Coronavirus-driven ban on mass gatherings voted down in Moab

[Jim]

RockyMtRebel previously posted:

[FINOCJ]

Another staff meeting this afternoon after school...basically given the 'be prepared to be doing online school from home' starting now. Without anyone specifically saying it, it certainly felt like there is a good possibility that we might be closing the building Monday....All CHSAA sports activities, practices, games etc are canceled. With Douglas Co, JeffCo and DPS all having spring breaks over the next 3 weeks - it seems there is a lot of sense to just shutting everything down for those weeks and reassessing during that time. Kind of makes sense to me...but its going to be interesting moving to remote schooling.

[open_circuit]

The school district my kids my kids attended in Texas before moving here is on spring break. They announced today they are extending spring break by a week and then will evaluate. I expect the same here come Monday. I think it's all about limiting the surge now.

[Getaklu]

open_circuit previously posted:

[FINOCJ]

I would agree...

[Jackie]

Jim previously posted:

[Max]

"DC church rector who gave Communion and shook hands with worshippers has coronavirus."

If you're going to gather en masse, don't touch or breathe on anyone at least!

[Jim]

The Diocese of Denver changed some Mass protocol
1) No holy water available at the entrance doors
2) No hand shaking / sign-of-peace
3) No Blood of Christ available at communion

[Java]

So sorry to hear about your Mom, Jim. I hope all is well as possible for you and your family.

[Jim]

Thanks folks. I pulled the post - it was more of a vent than anything productive. I give Mom the title of World's Best Mom. Family's well (LOL - so far, maybe we'll all get sick [and die??]).


Back to the thread. I found this vid "reasonable" in action:

(I don't _think_ this vid is a repost). This and Paul's "Safeway" (LOL) vid are two I find decent (of the many out there).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFh...ature=youtu.be
How Serious is the Coronavirus? Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm Explains | Joe Rogan

EDIT

This looks to be the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
Joe Rogan Experience #1439 - Michael Osterholm

[FINOCJ]

Its official - JeffCo (and i think a number of other districts in the metro) will be closing down and going to remote course work on Monday 3/16....We have spring break the following week....

[speedkills]

Controversial idea. Instead of quarantining people to prevent spread, we could quarantine people to help spread it in a controlled fashion to people strong enough to survive it until we had herd immunity. This could also help turn around the falling stock prices of cruise ships. Free two week cruises to anyone passing a physical exam, get them all on the ship, two weeks later, they come back having had a hell of a case of sea sickness and now immune. Am I sciencing it right?

[Tom]

FINOCJ previously posted:

[FINOCJ]

I am in support of the school closures - especially with spring break. I think we need some time to assess and reassess how things are developing. There is no 'stopping' the spread, but if it can be slowed and delayed and managed into less people, it will hopefully stay below the dashed line on Trent's chart...But I also recognize this will have a large affect on the families of students that may not be able to work etc....Probably no good (or maybe no painless) solutions....

[open_circuit]

Closing schools helps minimize spread, but has to be balanced against the impact on health care and public safety workers who rely on the childcare aspect of public school to allow them to work. No good answers here right now. I don't want to see things escalate here like Northern Italy, where there are unfortunately health care workers having to triage and decide who gets care.

Edit: Adams12 just announced the same thing. Starting Monday, the kids will be on spring break (a week early). Apparently they are having school tomorrow, probably to give parents some time to figure this out.

[FINOCJ]

open_circuit previously posted:

[Swank1975]

The worrisome part about the herd immunity topic with this virus is there still is no definite ruling on how long the antibodies in most people are surviving. There have been cases of re-infection. They are still studying this. It is going to be a bumpy ride for sure and even though as individuals we may feel we're healthy and at low risk we can still kill others with careless actions.

[Java]

The aisles with soup and expectorant were fully stocked at the supermarket yesterday, tons of produce, but the toilet paper aisle has been picked clean. We're all set on food and TP, just getting some accoutrements so it didn't matter, but I don't get it. I can take a shower and eliminate my need for TP, but I can't wash away hunger. I don't get it.

Safeway, 44th and Lowell:

[Getaklu]

Paul previously posted:

[open_circuit]

The neighbor is in line at Costco (in Superior?). They sent a photo of the line to get into the store wrapping around the building. Folks are in panic mode.