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FWIW: Per the Johns Hopkins Website... COVID-19: Approximately 2,708 deaths reported worldwide; 0 deaths in the U.S., as of Feb. 25, 2020. Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.

Fortunately, the person just named to head up the response to the Coronavirus is top notch on medical issues. It's been 20 years since he said that "smoking doesn't kill". And who really knew whether that was true way back in 2000? Anyway, that's what you want: someone who can learn from his mistakes. (I'm serious: that's an important quality.)

Interesting. The large organization I help manage (very large restaurant chain) has already put together a task force who has met twice now They will meet again next Monday and update our guidance and preparedness plan Preliminary preparation has included purchase of mobile hand sanitation stations, supplemental sanitizer inventory, adjusted employee illness policy and procedures, education around our illness log processes, and we've appointed a member of our HR team as our lead coordinator and looped in a couple medical executives While currently the risk is "low" in the USA we felt it important to prepare since we serve several million customers monthly in terms of DCI you have traveling "pods" of individuals that could create risks in multiple ways - sharing disease as well as distribution It certainly a unique health-care risk probably time they establish a panel to monitor the situation, some initial dialogue and share findings with the DCI executive committee anything DCI can do to educate the corps themselves is HUGE - regarding food safety Servsafe certification would be a good start!

The Buicks are back.

It’s too soon to know for sure but there’s definitely reason to be concerned. And if the CDC is saying to prepare for it being potentially “bad” then I think it’s something to take note of. This thing is still showing a mortality rate of 2-5%. Influenza tends to run around .02% That difference is why governments are going to extremes to limit outbreaks. Imagine if it were to play out to influenza level infection rates? (For reference, the CDC is estimating 29-41 million cases in the US this season). If it were to start making a presence here, I can totally see it affecting activities like DCI. Hopefully not, though.

Yes, but care and treatment - preventing death - is massively better here. Apples and cement blocks.

He's right on the facts. Not sure what justifies your snark. But, OK.

You drink water? 😂

It is this sort of irresponsible talk that could lead to a worldwide lasagne shortage.

Maybe the reason the axe flew off course is that it slipped due to his unwashed hands being greasy?

And, in fact...here it is. You do the "are you ready: at 0:21. Around 0:58 when I finally called the corps to attention. My salute made you chuckle a little!

If I ever get coronavirus, I'd better get Lyme disease, too. Because you can't have a corona without lyme. Ba-dum, dum. EDIT: credit my 18, yr old daughter

You're right on your facts. They are mine as well, corroborated by people with real and substantial skin in the game and responsibility to not be wrong.

True, maybe there are no pants.

I'll go with the shirts with the Hula dancers.

2010 victory concert

i think you never visited some food trucks

Well, Lent did begin today.

A #### load of them in 79. 😂

3 in 1979 alone. North Star, Blue Stars and Cavies.

So how many corps played Children of Sanchez?

DEFINITELY block anyone from Nassau County, and not just because of the virus. (kidding!)

No, I suggest we just kill all the Italians. (Everyone else relax. N.E. knows that I AM Italian, and I'm scheduled for 3 weeks in Rome with my daughter in June. I'm feeling their pain.)

Do Mandarins in fact have a high proportion of members who are actually from Asian countries? (I seriously do not know the answer to that question.) And given the link you previously posted, are you prepared to suggest similar quarantines, on, say, Italians?

So long as he has the full weight and strength of the US Guv'ment to direct, coordinate, and fund, he could be a master at Tiddly Winks and still be effective. There are professionals directly below him with much more qualifications who are the "do-ers". (Psst, you forgot the "/s" after your last. Didn't you? 🙂 )

As long as medical facts are used to determine someone has the virus and not try to convince them that they are not really sick.... (trying not to cross the line here).....

https://www.dci.org/news/tight-knit-regiment-embracing-transition-with-2020-on-the-horizon

I know you were just having a little fun there, but for the record: it's highly unlikely that most people who have contracted the virus got it directly from the market where the outbreak seems to have originated.

Blue Devils still win

at least i was bipartisan saying they all suck lol

she is

ok not everyone is perfect DUDE.....lol

Henry V and The Red Pony mashup. 😉

she likes drummers dude

So which delivery is better? Socks or shirts? (j/k) 😂

Einstein on the Fritz keeps coming to mind....

I loved the 1978 Guardsmen show, great great music, and obviously great CG.

If you are interested in statistics, take the last 2 year percentage increase/decrease in those two things and project it 2 years into the future and get back to us.

Flu deaths are preventable with vaccines. There’s no vaccine against corona virus, and the death count keeps going up.

I feel a special hornline and a special year coming along this year! I’m excited for the future to come!

It is cool when it works.... but it can also lead to its own set of issues, with the timing of the announcement. Trust me. LOL. From my radio days, a DJ talking up until the music starts is called "hitting the post." But hitting the post in a stadium environment, where there can be a delay from when the announcer speaks to when it's actually heard over the PA system....well... the post can be run over. That happened at least once for me, at a DCI gig I worked. There was a significant PA delay... one to two seconds lag time. A couple of corps had the "announcement timed with the music" thing... but only one of them factored in the delay. Thus, the announcement stepped on the first note of music for one corps who hadn't taken a delay into consideration. In that case, I plead not guilty. LOL. Not my fault. Nor is it Brandt's fault, or any other announcer's fault. Our job is to talk when cued. If a corps wants to get cute with the timing, and a delay (or a tempo problem) messes that up... that's on them. Honestly, I wish all the announcements were made up front, before a corps starts its show or "pre-judged time" show. Just a better flow, IMO.

Now, about those sandals.

I liked the more sprightly tempo in 78. It got kind of funeral dirgey in 79. But I know they were slowing it down so that long roll was AFTER the gun went off. 😂

I wish I’d marched that year. But we had a pretty good line in 78, too.

See Terri, your efforts were greatly appreciated by many of us.

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I am grateful for the compliments but I have to say, watch the credits at the end of the last corps on either disc and know that list of people, especially director Jeff Clark and audio engineers Jamie Vanadia & Cory Coken deserve the lion’s share of the credit. As drum corps fans, we are so lucky that so many gifted people work on this production every year. And, if you didn’t watch the credits last year, we did a little director’s track from the 2018 Bluecoats, just for fun. But again, thanks!

I thought for sure you were going to say El Gato Triste.

I wonder what a Finals might look like if it were played to an empty stadium.