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The problem with this is these people will not just infect themselves. They will go to the grocery store, gas station, and where ever else and infect innocent people that are only out because they have to or becasue they work there and have to be there. And yes, they could get infected by someone else. But this garbage is taking a very unnecessary risk. If this only impacted them, then fine do what you want, it's your life to waste. But this impacts others in a way that could literally kill them. Total ignorance.

And just when it looked like we would have something to go see again. When this all gets over with - assuming it does - I will not miss another game. Kind of took watching the games there for granted. Will not do that again. I just hope they survive. If not, I may turn my apartment into a viewing mecca. I can turn my living room into a conference room/sports viewing mecca! 🙂 We can start having all the Skins fan over here.

The point is, the one you purposely want to ignore, is that the presidents uneducated claims have caused a run on drugs not verified to be effective making it more difficult - and in some cases not available for people that need it. There are other short term options for some (but not all) as both lupus and RA present themselves in different ways. But the anti-malarials are key to managing them both long term. So shortages can cause great pain and in some cases worse. And yes, when all you can get is a 1 month supply after not having any for 4+ weeks of pain because they cannot find the medication they need and only when a health professional to call many places, searching all over the place to finally get just a 30 day supply, is in fact a shortage. Additionally, being told there is no promise of any being available in 30 days when you will run is the very definition of a shortage. That is just one story. There are many others. Not to mention others do not have a health professional to call around for them. Not going back and forth with you. The facts are there. You can try to rationalize them away but it will not change the facts.

Not that wildly available. Some with Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis, the illnesses for which the medication is made for, are having difficulty finding it now. This from NPR - it's just one of many recent reports/stories as trump continues to bring it up as a potential cure. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/01/825056946/why-lupus-patients-find-hydroxychloroquine-in-short-supply

This is an interesting map that at least attempts to show what parts of the country are taking the Social Distancing guidance more serious. It's pretty cool as you can drill down to not just the state but also the country. They are using cell phone tracking to compare activity and distance traveled before the orders and now. Not sure how scientific it is. But it's probably within 10 % +/-. Anyway I thought at the very least it may give something to discuss: https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard

Sorry. It clearly went right over my head. Just have seen a bunch this as real that i missed it. Please accept my apologies.

This is a very poor analogy at best. What they are getting is a taste of emergency triage war time style. They are more of a MASH unit than a normal functioning hospital. To say a military boat sent in an emergency is what government run health care would be like is not anywhere close to a reasonable comparison. Trying to connect dots that do not connect.

The problem with this question from your friend is that there are not enough tests to really know. Without tests to verify, there is no real way to know. It's not by accident. What I do know are a dozen or more people that I am friends with or work with or both that were quarantined for 2 weeks because they had symptoms but were not tested because they are only testing those with the most acute symptoms. The reason stated every time was they are "saving" the test for only those with very acute symptoms. Everyone of those people were sick. But we will never know if they had the virus because they were not tested. Still, I just saw the US has still surpassed all other countries with the most confirmed cases of the virus with more than 100,000, despite all the administrations efforts to suppress the real numbers.

Not sure I would call it a jinx. You take the best path for the team. There is a good argument for going both ways. The bigger point is the OP was pre-mature.

Thanks for posting this! One of the funniest things i have seen for a while. The last one was awesome!

I am sure I am preaching go the choir, so this is not meant as a correction to your comment, but instead building on - In fairness, we are capable of doing just that. But when you ignore science and make decisions based on the stock market and your own popularity, it does not allow the medical community and other experts in responding to issues like this the ability to react appropriately.

Here are vthe actual details - https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-healthcare/ Debunks much of what you are saying about his plan. I am not even a Bernie fan. He is about 4th on my list. But I do agree with him on health care. This harping on the cost is a cop-out. It's been explained - people can choose to ignore it and just believe what you want but the money is there - and you can't have this discussion without discussing the GOP budgets becasue part of that money comes from reversing their idiotic tax cuts. No reason to continue. You have already made up your mind. Fair enough. It's your right. Thanks for the discussion. Last thought, ultimately, if we can find enough money to kill people we should be able to find enough money to keep people alive. Maybe stop one to do more of the other.

Really? We had no idea! So basically your claiming "everyone" is sold on Haskins was just a ruse for you to trash him. Please, save us the subterfuge. Just say it and be done with it. As for Jones looking better every game than haskins - that is pure fiction. I watched the games. Jones started better but as th season went on Haskins got better and Jones struggled as defenses figured him out. Same may happen to haskins over the off season. Both will have to prove they can adjust - the difference is Haskins has already shown he can make adjustments and learn from mistakes. I see them in about the same place with a lot to prove. I think Haskins has a higher ceiling but Jones has a better base to draw from. Niether are locks to be the long term solution for their respective teams. As for Tua - I really could care less what the doctors say about his football prognosis. They can make him physically whole but they cannot tell what the injury will do to his ability to play. How many times have you heard they say - he will be 100% back to his previous self. Only for the player to never reach that same level of play. It's just not worth the #2 pick in the draft. Just to big a risk. It's easy to be cavalier when you are not directly responsible - IE fans vs the actual FO. I do like the talk among teams though. Someone could decide they just have to have Tua and offer a kinds ransom. And unlike my friend @Voice_of_Reason I would take the deal if it were big enough. But it's got to be big. Not taking a say a 1st and a 2nd unless it's Detroit and we still get Chase. As for the pass rusher comment - so a bad team makes a bad trade for one of the best players in football and it's his fault? Pass rusher is one of the top 3 positions on the field - QB, LT (although RT is creeping in) and Edge. That's the foundation of your team. You get those 3 pieces and start building from there. Chicago convinced themselves they were done once they got Mack when in fact they should have been just getting started.

Please show me where "everyone here" is sold on Haskins? In fact I would bet money more people are NOT sold on Haskins than are. But what people are sold on it's too early to waste the resources. If you want to trade Haskins and can get another 1st for him - I guess that's away to go. i still think Tua is not a risk you want to take considering the injury. Redskins of all people should be wary of players with injuries. We have lived in injury hell for several years now. So the answer is use the #2 pick in the draft on a guy who severely dislocated his hip?

People getting on the Tua train surprise me. Without injury i get it. But why would Ron, on his very first major draft decision take a risk on a guy who is coming off the kind of injury Tua is? The only reason he is getting hyped right now is people are going through their pre-draft let's elevate QBs way beyond where they should be drafted period. In the end they will convince themselves that 4 QBs need to go in the top 20 - not saying this exactly for this draft. Just making an example. You have no idea what kind of QB Tua is going to be coming off that injury. No doubt that without injury there is a 1,2 battle between Burrow and Tua - and Tua probably would have gone before Burrow - hard to tell. But right now, there is no way the Redskins should even consider a guy with that kind of injury with the #2 pick. Let someone take that chance. Now the Lions are really helping us out but shopping Stafford - if they really are. Lot's of lies and bull**** this time of year from NFL teams. But if they are truly thinking QB at #3, that stokes the bidding war. I would love to have Chase. But if you get a Hershel Walker/RG3 type deal I think you have to consider it. Should be a fun ride - unless they take Tua at #2 and the giants end up with Chase Y. I will lose all my faith in this new regime. Tua at #2 is a Dan Snyder flash move - not a smart football move - which are rarely as sexy but way more valuable long run most of the time.

I agree it's just ab otu as close to a cetainty they take Burrow - honestly it would be a monumentally stupid move for them to do anything else considering their QB situation. They may throw some smoke but they are taking Burrow. But if they do not, it is not to trade down - barring the insane - someone offers 3 to 4 1sts with a few 2nds or some other lunacy. But I prefer to stay in reality not fantasy land.. 🙂 The only reason you don't take Burrow is that you like Young so much better. But even if someone does trade up to 1 for him, then our decision does not change just becasue someone gave up a mother lode to get to #1. We take Chase and say thank you. @Darth Tater If they do that they will be spend a lot - Cinn is not moving out of 1 even just down to 4 for nothing. It will cost a huge pile. And then that leaves us with the #2 pick and a bunch of QB needy teams trying to get our pick. I see this as an awesome option. Let the giants have him as long as they have to give up the best parts their draft the next two years - and that's what it will take.

His dad pretty much shot that down. Doesn't mean Cinn is for certain taking Burrow (the only argument could be that Chase Young is grading out and is considered as one of the best prospects in the last decade - according to most evaluators) where Burrows is the best QB in this draft but is not the best player in the draft or top 10 for the last few years. Honestly i see that as very unlikely but stranger things have happened. More importantly, if they take Young, there is nothing bad that happens for us. There will be at that time a bidding war for the #2 pick for those needing a QB - or it has been suggested we might take Burrow although I would be really disappointing in that - not becasue I am some huge Haskins fan. But becasue it seems a bit hasty and wastes at least one of the two 1st rd picks. Not even gonig to discuss if we take Tua - I would lose all respect for this new FO.

If they take Tua at #2, I will lose 100% of the enthusiasm I have for Ron R. I cannot think of a worse pick for the Redskins #2. I could live with - not like - but live with so many other options - although passing on Chase Young if he is there will make me question their sanity. But JDR has seen enough dominant edge rushers that if he thinks he sees a red flag and they go elsewhere fine. But it needs to be Okudah or Simmon. Not Tua.

I think most consider him more of a RB - but he was a very good pass catcher so good call.

This is jsut not true. He worked his ass off. In the end his game just did not translate. That happens. He could not get enough separation. He was not given chances at 50/50 balls - something he was allowed to do a lot of in college. And he struggled with some of th route combinations - which is where most NFL WRs bust out. But this idea he had no heart was started by Cooley who then immediately retracted it because it's jsut not true. He had a low key personality but his drive on and off the field was strong. He went from walk on cast away to start and 1st rd draft pick. He came back from several injuries and keep fighting to come back. Kirk and he never got on the same page. I will not go any further here - nothing to do with you. It's the Terry McC page and I am contributing to getting it derailed. So I will stop - besides I know I am right... totally kidding, well not totally maybe just mostly? 🙂

You would really have to show me exactly what you mean when you say Thomas college tape shows he was better than Doctson. I liked Thomas a lot. In fact had I not gotten Doctson in the 1st I was taking Thomas in the second or Fuller who I actually had a 2nd rd grade on. Clearly he went much earlier. My point is I watched a lot of both and did not see it. Not saying it's not there - I am clearly no expert. Just another fan. But I did watch a lot of both for the purpose of drafting one of them in our mock draft. I agree to your overall point in theory. But you are talking now after the fact and I am saying what the thoughts were going into the draft. You can say they were over hyped, and now seeing what they did in the NFL, that turns out to be true. But at the time, going into the draft that was not the sentiment. Each yr guys rise that don't pan out. But they rise for a reason. So yes, it's an absolute crap shoot. But someone has to make a decision. This is not directed at you but in general it's really easy to cast judgement on those decisions when you don't have to make them. Just for fun I went back to see where those players went on the Mock draft. Here is how they went: So in our mock only Josh and LaQuon went in the 1st. The rest went in the second rd. Thomas was still the last selected of the 6. That is purely anecdotal I get it. We are just 32 fans playing a make believe game. The stakes are - well nothing but bragging rights. LOL But I can tell you, those guys put in a lot of time looking at tape, researching guys and doing their homework. No one just shows up and starts picking. I will point out that I picked the same position (WR) that Minn picked. In the 2018 draft, I had the Redskins and I selected 3 of exactly the same players (Guice, Settle, DIon-Hamilton) - something no one else has done. Anyway, take that for what it's worth - admittedly probably not much 🙂

I watched many hours of both and I disagree that Thomas looked better. NFL GMs agreed as he was the 6th off the board going 47th to NO. We were doing our mock draft and I had Minnesota who desperately needed a WR. I had Doctson as my top WR and I was no where near alone. Many had Josh going in the top 15 and i got him at 23. I still maintain part of Doctsons problem is that he has not had the right QB that will let him go get those 50/50 balls which was his strength. He has the highest vertical leap and longest wingspan. And in college he came down with everything. He was a walk on turned top prospect. Treadwell I never liked. I thought he was slow and could not get any separation and had no anger to take away contested balls. People liked him becasue of his size and yes his production college his last year. WR was considered that year to be one of the best drafts for WR. A total of 6 WRs went in the first 47 picks. As it turns out all 4 1st rd picks did not produce. But that's in hindsight.

I agree overall. But Doctson and Treadwell were both considered sure thing WRs in the NFL in that same season. Both did not work out. To your point (and mine really) that the later rds can produce some WRs, none of the 4 WRs taken in the 1st rd did a thing. The most successful WRs in that draft so far have been Sterling Shepard and Michael Thomas, both taken in the 2nd rd. I was building off your comment. i was not referencing you when I said people wanting a high draft pick. In fact I did not see you mention it so i did not think I needed to clarify. People are a little touchy this morning... 🙂 Just messing with you...

Thanks for posting this. While I would not turn down another WR for this bunch, I am not sure why people think we need to use a high draft pick for one. I have seen lot's of mocks with us trading down a few spots and taking Jeudy. I personally would hate that. These guys did what they did with no TEs to help, and 3 different QBs throwing them the ball. I could see getting a solid #2 WR in free agency to mentor them and provide depth and let these guys grow together with Haskins or whoever the QB is. We have much more pressing needs to address, especially early in the draft and with what little capitol we have in the draft. ILB, CB, TE, OL are all much bigger needs to me. Now if a huge prospect false to us like Jeudy is still there at 18 after a trade with Miami, OK. But he is not falling that far. Historically WRs in the 1st do not often pan out. And not just because of Doctson. I prefer we go elsewhere unless whoever is there when we pick is clearly the BPA.

Its the NFL draft and we are talking about QBs. Every year teams that need QBs start falling in love with the guy and they raise up the rankings. Someone will fall in love with Tua and decide they need to have him - maybe two teams or more based on potential. Don't be surprised if someone makes a major move.