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No offense, I was talking quality lol.

Sure, they put out for dark.

Winner winner chip and dip dinner. Your turn, sir.

Hmmm, not bad. I think we want one word that becomes the literal name of the activity, not a comment on that activity. You are free to double-dip. The next to last one might have possibilities. For background, the inspiration here is the sniglet — a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't. Comedian Rich Hall came up with the bit and I think made more than a bit of money on it. The one example I always remember is the act of trying to spread cold butter on bread — wondracide.

T-2, you are getting the PPP and EIDL programs mixed up. The advance on the EIDL loan, which was $10,000, is now $1,000 per employee up to $10,000. I think the PPP program is unchanged. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/sbas-dollar10000-disaster-loans-come-with-new-caveats/ar-BB12ovTT

That works, too. I mean the tank in general.

What's it called when you pour the broken chips at the bottom of the bag into what's left of the chip dip container, swirl it all around with a spoon and eat it? When I deem a winner, that poster will earn the right to come up with his or her own question. h/t to Rich Hall.

It's funny to read Taro's subject line literally and realize, duh, there's one ultimate example.

Thanks but he was referring to not talking so that the respirator would stay in place.

Thanks. I'll have to talk quite a bit while wearing it. And I'll have to wear it for 5-8 hours. Is it a practical idea for me?

The criteria are explained. Like a lot of modeling and analytics surrounding the pandemic, take it with a grain of salt. The big model out of Washington State is being discredited for its wild fluctuations. Following this pandemic has not made me rethink my opinion of analytics in hockey. The story is saying that Covid-19 will really hit rural areas later, that it's already in those areas, silently spreading because of not much testing, and the hospitals won't feel it until enough time has passed for people to get really sick. Who knows? It doesn't seem to be the case in our neck of the woods. So far. Fingers crossed.

OK, OK. Anywho, we're back to Trump suggesting that New Yorkers will have to repay the federal government for Covid-19 aid.

I feel like I'm missing something here. And this goes for Neo's "Florida can't" response. We're talking about how the federal income taxes people pay make their way back to the states. There's not a state income tax in FL, but residents of course pay federal income taxes.

For fans of Impractical Jokers, please do not waste your money on their movie. What a letdown. A predictable letdown, I suppose.

I believe I heard the president say yesterday that when "federal" help went to NY, he didn't discuss any repayment with the governor, because that wouldn't be right during an emergency, but once it's all over, there will have to be discussions of repayment. Someone who's smarter than I am will have to explain that to me. Did Florida ever repay Washington for hurricane response funding?

Re: George. They should bring back the buffalo on the video board and have it not only smoke but snort when the Sabres score.

Hear here! (Just covering my bases.) May the people find the wisdom and strength and the resolve to sacrifice what they have to support these fine, brave, young men and women and our heroic owners.

Interesting. I know about not touching the outside of the mask, which makes sense. I'd never heard about the risk of touching the inside with contaminated hands. Makes sense. Hope you're doing OK, friend.

Neo's the guy who claims not to do much fishin', but he's got a tackle box full of hand-tied flies.

A question for the estimable new poet laureate of SabreSpace @Ogre. I might be able to return to work if my employer agrees to let me use an N95 respirator. A co-worker was given one but was not fitted or test-fitted, whatever the correct term is. He just put it on. So I suspect it will be the same for me. My question is how much better is an unfitted N95 respirator than a regular old surgical mask? I won't be involved in direct care of Covid-19 patients but will have the random exposure possibility everyone is facing when they can't socially distance. I'll hang up and listen.

The IRS website now says one explanation for the "Payment Status Not Available" error is that your data might not have been uploaded to the Get My Payment tool yet. They say they're working on moving more data into the tool (TWSS).

Containment vs. mitigation. I consume too much coverage of this and won't assume everyone knows the difference. Containment is what we were trying to do when the virus reached our country. You find individual people who are infected and isolate them and trace their contacts and quarantine them. It worked until too many people were infected. Then we went to mitigation — social distancing etc. Bend the curve. I am almost certain the plan now is to get out of mitigation and back into containment. At least that's what Drs. Redfield, Fauci and Birx have been saying. It's what the new guidelines suggest is the way forward. You have to go through "gates" to get into phase one of the re-opening, which involves having declining new cases and hospitalizations for 14 days in a row. Of course these are federal guidelines and the governors are clearly in charge. Dr. Birx said yesterday the idea is to get back to a baseline of influenza-like-illness reports coming out of hospitals, which this time of year would be approaching 0. Then you can easily tell when an area is starting to have a problem. That area, in theory anyway, would then have resources flooded to it to test and trace and so on. She also said general testing of vulnerable communities (nursing homes, inner city areas, tribal communities) would occur to look for even the asymptomatic cases, to reduce the chance of an outbreak. To use your analogy, it's not an extra point we have to make to open non-essential businesses and schools back up, and relax social distancing, it's a 47-yard field goal off grass to win the Super Bowl. I think it's going to take longer to get there than you are suggesting. I believe the president, vice president and governors know it, despite the side show nonsense we'll continue to see. As always, I could be wrong. I'm not an immunologist, but I did develop antibodies to measles.

It wasn't aired? My MSG went out as it is wont to do.

I have to be careful. I don't want to be on the bottom bunk in the same cell with SwampD. Been there, been done that.

I've been trying to catch the one-legged man with a walker. I couldn't have been more than five minutes behind him today, but that rascal got away again.