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Listened to NPR and they were interviewing a firefighter (for the last 23 years) whose house burned down. Lost his home and a bunch of animals. So tragic.

I just went over this with our director in yesterday's staff meeting. She said exactly the same thing about the flu season and I hope she is right. And yes, still get the flu shot!

I haven't been following the fires as closely as last year's, but they are indeed horrifying. The video on Twitter of the truck driving through switchbacks with fire surrounding it is insane. We really, really love Northern CA and have thought about retiring there, but all the stories of people losing their homes, animals, and livestock gives us pause.

Was just seeing the latest on Laura this morning and thinking about you. Stay safe and hunker down! Sounds like you are prepared as you can be.

He's absolutely one of my favorite guitar players. Not the most technically gifted, but like you said he "just overpowers a guitar." For some levity, have you ever stumbled upon this clip of Bradley Cooper doing the air guitar solo from Down By the River on Fallon? https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bradley-coopers-air-guitar-solo-fallon-video Ths solo starts about 2 minutes in...

$492 now. Man, to have got in *really* early would have been great. My father-in-law says this upcoming one is his third Apple split. Can't even imagine.

I saw the video of someone driving by the parties on Twitter. I've been taking this thing as seriously as anyone, but it's crazy to expect college kids to socially distance.

NYC Mask Census - 7,000 people

What's coming economically can not be good in the next 2-3 months for a LOT of people. Yep, I purchased 100 shares of Apple when it fell to $300 in the beginning of March and then cursed my decision everyday when it kept falling to $230. Knew it would come back eventually. My wife also purchased 100 shares of Apple, BUT she bought 50 shares at $280 and another 50 at $250. She does not follow the stock market AT ALL and she beat me soundly. Apple closed at around $463 today, so we've been pretty happy about those purchases. I totally missed BYND when it blew up though. That was a heck of a ride!

I keep waiting for the other economic shoe to drop. In our hospitals, routine care and surgeries have not returned to normal level. We are under tremendous budget restrictions for the foreseeable future, but am not hearing about layoffs or job losses yet. Commercial real estate is going to be a bloodbath at some point.

i would expect nothing less of you!

<Stepping onto my Population Health soapbox> I'm so sick of our nation ignoring this. It's all about gobbling down medicine instead of doing the smart things to be healthy. And greedy politicians sucking up fast food/junk food dollars to ignore the problem doesn't help. Don't even get me started on factory farming and children's hospitals featuring McDonalds in their advertising and in their cafeterias. It's so much cheaper and more efficient to tackle these things in a population health-based approach, but we would rather be lazy and waste billions on meds/surgeries to fix problems that could have been avoided. </off the soapbox>

I'm not a movie theater fan, but I do LOVE the Alamo Drafthouse. Love the big comfy seats, good food and drinks too!

Yes, all of that is the case. It's why I avoid super liberal or super conservative media sources. If they lean right or left, fine. But something like Primarydoctor.org or Breitbart is not helping during this.

I liked it okay. Was kind of odd though - almost Groundhog Day like but more modern and set in the desert.

Few went straight to Netflix recently and I think a couple on Amazon. We watched Palm Springs recently which skipped the theater.

Primarydoctor.org is like a Saturday Night Live skit of misinformation. I won't even comment on the rest.

You are quoting the NYPost, so nope.

Dude, come on. It's the freakin' NYT. The paper of record for most of the world. Straight from MediaBias/FactCheck: Overall, we rate the New York Times Left-Center biased based on word and story selection that moderately favors the left, but highly factual and considered one of the most reliable sources for news information due to proper sourcing and well-respected journalists/editors.

From our experience we know that the number of COVID deaths are higher than reported. What we don't know is what you are referring to - the number of deaths that may be attributable to conditions due to COVID. I honestly don't know of any faculty locally that are looking at this, but I'm sure it's not an insignificant number. We do know that planned and even unplanned care dropped tremendously. This article is interesting b/c you can watch the excess deaths rise as COVID moves through the country - starting out really high in NE initially then dropping. And now the numbers of excess deaths are rising in the south.

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

I love literally everything about this post.

I REALLY don't miss my commute - especially in the summer. Was not fun to be standing in a hot subway after a 10 minutes walk to our stop. There were some days when I would be practically be sweating through my suit before even getting on the sub. And yeah, the environmental impact could be one silver lining to all of this.

Yup. I was watching a show last night and someone was blowing out birthday candles in a large group of people. Gave me the willies!

I think there will be significant and lasting changes, especially the acceleration of online shopping and working from home. We've both been working remotely since March 13th and it's fine. I have roughly 50 people in my group and we've adjusted well. I just can't imagine wasting time walking to the subway stop and commuting into Manhattan anymore - and then doing the same thing on the way home. It's just a waste of time. Big chains are fleeing NYC (good riddance!) and we are losing lots of smaller places/independent shops. But, some independently owned restaurants/bars/shops here are flexing to meet this new reality. Not sure if it's enough to keep them going, but life is moving on here in Brooklyn. Is it different? Yeah, but things do change. I know there are articles about people fleeing the city, but I honestly do not know a single person who is leaving the city permanently. Not a one. Many of us are actually hoping that rents/real estate prices fall - that's not happening yet. I do now that someone who lives in LA that is moving here though, b/c they found a great deal. I think Manhattan may be in trouble - all of those empty office buildings mean the people who supported all of those workers are also in trouble. The outer boroughs will survive though. I know that you know the city better than most on here, but too many think NYC is only Manhattan. Manhattan has been a rotting, fetid mess of wealth inequality and chain stores for a long time before COVID. Landlords were doubling and tripling rents, pushing small businesses out and leaving vacant storefronts. It's been a waste of space for years. I see no reason to ever step foot in Manhattan now if I don't have to commute to work.