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rjd970 said:
What is the long term plan here? Is there anybody that thinks this virus isn’t here to stay? We may hit a peak in the next couple of weeks and a slow down in the summer, but it will be back in the fall. The drama queens and sensationalists are now saying breathing and talking spreads it. School, sporting events, etc...crowds are a part of our Fall life. Is all that gone forever? Is the economy shut down forever?

I’m genuinely curious as to what the long term solution is here. Herd immunity taking hold? Hope for a vaccine? Development of over the counter medicine?
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I am beginning to believe behavior will change dramatically for the next year at least. I think factory workers will wear masks as a routine, if we can get enough produced. I think the same happens at a movie theater or sporting event. Not sure how restaurants will move forward. I could be wildly wrong, but it is hard to see people just flipping a switch and going back to the old days.
 
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hog88 said:
Does anyone know how they decide on who to count towards a death from the virus? If an 80yo with a bad heart and emphysema passes but testing shows they were infected is that counted?
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I’m betting somebody already on their deathbed that tested positive is counted. I also bet at some point those types will stop being counted so things get back to normal and people feel safer to go out, but at the end of the day nothing will have materially changed from the situation we are in now.

If you look at the statistics, nothing has changed from a month ago. This predominantly kills older people and those with pre-existing conditions. Whoever on here can queue up an anecdotal Twitter story about a healthy kid dying or whatever, but the overall statistics are clear.

At some point we are going to have to accept the reality of this, who it affects and how, and get back to normal. I dont like it, I hate that it kills anyone, but we can’t just hunker down indefinitely.
 
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rjd970 said:
If you look at the statistics, nothing has changed from a month ago. This predominantly kills older people and those with pre-existing conditions. Whoever on here can queue up an anecdotal Twitter story about a healthy kid dying or whatever, but the overall statistics are clear.

At some point we are going to have to accept the reality of this, who it affects and how, and get back to normal. I dont like it, I hate that it kills anyone, but we can’t just hunker down indefinitely.
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So painfully true and universally ignored.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Have you read One Second After by William Fortschen? It is a what if on an EMP. It takes place in the author's hometown of Black Mountain N.C. It is frightening to read what could happen. In the story, the only cars running were old ones with points type distributors. He had an old Edsel that belonged to his mother-in-law.
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A couple of other great post-apocalyptic novels are M.K. Wren's "A Gift Upon the Shore" and Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." Another one that is a little dated but is still a good read is "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart.
 
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allvol123 said:
I am beginning to believe behavior will change dramatically for the next year at least. I think factory workers will wear masks as a routine, if we can get enough produced. I think the same happens at a movie theater or sporting event. Not sure how restaurants will move forward. I could be wildly wrong, but it is hard to see people just flipping a switch and going back to the old days.
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You may see a restaurant that had a capacity of 100 to go down to 50 due to people not wanting to be close to others. That is a recipe for failure! Crazy times!
 
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Orangeburst said:
I saw some "bunkers" , not sure if I would call them huts from my recollection. Lots of old buildings though and this was pre 911 and I would drive all over.
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They may have torn them down but there were many rows of half buried quonset hut looking buildings (but made of sturdy looking material). Each one had a blue light and a siren in front of it on a pole to I assume signal if a leak was detected.

This isn't the ones at Redstone but they looked kind of like this:

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Hunerwadel said:
They may have torn them down but there were many rows of half buried quonset hut looking buildings (but made of sturdy looking materia. Each one had a blue light and a siren in front of it to I assume signal if a leak was detected.
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I think they were munitions storage. Pretty sure they were still some there in the 90s when I lived in Huntsville.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
A couple of other great post-apocalyptic novels are M.K. Wren's "A Gift Upon the Shore" and Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." Another one that is a little dated but is still a good read is "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart.
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Anyone ever read Albert Camus' The Plague? Although plague was used as a metaphor for fascists taking over countries, it is about the Bubonic plague in Oran. You can see a lot of recognizable behaviors from today in it.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
They may have torn them down but there were many rows of half buried quonset hut looking buildings (but made of sturdy looking material). Each one had a blue light and a siren in front of it on a pole to I assume signal if a leak was detected.
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The ones I saw were stand alone in wooded area and made of concrete. Probably just more standard munition bunkers. Possible I saw what you are describing and just did not know what I was looking at the time.
 
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hog88 said:
Does anyone know how they decide on who to count towards a death from the virus? If an 80yo with a bad heart and emphysema passes but testing shows they were infected is that counted?
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They counted the guy who was dying from leukemia that caught it right before he passed
 
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Hunerwadel said:
They may have torn them down but there were many rows of half buried quonset hut looking buildings (but made of sturdy looking material). Each one had a blue light and a siren in front of it on a pole to I assume signal if a leak was detected.

This isn't the ones at Redstone but they looked kind of like this:

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I can say that I have not seen these. Would of remembered that.
 
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hog88 said:
Does anyone know how they decide on who to count towards a death from the virus? If an 80yo with a bad heart and emphysema passes but testing shows they were infected is that counted?
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If you die of or with the virus, you get counted. Same as if you fall off a ladder and die fixing your roof after a hurricane, you are counted as a hurricane death.
 
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