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Leadership certainly does set the agenda. It happens in every organization. If it isn’t Trump setting agenda for CDC, than his appointee sure is. And if the head of the CDC isn’t setting agenda and priorities why would Trump bother to replace these people when he came into office? (rhetorical) It makes no sense whatsoever to separate Trumps appointments from responsibility for their subsequent performance. And the idea that they were hamstrung by rules made under previous administrations doesn’t hold water either. This is a Presidency well into its 3rd year, not a new President, and they had several months warning of what was coming to change the agenda and priorities of the CDC. And we know our government was aware of the potential because several members made sure they profited from it. The actions of the Chinese govt sure got us to the point of pandemic. But the actions of this government ended up eerily similar to the Chinese govt actions.

The head of the Executive Branch sets policy and sets tone. We all know the tone that has been set in the press conferences to date. Until this week they've not set a tone indicative that science has been a priority.

The CDC is headed by a Trump appointee with a background including an HIV trial so botched he was investigated criminally for it. The failure's of the CDC are Trump failures, pure and simple.

Love me some Mike Peca, but 5 seasons, once over 50pts in a season. Pommer's 1st stint was 7.5 seasons with points ranging from 30-80. Peca's offensive game is overrated by Sabres fans. He wasn't Don Luce. Not that it matters. Gil wins P anyway.

Asymptomatic, no known contact. Do we test them weekly? Daily? Let's bathe them in tests.

Making beef short ribs, braised in chianti, over cheesy polenta with broiled asparagus. Just because I am stuck at home doesn't mean I need to eat like a savage. Hmmmm..... Port after dinner? *puts monocle back in dinner jacket pocket*

Obviously. But the real question is, why is that important in the midst of a pandemic? It's interesting that Paul was tested even though doing so was a flagrant violation of the CDC rules for testing that everyone else has to follow.

Anyone want to touch how Rand Paul, who had no symptoms and wasn't exposed to anyone to justify a self quarantine, was able to get tested when many showing symptoms can't get one?

I think we all can readily acknowledge that it is damned near impossible for the common man to rise above influencing at anything other than local level politics. The game has been rigged against that happening at the state level and up for generations. Hell, in most metropolitan areas the common man can't even rise to county level influence. The idea that "we" could get a foothold into that to make change seems far fetched.

I’m not sure why you are debating me. This was another epidemiologist saying this, not me. I suppose you’re more than welcome to question him though. Its not like questioning these folks hasn’t gotten us to our current situation.....

Singapore was specifically mentioned in the article I read due to its tropical climate, the lack of a cold season. But Brazil is on that graph as one of only a couple of southern hemisphere countries, and their rate of disease spread is trending along with the western European countries still in their cold season.

That was my point. The two countries that jump out at me as having trends similar to Europe and US are Australia and Brazil. Strongly suggests to me that a seasonal response may be wishful thinking

Singapore is the obedient society, not Australia. I didn’t think I worded my reply to suggest that. I don’t think it is any coincidence that the cultures with obedience more deeply ingrained are handling this better.

Agreed on Mike R. Best Sabre defenseman ever gets a nod over best 2 way forward.

The graph I posted on pg 29 shows how they have progressed. In Singapore, where they jumped on it early and the culture is one of obedience, the curve is flat like Japan and Hong Kong. In Australia the curve is trending like most of the western world.

Singapore and Australia currently disagree. I just read an article this AM discsussing likelihood that this may be a seasonal virus. The concern is, Singapore and Australia are effected enough right now to suggest there is not a seasonal component.

They should if they are serious about playoffs now.

Forgot about Miller. He gets my vote.

My understanding is, if those employees were given a temporary layoff they still would have qualified for UI, PSE still would have been subjected to an increase in their UI premiums, but those employees would have been eligible to come back once things returned to normalcy. I'm not understanding the need, nor the benefit to the employee, of a termination.

And it's not the financial gain, per se, that bothers me the most. It's the understanding that our leadership knew how bad this could get and chose to gild the lilly instead of enact measures to prevent the level of infection we are seeing today. People's live are being affected so they could project a warm, happy place.

LaFontaine and Mogilny were the better players, but Luce and Martin were very good. And in Luce's case he had a longer tenure. My vote is, this is on ice only, not off ice contributions. Four players that are probably about equal overall.

Just returned from grocery shopping. What a stressful experience. I'm somewhat anti-social normally. This was a different kind of stress though. I just felt like I needed to rush in and rush out as more of a survival mechanism. Everyone was glancing at everyone else with a look of distrust. Almost no eye contact. It was very different than the usual western NY friendliness that is usually apparent. At least toilet paper is back on the shelves. Meat and frozen foods, not a chance. The BJ's we go to had someone at the door dosing out hand sanitizer to everyone that came in, and hit every shopping cart handle with a Clorox wipe. Of course, they were also sold out of sanitizer and Clorox wipes...... When this whole thing was just starting we bought a bulk pack of TP just in case we ended up under quarantine and couldn't get out. I didn't think about hand sanitizer, and now I can't find any (not that I looked hard. I'm not making extra stops). I would have loved a bottle of hand sanitizer in my vehicle when I came out of the store. Time to fire up the Google machine and find a recipe.

Twitter post I came across this morning. This guy is an epidemiologist associated with Harvard and John Hopkins. Look at the graph for the US. So far it is steeper, longer than any other country on that graph. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing US now accelerating upwards and outpacing all other countries in epidemic exponential growth. (Note log Y Axis: linear = exponential). USA is gonna be dubiously #1 at this rate. But IMHO TESTING+CONTACT TRACING+QUARANT is more important than approaches which only slow.#COVID19

Adding to what I posted earlier, what is really disappointing is, we are throwing a bunch of blame towards China for not being forthcoming regarding the severity of this virus ealry on (and rightfully so), yet it's completely obvious that lots of people aren't making a big deal about Trump calling it Chinese flu or whatever because it is factually accurate, they're doing it to deflect from Trump's own mistakes. Mistakes that effectively did exactly what the Chinese were doing early on. And now with the disclosure that several members of Congress profited from stock sales once word got out from China, it is painfully obvious that OUR government knew how bad this could get and pulled the China move of non-disclosure anyway.

It was near the end of the 2nd period. Maguire and Probert were already gone for the game. Play went into the corner. It got rough. Krupp and Kocur squared off and Krupp beat him in a decision. Suddenly Krupp was a tough guy.