Stoner

Maybe go post this in a hockey thread? Or is today's made-up board rule that we can't discuss COVID-19?

Opinion written on April 1 with no source for the statement. Interesting that there's no mention of asymptomatic spread. We've learned a lot since then, for example that people spewing out virus in indoor spaces could help spread the disease through aerosolization. And it's important to remember at that time there was an effort to maintain PPE stocks for healthcare workers.

BagBoy, Merriam-Webster would like a word with you.

Pro tip. You can skip ahead. She is brutal.

300 protest in Olean. That's a huge deal for a small town that is 90% white.

"Significantly reduced..." It starts and ends right there. Two bonus reasons for wearing a mask: that healthcare worker who sees you thinks people care about them; masks remind people we're in a pandemic. (Not to mention the powdered psychotropic meds dusted on the masks.)

What Curt said plus no one is saying masks are the end all and be all. Masks. Social distancing. Stay at home as much as possible. Hand hygiene. yada yada yada

Veterans of the civil rights movement should be mentoring the young leaders of the current movement. mjd's on the right track. Something has to follow all this.

This line in the News today doesn't sound quite right. I don't think losing in the play-in round after finishing 24th would end any talk of the playoff drought, but that's just me.

And civil unrest. Didn't see that one coming, didja Bettsy? (said in the voice of Torts)

Apparently minor fire at the Erie Otters offices in Erie related to protesting there.

Since?

I think what I wrote was we can lose with Jack or lose without him. I'm just not married to any of these guys. I find it bizarre Taro would not be a Sabre fan any longer if Eichel and Dahlin ever leave. Sports is about constant change. Here's one: you give the new Seattle GM a choice, you can have the Sabres roster or build your team under the conditions that the Vegas franchise was seeded. What would he do?

The question is real (and it's spectacular). It's just another way to think about getting the franchise out of its rut, which I think is hauntingly similar to the rut it was in in the fall of 1991 (15 years since glory days, almost 10 years into a playoff drought, quaintly defined in the 80s and 90s as not winning a playoff series). Either way, what a seemingly hopeless situation: keeping Jack or trading Jack (they're keeping Jack), success depends on having good management and non-meddling ownership, which we don't have.

In case anyone's interested in what's actually going on with Covid-19 in the U.S., the CDC puts out weekly summary every Friday. The data continues to be generally good. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

I'm chuckling but not sure why.

I don't understand the jab. It's a real question.

And that ingredient was? Are we back to the pre-draft ranking of 2015? McDavid is the top player in the game and Eichel second? That's a bit much. Turgeon-LaFontaine was a good-old fashioned hockey trade of two players who wanted and needed to move on. The personality change for the Sabres did wonders for the fans and altered the course of the franchise. Pat did a lot to get the Sabres into a new arena and on the path to a near-Cup by decade's end, even though he was gone by then.

It's astounding to me that someone who bonded so instantly with the fan base would go on to have almost ZERO interactions with the fan base, especially given his dubious (in my opinion) but accepted claim of being a long-time fan. He simply doesn't talk to us. Unless through the rare post-firing/hiring presser. Social media gives him the perfect opportunity to communicate with his peeps. I know he has a flip phone, but he has kids who could hook him up like Biden (and Kim surely knows how to Zoom). The fact he doesn't talk to us is interesting. Is he so gaffe-prone he doesn't trust himself, or maybe Kim doesn't? Does he fear accidentally speaking the truth, like the time he called into WGR and bragged about how the summer of 2011 was something he wanted to do? Is he truly not a fan and afraid of being exposed? I'd like to get him in a dark alley and make him tell me how he really felt when the puck landed on Mario's stick very late in Game 6 and ended up behind Dom. Where's Perreault? Where's Pegula?

The following study from 2017 seems like it might be the one you're referencing. The study indicates that homemade and surgical masks significantly reduced the expelling of microoganisms, but surgical masks were three times better in that regard. "Better than no protection" is misleading because it gives the idea that cloth masks aren't doing much, when the study clearly showed otherwise. Anyway, I'm a little tired of debating whether cloth masks help during a pandemic of a respiratory disease. Next time you sneeze, pull up you shirt and sneeze into it. Did less material get expelled? I'm also weary of asinine conspiracy theories. In the end, I'm losing. No masking of workers at my Aldi now, no masking of postal clerk in my post office. I'll vote with my feet, and let the companies know I'm doing so. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24229526/ Abstract Objective: This study examined homemade masks as an alternative to commercial face masks. Methods: Several household materials were evaluated for the capacity to block bacterial and viral aerosols. Twenty-one healthy volunteers made their own face masks from cotton t-shirts; the masks were then tested for fit. The number of microorganisms isolated from coughs of healthy volunteers wearing their homemade mask, a surgical mask, or no mask was compared using several air-sampling techniques. Results: The median-fit factor of the homemade masks was one-half that of the surgical masks. Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that a homemade mask should only be considered as a last resort to prevent droplet transmission from infected individuals, but it would be better than no protection.

Show of hands. Who'd go back in time and kill baby Meehan to keep him from one day trading the treasure of our mid 80s tank, Pierre Turgeon? Anyone? Even though Pierre lit it up with the Isles and went on to have a very lengthy and very productive career, a decade after LaFontaine had to retire, ending up as one of the best players to not be in the Hall of Fame? Didn't think so. And why is that?

Lakes, young ladies, the land itself, not to mention hockey teams — natural treasures granted by the Almighty to Terry himself, part of his rightful dominion. What a tool.

I find it extremely hard. Ink, what a *****. Hoo boy b oner is filtered.

Ralph wouldn't take or even want Kim's job.

What does it say that the Sabres spent to the cap and Eichel had a career year and it wasn't even enough to finish 24th? That Botterill's a bum? It tells me that for whatever reason it's not going to be practically possible to add enough around Eichel to push them all over the finish line, defined in my mind as being a serious Cup contender. That's still the bare minimum of a goal, right? Trying to do it is fine by me. I like Jack. Developing another strategy is also OK. It's logical. But my dream isn't Eichel lifting a Cup, it's any Sabre doing so. Call me Spock. By the way imagine five years ago someone telling this board Eichel would be elite in Year 5 and the Sabres would "go for it" in terms of spending. No one would believe it wouldn't add up to at least a playoff berth.