DramatistDreamer

I know that an usher on B'way has tested positive for COVID-19.

These big tournaments have a board like any large organization so even James and Tommy Haas have to answer to others, they can't just make final decisions by fiat, so I doubt it was just up to James any more than it was up to Tommy. At least Miami didn't wait until the players were onsight and ready to play the next day before canceling, so there's that.

Welp, the rumors were true.

I have to go on ahead and admit that I don't much care about tennis these days but this was presents quite an image.

Technically, Trump's an old white dude, no? I think that type of safety is an illusion. Especially when people are comparing Trump's clusterf*ck handling of the coronavirus outbreak compared to how Obama handled H1N1 and Ebola.

OMG.

I really think smaller, vulnerable countries like the islands that are a popular destination should put a travel ban on the US and Europe and I'm not even kidding.

Sorry but this is so typically American. Brexitland is equally arrogant.

Meanwhile in the U.S.-

Just as I suspected. https://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Actualites/Coronavirus-le-circuit-atp-en-pause-pour-six-semaines/1118818

Maybe most African countries know a bit more about the ravages of infectious disease and act more expeditiously to try to head off its spread?

We'll be the last ones to know but considering the fact that the W.H.O. just designated COVID-19 a pandemic, I'm not counting on Miami to happen, not without a serious reversal in the rate of infections. In fact, I'm hearing rumors of the Tours being shut down completely for several weeks.

The U.S. is in serious trouble with a "leader" like Trump at the helm. The best hope now, seems to be for states to take COVID-19 more serious than the plant in the WH has. The testing in the U.S. has been abysmal. South Korea had their first discovery at roughly the same time and is currently testing about 10,000 per day. The U.S. has only tested less than half that amount since the day the first person was diagnosed! People laugh at Whoopi and The View but it's the soaps that will be in dire straits if this pandemic doesn't get controlled and the rate of infections keep escalating.

It's going to be a process. It's already likely that his legal team will appeal, so how much he ultimately serves is a bit of an unknown at this moment. What we do know is that jury convicted him and a judge sentenced him, he will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life and at this point, likely the most prominent sex offender in U.S. history. That is immutable.

Here is the link to the article on MSN, in case you don't want to/can't deal with NYT's paywall. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-just-everywhere-already-how-delays-in-testing-set-back-the-us-coronavirus-response/ar-BB110Ziq

Thank you for pointing this out because with the narrative that sexism was at play in 2016 with regards to HRC, let us not forget who consistently voted for both HRC and Biden and who did not.

It's a sad fact that this thread needed to be created but it was time.

It looks like Bernie may be done in this primary race.

Oh, I agree that was tacky as hell to do that. I had looked up Feldman on social media after seeing the initial posting and saw a bunch of complaints about his livestream so at least he finally got the livestream/video up and running for the people who paid for a viewing pass. Some people had basically been accusing him of pulling a Geraldo/Al Capone's vault.