Walsh Hall

It's wonderful that we have a processing plant expert in our midst that can educate us on the proper meat packing sanitation methods which can be utilized when dealing with pandemics, including the supply chain and health ramifications... I, admittedly, have no real clue on how to properly run a meat processing plant, and what steps can reasonable be taken to safeguard the employees. I'd be completely leaving my lane to question the day-to-day operations of such an operation. It's wonderful that you are an expert and can educate us... or just maybe you have absolutely no clue on how to operate a meat processing plant and you are pulling stuff out of your butt.

6 South Dakota deaths, all with preexisting conditions. Reading your posts you'd think that 1/2 the population has been killed.

Everyone cares. I care about everyone's physical health, mental health, and financial health. Seems that there are a thousand answers as to how we balance those. I'm not a paranoid guy, but I'm starting to have some concerns about civil unrest if this drags on months longer. This whole situation is causing a great deal of mental anguish that hopefully doesn't reach critical mass. Us northern folks have spring fever anyway. If law enforcement starts breaking up the kids playing hockey in the street or swinging at the park...

To a degree, and that's why the market absolutely, and historically, tanked. If you are buying stock in Walmart, you are more concerned with what Walmart's earning will be in 2021 and 2022 than the second quarter of 2020. If you are looking at the DOW as an indicator, you are only looking at large cap companies. That's a very poor indicator of the current state of the actual economy at the micro level. At the micro level things are no doubt horrible for way to many people. Not from the virus, but from the shut down.

You aren't getting the difference between Wall St. and Main St. Wall St. is forward looking, Main St. is trying to figure out this afternoon. Strong companies with strong balance sheets will be fine in 3 years. P & G will be fine in 1 year. The mom and pop diner unfortunately probably won't. That's not big business dissing the little guy, it's a completely different metric.

Imagine pitching the idea for a newspaper if it were a new concept today... Okay, we have writers that write stories and we print them each morning and have someone go and throw the papers by people's front door so they know what happened in the world and community yesterday... The buggy-whip makes more sense. I wonder what percent of newspaper subscribers today only do so out of habit/auto-renewals? I agree that the newspaper business model is toast.

The current group of second tier guys is the best we've had in a long time. I'm a big fan of Weatherby, Hain, Blaisdell, Senden , Caufield and Keane. I have no problem having any of them on the ice. It sure is nice to have 3rd and 4th lines that have a legitimate chance of scoring each game.

I don’t recall the specific numbers, but the birthdays of NHL draft picks are heavily weighted in the first three months of the year. It definitely makes logical sense. Having almost a year of physical development advantage over some of the kids in youth hockey is a huge advantage. 25 vs 26 year old makes no difference. 6 vs 7 year old is a different story.

Yep. There’s not much point in advertising if you aren’t open anyway.

Ideally? At this point, stay the current course until April 27th. April 27 - June 1 exercise social distancing. Limited seating at restaurants, etc.... June 1, 2020 Open for business while continuing to use common sense. The Twins better be playing home games by July 9th so I can get my UND hat...

The whole problem is that the experts largely have no clue. They are taking their best guess, but obviously those best guesses are colored depending on many factors. For example, NY is dramatically below their "best case" projections, and those projections factored in full mitigation. I suspect MN is the same. Let's just hope that the projections continue to be on the high side.

I saw a good video on this. It's just the reporting period. There is always a lag in the reporting cause of death and 2020 is no different than the prior years. All the other years had substantially similar reports as 2020 for the same time periods.

Medical folks in ND and elsewhere - - Do you think we are prepared from a medical capacity/supply standpoint?

Can the Mods start a thread for only medical experiences from the medical professionals, and questions for them? Leave the political crap for this threat, and have one for ONLY medical information. Many folks here have actual first hand experience with how the medical facilities are dealing with this issue. I'd like to hear from them.

Have you done a survey to determine the political leanings of the folks on the beaches, mardi gras, etc.? My guess is the kids at concerts, mardi gras, licking toilets, lean more toward Bernie than trump... (but undoubtedly there are morons out there in both political camps).

Queue up the Rolling Stones...

That’s not an example. That’s an implied insult on something you clearly have no information.

For what it’s worth, I talked to someone very connect to the Governor's office yesterday. Was told that Doug would much prefer to not issue a shelter in place order. I got the impression he’ll err on the side of staying the course if the decision is a coin flip...

There are a ton of unknowns, and also a ton of knowns. Unemployment even in our state is increasing dramatically. There are not a lot of options for those folks. This week I have personally had (2) young relatives in service industries lose their jobs. Thankful our family is able to help them and they will be fine, otherwise they would be screwed. Many folks are not so fortunate. This is impacting the mental health of people, especially the younger folks. It's definitely a balancing act, but we need to implement a plan to restart the economy while taking all the reasonable precautions that we can. At this point this is strictly about mitigating all classifications of damages.

You have to be incredibly good to be a top two line guy in the NHL. Does Guch have the ability and skill set to be a 3rd or 4th line guy? There's a long list of college scorers that ain't gonna be PP guys in the NHL, and don't have the skill set to be a 3rd/4th line guy. There's a reason guys like Porter/Rowney/Ryan Johnson get a shot in the NHL and Duncan, Kristo.... don't.

If he leaves early his signing bonus won’t in the same universe as free agent AHL or Europe money.

You don’t think that’s essentially what he’s doing?

Yep, definitely out of proportion for both calls and puts.

Thank god for big pharma, Walmart, Amazon, the telecoms, private sector medical providers and the like... They will lead us out of this, not the government. They are all stepping up in a huge way.