PASabreFan

But if you ride recklessly, you could kill me. Drunk driving laws are good, but they restrict personal freedom. I don't have to breathe anyone's cigarette smoke in public. I shouldn't have to breathe anyone's Covid.

Is that because they've given bad information? Or because the agencies became politicized?

I noticed two odd plants back in July, maybe, in a spot where I had cherry tomatoes planted last year. They were only tomato-like. No flowers, no little tomatoes, and when you tore a leaf, it had only a bit of that distinctive tomato plant smell. I forgot about them until I spotted one of them today. It had grown quite tall and had fallen on some low, green ground cover. It has a stalk or two of small cherry tomatoes and more stalks that are flowering. All of a sudden it's not tomato-like, it's a tomato plant. The other one has no flowers or fruit and is still quite small. It's a lighter green than a normal tomato plant and more delicate. I've never heard of tomato plants coming back one year to the next. Although, of course, tomatoes always fall and decompose in the late summer and fall. So the seeds are there. I've never seen anything come of them. Climate change?

Sabres: disappointing rookie is seen at golf tournament all jacked up Bills: new head coach candidate is seen at airport all suited up Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.

You're making a case against the Pegulas but at the same time discounting the possibility they were the lion's share of the problem. Darcy, Tim and Jason were good but flawed hockey execs who couldn't get anything done under these owners. When does the answer become obvious? Rumors of a forced hiring of a coach and a forced trades of a top player are central to this topic.

I have to believe there'd be a wild scramble involved, lots of whacking and jabbing and rattling at the eggs. Then the whole thing would be doused in alcohol and set ablaze with a blowtorch lit by a firecracker.

I don't know what Europe did, but I doubt it was a return to February "normal." I'm just throwing out some numbers to get us thinking about what doing nothing except hiding away the vulnerables would look like. I scratch my head at how smart people can miss the obvious culprit in our economic and societal woes: the virus. Not the mitigation efforts. We get back to normal by cutting down the virus to very low levels, which is achievable, because other countries have done it. Then, and only then, can the economy fully come back. Rapid testing all over the place would help. It's still a pipe dream. They would get us through this period before a vaccine, anti-virals and other treatments, and know-how. Until then, pretending that we can psych ourselves back to normal and no one who's not old and sick will be affected isn't a viable option. People can talk a good game, but most everybody is afraid. You can say, "It's over, we're back to normal," but people have to believe it. I'm still not going to a sit-down, inside restaurant.

I found Jacques Pépin's recipe for Eggs Jeannette. Basically a glorified, seared deviled egg in some sort of french mustard-y sauce. I wonder what the recipe for Eggs Jeanneret would be.

Maybe TP will attend one of those rallies.

The economic "shutdown" (the vast majority of people kept their jobs) wasn't about protecting the vulnerable. It was early days, no one knew anything, the virus was exploding and there was a real risk that the health care system would be overrun. It didn't happen except maybe in a few big city hospitals, and we adjusted. Now people are being asked to wear masks, distance themselves, wash their hands and avoid crowds. Not a huge ask. Is it your position that the economy is still shut down to try and save nana? And how do you propose going back to "normal" and not having an enormous second (or third) wave wipe out hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the vulnerable and the not vulnerable? The math is the problem here. What's .5% of 60% of 330,000,000?

I imagine every current franchise has done us dirty in one way or another in recent times. As we have them. The reason Sabres fans hate successful franchises is exactly that — they're doing well and we're at or very near the top of most disgraceful sports franchises of the past 10 years.

Does 200,000 dead (and probably many more) in six months, a disease becoming a leading cause of death almost overnight, not get your attention as something extraordinary? Man, I wouldn't want to play poker against some of you guys. Then again, we just learned the alpha male with the giant hands went running out of the office when someone sneezed.

"...be very careful around the vulnerable segments..." Around is the operative word. You want younger folks to distance themselves and (maybe) wear a mask when around grandma and grandpa, but that's not enough. Grandma and grandpa can't live on a deserted island. They deserve to live in the world, too. If they're sick, they have caretakers of various kinds in various settings. Covid will find them. They probably won't get it from their grandchildren, but from the person infected five people down the line. Why is the cost of protecting the vulnerable (and lots of people who don't seem vulnerable but who can get very sick and suffer lasting effects) so "enormous"? The measures are practically free, in fact. OK, there are no bowling alleys or movie theaters open in some states. Bars and restaurants might have limited capacity. You can't get puked on at Bills Stadium. Oh, the horror. To do the right thing for a relatively short period of time. This country, sent back in time, wouldn't have made it past Valentine's Day 1943.

My comment was narrow. You've practically bragged about not following what's going on with Covid. So I didn't think Swamp should read anything into your comment on kids in Texas or wherever contracting Covid. Also, there are ways to follow pandemic news without touching the mainstream media. "Dying from worse" is a weird phrase. Is there a worse way to die than the way people have died of Covid? Covid has been one of the leading causes of death in this country this year. Are more people dying of cancer? Sure. But cancer's not contagious or easily transmitted. The numbers don't need to promote fear. The death rate isn't terrifying. Is 5% positivity rate supposed to send people screaming down the street? But all the numbers are concerning enough that life can't go on like before, for now. I think that's where you and most people part ways. You seem to think it's OK for people to engage in dangerous behavior because they'll either be OK or they'll get very sick and it'll be their own fault/choice. You don't seem to want to see one degree out from there.

I'll take the wig.

Botterill refusing to do as told and flushing a coveted NHL job down the toilet doesn't sound like a "last straw" situation?

This is harsh but true: once info. was put out there that the most affected people were old, poor and people of color, the floodgates back to normalcy opened. These are the people a capitalist country cares least about. Dr. Birx' use of the word "urban" was the first tip off. Of course plenty of very fine people on the other side are dying too.

Nothing. He has admitted to not following pandemic news.

Yep.

Because we hate Boston, Philly, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Montreal, the Rangers, Tampa?

I just ruled out M if we ever play KFM with Eleven.

It's possible the Sabres are only several decent moves away from contending (making waves=contending?). But that would actually be an endorsement of the work of the previous two GMs, and that's heresy around here — that the team is pretty close. The angst some feel comes from the deep-down realization that the team is fundamentally flawed and needs to be turned over 50% and then 50% again, but this time doing it right, not what Botterill did in consecutive seasons. So to see no progress so far on what looks like a huge project is unnerving to some.

I feel like the recent iterations of the Lightning are the 1990-1993 Bills. The Bills were magical and pulled off stuff like that all the time — until it really mattered.

Give Darcy a chance! I won't worry until we're past Labor Day.

I finally captured the mouse (a mouse?) in the live capture trap. Although it ate the peanut butter I put in the trap, it wasn't until I added some sharp cheddar cheese that it went into the trap (and ate both). I got it on my back porch just a few feet away from where a mouse had been scurrying around inside the back door. So I'm hoping it's the same mouse. I took it to the back of an empty house about 25 yards away and released it. If all the stories are true, the cute little disease-ridden plague-carrier was back at the home base in his jammies before I said, "now!" @Eleven @New Scotland (NS) We'll see. Hey, I gave the little furry fella a chance. I feel good about it.