Corona Virus

[stirs]

Football players are probably in no more danger than any other bug that hits them during the season all the time.  Every year, we have reports of guys out with flu bugs that hits teams.  No reason for them not to get together unless they live with their grandparents or something.

 

[45catfan]

A season with fans?  Nope, I think that's not going to happen anymore, not even limited.  Too much of a liability...especially the possibility suing such a cash cow like the NFL.   The League won't expose themselves like that.

[Anybodyhome]

33 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-fears-temporarily-shuts-down-peninsula-club-report/ar-BB15vlVP
 

Move along...

 

Because my wife has been in private country club management for almost 30 years now, I can safely say what the president of the club said about "over half of the employees decided to walk out" comment was a dick move and totally uncalled for. You just made life miserable for the general manager, whom those employees work for. The president is probably a 2-year term president of the board of governors. 

The privileged country club types wanted their restaurants opened weeks ago, were bitching about not being able to use the pool and were complaining about all the inconveniences. I know this as I got to read a lot of emails from members. Because private country clubs are often 501(c)7 operations, they weren't afforded to eligibility of payroll protection and my wife was forced to lay off about 35 people, which was extremely difficult on her as well as the employees. Now that some of the operation is slowly opening, some of those employees don't want to come back to work now that they're collecting unemployment +$600 extra a week. 

But hey, those privileged country clubs are not somewhere the coronavirus goes, right? Rich white people don't get this, do they?  

[4Corners]

24 minutes ago, stirs said:

Football players are probably in no more danger than any other bug that hits them during the season all the time.  Every year, we have reports of guys out with flu bugs that hits teams.  No reason for them not to get together unless they live with their grandparents or something.

 

Wow, very insightful and credible medical advice here. Thanks, Dr Scholls. 

[4Corners]

On 5/27/2020 at 11:44 PM, Wolfcop said:

700-some hospitalizations out of 23,000 confirmed cases out of a population of 10.5 million. Use precautions, but keep things open. Those at risk have to use the utmost cautions.

Considering we have trouble getting Americans to stand properly in a single file line? How’s that “using the utmost caution” working out? How embarrassing for you. 

[45catfan]

31 minutes ago, stirs said:

Football players are probably in no more danger than any other bug that hits them during the season all the time.  Every year, we have reports of guys out with flu bugs that hits teams.  No reason for them not to get together unless they live with their grandparents or something.

 

Due to the player's age range, it is very unlikely to have any serious or long lasting medical ramifications.  The people who are of concern are the older coaches. 

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

True, but most people I do see wearing masks are the demographic that is the most vulnerable to complications, the elderly.  If I were over 60, I would not go anywhere without a mask nor venture out much at all for that matter.  Honestly, most of these people are retired so leaving their house outside of a grocery run is unnecessary anyway.   

We will see how this goes over in a couple of weeks.  I see people here locally still distancing without getting weird about it.  Mostly the people that aren't distancing while out are family members (restaurants, sidewalks, shopping) and they are already exposed to one another.  Strangers are still by and large trying keep some distance between themselves.  

The problem is that unless you're wearing a legit N95 respirator, your mask is only protecting others from you, not you from others. If you're out and about wearing your cloth mask or surgical mask while everyone else is wearing nothing, you're really not that much more protected than if you were also wearing nothing. It's why we need municipalities to pass legislation forcing mask wearing for awhile with steep fines for not doing so. People are just too damn dumb to listen to recommendations to wear them and way too many are in the elite dumbass category where they view not wearing a mask as some sort of political statement.

[LinvilleGorge]

I spent the last couple of days driving across the country from CO to NC. Mask wearing in CO ranges from near 100% in my town to above 50% most places. Mask wearing in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and NC has been hovering very near zero.

[Wes21]

2 hours ago, Tbe said:

I was out this weekend a few times and no one is using masks anymore. A few weeks ago 80% of people I saw had them. Now, maybe 10% are using them.

Mask usage is still fairly common here in VA Beach. 

[Wyank]

Still waiting on my unemployment... 

 

These mythical $600 checks plus unemployment sounds amazing.  March 20th was my last pay day before lock down.  I'm back to work now but it would be nice to get those payments to help replenish my emergency funds.

[Ja Rhule]

16 minutes ago, Wyank said:

Still waiting on my unemployment... 

 

These mythical $600 checks plus unemployment sounds amazing.  March 20th was my last pay day before lock down.  I'm back to work now but it would be nice to get those payments to help replenish my emergency funds.

It’s weird... I know some people who have no issues getting unemployment checks and others who can’t get them.

[Harbingers]

38 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I spent the last couple of days driving across the country from CO to NC. Mask wearing in CO ranges from near 100% in my town to above 50% most places. Mask wearing in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and NC has been hovering very near zero.

You don’t even know the half of it. 

[stirs]

1 hour ago, 4Corners said:

Wow, very insightful and credible medical advice here. Thanks, Dr Scholls. 

You are a visionary for sure

The medical numbers have told us since Jan to keep older folks and those with underlying health conditions safe.  For all the hyperbole and sensational headlines, it pretty much stands true today.  Like we were arguing 300 pages ago, if we could keep grandma away from the grandchildren, we could have operated like normal and probably not have shut the economy down.

But, we shut the world down and did not keep grandma safe, we moved Covid patients into grandmas room.

Dr Scholls indeed might have done a better job

Edited June 15, 2020 by stirs

[Tbe]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I spent the last couple of days driving across the country from CO to NC. Mask wearing in CO ranges from near 100% in my town to above 50% most places. Mask wearing in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and NC has been hovering very near zero.

Checkout the videos of NYC from this past weekend. Maybe 5% mask usage in these big street parties. 
 

Of all the places....