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The Dog

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  1. I've been telling yall for several weeks that Amarillo and surrounding towns was fucked.  And then the meat packers on Moore County (one county north of Amarillo) got massive cases relative to the population.
    Mentioned this last week, the entire 10-12 counties around Amarillo has a population comparable to  Galveston or Brazoria counties and has more cases by far. 
    Montgomery County (The Woodland, Conroe, etc has 40% more people and 600 less cases.  Fort Bend has about rhd same population as Montgomery County and still has 300 fewer cases than the Amarillo area. 
    Diagnosis rate in Amarillo is .41%.   Its .14% for the Houston area (I'm using Harris County and the 6 counties that border it).   If Houston Metro had .41% testing rate, thered be over 27,000 cases here and not 9,500.
    The people out there a scared.  Big time.

    Yup. This was on my FB feed from the current mayor:


    “Hi Amarillo. This week, I have been working with the Governor's office to request additional resources for Amarillo. Governor Abbott called me today; he has been working with Vice President Pence regarding the outbreak in our beef packing plants. They are sending a surge strike force to bring resources and strategies to attack the outbreaks that are happening in our hotspots.

    The Federal Government will be taking over the operations of our investigation and our testing. The team will arrive as late as Monday and their plan is to also encompass all of Amarillo in their strategy.

    The Governor wants us to know that the Vice President and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are personally engaged in watching what is happening in Amarillo and are creating the resources to help us fight it.

    I also want to make you aware that our testing is going to increase this week. We may even double our testing numbers in one week. Prepare yourselves that our positive test results are going to go up in the next 7-14 days. This is a good thing. The more data we have, the greater our information and the tools we will have to combat the spread.

    I hope it brings you as much peace of mind as it brings me. Our elected officials are engaged and helping us to craft a strategy that they have been using in other meatpacking plants, and will bring the resources we need to slow the spread and stop the outbreak.

    The Governor reminded me, "It is best for your citizens to stay indoors.” The more we can stay in, the less we will be out carrying the virus unknowingly to people who have to be out.

    Please continue to stay in as much as possible and wear a mask when you must go out.”
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  2. Maybe if you support smart government that isn’t going to get punked by China 99% of time, you won’t spend so much time being angry about being punked by China.  While you’re, you know, getting sick or dying.  Try harder next time.

    I don’t care how smart you are if someone keeps information from you that you need to make an informed decision then you will struggle.

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  3. 26 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Harvard Study - 19 states doing Enough Testing to Open Up

    This study looks state by state looking at population density and the extent of the covid infection rate to see how many tests per day are needed to open up.

    The summary: 17 of the 19 states that have enough testing to open up are in the south and western US.

    That's a great article and shows just how fragmented public health is in this country. 

    It also shows how much more testing capacity is needed in areas with large outbreaks (NY state is fuuuucked) and less in others. 

  4. Good grief, even if it is Evans (highly doubt that it is) then why should anyone believe his intentions? He's probably telling several programs what they want to hear and then will just show up wherever, and even then may not be allowed in if he's pulling the same crap he was during the fall. Remember that he can't sign another LOI and everyone has to trust his word which we all know is worthless.

    This is the same kid who signed with Georgia then told LSU and aggy to keep recruiting him. IMHO there's a chance he doesn't even get to play this fall because of the bullshit he's pulled unless he goes aggy.

  5. 3 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

    I think for about a month most people will continue to wear masks and social distance.  After that, I think most people will revert back to normal except you'll still see some people wearing masks

    Agreed with this take. There's a lot of pent-up demand and people are going to want to indulge in the things they couldn't (dining out, go to a movie, etc.) during the isolation period. 

    I also have to wonder (as a former airline guy) how smart the airlines are being about this. The current situation sucks for them, but anyone who isn't hedging fuel at these prices is nuts. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Cool.  I guess we'll just happily go along with innocent people paying the price -- up to and including death -- for other people's purposeful irresponsibility, and do zero to hold them accountable.  That's a GREAT path.

    "Personal responsibility" my ass.  The great "tort reform" crowd is effectively 100% against people being responsible for their actions.   I can refuse to get vaccinated for an easily preventable disease, carry it with me all around town, kill a dozen people, and face no - ZERO - consequences.  That seems like a BRILLIANT policy, and I can't see how it would lead to bad outcomes at all.

    What the fuck does this have to do with tort reform Walter?

    Take a break dude.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    No, you're choosing not to listen.

    I go to work.  I come down with a communicable disease that 1) is not widespread (say, pertussis) and 2) has a vaccine.  I then find out that soon after I came down with pertussis (even though I am vaccinated), co-worker Bob came down with it, because he was NOT vaccinated.  I subpoena labs from Bob, we match up the strain genetically to mine.  It is a near certainty that I got pertussis from Bob.  And the more-likely-than-not reason that Bob was able to transmit it to me is because he did not do what a reasonable person would do -- get vaccinated.

    No, it can't be done for a disease that is widespread, and could have been caught anywhere.  It's only going to be a viable claim if it's a disease that you aren't likely to get being out in the population at large, AND you connect it (likely through genetics) to the actual pathogen carried by the defendant.  So, perhaps a couple of years from now, when we THINK we have COVID eliminated, and someone turns up getting sick because some moron didn't get vaccinated, we'll see this litigation.

    Sorry I think I speak for most that this sounds like a really bad idea. I get what you are trying to accomplish and appreciate it but it's got the potential to open a can of worms that I'd prefer stay shut. 

    Just mho.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Fools errand to think warm weather will "kill" the virus.  People can get colds and flu during the summer.  The hope would be that like with things like the flu that warm (and humid) weather A.  don't kill but potentially degrade the virus such that it has a harder time causing infection B.  respiratory droplets that the virus is contained in have a much much harder time suspending in more humid air for any length of time C. Higher UV may further degrade virus and additionally may help bolster folks vitamin D levels in turn making their immune systems stronger in terms of fighting anything off and D.  Folks just are not as socially squashed in the summer time as they are in the colder months making transmission harder. 

     

    So kill.....unlikely.  Slow significantly.....hopefully. 

    I've always understood option D as being the big reason colds and flu taper off in the warmer months. Staying inside all the time in close contact with people helps the spread. We all do a lot less of that once the weather warms up. 

    So it's not the increasing temperature that kills it off, but the inability for the virus to so easily spread. 

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    1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    I can't believe you would read through this thread and come away with the perception that people blame Del Conte for the extension. There must be 500 "fuck Patterson"s from page 1 til now.

    The cynicism, as you call it, is otherwise warranted until proven otherwise by a willingness to act when it becomes obviously necessarily, and that is lacking here. And don't give me that shit about how great our softball hire is.

    At this point the question is whether you think CDC is justifiable in retaining Smart during the coronavirus uncertainty. I'll cop to being cynical about that but don't care. He gets paid the same whether I want to give him the benefit of the doubt or not.

    The implication is that CDC will extend and act the same as Perrin and Patterson did. I don't believe that as there's just not enough for me to believe that. He's not those guys.

    Anyway I don't think CDC has a choice as the contract he inherited and the current circumstances leave him almost no option unless the boosters are as mad at Shaka as they appear to be with Herman (and they aren't from what we all know). I think there's no doubt if we were talking football that a change would have already been made. 

     

  10. Man del Conte really pulled off something giving Shaka this extension while at TCU.

    I want Shaka gone and am disappointed but some of you take cynicism to levels beyond comprehension and far and above surly/shaggy standards sometimes.

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