COVID-19: Chapter 5 - BACK TO SCHOOL

Danspartan · September 13, 2020, 2:53am

https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/1304902695812096000?s=21

Go Green!

CaffeineNeeded · September 13, 2020, 3:05am

Snort white!

CaffeineNeeded · September 13, 2020, 3:06am

Trial resumes

MrWookie · September 13, 2020, 3:09am

Time for nominations for a new thread title.

Danspartan · September 13, 2020, 3:12am

Danspartan · September 13, 2020, 3:14am

Trump vaccine vs anti-vaxxers: Watch heads explode!

cassette · September 13, 2020, 3:23am

Chapter 6: We’ll Get Through This

zikzak · September 13, 2020, 3:38am

Covid Goes to College

MrWookie · September 13, 2020, 3:49am

That’s going to be tough to beat.

nunnehi · September 13, 2020, 3:55am

Chapter 6: The End of the First Wave

MrWookie · September 13, 2020, 3:56am

Where have you been? We’re already into the third.

nunnehi · September 13, 2020, 3:57am

Third part of the first wave. This third part will be the worst it gets and that will conclude the first wave.

MrWookie · September 13, 2020, 3:58am

I’m not sure what your definition of “wave” is, but I don’t think it’s possible to square yours with mine.

nunnehi · September 13, 2020, 4:02am

Cases have to get down to a low number to be a wave. See Europe. We never did that and I think it’s very bad to act like there has been more than one wave. We’re in the third part of a tsunami because our country never allowed the first wave to break. The best we ever had was a plateau.

Edited to Add Graph to Illustrate:

suzzer99 · September 13, 2020, 4:05am

Chapter 6: All the water is draining out of the harbor for some reason, what could it mean?

CaffeineNeeded · September 13, 2020, 4:24am

so many anti-vaxxers are granola types. Pretty weird community tbh

CaffeineNeeded · September 13, 2020, 4:26am

Southeastern Coronavirus: It Just Means More

beetlejuice · September 13, 2020, 4:53am

mukdukaluk · September 13, 2020, 5:16am

Sentiment turning against lockdown in Melbourne I feel. All my friends, ordinarily mildly smart people, are complaining about unnecessary economic damage of ‘draconian’ measures. Eventually 90-95% people speak with their wallets. It’s just a simple fact.

anon38180840 · September 13, 2020, 5:18am

Danspartan:

Concur we are heading for disaster, though it’s sick as a country that 1,000 per day isn’t already considered a disaster.

We are bringing young people together. Mixing them with high efficiency and then sending them out into the wild when schools close on campus living. Lots of small towns are going to get fucked by this as their best protection has been modest influx from population centers. So they don’t take the best precautions. They are also open for grade school so big bro or big sis coming home with it are just going to send it onto the busses, the schools and especially the high school parties.

Then once that mixing occurs, cold weather is going to hit. If it smears into thanksgiving that no one is going to skip then “down goes gramma, down goes gramma” will be heard all over Podunk, USA.

Yup, this is exactly what I expect. We might just start to flatten the college/school surge, then everyone will be like “Oh it’s okay again?” just in time for Thanksgiving, and we’ll surge again from an even higher plateau. Maybe widespread testing being available could save us?

But of course if the surge is bad enough to crush testing, that’s out. I’m hoping to be able to use testing to do a Friendsgiving and a Thanksgiving without everyone having to quarantine for more than a few days… we’ll see. If it’s not available, it’ll be quarantine for all or eat turkey alone.