NoiseInsideMyHead

No, but if you're on a ventilator now might not be the best time to shop for competitive rates. Time will tell. If an antibody test shows a past infection, but the applicant is not sick and there's no data correlating to higher mortality, then there would likewise be minimal impact on insurability. Insurance companies will need to get past the regulators and right now, there's just not enough data to draw any meaningful inferences.

Only time will bear out how COVID-19 status affects underwriting and actuarial data. If most of the population is eventually (+), then the impact would seem minimal. The insurance industry needs to sell insurance to sustain itself, and it can't disqualify everybody.

Pretty big hill to climb to show that X was infected by Y at a specific place and time. One would pretty much have to prove that they hadn't been infected elsewhere (and where ya' been and who ya' been with will almost certainly need to be disclosed). Will be interesting to see if the various strains of the virus have genetic 'fingerprints' that can be traced. Businesses need only take reasonable precautions. Courts will look to CDC and others for guidance, but it will come down to insurance companies and, ultimately, juries to decide liability AND how to apportion responsibility (including of the person claiming to have been infected). Sickened employees may be stuck with workers comp as their only recourse.

idiot [ id-ee-uht ] noun 1. A person who expects empathy from healthy persons for the sick and elderly in the form of abstention from certain activities, while abjectly failing to extend the same empathy to healthy persons adversely affected, or disproportionately impacted, by such abstention. 2. A person who will blindly adhere to government edicts without regard for their constitutionality, duration, clarity, or merits, or who would seek to deprive others of the right and opportunity to question the same. 3. A person who makes political that which is inherently non-political. 4. A person, esp. one who lacks formal training in medicine, epidemiology, or statistics, who monitors daily data from public health authorities in the midst of a global pandemic and tries to extrapolate anything meaningful therefrom. 5. A person who refuses to wear a mask in public after I start wearing one, because I'm pretty sure the crap is going to have to hit the fan big time before that happens.

The Plus-Size pageant was held a few weeks ago.

Unfortunately, you won’t get nearly that much agreement on what “essential” means.

It's mildly amusing that people are ratting out their neighbors as 'virus deniers.' Wouldn't the better play be just to let natural selection take over and rid the community of us undesirables while the fearful remain safely tucked in their basements?

How does one order bananas that are "not too many, not too few, not too green, not too yellow, and not too bruised" and not get the rest of their food spat upon (or worse)?

LOL at 4th Wave "burnout." As a healthy, moderate consumer in a low-impact area, this thing has had me charred crispy since mid-March.

For pro, shop.nhl.com would be the safest place to ensure authenticity. Each team typically has a team store with both physical and online stores. You might find some occasional bargains at major retailers, who are generally going to be stocking legit stuff, but don't expect to see significant markdowns for current jerseys. You'll be rolling the dice with online sellers such as eBay and Amazon. If it's really cheap, and seems too good to be true, it's probably counterfeit. For college, you can visit each school's bookstore online (as well as athletic departments that have separate pages), but beware that D1 hockey is not as big of a deal in most places as it is at UND, so some items will be hard to find/non-existent. Conference home pages will also have shopping links in many cases.

And just how is "not imploding" objective, and more importantly, how does your proffered standard inform the relaxation of lockdown and stay at home orders?

I've been saying for weeks that the lack of objective criteria for 'success' has done nothing but reduce "curve flattening" and "social distancing" to non-scientific, medically unsupported, populist drivel.

That's a hybrid bulldozer...runs on a combination of Tesla batteries and skateboarder tears.

A new spin on the old video game "Skate or Die." "Skate and Die."

I'm gonna miss Old Chicago. As chains go, that was a good one. https://www.inforum.com/business/restaurants-and-bars/5260653-Old-Chicago-in-Fargo-permanently-closes

Know what else has long lasting effects on the heart, lungs and kidneys? Living.

ICON closed until AT LEAST July 13th. So much for getting the NHL on local ice. Or, maybe...the city is closing the facility TO THE PUBLIC for that long, because the NHL is a go.

I'm usually already horny when I reach for mine. #toasterotica

You keep adding qualifiers that only serve to prove my point. Please just admit that my original post was accurate, and that you overreacted and overgeneralized.

We're already allowing people in grocery stores, department stores, gas stations, and restaurants to be inches apart. If we see a "significant increase in deaths" I assure you it will have nothing to do with haircuts. Especially if you allow haircuts where both parties wear a mask. In fact, I would put stylists and barbers damn near the top of the list of occupations with strong, acquired immunity.

Did you just purposely ignore the difference between wealth and the ability to accumulate wealth to try to make a point? With that kind of leaping you should be in the Olympics this summer...err, next year in Tokyo.

Tad judgmental this morning? Wealth and income are not exactly synonymous.

Best part about the "stimulus" is that high earners who lost their jobs/livelihood due to the lockdown (and through no absolutely no fault of their own) get NOTHING, that is, until they file next year's taxes and can claim a credit. The income threshold for this "relief" is an absolute joke. If you think $175-200k/year for a household is "wealthy," then you are out of touch. Classism is ugly in both directions.

The extended power trip a handful of elected people are on is boundless. If everything's an emergency, then nothing is an emergency. At what point can our slightly more representative form of government (state legislature, city council, etc.) finally get involved. Don't they owe it to us? As flawed as the state legislature is, at least there could be open debate about the necessity, scope, extent, and duration of restrictions. One size does not fit all.

Naturally. I cross-posted this in the Herald’s death-spiral thread.