Sticksboi05

You assume anyone will take those contracts on without a fleecing. I'd definitely love to trade Kuznetsov but his value right now is so low.

Kuznetsov is a negative he cannot be on this team next year. He made them worse as soon as he got back into the lineup. The expansion draft is our chance to actually have some room. Leave him and Oshie unprotected.

My worry about Laviolette is he may be stuck in the past. We traded for Mantha because he wanted to play a "heavy" game. Speed wins in today's NHL, not hitting. Now Mantha is a very talented player and a good person to have under team control but our top 6 is way too slow. Oshie, Ovechkin, Mantha, Backstrom are all either slow or average skaters

Whatever it takes.

Eric Feigl-Ding is an alarmist who has used the pandemic to fearmonger people into eventually donating to him personally – the grift was recently revealed. He also has repeatedly misinterpreted basic data and math. His focus is on nutrition.

Perspective from a top virologist. The vaccines are extremely effective at preventing infections - the data says it.

The amount of records that things out of his control, will cheat Ovechkin out of pisses me off. If not for the lockouts, it would be a formality that he'd break Gretzky's record. Now he's going to need to get another couple of 40-50 goal seasons to have a shot. He has 8 50-goal seasons, he should have 10 if not for lockout in 2012-13 and COVID last year. The record is 9.

Almost 3 million doses reported today but in the wrong direction, Skewing more towards second doses. We really need to get more unvaccinated people their first dose. Who is still having trouble convincing certain people?

Big news: Pfizer has applied for full FDA approval. The "it's an experimental vaccine" people are going to be shut up fairly quickly once it's inevitably approved. Moderna is filling later this month.

The vaccination records are going to have to be digital, simple as that.

It's more than good odds. A huge amount of data from public health in 50 states analyzed by CDC shows 1 in 11,000 vaccinated people have been infected anyway, and a smaller portion were symptomatic. More needs to communicated to the public about just how well the mRNA vaccines perform. I have definitely seen some people act absurd, especially with weddings. Making people choose between risk during a pandemic and going to a wedding is ridiculous.

At this point, it's not worth worrying too much - they are putting themselves at risk. Encountering them outdoors, odds are slim to none even if neither person is vaccinated - unless you're having a long conversation face to face, which I suspect you won't lol. Breakthrough cases are at like 1 in 10-11,000 right now, and even if we assume there's been some more asymptomatic breakthroughs unreported, it's still drastically low odds. So if you tell me I have a 99.99% chance of not experiencing symptomatic COVID-19 after vaccination, I'm not worried about unvaccinated people putting me at risk when I go out. My only worry is one day they breed a variant that is actually immune-resistant vs. all the scariants in the headlines that aren't. But until that day comes I will do my best to get as many non-vaccinated people vaccinated as possible.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2021/05/04/us-covid-19-vaccine-tipping-point-could-just-10-15-percent-away/4915586001/ As US nears vaccine tipping point, dramatic decrease in COVID-19 cases could come without herd immunity, some experts say

While these countries are FAR less spread out geographically and that plays a role, Israel and the UK both saw cases slow to a trickle once 60% of the population was two weeks out from the first dose of vaccine. We are getting closer at 44.4% of our total population. Will be interesting to see if that 60% holds up. The first dose is more important to watch than fully vaccinated in terms of cutting spread. Fingers crossed.

Ohhhhhh, I forgot about that tweet lol. Yeah that's probably not smart. He should've just said we're going with the CDCs new guidance.

I don't think anyone called for that though? And certainly nobody said "must be a ticketed venue"? The CDCs guidelines, which we were discussing said they should still be worn outside in big crowds, which we all agreed with. That was not meant to mean only at a baseball game with 30,000 people like in Texas. The Rose Garden event, much like the idiotic Sturgis motorcycle rally was misrepresented as an all outdoor affair in which lots of people got sick. Both events were substantially indoors as well, there was lots of schmoozing inside the White House before and after the actual outdoor ceremony. And Sturgis included thousands of people flooding local bars and restaurants, which is probably where the **** show happened.

My friend is going through a similar situation now where he was worried an unvaccinated person gave it to his kid in daycare. The latest CDC data compiled from across the U.S. shows about 1 in 11,000 fully vaccinated people having a breakthrough cases and even less having to go to the hospital. The vaccines are working remarkably well thankfully.

Outdoor exposure has been a significantly minimal part of this pandemic. We have loads of data showing this. Some studies showing aerosols with SARS COV 2 disperse 3,000 more outside than inside - the impact of free flowing air is powerful. Can you get it outside, absolutely. But has wearing masks outside massively altered the trajectory of the pandemic, not really. People acting a fool inside though certainly has.

Outdoor mask mandates (minus legit packed crowds) should have come down months ago. Let people focus and double down on where the risk truly is, indoors.

Love it. Truly as absurd as the Trade Ovechkin rhetoric before he led the league in goals for the 7th, 8th, and 9th times.

LOL I know it's a serious situation that hopefully will be fixed, but this got me.

The guidance is for unvaccinated people too re: not needed alone outside or with household members. This is months overdue, there was no science ever suggesting we needed to normalize wearing masks outside without anyone near you. There's nothing wrong with it indeed but at some point people are going to have to accept that even vaccinated the risk of getting COVID will never be zero.

Many people haven't. Some are truly still terrified, others uninformed that walking by people for a few seconds is not a risk, others truthfully, to virtue signal. As much as the CDC can make people see, life will get closer to normal if you get vaccinated, the better. But I agree I stopped masking outside just walking down the street a while ago.

More good perspective on vaccination campaign. Don't assume your friends read as much about them as you do. We need to get more information out! https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/27/vaccinations-are-plateauing-dont-blame-it-on-resistance/

This is GREAT news and months overdue frankly. The science has been there for like 9 months that outdoor transmission is extremely low and only in the case of sustained contact. Wearing masks walking down the street past people has done zero to change the trajectory of the pandemic and has probably contributed to pandemic fatigue in some way. It's less annoying to have to put masks on indoors where they make a difference if you could behave normally on the way to the restaurant.