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I gotta take my hat off to Mississippi & North Carolina for getting their Rt below 1 at this time. I love looking at that website that shows how this thing has trended, it's obvious the effect SIP had, and then the summer dip as mask wearing became extremely prevalent throughout. I cannot believe the number Michigan registered yesterday, over 6k cases! I know you have the cold weather working against you but good heavens these numbers are terrible.

Wow it’s only a high of 59° in Charleston. Unbelievable cold for this time of year

Wow 20+ footers today on Lake Superior. One of the coolest things about the Great Lakes are days like today with the big fall storms. Btw did anyone see that field goal in the Cleveland/Las Vegas game? 40 mph gust came in and snap hooked it completely left

I wouldn’t say magical. I just agree with the approach this region has over what the Midwest is doing. Hell I believe even golf courses were closed up there until mid Summer

As I said earlier that’s probably the worst idea. People have had it and are doing tons of private gatherings where the spread is happening. I’d rather have people at a Michigan-Michigan State football game with 20% capacity or a restaurant with limited capacity spaced out as you’re allowing people that recreation with safety measures. It’s why numbers with the exception of Florida are fairly low here in the South. The fatigue is not nearly what you have in the Rust Belt. The amount of family and friends I have trying to visit is wild right now. While cold weather plays a factor, they all talk about how they’re sick of not being able to go to games or how restricted things like bowling alleys and restaurants are up there

It’s why I’m a fan of limited yet reasonable restrictions. People are more likely to have their guard up in public and forced to in those establishments/places. Forcing people to basically stay home and visit “essential businesses” only raises the chance for home gatherings and cookouts where it’s really going to spread

I think we’re doing actually really well tbh. Europe’s numbers are much worse than ours currently and they’re going ballistic over new lockdowns. Riots everywhere and mass traffic exodus out of cities

I will say flights are getting awfully cheap. Probably going to head home to Michigan for the holidays if I can snag a round trip flight for $150

Wow

They had a hell of a storm earlier up in Mt Airy. Breezy here in Charleston and very humid but that is all

I won't lie, I'm not sure how much more we can realistically afford. Tax revenues have absolutely plummeted due to this. I know this is going to come off as quite political but the coronavirus has crushed so much of what will likely be a liberal led DC for the next few years simply due to a lack of funding. This is what I face daily at work. We constantly worry about the next few years of our company as states will simply not have the money to do major infrastructure projects without significant tax hikes on both corporations and people. I see no way we can continue with stimulus packages and not cut spending drastically/increase taxes by 5% on anyone making under $150K & 8-10% on anyone making over that

I have zero faith in China’s numbers. They went months without restrictions in a heavily urbanized area.

Great radar presentation as well

Wow this really strengthened on approach

That reminds me, someone in town the other day was doing 75 in a 40 and killed four people with their Wrangler in a t-bone accident

I mean we’re already living our best 1918 life everyday

No it does not. Also I recently moved here from Ohio so i keep up with the weather in the Midwest. I hope this is okay with you

Haha I mean Charleston actually is. I’m unsure if you have ever visited but it’s routinely ranked as one of the top vacation spots in the country. I highly recommend a visit sometime. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed living here. Incredibly scenic and steeped in history. Plus very temperate weather.

Quit talking about Ebola lol. Hell in 2015 is when Bill Gates gave his grave prediction on that TED talk. We weren't prepared and if you read the article I posted you can see that funding waned over time with the 2005 measures.

Well said. That's a laughable comment. George Bush actually went to great lengths to set up the current system in 2005, but it became neglected in time by both the Obama Administration & then furthermore by the Trump Administration. It's actually aggravating in hindsight that was not followed through, reading up on this they had a really good plan and even presented it to the NIH. But alas funding was not there to sustain it. George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'

To be fair Ebola is far less contagious than this. That's really the issue, contact tracing is very possible with something like that where you catch it from direct contact with a sick individual. This is spread airborne by asymptomatic people. That is the truly terrifying thing about this illness

No lol, but come on do you really think small towns are going to abide by this? I realize I probably grew up in a more rural area than most here, but I doubt any true lockdowns will be followed through. I do have a serious scientific question on this, does anyone really think that anything other than herd immunity will work here? If you look at the Spanish Flu & Russian Flu (which is believed to be a coronavirus as well) most studies I have read agree that it was herd immunity which brought it to a final end. Honestly does anyone think there is another outcome other than a vaccine which is mandatory for all Americans to take that will solve this issue? Even if a vaccine comes out tomorrow, you'd have to set it up so everyone in America takes this vaccine within a 4-5 month span to prevent any re-infection. And then this will probably need to continue for years to come similar to a flu shot. IMO I find the implementation of a solution here to be incredibly difficult & almost not feasible.

You won’t have another hard lockdown bc there’s 300 million firearms in the country. Also does it even matter at this point? Most spread is occurring from cookouts, events like wedding, hangouts at this point. People have adjusted from going to bars and public events to hanging out with friends regularly. That’s aiding this thing

Between murder hornets and ol rona we’re in for a rough few months here

Yes DTA I was not talking about the race riots & protests. I swear sometimes this forum at times gives NASCAR a run for its money and how much it goes left.