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I always assumed that the soldier was an aggy with a perversion and that was his comfort donkey. Learn something new everyday I guess.

Not so fast.

In South Korea school is being delayed again until Mid-April. When it starts it will be online for the foreseeable future. My employer added another requirement besides masks. Now we have to get our temperatures taken twice a day. If your temperature is over 37.5 degrees C (99.5 degrees F), you have to go home and get tested before you are able to return to work, if the test is negative.

I shudder to think about what those poor bats are being exposed to at Kyle Field.

My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly. The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale. Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks. I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that. Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..

The governors know they will get no help if they call out Trump and only get help by praising him. Trump will use those soundbites of Democratic governors in campaign adds in the fall to try convince the idiots, I mean American public, he did a great job addressing the COVID-19 virus.

It is so weird reading about all the panic buying going on in the USA, but it is not surprising considering the average American. Here in South Korea, stores look the same as they ever did. No hoarding. People just buying what they need to get them through the week. Then again the government here jumped on things quickly and South Koreans almost universally followed precautions to limit the spread of the virus (social distancing, masks, hand washing, etc), plus have universal health care. If it were not for one lady, breaking quarantine to attend multiple religious services, attended by thousands, the number of cases here would have been much lower. Too bad America is full of people like that lady. The school year start (school year starts at the beginning of March here) was just pushed back another 2 weeks as well.

In the South Korean news they are reporting that a couple hundred North Korean soldiers have died and they have over 5000 cases in just their military alone. North Korea is still denying they have had any cases. I imagine the civilian population is going to suffer extremely as the military gets everything there while the civilians get the left overs. During the famines that killed millions the military got all the food. I am betting they are getting most of the health care as well.

The USA is going to get hit hard almost for certain. When I left S. Korea to visit the USA there had only been 30 or so cases. When I returned 2 weeks later, there were around four thousand cases. A week later (today) they have around eight thousand cases. Korean's also took it seriously early on and followed the governments instructions on how to avoid it and it still spread, and is spreading, quickly. This in a country where you can get a test for it anywhere, everyone is wearing a mask, and everyone has government provided health care that they use at the slightest sign of illness. The mortality rate is only .6% due to it. The USA containing it now, when the country lacks tests for the virus, has high health care costs which cause people to wait until they are often very sick to seek help, and has a president and administration providing bad information that at least 40% of the population will follow to their detriment and others is a bad mix for it not spreading quickly. Hope I am wrong though.

Ted is working furiously on boosting his immune system right now.

South Korea, a country 1/6 the size of the USA, just put $20B towards fighting the Corona virus. Plus, they have universal health care here so everyone goes to the doctor here anytime they get an inkling of being ill, so they are probably are catching most of the cases out there and getting them treated ASAP, which is why the mortality rate here is so low compared to other affected countries. They are also extremely community focused which is why everyone is wearing a mask and isolating as much as possible here. If it ever breaks out big in the USA, it will likely get ugly fast with all the uninsured and under-insured. A worldwide recession is coming. It is just a matter of how big it becomes. Some companies in Korea have shut down manufacturing because they can't get parts they need from China. It will start happening in the US soon if it hasn't already. A lot of businesses just closed since nobody is going out much. If the virus ever gets loose in the USA like it has in China and South Korea, we could be looking a depression instead of a recession.

I just returned to South Korea yesterday after 16 days in the USA. Interesting to see the change in a couple weeks. When I left there had only been a few cases like the USA, but while I was gone it started spreading quickly. First flight back here was canceled (Japan Airlines), but I was able to fly American Airlines over. The flight over to the USA was full; however, on the flight back every single passenger had 3 seats to themselves. You could nap laying down. The airport immigration is usually 10-15 minute wait. Most stations were closed, I waited less than 2 minutes. They had temperature cameras set up and people in full body suits between the gates and immigration. The only people getting special attention were the Chinese who had to go through a different line, and the people with body suits, to enter. I was actually surprised how easy it was to enter, if you were not Chinese. Pretty much business as usual for non-Chinese travelers. I flew to Seoul then took the high speed train to where I live, since my city flies through Tokyo when you go east to the USA and Japan suspended all flights to S. Korea. If I flew there, I would have had to wait a day, so it was faster just to take train down from Seoul. The KTX (high speed train) was almost empty. Of 15 cars, only 2-3 had people and those cars were like 15-20% full. The subways/buses I have taken the last couple days were also very empty, like 10% of capacity. Everyone has a mask (99%). Masks were already in high supply here as people often wear them when sick here and/or on days when the pollution that blows over from China is very bad. Though the average mask is not going to be very effective keeping you safe from infection, they are much better at keeping a sick person wearing one from passing it on. So everyone wearing one should help a lot. Hand sanitizer is provided at many businesses for people entering and exiting the building. A lot of businesses are closed or open only during the busiest part of the day and are extremely slow even then. Schools are suspended 3 weeks. My employer requires a mask to enter the building. Everyone spends as much time as they can isolated at home for the most part.

Back in those days the top schools could have well over a hundred guys on scholarship and bogart all the top talent. Some teams prior to 1973 had over 150 players on scholarship as it was only limited by what you could afford. In 1973 schools were limited to 105 scholarships (to free up money for women's sports), in 1978 to 95, then later in 1992 to 85. It was easier to be very dominant pre-1990, and especially before 1978.

Looks like the future is a bunch of office workers with thighs like Earl Campbell.

Hey I have not checked out this thread for awhile...

It would be fucking hilarious if they successfully argue that a president, who is not convicted in an impeachment trial, should get a 3rd term, due to the distraction, which allows Bill Clinton to run again and win. Limbaugh's head would explode.

Trump wins this easy. His belly would already be touching the floor in the up position. He would just move his arms up and down like a floundering turtle.

If he is God's true son, then God is a shit bag.

Haha, had that one too. Used to get intentionally sacked back to the 1 yard line and try to get 99 yard TDs.

Yes. This was my first video football game...

Who knew it was the insurance companies on the grassy knoll the whole damn time!

That and Saudi Arabia will make him an actual billionaire if he does their bidding like a good little bitch.

Obama was such a disappointment. He came in preaching change and just rolled over the last part of his presidency. He was a solid president, but he changed little, after talking such a big game in 2008. Obamacare was even a Republican plan previously. The only guy who went to jail for the financial crisis was a whistle-blower. Good luck seeing anyone from the financial sector do that again. IMO, If you want major change, don't vote for any candidate that got a degree from an Ivy League school. The connections they make there are exactly the people who will be hurt most by changes to help the majority of Americans. Lately, that is where almost all our presidents have attended. Previously they came from a much wider variety of schools. Since 1988, all our presidents received a degree from an Ivy league school: Trump (Penn), Obama (Columbia and Yale), Bush II (Yale and Harvard), Clinton (Yale), and Bush I (Yale). During that time we have been in several wars, income equality has risen steeply, the money floodgates were opened for the rich and corporations to heavily influence our elections, banking regulations were weakened and not enforced properly, taxes keep getting lowered on the rich and corporations, etc.

The real gateway drug is cigarettes, but politicians won't touch that one since the tobacco lobby makes it rain.