The @MLS players association has ratified a new CBA with the league, removing one of the final steps toward resuming the 2020 season. The league plans a return to play in Orlando early next month— Kevin Baxter 🇺🇦🏳️🌈 (@kbaxter11) June 3, 2020
The protesters aren't great at social distancing but pretty good at masking. There will likely be more covid cases due to the protests but the protesters are generally younger than the national average and probably healthier too. So fewer hospitalizations than average and fewer deaths.
Still not great of course. Many may live at home with more vulnerable people (parents/grandparents.) We really haven't seen a serious spike up yet from bad Covid behavior since April have we? This will be a real test of that.
So the NBA's inviting 22 teams to Orlando: 13 Western Conference, 9 Eastern Conference. Eight-regular season games per team. Play-in for the 8th seeds. July 31-October 12. Vote tomorrow to ratify. The NBA's back.
I believe only teams with a mathematical chance to make the playoffs will play the last 8 games of the regular season.
Grant Wahl is reporting this, if true...no wonder the players were mad. Spoke to a veteran MLS player today. He said it will take years to undo the damage done by MLS owners' threat to lock out the players—removing their pay and their families' health insurance—during a pandemic.— Subscribe to GrantWahl.com (@GrantWahl) June 3, 2020
He's gone full on virtue signaling instead of reporting facts ever since the women's world cup. I don't trust that this isn't his wrong interpretation of what the player said.
I wonder about that. A lot of Home Depot's business comes from contractors who are largely closed down, at least in eastern Pennsylvania where I am. This is completely anecdotal, but the several times I've been in Home Depot in the last two months, it has seemed no more or less busy than usual. Of course, maybe walk-in customers like me, there to buy some light bulbs or nails, are only a tiny factor in Home Depot's bottom line. There certainly are some businesses out there that are raking it in, particularly Amazon, but I'm not sure that Home Depot is among them.
The extra revenue is coming from online orders. All these people stuck at home are doing home improvement projects and the idea of same day pickup or delivery beats what Amazon offers (outside of major cities). Contractors are officially closed down here too but there are plenty of them in the store every day. It's not just home improvements. Supermarkets are seeing the same trend. I look at the local job ads and just about every supermarket is advertising for "shoppers" or "pickers" to pick out online orders although the curbs don't seem particularly busy.