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Agree. I guess I need to look into these point of care tests a little more. Here's an interesting article about issues with accuracy: https://khn.org/news/abbott-rapid-test-problems-grow-fda-standards-on-covid-tests-under-fire/

I don't know if that's the reason we don't have widespread point of care tests. It might be that we can't produce that many tests. But we don't even have that kind of testing capability for nursing homes yet. We're still working on getting resident and staff tested once, waiting days for results. Unless you are arguing that the powers that be figure that if the people don't care about testing, why bother?

Damn it, where are the quick, accurate point of care tests for everyone, not just the White House? It would be game-changing. Do others countries have them? Dr. Fauci suggested it would be until the end of the year, beginning of next year until we have them. We'll have a vaccine before we get our ***** together on testing.

I realize you could drive Crosschecking's truck through my rules of quarantine. I think there should be a difference in what quarantine looks like for someone traveling from another state and for someone who just got told he or she has been in close contact with someone with Covid-19.

Neo's got me spinning, and when I open my eyes I don't know if I want to kiss or punch him. Taking this out of the realm of the hypothetical and into the personal, I do feel bad this pandemic might mess up your plans to visit family and friends right now. Would your stay be long-term? If you're staying for a month, 14 days doing extreme social distancing wouldn't necessarily ruin your trip. If it's a one- or two-week stay, it probably would. Probably, because — Do you have to stay locked up in a room by yourself? No. Separate bathroom if possible, don't share towels and stuff, disinfect, etc. sure. Do you have to stay distanced from people and always wear a mask (when you're not by yourself)? Yes. But I don't think quarantine means you can't go for a walk outside, even with others. With common sense distancing, not wearing a mask wouldn't be that risky for anyone, but why not wear one? Visiting people? Technically, probably not. But you wouldn't go maskless into someone's crowded living room and start kissing people like you're Richard Dawson. Porch or patio would be better. Be especially careful around the vulnerable. I'd factor in heavily whether you've been smart there in Florida, the amount of disease in your community, the chance you've picked it up recently, how you're traveling. Lots of gray areas. I can easily see how someone like Neo and family could make this work responsibly (making quite a few assumptions here, including that Neo believes in social responsibility as much as he believes in personal assumption of risk). The problem from a public policy point of view is that you can't count on most people to make it work using only common sense. Nuance doesn't work as well as a hammer. Are there really no rules of quarantine posted anywhere on NY's site?

If I ever get that way, will you shoot me?

How do they enforce the quarantine? It can't be more than a strong recommendation.

What assumptions are you all making re: budget in this new era of "Efficient, Economic, Effective"?

The idea of trades is to get better. The idea of a core is to keep players who've brought success or give you the best chance of success together. The 2020 Buffalo Sabres? All options should be on the table. Married to Sam Reinhart? Please. Only in real life.

A tiny problem. Well, a not so tiny problem. Turns out cremation is by the pound, and Kim's Amex got declined. Anybody up for a GoFundMe?

"It certainly makes you look inward and realize how grateful I am for the opportunity to play for such a great organization," the Bruins’ 26-year-old defenceman said Tuesday on a Zoom conference. Ouch. And to think, this is probably how this NHL player viewed the Sabres before the owners doubled down on their involvement and hired another noob.

What's with the wooing?

Sabretooth just pinned his location as the Nickel City Animal Hospital on Niagara Street. Not good news: Kim accompanied him.

I'd subscribe to a HamCast. Sometimes you wonder what these guys would say if they were truly independent.

Paul wasn't a Sabre employee.

How to wear a mask is the least of the problem.

So you believe the story?

Adams has hinted at icing a team that's more in line with the community. As Matt Barnaby said in his podcast, Buffalo's a "blue collar town." Probably not anymore, but the perception is there. And I don't care if you're a blue collar town or not, a huge percentage of the fans want to see fights, hits, hustle, grit, wallpaper, dirt and elbow grease — whether it contributes to winning or not. My opinion is that at this point in team history, it's more about filling the seats than anything else. (I meant sandpaper, but I'll leave wallpaper as clear evidence of my cognitive decline.)

Ah yes the good old days when admitting some videos were better than watching the team was considered only a slight indulgence until the Sabres turned things around in 13-14 on the back of Mikhail Grigorenko.

True. Is there anything the league can do about it? It's just a question. I'm not saying the league can or should do anything about the ownership woes in Buffalo. But the savaging they are taking in the "press," from some of the biggest names in hockey media, gets my one eyebrow up. I feel like I'd be naive to think that the people who cover the team and the league itself are so separate that there couldn't be at least a bit of coordinated messaging here.

There's no link where Darcy is sitting in front of two bandana-ed men holding machetes, unshaven and haggard, reading from a script, "I, Darcy Finnigan Regier, declare that I opposed the signings of Ehrhoff and Leino, but Terry Pegula made me do it." There's everything I've presented for almost 10 years now, and you should listen to the podcast, because it has Barnaby reporting that his team sources told him the signings were against Regier's wishes and Harrington confirming it "100%" while adding another bit of circumstantial evidence beyond one of the daughter's tweets. Does it really defy your imagination that much?

Darcy opposed the Leino and Ehrhoff signings and lost the argument to Terry and Kim?

I can't even keep track of where to put this meddling stuff anymore. But nfreeman made me hunt around the Interwebs, and I found an interview Terry did with The Instigators before the Dahlin draft. Terry said he waits until the draft work is almost done then he offers his input. Other than "he owns the team" and/or "other owners do it," is there any good justification for him offering input, whatever form that might take? He also said he pretty much lets Jason do his own thing, but when Jason wants to do something, "we talk and discuss the pros and cons." Again... WHY? Maybe it's harmless and the hockey people just humor him. But with almost 10 years of hockey futility under our belts and Terry being the only constant (except Ripper, I guess), there's a pretty good case that can be made that Terry's. Just. Not. Helping. Things. And. Is. Likely. Hurting.

You've seen it, you've just forgotten. I'll keep trying to find my original post about Terry's call to WGR (Instigators) when he suggested the other owners were upset about his free-spending ways (I think he said, "They're saying, 'who is this guy?') and admitted of the summer of 2011, "It was my decision/I wanted to do it." (As if Jessie's tweet about how much her dad liked Ehrhoff wasn't enough.) Finding the archive of The Instigators show is even less likely than finding the post. I remember that Terry called in unprompted while out on a drive with his dog Sidney. I was eating a raspberry filled paczki from Tops and drinking a hot green tea at the time. The chatter about Darcy's plan being "too sublime" came from Terry's visit to the Buffalo News editorial board on his first day as owner. There's a link to the video, but when you click it, it asks you sign up for Buffalo Bills Blitz or something. For $2, I might try, but I suspect the video is gone. This is where the infamous comment on Darcy came from — "What did he do wrong?" Terry also blamed the News' coverage for being part of the reason for the "quit in the team" and said if they would write more supportive stuff, it would help the players. The editor or sports editor said that wasn't the paper's role, and Harrington explained that when the team is winning, pages and pages of positive content are created, player posters and such.

Was tanking risky? And what about the original sin of this owner: not letting Darcy do his thing in 2011? Terry asked Darcy to submit a plan, this was even before the presser, Terry didn't like it and made Darcy re-think it. This led to the summer of 2011, when the Sabres went on a spending spree because, as Terry admitted later, "I wanted to do it." No way that was Darcy's doing, even with loosened financial restrictions. The resulting disappointment ended up in fans cheering for the Coyotes at MMA. And here we are. They are risky people. The very idea that they thought they could, as non-hockey and non-hockey business people, run an NHL team, was the biggest risk of all.