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  1. Let’s take proactive measures to help each other at least in the mental health area. If you’re bouncing off the walls, feeling panic creep in, or just need a sympathetic ear, post it here and let’s work to encourage each other. We WILL get through this but it will take time. If you want to start the blame posts go somewhere else. Love you all!
    18 points
  2. If BD did their 2018 show this year: (source)
    7 points
  3. Not so fast there...BD has NEVER won in a year ending in '20!!!
    6 points
  4. Please tell those directors not to touch their faces.
    6 points
  5. Mod hat... Per the OP who started the thread, this is a thread for support and encouragement. That fits nicely within the guidelines. Please keep posts aligned with those goals.
    6 points
  6. I'm most concerned about the elderly. That bothers me at night. Our church is shut down for two weeks, so a lot of them won't get around. Getting visitors in person is a concern. Make sure you don't neglect to call your elderly relatives and check up on them... more often than normal if possible.
    6 points
  7. Kind of like Kevin Bacon during the Homecoming Parade in Animal House.
    5 points
  8. imo, the time has come for DCI to announce the cancellation of the 2020 season. Housing issues alone would be impossible to resolve. Colleges are closing early, and will likely go on lockdown for at least half the summer. High schools as well. Better to announce now, so that the kids have time to make other summer plans. DCI and the corps will survive, and come back strong in 2021. Our activity has weathered many storms over the decades, due largely to the amazing people involved in the drum corps world.
    4 points
  9. You mean something like CantonOhioVirus-20
    4 points
  10. Is it really "time to cancel"? It would be if: 1. Some sort of major 2020-season expense was due to be paid tomorrow, and cancelling today spares DCI and/or corps from making non-refundable commitments. 2. It was clear that any possible adaptation of the season would be prohibited (i.e. nationwide ban on 51-person groups assembling until after August 8th). Otherwise, why the rush? Camps are on hold, and we will have more perspective in two or three weeks.
    4 points
  11. DCI could offer to apply the tuiton dues to the 2021 season. Age outs should defintely be given the option to march in 2021. If we all stick together, and step up donations over the next year, we will survive.
    4 points
  12. and stupid names like Covid and Vira will become common
    4 points
  13. Sorry...filter circumvention.
    4 points
  14. Not here. The baby maker is shuttered. For awhile now.
    4 points
  15. Our school system is shutting down earlier than the state requirement. All I can do at this point is take care of my parents, quarantine, & pray. This is what's going on with our health care workers in Seattle. You can google this Doctor's twitter account, Dr. Scott Mintzer from Philadelphia, or read below: From Scott Mintzer on Twitter I’ve been in touch with an intensivist at a Seattle hospital with one of the highest numbers of COVID-19 admissions in the US. They’ve been too exhausted to post much themselves, so I am conveying some of what I’ve been told, which is… eye-opening. To say the least. /1 The Seattle situation isn’t quite at Lombardy levels yet… but it’s getting there. First of all regarding the clinicians. None are sleeping more than a couple hrs a night. Everyone is utterly exhausted. My colleague has seen so many people die as to have become totally numb. /2 It’s also nearing Status Lombardosus with regard to resources. They haven’t run out of ventilators (yet), but every single ICU bed in Seattle metro is full. And the onslaught shows no signs of stopping. They’ve run out of other things as well. /3 My colleague saw a patient who had a half-full syringe left attached to her IV line. The syringe had an antibiotic. First thought was that this was some gross nursing error. It turned out not to be a mistake at all, but rather an accomodation to dire circumstances. /4 It was a drug that was supposed to be infused over hours. But there were no IV pumps available. So the nurse had given some of it, left the syringe attached, and planned to come by to give more a little later, and then finish it. Here in the wealthiest country in the world. /5 They are also at the point of having to ration some kinds of care. For the most severely ill patients, there’s a machine called ECMO — extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — which is basically like an external lung that oxygenates blood when the patient’s lungs won’t work. /6 Seattle has 12 machines, which is less than what’s needed. So a central committee there is deciding: you can’t go on ECMO if you're >40 yrs old, if you have another organ system failing, or… incredibly… if your BMI is>25. Turns out these are all major poor prognostic signs. /7 (Note: that doesn’t mean that anybody with a BMI >25 is in trouble if they get COVID. Just that if you’re critically ill from it, that is apparently a poor prognostic marker. Not sure anybody has a clear idea why.) /8 Meanwhile the combo of exhausted health care workers & no open ICU beds has made a very hazardous health situation for the entire region. If you have a stroke, a heart attack, etc., it will be hard to get the best care. There are patients in ERs for hours waiting for ICU beds. /9 My colleague told me something else remarkable: COVID patients are not dying of lung disease. This seems to be a very distinct syndrome, and in severe cases the pneumonia leads to ARDS, a condition in which the lungs leak fluid & the patient can’t breathe w/out a ventilator. /10 But apparently the ARDS is not too severe, and they can manage people through that part of it. Instead, after several days, the virus suddenly attacks the heart, causing it to precipitously fail. The myocarditis phase is savage and kills people within a day or two. /11 My colleague has seen a number of cases in which multiple family members were in the hospital and critically ill. Maybe this means there’s some genetic predisposition, but it’s probably too soon to say. /12 And then there’s the fear that comes with an epidemic. Apparently people shopping wearing the hospital’s logo on their clothing have been asked to leave the store. And some who work in the hospital have been asked to move out of their apartment buildings for a few months. /13 Restaurants have refused food delivery, with some of them refusing to even leave the food on the ground outside. The hospital had to send the medics to go pick it up. One doc’s housekeeper refused to come clean for her. /14 In short, this is a nightmare, teetering on the precipice of even worse destruction. The goal of every American city should be to avoid becoming the next Seattle. UPDATE: The Dr removed his post last night. Reading into his tweet, he must have been receiving push back from someone. From Scott Mintzer on Twitter I had to delete the thread I Tweeted earlier today because of concerns about the amount of attention it was getting and the accuracy of some of the information. The common theme: don't spread things that shouldn't be spread. And be responsible for, and to, everyone else.
    4 points
  16. The member corps are having regular phone confabs among themselves and with DCI - with as quickly as info is moving today, and with summer now being seen as the containment point, I'd be surprised if the directors aren't looking to have a decision on the season for the whole of the activity by early April. There will be too many contracts that would have to be acted on for busses, etc, to let it go much past that, and if there's no strong line up of guaranteed housing sites (which there isn't now, under the circumstances), they won't have much of a choice. That being the case, at this point, the odds of the season happening are decreasing by the hour.
    3 points
  17. In my 55+ development our clubhouse closed. No indoor pool, no gym, no exercise classes, not to mention other ongoing activities and trips. All we can do is walk around the neighborhood. This morning 14 of us did a 2.5 mile walk. The other day we did two walks, one morning and one afternoon, totaling about 5.5 miles. This morning it was 43 when we did that walk.
    3 points
  18. We are protecting people with compromised immune systems and the elderly. I guess we’ll get the measure of our salt as people in this country. We’ve become as soft as a grape. Maybe this will toughen us up a bit.
    3 points
  19. Now hold on. MM's are NOT entitled to a full refund. Subtract from that amount any amounts that have already been paid (props, design, unrefunded deposits for rolling stock, etc), and expenses already paid for camps, etc, and refund the difference. That does not equal bankruptcy for most corps.
    3 points
  20. There's a valuable point to be gleaned from this retraction about the values of different kinds of media. I saw the initial thread yesterday. Although his account doesn't have the blue checkmark that "verifies" users, it certainly seems to be the real Dr. Scott Mintzer of Jefferson University Hospitals. So I'm inclined to believe that he really did speak with an actual doctor he knows in Seattle, but there was too much detail that made it clear which specific hospital that doctor works at, and not enough perspective beyond that one doctor's point of view, and so either Mintzer's employer or the Seattle hospital pushed back, citing ethical concerns. And it is to Dr. Mintzer's credit that he retracted when he had reasons to believe he wasn't presenting the full picture. That said, the retraction will get far less attention than the original thread did. I really appreciated this reply someone posted there: "One of the things I've learned as a journalist is that nobody in the trenches has a perfect operating picture, especially in something as complex as an entire health care system. Even honest, reliable people tell you a lot of stuff that just isn't correct. If you're writing an article, you're always cross-checking between multiple narratives and sifting out the minor factual errors that every first person account has. A weakness of a straight 'oral history' is that it puts forward one person's take without that cross-checking. That doesn't mean that oral history is bad, it just means that sophisticated consumers of information have to take it for what it's worth--as essentially raw material. Don't draw sweeping conclusions from it, but don't dismiss it out of hand because the source lacks perfect info." One value of social media is that "oral histories" can be presented in near-real time by real people with real experiences and no filter to "bias" what they're saying. (Dr. Mintzer's report actually isn't quite that, since he was relaying what he was told by someone else, but it was close.) But obviously everyone is biased, no matter how hard they try not to be. And traditional media, whose main bias is to favor power and money, does have the advantage of mostly holding regular standards and of culling the most sensational unconfirmed stuff that gets spread so widely on Twitter and Facebook. (Twitter is better, but as this example shows, obviously flawed.) Anyway, here's an interview in a traditional media outlet, The Atlantic (whose coronavirus coverage is free, by the way), that's similar in character to what Dr. Mintzer tweeted, but its source is named, it's written up by a professional journalist, asking probing questions, and it was reviewed by a professional editor: A Frontline Physician Speaks Out on the Coronavirus The doctor in question works in Boston. Things are not as bad there yet as in Seattle, but they're not good, and the staff are already facing new challenges, and they're gearing up for possible worst case scenarios.
    3 points
  21. In case you don't have a sweetie. According to a story on the radio this morning, "cam girls" are doing "land office business".
    3 points
  22. One encouraging outlook on this period of disruption, with all the activity disappointments that come along with that, is certain things actually improve from the experience! I found one appealing to me already. Our nation’s supply chain (delivery of goods and services) will be reoriented, specifically medical supplies. We are way too dependent on China here. Not good no matter what country applies. By the way, previously I wrote about our vacation travel to Florida (actually Jekyll Island, GA) in late April. This morning I cancelled those plans and will try again later this year.
    3 points
  23. i think at this stage, they have to pretend all will be well until they know more.
    3 points
  24. Are you calling upon the supreme powers of Sandy Duncan?
    3 points
  25. Media is like food. There's highly nourishing stuff out there, junk food and everything in between. Treating all media as a monolith is odious. In this information age, each individual must be discerning about what to ingest. Find a few quality, trusted sources and follow them. And for Pete's sake support them with subscriptions, etc. so that real journalism doesn't get supplanted by social media garbage. Like most things today - buyer beware.
    3 points
  26. Maybe if you eat a Wheat Thin it might count? 😎
    3 points
  27. Your thread is a good idea ..... let's all refrain the political arguments which caused the MODS to close the other topics
    3 points
  28. Not a fan of some of suggestive "songs" to ensure you are washing your hands enough. So I am now washing them to the opener for '80 Blue Devils up until the :35 mark. My hands are so clean now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjNFIsnamE
    3 points
  29. 3 points
  30. Why the fascination with posting “I know something you don’t know” type posts? Do you find it helpful or feel it’s impressive?
    3 points
  31. I respectfully disagree. I believe this is a real thing. I hope I’m wrong.
    3 points
  32. I think DCI has until mid April to make a decision. Right now would seem too reactionary, at least to me. Yes we heard from the White House that it may be July or August, but the CDC says we’ll know more in 8 weeks. However whenever we have discussions about what DCI should or should not do, we are reminded DCI is actually the member corps. We may need to see individual corps cancel their season before DCI makes a move, and judging from corps FB posts and emails I have seen, along with FB posts from instructors, the only corps that has said anything I know of regarding the summer is Guardians who are changing portions of their show. This may be anecdotal and perhaps I’ve missed something. Social media is pretty busy right now. Many corps are being responsible by having April camps online, so I do believe they will make the best decisions regarding the summer.
    2 points
  33. I would suspect that mental health professionals are going to be inundated for quite some time.
    2 points
  34. It’s probably going to take a viral plague to stop them, though. 😂 😉
    2 points
  35. Thanks but have that part. Just combination of legs moving and nothing else feeling and mainly constantly walking at same speed. Used to hills and adjusting speed as needed. And keeping that death grip on the handles lol....
    2 points
  36. actually you are - you're aligned with a VERY bad manager who used to be involved with the corps and now you just spread rumors
    2 points
  37. Zen moment on local weather report. Note: guv is shutting all non-essential business at midnight. ”it might be a little wet for the morning commute.... (pause and give a weird look at the camera) if you’re still commuting”. Not sure if that was in the script or it hit him what was said as he said it....
    2 points
  38. Shut it down. We already know BD will win.
    2 points
  39. but they'd have to change the program to include John Cage 4'33......since it is void of musical performers. More of a mime show, I suppose...
    2 points
  40. No, but whoever comes forward for examination gets diagnosed. That establishes a meaningful baseline. That brings me to a question posed by another intelligent contributor here: This has had me thinking. Ultimately, we need that same kind of meaningful baseline established for this virus. As long as we are playing catch-up on testing, the rate of "reported cases" will rise out of proportion to the rate of viral spread, and we will never know when it is safe to come out of our caves again. I keep hearing this crisis being compared to a war effort. Well, then, we need a D-Day invasion of testing. Amass so much testing capacity that everyone who wants one can get one. When we reach that point, the results will give us that baseline we need. Seems that some of the steps being taken (i.e. testing at no cost to the patient, drive-thrus, partnering with the biggest labs and diagnostics providers, etc.) could get us there.
    2 points
  41. "Social distancing probably can stop the outbreak before it runs through the whole population. It is not necessary to stop all transmissions -- you just need less than 1 transmission per infected person on average. But this will require very disruptive and prolonged changes ... There is likely no way to 'manage' the spread of the virus through the mass population and maintain sufficient hospital capacity. The only option is to stop the outbreak." And we don't seem to be equipped to do that. This Will Get Worse: The Grim Math of a Coronavirus Future. We shouldn't give up! But we need to take immensely larger steps.
    2 points
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  43. Best advice I have for everyone...catch up on your sleep 😴. Society is very sleep deprived plus you can’t worry and be upset if you are sleeping. 😊
    2 points
  44. Almost like a WWII awakening only this it's a little, hungry, unseen enemy we are up against. Vaccine to the front - ASAP.
    2 points
  45. Does anybody think there will be a baby boom starting nine months from now?
    2 points
  46. Like Bob P. said - math. Seeing more and more use of one-sided statistics stripped of their proper balanced context, usually erring on the worst-case side. Not trying to minimize the seriousness of the situation... just hoping to avert unnecessary panic.
    2 points
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