Agree, you can “open up” all you want but if you do it incorrectly and people turn on the news and see their local hospital flooded with dying covid patients the economy isn’t going to be in great shape.
I don’t know that you’re allowing enough time to see the trends. People will take time to slowly come out, it’s not like everyone in Georgia is going to a restaurant on Monday. My guess is trends would evident more on the 6-8+ week time frame.
I saw a virologist on twitter saying herd immunity could be 60%, but that might be a moot point cause the virus would likely overshoot the % needed for herd immunity.
Oh ok, so I guess that’s you’re observation at one course, not sure it scales to all golfers in the state but didn’t realize people were still golfing.
Agree, golf courses have been closed so who is say how golfers would act if courses reopened and they were expected to practice social distancing. I imagine they would be just fine with it.
Yes it’s bad news if you were hoping for herd immunity to be viable. Gonna be weird when 20% of nyc doesn’t have to social distance. There will be 2 classes of people.
Yeah golf is low hanging fruit and popular enough it’ll do a lot for peoples morale to be able to get back on the course. It’s certainly no worse of a risk than people walking/running/biking on trails
I was just using the term lockdown as a blanket since I was referring to some countries that did actual lockdowns and some countries like ours did "almost lockdowns". IMO the words actually in this case truly don't matter.
The IHME thinks we’ll have a precipitous drop in deaths. Doesn’t seem realistic based on what’s happened in Europe. The MIT line looks more realistic. The two shades of grey are the reported deaths, the lighter shade includes probable deaths in nyc.
If all this “open up now” energy could be redirected to “open up smart” and push for a national plan of testing and contact tracing it would work out a lot better for public health and the economy.
It’s not relevant. Some other bad thing that happens doesn’t make the current bad thing that’s happening any better. It’s just another form of whataboutism.