StrangeSox

Looks like he's thinking of a traditional rundown and not letting the player get back to the "Starting" base. Total brain fart.

If I order something from Amazon, it may come from an Amazon truck, a gig-work delivery driver (think Uber, but for Amazon deliveries), UPS, FedEx, or USPS. And that's with a major UPS and Amazon distribution center like 2 miles from my house.

he could have tagged him at any time either

I'm not exactly up on the PRC's governmental structure, but they're not a federalist government with most police/restrictive powers devolved down to the state/province level, are they? The interesting thing with the international response to COVID is that there's not an obvious overlap you can point to for countries that managed to keep things under control or even nearly completely isolated. Australia and New Zealand are western anglophone/culturally anglo liberal democracies; one is heavily federal like the US and currently run by a conservative government, the other a centralized government run by Labour. Both islands, but many other island countries didn't fair as well. Vietnam is a single-party communist state and pretty poor but has done well. China is a geographically massive communist/state-controlled economy strong central government that did well (even if you want to assume they covered up say 10x the cases and deaths). The others you mentioned are all varying degrees of democracy and liberalized market economies vs. state control, different culturally, and other nations with governments, economics, geographies, and experiences similar in the past did poorly. There's no one magic bullet for why any particular country 'got it right'.

They locked down using strict measures very, very hard. We have dozens of countries worth of examples of what happens when COVID is spreading unchecked. It's not something that can be completely covered up. There's no evidence of there being tens of thousands, let alone hundreds of thousand or millions of deaths they'd need to have had to be on the per capita scale with a whole lot of other countries. They could be hiding their deaths by two orders of magnitude and they'd still be below average in deaths/1m pop. The official count in China is something like 4.5k deaths. I'm sure the actual deaths are higher because it can take years to go back and comb through all the data you need from an epidemeological level and make good estimates on the actual total impact. That'll be true in China just as it'll be true nearly everywhere else. But there simply is not anything to back up the idea that it spread throughout China. COVID fucks up areas bad and relatively fast when it's uncontrolled. China's own press is restrictive, but it's not North Korea-levels of blackhole of information ever able to get out. I didn't say anything it being "so much better," but the post I was referring to stunk of the infamous Westmoreland quote: "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it: Life is not important." It's an old trope. You can criticize life under their political system for many things, but their response to COVID-19 isn't exactly strong evidence of not caring if citizens live or die. It's possible to comment one aspect or another of a country and how they approached something without it being a comment on the country in general or any philosophical or ideological positions.. Anyway, if you want to hear actual experts with specific background in coronavirus monitoring who have been on the ground in China/Wuhan, listen to the video I posted. They discuss in detail what they've found in their investigations regarding potential origins and how it originally spread in and out of Wuhan. Give me some hard science, not unsubstantiated speculation and hypotheticals.

The general expert consensus remains "lab leak is technically possible but a highly unlikely source; we don't currently and will likely never have enough information to conclusively rule it out. Natural origin remains the most likely explanation" and "human-engineered source is extremely, extremely unlikely and we can tell that from DNA sequencing lacking any signatures of human manipulation." I'm not sure what's driving the spin-up of all the lab-leak hypothesizing in the media lately, but it's not like there's been any new findings one way or the other on that front. e: if you want to listen to a discussion/interview between virologists including some who are doing the WHO investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV2, you can watch/listen here: I do think it's funny that someone said China values the lives of their people less, given that they had a few thousand deaths while other countries that had powerful politicians insist it was "just the flu" and "would be gone by Easter (2020)" have had hundreds of thousands of deaths.

one hell of a slide

Look if the whole plate was 6"to the right those are all strikes

That would be the bio-engineering/bio-weapon part rather than potentially having got a sample of SARS-CoV2 in the wild, brought it back to the lab, and then it accidentally leaked out. Just clarifying. "The matter" was unspecified/unclear in your post.

You don't need any information from China whatsoever for what they'd be looking for as far as markers of human engineering.

You can't conclusively rule out lab leak, but I think virologists outside of a few cranks have pretty conclusively ruled out it being engineered.

They kneel when they can end the game with a guaranteed win. The Twins still sent batters to the plate who attempted to get hits. The strategy in a timed game is completely different because you can limit how many opportunities the opponent has to even try to score. In baseball, everyone gets 27 outs.

Football is timed, baseball is not. That's a pretty major difference. Taking a knee ends the game sooner. Taking a walk extends the game and increases the potential runs scored.

How many players on the Sox clubhouse feel exactly the same way,I wonder?

Sounds like the twins players and manager are a danger to others and should be given long suspensions

TLR would have had a hard time trying to frame it that way because it's pretty clearly not at all what happened. He lied about what he saw (or he's struggling with basic cognitive functions) and lying about what he did.

disgusting

nasty work from Hendriks today

Shaky first couple of innings but absolutely rolling since then

thank u for respectfully getting an out, Yermin. That is how the game is played!

hell yeah buddy

Lots of balls, somewhat lucky to have only given up one