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Manning Buyout Negotiations Have Begun

Congress will pass the third stimulus. Let's ease his transition to unemployment.
 
You guys read Rambling Red's post yesterday, right? It was pretty interesting. In a nutshell, you are asking a coach to relocate during the beginning of a pandemic. That means shopping for a house, packing a house, hiring movers, etc... Not to mention swinging through and visiting the facilities of the school you are considering taking their offer. There are some issues related to hiring a new coach that suddenly have higher hurdles than they did 3 weeks ago.

Again, I still hope we let Manning go and make a splash hire, but it is not high on my personal priority list right now. Getting to the grocery store and back without getting infected is higher. Trying to figure out my kid's school is higher. My Mom's isolation in Beaufort, SC is higher. The well being of health care workers all over the country is a lot higher. I know there are only a few of us in NYC who post here, and I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but when what is happening here hits the rest of the country two, three, four weeks from now, I think it'll hit home harder. I am making decisions right now for the safety and well being of a handful of people.

The fetish-ization of this decision - it feels as dated as Marky Mark or Vanilla Ice.
 
But they want what they want and they want it now!!! Don't let reality come into play!!
 
jaybone said:
You guys read Rambling Red's post yesterday, right? It was pretty interesting. In a nutshell, you are asking a coach to relocate during the beginning of a pandemic. That means shopping for a house, packing a house, hiring movers, etc... Not to mention swinging through and visiting the facilities of the school you are considering taking their offer. There are some issues related to hiring a new coach that suddenly have higher hurdles than they did 3 weeks ago.

Again, I still hope we let Manning go and make a splash hire, but it is not high on my personal priority list right now. Getting to the grocery store and back without getting infected is higher. Trying to figure out my kid's school is higher. My Mom's isolation in Beaufort, SC is higher. The well being of health care workers all over the country is a lot higher. I know there are only a few of us in NYC who post here, and I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but when what is happening here hits the rest of the country two, three, four weeks from now, I think it'll hit home harder. I am making decisions right now for the safety and well being of a handful of people.

The fetish-ization of this decision - it feels as dated as Marky Mark or Vanilla Ice.
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I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
 
scooter84 said:
I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
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Bold words.
 
scooter84 said:
I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
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Other than the fact there are cases in all fifty states? Other than the fact that LA is growing as quickly as NYC? How about IL? How about over 1000 cases in GA and FL?

Stop believing the RW insanity.
 
The virus may not hit "all over the country" like NYC, but it's looking like there will be plenty of other hot spots (New Orleans, LA among others) all over the country.

It does seems like almost everyone in the country is finally abiding by the social distancing rules, and it is getting warmer; so, there is a reason to hope that the spread won't be as vast as it otherwise would've been over the next 6 weeks. All that said, there is a massive difference between slowing the spread and life returning to normal. Easier to see a scenario where the spread is slowed (the curve is flattened) as opposed to life returns to pre-CV status.
 
scooter84 said:
I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
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May not spread to the same degree as far as overwhelming the health system but it absolutely will continue spreading across the country. Urban to suburban to rural areas.
 
scooter84 said:
I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
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This is sadly waaaaay off. Ask the Louisiana governor, ask the Miami mayor. Ask the California Governor, or the Illinois oe Ohio governor. Think Game of Thrones. Winter is coming. Communities with larger than normal retirees or people who aren't particularly healthy are going to be at huge risk. Add into that a mindset of, "this isn't coming to us" and you create a horrific cocktail of risk. the science and the data indicate ITIS coming to everywhere (save northern Montana and North Dakota). Prepare, prepare, prepare. Get two to three weeks worth of food if you can.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
May not spread to the same degree as far as overwhelming the health system but it absolutely will continue spreading across the country. Urban to suburban to rural areas.
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Actually it would take far fewer cases to overwhelm rural healthcare than city and suburban areas. This is especially true in states that haven't expanded Medic-Aid and haven't expanded number of beds or facilities.
 
scooter84 said:
I hate to hear about what folks in NYC are going through - but, what is going on there now is never going to hit the rest of the country. At least not unless all the people there who have been exposed keep traveling to the rest of the country and taking it with them.
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Turn off Fox
 
RJKarl said:
Actually it would take far fewer cases to overwhelm rural healthcare than city and suburban areas. This is especially true in states that haven't expanded Medic-Aid and haven't expanded number of beds or facilities.
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My local hospital in Alabama is pushing 50 cases (19 confirmed, 28 patients have all the symptoms but are waiting on tests or test results) and we have 30 total ICU beds, 20 in the general unit and 10 in the cardiac unit. You are completely fucked if you get CoVID and what happens if you have a totally corona - unrelated heart attack and all the ICU beds are are taken.
 
Spread slows greatly if people stay out of sneeze/cough range of each other.

And remember this virus stays infective on hard surfaces for multiple days. Door knobs/handles/push plates, store shelves, shopping cart handles, cold cases/edges in stores. Places like these can be contaminated with virus and need to be properly and completely disinfected frequently.

Keep yours hands out of your face, eyes, nose, mouth and EARS. Unless you know they are clean - freshly washed or sanitized.

Hard surface packages bottles, cans etc. can also hold infective virus for multiple days. Clean the outside of packages you get from the store.
 
In Brooklyn, we essentially cannot go out during normal waking hours without mask and gloves. Definitely not the store. This is your shopping future. It sort of sucks. I wear glasses, retired the contacts long ago, and fuck if my glasses don't fog up when I wear a mask. It is annoying.

The worst is when some old guy in line starts bitching and moaning loudly and in a panic about someone not keeping their social distance - all of course while careening wildly close to me (as he bellows) to exaggerate the offender. I am somewhat sympathetic though. The old people in the grocery look fucking terrified. They barely are able to register commands like NEXT or EXCUSE ME I AM TRYING TO GET AT THE MILK
 
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