Corona Virus

[PantherOnTheProwl1523]

8 minutes ago, bull123 said:

The idea of no social contact and no interaction with other people is absurd...it would end us

we may have to wait until a vaccine is developed to get back to normal, but we will get back...economically and socially...we are connected and we need each other 

With social contact it would also end us so whats the difference. The without would work much better and would slow the spread of the virus. Even if we did have the vaccine it would be on hold for testing and making sure it will work. It would probably be close to another 1/2 a year(2021) to start giving it to people everywhere after it was a proven vaccine.

[cookinbrak]

43 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

All kids need social interaction. Homeschooled kids are oddballs. There are far more positives in sending them to school.

Not entirely. My grand-daughters are homeschooled 3 days a week, but have to go to co-op school 2 days a week to interact with other kids and get tested to make sure they use the proper curriculum. They're a military family.

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, bull123 said:

One thing that could likely come from this is virtual medical 

we could be seeing our doctors from our laptops a lot more to discuss test results and issues that don’t require office visits  

A lot of health insurance plans already have some things like this.

[top dawg]

This sh¡t is crazy!

[Wes21]

8 hours ago, stirs said:

Yep, that is why I said the social aspects of school, beyond bullying, were very good.

Like L George, I don't see it as an all or nothing endeavor.  With so many crises of the past, we learn things when forced into situations.  The question was, how do you think it might change.  We obviously don't want to go backwards.

 

For me, riding the bus was the best socializing I had in all of my school years (until college).  The bus didn't come get us at our houses, they made the entire neighborhood go to a meeting spot and picked us up all at once.  That meant every single morning all 6+ of us had to sit at the bus stop and chit chat with eachother until the bus got there.  It was like our water cooler/coffee machine time for kids, to talk about the sporting events that happened the night before and talk about things coming up.  Being on the bus was a similar experience, with tons of raw social interaction as it took 30+ minutes to get us to/from school.

As far as bullying, don't forget that in today's world online bullying is a huge problem and in some ways its worse than in person bullying.  

[Brooklyn 3.0]

12 hours ago, stirs said:

Question was A, B or C

You answered NO

It is just a discussion

Yeah, "no" to all of it. Both times. China will not get any retaliation just because coronavirus originated in their country. And as I said in another post, social interaction is a big part of school. There, I discussed it.

[stirs]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52131940

[Tbe]

6 minutes ago, stirs said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52131940

I guess Bats are still ok huh?

[LinvilleGorge]

Brace for impact. At the current trajectory, we're looking at 100,000 dead Americans 10 days from now. Let's hope that curve begins to flatten. The last two data points indicate that we may be seeing the beginnings of that.

[Tbe]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Brace for impact. At the current trajectory, we're looking at 100,000 dead Americans 10 days from now. Let's hope that curve begins to flatten. The last two data points indicate that we may be seeing the beginnings of that.

NC looks to be flattening out quite a bit. We’ll see.

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, Tbe said:

NC looks to be flattening out quite a bit. We’ll see.

The interesting one for me is Washington. Early on it looked like the Seattle area was going to be what NYC ended up becoming. Instead, they'll be dropping out of the top 10 states very soon. They're barely hanging on at #10 as it is.

[raz]

17 minutes ago, Tbe said:

NC looks to be flattening out quite a bit. We’ll see.

from talking to friends in the healthcare industry here i don't think that's the case.    people are being advised to not get tested, and to not go to the hospital if they can still breathe.   

[CBDellinger]

37 minutes ago, raz said:

from talking to friends in the healthcare industry here i don't think that's the case.    people are being advised to not get tested, and to not go to the hospital if they can still breathe.   

thats a pretty low standard... dont go if you can breathe.. jesus.

[R0CKnR0LLA]