Coronavirus (No politics)

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Even my wife, who is 35 weeks pregnant and an Oncology nurse in Chattanooga, is wanting to go back to work next week. She has been off for 2 weeks at the advice of our OBGYN, but now my doctor is telling her she’ll support whatever she decides to do. My wife said they expected a peak of COVID patients over the last several weeks at the hospital but it hasn’t happened. In fact, there are currently less patients in the quarantine ward now than there was a month ago.
 
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Our lovely city sent us ANOTHER tax bill that we can't figure out at all. We have no idea where the bill amount on it comes from. And when we try to call the office, no one answers.

I hate this place.
 
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VolGirl81 said:
Northam will probably go right along with this scenario. 😳 I know we have to be careful, but to what point?

UVA researchers project mid-August peak for new COVID-19 cases in Virginia
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I’d be very curious to see the rate of spread they’re using during lockdown vs no lockdown in this model.

It sounds like they are assuming people go right back to their prelockdown actions in their models. Due to human nature, if all restrictions were lifted then a small portion of people will continue current quarantining efforts. A majority will likely social distance. The remaining will largely go back to their prelockdown life.

This also doesn’t factor in schools/universities already being closed for the year, which is a restriction that won’t be lifted.

At some point this thing is going to peak, when doesn’t really matter as long as our healthcare systems can handle the capacity. This has happened in a small handful of places, but I’m doubting it’s going to in the majority of the U.S. despite what the models are saying.
 
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ndubvols said:
I’d be very curious to see the rate of spread they’re using during lockdown vs no lockdown in this model.

It sounds like they are assuming people go right back to their prelockdown actions in their models. Due to human nature, if all restrictions were lifted then a small portion of people will continue current quarantining efforts. A majority will likely social distance. The remaining will largely go back to their prelockdown life.

This also doesn’t factor in schools/universities already being closed for the year, which is a restriction that won’t be lifted.

At some point this thing is going to peak, when doesn’t really matter as long as our healthcare systems can handle the capacity. This has happened in a small handful of places, but I’m doubting it’s going to in the majority of the U.S. despite what the models are saying.
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I think you’re hitting on the hardest part of trying to build the alternative behavior-influences models.
 
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TennTradition said:
I think you’re hitting on the hardest part of trying to build the alternative behavior-influences models.
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No doubt it’s the hardest part to factor in, but based on the article they aren’t factoring in any alternative behavior. If that’s the case I hope people aren’t making decisions based off this model.
 
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So now some experts are saying that our only hope to watch sports in the fall is either empty stadiums or having people carry in documentation that they have the antibodies for Covid-19 in their system due to having it already.
That's a big flag waving moment to diehard sports fans to run out and get it so they can go to sporting events. How many people - if that were the case - would intentionally get it to go watch sports live? I'm serious - the answer is probably way more than you'd think.
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I can see it now - Billy Bob finds out that his buddy Cledus has Covid-19. He tells his wife he's going to go get the "rona" so he can watch his by God Crimson Tide play in September.

He tells her not to worry that he'll "exterminate" himself for 14 days once he gets home and just stay in his room so her and the 8 kids don't also get it. Roll Tide..
 
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DownNDirty said:
So now some experts are saying that our only hope to watch sports in the fall is either empty stadiums or having people carry in documentation that they have the antibodies for Covid-19 in their system due to having it already.
That's a big flag waving moment to diehard sports fans to run out and get it so they can go to sporting events. How many people - if that were the case - would intentionally get it to go watch sports live? I'm serious - the answer is probably way more than you'd think.
I can see it now - Billy Bob finds out that his buddy Cledus has Covid-19. He tells his wife he's going to go get the "rona" so he can watch his by God Crimson Tide play in September.

He tells her not to worry that he'll "exterminate" himself for 14 days once he gets home and just stay in his room so her and the 8 kids don't also get it. Roll Tide..
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That's actually not so far-fetched.

On a related note, last weekend I was texting with my cousin who lives in NJ and works for the FDA. Figuring he might have some insight on the roll-out of antibody testing I asked him about that. He said "In about 2 weeks, but it won't be widely available for awhile" but more disturbing is what he said after that, namely that "People who test positive will be allowed to return to work..."

Unfortunately this type of thinking seems to prevail in the federal government health science and health services areas.
 
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ButchPlz said:
UVA has a whoppingly undeserved reputation. I have quite literally never met any UVA grad I thought was worth anything. All the kids that went there from my school cheated their way to decent grades.
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Hey now, I’m a UVA grad and I busted my a$$ getting thru plus I’m on Volnation! We’re not all worthless! However, I would agree wholeheartedly the rep sometimes is not deserved. You must be a Hokie🙄
 
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VolGirl81 said:
Hey now, I’m a UVA grad and I busted my a$$ getting thru plus I’m on Volnation! We’re not all worthless! However, I would agree wholeheartedly the rep sometimes is not deserved. You must be a Hokie🙄
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Nope, I went to UT. I hate Virginia Tech with a burning passion, too. I've just not met in person/dealt with a UVA grad that didn't either try to rip me off or cheat to get into their position. :(
 
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Terrible news for the Corona Bros..(The people who are politizing a pandemic and trying to use it to wreck the economy and "get sit on your couch" voting passed) Tennesseans are recovering from COVID and handling it very well

Tennessee COVID update
80,896 completed tests (93% negative)
6,079 total cases (44% are in Davidson and Shelby counties)
2,196 recovered 36%
3,983 active
135 deaths 2.2%
East Tennessee active cases 77
Knox County 39
Roane County 1
Loudon County 3
Anderson County 4
Blount County 6
Campbell County 3
Sevier County 1
Jefferson County 6
Grainger County 0
Cocke County 5
Hamblen County 2
Greene County 7
That's a total of only 77 active cases for the 12 Central valley counties.
 
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RavinDave said:
That's actually not so far-fetched.

On a related note, last weekend I was texting with my cousin who lives in NJ and works for the FDA. Figuring he might have some insight on the roll-out of antibody testing I asked him about that. He said "In about 2 weeks, but it won't be widely available for awhile" but more disturbing is what he said after that, namely that "People who test positive will be allowed to return to work..."

Unfortunately this type of thinking seems to prevail in the federal government health science and health services areas.
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Microchips...no so far fetched, either.
 
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VolnJC said:
Terrible news for the Corona Bros..(The people who are politizing a pandemic and trying to use it to wreck the economy and "get sit on your couch" voting passed) Tennesseans are recovering from COVID and handling it very well

Tennessee COVID update
80,896 completed tests (93% negative)
6,079 total cases (44% are in Davidson and Shelby counties)
2,196 recovered 36%
3,983 active
135 deaths 2.2%
East Tennessee active cases 77
Knox County 39
Roane County 1
Loudon County 3
Anderson County 4
Blount County 6
Campbell County 3
Sevier County 1
Jefferson County 6
Grainger County 0
Cocke County 5
Hamblen County 2
Greene County 7
That's a total of only 77 active cases for the 12 Central valley counties.
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No one WANTS to wreck the economy. Everything is politicized these days on both sides.

My mom is a stubborn Fox News watching Trumper. I was talking to her today about things opening back up in May and even she thinks its foolish to jump back into normal too quick.
 
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ButchPlz said:
UVA has a whoppingly undeserved reputation. I have quite literally never met any UVA grad I thought was worth anything. All the kids that went there from my school cheated their way to decent grades.
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UNC had very different admissions requirements for in-state vs. out of state 20-something years ago when I was looking at schools.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
No one WANTS to wreck the economy. Everything is politicized these days on both sides.

My mom is stubborn Fix News watching Trumper. I was talking to her today about things opening back up in May and even she thinks its foolish to jump back into normal too quick.
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Believe me there are some anything to make Trump look bad and some burn it to the ground anarchists out there my cousin and his wife are two of them . We have 77 cases in East Tennessee and 1000s around here out of work. You don't shut down an entire country the size of the US because of regional outbreaks.. that's like India shutting everything down because Pakistan has alot of cases
 
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FallCreekVols said:
Anyone who thinks that no one wants to wreck the economy doesn’t know The Left very well.
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Give me a break. Why would they want to wreck the economy just to have to fix it.... again.

Are there fringe people on Twitter cheering on Trump stumbling his way through this? Certainly.

Were there fringe people cheering against Obama for 8 years? Absolutely.
 
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