Jonger

On 3/21/2021 at 6:11 PM, schoeppeya said:

There was someone a few pages back that speculated we would end up with below average  mortality this year... will be interesting to see if that trend continues 

That was me. I made that call with no data, just figured we have a more hardy population after COVID did it's culling.

On 3/18/2021 at 5:36 PM, dta1984 said:

Lol "masks are for theater after you've been vaccinated or had the virus." 

Get him senator Paul!   

 

Took a 5 mile hike on the outskirts of Ann Arbor (heavily liberal) and people hiking in the middle of the woods were wearing masks. Leaving metro Detroit you hardly see anyone wearing them outside of large chain stores and certainly not outside.

No lives were saved, it's just theater. He's right.

On 3/17/2021 at 10:01 AM, StormfanaticInd said:

This could be the worst severe weather season since 2011 folks

This is an annual post from anyone living in Michigan.

3 hours ago, WaryWarren said:

Oh noes, Donger isn't coming to our state for his vacay. 

That's what my girlfriend calls me.

How'd you know?

2 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Texas doing well

I might be shifting my vacation to Florida or Texas now as opposed to California. 

13 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

I call it Taco Hell.  Haven't had it in a long time but another thing is that the food always seemed to be cold.  I'm not talking about going to the drive through and it getting cold by the time you get home.  It was cold pretty much right away.

That's anything with sour cream... I know what you're talking about.

4 minutes ago, WaryWarren said:

So all the whining about masks and shutdowns...and you use your freedom to eat processed dog turds at Taco Smell. Bwahahaha!

I have been dining in sitdown restaurants since it became possible, it's just nice to grab a bite to eat without a 30+ minute commitment and not dropping $30+ doing it.

And people who complain about Taco Bell are full of crap.

Feels good sitting inside a Taco Bell eating like normal.

Was talking to a few of my snowmobile buddies about this. Thinking 10 feet in spots could be on the table.

Next winter I'm going to start mountain riding. Getting tired of the hit or miss winters out this way.

1 hour ago, OSUmetstud said:

Idk but the weekly excess deaths per the cdc are still in epidemic territory (I think its at least several percent above baseline?) I'm hoping that by early to mid summer it falls below that threshold. 

I'd be curious to see if we experience a net drop in deaths overall as seniors and others in weaker health are absent from the population going forward. Eventually things will settle back to where they were, but we could see a temporary drop below normal levels.

58 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

As an NWS employee, I haven't come across many colleagues who are in favor of this change. Also, like with the radar page, it's unfortunate that we all give feedback on this stuff and they move forward with the changes anyway. Why pay lip service to getting feedback if the outcome is predetermined? Maybe our negativity is misplaced on it, we'll see.

 

The change I think l dislike the most is changing Small Craft Advisories into Small Craft Warnings. We already have Gale Warnings for more impactful conditions. Also, are they expecting us to issue Small Craft Watches? Confident in saying that we'll be raising our criteria for Small Craft issuances and probably mostly designating them for hazardous waves. The service change announcement says that they need to be called warnings because they're life threatening situations. Funny thing is, I'm not aware of conditions hazardous to small craft causing any fatalities in my time here. If we're going down this route, we need to issue Beach Hazards/Rip Current Warnings, because we know dangerous swimming conditions cause a bunch of drownings each year.

The new NWS radar output is horrible. I never use it for that simple reason.

56 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Texas is lifting all mask mandates and fully reopening on March 10th. North Dakota, Montana and Iowa have also lifted mask orders in recent weeks.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texas-biggest-us-state-lift-covid-19-mask-76208428

I have held off booking my flight for the end of March due to not being completely sure who will have the mandate or not. I might opt for Texas in this case.

8 hours ago, Stebo said:

St. Ignace literally just had 11" on Wednesday morning. I am sure the other side of the bridge did well.

Depends on which day he went up.... I was in St. Ignace 5 days ago and there was less snow than Howell.

19 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Seeing blue ice at the mackinac bridge was pretty sweet

Surprised you went up there... I think there was more snow in Howell than Mackinaw City.

I'll continue keeping myself in shape and just live my life with minimal risk.

23 minutes ago, Stebo said:

I'll buy wetter and warmer. Outside of the SSW induced cold we just had, its been a warm winter.

Just say, outside of February.

19 hours ago, Hoosier said:

I saw a line from Fauci about mask wearing possibly until 2022.  Couldn't believe it.  Maybe he's being overly cautious or something.

With the reports of the flu being non-existent this year, I wouldn't be shocked to see certain pols calling for mandatory mask usage during certain months even after COVID fades into history.

I'll be voting against those pols at every chance.

I'm waiting to see people clamoring for lockdowns to protect the population against the new variants that the vaccine doesn't protect against.

6 hours ago, Stebo said:

Absolutely agree, the roll out in general has been absolutely terrible due to the negligence of the last administration. It is only now things are starting to right themselves some.

You gotta be shitting me.

1 hour ago, StormfanaticInd said:

Deaths are slowly but surely coming down 

Thank big pharm.

1 hour ago, Frog Town said:

Won't matter who's president, as long as people are in bad health, they'll die if weak enough.

Big wake up call to people who think being fat is ok.

On 10/28/2020 at 3:42 PM, A-L-E-K said:

classic jon

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550451/

 

Just because something is worsening doesn't mean it's not still lower than most countries.

13 minutes ago, Angrysummons said:

Being fat is a part of the problem.

fwiw, you can probably add 100000 onto China's final current number. Still like the rest of Asia, blows the "west" away.

China probably has one of the lowest obesity rates on earth. I'm sure their tally is a total lie though.

COVID just gave many people on the brink a little nudge off the cliff.

Are we really going to ignore obesity rates and how that has played into all of this?

32 minutes ago, bowtie` said:

Just for comparison, how many births today?

8,000 Americans die everyday with or without COVID.