If he can get away with it, I'm sure Trump would have no problem regulating Cali's money by not sending them any.
Somebody needs to offer up the BOK center to the Lakers.
Florida is quietly behind the scenes doing exactly things like this, mainly with NFL teams.
Totally interesting how the majority of the funds paid to the federal government come from Cali and NY.
Still makes sense that they would turn to the feds, who they fund, for help when they are in trouble
Maybe cali could cut their expenses and only fund esentials. Like we the people do.
Disband prisons & eliminate all juvenile prisons, of course!
Homelessness is a huge issue in CA. I was in Oakland last October and it was horrible. Oakland is just an awful place to visit. Much of the problem is the over-inflated cost of living in CA. It's just absolutely ridiculous. Gas, food, rent....all way too high and probably artificially so.
I think Newsom is taking a very conservative approach to reopening, especially considering the number of lung issues in CA because of the dirty air and the density of people. Texas and their grand reopening party has experienced 2000 new cases in the last week. OK had 150 the other day, one of the single highest totals for a single day. And people are just plain stupid and irresponsible. Put a damn mask on when you're inside places where other people are and there's the chance for close proximity contact. I went to Target yesterday because we needed some essentials...maybe 5 people in the store outside of Target employees had a mask on. At least Costco required the mask (Costco, IMO, has dealt with this very well. They hand masks out at the door, they are pretty respectful, they help people with the check-out lines and keeping distance...hell they even opened a new register when the lines got super long).
I don't believe testing and reporting in Florida is reliable enough to make any kind of assessment as to whether things are positive in Florida. They just had 33,000 tests in Florida deemed as unreliable. And the way they are reporting deaths is not accurate.1). Agree...people in large part aren’t smart and their actions reflect the same
2). Looking at an individual day testing results provides no insight into the pandemic situation especially in Oklahoma where test reporting numbers are inconsistent from day to day. New hospitalizations over the last seven days totaled 54. This is the smallest number since the outbreak began and as I’ve said many times is the most consistent measure of infection spread comparison as it eliminates the metric of increased testing which of course yields more positive results. To date our phased opening has been a success. Openings in Georgia and Florida look to be positive as well. I don’t know anything about the metrics in Texas.
Good luck w tryouts today
I've always thought the numbers they're using are just wrong because you have nothing to compare relatively. I've been a strong proponent of % of positive tests/day. This way if you test 100 or 300 you have a pretty good idea as to whether or not things are flattening or falling....of course your governor suspends all testing or decides tests not done in a state health dept. facility are not worth tracking (as in Florida). The hospital number is only valid if you'r trying to make sure the system doesn't get overwhelmed...it doesn't really work if you're trying to reduce the number of cases...unless we're treating this like our parents treated the chicken pox where they'd send you over to play with your sick friend just so you'd get it and they could be done with it and achieve the herd immunity. Problem is there is no strong evidence, for or against, that COVID is that type of virus or that herd immunity is possible for those that have had the virus.
Great analysis, I tend to believe Oklahoma is doing better than you believe Oklahoma is but either way, you’re correct. Also, it’s clear at this point that it is only 1-3, maybe 5 strains at most that we need to worry about as being much more severe/deadly than the other strains of the virus.1). Agree...people in large part aren’t smart and their actions reflect the same
2). Looking at an individual day testing results provides no insight into the pandemic situation especially in Oklahoma where test reporting numbers are inconsistent from day to day. New hospitalizations over the last seven days totaled 54. This is the smallest number since the outbreak began and as I’ve said many times is the most consistent measure of infection spread comparison as it eliminates the metric of increased testing which of course yields more positive results. To date our phased opening has been a success. Openings in Georgia and Florida look to be positive as well. I don’t know anything about the metrics in Texas.
Good luck w tryouts today
One problem with paying attention to that metric alone, is that it could be slow to show the effects. If there are greater #'s of asymptomatic people who are unnaffected, because those that are vulnerable are still protecting themselves despite the opening, then it will take more time for those who are asyptomatic to eventually infect the vulnerable. The vulnerable will come into contact with asymptomatic people it will just take a little longer.
Of course, that's the conundrum. It's why staying closed helps limit the virus. It just stops the world from functioning and continuing to feed, cloth, and shelter itself. It brings forth the need to automate ourselves to the hilt, and have a basic income, way ahead of having the capablity to do that.
If you believe Fauci there’s going to be a second wave anyway, so we might as well get it over with sooner than later. I’m not even going to get into the grammatical errors.
Dude, by the way - Bill & Melinda Gates are coming to the rescue! I thought you knew this. They may not be doctors but they certainly identify as doctors! That’s even better! They’re going to create a vaccine! It’s going to save you, that vaccine!
Lol he doesn’t mention that they have plenty of those. Of course, maybe he’s in California or wherever they run hospitals into the ground - I know of a couple here in Tulsa that have done that in the past - hell, one here that still is. He wants to talk about $$ per flight, well, they get ~$38,000 from the government per coronavirus death, a guaranteed ~$13,000-$15,000 per corona patient. If that’s not incentive to mislabel patients / even let them die, idk what is. Those jets would’ve been flying somewhere else anyway but instead they chose to honor y’all on the front lines of this silent war & make no mistake it’s important bc we are at war!
That’s the first question I had. If he’s in California I can understand. Washington state, New York, ok he has a point but those jets would’ve been flying anyway is my point. It’s not his fault nor the government’s fault (well, maybe previous administrations OBAMA COUGH) that his hospital was ill-prepared. The money spent on those flights does not touch what the military spends each day & they’re already using military funds for his & damned near every other hospital located in a densely/highly populated metropolitan statistical area.
