HoosierDom

You're probably right, but the positives far outweigh the negatives. If you're a fan of a smaller school, then it could hurt you, but I'm not a fan of a smaller school, so I'm okay. But, the price of small schools losing some players pays for guys who spend their lives getting really good at basketball now get a little more control over their lives and options. If small schools feel like they're losing out then they have to find a way to make themselves attractive enough to keep players. Seems like a good thing.

I read an article a few years ago that there was never even one reported case of that actually happening. One dad in a custody dispute poisoned his own kid and claimed it was a razor blade and that was the only newspaper article ever written in the US about it actually happening.

I don't see why the NBA won't work. From everything I've read, they are taking the bubble very seriously. Having bench players wear a mask only to go sweat all over someone a minute later seems rather silly, though.

I won't pretend to know what Archie wants, but I'm certainly not going to read anything in to him not offering those guys. Has Archie ever offered a player that lowly ranked since coming to IU? If he ever does, it certainly shouldn't be this far out.

Perhaps we're not talking about the same thing. I'm arguing that the YouTube "doctor" videos are without merit and no responsible website would allow them on its platform. If that's not what you were addressing then I misunderstood. I have no problem with doctors experimenting on off label uses of approved drugs. Neither does any US policy. I'm not sure how the EU does things, but I believe it's very similar.

Couldn't you make the same argument about prescribing whiskey to treat COVID?

France, which, I believe, is where the HCQ craze originated, has banned its use on COVID patients. As far as I know that's pretty much the medical standard used in any advanced country (all of Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada).

I don't think those sorts of questions that you are ever going to get reliable numbers on, no one polls that sort of thing, but even 80/20 is vastly overestimating how popular it is. Randomized studies show that more people die when taking it than when getting normal treatment. Its use has been widely rejected.

Her entire "argument" is her credibility. She is essentially arguing, I have information/knowledge and you should listen to my conclusions, not the millions of doctors that disagree with me. This is not some politician with an idea and an unrelated sex scandal, this is someone arguing she is telling the truth and she should be trusted and everything else is a lie.

It's like if someone came on here with several posts a day about some random 5 star player secretly commiting to IU. The site can either remove those posts (censor them according to the above definition), or just become a source of pure garbage info. I think we all agree that HSN allowing things to stand, even though some info proves incorrect, is a good thing. But, there is a theoretical point where they have to act. Stella is that spammer of garbage that has to be removed if your site is to have any value.

Doesn't look good for baseball. Will be interesting to see what they do now. With the bubble, I think the NBA should be able to make it. I don't see how college football can do it though. They'd have to accept that it will run rampant through players - I don't see them letting that happen. We just don't know enough about the long term effects on kids, nor the odds a 300 pound lineman faces. Especially with the continued optimism towards a vaccine, I think the best we can hope for is spring football.

Interesting, how often do they update these things? I'm just wondering if there has been a single game of basketball played between these and the previous iteration.

Did we ever get to the bottom of whether or not he will be draft eligible in 2021?

Doesn't it seem like the most likely explanation is that the number of new infections was steadily decreasing, and thus hospitalizations decreased. Now, cases are starting to go back up, I would think most people don't instantly become hospitalized when testing positive. Seems like they would start to get sick, go get tested, then get worse, then become hospitalized. So, hospital cases would lag confirmed cases.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but my understanding is that most of what was skipped/sped up was the pre-clinical work (the lab and animal testing that is normally done before the first person gets injected); the time between phase 1, 2 and 3 (normally we would give more time before the next, and larger, round of people is injected); and the lag time to actually produce things at scale once it has been approved. But, what we are not messing with is the phase 3 timeline, where the largest group gets the vaccine and the regular observations - we will still wait the normal time before approving anything for the general population, we will just start making it before we know if we will ever use it.

What's the appeal of a later season? Beyond this next year, I mean.

DC reports cases based on the day patients report that they first experienced symptoms. So, if there's a spike it wouldn't be recognizable on the chart you linked to. At least not yet.

I'm not aware of any mock drafts, for either this year or next, that have TJD being picked. My guess is that we get him for 3 years.

Maybe my memory fails me, but I don't remember them running an article like this mid-season. They also seem to do a good job, though definitely not perfect, of not running announcement primers on guys we miss on.

Any word on why ITH is running a story on this kid? Is he about to pop?