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There is a thing called stagflation... Anyways, in the interview Krugman says we got a "$20-trillion-a-year economy," "20, 25% of the economy is going to be shut down for an extended period," the "[disaster relief bill] might end up being $4 trillion or $5 trillion" instead of the "$2...

Speaking of health, how would the means to feed and shelter work, i.e. the relief. The recent (3?) stimulus bills recently cost ($2+?) trillion and various earmarked funds are already depleted (within a month?). There's also arguably existing gaps of the population in need that are not covered...

So then, presumably, there will be a continuous switch between inside and outside controllable limits, open and close, no relief and relief, across "regions" (state? county? zip code?) indefinitely until a vaccine is developed (I'd imagine getting "natural" herd immunity via this method would...

A quick look at the federal guidelines listed at https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/#criteria and Georgia: 1) Downward trajectory of reported cases for covid/influenza-like symptoms within a 14 day period. ... I don't even know if there exists consistent record keeping of cases just...

Well, the scenario I painted also addresses the opening up prematurely part as well. Assuming you have the testing capability that I outlined (which is extremely unrealistic, but let's say you do), what outcome do you expect by opening up?

Also, what's the location for the last chart? Has to be smaller than the U.S., because the numbers from the first chart significantly surpass the numbers from the last chart.

Just out of curiosity, did the source explain why they didn't just map the other causes of deaths for the same time frame as Covid, i.e. 2020 instead of 2017 and one from 2018?

What's the funding source for the athletic scholarships in the past? From the athletic departments? If no games are played, there's no revenue for the athletic department, right? For the public schools, what's the legalities for how much the athletic department can go into debt for those...

I don't see how testing is simple. How long does it take for a test result to come out? What accuracy? Is a test easy enough that anybody can apply and analyze the result? Let's say magically we had enough tests to give every person in the U.S. 100 tests each, that the test application/results...

Just to be clear, what amount of relief and for how long? For context, U.S. GDP for 2019 was $21+ trillion. Not to mention a significant portion of the relief combined with the shelter orders is essentially the government paying people not to contribute to the GDP, which makes it several...

Too many replies to quote, but regarding new GA opening conditions, you can always go to georgia.gov. There's a big button in the middle of the page that says "GEORGIA'S COVID-19 RESPONSE". Clicking that, one of the links in the highlight box is "Statewide Shelter In Place Order". Clicking that...

Realities of U.S. is that its citizens are not self-sufficient to survive being separated by any potential carriers by the vicinity and duration that the virus can subsist, and that the government cannot force such. You're presenting a lot of hypotheticals as vague certainties. What makes...

I don't know how anyone can predict when the economy would be able to "reopen", but if the economy was the only concern, I'd wager having zero additional regulation would have "reopened" the economy the fastest. High testing and quarantines don't work given the realities of U.S. structure, the...

Skimming through the recent pages of this thread, there's a lot of conclusions being drawn from data sample sets that are either almost certainly not representative of the target population in the conclusion or it's sampled in a way that would give no confidence to the conclusion; or both. Also...

I'm not sure I'm following. If you had figures on the entire population of interest, there would be nothing to extrapolate?

Random sampling reduces sampling bias. It is statistically impossible for random sampling to be more misleading than nonrandom sampling. If your data set isn't random by some deliberate measure, just add that qualifier to your conclusion. Any data does not have to be better than none; it can...

FYI: before extrapolating statistics from a data set to draw conclusions about a population, make sure the data set is randomly sampled and representative of the population. There's a heap of other complications that follows afterwards, but no point in exploring after failing step 1.

Just wanted to point out that one of our 3 wins last season was arguably because we didn't have the worst kicker in the country...

Speaking of Friedgen, I recall some trivia that he was fired at UMD despite coaching some of their best football for a long time and after winning ACC coach of the year. Afterwards, UMD football has been in the dump both on and off the field.

With the number of prospective students getting deferred and/or rejected with mixtures of 10+ APs, 4+ WGPAs, 1400+ SATs, multiple extracurricular activities, leadership positions, etc., I'd say "bad thing" and "just how collegiate sports work" are not exclusive. Without sports, that % would be...