"Social Distancing" at the Lake

[Major]

Originally Posted by MAXUM

Right there with you. In fact I have been at work every day since this thing broke pulling very long hours. Ironically enough..... there is a good reason for it. I happen to work for a Pharma company that specializes in hosting clinical trials for the big drug companies. Over the past week and a half there have been several of us who have been here engineering and setting up the necessary infrastructure to support 3 new clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments. This required us to be on site to get this done.

This is going to benefit everyone potentially and I'll be damned if I would sit at home and cower in fear when there is work to be done. Many are out there risking exposure to save or help others, and to them all THANK YOU! Our medical professionals and scientists especially are owed a great deal of gratitude for what they do.

I would thank you, but the thank button is broken!

[Top-Water]

Originally Posted by Major

I would thank you, but the thank button is broken!

Just an FYI ...... there is a limit on how much you can use it in one day.


I think it is limited to 4 or 5 times per day.

[TheRoBoat]

Which part? The numbers, or the prediction that CA’s number of infected is going to go up?

[joey2665]

Originally Posted by TheRoBoat

Which part? The numbers, or the prediction that CA’s number of infected is going to go up?

The prediction and you didn't specify which states numbers would significantly increase

[Top-Water]

Gentlmen sincerly I enjoy all of your postings, you all seem to have good souls.

However ....... have a cookie, ... I promise by the the time your done eating it "you will feel right as rain'.




Sadly this whole thing is driving us all nuts. There are valid argumnets on both sides of this.

Like Tic tack toe ,,,,,,, you cant win.

[TheRoBoat]

Sadly, all state's numbers are going to go up.

The prediction?

In California, we are required, by law, to know how to operate tarot cards, crystal balls, and Ouija boards.

After this, I’m sure we will be required to own them as well.

Damn government.

[Biggd]

I just read a perfect quote, "it's sure easy to hate government until you need them".

[Merrymeeting]

This thread is a classic example of internet arguments where both (several?) sides are dug in, advocating their beliefs, in the hope that they will sway the other side...which rarely happens.

It's also a case where I hope those who claim we are overreacting are right. When all is said and done, if its a minimal event, they will be "right". But maybe they will be "right" because of the steps that were taken. Either way, I hope it becomes a non-event. Kind of like Y2K, which I was intimately involved in. It was a non-event. But only because many, many people prepared for a long time to make sure it wasn't.

Should you have any doubt that we need to do something, read here. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-scenario.html

Use the slider to show how things could change if the infection rate is 30% and fatality rate is 1%. It's eye opening. Theoretical? Yes.

But I hope all the models are wrong, all the steps are "wrong", and we have another "non-event"