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I tend to agree that a few of Whitmer's new conditions are probably a step too far, and that certainly doesn't help things. It just gives ammunition to the idiots who would make a fuss anyway but now are getting some sort of justification. I have major concerns about the unrest that is likely to come from this in the next few weeks. People are being fed this absurd idea that the orders are illegal, that their freedoms are being taken away permanently, that this is all some huge conspiracy... and I fear that some of the deepest-in of the Cult 45 will fall for all of it. If the results are just a few traffic jam protests like we saw in MI, I will consider that a lucky outcome. I fear it will get much worse.

Caulfield, come on dude. Not every article

Please let this continue https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/

Jeeze so many pessimistic people here

@caulfield12 I know you're at the center of this and we all appreciate your insights and opinions, but you're posts are not only incredibly difficult to read but extremely time consuming.

1. Having more aisles and more merchandise at those stores draws extra stuff in which raises the chances that 1 person is infected. 1 infected person touching the wrong things can lead to 10 more cases. You can’t shut down food or health supplies, but your garden is not worth someone’s life. 2. I have never been in a kayak or canoe with 10 people. I have been in small motorized boats with like 10 family members. Repeatedly. i don’t know if those were part of the ones issued yesterday or if those were issued a while ago, but there’s no perfect way to do this. You’re trying to think through all of human behavior in every industry in like 3 days. Some stuff won’t make sense as written but it will address one specific situation that someone asked about. With 2 years to prepare maybe you write a different rule, but right now, overdoing the restrictions is way smarter than leaving one path too weak and winding up infecting the wrong person.

No one here is saying baseball is 100% happening. It's an easy acknowledgement to say that there are a ton of obstacles. But health officials, government officials, business leaders, sports execs, and the athletes have all made some sort of comment that they are still trying to make it work/think it could work. Dumping cold water on everybody that is discussing this as a possibility is asinine. Baseball in 2020 is still a possibility. Saying otherwise is wrong. You said it yourself, no one knows for sure what's going to happen. So who is to say we are definitely not having baseball? Every scientist you claim to be listening to is just another one fitting your argument. There are also health officials saying it's possible. The negativity from so many people is exhausting.

They're going to kill a lot of people.

I thought that by mid April we would have a better understanding of where we are at with this virus. Instead, virtually all of the unknowns about it remain unknown. We don't even know how many have had it, whether those who had it are now immune and if so for how long, what drugs might treat it, at what point patients should have certain experimental drugs administered or be placed on a ventilator, or even how long this virus is surviving on certain surfaces. The search for a treatment or a vaccine seems like it is all over the place . The tests for anti-bodies seem like they are not as reliable as once thought. I don't know how a plan to "Open America" makes sense until we get a better idea where we are at with it and how bad the pandemic could get.

I want to apologize for being overly cynical yesterday. I'm going to try to stay out of the COVID threads unless I have something positive to say. It was inappropriate and I get it now.

I want to apologize for being overly cynical yesterday. I'm going to try to stay out of the COVID threads unless I have something positive to say. It was inappropriate and I get it now.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/15/834497497/antibody-tests-for-coronavirus-can-miss-the-mark Not possible to know what test they're using from that report, but here's published examples from the US of tests that would produce that number of false-positives. If your test had a specificity of 97%, and it returned 3% false positives, then almost every positive test would likely be a false-positive. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/998974/immunity-passports-cornavirus-antibody-test-outside/ 2. They may very well have that included, but it is imposisble to know from the article you've cited. It cites "unpublished data from the blood bank" being used, but you don't know who did the study, you don't know if it's publishable, you don't know the motivations of the person citing that number. Without full details of of the test used, the knowledge right now is that many of the antibody tests are of moderate quality or worse, return several percent false positive numbers, and the numbers reported in that study are right in the range one would expect based on the false-positive rate.

And in singapore it's their guest worker dormitories causing much of the recent outbreak. These close quarters like these are just spreading like wildfire.

Maybe he is different. He obviously has a special arm. Maybe he turns into Kerry Wood or Josh Beckett and if this were another year I would love to get a guy like this. I just think there will be better options available.

Typically the President acting like a clown takes up the headlines.

Yep the players will burn a year of service. It just wouldn't be good optics if they didn't. This is why I am almost certain baseball will be played.

Since Jimmy has indicated a potential link to Kelley, here's an updated scouting report via BA.

Abel has the most upside but Kelley is the most polished. I just haven't heard the Sox linked to BItsko or even Abel at all. They really like Kelley though. If Kelley is on the board, I think that ends up being the pick. If it's not him though, I think they go college pitching most likely.

Like this guy?

Gee. So they made plans with timeline. Go figure.

This is too far. You can THINK about what it would take to reopen things. It would be negligent to not have plans and standards in place ahead of time to be ready to reopen society when appropriate. I know overreaction is kind of your thing, but now is the time for thinking and planning. Just because we don't have a solid end date doesn't mean you punt on the concept.

You only seek out negative information.

Looks like a block of the Stevenson Expy during any rush hour.

We already have a shortstop with the tools to become elite. I'm sticking with Robert.

For the first time in years, I am actually interested in following the Bulls again.

I did not think of that. I don't mind driving to our local Walmart for that scenario. Thank you.