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I don't think he is wrong about the deaths. The issue with his premise is that young kids by and large have very mild symptoms making them likely to continue going to school as carriers and spreading this thing like gasoline driven wildfire. That's the problem.

China took super aggressive containment measures. If people would just listen to the damn social distancing guidelines we could greatly reduce the spread, but Americans be all like YOLO! still gonna do what I do!!!

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5560 new cases yesterday. 4789 new cases today. The math seems to be holding up.

Not sure exactly what he thought he was accomplishing there. "Don't have guns or the people coming with guns will shoot you!" Were they just going to sing kumbaya with you and leave you with a few rolls of toilet paper if you were unarmed? LOL!

The city and county of Denver (CO) just announced a stay at home order through April 10th. I wouldn't be surprised if the state follows suit soon but right now Polis is staying the "blame Trump" course. I think everyone but the most diehard of Trumpers fully understands the federal government has horribly dropped the ball on this, but that's no excuse for a state to drop the ball and pass the blame. Polis is failing. .

Glad I special ordered some ammo for my old school Winchester Model 1873 and 1892 last summer. Defending the homestead old school frontier style seems more sporting.

Schools aren't opening back up this school year. People just need to go ahead and accept that.

Oh, the Master's? Absolutely. That's a different ballgame. I was simply talking about locals playing golf locally in my post.

My wife's boss is a complete moron about this. She still wants everyone in the office. They are certainly not an essential business. My wife can easily work from home. She already works remotely one day a week. I'm sure tomorrow's plan of action will be to figure out how they can claim to qualify as an essential business. Meanwhile, the boss has done absolutely nothing to change her usual daily routine and doesn't like the fact that everyone else in the office is trying to maintain social distancing standards. She has an out of state vacation planned soon and absolutely still plans to go.

Hell, honestly take green fee payments online or over the phone and limit one rider per cart and golf would be a pretty good "social distancing" friendly activity.

It won't happen. Especially with the vague loopholes in place for businesses to claim they're critical.

To put this into perspective, unemployment peaked around 25% during the Great Depression. During the "Great Recession" it peaked around 10%. We'll probably blow past that by the end of this month.

It got bumped back an hour.

Governor Polis of Colorado has a press briefing scheduled in an hour. I wouldn't be surprised if shelter in place is right around the corner.

South Korea and Singapore were ready. No government could've been ready for this while claiming it was a hoax for two months before finally waking up and realizing it was here and already widespread.

I had already read it earlier today. I just didn't want to post it, because like I said, I'm kinda torn on sharing it. I think it's good info, but I'm kinda of the mind that people need to be a little irrationally scared of this right now or else they won't listen to the guidelines that will save a lot of high risk people if they're followed.

I think we're at six deaths here in Colorado. They've all been elderly with other underlying health issues.

We have about 18" of snow on the ground from yesterday. We're at least 6 weeks out from sustained warmer weather here.

Just to put it into perspective, just the Denver metro area is over 8000 square miles. There are only 3500 in the entire Colorado National Guard. That's roughly one person for every 2.3 square miles. Meanwhile, there's almost 3 million residents in those 8000 square miles. That's not gonna work unless people willingly comply in which case it's unnecessary to begin with.

But @Davidson Deac II is right. Outside of maybe a handful of major cities per state, martial law would essentially be an impossibility. The country is just too big and the population too spread out. What we really need is people to just listen to good advice because enforcing a quarantine at a national level in America just isn't possible.

Honestly, it just feels like a matter of time before a national "shelter in place" guideline is issued for all non-essential travel.

I'm torn on it. I don't like driving irrational hysteria and I love numbers, so I really like the work put forth there. However, most Americans are so damn selfish that it might require driving hysteria to get them to actually make the necessary changes. Yeah, if you're relatively young and relatively healthy you're highly unlikely to die from this disease. But going out there and getting it and spreading it is going to expose it to people in much higher risk categories. And at the end of the day, if the healthcare system is overrun then you're going to not only see a lot more people die directly from this disease but you're also going to see a lot of people die from unrelated health issues like our leading causes of death in heart disease and cancer simply because they're not going to be able to get the same (if any) healthcare that they would've been able to receive absent this pandemic. Those deaths wouldn't be counted in the COVID-19 death toll, but they might as well be.

None of this is surprising. We've already seen how this has played out across the world. The countries that successfully avoided the worst case scenarios took aggressive EARLY action. A lot of them were countries that got hit hard by SARS and they were better a lot better prepared because of it. We're starting to get semi-aggressive nearly two months after our first cases. This thing is almost certainly widespread at this point.

Can we just fast forward to 2021 already? 2020 is dogshit.