bombproof date. -- nm - mafic Mar 17, 17:38
  - I suspect she thinks it's earlyer. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:18
  - I suspect she thinks it's earlyer. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:18
- I’ve just had the normal winter crud that comes with having a three year old in preschool. -- nm - znufrii Mar 17, 16:36
- And Bacon and his wife were laid out by the "flu" after we came back from the cruise in January. Jenbro and I were okay. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 16:26 5
  - It's not unheard of but with us we both got the flu shot me in early October her in November. It's never close to perfect but I was always told - Bacon Mar 17, 16:36 4
    - I guess you did not get a flu test? -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:19
    - I also got the flu shot. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 17, 16:47 2
      - I think Andie also got it and also got the flu this year if I remember right. -- nm - Bacon Mar 17, 16:50 1
        
        Not me. Dave did though. (We both got the shot, he got the flu.) -- nm - Andie Mar 17, 19:07
- So... - Dark Callisto Mar 17, 16:26 3
  - Suspicious. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 17:20
  - yikes -- nm - Diva Mar 17, 16:42
  - huh -- nm - prayformojo Mar 17, 16:31
- A fellow member of the archaeological society died of pneumonia in December. She had an underlying condition - obesity - but otherwise healthy. -- nm - Meg Mar 17, 16:24
- I had a severe cold that I hadn’t had in years in January after I got back from a week in Italy and one in Dubai. - JackDawson Mar 17, 16:23
- My opinion is that Max hasn't heard of the Interstate Highway System -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:12 7
  - I told you, it's coming through rifts in the Earth! -- nm - Max Mar 17, 16:37
  - Dwight D Eisenhower FTW! -- nm - Strongbad Mar 17, 16:32
  - Life is a highway and I want to ride it all night long. -- nm - Qale Mar 17, 16:17
  - ha! he might have, but it takes time to spread that far, regardless. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:13 3
    - I deal with truckers who can move coast to coast in four to five days. They have to be saving time by not washing their hands thoroughly - crash davis Mar 17, 16:16 2
      - I totally get that. It would still take a while for any virus to spread that deeply. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:17 1
        
        You're right, but my larger point is still that Max doesn't know we're all connected :) -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:19
- Me? but the meds got me better -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 16:11 3
  - Can you give details? -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:12 2
    - it was definitely pneumonia :) had shingles and got pneumonia right after (July-ish) -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 16:14 1
      - OK, if it's July, I would say not related. Boring pneumonia. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:15
- On a different note, do you think you can get Coronavirus twice? -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:09 1
  - I don't. I think those are cases of poor testing. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:10
- Me? - Mop Mar 17, 16:09 2
  - Can you describe? -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:09 1
    - Strangely, one of the symptoms appeared to be a irrational hatred of all things Sony... -- nm - decline Mar 17, 16:25
Bloomberg News is reporting Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told GOP senators that the U.S. could see an unemployment rate of 20% -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 16:03
SCREAMING INTO THE VOID -- (link) - ty97 Mar 17, 15:59
The Chief of Police evidently has concerns about some of our residents and Walmart and Albertsons would be getting their security. So this morning - crash davis Mar 17, 15:57 3
- A lot of retailers are paying local police, overtime wages, to hang out. -- nm - Flavorize Mar 17, 16:05 1
  - Yeah, in this case though, they aren't paying the cops. The CoP has decided protecting the two main groceries is a priority -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:07
- mom keeps asking about TP, go get some, did they have some, jeez we have 2 9packs of our preferred brand and a whole case of the ugg Kirkland -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 17, 15:59
I'm trying to find the perfect song. No dice so far. -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 17, 15:53 2
- Make a playlist instead! -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 16:12
- New Orleans Is Sinking, Man, And I Don't Wanna Swim -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 16:00
Walgreens has extended free shipping to all online purchases with no minimum -- nm - budice Mar 17, 15:49
Not that anything would look right, but Brady in a Buccaneers uniform is just going to be..........weird looking. -- nm - Volnelk Mar 17, 15:48 10
- I mean, yeah, Giselle is an expensive trophy, so the moneys is welcome, but why would you go there? (NM) - Marlowe Mar 17, 15:52 8
  - She earns more than he does and she's tired of being cold. -- nm - Diva Mar 17, 16:27
  - Godwin and Evans are very good to great. Arians is a genius. It’s also Florida. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 17, 16:25 4
    - OJ Howard at TE too -- nm - Beaker Mar 17, 16:27 3
      - LOL. - Strongbad Mar 17, 16:36 2
        
        word to the IM, unfortunately I have -- nm - crash davis Mar 17, 16:37 1
        
        He's on that list of players you never draft twice. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 17, 16:51
  - Mar-a-Lago -- nm - David Mar 17, 16:25
  - Though he's kind of the relatively kept man as I think she's worth more than twice as much as he is -- nm - JD Mar 17, 16:05
- All he needs to do is throw less than 30 interceptions to qualify as an improvement. -- nm - David Mar 17, 15:49
Remember, no matter how bad things are, they could always get worse. For example, your team might sign Philip Rivers. -- nm - David Mar 17, 15:43 2
- I'm stealing this -- nm - JaxSean Mar 17, 16:09
- heh -- nm - mud Mar 17, 15:45

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