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And that's something you can do without doing full-on March 2020 lockdowns...See, explain this to me: If mask wearing is the thing that could help diminish the spread and help to prevent the very lockdowns that people don't want...why in the world are folks up here saying "Eh, don't make people wear masks" yet they say "We can't lock everything down!"

You rang?

And that would be unfortunate...as this is the last thread on the entire site that has managed to stay intact!

And there ya go...nothing new under the sun! And how's this for another eerie similarity...This was the doctor who was the lead epidemiologist at the time: He kinda looks like... How weird/funny is that? Lol

Hey I'd take that I wonder why the average went up following the October -NAOs? Do we just kinda chalk that up to chaos and it being, as you said, too small of a sample size to say there's a definite correlation?

He's been busy celebrating his 250th birthday year.

And it seemed like the affected ages were different too...20-40-somethings were dropping like flies (and that ironically that included the grandfather of the president)

Source(s)?

I'm wondering if we are ridiculously (and somewhat jokingly) splitting hairs over what's defined as "equally awful" here...Like the whole 6" of slop vs 1.8" of slop. I approach the argument in the most literal sense: that if we get 6 inches instead of 1 it's still better. Even 4 inches instead of one would mathematically classify as "not as bad". However in the less literal, more subjective sense? Probably not, lol But mathematically, seeing as it won't take much to beat 1.8"...I'd like to believe there's enough "chaos" in the equation to beat that (or else it would be a historic occurrence that hasn't happened in our 140 years of records...Even stretches of bad years you'd get a 6-8 incher in there, lol)

Yep...would not put it past this year, lol

A track often modeled, but only verified what...3-4 times in history? Lol But this is 2020!

Given this is 2020...we oughta fully expect something like that, lol

Yeah I mean seriously...we ain't got nobody else to blame but ourselves (collectively). Folks don't realize how much could have opened up had we all done what we were supposed to do. That way, the inevitable Fall spike wouldn't be poised to look the way it does...and maybe we wouldn't have started the Fall at like 40,000 cases a day (and that's a bad baseline to start from). I just don't get it...smh

Yeah that is scary...I thank God they caught them. What saddens me is that there could be a portion of people that would've heartily agreed with what they wanted to do...is this where we are? Smh But as you said, the pandemic drove some of this, I'm sure... Don't be surprised if 2020 saves it's best crazy for the last three months (I mean, look where we are already!)

So now the question is...what happens when a hurricane quacks?

Feels like there's a degree of hurricane structure OCD in here...lol I mean I kinda get it from a weather geek standpoint, I suppose...hurricane perfectionism?

Now that would be a funny (and totally 2020-like) scenario...after clippers have been basically AWOL for like 5 years, lol

Will never forget that h5 (horrible 5) look...lol Was a literal forcefield. But I'm slowly learning about the "chaos" side of things when it comes to our snow...

But really...and maybe this is just a mild hunch, but...I feel like IF we are surprised in a good way this year, and it's only supposed to be one opportunity (as opposed to some '96 style anomaly all winter) it might just be in December. I base that off of nothing else but a hunch (and I admittedly smoked a little almanac too), and my expectations are still appropriately low! But this is 2020...lol

That one goes in the hall of shame. Stupid confluence to the north, lol

So let me guess...pinpoint forecasting for smaller hurricanes is more difficult because the major impact radius is smaller?

Wow. I'm guessing you don't see that kind of RI that often?

And this is what doesn't make sense to me. The only reason I can see is just to use something to excuse not wearing masks or the coalition against Fauci. Otherwise, that people somehow genuinely couldn't understand even after 6 months of consistent guidance doesn't seem plausible to ne...

But again though...how could the message not be muddled right at the start of this, seeing as they were all still learning? But then they corrected as they followed the science. I mean...I could see if stuff kept changing, but consistency over 6 months oughta be enough to get the message across. I can't believe that folks still wouldn't trust it after that unless it were purposeful mistrust, lol

Lol I noticed the same...he definitely looked congested, breathing through his mouth more than usual...but I'm no doctor!