That Aud Smell

I wish there was data on this point. Maybe there is? I know of 5 people who've had COVID-19. Four of them had fairly mild symptoms and all seem to have made a full recovery. The fifth is having a hell of a time -- it's going on 8+ weeks and he's still not close to being right. Never had to be hospitalized, but he just can't seem to kick it.

I’ve been following some contrarian types on Twitter, just to get a feel for other perspectives on how the pandemic is being managed. It’s making my head hurt. From a contrarian, I read that Arizona’s death rate per case is now well below 1%, whereas months ago it was well above 10%. Then I read a mainstream report that Arizona’s ICUs are approaching capacity. Oft times, I hardly know what to think or believe. But masks, distancing, and washing remain my touchstones.

“What has [it] done wrong?”

I don’t think that’s the case. They were taking closeup footage of the opposing sideline, presumably in order to decipher their signaling schemes.

More seriously, I can see a scenario in which a guy like Dudley decides to semi-retire to the city where he makes his permanent home. I think we tend to overstate how unusual the Pegulas' involvement is in a FO's decision making processes. I think they're on the higher end of being involved, but I don't think it's different by an order of magnitude. I don't think that would scare off Dudley, who could just as easily be of the mind -- "hey, one last challenge from the comfort of my own home. If they're not smart enough to listen to me? Eff 'em."

I looked again, and the sample size in the study was really, really small (~37?). So, take it with a huge grain of salt. Even so, though: Concerning.

Not an encouraging report, albeit there are qualifiers about the study being reported on. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/asymptomatic-covid-19-1.5629172 "This suggests that natural infection may not give long-lasting immunity, which is what people have been worried about," she said.

last one for now. this quote speaks to the question i had in mind as to whether low mortality rates in florida were of little actual comfort, longer-term. “The concern is, though, that you had so much infection at a community level in these states now that it is going to eventually seep back into older populations that are more susceptible the virus and you’re going to see death rates go back up,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, told CNBC on Friday.

I remarked on this somewhere else - the Auston Matthews thread probably. Florida's daily cases are approaching the level of New York State at its peak, but Florida is seeing 10% of the death rate that NYS did at the same point in time. https://www.newsweek.com/florida-covid-19-spikes-approach-new-york-april-peak-one-tenth-deaths-1513966 Meanwhile, in Texas: The CEO of a Houston-area hospital system told CNBC on Monday that Texas’ spike in coronavirus cases is impacting a greater number of people under 50 than earlier in the pandemic. “We are definitely seeing this affect young people, and they’re getting quite ill,” Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom said on “Squawk Box.” “So we really need everybody to do their part.” About 60% of the Covid-19 patients currently in the eight-hospital system are under the age of 50, Boom said. “It has completely flipped” from the earlier stages of the crisis, when about 40% were under 50, he added. Previously, about 1 in 5 people in intensive care unit beds were under 50. Now, he said it is almost 1 in 3.

This seems ... bad.

Maybe? I dunno. I seem to recall photographs indicating a lot of non-mask wearing, at least in outdoor settings. I saw something on the Twitter this morning - taken from Fauci? - where it was stated: Avoid indoor gatherings. Wear masks when you can't socially distance, especially if you're indoors. That seems simple enough.

right. and i've read outlying content to the effect that, in certain areas at least, the virus seems to weakening (i.e., not as lethal). i don't feel like i'm getting good information on that sort of thing. junk science? yet otoh, the fact that hospitalizations are rising to crisis levels along with higher rates of infection is pretty much all i need to know. maybe we should adjourn to the covid-19 thread.

^ The Scandinavian countries have not required masks for those not feeling ill. Honestly, there's so much that's so unclear right now. That said, wagering on mask-wearing being helpful seems like an easy thing to do.

Who ... who was that masked man?

Is there a perverse incentive to finish 12th?

There are alternatives. But they suck. And I'm constitutionally averse to them.

Been burned too many times to recount over the past ~9 years, but, whatever. I'll take it. Colour me encouraged.

We're covering familiar ground. Which I guess I find interesting, to a point. And then I don't.

They certainly don't help anything. OTOH, I mostly agree with PA's assessment of the Pegulas at this point in time. I could definitely do without the understandable-C-words-and-yoko-ono stuff, though.

Well, that's a little less terrible than initially stated. A little.

Terrible stuff.

Huh? I'm no fan of the contract, but the guy reliably goes 100 mph. That's not to say he's some defensive dervish - he mostly sucks at that part of the game. But for what he can do? He just about always goes hard.

Flat organizational structure? Like I said, it sounds familiar. The Pegulas are highly involved.