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How does the economy function in the fall/winter if kids are homeschooled? -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:01PM
I'd like to suggest that in order to avoid any such complications -- PhotoHokieNC 05/12/2020 3:58PM Well the horse is out of the barn of that one..:) ** -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 4:01PM Aw, shoot. Well, from now on, cut that stuff out! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 05/12/2020 4:02PM Nobody freaked when 80,000 in USA died of regular flu last year. -- TechMomof2 05/12/2020 3:09PM A counter point with an interesting link -- HokieAl 05/12/2020 5:45PM 80,000 a year die from alcohol related issues, 40,000 in car accidents -- OrlandoHokie 05/12/2020 4:53PM Let's see 60K in a month with strict lockdowns and no vaccine -- TJ Hokie 05/12/2020 4:28PM I certainly didn't freak out about 80k US deaths since there were 34k** -- jmanatVT 05/12/2020 3:44PM But I guess the question is, at what point do you go from it not even being -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 3:53PM Well, first, we don't just compare the numbers without context -- jmanatVT 05/12/2020 3:59PM DELETE: used a less than symbol and it ate most of my text** -- jmanatVT 05/12/2020 3:58PM Are you telling me there are 46k zombies walking around right now?!? ** -- HokieNoVA 05/12/2020 3:48PM That's one way to read it, lol. ** -- jmanatVT 05/12/2020 3:50PM I think like a lot of things in this country anymore... -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 3:28PM Except... that is exactly what 🇬🇧 did, then they had cases and panicked -- WestyHokie 05/12/2020 8:08PM Yep. ** -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 3:53PM I can tell you that many of the economists -- GreenvilleVT 05/12/2020 3:34PM That is exactly my point. It sounds like we started making decisions -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 3:36PM Bingo. Such huge public policy decisions should require extraordinary proo -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 3:49PM Nor should they have freaked becasue the Flu is a known. -- vt_mughal 05/12/2020 3:18PM And this argument doesn't compare accurate timeframes. 80K deaths in less -- RhinoVT 05/12/2020 3:22PM Also weren't 80K flu deaths. ** -- reestuart 05/12/2020 3:33PM I don't think I said how many flu deaths. Whatever it is/was, I yield to -- RhinoVT 05/12/2020 3:37PM Sorry. I was referencing the OP saying nobody freaked about 80K flu deaths -- reestuart 05/12/2020 3:39PM LOL. No prob. ** -- RhinoVT 05/12/2020 3:40PM Per Dr. Birx, "There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust." -- EDGEMAN 05/12/2020 3:31PM The CDC's performance in this whole deal -- mancunian 05/12/2020 3:37PM Why does she say that? This Science article was citing Johns Hopkins? Do -- RhinoVT 05/12/2020 3:35PM 80k deaths and rising with LOCKDOWN across the country -- davcheng 05/12/2020 3:29PM Oh sure -- VTSnake 05/12/2020 3:32PM Must not have caught the memo, am up to date now!** ** -- davcheng 05/12/2020 3:42PM More people turn to instagram to earn $1500 a week ** -- lchoro 05/12/2020 2:38PM ^^^has upped his game^^^ ** -- PhotoHokieNC 05/12/2020 2:47PM I wonder what the 1-20 age hospitalization rate is? I wonder if there -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 2:37PM "now pegging at 99.5-99.75%" Please cite sources. ** -- VTSnake 05/12/2020 3:28PM Guessing deaths compared to overall population -- Hokie Fiji 05/12/2020 3:57PM 82k/328 mil. = 0.025% (99.975%) Think he means fatalities/infected ** -- LaneRat 05/12/2020 4:11PM Missed a decimal place ~10 -15% USA infected, 82k death ** -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 5:02PM Good catch. I brain farted when typing the decimal in the percentage -- Hokie Fiji 05/12/2020 4:17PM Easy, IFR not CFR. Not just here, WW #s are consistent. ** -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 3:51PM Clicked your post. You must have forgotten to include a link. ** -- VTSnake 05/12/2020 3:57PM Do your own research. Its out there. Vt90 cited one. -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 4:51PM You're the one that threw out baseless BS. -- VTSnake 05/14/2020 07:52AM For healthy people (not elderly and no major underlying conditions), I have -- vt90 05/12/2020 3:50PM ~42% of adults are obese. Adults are 75% of population. Thats 104 million -- Kudelski 05/12/2020 4:53PM The vast majority of humans have SOME underlying condition -- VTSnake 05/12/2020 3:54PM Yep. ** -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 3:52PM Our society seems to have lost the ability to evaluate risk. ** -- mancunian 05/12/2020 2:39PM Not really -- armyhokie88 05/12/2020 3:57PM Blame this societies obsession with always attempting to find an entity -- ElbertoHokie 05/12/2020 3:38PM Definitely true that a lot of people are failing to properly evaluate risk -- Gobbler-100 05/12/2020 3:17PM I have a much better chance of getting run over -- mancunian 05/12/2020 3:22PM You, uh, you're obviously working through some things here ** -- Gobbler-100 05/12/2020 3:52PM A lot of AWFLs were I live. ** -- mancunian 05/12/2020 4:21PM Here's a thought-provoking podcast that descrbes a process for -- Gadfly 05/12/2020 2:59PM That’s because a good portion of it thinks there should be no risk -- WestyHokie 05/12/2020 2:44PM One additional, west: the "States" are (were) free to choose what public p -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 3:06PM I totally agree with this. I thought to myself recently... -- MP4VT2004 05/12/2020 2:53PM My wife has a cousin, early 30s, who dropped out of THREE colleges -- WestyHokie 05/12/2020 3:05PM Unfortunately he's probably a product of things he was taught. -- MP4VT2004 05/12/2020 3:08PM There's a lot of chatter on the right that -- mancunian 05/12/2020 3:02PM I would say it's almost certain to be a hybrid come August -- JoesterVT 05/12/2020 2:26PM Works for high school, but below that might as well be full time homeschool ** -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:30PM I wouldn't be so sanguine about how well this is working for HS. ** -- mancunian 05/12/2020 2:40PM No I agree, I think it would be a sheer disaster for even high school... -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:45PM Not to mention teachers have twice the work to do ** -- LaneRat 05/12/2020 4:08PM Still a disaster for working parents, either option -- fordham 05/12/2020 2:28PM Well, we could send'em all back, ensuring another 80K deaths. You pick. ** -- TJ Hokie 05/12/2020 2:30PM There it is. Well done. ** -- vthokieq 05/12/2020 2:34PM Or you keep them all home and the future of generations is in peril -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:34PM Have you seen how dumb the average American is? -- TJ Hokie 05/12/2020 4:12PM I think they very well may! ** -- HOKIERIT 05/12/2020 2:54PM Crazy talk 😂 ** -- HOKIEVET 05/12/2020 2:32PM Send the kids to work ** -- bigbadbird 05/12/2020 2:25PM Bring back the coal mines! Go get that low coal! ** -- vthokieq 05/12/2020 2:26PM Delete, post got interrupted** -- ColoVT82 05/12/2020 2:25PM Oh HELL No. HEEELLLLL NOOOOO!!! I cant do my own job AND homeschool -- vt_mughal 05/12/2020 2:18PM That's been my life for the past two months. -- MP4VT2004 05/12/2020 2:25PM I ain't doing it. Kids may be taking a gap year in elementary school. ** -- vthokieq 05/12/2020 2:16PM Honest question what if there isn't ever a vaccine, which is a possibility ** -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:27PM I think vaccine or no vaccine, eventually the population will achieve... -- MP4VT2004 05/12/2020 2:59PM I don't think it is a possibility. Remote at best. Have we had any that we -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:45PM Marburg, HIV, flu, any coronavirus...that is just off the top of my head -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:51PM My understanding is there are vax for animal coronaviruses. -- 4dhokies 05/12/2020 3:19PM SARS has a vax, but I beat that to death below. And HIV has meds that hold -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:55PM I have little doubt that we will eventually find an effective treatment.... -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 3:09PM Don't forget HIV was 37 years ago -- 48zip 05/12/2020 3:22PM Love the meme - 'Teachers lied - my kids are NOT a joy to have in class!' ** -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:18PM Teachers definitely going to miss the mute button on Zoom ** -- uwhokie 05/12/2020 4:10PM Every school district can cancel girl's basketball and take the money saved -- HokieAl 05/12/2020 2:15PM Lolol ** -- Gobbler-100 05/12/2020 3:06PM Same way it is functioning now. ** -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:11PM Economy Will Be so so IF -- armyhokie88 05/12/2020 2:32PM Define functioning. IF you mean kids showing up is functioning -- vt_mughal 05/12/2020 2:20PM Agree 100% - the economy is NOT functioning and neither are schools ... -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:24PM As in it isn't... ** -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:12PM It is for many more than not. ** -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:15PM You honestly believe that? -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:22PM As of now? Absolutely. (WHy I said "is"). But, as I see you were -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:28PM I am working, but not really speaking of me specifically -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:31PM Well, you count. So do I. But as I said, I was thinking as of now. No doubt -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:49PM Gotcha...agree. ** -- VTJayLaw 05/12/2020 2:52PM Huh? We are about to hit the highest unemployment since the Great -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:21PM Cite that source please. ** -- vthokieq 05/12/2020 2:21PM Unemployment, GDP, spending all > 50%. So, closer to 100% than 0%. Correct? -- 48zip 05/12/2020 2:25PM I was more thinking how of the two together are working. -- vthokieq 05/12/2020 2:55PM Has to be in an article written by this guy ... -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:23PM Exactly. A slow, painful deathblow.** -- vt90 05/12/2020 2:13PM All the reasons you cite are the reasons schools will be back in -- GreenvilleVT 05/12/2020 2:06PM It doesn't. ** -- vtbones 05/12/2020 2:06PM
