Posted on 03/10/2020 5:22:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Continuation of the thread.
Please use this thread to consolidate the discussion and stories.
Good to know.
And being a busybody you feel the need to chime in.
Here's a list of 50 Division I Schools.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/list-major-universities-suspending-in-person-classes-amid-coronavirus-fears
This list only captures 1 of a dozen colleges closing within 100 miles of me (not including community colleges), and only 2 of 15 schools that have announced suspension of in person classes in Massachusetts. I'm sure this translates to Division II and III Schools, as well as non NCAA affiliated schools, local "Community Colleges", etc. I think it's pretty safe to say we are well beyond 100. Smaller schools just don't interest the media.
Add University of Virginia to the list. They just announced this a few hours ago.
I am going to revise my earlier comment.
It might be useful to look at the universities that have gone online and see how many of them have a medical school/center.
I have recently read UVA’s notice to students about going online. What really stands out is their strong emphasis on students returning home.
Most UVA students do not live on campus and have annual leases on apartments. So strongly advising them to return home (or not to come back if on Spring Break) sounds to me like something else.
Like maybe preparing for a deluge of patients in its Medical Center?
“I don’t see you as having anything of value to add except to disrupt the information gathering. No one cares about your feelings.”
You win the Ironic Post of the Day Award.
SUNY, CUNY to switch to online classes next week due to coronavirus
“The move, which takes effect March 19, will have a significant effect on the largest public college system in the nation as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grew to 212 across New York, including 121 in Westchester, mainly in the hotspot of New Rochelle.”
Thank you
Tsa is now allowing face masks. They have paid and ordered the N95 masks. But, they are on back order.
Very good follow-up here (good discussion of sanitizers, handwashing, and masks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqQdwvjf7U
Has anyone asked the taskforce when the US will have enough N95 masks for not only professional healthcare workers, but people like me with high risk family members?
Plus you gotta oversupply the hoarders, somehow...
What do those numbers mean to him tho?
thanks, Holly - I’ve seen all except that car handle one at the end. China is a Maoist hellhole where resentment of others is carried to the extremes. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is happening here in the US. For social credit points.
You forgot to mention the nuts who want to nuke China. Thankfully they mostly seem to be gone from these threads.
The answer to your and my (and many other people’s) fascination with this (obsession with some) is partially fear. Fear of the virus, fear of how others will react, and so on. Much of it is fear of the unknown. There is even a certain “thrill” to it for some, I suspect. “Horror” movies attract many people for that reason, I know. They need the adrenaline jolt or kick to a higher awareness or alertness, perhaps?
That’s not all bad. Humans would have ended in short order if we didn’t know when to run. But, humans are individuals who respond on a sort of bell curve: Some react too soon, or too strongly. Some react too late or too weakly. Some react in self-defeating ways.
This (Free Republic) is mostly an older crowd, so a new disease that mostly kills seniors and is presently untreatable is a particular threat. Ditto for its demonstrated ability to spread rapidly. Most of this assessment is not unfounded: Estimates that COVID-19 might infect 20 - 50% of the US population in the next year seem reasonable to me. I find myself at moderate risk (age, mostly), ditto for others my age. I’m quite concerned about my elderly Mom, my brother with 1/3 of his lungs left, and my daughter with asthma.
The problem of course is that overreaction can cause more harm than the virus itself might do. I guess I’m “in the middle”, but what if the virus can’t be slowed by “reasonable” actions? I don’t know.
Are we all going to be running around with N95 masks on for the next year, just to be responsible to our fellow humans? It seems better than shutting down the country.
One thing is for sure. I’m not “thrilled”.
#BREAKING Chicago Saint Patrick’s Day (Downtown) Parade cancelled **
transexuals and rainbow coalition hit the hardest
I am thinking Trump is trying to figure out how not create a panic.
BINGO!
Have you been able to track today’s numbers?
Yeah I saw that same thread earlier - thanks for pointing it out.
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