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This question has been answered numerous times and can simply be found by googling. You're still going to get the same answers.

Who has time to watch the news? I have to shop for toilet paper!

Thanks for asking. Yes after a very long day of travel he is now tucked away at our cottage in rural northern Wisconsin to quarantine for 14 days. We didn’t even see him. Dropped a car in the airport parking lot. He exited the airport, got into the car and drove to the cottage. He has two other students with him who also returned from Europe. So they can keep each other from going stir crazy I hope. We stocked the place with food before they arrived

Was going to finally get out on my own when I got back from doing admin stuff again. Will probably do that sooner. Get my first place. Have been working to and have lost weight the last year and a few months, will get to keep doing that. And focus on some clients I have during the fall for marching band. Play video games. Read some books. Be big sad.

annoy the #### out of my family

Six years for me. I still flip the bird to my employer every time I drive by.

I'll probably get married and start a family.

Not sure what I would do if DCI canceled the summer tour, but whatever it is, my blood pressure will be lower just by cutting out the frustration of getting Flomarching to work decently.

I lost my wife to pneumonia and I was there when she died. I will be ###### if someone says her life doesn’t matter because it’s only 1 out of many and she would have died anyway. I care more was not my point. My point was when it hits you personally statistics be ######.

To be on the safe side, I am filling my body with 60% alcohol.

IMO this will end up being the weakest, with the fewest deaths of all pandemics in history. All these cancellations are to instill fear and are unnecessary.

Respectfully but strongly disagree. Were schools closed all over? Were millions of people told to stay home from work? Were sports seasons ended? Were theme parks closed? Were there nearly daily press conferences by teams of experts? Was there non-stop media coverage of practically nothing else? Did the stock market have to take Vraylar? Did NE Brigand wear out two keyboards and give himself carpal tunnel syndrome?

Problem isn’t the current count. Problem is how bad it could get if steps are not taken. Check state of Italian hospitals with having to decide which patient should get hospital assets.

I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!..

Actually, Once the virus wipes out most of the population and turns the remaining survivors into zombies. I'm going to roam Washington D.C. like Will Smith in I Am Legend with my dog Kona. Looking for surviving Drum Corps fans while working on a cure.

You, Jim and @Jeff Ream are the same. Born into this stuff. If there is no drum corps this year, it will be the first year he hasn’t attended a show in 67 years. Except the year he was in Cambodia (1975) courtesy of Uncle Sam. It will be 52 years for me. I’m sure I’ll go into some kind of funk.

Mope around... 🙂 Join me! It'll be fun!

I think I washed my thumbprint off. My phone and iPad won’t open with my thumb anymore. 😳

Can we knock it off with the “I care more about people than you do” BS? It’s mean-spirited and arguably a personal attack, and I had thought those were against the guidelines.

If you eat right and exercise daily, you get two extra years in the nursing home.

Was that the date the CDC told WHO “thanks but no thanks” on the test kits?

Look at the bright side. Drum corps could have an additional 12 months to clear copyrights on their show music.

However, the CDC's worst-case estimates* are that anywhere between 200,000 and 1.7 million Americans could die of COVID-19. But a MAJOR point to remember is that those estimates assume no change in behavior or official response. Taking steps like closing schools and crowded events will make a huge difference. Just getting people to wash their hands multiple times every day will cut the number of deaths. As someone said yesterday, when you take the appropriate steps to prevent a disaster, the disaster doesn't happen, and then people complain that you overreacted. We should have taken the drastic steps that states have recently been announcing much sooner. Even under the best-case scenarios, we're probably still going to look back on 2020 as an awful year. * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html

When I die, be it 15 min or 15 years, I want a Viking Flaming Boat Funeral. Everyone can shoot a flaming arrow, and I decree no Vikings can touch another Viking.

There are some on here who consistently make innuendos yet are the first to call out anything that goes against what they preach.

Already reported one myself, please feel free to add to the pile.... Can’t even ask a serious question here...

QF Ahhhhhh

Tip of the day: stop watching the news. The hysteria from the mainstream media is exhaustive and not helping anyone. I spoke with a very reputable doctor in the Philadelphia area yesterday about the coronavirus. His views were refreshing and made me way more relaxed. He basically said unless you're a senior citizen (70+) with serious health issues, relax and enjoy your life. We will all be fine! The end of the world is not approaching.

Hold off turning 60 while this virus is around.

I actually marched in the Westshoremen with Jeff Ream's father. Additionally, Jeff's father and my father knew each other for years. Drum corps has literally been an important part of my life since birth. Stay safe and healthy Terri!

I have no idea. Drum corps has been a part of my life. My father marched in drum corps and consequently I was at my first show when I was 3 weeks old! I literally grew up in a drum corps family. I marched in the Westshoremen (my father was on the board) for several years, I marched in the Reading Buccaneers for close to 20 years, and I met my wife there. Drum corps has been a life long passion for me. And sadly, my favorite corps (the Cadets) is finally poised to make a comeback this season. If the season is cancelled, I will miss it dearly!

Once a week or so get out my grill and cook for 150 neighborhood kids, and remind them to drink lots of water. Just for kicks show up at a high school that I have never been to, in a random state at 6am and try to find where the bathroom is without waking up anyone sleeping inside, then try to find an ice machine that we are allowed to use,

I’ve been retired for almost two years ... I am still disoriented.

You mean have a life? 🤯 Good question, I just retired and was going to watch corps online since I didn’t have to get up at 6am anymore 😖

I’m up for renewal next month. I’ll be waiting.

No, it’s not.

If they do, will they increase the size limits accordingly? Otherwise it prevents younger people from moving into those positions.

Careful what you wish for. I think Poppycock and Fauci would make a cute couple.

Yep, totally agree. It is the law of unintended consequences. Sometimes "Just do something" is the wrong thing to do.

easy to say if it doesn’t hit you directly Sad to say what is making this easier for me is the loved ones I had with compromised systems are all gone. Otherwise they would be home bound and I’d be #### careful I didn’t pass anything. Watch two people die from pneumonia and it changes your outlook.

The mainstream media's coverage of this has been irresponsible, IMO Bordering on panic creation, and paranoia creation. In the end, who knows. more people might die of stress or a stroke watching the TV and the like than from the Chinese Coronovirus spread. World Health Organization website their scientists, epidemiologists are stating that 86.4 % of those that come down with the virus will suffer " mild, non life threatening symptoms". Even the vast majority of those over 80 with compromised immune systems due to underlying health conditions are expected to survive a bout with this, and millions of these people every night die in their sleep peacably anyway, no child under 10 anywhere in the world has died from this. 99 out of every 100 people that come down with this virus that are under 65 will survive it, and far less than half the adult population is expected to get it. China has 1.35 billion people.. As of today, 3,177 have died of Coronovirus in China since this outbreak began there in mid December. Out of 80,000 confirmed cases (its estimated many more went undiagnosed, and recovered on their own). I suspect that many will catch this virus, but that it will eventually run its course, and while deaths will result, it will not be the cataclysmic virus that its being made out to be by the media.

Just want to point out ‘steps’ were taken as early as January 27 !

what? WHAT? We agree? OMG, I've completely failed. /snark

One fallacy of the “if it saves just one life” argument is that it disregards all the lives ultimately lost as a result of the actions it is used to justify. Another problem with the argument it assumes a happy life has no more value than a miserable one.

You never saw I Am Legend? Dude! Watch it. It's one of the better zombie movies.

A vaccine has to be administered a minimum of weeks-to months so antibodies can develop to recognize & then fight off a future infection (the exception is rabies vaccine, because the virus moves slowly via the nervous system, so you have a bit of time to vaccinate post-exposure). Treating the symptoms is almost always the approach taken for viruses, whether the common cold, or ebola. Stay hydrated, control fever w/ aspirin or acetaminophen. Maintain airway --Yes, this will require hospital in severe cases; and this is how most of the fatalities are occurring. Individuals with underlying respiratory conditions such as emphysema, COPD, or congestive heart failure, usually of somewhat advanced age, have enough trouble already getting molecular oxygen to their mitochondria. So a respiratory infection can be life-threatening. Another susceptible group is individuals with compromised immune systems. But for the vast majority of the US population I really don't think it will not be that dangerous. So why all the fatalities in China & Italy? One factor could be smoking - both countries have a 24% smoking rate (in China it is close to 50% of males & 2% females; Italy pretty balanced male/female; US 17% Data from https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/smoking-rates-by-country/). Can smoking impact lung function?? Hmmmm -

So far... Going to Saratoga for a 5-day vacation. While there, we are seeing a concert with Foreigner and Kansas, as well as the group Europe.

For those of us with loved ones who are elderly and have compromised immune systems, this is very serious.

Go to more concerts. I’m seeing Steely Dan and Steve Winwood in July.