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Considering our economy isn’t closed up it kinda does actually

So hot and humid in Charleston. Dews above 70° ever since the tropical storm and today was 82°/72° at my place just inland

Either that or it fades out similar to the Spanish Flu. As always the Midwest fear of this ceases to amaze me, and I cannot relate. We've literally had SC open for weeks and no spike has occurred, in fact we are going to open all public attractions as well on Friday. This thing just doesn't seem the be as lethal or spread as quickly in the heat, so summer nationally should buy us all time for better medicines to be developed to manage the symptoms

Lol right it's basically a bad Fall day in the Midwest. I did notice the humidity ticked up here in Charleston noticeably

Terrible day here on Sullivan’s Island out by Charleston. Clouds in the distance are from Tropical Depression One

It'll be interesting to see the career changes that happen in this country. You're going to see a major diaspora of workers from retail, hospitality and dining to ? Hopefully this re-emphasizes the importance of a strong manufacturing sector and desire of these jobs.

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/26/21193848/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths-tests-by-state Need to chill man I'm just going off of this chart. Doesn't look to me like the average is 30K

The goal was to match the ramp up with the opening. Right now the majority of testing is being done in healthcare facilities, nursing homes and minority-heavy communities where it is disproportionately affecting them. But SC is right in line with the vast majority of states who have tested per 1M people, most are in that $15-25K range with a few outliers.

Just thought I would post this article from today.. Fauci praises South Carolina's response to Covid-19 His exact quote is... SC's measures in his opinion “ would optimize your capability of reopening.” “I’d almost want to clone that and make sure other people hear about that and see what you’ve been doing" Our department of health or DHEC is vigorously ramping up tests, hiring contact tracers, and people to maintain the database. In my opinion this is the greatest failure of the Midwest on the whole, instead of finding solutions to open reasonably with strict measures and tracking, those governors by and large have resorted in extreme measures. Why in South Carolina have we not had armed protests and death threats? Because the reasonable solutions have led to mostly reasonable responses from the public. We have curbed a spike in this disease and increased testing considerably, already have statewide antibody testing, and tonight I'm going to play in a golf league and then get BBQ with friends. That is a pipe dream in many of the Great Lakes states because the focus seems off. I love talking weather with you all and seeing how things are going back home, so my heart goes out to everyone for how this is affecting you guys. My fear is the extreme measures are going to lead to greater tragedy and economic loss in an area that needs none of that.

Yeah we had little choice. Tourism is soooo important to this area, that a lot of the talk is why would someone visit from Detroit or Chicago if these coastal communities are full of shuttered businesses. Honestly you you guys are lucky in the Rust Belt to be so dependent on manufacturing right now. Because the service industry is king, the state was basically saying we will be broke unless we figure out some way to open things.

I cannot believe we are looking at a clipper in early May

Well yeah everything down here is fried lol

Over Vancouver? I’ve heard that’s considered the best weather in the country. Growing up we would sail and stay on Pelee Island all the time so considering it’s the southernmost point in Canada that is probably the “best weather”

Interesting data posted by Nate Silver today. Why aren’t you guys wearing masks lol? Stunned at this graphic

Anyone watching Weather Channel? Awesome view right now of a storm trying to put a tornado down

Right lol. Traffic can be iffy here but that’s more because the highway system is terrible in the South

Only one in the pool today as it only hit 73° F/23° C here. Haha quite chilly for early May

Wow only 55° here in Charleston this morning! Haha feels like a Midwest day

Lol Charleston & Columbia are about the same size metro area wise as El Paso. Our cities here are very small, not even a million people. Also Charleston is a very wealthy area so many are working from home. To give people perspective the city has similar home values to Rochester Hills, MI and the suburbs are on price with Clarendon Hills outside of Chicago. Honestly coming from Toledo I have never seen an entire city like this. There are rough spots in North Charleston but even that is being gentrified quick.

Yeah no one ever really stayed at home here truthfully. I’m being very cautious as this thing doesn’t play around, but the overall talk down here is that people up north are being a bunch of sissies about this, and seeing both social media and this forum I tend to agree. There isn’t the mass hysteria on our local news, or within people here. We’re just wearing masks and staying outside. This has led to 7x less cases than Michigan and only 240 deaths thus far. No one seems to be asking, why is it so much worse up North if the rules are so much stricter? Shouldn’t the spread be much less?

Yeah no one followed it lol. Seriously traffic is been pretty heavy for awhile, boat launches have almost no parking spots, parks full, and golf courses requiring tee times as late as 5 PM on weekdays. Again though it is an entirely different culture here. Believe me when I say it is obvious why these people seceded from the Union first in the Civil War. Politically this state makes Donald Trump look like a liberal lol

It is astounding reading this thread and seeing the fear in all you northerners. Guys we've been running around here in South Carolina for two weeks now wide open, heck outdoor bars and restaurants are even full. There was a bit of an uptick but nothing ridiculous, in fact we only added 60 new cases today. I know few of you will understand and many will disagree, but everyone north of the Ohio River needs to get a bottle of Xanax and chill out. I feel bad because it pains me to see my old stomping grounds just destroying the economies, which will only lead to more jobs heading to the Sun Belt, but you just gotta be cautious and use common sense folks.

People are burning through liquidity, fixed it for you. Unemployment is impossible to get almost because so many are trying to sign up, so many are seeing significant delays. Hell my sister runs a Hampton Inn around the Sandusky, OH area and she said they’ve laid everyone off but her and the Assistant GM. Laid off employees are coming and eating the continental breakfast so they don’t go hungry that’s how bad it is. Having 30 million people lose their entire incomes and then more than likely having to enter a new industry is going to be devastating for the rest of the year to our economy.

That is an extremely impressive hail core heading towards Florence.

Service industry people mostly. Retail, airlines, hospitality and dining have been absolutely gutted. Mother works at one of the bigger hotels in Detroit and told me that Las Vegas is basically unemployed. In addition here in Charleston we’ve already lost $1 Billion economically and tons of service industry people have no money