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I never heard any reported instances in news throughout the state that mentioned this. California never declared herd immunity, it's the people not living in the state that did. Because of no herd immunity, the governor just locked down 80% of the state again. Save a life while saving a business if you can. Right or wrong, California is choosing today to save a life. The other states can standby, watch, and wait on the results.

I haven't been in grade school since the early 70's, so someone more recent can double check the numbers. But 61 dead is not really a good number. When you scale that number up to our 328 million, that would be around 200 thousand dead? Close, but we're not there, yet. School opening is mute, doctors are saying right now that kids have a teflon immune system when it comes to this virus. The problem won't be the kids, the problem will be the durability of the staff. If a substantial amount of the staff goes down without replacements, we will be right back where we are, online study. Schools will open or not based on your governor. Kids are teflon, spend the money on protection for the staff and we'll see how it goes.

We're all insane, so you're ok there. But hairline, what's that.

I heard the president speak a few weeks ago that he told his Cabinet to cut testing. How could what's going on in Florida, South Carolina, and Arizona be attributed to increased testing? Read that if those three states were countries, they would rank 1, 2, 3 in most cases in the world for 7 straight days.

Man you got that right. Back then it was easy to keep up, our modern day Google was called encyclopedia Britannica. The school system say they need funding to reopen, the federal government say reopen to get funding. It's a Catch 22. Unfortunately, parents and the government want the reopen to happen quickly, the school system want to reopen correctly. We will reopen schools quickly. The federal government, parents, or the school system are not the losers in this fight.

There was a lot of money thrown around a few months back, it wasn't thought out in my opinion. I hear a second round is possible, will it be thought out. I don't see it. With saying that, vulnerable folks staying home and getting paid, no. Is their job secure, no. They'll probably be treated like the meat packers. Right now, America is like dust in the wind, we're all over the place.

Seventy five percent of parents want kids back in school and some of the data suggest kids may be ok, but for an adult in the school system it will be survival of the fittest. Have not heard any conversation about the adult threshold to reopen and remain open, not just for teachers. What about replacement of the other "essential workers" in the lunchroom, janitors, bus drivers, etc. I work in a building with 1000 people, you let the bathroom cleaning go down for a couple of days. You're definitely talking work at home.

Everyone knows zinc is over the counter, your comment was in combination. I'll take your word military has HCQ in their pharmacies, don't know. For military members, my point was a military or civilian doctor is not going to prescribe HCQ for malaria to be used for covid, so no purpose in getting zinc and not use in combination as you suggest. Twenty three yrs active duty with over fifty times travel and living overseas, I have never been prescribed or taken HCQ. As far as that goes, I never saw medications listed on anyone's orders. Don't know where the CNN piece come in? What data are you basing your zinc combined with HCQ comment? Lot more than a barracks lawyer saying just take this silver bullet and you'll be ok.

Actually think it's higher, I don't have a nationwide trust the numbers are being reported honestly by every state.

He's in the Navy, a majority of military doctors are a joke. Department of Defense doesn't just try or prescribe medicine unless proven to cure what it's recommended for. Also during routine and unscheduled drug tests, a military member can only have prescribed or over the counter drugs in their system.

Read that the US should model what European countries did to control the virus. The reasons I agreed with, but why look over there, NY ain't that far. The nursing home issue, I got it. But why not do what they did? They went from worse to first.

My son is now day 21 self quarantine, migranes are debilitating. Still learning as we go. Self quarantine is definitely not a consolation prize for getting covid without hospitalization. Heard we've lost 1000 front-line workers, nurses and doctors. Don't know if it matters to build additional hospital space like they did a few months back, who's going to work it?

One up you on that. Flew in on a C 130 and landed at an air base in Saudi Arabia during the summer time. The pilot shut off power and we had to de-plane because it was 125 degrees in the aircraft. Our transport had not yet arrived and temps got up to 150 degrees on the tarmac. It didn't feel like standing in front of the oven with the door open, it felt like turning the oven on broil and putting your head inside. You're talking about out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Picked up barbering as a hobby about 40 yrs ago, did some work in a 5 star barbershop. Not exactly what you would call the classic electric shaver, but you can also get a professional barber edger that can pull double duty as a shaver. Going opposite grain shaves me as close as I would like. Skin won’t be as smooth as a baby’s butt, though it’ll get the job done. These things are durable, spent about 100 bucks and still have mine after 40 yrs. Blade stays sharp as long as you oil on schedule, but a blade is fairly inexpensive compared to durability. Hot towel followed by “Lectric Shave” prior to using an electric shaver will give you a pretty decent shave. I've used all of the brands, currently Andis is my go to shaver.

Although new in it's execution, this is still a virus and it's probably safe to say a person will get it through smell or touch. Contrary to your message, everyone has it figured it out. Mask, distance, and hand washing. Basic concept for a virus as told to me from someone born in the 1930s. Wasn't a whole lot of medicine back then; castor oil, goody's powder, chicken noodle soup, wash your hands, cover your mouth, stay in your room, and get plenty of rest. I was back playing street football in short order.

Totally tracking, just needed a subject matter expert to articulate. This is probably a nationwide rule versus the exception. I'm not an optimist or pessimist, I'm a realist. I don't see the storybook ending with kids going back to school. My hat's off to you, your wife, and all the educators.

Although I still look at them, I'm desensitized with individual graphs and statistics. The back and forth distorted my view. The only info that interest me today is if for some inadvertent reason FOX, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc, link satellites and transmit the same news at the same time. For example, cases are increasing. Then, that's probably believable.

Most of the early deaths unfortunately can be attributed to politics. With the varying messages, took me a few months to find my legs. There's really nothing else I need to read or hear. Pretty much set in my ways now that it's spreading again. I'll wear a mask or I don't. I'll get sick or I won't. I'll recover or I die. Ironically, wearing a mask doesn't mean I won't get sick. It means the chances increase the next fella won't.

When too many infected kids or educators go down, the school system will be right back where we are, online learning. Why not refine that process instead of possibly losing time and money having to restart? That bubble is about to burst.

Ithan, given you are a school teacher, what is the conversation among your peers about school restarting now that virus numbers are what we saw months ago. Requiring masks while being fashionable (like the mascot) might help, but forget about distancing. Cases are up but deaths are down added to kids may have a better tolerance for the virus.

Covid is not our worst enemy, we know how to manage by now. It's what we can't manage during this pandemic that's giving us problems, it's people.

Speechless, yes. Surprising, no. This is what happens when we are bad examples for our kids, they take it to levels we can't imagine.

https://www.insider.com/alabama-students-covid-parties-bet-on-who-gets-sick-2020-7 Heard this on the local news just now. Didn't check whether it was true or not, just wanted to check it out.

It will get easier, at least in a California city. Especially when a second offense will cost the offender up to $5000. Sometimes when you ask someone to do something, you have to hit them in the pocket to get them to listen.