NoiseInsideMyHead

If "social distancing" is the immediate, knee-jerk reaction to every future bug, strain, variant, etc., ALL spectator sports are in jeopardy...forever. No season that begins is assured of finishing, and no off-season is assured of ending. Could become new betting lines in Vegas. All we can do is pray that the "science" evolves to show that "curve flattening" is a definite, achievable objective, rather than the fluid, indeterminable, and movable goal post that it is now.

Did you give her two minutes...for checking?

Personally, I was shocked to see how many local and regional businesses jumped on to TV with pandemic-related campaigns. Even among the nationals, it was almost like they had those in the can, even though that seems unlikely.

Yeah, but the eyeballs. If one believed in online advertising before, how could you pass that up? Will be interesting to see if the banner ads or embedded ads change up much, or reflect national or lower profile accounts versus juicier local advertisers.

Shouldn't the extremely busy news cycle and the "free" access to content about the pandemic be driving their page views through the roof right now? And wouldn't that have a boom effect on ad revenue?

One perspective. (Welcome back to the living, Deadspin, but will it ever be the same?) https://deadspin.com/the-nba-gets-vegas-the-nhl-gets-north-dakota-1842732396

This is perfect. Thanks!

This has finally come into focus for me, and it's mind blowing. People want to compare this to war, and want to invoke the American fighting spirit and a sense of national unity. But since when is America so afraid of death? Does D-Day happen - at all - if the DC brain trust (political and military) sat around discussing a 'flattened curve' of American and Allied casualties? What if they had postponed the invasion a few months, waiting to see if they could devise a less bloody strategy or strengthen their medical corps? No, to the contrary, we sacrificed thousands of lives - history books tell us it was the right thing, and for 75+ years we have celebrated the heroism and bravery and honored the dead with the utmost reverence. Maybe coronavirus isn't so much something to be feared as something to be boldly endured. Yes, people are going to die. No, not everyone who needs medical attention will get it. I'm sure a lot of GIs bled out on the beach in Normandy who could have been saved if there had been medical aid available. And what is the right number of ventilators? Or ICU beds? And what triage priority to patients? What was our deployed medical capacity in WWII? Should there have been a med-evac unit available for every soldier on June 6, 1944? I don't even know if there was an evacuation plan in place, because the early waves of the invasion were a bit of a one-way ticket. Yes. Take reasonable precautions. Save lives. But we all have to LIVE our lives, too. Please do not invoke any national obligation to avoid death at all costs, or say sacrificing all individual liberties along with every shred of normalcy and destroying (even temporarily) the quality of life we have all earned and enjoyed is the right thing to do. Because that seems like a slap in the face to what this country stands for. Or used to stand for. The survivors will remember. The dead will not have died in vain. And if this is a war we cannot win, let us die with dignity - and valor, and not in fear.

Anybody have a good link to a GF/EGF Red River flood cam? I think there used to be one at the NOAA page that was mounted on the Sorlie Bridge, but it may have been deactivated when the bridge was rehabbed.

COVID-20 says "Yes."

Shelter in place, or submerge in place.

For those of you working remotely.

That might be the worst take in the history of bad takes. All pro-Fighting Hawks name/logo people may breathe a little easier now. Grand Forks has a new public enemy no. 1. Seriously, though, you must live a very sheltered existence. The food scene in GF is absolutely, and unforgiveably, pathetic.

Stage IV and you might as well be licking truck stop toilet bowls in Wuhan. What could it possibly hurt?

Doc Bricker isn't holding out a hull lot of hope, even with the current course. She'll keel over any day now, as her vitals continue to sink, likely from cabin fever.

Paragraphs are your friends.

Yet, masturbation requires only a single masturbator.

Give us your best guess as to the businesses who are unlikely to ever re-open their doors or, if they do, it will be short-lived. Is this the perfect time for small businesses to fold? What about underperforming locations for regional/national chains? New businesses? Established players? (Insider information is 100% welcome.)

This x 10,000. As others have noted, "movement" data in rural areas is absolutely, 100% worthless.

The "empty seat" model?

Ever vigilant, Columbia Mall has quietly been enforcing a 60-foot 'social distance' for years.