Bananarchy

Season's 40 minutes old and your schtick is already old.

Yoan is just so special.

Has Parkman already fired Rick yet?

Moderna would have to team up with a producer, but Pfizer or Lonza would kill for that contract I bet

Seems unlikely. For one thing, there are over 100 vaccines under development and 23 of them are in human trials. That's the "good news" side of why I think you're probably wrong. The other reason this won't happen: The virus has been unbelievably deadly and the infection rate has been around 10%. Basically, this thing won't "end" or "blow over" or "run its course" before another 50-60% of the population are infected, and there's no way the health care system could handle that.

That's definitely concerning. We'll see what happens I guess.

Oh for sure. I think you'll find a bunch of huge vaccine producers will be paid to scale up any one of these vaccine technologies. There are entire companies which exist just to contract out process units to pharmaceutical customers.

Technologically, I think Oxford or Moderna would be the most likely to "stick". The risk with Moderna is the novel vaccine. Side effect profile requires more attention than a more traditional vaccine. But at least the Oxford one appears to work to some degree.

ALRIGHT, here we go. Vaccine company draft - Please note: While I work in the vaccine industry, I have no insider information on any of these companies and I do not intend anyone to make stock buying decisions on my mostly joke power rankings. Also, I do not work for any of these companies. Power rankings, IMHO AstraZeneca/Oxford - Oxford is a 4 tool company, what it lacks is scale up. AstraZeneca provides that fifth tool and can play center field Johnson & Johnson - Dark horse. They appear to be slightly behind on development, but they are the most capable of scale-up quickly Chinese efforts - Rounding out the top three. A bit of a wild card Moderna (Which I just figured out meant Mode RNA) - Very mature vaccine offering but has to contract out scale up from a company like Novartis or Lonzaf AG. Sanofi - Makes my list because I use ACT mouthwash which is made by Sanofi Gilead - Remdesivir appears to be Gilead's offering at the moment. The field - I'm bored of this.

Steroids would have to save the game again.

Merkel or Johnson

Bulls look like they might get a professional front office. First hire for AK

GarPax have no meaningful influence. If you're in the basketball organization, Karsinovas is your boss. Period. He has 100% of the say.

I do not understand how numbers can be so wildly different. This is completely different than what the CDC, IHME are predicting for Texas.

Yeah, that's pretty much the case. 670 would be pretty vanilla without him, agree with him or (usually) not. Edit: And I know people don't like him, but his first 10 minutes on the show this morning were great.

Oh, I love him. I was just curious if he was still on staff because i know his role had been shrinking

Honestly though, it's not like she's Sarah Spain. She's just not top line talent.

Yikes. Score host gigs don't last long. Is Matt Spiegel still on the payroll?

Really sad day for the White Sox family. I don't want to flood the farmio thread with posts about his replacement. Any thoughts on who takes over?

Underrated as a broadcaster. I'll miss his voice.

My wife is an ER doctor. My life has been an absolute nightmare for about a week. Now I have to face really tough decisions about whether I leave the house because of risk of exposure or if I just stay here and ride it out. If we had kids it would be fairly straightforward: myself or my wife would go somewhere. We don't have kids, so I'm not sure it's even worth leaving if I'll probably get it anyway. Stay at home people.

That's one of the big ones. There are multiple treatments under consideration, including one or two preventative treatments, which, if safe, would be obligatory for healthcare workers.

And there are some serious potential treatments for the virus in their early stages.

Yeah, but there was so much less we could do as a society in 1918. In 1918, you went to the hospital to die. I'll take any good news as good news for now.