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Keep in mind that once he is traded we inherit his salary but not the prorated signing bonus so in 2021 his salary is 10.5 million and even in 2022 it is 35 million. So it isn't until 2023 it gets high and that could be renegotiated. His salary is actually pretty doable.

Washington is getting what they need. Someone who will get Rivera the guys he wants and who has a great relationship with him. At this point it seems to be a good plan. Just because Hurney's future wasn't here doesn't mean he won't be effective working with an old school coach who believes similarly to him. Neither Hurney or Rivera were a good fit for our analytics driven approach but for old school traditional football they both seem to fit in fairly well. Hurney can train his successor.

How many player for player trades ever happen? Most times it is shedding a salary and vet to get picks and younger cheaper guys. Watson won't be the only bet QB available. They might want someone like Bridgewater if they want a vet for experience but they will want draft picks for the most part.

Seems some folks in Washington think it will be a great idea. https://www.hogshaven.com/platform/amp/2021/1/18/22237846/what-would-the-hiring-of-marty-hurney-mean-for-the-wft-front-office

The effort to undermine the media is deliberate and having a negative effect for sure but I don't think that people are losing faith in journalism as much as they are accepting low brow political rants as reporting and shoddy factless conspiracy theories as breaking news. Most people aren't discriminating enough to know the truth when they hear it There are good sources of information and news but you have to be discerning and listen with a critical ear. There is very little true journalism going on in television and social media is a minefield of misinformation. The good news is that there are still some good people out there with integrity. The bad news is that the majority have an agenda or less than sterling motives.

Black lives protesters have been by and large peaceful. Let's not confuse protesters with rioters who are comprised of activists from both extremes with an agenda to create division and foment anger. I read a meme earlier today suggesting no one has ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American populace. Seems media just panders to the lowest common denominator.

That is crazy thinking. The only folks who call the media the enemy of the people are deranged despots who want no record of what they are doing or saying and no one calling them out. We haven't had fake news until we had a fake president who was a reality TV star. The media isn't the problem it is people who blindly follow anyone who will tell them what they want to hear. The majority of people don't support trump and primetime viewers on Fox in April averaged between 3 and 4 million viewers which was number 1 but hardly an overwhelming majority of viewers. Frankly I rarely watch any of them these days.

Florida fired the statistician who was doing the Corona count because she refused to under report the numbers. Apparently her replacement has fewer qualms. Florida is just manipulating the numbers while they head straight to a disaster. With the state so full of old retired people, Florida should be taking huge precautions instead of ignoring guidelines already in place.

Never been this bad. Even Nixon looks good by comparison and that is saying something.

Hope and guessing might be fine if you are a cheerleader but as VP giving out wrong information which could cost people their lives in almost criminal. What a crap show in Washington right now.

So if the hospitalizations are at capacity and new cases are growing exponentially, where is the flattening? https://wamu.org/story/20/07/07/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s/ Arizona which had leveled off to 15000 cases in April had a big surge of cases in June.

Nothing the CDC says carries any weight as long as politicians not doctors are making the decisions. Those states are out of control and there is no flattening going on. Arizona ICUs in over 150 hospitals are full.

They are using Brazil because they have so many cases. The drug companies are working with the government but they aren't the government and are mainly US companies

Instead just get the virus? Seems the worse it can do is infect you which is inevitable if you do nothing.

Just saw CBS this morning. Their resident medical expert was cautiously hopeful that a huge study in Brazil has resulted in a vaccine that is effective in producing antibodies. Now they are seeing if it creates immunity and for how long. Anyway he and others are optimistic we could have a vaccine sometime this fall. Really hopeful news.

My wife's parents live in one of the senior retirement communities near Orlando and they are on lockdown. A few members of the staff and community tested positive despite their precautions. It is really getting bad in Florida with so many retired people living there who are all vulnerable.

Yes they are. Honestly hard are designed to encourage socializing and close contact. Just about every state that had opened bars have closed them again or thinking about it as cases have soared.

Yes slow it down until hopefully we find a vaccine that works. We have already created dozens of vaccines. Now we have to see if they work and how long they provide protection if any. It isn't inevitable at this time that everyone will get it or that you can't get it more than once. We just don't know yet.

I am sure the protests will spike cases as well. Two wrongs don't make a right. And who cares about China's cases unless you are trying to deflect from the 125,000 dead already and hospitals filling up.

The testing data doesn't impact the hospitalization rates which are also rising. So no increased testing doesn't account for the total increase in cases and hospitalizations. Another lie by this government to sit back while people keep dying in an attempt to save the election in November. The latest example of politics over human life.

It seems clear that while you can argue the numbers and get out of it what you are looking for, the bottom line is as long as the cases and number of hospitalizations keeps rising so will people dying. Whether it ends up to be a death rate of 1% or lower isn't as important as keeping the hospitals from being overwhelmed like in New York which is what drove the death toll higher. Right now the ICU use rate for Arizona is 88% and going higher. There is no rational argument you can make for not wearing masks and practicing social distancing. No matter the number differences and let's be real here, this administration wants the country and the economy open to win reelection and they will fudge numbers and willingingly let people die to further their political agenda. With politicians running the numbers instead of scientists my trust in the CDC and this government is nil. So we can either wait until we get overwhelmed again or do the responsible thing as we go. You would think we would learn from our mistakes instead of continuing to do it over and over again.

That is what people tell themselves to justify their behavior or make the risk more palatable to venture out as an essential worker often for low wages. There are more cases here than anywhere else because as a nation we are impulsive. We are ,risk takers who gets easily bored and have little patience. Truth is that it wouldn't be the inevitable result that you would get the virus if we had acted sooner in the beginning and with more patience before opening up. In epidemiology terms days and weeks can make huge differences. It has never been about not opening up until there is a vaccine. That extreme argument is being spouted to justify the continued folly of errors that are made by the government daily. It has always been about opening responsibly based on scientific data instead of intuition and hope. Covid 19 has killed more folks than all of our wars in the last 40 years. And we are still in phase 1 which is the beginning not the end. You can think what you want but I know history will be on my side on this one and Covid 19 is no joke and it ain't the flu.

There is medication to help with that confused thinking.

The issue with schools isn't kids getting sick but being the vector to spread it to teachers, and their own families. As you note, multigenerational homes are becoming very common these days and the spread from schools reopening would be huge. And kids playing at home and using online instruction is fine as long as someone can take care of them. Parents who both work struggle to manage the kids at home unless one or both can also work from home

The question has never been baby proofing the populace. Opening up has never been in question either. Pitting the choice as one of two extremes is a popular way to justify ignoring government guidelines and going head long down a course that we already saw what happened. It was always about how to open to maximize safety while allowing for the data to guide our decisions. Science over economics instead of the other way around. No one is against reopening as long as it governed by reason and by listening to the experts who make these kind of events their life's work.