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  1. Cadets have a virtual brass camp this weekend...gotta love it! They are on a mission.
    5 points
  2. Does anyone have a vid of Madison Scouts 202? I would Love to see that. I am guessing it’s a lot of those ram’s horn things and kettle drums. And sandals. But the guard work I bet was way ahead of its time.
    4 points
  3. Spending more quality time with family. Or learning Morse code from the person in the next quarantine room.
    4 points
  4. Per the death rates being significantly inflated over what we will eventually see, as discussed ad nauseam 15 pages back or so, that's the point! Yes, we will all be trying to prove a negative at that point, but the idea is that we DO take the precautions we're taking now so that this doesn't spread and that the death rate does remain lower than anticipated. Again, ###### if you do, ###### if you don't. We already have estimates of what it is in South Korea, China, Japan, & Italy, why not try every attempt to make that death rate much lower here, which will inevitably make it look like we were overreacting? My argument with FlamMan is not on the merits of whether we should be washing our hands or not, it's his implications that all this is overreaction as a form of conspiracy by the MSM to discredit the president, which is, of course, absolutely insane and has no basis in reality.
    4 points
  5. That 60 million figure is based on a year’s worth of time. We’re about a month and a half in, here in the U.S. Go back to the CDC page that lists the H1N1 2009 stats and look up the estimate of how many of those 60 million cases required hospitalization. Now compare that percentage to the covid-19 infections that require hospitalization. There’s the answer to your previous question.
    4 points
  6. Like I said earlier the issue isn’t how many cases/deaths we have now, it’s how bad things might get if we don’t take precautions. But I guess Italian doctors having to decide which patients get hospital assets is all a conspiracy. Along with medical experts here worrying that ERs and hospitals could be overwhelmed is a conspiracy too. But somehow it’s all the media....
    4 points
  7. You need to stop...
    4 points
  8. So an hour before Saturday finals last summer our Ring spotted an individual looking into the back windows of our house. He then went on the deck and started pulling on the back door. My wife called the local police and told the dispatcher she was in Indianapolis and reported the incident. The dispatcher asked if she was at DCI and told her he was an alumni of the Spartans and how thrilled he was they won. It ended up the intruder was a neighbors brother who was visiting and had gone to the wrong house.
    3 points
  9. See, this kind of situation is where hard work wins out over talent. Go Cadets!
    3 points
  10. I’m going to miss the camp and spring training discussions of how [insert your favorite corps here] is WAAAY ahead of last year. And the ultimate angst at season’s end when Blue Devils crushed the hopes of [insert your favorite corps here] again.
    3 points
  11. That's what you're hinging everything on, your experience with hygiene in Italy? In the real world, people go by facts, and all medical sources put the average death rate for the coronavirus around 3%. No one should go off of anything else other than facts, and it makes perfect sense to use them as predictors and close all major events and schools out of precaution. To imply that this thing is a conspiracy against the president to make him look bad is nothing short of sheer barking lunacy. Back up your arguments or get off the pot. I just told you in two different replies that this is either 15 or 150 times more deadly than H1N1, using YOUR numbers in each case. In the face of those numbers, how can you still call this a conspiracy?
    3 points
  12. I have traveled to those countries, most recently spending 2 weeks in Northern Italy in early January on business. Lets just say that Hygiene is not a priority in the countries you mentioned like it is here.
    3 points
  13. I can't understand why you're burying your head in the sand so hard on this one. everyone is trying desperately not to let it get to 60 million infected, because then almost 2 million people will likely die. The current death rate estimation is at 3.4% from the aggregate of all countries infected, not the US, where the virus is relatively young. Look to Italy, South Korea, China, Japan to see how this virus most likely will progress. Why on earth would we assume it won't progress with the same death rate here and not take every precaution?!
    3 points
  14. Last year it was established Feb 12. Official announcements already released.
    2 points
  15. if by June it's still an issue, i highly doubt stadiums will hold DCI's feet to the flame as by then thousands of events will have been cancelled nationwide big and small
    2 points
  16. I plan to use the time to get outside and connect with people, go to networking events and shake lots of hands, visit a lot of museums with hands on exhibits, maybe travel to Ireland and kiss the Blarney Stone...
    2 points
  17. Try to make it out to the facility they have at Dulles airport as well. All kinds of way-cool stuff they can't fit into the mall location.
    2 points
  18. Or you can stay in Rockville, Md or Gaithersburg, Md were hotels are cheaper then take the Red line right into the heart of the city. If you have questions. I'm a native Washingtonian.
    2 points
  19. And again folks.... one of the big reasons to take precautions is so the number of people that will need medical care will be spread out over a longer period of time. That way medical resources will not be overwhelmed. That being said.... wondering what will happen when we get plenty of testing kits and if we find out lot more people than we thought have the virus.
    2 points
  20. "...more deadly..." As the denominator goes up (and the numerator, too) the percentage death rate will adjust to its actual level. Based on more than just the math (and I'm a numbers guy!), the odds are high that the death rate will eventually be drastically lower than H1N1. The estimates that others are reading do not have less merit or accuracy than the ones you're quoting. It's simply too early in the testing process to determine an accurate death rate ESTIMATE. FlamMan in not suggesting that testing stop or we shouldn't wash our hands. He's simply stating his belief that the death rate expectations by the MSM to push their agenda is significantly inflated over the death rates we will eventually see. He's no more wrong than you are with your numbers. Oh, and the "madness of crowds" doesn't make either side's estimates any more valid or accurate in time.
    2 points
  21. The new world order is taking advantage of an opportunity to forward their agenda and take over the world. We'll be getting rid of cash soon and the monetary system will be allowed to collapse as the wealth transfer to the elite is almost complete....
    2 points
  22. Yes I have. Thank you. We’re better than this.
    2 points
  23. I’ve washed my hands so much, that my cheat notes from 1975 have come up. .
    2 points
  24. I think I washed my thumbprint off. My phone and iPad won’t open with my thumb anymore. 😳
    2 points
  25. 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
    2 points
  26. Maybe you’re right. I’m not sure you’re right. You’re probably right. You may be wrong. You really could be wrong. But you’re probably right. Oh no you’re wrong. Oh *whew* you could still be right. Oh my god you are completely wrong!!! Oh hey it looks like you could have been right all along. Hmm... Perhaps I shouldn’t base my opinions solely on the Dow Jones.
    2 points
  27. Six years for me. I still flip the bird to my employer every time I drive by.
    2 points
  28. 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.
    2 points
  29. Plenty of schools in Kentucky would be willing if we had a show this year. 😒 My neck of the woods, Kentucky, has honestly handled this better than most I've seen. Sure we still have people trying to buy everything off the shelves, but that's because of the media fear mongering. 🤦
    1 point
  30. No people don’t pee on the stone ireland used to be a fantastic visit but I don’t really recommend it anymore
    1 point
  31. This all depends, of course, on whether corps still have housing for spring training. If more schools/universities go on lockdown, even if they re-open before their spring academic calendar ends, they still might not be too eager to have a traveling circus from out of town set up camp on their grounds for several weeks. This is all uncharted territory here and corps are really concerned about this particular factor, as they should be.
    1 point
  32. Then you better start practicing bending backwards from the waist.
    1 point
  33. That works too. Only mentioned northern VA as classes were in Falls Church and Herndon so knew area better. Also was at Rockville but ended up visiting wife’s relatives instead of more Interesting things. 😖
    1 point
  34. I have a feeling this will be the summer of The Couchmen. They’ll have plenty of slots open.
    1 point
  35. had a co-worker who would watch “his” news and parrot whatever was said. More than once I’d get told that “the other networks won’t tell you this” and then say something I heard on on one of the big 3 networks the night before. Sad part is I finally realized he wasn’t watching the news there but watching one of the talking head shows.
    1 point
  36. OF COURSE. 3% death rate means 97% survive, and most with benign symptoms. But if, again, it reaches the same number of 60 million that swine flu did, then almost TWO MILLION U.S. CITIZENS WILL DIE. That's a gigantic number. FIFTY TWO TIMES the number of people (34,200) that died in the last complete flu season in the US. Why would you not try your hardest to quarantine this?!
    1 point
  37. Conspiracy theories are based on speculation. The idea that the MSM has an agenda and will stop at nothing to further that agenda and achieve their goal is a widely accepted fact. Heck, they don't even try to hide or dispute it. It is right their on display in plain sight every day and night. H1N1 Swine flu, 10 years ago, 12,000 deaths, 300,000 hospitalized, 60 million infected. Nothing cancelled, no one cared, Obama was praised for the way this was handled. COVID 19, 41 deaths, 1500 infected with minimal hospitalizations, 125K infected. All sporting and entertainment events cancelled, schools closed. Widespread hysteria, panic and paranoia. Stores shelves are empty,
    1 point
  38. Conspiracy theories. Wake up.
    1 point
  39. Well, to beat a dead horse: Wash your hands, Wash your hands. It will mitigate, but not completely keep you healthy. You can use an N95 mask, but you truly need a fit test for it to work the best. Although the virulence of this is not such that it is killing healthy people; the likelihood is that we are really doing what we are doing moreso to primarily protect the vulnerable and not overburden the healthcare system with those who wont die (leaving a severe shortage in available hospital beds), but may need hospitalization as well. As a nurse who now works in a 1700 employee building ( I work in the employee health clinic), I was far more concerned about Ebola, as it could make the healthy extremely sick, and had the potential; to be more fatal I do think there is some overreaction with regards to the necessity to hoard. I do think it is good practice to social distance, have contingency plans because I do believe with climate change we are going to see far deadlier pathogens in the future.
    1 point
  40. me too, but that's not the actual reason for the secrecy right? we haven't had coherent info about shows as early as the first couple of weeks of march in at least half a decade.
    1 point
  41. mandatory closures will affect spending. not seeing many places offering to still pay people if they cant work, or worse small business or commission folks
    1 point
  42. And that is trying to prove the negative. There's no real way to know that it would have been worse and no one in their right mind would stand back and try to prove it on the lives of those most vulnerable. There really is no choice but to act. But the action does not have to be as much or as quick as the initial estimates would demand, either. There are benefits to the statisticians to prolong case discovery in order to not overload the system. Another benefit is to allow time for a second round of reasoned decision-making that's based on more than one set of data facts. Unfortunately, drum corps participants have a clock ticking. Our season isn't over...yet. Time isn't on drum corps' side.
    1 point
  43. Social Media was not as powerful as it is today. Information today (whether real or imagined) can lead to greater good..or greater panic. This applies to all things unfortunately, not just Covid-19. We won't ever know if the unprecedented level of response (NBA, MLB, Concerts, public gathering etc. cancelled) will have had an impact that is warranted by this response. On the one had, some will say if it saves one life of a person who didn't die because the disease didn't spread due to shutdowns then it is worth it. If it is your parent, child, etc then I can understand that response. On the other hand, people will lose their jobs, houses, retirement and more. I know I don't have the answer to what is it worth to save lives.
    1 point
  44. THANK YOU ! THANK YOU ! Here's something many DCP readers will not see, as the channel is not available everywhere. Should be comforting to many. I just watched a LIVE interview on Fox Business Channel from Madrid, Spain. A medical doctor (Dr. Yale Tung Chen) who is now at home WITH THE CORONOVIRUS in his body, was asked what it is like. Of course, he can only describe his personal situation. He said his experience is more mild than an average, seasonal flu. He has mild headache and is more tired than usual. Asked what medication he was prescribed, he answered NONE. He takes Tylenol and says any over-the-counter cold medicine should work. He worked directly with other staff treating Coronovirus patients in his hospital and thinks he probably got it from a co-worker there. Note: He's age 35 with no underlying chronic heath condition. ________________ (By the way, I'm still planning to fly to Florida in mid April)
    1 point
  45. 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.
    1 point
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