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Election Day snowstorm?

Both the Montague and Binghamton NWS radars are down this morning. Other than local radar central New York has to depend on the radar out of Buffalo which isn’t very accurate in our area.

My sister has a friend who lives in Fort Collins, CO. As of a few days ago the fires were about 40 miles from her. She said the smoke is very noticeable in the air.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/13/coronavirus-first-case-of-covid-19-reinfection-confirmed-in-the-us.html?__source=facebook|main&fbclid=IwAR1J5Q-8qnypio31mem4oitloBzKpOePPqErzcu9BZ04J1AWua2vxJ_7V3U

So let’s use the 0.8% mortality rate. The population of the US is around 330,000,000. To achieve herd immunity a minimum of 60% (probably more like 70%) of the population needs to be infected. That’s around 200 million people. If 0.8% of those die that’s 1.6 million deaths. Insanity! You really think that’s acceptable? Edit:. This is really directed at Luke_Mages who thinks herd immunity is the answer.

It’s the coldest morning so far this fall season. I’m down to 29 here this morning.

Can you please provide your data that support a 0.26% mortality rate? Right now there have been roughly 216,000 deaths out of 8 million cases. That is a mortality rate of 2.7%.

You left off January 1977. Is that because it wasn’t pure lake effect or because it was before your time?

What is this picture?

The low was 30 here and there was frost on the ground. KSYR recorded a low of 34 which ties the record low set in 1943.

I closed all the windows in the house last night and managed to keep the temperature at 64 when I got up this morning. The outside temperature fell to 37 here. I’m with you it’s way too early to turn on the heat. The sky is very milky this morning with smoke from the wildfires at high altitudes. My wife went for a walk this morning and said she could smell smoke but I told her with her nose she probably was smelling the smoke in California, lol. Time to go rake the forests!

How close is it to the nuke plant? My niece is a real estate agent and she’s been selling houses like crazy in one day above list price.

Cuomo just announced that any colleges that play sports this fall will do so without fans in the stands. https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/07/no-fans-allowed-for-college-sports-in-ny-this-fall-cuomo-says.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/walmart-says-all-shoppers-must-wear-mask-starting-monday-n1233893

I think Cuomo said it’s too early to make a decision on the fair.

Cuomo just opened horse race tracks, without fans, and Watkins Glen Speedway, without fans, for the summer.

The Onondaga County executive said we’re ready to open.

The point is that the more people carrying the virus the greater the chance it can find it’s way to the vulnerable population. Which brings me to your second point. It’s fallacious to compare the chance of dying in a car accident or a shooting to dying from Covid-19. Dying in a car accident is a random singular act. It happens and it’s over. No one else in a car behind you is going to die. If you walk around with the carona virus and you will infect at least one or two other people who in turn will infect one or two others until it spreads through the population eventually finding a vulnerable individual. If we can stop that by preventing the first individual from being infected we can save lives.

I would like to know at what age does the value of life start to decline? You contradict yourself, first you say if they’re over 70 they’re going to die anyways then you say your 86 year old grandmother means the world to you and you’re doing everything you can to protect her. So I guess if you don’t know someone their life if disposable so you can resume your normal lifestyle? Remember, people over 70 are someone’s grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, sister or brother and mean the same to those people as your grandmother means to you. I know you’re young and feel bulletproof and chomping at the bit to resume the activities you enjoy. But we can’t just drop all of the mitigation measures that have at least kept this virus manageable without expecting a jump in infections, hospitalizations and deaths. And just a reminder, there are people in your demographic that have gotten seriously ill from Covid-19.

Assuming it takes an infection rate of 60% to achieve herd immunity nearly 200 million Americans would have to be infected. With a mortality rate of even 0.5% close to a million people would die. That’s a scary thought.

Why are you jumping to conclusions and calling Gov. Cuomo a bust and claim that he is lying? If you did some research you would find that the NYS death figures do not include probable Covid-19 deaths which are included in the Worldometer figures. It almost seems like you are taking these statistics personally.

As per Cuomo schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic year.

It figures that my wife and I have been talking about doing some traveling once we were both retired. I’ve been retired coming up on 4 years and she just retired on Valentines Day this year. 2 days before she retired our 14 year old Bichon Frise collapsed. She spent several days at the VMC in East Syracuse and did ok in oxygen but crashed when taken out. We finally took her home in a makeshift oxygen tent but she wasn’t doing well so we euthanized her on 2/20. Then our other dog, who had cancer, dies in front of us on April 14. So we’re now dogless and free to travel but of course the corona virus hits and there goes the chance to travel. I would just as soon forget 2020.

Remdesivir is a treatment for Covid 19, not a vaccine. As Kramer was saying on CNBC this morning if a treatment can be developed that greatly reduces the risk of death from this virus it will be a game changer for the economy. People are deathly (sorry for the pun) afraid of dying and will not return to normal economic behavior until that fear is alleved.

We usually try to make it there once every year just to walk around, get something to eat, check out the sand and butter sculptures, etc. Now that we’re both retired we can go during the week when crowds aren’t as bad. The older I get the more I hate putting up with large crowds