OT: Coronavirus
Wow....
I’ve flown in and out of Denver Airport roughly 50 times. I’ve never seen it empty like this.
Yeah, DIA is never that empty. My goodness, this thing has really gotten ahold of people. But I suspect that it's going to make a far bigger dent in the global economy than the global population.
What changes have you made? Personally, I have tickets to fly to San Francisco with my kids to see my brother in a couple of weeks. And, so far anyway, I plan to go. But I have to say I'm a little nervous about it, especially with my kids. Not as much about the virus as how people are panicking about it. A flight yesterday was rerouted to Denver because someone, um...sneezed. And I am narrowing in on some ridiculously priced tickets to Cancun in May. Am I crazy?
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." - Tom Waits
Too much too soon and the fear of all or nothing in being proactive. Just sat in on quarterly meetings, and many interesting comments on supply chain management "lessons", this is going to be brutal short term, but the long term growth "could" be very good if we are agile.
So i am running out of DVRd television to watch and really am doing my best to avoid the news and shit, so I remember hearing years ago that somebody like the show House, so we started that this week. The episode we watched last night had him doing a mini rant on the excessive use of antibiotics, and antibacterial products, in the medical community and in our personal lives and it leading to super bugs that are resistant to conventional antibiotic treatments, with the rampant use of antibacterial and sanitizers, more now than ever before in the history of man, to try and control the spread of covid...are we opening ourselves up to an even greater threat in a year or so? Are we potentially creating an even more lethal version of covid that wont be slowed by our home/personal sanitizing products?
@"purplefaithful" said:@"JimmyinSD" said: just heard that Minny is going all masks outside of private residences starting saturday. I made that call a week ago...Yay me.WI considering it too.
dont you hate being right sometimes?
New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones.
Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game.
"If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.
But, so far, networks have been selling advertising space at an even faster ratethan usual. Fox Sports has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory for the regular season, while a Disney (DIS) ad sales spokesperson previously told CNN that ESPN "sold out of inventory for the opening week and the rest of the regular season."
@"purplefaithful" said:I thought they might, and should, do this. Curious to see what this looks like, but with technology the way it is, I wonder if we'll notice much of a difference.New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones. Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game. "If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.The regular season will have its own challenges. The league announced that each team will play only 60 games this season, compared to the standard 162. Fewer players and personnel will be allowed in dugouts to maintain social distancing. But, so far, networks have been selling advertising space at an even faster ratethan usual. Fox Sports has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory for the regular season, while a Disney (DIS) ad sales spokesperson previously told CNN that ESPN "sold out of inventory for the opening week and the rest of the regular season."This screen grab from FOX Sports depicts virtual fans that will fill the stands for MLB games
@"MaroonBells" said:I suspect if this works (i.e. advertising revenue and fans behind their tv's reactions) it will be brought to NFL too. Maybe college ball as well.@"purplefaithful" said:New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones. Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game. "If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.I thought they might, and should, do this. Curious to see what this looks like, but with technology the way it is, I wonder if we'll notice much of a difference.The regular season will have its own challenges. The league announced that each team will play only 60 games this season, compared to the standard 162. Fewer players and personnel will be allowed in dugouts to maintain social distancing. But, so far, networks have been selling advertising space at an even faster ratethan usual. Fox Sports has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory for the regular season, while a Disney (DIS) ad sales spokesperson previously told CNN that ESPN "sold out of inventory for the opening week and the rest of the regular season."This screen grab from FOX Sports depicts virtual fans that will fill the stands for MLB gamesWhat a world...
is it going to be safer in NY City than in Missouri? of course it will. :p
I think this plan is potentially the best I have heard as long as its done smartly to keep the younger kids in groups with the same supervision, (the pod theory). it wont really work for more advanced learning like you will see JR and HS where kids are breaking out and taking different levels of learning in all the different areas of study, but those kids dont need day care if they arent in school. I think I would look at going to 4 day school with kids in class rooms only 2 days a week (make Wednesdays and Saturdays cleaning days between groups), splitting all the class sizes but having the home kids using distance learning on their days out of the classroom. they should be able to improve social distancing this way in many locations and the more populated schools can look to add some teachers and classrooms out of non used facilities like gymnasiums and such. temporary divider walls could be cheap and easy to assemble to create smaller rooms out of the larger rooms to increase classrooms.
@"MaroonBells" said:Sounds like a great idea---imagine purchasing the avatar rights to a particular virtual fan with real time uploadable capabilities. Maroonbells Virtual fan could be jumping up and down screaming cursing etc. while wearing a major brewery Tshirt making coin as joe fan for the regular man.@"purplefaithful" said:New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones. Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game. "If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.I thought they might, and should, do this. Curious to see what this looks like, but with technology the way it is, I wonder if we'll notice much of a difference.The regular season will have its own challenges. The league announced that each team will play only 60 games this season, compared to the standard 162. Fewer players and personnel will be allowed in dugouts to maintain social distancing. But, so far, networks have been selling advertising space at an even faster ratethan usual. Fox Sports has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory for the regular season, while a Disney (DIS) ad sales spokesperson previously told CNN that ESPN "sold out of inventory for the opening week and the rest of the regular season."This screen grab from FOX Sports depicts virtual fans that will fill the stands for MLB games
@"Akvike" said:Oh damn...you're either on something or onto something. B)@"MaroonBells" said:Sounds like a great idea---imagine purchasing the avatar rights to a particular virtual fan with real time uploadable capabilities. Maroonbells Virtual fan could be jumping up and down screaming cursing etc. while wearing a major brewery Tshirt making coin as joe fan for the regular man.@"purplefaithful" said:New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones. Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game. "If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.I thought they might, and should, do this. Curious to see what this looks like, but with technology the way it is, I wonder if we'll notice much of a difference.The regular season will have its own challenges. The league announced that each team will play only 60 games this season, compared to the standard 162. Fewer players and personnel will be allowed in dugouts to maintain social distancing. But, so far, networks have been selling advertising space at an even faster ratethan usual. Fox Sports has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory for the regular season, while a Disney (DIS) ad sales spokesperson previously told CNN that ESPN "sold out of inventory for the opening week and the rest of the regular season."This screen grab from FOX Sports depicts virtual fans that will fill the stands for MLB games
Can you imagine being able to manipulate your avatar in the stands---but now that you mention it I am on so decent pain meds for a blocked vein
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New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones.
Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game.
"If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.
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This be MB's avatar in the stands....Sporting the MAGA hat & Donald Pump Tank.
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New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones.
Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game.
"If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.
The guy in the blue t-shirt and flannel top looks like he's been getting away with murders in the area for the last 10 years and police don't have a clue.Liked:![]()
DEJoined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0Joined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0Fauci says he has been assigned personal security after receiving 'serious threats' to his familyDr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert on the White House coronavirus task force, says he and his family have been assigned personal security after receiving "serious threats." Speaking on CNN's "The Axe Files" podcast, Fauci said the threats were of a different magnitude from those he received while working on the federal government's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s. "I've seen a side of society that I guess is understandable, but it's a little bit disturbing," he said. "Back in the days of HIV when I was being criticized with some hate mail, it was, you know, people calling me a gay-lover and 'what the hell are you wasting a lot of time on that?'" "I mean, things that you would just push aside as stupid people saying stupid things," Fauci said. But the criticism this year is "really a magnitude different now, because of the anger," he said. "As much as people inappropriately, I think, make me somewhat of a hero — and I'm not a hero, I'm just doing my job — there are people who get really angry at thinking I'm interfering with their life because I'm pushing a public-health agenda," he continued. He said he received "not only hate mail but also serious threats — it's not good. I don't see how society does that. It's tough. Serious threats against me, against my family … my daughters, my wife — I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?" https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-given-personal-security-after-threats-family-2020-7Liked:![]()
DEJoined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0Joined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0@"MaroonBells" said:Fauci says he has been assigned personal security after receiving 'serious threats' to his familyDr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert on the White House coronavirus task force, says he and his family have been assigned personal security after receiving "serious threats." Speaking on CNN's "The Axe Files" podcast, Fauci said the threats were of a different magnitude from those he received while working on the federal government's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s. "I've seen a side of society that I guess is understandable, but it's a little bit disturbing," he said. "Back in the days of HIV when I was being criticized with some hate mail, it was, you know, people calling me a gay-lover and 'what the hell are you wasting a lot of time on that?'" "I mean, things that you would just push aside as stupid people saying stupid things," Fauci said. But the criticism this year is "really a magnitude different now, because of the anger," he said. "As much as people inappropriately, I think, make me somewhat of a hero — and I'm not a hero, I'm just doing my job — there are people who get really angry at thinking I'm interfering with their life because I'm pushing a public-health agenda," he continued. He said he received "not only hate mail but also serious threats — it's not good. I don't see how society does that. It's tough. Serious threats against me, against my family … my daughters, my wife — I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?" https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-given-personal-security-after-threats-family-2020-7Not really what I ever thought would be a "Great Society", I guess I am just naive. Whats the opposite of the Midas Touch.
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New York (CNN Business) — Fans will be in the stands for this Major League Baseball season, after all — just not real ones.
Fox (FOX) Sports will debut "virtual fans" in its live MLB broadcasts during the shortened 2020 season, the network announced Thursday. Baseball kicks off Thursday night as the Washington Nationals take on the New York Yankees on ESPN. But Fox will air dozens of games this season, and they'll replace empty seats and quiet stadiums with CGI fans and fake crowd noise.The move is the latest effort to bring back fans — and advertisers — to baseball during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the league announced that spectators would not be allowed to attend games in person.These fans, developed by Silver Spoon Animation, will look and move like real people, and can be customized for each game.
"If it's an 8-1 game, the crowd can be thinned out," Brad Zager, executive producer and executive vice-president for Fox Sports, told Variety in an interview.Empty baseball stadiums have given the preseason an eerie quality. Some stadiums are pumping in crowd noise, while others have cardboard cutouts of fans.
The guy in the blue t-shirt and flannel top looks like he's been getting away with murders in the area for the last 10 years and police don't have a clue.
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DEJoined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0Joined Apr 2026206,512 postsRep: 0Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien has coronavirusNational Security Adviser Robert O'Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so far.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so far.
That's according to two people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss it by name.
The White House confirmed that O'Brien has mild symptoms and “has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site,” adding that: “There is no risk of exposure to the President or the Vice President" and that the "work of the National Security Council continues uninterrupted.”
The news was first reported by Bloomberg News, which said O’Brien came down with the virus after a family event.
A personal valet to the president and the vice president's press secretary previously tested positive for the virus, which has now infected more than 4 million people nationwide.
Senior White House staff and anyone who comes into close contact with the president and vice president are tested for the virus every day.Liked:![]()
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(CNN) — Google (GOOG) will let employees work from home until at least July 2021, a company spokesperson said on Monday.
The company had previously said most employees would be working remotely through the end of 2020, with some employees being allowed back into the office sooner. But the decision to extend the remote work policy well into next year indicates that one of the world's largest tech companies is bracing for a long pandemic — and could prompt other businesses to follow suit. In a memo to employees, a copy of which was obtained by CNN Business, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company has reopened 42 offices around the world."To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we'll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don't need to be in the office," Pichai wrote. "I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved ones over the next 12 months."
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