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I just grabbed that off my Google maps screen. Looks that way.

I've always said that the impact to hospitals has to be the key metric. Things are getting better in Michigan but still far form "normal". We never got as bad as they were in 2020 or early 2021. "Full" meant different things back then. But until surgeries are not delayed and people laying in beds in the hallway then it's bad.

an analogy I saw was weather related. Delta was like a Tornado. Omicron a hurricane. A tornado is not as massive as a hurricane but very bad where it hits. A hurricane will most of the time hit a large area and cause minor disruptions for most and tough damage for some. For most people they'd say they'd rather have a hurricane hit them than a Tornado because it's not as bad... for them.

We're down to mid November numbers. Down almost 50% in our 7 day average in a week.

I get gas at the same station every time so that's not a worry, it's right around the corner from my house. Their prices are always as low as possible. Run by a great family and they make their money on the inside of he building anyway.

am I unique in that I don't even notice what the gas price is? I just go and fill up. It'll be what it'll be. I know I'm fortunate to not have such a tight budget but without the news stories about rising prices I wouldn't know if it's up or down. I just go get gas when I need it. Money comes out. I have what I have.

have leaders and those politicians ever said that you can NEVER remove your mask? Taking your mask for a few seconds for a photo isn't a big deal. Manufactured outrage.

others might be more likely to go if they knew everyone around them was vaccinated. They also might have a more stable employee base knowing the customers were vaccinated. I went to 4 concerts since Thanksgiving that all required proof of vaccination before being let in. I would not have gone without that requirement. Every restaurant we went by in Chicago on Friday and Saturday night last weekend was full and had a waiting list.

Vaccines do slow the spread. It doesn’t prevent everyone from getting it and spreading it but over time a mix of 1,000 vaccinated people will spread less virus than a mix of 1,000 vaxxed and unvaxxed. Even if it’s marginal, the act of requiring masks and vaccines is a small thing to ask. If people don’t want to do their part then don’t participate in society. To live in your hole. Going to a restaurant is not needed to survive. I’m not sure where the idea that you are just as likely to get infected and spread it whether vaxxed or not came from but it’s not true.

The idea isn’t to necessarily be terrible. Just cheap. Then just use the excuse of trying to “build”. At the end of the day baseball is a monopoly. Winning games and making the playoffs is an artificial metric in terms of running a business. Success is whatever the individual owner decides it is. Yes they want to win and that may be their primary goal but they have parameters they will work in to achieve that. Their competition isn’t each other. They are all partners. Their competition is other forms of entertainment from April to October.

When Princess Di died Fox ran a special about her. At the end of the program they played the Green Day song with lyrics “I hope you had the time of your life”. Sappy. But the title of the song is “good riddance”. Maybe Fox was saying something.

Not yet. I am hoping to be able to dig in there tomorrow since it’s too cold to do anything else.

I was at that stop on Saturday morning. We had some time to kill after breakfast so we hopped on to go walk a lap around wrigley. I had never been there. Nice area.

No you are not. Seriously. Wearing a mask is the easiest thing to do. They are not useless. Some are more effective than others but still not useless. That’s like saying seat belts are useless because someone still died wearing one.

I was in Chicago last weekend and you needed a mask everywhere and had to show a vaccine card to go anywhere that had dine in seating and you were staying to eat.

Yeah are basically at pre omicron levels in our state but at that time we were among the highest in the nation. Still good news. It’s fallen faster than I imagined it would. Numbers came out early today. Wonder if they were so low because of a reporting issue and on Monday it’ll be a bit higher.

because he talks fast. that's the trick.

Is that a security person putting his hands on her and giving her shit for exercising her free speech? That should be investigated.

is that real? I thoguht it might have been a deep fake.

that thread is fantastic and contains other great things. Stephen Moore... LOL

I didn't listen to the interview but in a weird way isn't he calling out Fox? They're the ones who constantly talk about her. How many middle aged heavy set women work at Fox as TV personalities?

Me too. You'd have to study the records and come up with an idea on which teams were 'competitive', where's the cutoff point? Over .500? 75 wins? Then you put those teams into a lottery. Even if it's just 5 teams. You could do the lottery for picks 1-3. then after that business as usual.

If we do reach a level of "normal" I wonder if vax rates will be a factor in drawing health care workers. Will they look at covid cases in a particular area?

that's how I read it. Until then I can view it as the Truck is also trying to pass someone but not doing it as fast as the car wants but the moment the car can get in front, even if they are being a jerk about it, then the response is to brake, not speed up. That tells me speed is not your concern.