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bullzak

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  1. The cynic in me says that is Governor Fatass' strategy. Why does he mention Trump in every press conference like he caused the Rona directly? People will be at the lake front by the tens of thousands shortly either way. This is getting stupid. And good luck getting them to cite the data they are looking at. Whats the big mystery?
  2. In that episode the KC Mob is George Mikan and the Cartel is Hakeem Olajuwon.
  3. IMHO this is going to feel pretty stupid when a year from now they prove definitively that 95+% of the cases [and almost all the deaths] are from breathing air of an infected person in closed spaces. I bet its almost impossible to get this outside. Extremely rare from a doorknob. I get the caution but its time to start getting a little more specific on a lot of things. Where we have data, get into it and use it wisely. Where we dont, use some common sense and assume that in terms of transferability this will act like other coronas. The neurotics in charge are getting completely carried away. You cant even go to the lakefront parks in Chicago. Ridiculous.
  4. In aggregate hedge funds are just fee extraction devices. Net of fee returns as a class have been shit and probably always will be.
  5. One thing on death rates I haven't really seen discussed. If this coronavirus works like flu where hot weather dampens its effect, then bear in mind the whole southern hemisphere was in summer when this broke out and potentially they are heading into it. The seasons are about to reverse. If you go apples to apples you have to go by weather zones, density, age, and access to international travel. And of course access and quality of testing. Point being NYC was always going to be a shitshow this winter, and New Zealand never would.
  6. As far as death numbers I think per capita is the only meaningful number. Italy was 520/million. US is 270/million. Still high, but when you take out the nursing homes, and so much of that was unforced error, I bet you get well below 200/million. Quoting gross numbers on anything is kinda bullshit. Magnitude and relativity is what counts.
  7. Last 70 years, Ex-Jordan, there have been two seasons where a player was the scoring champ and won the NBA title. Jordan did it six times. In an era where you could flat out mug someone without a foul, and they did it all the time. All NBA first team defense 9 times. Funny to watch people twist themselves into knots trying to argue he wasn't the GOAT. Dude would average 40 a game in todays NBA without breaking a sweat.
  8. As for Illinois, the Public Health Director said 90% of deaths have an underlying condition. More evidence we dont all have the same risk profile and we need to open up intelligently. Spend our resources protecting those at risk and lets be smart and start the comeback.
  9. Warm weather and lack of public transportation have to be part of it, outside of Atlanta. Hopefully this virus acts like others in that respect and things calm down over the summer before the fall wave.
  10. Pretty sure Mizzou has never made the Final Four. Amazing actually. Love KC. Loathe STL. Faded glory by half a century and they cant admit it. Most provincial place ever. Look, nobody really gives a fuck where you went to high school, especially when you are 50. Married a Mizzou gal and the folks I know are nice enough but there are a lot of times where they dont remember where they are in the food chain and it becomes an issue. They usually get reminded soon enough.
  11. I am generally pretty pro law enforcement but this is brownshirt level shit right here.
  12. Where is Snake Plisskin when you really need him?
  13. Right, but that's the first I remember hearing it. Wonder if that knowledge could have helped when NY was in the storm.
  14. Isn't the prone positioning a fairly recent thing? Sure dont hear a lot of talk about ventilators anymore.
  15. So MJ is a big meanie to his teammates in the name of excellence. Heard the same shit about Troy Aikman from a coach who was with the Cowboys then. If that's the price of greatness, lets have more of it. The world is plenty full of little bitches. Its why people are paying so much attention to this series. Its a reminder that greatness is out there but it usually comes at a price.
  16. Meh. Too long. Spent way too much time being sympathetic to Koresh and the cult. Not my cup of tea there. Always thought this was ATF idiocy and didn't see anything to dispel that.
  17. Northwestern hospital in Chicago is losing 150,000,000 per month. At 39,000 per Covid death they need to fake 3800 deaths a month to get back to even. People really believe that shit happens? I had surgery and an overnight there last year. Total bill was 100,000. Logic would dictate that if anything they would hide all Covid deaths so they can open up and get that hospital going 100% again. Thats the incentive.
  18. And the last 10 minutes of Episode 7 was just awesome. No apologies, no excuses. Dont really see that anymore.
  19. Back in the day, buddy of mine went to a dinner with Phil Jackson that was sponsored by a Wall St. firm. No press. Jackson is riffing on various things and talks about how even the best need to ask for help. In the Finals against Seattle Payton is just killing them at one point. At half, Jackson asks what are we going to do about the Glove? MJ apparently said hey man I need some help with this guy. Pippen said he's mine, shuts Payton down, and they win the title.
  20. Have to think just about any retailer that has been taken out by a PE firm is in huge trouble unless they are significant online players. The model is established. Lever the shit out of it and maybe exit big. Retail as we know it will be a smoking crater if this goes on another few months.
  21. I have always thought that getting this from a doorknob would be extremely rare. If that were a normal route anyone who rode mass transit would have gotten this damn thing by now. The EL is a regular petri dish.
  22. That praying mantis is all "hold still while I eat your face." Nature you scary indeed.
  23. That team would get crushed in the modern NBA. Almost no skill anywhere on the floor. I will give you Ewing but that's it.
  24. Even mediocre space program stuff is awesome. In.
  25. When it comes to polling hard to ignore that no polling showed Trump with much of a chance. I think people are saying what they think pollsters want to hear, but their actions will be quite different. Its human nature to be fatigued at this point. Most people outside of NY probably dont know anyone who has gotten sick from this. Hard to get past the idea that this is not a front and center thing to them. On that note I did check the official Illinois stats and noted that for my age and ethnic demographic the total deaths is 43, out of a total population of 12 million. You cant stay closed indefinitely and destroy the economy for a decade with numbers like that. Its too far on the other end of the risk/reward spectrum. We dont all have the same risk profile. Now comes the part where we go with the best info we have and start to put humpty dumpty back together again, even knowing we will have rolling shutdowns.
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