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Saw this on the news this morning. March 1-April 16th--46 days 35,000 Total Covid-19 deaths April 17th--May 4th (probable)--17 days 70,000 Total Covid-19 deaths 1. This was with a nationwide strict social-distancing and shutdown policies. 2. One of the popular models had a worst case scenario of 170,000 deaths by June 1; Seems plausible looking at the above numbers.

Selflessness is over. America just had a month in her. Buckle up. I’m certain the economy will come surging back once we get the full onslaught of the virus.

Other than entering, masks are a moot point in a restaurants. Remember we live in KY, shirts and shoes are sometimes an issue. Some people will break the rules, but that doesn’t support not requiring masks.

:ohbrother: Lying or a medical miracle.

Really? How many people you see in businesses without shirts and shoes? That's just based on decency. But maybe you're right. We do have an ODD nation.

I thought it was pretty well known that masks are an added barrier to protect other people from you. No shirts, no shoes, no mask...no service. It ain't that hard.

Seems to me masks, reduced capacity, and social distancing is the only way we can open things back up until medical breakthroughs. Don't like it. Stay at home. Whole lot of "I want me cake and eat it too" on here.

Education is evolving into one of the most dangerous professions.

Something tells me it won't be that easy for the powers that be.

@PurplePride92 Not sure which of these threads that I asked the question in, but we are getting the answer in Iowa. Employees that do not show up to CV infested meat packing plants will lose their unemployment benefits and will have "quit their position."

Exactly...Americans don't like being told what to do. We die for tons of reasons that could be easily resolved with good practices, but we a are nation that is Oppositional Defiant. Of course most of those causes are not contagious in nature. I can't catch your DUI car wreck, and you can't catch my heart disease.

I would like to see where we are in KY. Anybody heard of antibody tests going on in the state? Personally, I am in the camp that a very small population of KY has been exposed, but I still would like to know where we are.

Reopen too soon and CV spike = Economy crashes to levels we can't fathom with no propping up and no saving it then. Thank Goodness we have TN, GA, TX, and FL speeding this nightmare up! SEC,SEC,SEC! :lol2::scared::cry::isurrender:

What is a "more-aggressive approach?" New York, Michigan, and California have been locked down. We have been asked to stay at home in KY. Lockdown is what Georgia will be in about three weeks from now.

Do they lose unemployment? If you live in Georgia, you work in a Barber shop, and you have COPD, can you say "no thank you, I'll stay at home for this" and keep your unemployment?

Vampire zombies.

I bet they expect no sports too. That's a lot of lost revenue there.

If you want to see the opposite look at Sweden right now.

This would be very official.

Schools don't do survival of the fittest.

I agree. This needs to be coupled with a way to report and paid leave plan. Folks with no paid leave ain't testing, and we need people doing this.

I can't see football this fall without some miracle progression, and we aren't getting that here. If you want sports this fall don't look at what is happening overseas. One thing I think we are leaving out is $$$. Schools are already thinking about the crunch that is going to happen. Extracurriculars will suffer.

I found this interesting. Flashback NYC had a population of 5 million during the Spanish Flu. The city endured three bouts with the disease that killed around 30k New Yorkers over an 18 month period. Fast Forward NYC has around 8 million people in 2020. With a century of medical and technological advancement has had over 18k people die of CV in around 45 days. Everything is fine.

Tennessee healthcare must be phenomenally better. There should be some great info coming out of their hospitals dealing with Covid-19 patients.

Reposted from @Colonels_Wear_Blue in another thread. “Tennessee has basically put all of its eggs in one basket, going more or less all-in on the Abbott Laboratories ID Now testing machine. The FDA gave Abbott Labs an emergency-only approval (meaning it is only approved because of the emergency situation everyone is in due to dire need for testing). It was approved after conducting a total of 60 test samples. FDA testers gave 60 samples, 50% positive and 50% negative, and they were tested at random. The ID Now testing machine passed with 100% accuracy. However, Abbott Labs admits to not knowing how many tests each machine can perform without requiring servicing, re-calibration, or replacement. The FDA's 510(k) medical device approval process usually requires rounds of testing that gets up into the tens of thousands prior to application for approval (which usually takes years), and then 100 rounds of tests by the FDA. To say that the approval for the Abbott Labs test was an abbreviated process is a gross understatement. TL;DR - They don't know how accurate Tennessee's testing method is, and even if it starts out accurate, they don't know how long each testing machine stays accurate. The fact that Tennessee is basically using one single method for testing is scary.”