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Looks like it is time to repeat some things I said awhile back. For this specific episode of C-19 media terror, I should also add... 3. Not all cases become hospitalizations. Not even close. In fact, many C-19 cases are entirely asymptomatic. Of those that are not, many people experience minor symptoms and recover on their own. Only a small percentage of cases ever burden the healthcare system. 4. And we are hearing that the latest "surge" consists of a greater proportion of younger people, for whom the data has long established will have far fewer severe cases. 5. We all knew that as we reopened, there would be more cases. The difference is that we are now much better prepared to handle them. As I have said before... do not panic.

Or Brasso? Oh wait...I’ll probably get banned now. 🤦‍♀️

🤷‍♀️Like Jim Schehr?

Now, now JL. You know how sensitive Hook'em can be.

June 27, 2002, 12:09am ET - Tour Day 35 Herndon, VA → Pennsville, NJ First of all, the results from the 6/25 show in Winston-Salem: The Cadets - 80.60 - Music, General Effect, Visual (tie) Blue Devils - 78.75 - Visual (tie) Crossmen - 76.20 Spirit of Atlanta - 68.25 Carolina Crown - 67.85 Kiwanis Kavaliers - 58.45 Magic of Orlando - 76.90 It’s hard to believe that we’re only 2 ½ points behind the Blue Devils. We’re off to an extraordinary start and we’re still very dirty. If you compare scores from other shows, we’re actually 4th in the country right ahead of Santa Clara. Ironic, eh? Tonight we had a show in Herndon, Virginia. It rained a few hours before the show started so the show wasn’t our greatest because the field wasn’t in great shape. The yard lines and hashes were pretty much invisible too, but we did the best we could and our score still managed to improve. Tomorrow we have a show in Lansdale, Pennsylvania and Saturday is Clifton, New Jersey. I’m looking forward to performing for people I know. The Cadets - 81.50 - all captions Crossmen - 77.40 Carolina Crown - 70.65 Spirit of Atlanta - 69.30 Kiwanis Kavaliers - 59.65 Magic of Orlando - 77.60 Lehigh Valley Knights - 55.45 (Next post is June 29.)

He misunderstood you. Give him a break.

i'm serious and have done the same and yet you feel the need to bring that up? How about the loss of a business and any income? You there yet? You made it personal and now no doubt will call for me to be banned. Sad , yet I was not even talking to you/

Pretty sure he was talking to someone else about something else.

the fact that the message board allows you to be a hack is not my problem , you suggest something in the numbers and yet the actual numbers are around 28% covid in the ICU. and the actual hospitalization for the area is not what you suggest. You just wanted to media hype the numbers. Its clear. and the message board will allow you to do so and probably ban me. You guys are not serious about anything.

Many former DCP posters found themselves banished from the site for various behaviors. Many of them were prolific posters. Right now, with a dearth of activity, I wonder if the time has come to offer amnesty. Would you support letting banned posters back into the fold? Would they be interested in coming back? Discuss.

I agree.

I have a complaint. I wear my mask properly everywhere but I’m #### tired of seeing people wearing masks under their nose. I saw several people just today. If my old ### can wear this mask properly, your twenty-something ### can, too.

You lured me out. YOU! 😂

You mean COVID isn’t the fault of DCI? Who knew?

I’m willing to learn aka Bill Murray in Stripes.

You mean you weren’t? 😂

Who? 😂

Works for me, especially I believe some of the folks should have never been banned in the first place. My temporary time out cost me many quality and stimulating posts.

Not really lol. The posters general feel is optimistic and I love it. When I was a kid I thought of auditioning for Crossmen because they were local at the time. And ironically I have family that live in the Philadelphia area... so it makes some sense as to why I like them.

I think you say that because you know how Frameworks turned out.

Or, DCP Forums in search of members willing to engage in discussions that won't delve into meaningless discussions of COVID-19, the leader of the free world, or the Blue Devils are best drum corps to ever march on planet Earth?

"I love a parade"; Not...

Garlic pancakes? I see no problem with the contrast of garlic & the sweet savory maple syrup, followed by the applewood smoked bacon.

If you read the posts he was talking about TMC and potential confusion about the way the ICU numbers were being presented. Do we really need to go through this again?

It was, and I accept your apology. It is clear we both have some raw nerves over how COVID has affected each of us. Perhaps it is best for both of us to take a step back. And I apologize for misunderstanding on my part.

He didn’t understand that’s what you were talking about.

28 -33% get informed. Also in the last week alone there have been 4 new testing location open near me (within a 2 mile radius) what would you expect. That alone with the bars/clubs and demonstrations have caused this.

He did say “you guys.”

You really think we want to hype the numbers? I would love to hype 0 as a number. And do you think I am not serious about anything? I buried a family member. You have no clue how serious I am.

I was so moved, both to sadness and hope, by the statements in this video from a couple days ago of the heroic medical staff working at the El Centro Regional Medical Center, located in El Centro, California (population 44,000), the seat of Imperial County, that I transcribe their words here, so that we may better know the sacrifices being made on our behalf: ---Christina Santana, nurse: "Hello. So today has been a rough day. It's kind of what we expect now: every day we come to work, just prepare for the worst, and brace yourself to what lies ahead during the day. It's just very sad and unfortunate, and I really never thought I'd see any of this in my lifetime, but our little town is getting ransacked and beat up by this horrible monster that is the coronavirus. Now it's beginning to infiltrate our community, well-known people: we're all such a small community that it's starting to hit home. And it's starting to wipe out families. And it's just a constant anxiety of realizing the people you take care are probably not going to make it, most of the time. I'm starting to understand what PTSD looks like: it's like this. It's wartime, it's constant suffering and death and dying and going on to the next one and doing your best, doing everything that you went to school for, and sometimes everything you do is not enough, and every day things change. And we don't see an end: the numbers keep going up, the patients keep coming in, and it's just causing complete havoc in our little community. And just to see that they want to open everything back up and back to normal, and everyone saying, 'Oh, it's like the flu': this is not the flu. This is a monster, and it wreaks havoc on your entire body, not just your lungs: it's a whole systematic disease. And we're tired. We're tired, we're exhausted physically, mentally, everything. And I don't see how we continue, but we do, and we will take this on headfirst and do the best we can and help as many people as we can and just keep trucking every day, and we come in." ---Marsha Alarez, travel nurse: "I primarily work the Covid tent. We can see up to 29 at a time out there between the tent and the car. There are multiple patients that start with us in triage and are not stable, so we have to rush them inside where they can get better care than we can provide in the tent. What I've learned is that sometimes this is the last time these families will ever see their patient again. Sometimes these patients are dead within three, four hours. We are so full and have so many critical patients that the state is helping us to find ICU beds all over California, and so we're constantly flying out patients, fixed wing and helicopter, as far away as Berkeley and Stanford. And because of the way Covid is, they are not allowed to see their family even if they are hospitalized, so it can be weeks before they see their family, or it can be the last time that they see their family." ---Nikki Freeman, respiratory therapist: "So I get asked by my friends and family, 'How's work?' And I never really know how to answer. Working as a respiratory therapist during this time? it's been difficult. And I know one of the things that I've really been struggling with and processing is how quickly a lot of these patients deteriorate. How they go from walking and talking to being intubated to being pronounced dead within a matter of hours, and knowing that there's no family members around for them to say goodbye? It's rough. It's very rough." ---Judy Cruz, emergency room director: "Today has been one of the worst days by far. All of our beds are full. There are twelve patients waiting for admission to ICU, which--we have no beds, so that means they are pending transfers. We have to look for beds in another hospital. This is very taxing and time consuming. Some of these patients have been here for two to three days waiting for beds. Half of them are intubated on ventilators. One of them required CPR for the first three hours of our shift. That means four nurses, a respiratory therapist, a physician in that room the entire three hours, and unfortunately he lost his battle to coronavirus. When I walk out of this office, I'm going to go out there and tell the staff what an amazing job they're doing and have been doing and how proud I am of them, but just know that we're all praying that this comes to an end soon, and we just to go back to normal."

Social distancing is possible BUT will people. All one has to do is look at many examples when leaving it up to people, many do not. I have homes in the North East as well as Florida and the plain out arrogance in Florida and some other states is showing it's evil head right now. I was actually in A Walmart today and you can't get in without a mask now.Walking around I can't tell you how many with masks tucked under their chin. I didn't want to get murdered but wanted to scream out ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING, Maybe I should have just gone to the manager and told them. In Florida, Info given now was told to me a month ago by a friend who is a leading infectious D. Dr. in Fl.he told me a month ago DO NOT listen to what you hear on TV and what he said then is being said just now by politicians. SAD! Something is wrong with me hearing this a month ago and officials only saying something now. I applaud the Bristol officials for trying to have some sort of normality and the creativity BUT have less faith in many people not just protecting themselves but having the respect for those around them or those they may come in contact with. Hope it goes well and is a good example for others. Would be great!

Essentially there were never any recordings done at the '72 U.S. Open. Fleetwood lost control once DCI came into play. And since 6 of the original 13 DCI charter member corps were at the '72 U.S. Open they didn't record. Stet Richmond, who also recorded previous U.S. Opens, was not allowed to sell recordings of DCI charter member corps either in '72. The corps that were not charter members that did make '72 DCI finals (such as the Bridgemen and Kilties) were allowed to be recorded by Stet at other contests. It is really unfortunate that the '72 U.S. Open wasn't recorded. I have hand-held cassette recordings, but the quality diminished over 40 years before I could restore them properly.