97and03

Lifelong Republican. Voted for a Democrat once in some local race they had no chance to win because my girlfriend knew them and asked me to. Voted third party a handful of times, mainly Perot and a couple Libertarians. But I guess I'm a liberal compared to some of the bugaloo bois on this board.

While this article is primarily about the California situation, it notes that those infected people are US citizens returning for medical care. Important to note that Mexico primarily got the virus from people from the United States and not the other way around.

Stay safe down South

https://247sports.com/player/justin-macias-jr-46082928/ Warm to Illinois

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Welcome to read the whole thread but I will post a couple tweets for those who don’t Twitter.

I have been at 10-12 (or more) a days since mid-April so I can vouch for that!

Apparently everything is offensive to insecure old white dudes.

As much as I hate to take anything FAU seriously, watch the video https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/efficacy-facemasks-coronavirus.php

Finally we agree on something! We pay taxes for a community library and have the choice to check out books or not. If they close the library but keep justifying the tax rate based upon having a library...

The NCAA announced Thursday that Texas A&M football was placed on one year's probation. Doesn’t really help us but...

In the country where I live, the hospitals are now so full with “pneumonia” patients that they’ve turned away sick people and told them to go home and treat themselves. People who have symptoms can’t get tests. There are ambulance shortages. 30 percent of cases are medical professionals. There are a handful of people starting to die from other diseases because they were turned away from the specialized hospital that treats their problem because it was turned into a Covid or pneumonia ward.

I hear you, but it isn’t a direct equivalent. The fees I mentioned are for a direct purpose/service, whereas your taxes go in a pot of money that is later budgeted and allocated. Your aren’t using those services you mentioned and so the utilities on them are lower and that money gets reallocated. Students aren’t like taxpayers. They make a choice to attend the university and are levied fees for services to which they have access. There is some element of “the greater good” but in general it is a fee for service. Taxes pay for services but are largely intended for the greater good - hence single or childless people paying property taxes that fund the schools.

They are student service fees. No available services, then the fees are unwarranted. Case in point would be the Rec Center. Why pay for use of a building you can’t access? International education fee: is there are no exchanges and travel prohibited then why pay that? Why pay the full athletic fee if you aren’t allowed to attend a game?

Really want to post something sarcastic but going to try to avoid the bad karma and just hope all is well.

I was very surprised by his speed. He has that long stride that makes him seem slower than he really is.

Good initiative, Emmitt.

Well we are his “best” offer but may be hard to convince him to move that far away for us.

Tulsa is the smallest D1 school and has experienced financial problems. Their staff was taking pay cuts long before the current crisis. They may have to make some tough decisions down the road. That being said, a regional conference could be exactly what they need to stay viable. In football they had one winning season 2013-19. During that same period they had four 20 win seasons in basketball. Better, but not outstanding. I don’t think UTEP brings a ton to a conference either except some rich history and the Sun Bowl. But I would take them over TxSt or UTSA for sure. In terms of market, UTSA makes the most sense over any of the above mentioned schools, as much as it pains me to say it.

National death rates would be more informative if we had national policies and if population density was relatively uniform across states. It isn’t. Even within the large states it is difficult. For example in Texas each county has a different policy. State trends are useful but in the case of Houston, DFW, Miami, etc, looking at them individually is probably more useful for understanding trends. Those areas are as big as many countries in terms of population. And they are also were the virus is most likely to thrive. Death rates are important to watch but not nearly as important as infections and hospitalization. Death rates only tell you what has happened and not what is coming. Once a person is dead they are out of the loop to put it frankly. Increased infections will lead to more hospitalizations. Hospitalization is the most worrisome indicator for many reasons. 1) there is some predictive value that death rates will rise; 2) hospitalization is a sign of the number of severe infections, which often lead to longer term negative health impacts such as decreased lung capacity or kidney problems which require medical care (and are expensive and keep people out of work); 3) inform us whether routine or elective medical needs can be carried out. Many people died in China and Italy due to a lack of availability hospitals and doctors. Heart attack victims that may have survived with proper treatment died in their apartments. So yes death rates are morbidly fascinating but not entirely useful while in the middle of a pandemic. Plus the lag in statistics from infections to hospitalization to death is too long to help us understand how fast this is spreading. Focusing on the other indicators will help keep the death rate from going up.