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Yeah that is really something...praying for his complete recovery! You know, I've been hearing that the last several years, medical researchers have been finding that people under 50 have been starting to get colon cancer more...but they're not sure why! If that's true and that trend continues...I wouldn't be surprised if they lowered the age of recommended screenings! (I think it's still 50 right now, isn't?)

Just passed the 1,000,000 mark for cases in the US...mercy. What is that, a third of the world's cases? Mercy.

Oh wow--thanks for the link! Will certainly keep them in mind!

*crazy breathing* WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?? *pant pant*

Don't forget about the weekend lag and such...I'm not putting much stock in it myself.

I hope not, smh And dang...ya know it's bad when even on a weekend where the reported numbers are usually lower...still couldn't avoid 2k. Mercy...

"Noped out"...lol Haven't heard that one!

Man, see he done did? Don't know whether to laugh or just smh...

Do we even wanna ask?...

But are you also calculating the risk of others? See what I'm hearing in the argument you and some others presented is one of "well, I personally will be okay". But in a pandemic, that isn't the only factor here. You don't know who around you is vulnerable. Or who around you will be in contact with someone who is (and that infection "tree" can go on and on). That's why it's not just a "me" thing with pandemics.

It's a cop-out, really...and it's an argument that is has lost credence by the day!

This and this. Pandemic response is a group effort--not an individual one!

I automatically read that part in a southern accent...lol

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That the decrease in deaths, hospitalizations, cases would meet the criteria set forth in the federal guidelines for the various phases. If Fauci, Birx, and the rest of the team of experts put that together, I think it is a good model to follow.

It is all guessing when it comes to setting dates and timetables...which is why we have to follow the numbers as they come and not try to jump too far ahead too soon!

Can understand that. But the harsh reality is...when it comes to a timetable...there is a certain degree of this whole situation that we simply don't have any control over. We are already doing what we can to try and diminish the spread and get the numbers down. But right now that's all we can do...we cannot control exactly how fast cases finally start to go down and get to phase 1 status. The reality of the virus doesn't change just because the economy is hurting and we wanna turn the switch back on. It's a frustrating position to be in for so many people, no doubt! It's an awful position to be in! But we have to get to the point where, when we really start to open things up, we are not choosing the economy over human safety. It can't be...economy AND safety is what needs to happen. Safety has to be paramount...the safety piece is contingent on the numbers and when they start to fall at a consistent rate. It's a big difference between when we'd PREFER to open up and when we actually SHOULD...and unfortunately the SHOULD criteria hasn't been met yet, imo. Economy is gonna hurt, but opening too soon might end up adding on top of that hurt worse than it already is...

I shoulda said any liquid alternatives (I've long thought sharing a bar of soap would be worse...not sure how accurate that is, though!)

Man I'm so tired of the hand soap shortage...it, like hand sanitizer, is pretty much gold. any suggestions on alternatives? Have had to switch to using Palmolive antibacterial dish soap...but it's makin' my hands snow like 2010!!

For real? Interesting...like, right now it's hard to imagine such a precipitous drop in just a month...I mean, it would he great, but how?

Dang...I mean it seems like with New Jersey has really been taking it on the nose with no real abatement, smh (and they got bad when NY did, didn't they?)

Ah! What happened?? Hadn't been on worldometer since earlier this afternoon and it felt like it was gonna be a decent day...then I look again just now...mercy.

Yeah at this point I think we gotta put the flu comparison to bed...because again, when have we ever had a flu season take out 45k in just seven weeks?...

Wait...you think the national death toll for the entire country will decline to 100 much by then? But how...unless we see the new infections go down quite a bit between now and the end of the month, I don't know how we get there that fast.

Yeah seriously...at the rate we're going even in a couple weeks we could be at 60k, smh