Phew! [DOT 20/11/20]

20/11/20 MegMegMcGee 50

Hey gang, we made it to Friday!

Since you may still be catching up on Wednesday and Thursday‘s DOTs, I’ll keep it short and sweet(?) here.

Zoomsgiving is sounding good to me. And even better, my parents don’t have internet.

This young ER doctor had to tell Covid-19 patients when it was time to say goodbye to their families. Then the virus knocked him down
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/health/er-doctor-david-burkard-coronavirus/index.html

I won’t rehash the Rudy thing from yesterday since no one wants to see that again, but these sore losers are really starting to piss me off.

‘Do The Right Thing’: What A GSA Predecessor Told Trump Appointee About Transitions
https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/11/19/936747641/do-the-right-thing-what-a-gsa-predecessor-told-trump-appointee-about-transitions

More pettiness on the way out…

Trump team to yank emergency economic support, triggering public Fed dissent
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/mnuchin-cutting-coronavirus-aid-economy-438487

This is why we can’t have nice things.

After Virginia faulted a Christian day care for lack of masks, pastor told parents covid was a ‘hoax’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-daycare-coronavirus-shutdown/2020/11/19/a4eb4524-2a85-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

Have a great weekend!

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    • Maybe a sprots-person remembers this:
       
      About six months ago I read about a guy, I think a baseball player, who’s one of the richest pros ever. And I think deferred compensation had something to do with it. I think he had a Spanish name, so maybe originally from Cuba or the Dominican Republic? The deferred compensation was put into a fund or a trust that did spectacularly well and has been throwing off millions of dollars a year. He keeps reinvesting and it keeps growing and growing. He retired a while ago but I couldn’t tell you when, maybe 20 years ago?
       
      I know nothing about sprots, except for tennis, and even then only because The Better Half was a very talented tennis player, got all kinds of tennis scholarships, and was on some junior semi-pro circuit, and I happen to know a few tennis writers. We watch a LOT of tennis in this house. I always say, “It must be 5 o’clock somewhere.” He says, “There’s always an Open going on somewhere that we can watch on the Tennis Channel.” Why I even read the baseball story (if that was the sprot) I don’t know. 
       
      But my point is maybe deferred compensation might work out for the NHL players in the end?

      • Off the top of my head, I can remember arguments about Bobby Bonilla’s deal with the Mets and whether or not he could have made more money in the long run but I don’t know enough about it to comment on it.

        The shitty thing about this NHL CBA amendment is that the deal with the NHLPA was only made  a few months ago and with what they called “worst case scenerio” taken into consideration.

        • I think it was Bobby Bonilla, good for you! And I would have read it because the story might have been splashed across the front page of the “New York Post” which I read voraciously, not the editorial pages, so don’t @me. I got the story wrong, it was a contract buyout with a negotiated payment and a guaranteed annual 8% increase. And I must have read the story because the Mets invested with Bernie Madoff and that must have been the angle that sucked me in. Of course the Mets ownership probably lost almost everything but the contract was ironclad. Not nearly as lucrative as I seemed to remember but $1.9 million a year and increasing until 2035 is pretty good!
           
          https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29388441/bobby-bonilla-day-why-mets-pay-119-million-today-every-july-1

  4. The Johns Hopkins interactive map of Covid-19 cases probably has been mentioned before, but in case you missed it, here is the link. United States only, apologies to international folks. After selecting your state and county, make sure to click on the county image and then on the colorful info-graphic. Mine showed close to 2,600 new cases in the past 14 days, in a county of 538,000 persons. I am grateful for socially distant internet friends! 

    • Because it’s true that all New Yorkers are incredibly self-involved and parochial, here’s an excellent, more granular site that tells you how your zip code (New York has 177, it looks like) is doing right now:
       
      https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
       
      The table tab shows the highest rate of cases/tested first (that’s Breezy Point, in Queens) to the lowest (Battery Park City, which is not surprising, since I think that “neighborhood” is probably pretty much a ghost town now.) 
       
      What did surprise me is how well my zip code and a couple surrounding it are doing (around the lowest 20). Mask compliance is pretty common, but we have a lot of people, the majority, who are especially vulnerable, the elderly, the low income, and the non-white. Maybe we’re taking this especially seriously? 
       
       

      • I was also surprised to see my zip code is light orange rather than screaming red. Similarly, my neighborhood is majority POC and low income. Also, the few times I’ve had to go out in my car for something I see a lot of people not wearing masks.  

    •  We had 2,584 new cases in the last 14 days. But our county population is only 321,959. The county is the city plus some of the horse farms that ring the city. I don’t even want to add up the counties included in our metro area. It would be too damn depressing.

  5. Back in the day I was a hair stylist and we used this temporary hair dye in between color appointments to hide someone’s roots, I’m thinking that is what Giuliani is using. Not a good choice but since when has he ever? What makes me really laugh is how pissed trumpers are that people are talking about it, because they would never ever criticize someone’s appearance.

    • Really? Because I remember all sorts of MAGA memes about Michelle Obama’s appearance, and Stacey Abrams’ appearance, and let’s not forget Barack Obama’s tan suit. 
       
      I wonder what all those people have in common that triggers the MAGAs? It’s a puzzler, to be sure. 

    • Also, because I CAN😉
      I’m sharing the song i had stuck in my head when I woke up this morning, in the hopes that sharing it will get it OUT of my head, and not stuck there for half the day, like happened on Tuesday…


      At least it isn’t this one again….

      ^^^THAT^^^ was the one I woke up singing on Tuesday 😳😖🙃🤣

        • Sorry BBTM, I started a reply this morning, annnnd today got busy!
          Nope, never managed to see that one–unless a movie was playing at my college’s movie night, with the exception of Titanic and The Lion King, I didn’t catch it. The regular movie theater in Fargo was  MILES from campus, and I didn’t have a way to get there.
          Tbh, the only film I think I’ve seen Jon in is his cameo in Young Guns 2😉

    • Looks like ghouls can be added to this list:

      Apparently he was in the tightly packed room from which his dad leaked the hair dye.

  12. I found out yesterday that my one of my favorite teachers died. I haven’t even told my wife yet; she lost her dad in May (Cancer) so she’s emotional about loss and I don’t want to burden her with any more. 
     
    Mr. H is responsible for beginning my ‘awakening’ (not really sure what better term fits; enlightening?) from the heavily religious, conservative environment I grew up in. Without his influence in the “gifted” program I was fortunate to picked for in middle school, I would never had been introduced to the arts, culture, language, logic, or the wider world around the corn fields I called home. He is the reason I adore Into The Woods and Once On This Island. Or that I can even enjoy seeing a musical theater production without thinking, “That’s ***”; which is what the toxic, homophobic environment I left would have me to believe. 
     
    He also introduced us to The Princess Bride. For which I am forever grateful. And Cats. That I am less enthusiastic about. 
     
    We learned logic and problem solving through these interactive Sherlock Holmes mysterys. “The game is a Spleen.”
     
    I absolutely hated middle school. High school was only slightly less horrid. Given the way I was being raised, I was immensely proud that I never swore or used foul language. Once when reading The Crucible in HS, I even changed “God damns all liars.” to “God doesn’t like all liars.” 
     
    Well, as you all are quite aware. I still don’t swear. I ennunciate, like a fucking gentleman. 
     
    Thanks Mr. H. Your impact on my life is significant and you will be sorely missed.

    • …a lot of people are familiar with the expression “those who can, do – those who can’t, teach” but I think I prefer the old fashioned version

      “those who can, do – those who understand, teach”

      …which I think goes back to aristotle?

      …either way, he was the one who said “teaching is the highest form of understanding” unless I’m much mistaken…& I’m firmly of the belief that we never forget a good teacher…pretty sure I haven’t, anyway…so I expect your Mr H will be around for a good while in your recollection & in the minds & memories of many like yourself…& I’m pleased to find I might now be one of them…in my experience anyone who brings the princess bride is a friend I’d be glad to know

    • I’m so sorry. It sounds like he was a wonderful man and you were lucky to have had him in your life. I’m also sorry for the loss of your FIL, and the pain it’s caused your wife.

  13. What would be funnier or more sad?
     
    A) Trump has to be tackled, four-pointed, and wheeled out of the White House on a gurney.
     
    B) Biden moves all White House staff, operations, etc. to his home in Delaware, and the Trumps are left in the White House to fend for themselves, not quite understanding what just happened.

    • I want maximum humiliation. 

      C) trump has to be tackled, muzzled, wheeled out on a dolly like Hannibal Lecter, while Don Jr, his girlfriend The Joker, Jarvanka, and the extra dumb one, are taken into custody for their crimes. All of which is televised and witnessed by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their cabinet. Oh, and Hunter Biden just to add insult to injury.  

  14. That’s a shame. Per WaPo:

    Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said Friday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the second senator to announce positive test results this week.

    Scott said he came into contact with an infected person after returning to Florida on the evening of Nov. 13 and has been quarantining at his home in Naples since.

    He said he took multiple rapid tests that came back negative, but a PCR test he took Tuesday came back positive on Friday morning.

    “I am feeling good and experiencing very mild symptoms,” Scott said in a statement. “I will be working from home in Naples until it is safe for me to return to Washington, D.C.”

  16. I can’t stand this guy, so I don’t like posting this. But I think he nails it.
     


     

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