COVID-19: Chapter 5 - BACK TO SCHOOL

I was trying to be on the optimistic side while making the point that maybe we shouldn’t be optimistic. But re-reading I don’t think my ironic point makes it through.

I am firmly in don’t send kids to school in any place with significant case density to start. I’d like to see daily rates at or below 1/10,000.

Here is the problem- for every classroom event that infects 20 others you automatically generate a local hotspot. Even if you have another 40 rooms that have no transmisson getting the average down to 0.5 per room it doesn’t matter because that one local hotspot will completely F that community.

So if you start where every class has a 10% chance of having a carrier you have no shot.

Put another way, the chance of a planet killer asteroid is small. We get hit with millions of them but at then end of the day it’s a 1 or 0 event. It it hits we all die.

Except the covid problem is probably 1 in 10 chance for a bad outcome for a hotspot.

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Yep; it’s gonna be bad

I know how viruses tear through the school every year; this one will do the same

Any hope to the contrary is wishful thinking.

From my great home state, a new nominee

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Pretty sure stereotypical bikers are all suburbanites these days. I can’t imagine an actual one percenter outlaw biker going to something like Sturgis in the 21st century.

Anecdotally this is true. Back when there were these places called bars, my local had plenty of 1%ers. The neighborhood is often cited as the first suburb. Going to Sturgis was not their thing.

What could wrong outside Dallas?

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/510313-former-trump-faith-adviser-holding-in-person-event-for-more-than-2000?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Hey, my town made the news! Guy already has a gofundme set up and all the trump-loving sycophants out here are eager to donate. There’s a reason we were able to buy a house so cheap…no one smart wants to live out here. Fucking dumb hicks.

I road tripped through South Dakota ~every summer in my youth, often around the time of the Sturgis rally, and while I can’t say there are no people who do this, at least at the time, there were shitloads riding in from hither and yon. Sometimes whole packs of bikers that would seem to extend for a mile or more.

Well, if you live in Florida for example, it’s really not feasible to ride the whole way, because it takes much longer than just pushing though in a truck. You can’t swap drivers, you MUST stop more, you can’t (shouldn’t) ride tired so you’re probably staying overnight in a hotel, not to mention riding a motorcycle is a lot more fatiguing than driving.

I don’t think most of the people at sturgis or wherever would really consider trailering your bike into town to be a huge negative.

Posers wouldn’t consider it a huge negative.

(I am motorcycle-less now for a year or so for but almost always had one since I was 19)

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I don’t think I could do long motorcycle trips anymore. When I was young I did them and it wasn’t too hard. Last time I did a longish ride it was a few years ago to Death Valley and … hemmorhoid.

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Yeah, I haven’t ridden for probably 10 years, and the longest trip I ever did was ABQ to Tuscon. That was plenty for me.

omg

I found this dumbass’s GoFundMe. Apparently the locker room fumes have gone to his brain, because he wants $500k. LMAO. He owns a gym in a shitstain town with a population of 20k.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/american-small-businesses-against-lockdown?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR3m-TFwYevwAa_zckFrgNKky45c2d3snZ8jAIxklXhcBCwnSwIWKqQ1Ovc

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Victoria have upped fines for quarantine-dodgers to $A 5,000 ($US 3,570), $A 20,000 for repeat offenders. Still seems low tbh.

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True.

Friend sees this as a positive. At least these dumb fuckers aren’t donating this $$ to Trump or Darrell fucking Issa

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I give CA the stamp of good news. I don’t know why, but I do.

One year I went to a Halloween party/rave around occupy wallstreet and I dressed as a 1%er. Suit, giant gold clock, sign saying 1%. I’m flirting with this girl trying to go for the win and this youngish biker comes up to us and starts trying to cut in. So I start trying to be funny to win her over, cracking lots of jokes, none really at him but definitely trying to outshine him.

Then he points out why my costume is funny, and shows us his 1%er tattoo…

I was like oh fuck oh shit. But he was cool and there was no problem. We joked around a bunch and had some shots together. I almost kinda question if he was really in it because he didn’t seem dangerous at all but fun story regardless.

Did not win that night though. I ended up having a weird acid trip where because everyone loved my costume so much I started to think people were worshiping me like a king cuz I had a plastic gold crown on lmao, my friend had to check me and tell me I’m a fucking idiot.

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