Game Attendance

I don't think he would.

Apologies, Steinlager...I have only just now seen your post.

I don't really remember the rules of civil jurisdiction; I haven't practiced civil law for 8 years now and even when I did, I did mostly family law and never had a case across state lines (although I did once subpoena a witness in Vancouver...fortunately he didn't know that the method I used had no power to get him into court). The law of civil jurisdiction is murky with a lot of rules and a lot of exceptions to those rules, especially when the parties to are domiciled in different states. And if they are domiciled in different states and the harm took place in yet another state, it can drive you around in circles. I think Wilky practices civil law and would know the law a lot better than I do. 

I have no idea what power states have over their own medical policies; I would think they have a lot with the federal government being fairly limited in that regard. I didn't pay attention, but I don't remember any lawsuits emerging from travel restrictions states set against entry of non-residents during the pandemic. 

There are doomsdayers, there are rational/realists, and there are pollyannas. This is true and consistently displayed here at Benny’s House. Good luck to those on the poles.

SEC football was limited to 25%.  Some other conferences and neutral site venues allowed up to 40%.

Sorry I don't remember that. Thanks for re-posting.

I think this is a prime example of why people are pissed. Certain areas of our economy are wide open, yet we can't walk thru gates in the open air, and sit outside to watch baseball....the studies show covid is spread mainly within households, or densely populated indoor spaces......I think with proper precautions there's little to no chance of spreading covid at an outdoor ballgame.

I am pretty sure that you do not know what gaslighting is.

Texas was warned 10 years ago to prepare for a 2011-level storm, which Texas did.  The February storm was a worse storm than the 2011 storm.

Texas did not withdraw from the other grids.  Texas chose not to connect to the Western grid or the Eastern grid (which was not even really a thing back then).  By not connecting to the Eastern or Western grids, Texas' power generation and distribution are not governed by Federal law.  That keeps it cheap, but there is no safety net.

You ignore Idaho, which has the 11th-lowest death rate in the United States, Oklahoma with the 16th-lowest death rate, Montana with the 19th-lowest death rate and Florida with the 24th-lowest death rate.

The Dakotas probably would have been fine had they decided to take some, if any action prior or during Sturgis.  Nevertheless, more people have died in Draconian lockdown Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.  It is almost like the lockdown, as it was handled in most of the country, was a useless governmental overreach designed to convince the gullible or ignorant that the state governments were doing something to fix the problem.

I personally think that a more locally-focused surgical approach to lockdowns was the correct approach.  I definitely think that lockdowns were necessary in certain locations to make sure that the medical infrastructure was not overwhelmed.  But it seemed like the governing class almost always fell back to a  one-size-fits-all shotgun approach to shutting down everything regardless of whether there is even active transmission in an area.  That approach was, by and large, wildly unnecessary and is an affront to the liberty that this country was founded.

Idaho got hit hard by Covid and had to send patients out of state. Not exactly a role model, especially compared to Oregon.