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Fortunately, there are plenty of other ways to provide for people in a time like this and none of them involve billion dollar payouts to companies that have shown they don't care about their employees. It's incredible how predictable the responses from the Fox news watching contingent are.

The next decade? That's cute. Stop acting like a couple months is forever. I'm mocking the $1,200 because it's a one time payment that doesn't even cover rent or mortgage for a lot of people. It should be more and it should be regular until stores and restaurants are open again.

It's very telling that your first reaction is to claim people are going to abuse the system. The true American way... me first. You know there are requirements to collect unemployment? Those wouldn't disappear. Just as the $600 a week isn't forever, neither world additional monetary support. I can imagine this scenario playing out "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to accept just a fraction of your salary, despite losing your job through no fault of your own. But there's someone who normally makes $13 an hour and under this system, they'd actually make $14. So instead, we will screw everyone else. " Remember, the boogeyman is just a story, not everyday life.

What you call entitlements, I call support for people who lost their job due to no fault of their own. I know who pushed through the $600 and that's the point. Without them, there would have been nothing extra as evidence by those officials saying the extra should be taken away. It's still not enough but that's how compromise works these days.

Curious if Perunovich had been suspended for that horrible hit from behind, if that would have affected voting. That was textbook suspension worthy in the NCHC.

No, I want Americans to start realizing significant changes to the entire system need to be made. In 2009-10, 12,500 people died in the U.S. from H1N1. What did we learn from that? Clearly nothing, as that many people have died from Covid in the last week. When there needs to be a swift response, many people were lazy to react and the models bore that out. Now that most states are on board, we are going to see those effects in a couple of weeks. The ones that acted quickly are already seeing their numbers flatten. The US system isn't designed to care for the average worker. MM loses his job, and that sucks, but what support does he have when that happens? The government shut things down, so the government should provide for those impacted. We are all going to get a $1,200 check. Those who lost their jobs will get unemployment and an extra $600 per week. How can the often self-proclaimed "greatest country in the world" only manage to help Americans with a tiny sum of financial support? The small businesses that have had to lay off employees and may not survive this, are getting road blocks left and right. Corporations that spent millions using the 2008 bailouts to buy back their stock are getting bailed out again, because why? Do we really need to save another horribly run airline that overcharges customers yet gives executives multi-million dollar bonuses each year? There are thousands of people in Texas trying to get food, while farmers in Wisconsin are dumping out milk because they can't sell it. In what world does that make sense? Only in one where it's always "me first," whether that's an individual who won't bother to stay at home because of "freedom," or a company that lays off thousands of employees because you gotta keep those shareholders happy and you can't dare lose money for a quarter or two, to the politicians who would rather give handouts to the companies that donated to their campaigns than the people that actually do the voting, to the President who is more concerned about the Stock Market and the ratings of his daily pressers than saving the lives of Americans.

Despite the pandemic, some states are seeing fewer deaths from car accidents and crime: https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/11/michigan-death-down-in-march-despite-coronavirus/5120360002/ Michigan averages 8,500 deaths in March over the last 5 years. This year, they have just 6,000. 259 of those were Covid related.

I'm sure that $1,200 stimulus check will tide you over. At least someone is out there "buying votes" by offering more than the basic unemployment benefit for those who lost their jobs.

It's shocking that the models have changed a couple of weeks after social distancing was enacted. Fyi, your Aids/HIV mortality rate is still lower than Covid.

It's a good thing this is over and everyone's healthy. At the start of this thread you said the flu is more of a concern, when was the last time the flu killed more than 1,900 people in the US for 5 consecutive days? Sicatoka told us to look at the numbers because the rate of death for those under 60 was so much worse for the flu (hint, it's not). It's good we can see all the posts from when this thread started to see how epically wrong people have been.

The Summit League has already accepted St Thomas contingent on the waiver approval. There are extenuating circumstances which would allow them to move up for 2021.

Hospital workers are literally wearing garbage bags because there's not enough PPEs. That's the definition of not being supplied. Colorado ordered 500 ventilators that the feds seized. The state recieved just 20% of those. The government is taking supplies from the states.

The US passed Italy today for total deaths from Covid 19, so no, we're not Italy. We're #1! If New York was a country, it would have the 6 most deaths in the world.

What's the acceptable number of deaths from this? What actions do you think should have been taken and in what places?

Germany does know how to do at least one more thing right: every healthcare worker is receiving a free case of beer on their way home from work.

Exactly. For players who were drafted and played two years of juniors, they could then officially declare after their sophomore year that they're no longer going to be a student. Wait until mid August and they're now a free agent. However, if they choose to play for 3 or 4 years of college, the NHL team would still have their rights up until August 15 of the last year they play.

Shh... we have a "medical expert" posting this morning. Oh wait, that's right @keikla stopped posting in these threads.

Fortunately, it's over and everyone is healthy now.

I'm not afraid of getting it. I'm afraid of spreading it to someone who is too weak to survive it.

Literally from the Chair of the New York City Council Health Committe: An estimated additional 180 - 195 deaths per day occurring at home in New York City due to COVID-19 are not being counted in the official figures. "Early on in this crisis we were able to swab people who died at home, and thus got a coronavirus reading. But those days are long gone. We simply don't have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic," said Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee [source]

Just shy of 2,000 people died yesterday in the U.S. Factor in it's about a 17 day delay between feeling symptoms and death and the U.S. isn't even close to out of the woods, yet.

There aren't enough tests for the living, so testing the dead has been put on the sideline. As was posted above, those who die and haven't been tested positive also aren't being counted.

Getting back to the 5G topic at hand, instead of you defending any and all Fox News crazy talking points... Let's say my G6 airplane crashes and I'm taken to the hospital in pretty bad shape. No guarantee I'll recover, but also no guarantee I'll die. Then, while in the hospital, I overdose on sizzurp and die. Which would go down as the cause of death on my death certificate? All those people that die of the flu every year, do we think they didn't have underlying health issues? They still go down as a death from the flu.

Global Catholic Television Network. That's who the reporter who asked that question works for. I'm assuming it was an accident saying plural correspondents and not including who they worked for.

The graph represents interest in the search term for that period. A 100 is the maximum amount of interest during that time while zero means no searches. Because there are a lot of uneven points during the search, you can assume there is a higher statistical range than normal. Most graphs will never hit zero as there is at least some traffic. In this case, there is generally no interest in REA but since the article was published, it jumped. The graph is created by Google Trends. I just grabbed a screenshot.