[Jonathan Carone]

We aren’t playing sports til August at the earliest.

No one is recruiting.

Sports are literally nonexistent right now.

[Purple Haize]

We aren’t playing sports til August at the earliest.

No one is recruiting.

Sports are literally nonexistent right now.

eSports baby!!

[Jonathan Carone]

Ok let’s get this thing back to the virus itself:

We’ve held our kids out of daycare since last Thursday. Wanted to be abundantly cautious since my wife is a nurse.

As of now, the government of North Carolina is keeping daycares open. There have been no cases in my county.

If they’re still open Monday, am I wrong for sending the kids back to daycare?

[ballcoach15]

We aren’t playing sports til August at the earliest.

No one is recruiting.

Sports are literally nonexistent right now.

Very true, but that's a reason one would think message board traffic would be somewhat flowing.

(as for esports, they should be banned, if there is such a thing. I believe what people call esports, are nothing but computer games for Middle School students)

[flamehunter]

Ok let’s get this thing back to the virus itself:

We’ve held our kids out of daycare since last Thursday. Wanted to be abundantly cautious since my wife is a nurse.

As of now, the government of North Carolina is keeping daycares open. There have been no cases in my county.

If they’re still open Monday, am I wrong for sending the kids back to daycare?

That's entirely your call and there is no right or wrong answer. The only way it's wrong is if your kids or family members are showing symptoms and you send them any way. It is whatever you are comfortable with as far as your kids' safety. Do your due diligence, pray and go with it.

[Jonathan Carone]

Well that aged poorly.

My daycare is closing nationwide at the end of the day.

[TH Spangler]

Two other senators accused of using it for stock gains too:

James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

Feinstein is shady based on this.....

Blum's wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband's government contracts and extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Blum has denied any wrongdoing.[13] URS Corp, which Blum had a substantial stake in, bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002; EG&G subsequently won a $600m defense contract.[3]
Blum and his wife have also received significant scrutiny and criticism due to his 75% stake in contractor Tutor Perini which received hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan during the US occupation of those countries.[14][15] Critics have argued that business contracts with the US government awarded to a company controlled by Blum raise a potential conflict-of-interest issue with the voting and policy activities of his wife.[16]
In 2009, Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband's real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called "a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms."[17]
The United States Postal Service has entered into an exclusive contract with CB Richard Ellis to sell buildings that currently house post offices.[18]

[Purple Haize]

Well that aged poorly.

My daycare is closing nationwide at the end of the day.

Interesting. Everyone is holding up South Korea as a model of how to combat the Virus and they had a Government mandate to keep daycares etc open

[Jonathan Carone]

Well that aged poorly.

My daycare is closing nationwide at the end of the day.

Interesting. Everyone is holding up South Korea as a model of how to combat the Virus and they had a Government mandate to keep daycares etc open

Corporate offices saw that there weren't enough kids coming in this week to leave the daycares open across the country. They had made the decision to honor people pulling their kids out and not charging them while they kept them at home, so combine that with less kids coming, and you don't have the revenue to justify staying open.

[jbock13]

(as for esports, they should be banned, if there is such a thing. I believe what people call esports, are nothing but computer games for Middle School students)

OK snowflake.

[olldflame]

Looking at the numbers across the world, the US apparently has different criteria for determining when a person has "recovered" than just about anyone else. With almost 20,000 confirmed cases now, only 147 are classified recovered.

[thepostman]

It also hasn't been here (that we know of) as long as some other countries. So you have to keep that in mind too when looking st the recovered numbers. I believe at least 14 days after a positive test. So in 2 weeks the recovered numbers should start to go up quickly.

[TH Spangler]

(as for esports, they should be banned, if there is such a thing. I believe what people call esports, are nothing but computer games for Middle School students)

OK snowflake.

Ballcoach they need to bring back the really cool pastimes our parents enjoyed.

[Class of 20Something]

Just to make sure everyone know what we’re about to see in the numbers.

The number of tested cases is about to skyrocket. This is because private testing started a week or so ago but there wasn’t a legal requirement to report those numbers to the CDC. A law has passed mandating that reporting. To compound it, the private sector has A LOT OF TESTS.

So here is what to expect.

The next three weeks will have a dramatic uptick in tests conducted and confirmed cases.

Expect the US to have more confirmed cases than any other country. With the breadth of testing, we will have more data points than anyone else. It’s likely that most other countries are underreported due to the lack of available testing.

A lot of existing cases will resolve.

The mortality rate in the US will drop dramatically. Every country is front loaded with a wave of fatalities because the most obvious cases are the gravely serious ones. It’s almost a confirmation bias.

I posted a logarithmic graph showing the rate of rise starting when countries report their 100th case. I expect the US to level off in about a week and a half to two weeks after the spike hits.

[Purple Haize]

I am hopeful but not confident people will understand that the uptick in reported cases is due solely to testing and reporting. You are going to see a lot of “reported cases” that have now resolved. I have a friend in SF who works at one of the hospitals. They told staff yesterday that only 5% of those tested were positive for The Virus. And the ran several hundred tests. We are also getting to the point where everyone’s dire predictions are starting to show themselves as false. Over a week ago press people and “experts” were warning us that America’s Hospitals were just a week to 10 days away from becoming over crowded. That has not happened anywhere. We heard earlier this week that “the US is where Italy was 2 weeks ago”. Yet we haven’t seen the widespread death that was predicted.
Next week at this time people should start peeking there heads up and looking around and realizing “the worst” is over

[thepostman]

Partly that is because they were overstated and done to put fear into people (and probably even politically motivated, sadly) but another dynamic is people are listening to the guidance they have been given and the worst places are taking extreme measures.

It is still too early to draw any kind of real conclusion. We can just hypothesize.

[Purple Haize]

Partly that is because they were overstated and done to put fear into people (and probably even politically motivated, sadly) but another dynamic is people are listening to the guidance they have been given and the worst places are taking extreme measures.

It is still too early to draw any kind of real conclusion. We can just hypothesize.

This was from 10 days ago.

[thepostman]

I know. I saw and read it all too. Doesn't change anything I posted.

[Jonathan Carone]

My prediction is if we don’t have a light at the end of the tunnel by next weekend, people will start revolting against the social distancing thing.

[thepostman]

If I didn't have a son with respiratory issues, I'd have a much harder time with the whole idea if social distancing. I mean I hate people, but I hate not being able go do anything. So do my kids.

[Purple Haize]

I know. I saw and read it all too. Doesn't change anything I posted.

I was providing documentation for others to draw the right...errr...I mean their own conclusions

[TH Spangler]

A childhood friend has it .....She’s 57. Now quarantined with a friend her age and her daughter visiting Virginia Beach from ECU. She was tested.

[olldflame]

My 2 cents worth. Continue the path we are on while simultaneously increasing testing capacity as rapidly as possible, way beyond what is needed for the current policy of selective testing. As soon as we have the capability, begin almost universal testing and strict isolation of all new cases as well as those who are at high risk. I have serious reservations as to whether "self quarantining" is adequate. Then begin bringing an end to the mandated shutdowns that are threatening our economic future while continuing to encourage (and enforce where practical) common sense precautions.

[thepostman]

Trump's team seem to be doing a good job. Not perfect by any stretch but this is all pretty new so I wouldn't expect perfection. I'd suggest trump not spend some much time answering questions if he is going to continously put out falsehoods and get angry. It isnt helpful and distracts from the good work his team is doing.

Also my 2 cents

[SumItUp]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... tores-open

President Trump, moving with haste to slow the spread of the coronavirus, is preparing a plan to mobilize the National Guard to help enforce a two-week quarantine of the public if his tough-love efforts so far fail.

The unprecedented action would require everyone to “stay at home,” according to a source knowledgeable of the evolving plan.