Bump for WFR in reference to this:

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Doesn't this kind of make it sound like the logic is that NBA games were canceled because they're not as important as schools being open? That's absurd, right?

The importance of open schools had nothing to do with the decision to cancel NBA games. NBA games were canceled, first voluntarily by the league that puts them on, then effectively by government decree, to help stop the spread of the virus among large congregations of people.

Seems like the argument BRick should be making is that keeping schools open is more important than helping to stop the virus spread because....why?

JLN, have a cold beer, blow your load, and Brick won’t be that important to you anymore.

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No.

It was a response to WFR asking why schools are still open but other events of 250 people or more are not allowed. You are acting like I just made it up out of nowhere.

I already explained why schools are more vital than other gatherings of large groups of people and therefore the decision was harder and happened later.

I have never said that schools must stay open. I simply pointed out that the cost associated with closing schools is far greater so it isn't a shock that the decision to close schools came later than other events that were more easily cancelled. Then it became "WORKERS RECEIVE PAYMENT WHICH THEY THEN USE TO BUY LUNCH FOR THEIR KIDS!".

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Except again you're falling back to comparing the apparent "need" for one large gathering of people over another, without explaining why that one large gathering is so important that allowing the virus to spread among its ranks is acceptable. This doesn't necessitate a comparison to the importance of NBA games, can you tell us why schools are so important that keeping them open supersedes efforts to stop the spread of the virus?

I believe shutting down the schools was the right decision. My post was about why schools had not yet all been cancelled but plenty of other large gatherings of people had already been cancelled. The process of what to cancel happened over a period of time. It's like asking why the Big Ten Tournament was cancelled but high schools remained open. One was an easier decision than the other.

So, you are asking a question that there is no reason to answer.

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One thing we have declared for certain: getting loaded on Bourbon Street is more important than both the NBA and schools.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

If you ever run for office, this should be your campaign slogan

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Whiskey kills everything. Time to put the merlot away until we figure this out.

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GO BEARS!!!

Bump for WFR.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Mayor just dropped the hammer on bars. No more than half a capacity and max of 100 patrons allowed.

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Any limits on Cuervo?

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Good luck enforcing that.

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I can think of one strip of bars it will be enforced today.

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Restaurant and bar ban effective Monday evening. NOW it's illegal.

Hope you all complained enough about other encroachment on civil liberties.

Bar ban yes; pickup/delivery still open for restaurants.

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Most bars and restaurants operate on a knife edge of profitability. This will absolutely drive places out of business.

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I’m hoping Sam will check in with real world thoughts on this.

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“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

It's okay though because PANIC.

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I'm guessing this was not legal.

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It's like 3-5% of every dollar on food or something. Most places need that bar rev. It's like 20-30% of profit I think.

You must have the bar revenue

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He mentioned in the chat his business will be affected but not as much as bars and non carry out places.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I thought about this shutdown some more. It may be the correct thing to do. The real problem I have with it is the arbitrary way it has been done and even more than that, the language used by Pritzker.



When did he try to persuade anyone? He's issuing mandates like a king. There was no real public appeal. He offered rough guidelines to constituents and when they said "fuck you" he got angry like the rich brat he is and threw a temper tantrum. Guys like Pritzker aren't used to not getting their way and they don't like it.

Of course, now other governors are able to issue proclamations of their own. In fact, if they don't, they stand to look bad if this thing really does spread like wildfire.

Again. maybe this is the right thing to do. But I guarantee that Pritzker has not really examined it and weighed the odds, measured the risk/reward. If thousands of people start getting sick anyway, then he's just destroyed a bunch of people economically on top of the health crisis. He doesn't know. He gave some basic guidelines based upon what he was hearing and when The People chose not to follow them he threw a fit.

I don't want Donald Trump to be a dictator. And I don't want JB Pritzker to be one either.

Oh and by the way, people are shoulder to shoulder at O'Hare, in grocery stores, and tomorrow 80 years olds will be sitting in polling places all day while half the population of Chicago tramps through.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

If you are trying to stop a pandemic from spreading then you can't say well this large gathering is really "important" otherwise canceling other large gatherings is meaningless. Now shut the fuck up.

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It was the correct decision to ultimately cancel schools too. I was explaining why both choices didn't happen at the same time. As I said, it was about the "importance" of the events being cancelled which was clearly something you didn't get.

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You mean besides the limit on quality?

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- Henry George

I did it just last week. I know it is cliche but I really do enjoy Hurricanes and Pat O'Briens garden area is a completely pleasant place to have a drink when it isn't crowded. I did see a rat running on top of the wall, which was offputting.

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And men have lost their reason.

I think it's safe to say that Dennis is responsible for this. His reckless bar crawl on Saturday led to this.

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GO BEARS!!!