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GopherRock

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  1. Also, the cutoff for a special election in North Carolina is September 3. If Burr is forced to resign prior to that, that seat will have a special election on the November ballot. If not, his replacement serves out the rest of the term.
  2. He kept knocking, and St Peter finally let him in
  3. Nope, this is RFK's grandson. The crazy anti-vaxxer is from Louisiana.
  4. TPC, maybe FLR? Most big construction outfits that I know of are privately held.
  5. If you're buying what that video is selling, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona for you.
  6. And fully 1/4 of the state's cases are tied directly to the packing plants.
  7. The inability of the meatpackers to keep their employees healthy will have a much larger effect on the restart of the economy than any reopening attempt. Speaking of which, Nobles County (Worthington) has turned into a full blown hot spot. 1,100 confirmed cases in a county with a population of ~20K, with JBS at the source of most of those.
  8. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/01/minnesota-familys-illnesses-suggest-coronavirus-may-have-been-here-longer-than-thought One family thinks that COVID-19 has been in Minnesota a lot earlier than mid-March. I'm inclined to believe them.
  9. News and Guts has a discussion about South Carolina. https://www.newsandguts.com/is-lindsey-graham-in-trouble/ IMHO if the blue wave is makes Leningrad Lindsey sweat out a photo finish, the GOP has already lost control of the chamber.
  10. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/30/latest-on-covid19-in-mn The latest turns in Minnesota's outbreak seems to be focusing on nursing homes and meat packing plants. The bug has also gotten into Gold n Plump's poultry plants in Willmar and Cold Spring. JBSin Worthington is opening enough to start killing hogs but not processing them. Two more weeks of stay-at-home. Thanks to those who won't follow guidelines, we now have orders.
  11. That ain't gonna mean shit when the packers can't keep their employees healthy.
  12. I know people at the U of Minnesota that are preparing for a fall semester conducted entirely online.
  13. First COVID-19 claimed St Patrick's Day, and now it takes out Oktoberfest. First time since World War II that it won't take place.
  14. D House, D Senate is 40 cents. If you think Kris Kobach will be the nominee in Kansas, Democratic shares are 31 cents. If my math is correct, the computed moneylines on the positions listed are +132 on the popular vote, +222 on the Congress makeup, and +283 on Kansas.
  15. Hard to see JBS in Worthington shut down. Seemed that they tried to social distance in the plant after the Smithfield fiasco in Sioux Falls, but it's now officially a hot spot. MDH commissioner said that language difficulties played a part in the slow investigations. Of the 41 cases in Nobles County interviewed on Saturday, 39 of them were either plant employees or their families. Ive seen a few shared posts on Facebook where pork producers that did have hogs going to either Worthington or Sioux Falls are now working with local locker plants to direct-sell quarters and halves. By the looks of it, there were plenty of buyers. Not great but better than nothing.
  16. Yup, it's a chicken-and-egg conundrum.
  17. So what's the counter punch to this?
  18. I was wrong about the number of cases at the JBS plant in Worthington: I said 1, it's actually 19. https://m.startribune.com/first-covid-19-case-confirmed-at-pork-plant-in-worthington-minn/569731152/
  19. Bad news out of SW MN: First confirmed case at the JBS pork plant in Worthington. Seems like family members work both here and in the shuttered plant in Sioux Falls. Gov. Walz seems to want to use that plant as a test case for the kind of intense testing regimen that will be required to not just reopen things but give confidence to go out.
  20. https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-s-u-mayo-ramp-up-covid-19-testing/569694402/ U of M and Mayo ready to ramp up testing to 10K of the antibody and molecular tests each.
  21. I was also skeptical of the cheeseheads, but they came through when it mattered. I suspect that there was much "I'm willing to crawl over glass to vote these assholes out" sentiment. Something I just thought of: how much trouble is Richard Burr in with the law? I doubt much with Bill Barr in charge of the DoJ, but you never know. This is one that could pop up between now and then.
  22. I still don't like the direction Minnesota's daily numbers are going. Third day in a row above 80 positive tests.
  23. There were enough gatherings (as well as vandalism) in Wisconsin to force the DNR to outright close most of their state parks.
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