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The Coronavirus thread

NCSteelerfan said:
Yeah, it blows.......but we never rolled back, we didn't even get started. Bars haven't been allowed to open since the beginning of the shutdowns, gyms haven't been able to either. Both were supposed to open at phase 2 back right before Memorial Day, and stupid Cooper decided that those businesses needed to remain closed. We have stayed in this same phase since then, and now until early September. At least where you are at they got to open some...........there are many businesses shutting down completely now due to this and the state does nothing.

Oh, and almost forgot.........Cooper said something along the lines of how our economy is getting stronger because of this. I mean, what in the holy ****.
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We never got to phase 3. We went to phase 2 (restaurants, bars, gyms, and salons open), then rolled back. Salons and gyms are still open (masks worn of course), but it’s the food service rolling back that makes no sense. We still have no ******* idea what school is gonna be like when the kids start after Labor Day. I went back to college, (online), and one of my education classes has a project of observing 3 different classrooms and watching how the teachers interact with the students. It’s due 9-1. Kinda hard to have an observation when no districts are open with kids.
 
21STEELERS21 said:
You left off a stat H1N1 estimated US deaths 12,469, Covid 19 160,000 plus and counting. Notice any difference.

Yesterday you could see how out to lunch Trump is on the virus. He praised Arizona governor Ducey for his states response to the virus and Arizona leads the nation
in positivity rate. They could be the worst state in responding to the virus.
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Do you actually, you know, think before posting. Steeltime covered this well and I suggest you do some research. The rates have been dropping steadily in AZ the last 6 to 8 weeks.

It's a virus, it will run it's course, and hiding from it will not make it disappear.
 
ZonaBurgh said:
It's a virus, it will run it's course, and hiding from it will not make it disappear.
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Steeltime said:
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Fist off it is sad what he is going through and what is coming. What is more sad is “this is your candidate?” I understand folks dislike trump, hate trump but come on he at least has his mental capacities. Biden is unfit for the office or president any sane person can see that. I wish any other candidate for the dims was what DT was up against bc if he didn’t win at least that person won’t be in one of my nursing homes dementia units within a year.
 
Ironcitysteelers said:
Fist off it is sad what he is going through and what is coming. What is more sad is “this is your candidate?” I understand folks dislike trump, hate trump but come on he at least has his mental capacities. Biden is unfit for the office or president any sane person can see that. I wish any other candidate for the dims was what DT was up against bc if he didn’t win at least that person won’t be in one of my nursing homes dementia units within a year.
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The Dims decided at some point that Biden was their best chance to win and not the rest of the far-Lefties. That's why their remaining candidates all dropped out in the same week. Better to run the moderate-appearing Biden and surround him later with Commies running the government if he wins. Thing is, 30% of the country is always going to vote Democrat, 30% is always going to vote Republican, and the battle is for the 40% in the middle who will NOT be won over by Dementia Joe so they need to hide him as much as possible.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Thing is, 30% of the country is always going to vote Democrat, 30% is always going to vote Republican, and the battle is for the 40% in the middle who will NOT be won over by Dementia Joe so they need to hide him as much as possible.
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Biden gets out less than Punxsutawney Phil.
 
ZonaBurgh said:
It's a virus, it will run it's course, and hiding from it will not make it disappear.
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The last thing anyone thought we'd see this late in the summer. A few weeks ago it seemed the death rate was dipping under 1,000 a day, then started picking back up again. Prayers to the families impacted by this.

US Tops 2,000 Deaths In 24 Hours For First Time In Three Months: Johns Hopkins
https://www.barrons.com/news/us-top...hree-months-johns-hopkins-01596761106?tesla=y

The United States has recorded more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, the highest number of daily fatalities in three months, Johns Hopkins University's real-time tally showed Thursday.

The country, which has seen a major resurgence in coronavirus since the end of June, added 2,060 deaths in one day as well as more than 58,000 new cases, the Baltimore-based university showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Friday).

The last time the US recorded more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours was on May 7.
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Couldn't help but admire the reasoning behind this meme here....

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From paying people to stay away from work to supporting the destruction of major cities, the only surprise was the $130B in unused PPP loans. Can't have that ****, gotta send it back out there and try again.

The Senate acted by unanimous consent to extend the Tuesday midnight deadline for when the PPP can accept applications for forgivable loans for an additional five weeks. It came as the program was poised to shut down to new users with more than $130 billion left untapped.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ion-program/&usg=AOvVaw1CewZD3co4N0wsR8hPTijZ.
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How are we all feeling about Tom Wolf recommending no youth/high school sports until 2021?
 
SteelerFan448 said:
How are we all feeling about Tom Wolf recommending no youth/high school sports until 2021?
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He's and his confused muppet are a murderous duo who should be in jail for sending Covid positive patients BACK into assisted living facilities. I'm supposed to listen to a recommendation from an asshat who makes disastrous decisions? I think not.

...but, there just isn't going to be sports this year. One player gets a case of the Rona, the whole team was exposed, quarantine and forfeit games, across the state. Team A played team B with the exposed player, quarantine that team as well and games forfeited. Snowball effect.
 
Tibs said:
The last thing anyone thought we'd see this late in the summer. A few weeks ago it seemed the death rate was dipping under 1,000 a day, then started picking back up again. Prayers to the families impacted by this.

US Tops 2,000 Deaths In 24 Hours For First Time In Three Months: Johns Hopkins
https://www.barrons.com/news/us-top...hree-months-johns-hopkins-01596761106?tesla=y
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No one here, or anywhere I'd imagine, gets joy out of people losing their lives because of this. But it doesn't disprove my point that this will be contained through immunity and gaining antibodies to it, either through exposure or a vaccine.

That's it, no other way around it. If we hide, we only delay the number of cases, but at what cost economically and mentally? The only logical compromise in my opinion, is to live your life while protecting the vulnerable until enough healthy individuals are exposed, or the vaccine is available.
 
Tibs said:
The last thing anyone thought we'd see this late in the summer. A few weeks ago it seemed the death rate was dipping under 1,000 a day, then started picking back up again. Prayers to the families impacted by this.

US Tops 2,000 Deaths In 24 Hours For First Time In Three Months: Johns Hopkins
https://www.barrons.com/news/us-top...hree-months-johns-hopkins-01596761106?tesla=y
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deaths are a trailing statistic, meaning they routinely add deaths to the total that happened weeks or months ago and happened over a range of dates. So they may have added 2000 deaths in a 24 hour period but it doesn’t necessarily mean those deaths all happened with 24 hours.
 
 
The Charter School my kids go to in Delaware is saying they might not have in-person learning until January.

The problem isn't safety but money. They don't have the cash on hand to just do all the CDC and State recommendations needed to have in-person learning. And spending all the money when likely half (or more) opt out of in-school learning just adds greater financial burden to the school.

The most cost effective path forward is to go ALL virtual learning, hand out Chromebooks to every student, and plan on waiting the virus out until Winter when hopefully beginning vaccines has an effect on numbers.

I'm pretty sure Delaware has canceled fall football. There is talk all fall sports are canceled as well, but that's not official.

All the public schools have delayed opening and gone to a "choose your method" of learning. My wife is a pre-school teacher for the learning disabled and her school district is going all virtual for the first 6 weeks and then seeing where the case numbers are.

It just is what it is. If no one wants to do the hard work to slow down the virus, it's out there and schools would just all turn into hot spots.

My daughter has a heart defect and my wife and I have decided she's not going back to in-person learning until there's a vaccine. All the data about possible long-term hearth problems to those infected is really scary to us. She looks 100% normal, but her heart is not. Just can't take that risk.

Luckily, I think Delaware (especially the county I'm in) is doing a good job of containing the virus. Everyone wears masks. I have seen very little disregard of the recommendations.

I think my greatest risk is that I'm somewhat dependent on my co-workers to act responsibly because even though there are only about 10 of us working everyday, it only takes one to probably spread it around the office even with good social distancing as I work. There's just too many group areas like bathrooms and kitchens.

So I'm crossing my fingers that I don't get it at work. I can't think of anywhere else I could get it. Take-out lunches maybe but that's supposedly pretty safe.

One week at a time. Looks like I'm going to have to put my "Math Teacher" hat on this semester....
 
ZonaBurgh said:
No one here, or anywhere I'd imagine, gets joy out of people losing their lives because of this. But it doesn't disprove my point that this will be contained through immunity and gaining antibodies to it, either through exposure or a vaccine.

That's it, no other way around it. If we hide, we only delay the number of cases, but at what cost economically and mentally? The only logical compromise in my opinion, is to live your life while protecting the vulnerable until enough healthy individuals are exposed, or the vaccine is available.
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Italy is seeing a surge in cases also. They had their highest daily total since May with 532. 532!!! 60 million people, Much more densely populated, 532 new cases. Imagine how much better our economy would be doing if we had 1/16th of the new cases.
 
Troglodyte said:
Italy is seeing a surge in cases also. They had their highest daily total since May with 532. 532!!! 60 million people, Much more densely populated, 532 new cases. Imagine how much better our economy would be doing if we had 1/16th of the new cases.
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it depends. Will we still pay people more to stay home than to work?
 
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“Blames trumps response” hey shove all these sick elderly in nursing homes. Blames trumps response, hey get all those kids back in some of the largest schools in the nation. Love it!
 
family thing I'm not getting into, but in my personal experience driving from Houston, TX to Jackson, TN this week, I've noticed that the majority of people in urban areas are more closely following mask mandates. Having to stop for gas in rural areas, the mask mandates means less than ****. There's little to no personal responsibility in wearing a mask, and while crowds are sparse, we've seen first hand it only takes one person to start a pandemic. IMO, rural people seem to think the Rona is more of a big city thing and that it won't affect them. And while we are shutting down bars and **** in urban areas, due to the younger generation being bulletproof and frequenting bars and ****, that mentality stretches to rural areas as well. Yet while rural areas are less likely to practice the mask mandate, they're also less likely to force/enforce a business to close due to not following Rona procedures.

So this **** will be around for a good, long time.
 
IndySteel said:
At least until November 4th.
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Come November 4th, we will venture down one of two paths:

Biden wins: By November 10th, the media et al will be telling us the cure is worse than the virus and we need to open **** up and get back to work.

Trump wins: They'll drag this **** out as long as they can, wailing and screaming and fear mongering.
 
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