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Don't lawyers have pretty strict ethical guidelines on stuff like this? If they're found charging people flippantly to try and force deals, they risk some pretty serious punishments.

That's quite the contradictory statement, tbh.

Watch the language.

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-does-a-grand-jury-work.html

I shouldn't have browsed this thread while hungry

Booker's attorney can request away, but both Booker and the attorney have 0% to do with any criminal charges. The state (or federal) government will determine if charges are applicable.

If a crime was committed, in the eyes of the law, it doesn't really matter a ton what the provocation was. Other lawyers can chime in, but I'm struggling to think of the words or phrases that would make what appeared in the video (if deemed a crime) permissible. If there were actions that provoked, perhaps that's a different story, but still - the point pretty much holds true. A crime is a crime.

Thanks Ken! She's quite the fool.

lucky girl, though, it gives her time to come to her senses.

I'm supposed to be planning a wedding - obviously, that's on hold.

AZ posts a record daily death total, a 33% positivity rate (!!), and a 1.8% mortality rate

Smarter folks than I: I'm concerned, particularly in AZ, at the positive test rate. It's at an astronomical 25%. What does this purport to mean more broadly?

Yes, AZ is very bad. Like - worse off than Italy was, in all likelihood. It is concerning.

Great example of my earlier point - this is a pandemic, akin to a war, and no single person is the final arbiter of truth. There is simply too much happening. This guy might be right, the story I posted might be right, the truth might be somewhere in the middle. When you have two sets of doctors disagreeing with one another, that doesn't mean one is lying - it means the right answers are hard to come by. When any of us try to pass off anything as an absolute fact, we're begging to look a fool. This is a very fluid, very complex situation.

Watch this video around 4:20 https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/07/02/texas-hospital-crowded-coronavirus-marquez-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn

To the point: AZ just activated crisis care standards. I saw a TX doctor, live from the ER, explaining how he had 10 patients but only 3 beds. That was one isolated doctor, but here is another example: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/05/texas-coronavirus-hospitals-houston-san-antonio-austin/ Hospitals are in a better spot than they were in March/April - that is to be sure. We also know a whole lot more than we did on potential drugs/antivirals/etc than we did then. The problem to me, though, is that if we keep having exponential growth (which we do in many places) we're in some deep, deep doo-doo. AZ's positive test rate is a mind boggling 25%!!! That means we're drastically under-counting the actual cases.

It is very promising that deaths are down but in many states, including AZ, we are nearing critical levels of ICU capacity. I imagine part of the reason deaths are down is that we did “flatten the curve” for some time and we used that to, at least minimally, expand our hospital capacity. If cases continue to explode, we will again run into the original hospital capacity problem. If we do (and I hope we don’t), deaths will follow. AZ just activated a “crisis of care” model - a literal mathematical formula to determine who gets scarce healthcare resources. Other states with big outbreaks are not far behind. This is a really big and really unknown disease. There is going to continue to be a lot of contradicting information, IMO.

To circle back on the question of "do we have enough tests right now," the answer in AZ is pretty plainly "no."

Sorry if folks took my post as political - I didn't think it was, and I thought it was in-line with other posts and generally the same as what we've been allowing, but I certainly don't want to appear to flout our own rules.

oh for the times in April when we were assured "very soon" we'd be able to run 5m tests/day...

isn't the problem there test capacity? We're averaging around 400k tests/day, seems difficult to break into the 4-5m/day range.

Project Veritas is not a news organization. They have "targeted" my employer in my professional work several times before and it's never been fair, honest, balanced, etc. Not saying what they are reporting is true or false - I haven't done enough research. Just adding some first-world insight as to the organization in that link.

I love Chris Ballard an uncomfortable amount. What a treat after the Grigson years.

Watch out, we might trade down and pick up some more picks anyway. Ballard's delayed gratification strategy (and his overall philosophy, IMO) is perfect. The draft is a crap shoot by and large. To be successful, you need more bites at the apple.

Let's keep the temperature at manageable levels here, folks. Passion is fine and well but please remember our rules when posting and feel free to report - rather than respond to - violating conduct.