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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 10, 2020 14:50:44 GMT -5
You better have DATA if your going to asked Blue this question. hahahahahhahaha. sidenote....I hope you are well and safe Sporty....and hope the season goes on. Wisconsin is going to be really good. I am willing to make the sacrifice and make out with many college girls in order to gather that data. We'll place you in the control group where you're just asked to stand next to college girls without contact and see if you catch the disease. Or college boys, depending on your preference.
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Post by akbar on Apr 10, 2020 14:56:28 GMT -5
I am willing to make the sacrifice and make out with many college girls in order to gather that data. We'll place you in the control group where you're just asked to stand next to college girls without contact and see if you catch the disease. Or college boys, depending on your preference. Wolf!!!!.....so PC! đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź This site is evolving.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 10, 2020 15:05:48 GMT -5
Except I had already expressed my preference.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 10, 2020 15:20:08 GMT -5
Except I had already expressed my preference. In case you change your mind. I'm always fair. I always like to ask, "Are you sure?"
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Post by jayj79 on Apr 10, 2020 15:50:20 GMT -5
I am willing to make the sacrifice and make out with many college girls in order to gather that data. We'll place you in the control group where you're just asked to stand next to college girls without contact and see if you catch the disease. Or college boys, depending on your preference. the preference of the college kids matter too. I mean, are there any college girls who want to stand next to Mike even with the "no contact" rule, knowing that he's going to be fantasizing about making out with them the whole time?
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 10, 2020 17:00:57 GMT -5
We'll place you in the control group where you're just asked to stand next to college girls without contact and see if you catch the disease. Or college boys, depending on your preference. the preference of the college kids matter too. I mean, are there any college girls who want to stand next to Mike even with the "no contact" rule, knowing that he's going to be fantasizing about making out with them the whole time? The sacrifices they must make ... FOR SCIENCE!
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 11, 2020 11:31:46 GMT -5
Someone may have mentioned this already above...
Here in the Bay Area (SF-SJ, CA), officials from Santa Clara County (home of Stanford, San Jose State, Santa Clara U, SF 49ers, San Jose Sharks) said they don’t expect sporting events to start in September and we’d be lucky if they resumed by Thanksgiving. Santa Clara County, which was the first to mandate shelter-in-place orders in the U.S., has been a model for other counties, cities, and other municipalities during the pandemic.
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Post by atticus on Apr 11, 2020 12:16:56 GMT -5
Someone may have mentioned this already above... Here in the Bay Area (SF-SJ, CA), officials from Santa Clara County (home of Stanford, San Jose State, Santa Clara U, SF 49ers, San Jose Sharks) said they don’t expect sporting events to start in September and we’d be lucky if they resumed by Thanksgiving. Santa Clara County, which was the first to mandate shelter-in-place orders in the U.S., has been a model for other counties, cities, and other municipalities during the pandemic. The Santa Clara County Exec who said that is completely jumping the gun, IMO. To make a blanket statement like that in an official capacity of importance was, to many, fairly irresponsible given the many unknowns that still remain. When he says no sporting events does he mean no Niners games with thousands of people, as well as no JV high school girls volleyball games with maybe 50 fans? No rec soccer games with a couple dozen four year olds running around outside? It didn’t seem to me to be a well thought-out statement, and maybe he made it off the cuff, yet the media is glomming onto it as if it’s an edict and many outlets are touting Santa Clara as the county to watch to see how we will get back to normal. (See Politico’s article on this) It’s needful to discuss possibilities but leaders ought to be cautious in laying out timelines so far in the future. Some may find it difficult to walk back overly cautious warnings if the realities turn out to be different than the projections.
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Post by volleydadtx on Apr 11, 2020 12:32:38 GMT -5
I think we are getting a glimpse of socialism in action. The governments are firmly in control of our lives due to COVID, and they like it. The government decides what is essential, what businesses have to close, whether we can even walk in a park.
It’s rather easy to close things down. How/if/when we “re-open” will be determined by bureaucrats and on their timetable. That’s a scary proposition.
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Post by dman on Apr 11, 2020 13:19:47 GMT -5
Our Texas governor is announcing ways to reopen the State as early this week. About time someone has the cajones to take the first step. Look, is this worse than the “normal flu”? Yes, but it is not going to come close to killing millions we originally were told. Models and statistics are as good as the numbers and parameters you plug in; watching these models drop significantly is the perfect example of this. If you are elderly and have comorbidities then by all means do your due diligence. Many parts of the country should be able to slowly open up again; others may be a few weeks away yet. We lost 80,000 a few years ago from influenza; currently at 19,000 for COVID. At what point does more reasonable heads come together as opposed to continually stoke fear into the public??
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Post by WahineFan44 on Apr 11, 2020 13:40:03 GMT -5
Our Texas governor is announcing ways to reopen the State as early this week. About time someone has the cajones to take the first step. Look, is this worse than the “normal flu”? Yes, but it is not going to come close to killing millions we originally were told. Models and statistics are as good as the numbers and parameters you plug in; watching these models drop significantly is the perfect example of this. If you are elderly and have comorbidities then by all means do your due diligence. Many parts of the country should be able to slowly open up again; others may be a few weeks away yet. We lost 80,000 a few years ago from influenza; currently at 19,000 for COVID. At what point does more reasonable heads come together as opposed to continually stoke fear into the public?? The more people who get sick, the more have to be admitted into ICU, thus less ventilators, less ventilators and icu beds, more deaths. It’s foolish to open anything that even remotely has large groups right now. This is far more deadly than the flu. Is it gonna mill Millions? No. Is the spread of this very bad? Absolutely
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Post by justahick on Apr 11, 2020 13:44:37 GMT -5
Our Texas governor is announcing ways to reopen the State as early this week. About time someone has the cajones to take the first step. Look, is this worse than the “normal flu”? Yes, but it is not going to come close to killing millions we originally were told. Models and statistics are as good as the numbers and parameters you plug in; watching these models drop significantly is the perfect example of this. If you are elderly and have comorbidities then by all means do your due diligence. Many parts of the country should be able to slowly open up again; others may be a few weeks away yet. We lost 80,000 a few years ago from influenza; currently at 19,000 for COVID. At what point does more reasonable heads come together as opposed to continually stoke fear into the public?? The models are dropping because of the drastic steps that have been taken. Texas is in better shape than most. Lots of hospital capacity, low population density. Much of the rest of the country not so much.
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Post by dman on Apr 11, 2020 13:48:56 GMT -5
Our Texas governor is announcing ways to reopen the State as early this week. About time someone has the cajones to take the first step. Look, is this worse than the “normal flu”? Yes, but it is not going to come close to killing millions we originally were told. Models and statistics are as good as the numbers and parameters you plug in; watching these models drop significantly is the perfect example of this. If you are elderly and have comorbidities then by all means do your due diligence. Many parts of the country should be able to slowly open up again; others may be a few weeks away yet. We lost 80,000 a few years ago from influenza; currently at 19,000 for COVID. At what point does more reasonable heads come together as opposed to continually stoke fear into the public?? The more people who get sick, the more have to be admitted into ICU, thus less ventilators, less ventilators and icu beds, more deaths. It’s foolish to open anything that even remotely has large groups right now. This is far more deadly than the flu. Is it gonna mill Millions? No. Is the spread of this very bad? Absolutely Why does everyone assume once you get it you’re automatically in ICU and on a ventilator?? It’s just not the case! New York is the worst hit in country and they took down their “tent hospital” as it wasn’t needed. The numbers are not matching the response. I agree there are worse areas than others and the initial social distancing is helpful but there may NEVER be a vaccine for this as it’s viral. ...are we really supposed to live in a cave the rest of our lives??
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Post by dman on Apr 11, 2020 13:50:27 GMT -5
Our Texas governor is announcing ways to reopen the State as early this week. About time someone has the cajones to take the first step. Look, is this worse than the “normal flu”? Yes, but it is not going to come close to killing millions we originally were told. Models and statistics are as good as the numbers and parameters you plug in; watching these models drop significantly is the perfect example of this. If you are elderly and have comorbidities then by all means do your due diligence. Many parts of the country should be able to slowly open up again; others may be a few weeks away yet. We lost 80,000 a few years ago from influenza; currently at 19,000 for COVID. At what point does more reasonable heads come together as opposed to continually stoke fear into the public?? The models are dropping because of the drastic steps that have been taken. Texas is in better shape than most. Lots of hospital capacity, low population density. Much of the rest of the country not so much. [ Not “Much of rest of country”; it’s “some” areas of country.
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Post by cindra on Apr 11, 2020 13:52:01 GMT -5
The more people who get sick, the more have to be admitted into ICU, thus less ventilators, less ventilators and icu beds, more deaths. It’s foolish to open anything that even remotely has large groups right now. This is far more deadly than the flu. Is it gonna mill Millions? No. Is the spread of this very bad? Absolutely Why does everyone assume once you get it you’re automatically in ICU and on a ventilator?? It’s just not the case! New York is the worst hit in country and they took down their “tent hospital” as it wasn’t needed. The numbers are not matching the response. I agree there are worse areas than others and the initial social distancing is helpful but there may NEVER be a vaccine for this as it’s viral. ...are we really supposed to live in a cave the rest of our lives?? We don't have to live in caves for the rest of our lives but the goal is to slow the biggest impact of the virus so it doesn't hit all at once, i.e. flattening the curve. The lockdowns won't continue until the vaccine happens, but we're still in the thick of the initial surge right now. It's like leaving your basement when a tornado is right over top of you because you're angry about how boring the basement is. Give it a few more weeks until the numbers of infected start going down.
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