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Yes, it is. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in Hell that we play either football or basketball next year. The reason is that there will probably be a resurgence in COVID-19 when we let down on present measures, even a little bit. Without a vaccine widely applied - but what about the...

I'm glad this worked out for Lucas. I think if he had been healthy when TaQuon got hurt against USF, he would have come in and never looked back. He always had the talent, but, as Techster says, his luck with injuries was very bad indeed. We lost two potentially very good QBs to untimely...

What's lurking under the surface … Talked to a friend last night with many former students in the nursing profession in a region of this state. One of them called him. What she said was that there was an entire floor at her hospital full of patients who sure do look like they have COVID-19...

Alabama is overseas.

Very useful post. But you left out laughing. That can spread virus as effectively as coughing.

And the bonanza continues! I've talked here about the experience of WW2 and the control of production by the government in a crisis. But I was talking in general and reasoning from the results. Here's a paper explaining how the government actually did it...

A bonanza of relevant posts today. First, how to handle purchases of stuff and, especially, food at home. From Dr. Jeff VanWingen: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/25/1931140/-Watch-a-doctor-demonstrate-how-to-safely-bring-groceries-home-during-the-coronavirus-crisis?detail=emaildkbow...

That's too easy and makes too much sense.

I know there isn't any advertising at the Swarm. But I don't know how the site is financed. What I do know is that I want to keep it up and running. Soooooo … Mods, if there are financial problems down the road, let us (I'm assuming that most everybody would be on board for this) know and we'll...

Here's another of Aaron Carroll's Q&A sessions: https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/more-covid-19-questions-answers/ He's covering a lot of common questions here. Very useful.

To back up Red, here's an explanation of what the virus is and why it almost certainly isn't the result of some kind of experiment with germ warfare. See: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/28/where-did-sars-cov-2-come-from/ Ok, this is P. Z. Meyers and he's normally pretty...

Andddddd … that's why Bob was taken down. Go to your tv and turn on a sports channel. What do you see? Endless re-runs of old games. Why would anyone watch tv - and more and more people don't - when there are re-runs of the same games on Youtube? Answer = they won't. And what happens to the...

Here's a useful short video about testing and why we can find ourselves with a lot of tests ready and still have a hard time with a) delivery and b) analysis. See: https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/why-the-u-s-cant-process-coronavirus-tests-as-fast-as-south-korea/?cid=referral_taboola_feed So...

Yes. I don't think there is any way we'll have a vaccine widely distributed enough to have a football season in the summer of 2021. Soooooo … why bother? Write the year off and get back to regular concerns when we get most everybody vaccinated. Until we do - and that'll probably be in spring of...

Some of you may have heard of Richard Epstein's recent essays on COVID-19 and death predictions. The responses to them has already pretty much zero'd out Epstein's creds as a commentator, but here's the ultimate critique...

It's the old Harvard Med School story. A famous surgeon is addressing a class of aspiring surgeons. He describes a new technique that he says is working to help his previously terminal patients. A student in the back asks, "What were your controls?" The surgeon responds, glowering, "Do you...

Yes, it is. This disease is bad, but it isn't pneumatic plague. We have to be sure we don't do more damage with a vaccine then good - and that very well could happen if we aren't careful. However, we probably will start using the vaccine after Phase 3 trials and then look at how effective it...

There's been a lot of ink here about the new stimulus bill. Here's an excellent summary: http://www.crfb.org/blogs/whats-2-trillion-coronavirus-relief-package

That might do it. This thing is probably going to be like the flu, a seasonal virus. Any spare capacity will be useful.

Well … until the virus roars back in the fall, that is. See: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/how-we-beat-coronavirus/608389/ If we are smart about this - and we had better hope we are - then the fall resurgence won't catch us with our pants down and we'll be able to ramp...