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We could probably end this entire thread and future subsequent threads with this. This is all that needs to be said. Check your priorities.

it's tough. i am married to an elementary teacher. She misses her kids, and she knows this isn't going to help them...but she's also terrified she could catch it from a kid whose family is spreading it, then bringing it home to us...as she can't visit her dad in his skilled care facility while he fights Covid and deals with his Parkinsons issues at the same time. the bottom line is there is no win-win in all of this, and sadly as a country we are so divided and there's no common ground on doing the right thing for the overall world. it's too "me me me"....My God can you imagine WWII if the country didn't rally around the cause? that anybody is seriously worried about having a drum corps season as we continue to speed towards 300k and more dead really needs to have their priorities checked.

Oh so predictable. Looks like I was hoping for too much.

20 year old nephew is looking at long term monitoring to see if he will have permanent lung issues. Said that to someone and they called it an “anomaly”. I went off.... Everyone seems to talk about fatality rate but long term health effects is ignored as will be years until we can start to tell. Family lived near Three Mile Island when is malfunctioned in 1979. We were told in 20 years the cancer rate might start jacking but no one knew. It didn’t happen but that is hell having that over your head for decades.

and not even close to what we have been dealing with since the spring. and that flu season didn't kill over a quarter of a million people and counting. i get it...you want to march. you also refuse to discuss any of the massive logistical hurdles facing the activity. a vaccine will not be widely distributed in time for a season. it sucks, but to quote a government official, "it is what it is".

Suncoast Sound 1984

Pages and pages of personal info but the DCI 2021 season is not part of the postings. Read this today. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/is-the-slow-approach-to-reopening-schools-failing-kids/ If we can get schools functioning it will be a step in the right direction for any upcoming season.

There's going to be alot, So much un known at this point

The Bridgemen's endings in 78&79 were different.

1969 There were lots of gutsy moves that year. In addition to Boston and Gerry Shellmer upending the percussion caption, thereby laying the groundwork for what would become "the pit", the Sunrisers introduced DCA to its first all-female color guard. Imagine the initial reaction from the beer-belly crowd. But these chicks were no shrinking violets. You messed with them at your peril. Meanwhile, over in "Joisey", Garfield had added young women to its guard, captained by Dee Kolbusz (now Schlachter) and Judy Tomko (now Ulchinsky). It took some serious diplomacy to settle the rebellion amongst the alumni, and we know how ornery they can be. There was even a dust-up over the choice for their new instructor, who, to all outward appearances, looked like a long-haired Hippie freak character off the set of Easy Rider. Some modicum of calm was restored when it was pointed out he was Santa Clara's drill instructor, Pete Emmons, then studying acting in NYC. It took until '74 for the maroon and gold to be worn by a young Black Cadet (now HE showed some intestinal fortitude, I think), and another couple of years before Gail DeAngelis broke through the brass ceiling as the first female in that horn line. Gutsy? Oh, yeah.

I can’t imagine why anyone would be discussing whether there will be a DCI 2021 season in this thread entitled “Will there be a DCI 2021 season?”

effects

affects

i know at least a dozen that resigned from jobs into schools to get virtual teaching gigs...across the age spectrum...newbies to soon to be retirees.

and yet more and more schools are going virtual into January now. given that people are travelling over the holidays regardless what public officials urge them not to do, it's spreading.

And insults that makes some of us feel your purpose is trolling more than presenting your side of the issue

Districts also have a lot of problems getting substitute teachers. Many (like me) are older, and they do not want to risk going into a school setting right now (like me again).

Forgot how dusty that field could be.

The original Bottle Dance from SCV. Had no idea what the reaction would be.

Bluecoats 2016...unis, ramps, etc.

Two days ago I spoke with a friend whose father was in a California ICU with Covid-19. He said his father was in stable condition and was not intubated. Things were looking good. The next day he passed away. A very strange illness.

i have a father in law battling it while also fighting Parkinsons. the biggest worry is the long term affects