The Sicatoka

This is the classic band aid problem: Tear it off fast with high intensity for not long or tear it off slow with lower intensity for a longer time. Either way the band aid comes off. Here, the area under that flattened curve is the same: society is exposed and the herd immunity is built.

Did I hear 13 corona patients in ND hospitals is the present number? I wonder how many ICU beds in ND were in use a year ago today and why.

Picked up a Humpty and chips from a JL Beers last night. Total bliss.

Could Rieger play with that Smith or Johnson energy in the line up? That guy is what I don’t see in the roster right now.

The more I think about the defense, the more I'm intrigued. Effectively we're going to turn over 7 of 8 players between right now the start of 2021-2022. We have three open slots right now; we're sure to lose four a year from now (Bast, Kierstad, Rieger, and JBD as a junior-turn-pro); the last man standing will be Frisch. Come 2021-2022 the defense is going to Frisch (a junior!), the three guys brought in fall 2020 (assuming all stay for sophomore years), and four freshmen! This is where I start to wonder about Rieger taking on a "Casey Johnson" role and bringing in a fourth defenseman this fall (in case we have a one-and-done freshman in a year). Image the other: bring three this fall, one goes one-and-done, and have to bring in five freshmen defensemen in 2021-2022.

Are you anti-birdcage?

Dare I say people value the outward 'stuff' more than they value themselves as human persons body and soul, and as such are more willing to pay to support the outward fixtures more than their own health and well-being? That's a major problem we as a society face. And a most conversation ... on Easter Sunday.

Me as well, hence the last sentence of the post.

Philosophical conversation that's been raging in my head: Ask about any American and they'll say the US healthcare system was broken before any of this started. Yet, we're crushing about half the economy to save that broken sector (about 1/7 the economy). When has America fixed anything recognized as broken by incremental measures? (We've done nothing with the postal service, or welfare, or other broken entities.) Something has to fail overtly and catastrophically before we act. Dare I call it the American way. Part of me says we should've let the healthcare system be crushed, so it could be fixed. (<-- What is wrong with that posit, admittedly the flaw in my theory, is the system is not just a thing, but all the people who work in it and would've been swept up, destroyed as in killed by disease, in the destruction. I have relatives I'd have destroyed. I can't do that.)

I believe Kawaguchi got Krog'd. The final USCHO poll, and now this: Each is the classic Rodney Dangerfield treatment --> no respect. Woe to the rest of college hockey with those things hanging on a UND locker room wall next season.

Most places would call that a lake.

That was going to be my question.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George E. P. Box

We know the downturn in the farm economy was causing a most disturbing trend of suicide among farmers. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+economy+suicide&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS891US891&oq=farm+economy+suicide&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.4141j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Many businesses face and will face the similar or worse economic problems during this shutdown. How do we know when the second order economic impact (suicide) equals the direct viral death impact. It's literally a life and death decision either way.

Allow me to state this once, simply, clearly: Bringing a spat or disagreement from another site to this site is not acceptable. It will be considered thread hijacking per the forum guidelines and will have consequences. My apologies for not being here to cap things like this off earlier.

Tychonick is transferring out. Roll the clock forward to the 2021-2022 season: Depending on JBD playing a senior year (I’d bet against), your “old man” on defense for North Dakota may well be ... junior Ethan Frisch. That sounds a lot like Colton Poolman (except Colton had senior Hayden Shaw and junior Andrew Peski when he was a junior).

Leaving religion and belief aside, the Old Testament is quite honestly one of the first public health and civil engineering books. It covers safe food preparation, sanitary services (latrines out of the camps and villages), and safe dealing with human remains.

So you want the National power grid to go down ... ;-)

Airline stock plummet. Car rental stocks soar.

https://imgflip.com/i/3qpn2i Keep crying wolf. When will we know when the wolf is here?

I’m so glad I’m not a real person but just an AI that inhabits college hockey forums. Otherwise I’d probably be dead already from SARS, or MERS, or bird flu, or monkey pox, or swine flu, or Ebola, or Zika, or mad cow, or Lassa, or West Nile, or simple chronic halitosis. Is this real? Yes. Are people dying from it? Yes. Are people being infected? Yes. But do I feel like I’ve heard this tune before? Yes.

That looks like the classic “band aid” curve to me: Do you pull it off slowly with low threshold or fast with peak threshold? Either way the area under the curve is about the same.

Fear sells.

Addition by subtraction for Bucky?

Spring sport athletes have not completed 30% of a season (redshirt rule) so the year should not count against them. However, winter sports have, and that year of eligibility should count (no matter how much I’d like to see Cole Smith flying around some more).