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There is a plausible "10,000 foot view" that millions of people are going to die from this anyway, so let's just get on with our lives. It doesn't mean that people with that view want one of those people to be themselves or one of their loved ones, and it's not born from selfishness. It's just a plausible view.

What in the world went on in here?

So sick of waiting for the future that never arrives...

?? That sounds awesome and I want to play!

How's the lil' guy doing?

Did you even read the lyrics? DON'T SETTLE FOR LESS. It's Wuhan vape or nothing. THAT'S 100%.

This is resilience, never give up. Our vision, our mission. We’re gifted and brilliant, we’re dreamin’ it, buildin’ it, livin’ it. Unstoppable. Who? Us? Yes. Passion. Check. Drive. Check. How much you’re gonna get? That’s 100%. Gonna’ be no. 1, don’t settle for less

Kev gets what my friends mean.

My friends who practice divorce law are champing at the bit.

So my brother-in-law and my nephew are in a video game tournament tonight. I love it. My sister and my niece will be watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I love that, too. If I were there, I'd probably have to bounce back and forth between watching the tournament and watching my niecey laugh at the movie.

The spices are in the wrong pot.

I lived in Oklahoma too, Flagg. It's not the same as Appalachia. If you even think you know Oklahoma, you know that. And even then, your selective quote deliberately ignores the spirit of my post. You're better than this, usually.

I don't blame you for not knowing what's going on. You choose to live in an area that has purposefully-ignorant media and a purposefully-ignorant population. And still I don't blame you. It DOES matter that you can go "on base" and get it done. It DOES matter than in mid-March, the NBA could find tests when the rest of us couldn't. I don't know what my former, and perhaps future, profession as a lawyer has to do with anything. Maybe you can explain that. I know that if I needed to be tested on March 15, I'd be out of luck. Because I wasn't an NBA player that day, nor was I an ex-soldier. This started because you pretended to not know about the NBA testing in mid-March. Please explain how this wasn't disingenuous.

It's neither an argument nor pearl clutching. The point is that in mid-March, when almost no one in the US had access to tests, the NBA found a way to get the tests. The first eight words of your post indicate that the NBA had test kits when the rest of the country didn't. Otherwise, it never would have found out that the first two players had the virus, right?

Hang on. Tampa is not only going to trade Cirelli for the 7th pick, but is going to sweeten the deal? Who is the hypothetical Tampa GM in this scenario and what color is the crayon is he using to sign this trade?

Not for people who dream about the 0.01% chance that the seventh pick materializes into a ready-to-play Mario Lemieux. For those people: Do you play the state/provincial lotteries? Yeah, it could happen to you. But it likely won't.

At some point, either (1) potential energy turns into kinetic energy or (2) the machine is worthless. Not even an engineer.

Now there are murder hornets, too? What, were the Mayans just off by a few years or something?

You'll love this guy. Basically his entire life is joining neighborhood facebook pages and (politely and cleverly) messing with people:

Is this an expectation? That's possibly the silliest thing I ever have heard.

It's been all over radio and all over print / internet publication since March. I don't watch TV news either. I haven't had cable since February 2014.

Have you been under a rock or just in KY/TN? This isn't new: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/03/19/coronavirus-nba-draws-ire-players-tested-amid-national-shortage/2872987001/ That article is from March.

Pro athletes have been getting coronavirus tests while the general public has not been able to. The NBA was emblematic of that. LeBron James is emblematic of the NBA.

Yes. Perhaps intentionally.

That's fine for me but I have elderly parents to consider.