The Sicatoka

... and delay procedures that are clogging the hospitals now.

The headline in the weekend Fool'em was a bit disingenuous. The headline would lead the casual observer to believe Covid has filled up area hospitals. Read two paragraphs in and root cause is all the elective surgeries that were delayed for four to six months that are now happening. Let's roll some ND DOH facts: Non-ICU beds occupied due to Covid: 5.3% ICU beds occupied due to Covid: 6.62% Source: https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases

Honestly, I believe it is at full force in Burleigh/Morton and Cass/Clay.

It ain't cheap or easy to train a shiatzu to sit up there that still all day long.

Are you saying the people complaining loudest about Trump following the rules are the people who've spent 40 plus years writing the rules?

The Cubs have to take down the ChiSox because the Twins can't finish off the Reds. The beeping sound you heard yesterday was the Twins bus backing into the playoffs.

Is there an Option C?

This virus is taking the low hanging fruit.* *Yes, crass, but the virus is targeting the elderly and infirm (meaning those with underlying conditions).

Mindreading: No human can do it, but still they claim to be able. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/at-pentagon-fears-grow-that-trump-will-pull-military-into-election-unrest/ They think (mindread?) that Trump wants to use the military in the election.

I KNOW! Declare a global viral pandemic and that everyone should stay at home. Oh. Yeah. Nevermind.

Let's go to the actual interchange: Um .... read the question. If Trump wins, what transition of power? And there can't be a draw (see Constitution). So the answer to "win, lose, or draw" has to be --> we're going to have to see what happens (to know what happens).* *It's kind of like you have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill.

Point of order -- 38 States would be a reference to how many it takes to amendment the Constitution, and a Constitutional amendment is what it would take to eliminate the Electoral College.

US Constitution Article II, Section 1, paragraph 2: That says the State Legislature has final say on Electors (i.e. who casts the state's votes in the Electoral College). The Legislature can say by popular vote results. They can say by their own decision and vote. They could say the Governor picks. They could say the head football coach of the largest HS in the state picks electors. It's the Legislature's call ultimately. (We're just used to the Legislature using popular vote as the mechanism.) The beauty? Those legislators face re-election after their actions.

Is this the same "The Atlantic" that last week claimed Trump berated veterans who died in war?

PINCH-OFF!

You're supposed to add a "BAY-BEE!" on the end of that.

When we're all either: (A) beaten into psychological submission that we'd blindly wear an onion on our belt if told do do so, or (B) dead.

Two movies, one screen.

If I set the season Vikings win total at 5.5 right now, over or under?

Rocco and the Twins are channeling their inner Earl Weaver '70s/'80s Orioles: Bomba-no-steal.

Lincoln

Butbutbut ... I sawer it on the interwebs so its gotzta be trues fur reals!

"Excess deaths". In the CDC link it's defined as: "... the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods." So it's the "more than the expected" in that time period and expected would be based on history. But COVID-19 (a novel coronavirus; novel as in new) is a completely new player in the game, above and beyond everything from the expected. We'd expect what we had the year before. COVID-19 is by definition novel, an adder, to that expected. It's like fundraising*: We expect our usual annual donors to contribute X. Oh. Wait. What's this? A new donor contributing. "Excess" funds! Calling these "excess deaths" fails to admit COVID-19 is new (aka novel coronavirus) that will become part of baseline "expected numbers". COVID-19 is just part of a new baseline that we're now getting first year stats on. As they say, the new normal. Virus gonna virus. *Yes, using fundraising as a parallel is crass (and I humbly admit as much).

These two are false: ADAM SHIFF'S SISTER IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ SON HILLARY'S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS' NEPHEW. It took maybe 30 seconds each to find that out.