We took the UConn Football approach.
Agree
Volunteering what?
Lol. Imagine the outdoor bars this summer when u have dummies acting like idiots Fake coughing and touching people after a few drinks and then combining them with the hyper vigilant people - gonna be a powder keg. I already see it a bit at grocery stores. Wait till the summer bar Scene hits
You need testing and a decent system to monitor contacts. Body temperature machine scanners at points of entry would be important. We also should have adequate numbers of ventilators and PPE. This is not rocket science because we have a successful model in South Korea. They were one of the first countries if not the first country outside of China to get cases. They had no advance warning other than China. There was no Italy or NYC when they went into lockdown. But they were and are prepared for this pandemic. Just emulate what they did and are doing.
Some people really are freakin Idiotic. What don’t people understand about what happened in New Rochelle? One guy basically created a local epidemic. And that was not a nursing home, meat packing plant or anything like it. This thing is as contagious as anything, seems to have different impacts on different age groups and has a hard to ignore mortality rate, even if skewed by older people (like me). Everyone wants to let loose, get back to “normal”
I am not judging anything as ridiculous considering what is at stake. Are you asking if I think (admit?) that making a decision 30 days later (May 15 to mid-June) will go from ridiculous to “acceptable” or at least less ridiculous? I do not have an answer to that?
Sweden is an interesting situation. Do you have any information as to their testing numbers?
So what's South Korea doing that is working?
I don't know what they were fighting about. It was outside a Walgreens by the entrance. Old white guy in a surgical mask trying to swing on a young Hispanic guy in a mask. Young guy had to get him in a bear hug yelling at him to stop freaking out, old dude wouldn't stop flailing and got his jacket ripped off and then old dude spastically ran down the street. It was strange, I'm guessing he has mental problems.
UConn football teams have prepared us for games played in empty stadiums.
Dude, this is the boneyard. What else is there to do here?
I don’t have their testing info. The trouble with acceptable compromises is they they are acceptable usually to people not directly impacted by the illness. I don’t think Sweden mandated work, not sure, but they did expect social distancing and apparently they don’t have a population full of people who melt because they are asked to sacrifice a teeny bit of personal freedom. They also have 10 million total people. We have several urban metro areas with many more than that, a big minority population that seems to be prone to more serious consequences. They are betting on herd immunity. We’ll see if that happens there or here.
I’ll remove the word “ridiculous”. A lot can change in a month. Look how much has changed in the past 2 months. Let’s say may 11th is early for cancelling fall when we barely finished the spring semester and still have all summer. Fair enough? And then couple that with my previous point about how Gavin Newsome just a couple weeks ago was saying public schools could possibly open in July - then 10 days later All of a sudden fall classes are canceled when June is still 3 weeks away? I don’t buy the online learning preparedness for professors thing either - I’m a teacher and it doesn’t take me four months to get my curriculum ready. Cmon. Either way it doesn’t matter what I think but the repercussions of calling fall semester this early will not be good for mind body or sprit.
