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[quote]Right, but a mayor can't declare it. Only President can federally or the governor at the state level. I would imagine any declaration from a city mayor would be irrelevant in either case.[/quote] Hopefully we won't have to find out. ...

[quote]Can emergency declarations from a fricking city mayor supercede the rights of citizens? Commandeering private property? [/quote] I honestly don't know, but martial law is pretty serious stuff if it needs to be. ...

I'm going to make so much money shorting stocks in 2030....

[quote]Technically correct, yet somehow I don't believe she did this just so she'd "have the power" and not use it. And how can she openly say frick you to 2A here? [/quote] I'd imagine most emergency declarations have some type of power like this. Basically the ability to enact martial law. ...

[quote]don’t drink so doesn’t effect me, but like why would she do that? So no booze at stores, restraunts etc? [/quote] Pretty sure this declaration just gives her the power to limit those sales. She does havt to actually use it. ...

[quote]guess what dude. if everyone in the world got infected with that death rate = 255 milli people dead. [/quote] [quote]Mr Perfect[/quote] Stay in your lane. ...

[quote]I know I will get some hate for this but the idea that events are being canceled bc of the risk to the athletes is just laughable IMO. It implies that somehow athletes lives are more important than every joes working for a living. [/quote] I could be wrong, but to me it implies playing foo...

[quote]It’s not gonna be that interesting quote: @Ourand_SBJ ESPN Programming plans: ESPN: SportsCenter all day and night ESPNEWS: video simulcasts of radio shows (First Take, Your Take Radio and The Will Cain Show) and taped programming ESPN2: simulcast a combination of ESPN and ESPNEWS[/quote] ...

Somewhere around 50,000 suicides per year. How are we going to measure this? ...

I wonder what they're going to do to fill the main channel, the spinoffs, ESPN3, etc. ...

[quote]They just cancelled The Players Would anyone like to explain how cancelling an open air golf event with no fans makes any sense?[/quote] What the frick are we doing. ...

[quote]no. H1N1 didnt spread globally. also H1N1 already had a vaccine available in 2009 and a fatality rate of 0.01-0.08% compared to coronavirus at over 2%[/quote] People really ought to stop quoting fatality rates without the proper context or the proper understanding of thr metric in the firs...

Alex Jones is pimping coronavirus killing toothpaste. ...

[quote]But what we are doing now is a just a piss poor attempt at anything [/quote] I don't disagree. ...

[quote]They did but if it got out to Italy before that you would think it would get out to the next providence before they blocked the road, right?[/quote] There is a level 4 bio lab in Rome. Makes you wonder. :lol:...

[quote]It’s not a silly point I am proving y’all are all too afraid to simply say you are willing to accept the current death rate of the annual flu. You are willing to accept the current measures we are taking to keep the rate where it’s at[/quote] I have flown the flag of this being overhyp...

[quote]Likely a specialist shooting for grant money.[/quote] Dude was a surgical oncologist who allegedly was advising the NCAA and SXSW. No wonder people are getting screwy advice. ...

[quote]Croc in the short term but the bacteria from the Komodo dragon bite will eventually take down the croc. In the end, both die.[/quote] This. Komodo is basically a lose lose for any animal. ...

[quote]Apples and oranges, one country is able to completely shut down the country the other can't come close to those extreme measures[/quote] If you keep 60+ year olds in their homes and away from visitors, you'll never sniff Chinese deaths. ...

[quote]Another old person dies with underlying health issues Would this person still be alive with no COVID-19?[/quote] There is a measure for that. It's called excess deaths. Will be interesting to see how COVID19 shakes out in that respect. ...