ORH_wxman

Yeah I was semi-patronizing him if that wasn't clear enough. I think it's no secret that our subforum has always been pretty lenient and laid back about the posting content, but it doesn't mean we draw no lines. We gave the covid thread an obscenely long leash....it didn't work out.

You're welcome. Let them know there's other forms of censorship on here too...like making sure we delete porn (you preferred to call the cops in that instance I think).

Not allowing political discussion? Yes, it is definitely a form of censorship.

Nah, no worries....it wasn't directed at you in particular. But if you were in the previous covid thread that ran for a few months in spring and early summer, you'll notice a parallel. It's the same posters butting heads on the merits of lockdowns vs no lockdowns. Nobody is going to change their mind...and then it eventually creeps more and more political as the discussion veers to the motive of such posts rather than the posts themselves....round and round we go. The end result? Nobody changes their mind and the forum becomes more uncivil. This is why we've always had a strict "no politics" rule on the wx side....covid blurred the line. But after giving it a legit shot for months on end and even more recently to a lighter degree in this thread, it's pretty clear the arc always bends back toward the political side on this topic.

The covid discussion has a lot of interesting points, but it can't stay apolitical. I was out yesterday and catching up up just now, the convo is creeping political again. It's not too uncivil (yet), but it always eventually gets back to the same talking points. Nobody is going to change their mind RE: lockdowns from this discussion which is why I don't see the point in continuing it.

Yeah I’m basically just waiting to see if they do license plate hunting or not.

Yeah the school thing is weird after saying we can’t go outside and jog without a mask on. Now you want to send kids all into school where they cannot socially distance? Well, either it’s so serious that people can’t go into a park without their mask on, or it’s not so bad that we can stuff 30 kids into a classroom 2-3 feet apart from each other. Which one is it? We’ll see how much enforcement happens once ski season starts. If it’s virtually zero then I stay may go to Magic. It’s not hard at all for me to go by myself and not have to ever go inside. Eat lunch in the car or whatever.

Bummer, I was gonna try and hit Magic this winter. Probably not happening now. Day trip to NH on the menu.

Coyotes being skittish are one of the reasons they are so successful. They exist in populated areas without most people knowing it.

That happened in the woods behind my house last fall...2am and they were going nuts. It sounded more like a feeding frenzy or something rather than long howls. It was really creepy though.

Just deleted a bunch of the politics posts from last couple pages. Ya’ll need to go somewhere else to discuss.

Guys cut the politics talk...you can go to Ampol or some other political forum, but not here. I've started deleting posts. If you keep posting, then I'll just suspend or 5-post you. I get that people may want to talk about it, but most people prefer to keep politics off the wx side and it's a rule we've long stood by going back several versions of these forums.

Wow this thread flew off the rails....time to shut down the political talk

Can't wait for the postmortem on the polls this time. Maybe they all donate their money to Selzer?

Nice snow growth on the phineas cam. Probably 20 to 1 stuff.

This is bringing back memories of the bizarre golf course shutdown well after it was apparent people don't get covid playing golf. I highly doubt this is going to be enforced.

Thank god the heated sidewalks are not on yet at Stowe.....those things make me irrationally angry.

This event is pretty robust considering you are getting the echoes showing up so well in the White Mts....Alex will often report decent upslope when you can barely see the echoes, so this one is deeper in the atmosphere...rather than some of the lower level shallow upslope

Def don't measure in the open field with this stuff....you prob want to try and find a fairly sheltered place where some trees are close enough to keep the wind from going crazy, but not so close as to contaminate the snowfall itself. Maybe the north side of your place?

Yeah I was thinking how empty it probably is so it is easier. Though I've heard talk that some airlines might go to rapid testing for their passengers...not sure how that would possibly work for like 100 people. If it would require people getting there super early, then t would offset a lot of the current ease of no lines.

If we’re going to discuss covid at all in the banter thread, then we are going to keep politics out of it. Let’s not imply political conspiracies for objectively easy-to-track numbers from a whole slew of decentralized sources. Some might complain about media narratives and such, but that is outside the scope of this thread and getting into the political aspect of it...and thus, should be avoided or we will just start deleting stuff.

The last one got way too political. We tried it for months and it eventually got worse and worse. People couldn’t behave themselves so it stays off the wx side. Ya’ll can go discuss it on Ampol or somewhere else. I’m not a fan of censorship but this is a wx forum and we’ve always been strict about keeping politics off the wx side. The covid thread was an exception...and then it ultimately proved why we keep politics out of here.

Yeah I missed this one. But your idea reminds me of the days we did radio shows. We usually only do them for KU type threats for the mid-Atlantic but we could totally utilize zoom for some bigger New England-centric threats.

This thread is becoming too covid-centric. We got rid of the other one for a reason.

The largest percent positive spike has occurred amongst the age 5-17 group in the past few weeks. So I wouldn’t be surprised if CFR is even a little lower than the summer peak....hopefully that is the case.