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I kind of suspected they might. Now would be a great time to max that out for both of the reasons you mentioned. I'd be looking for all the storage I could find.

Until the restaurants closed, I had dinner with Mr. S most Wednesday nights...great story teller and I have fond memories of him as a teacher.

That's the silver lining of a crisis like this...seeing the decency of humanity. Unfortunately, there will always be the idiots on the other side making me curse humanity. Good for you, Eric Smidt.

We are a Cottonelle family and office. Time to start a toilet paper poll. As an aside, much as the U.S. has a strategic petroleum reserve (which the should be absolutely filling right now), my assistant got a 30-pack of cheapo Kroger paper the other day, which will be my last resort. I call it my Strategic Paper Reserve.

In reading about Italy, there's no wonder they have a monster problem. From "Germany's Corona Cases May Be Flattening...": "Italy’s Lombardy region, where Milan is located, and 14 other provinces were the first to go on lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But news of the measures leaked on social media before the official announcement, prompting thousands – mostly university students – to leave bars and hop on some of the last trains south. When the number of cases spiked by more than 50 percent within a 24-hour period, Italy Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on March 7 announced a sweeping nationwide lockdown, ordering Italians to only leave home for essential needs, such as visits to the grocery store or hospital. For weeks before the nationwide lockdown measures, the Italian public had been fed mixed messages about the crisis, with several politicians sharing messages encouraging people to go out as a sign of strength against the coronavirus threat. Nicola Zingaretti, the leader of the governing Democratic Party, visited Milan on February 27, with a group of students. “We must not change our habits,” he wrote in a social media post, according to the Guardian. “Our economy is stronger than fear: let’s go out for an aperitivo, a coffee or to eat a pizza.” He tested positive with the coronavirus nine days later. The mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala, had also shared a video with the message “Milan does not stop,” showing people out at bars, hugging and kissing, waiting at train stations and seemingly going about life as normal. Even after the nationwide lockdown was implemented, Italians still failed to grasp the severity of the problem, and police, over the course of the first week, charged more than 40,000 people with violating quarantine measures, the Guardian reported. Police and troops have since been deployed to patrol the streets in Naples and Sicily. Professional sporting events were canceled, masses began convening online, and most bars, restaurants and other businesses shut their doors."

Can you expand that? State site is apparently crashed.

New York now has over half of US cases. I don't have to tell the government that containing it there is critical to beating it nationally. Now 157 deaths in New York. Nationally, the death rate sits at 1.19%. It's still comforting to see that 98% of US cases are considered mild.

I'm charting various statistics. This far, the U.S. death rate is 1.3%. Italy is 9.26%...oy vey. Here, 2% of cases are serious or critical. In Italy, 6%. New York is going to be key...if we can get it under control there, I think that bodes well for the rest of the country.

I'm officially obsessed with the subject and started tracking active cases globally on a spreadsheet, checking every few hours. Tonight, between 5:43 p.m. and 9:43 p.m., active cases actually dropped slightly. Probably just a reporting delay or glitch, but I'm going to watch the numbers closely since business has pretty much ground to a halt anyway.

The zero hedge version IS more complete, along with a counterpoint tweet (which calls it a terrible article without refuting the numbers and statistics). Anyway, here it is again...point and counterpoint... https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria For those of you with a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, they don't think too much of taking down this article either... https://www.wsj.com/articles/controlling-the-virus-narrative-11584899715

Perhaps the Zero Hedge version is more complete. I'll try to find it and post if it is as the graphs and charts added a lot. I saw nothing in the original worthy of censorship.

This link still works. There's also a good link at Zero Hedge from what I'm told.

No explanation. There are several links where you can still read it and I recommend it. May not be perfect but there are a lot of facts and statistics to combat the hysteria. Without question, this should be taken seriously, but some of the doomsday scenarios are just beyond reality.

15,793 confirmed on the Johns Hopkins site. 117 dead vs 76 when I marked it yesterday.

Yes. Thanks for digging it out.

For reference, seeing 76 in New York now.

Not entirely true. If you look at death rates among known cases, it's mathematically impossible for death rates to go up when you later add milder previously undiagnosed cases. The author of the article I linked intends to keep updating it as more information is available, but several of his conclusions seem very reasonable and logical based on the data that we do have. Obviously the data improves with time but patterns are already emerging.

SIAP...long article with a ton of referenced studies, graphs, bell curves, and statistical analysis. I think it is well worth the time, although you can feel free to skip the political diatribe at the end. The statistical and medical analysis leading up to that is very solid. Although I'm fine with maintaining social distancing, lots of hand washing and other common sense precautions, I felt better and more informed after I finished it. https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894 EDIT: Nevermind...host took it down. What a shame. It had a lot of good analysis. Probably got knocked for turning political at the end of it, which really didn't add anything as far as I was concerned. He should have let the facts speak for themselves and let people draw their own conclusions.

Indeed, but as Pacers scout and former IU player Courtney Witte once told a room of us, Jay couldn't guard a sidewalk. 😂😂😂

Brian Bowen...holy cow, does that name bring back memories!!!

No wonder Archie loves him...

What a huge miss that was for the Pacers...

Sounds like he's out and a few idiot sports analysts are speculating him to IU. Apparently, they have no clue what his early record at Michigan was...

Well, if anyone ought to know what a clown is...

Both Tolliver (age 34) and Swanigan (limited interior big) appear in danger of washing out of the league. Wasn't Swanigan a 5-star recruit for "Big-Man U"...?