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Mike, brought up my dissenting thoughts in another thread but will repeat here. Full article has 150 million people (40% of population) fully vaccinated by end of April. Also 10-25% cases reported means 4 to 10 times the number of cases than reported. Both seem optimistic to me but I’m no expert. Finally the 70% drop totally ignores that this is comparing to the horrible spike we had due to holiday travel. So was 70% drop due things being so much better now or due to how horrible things were 6 weeks ago. Key point to me yet not mentioned at all. I do hope what is reported comes true but still in wait and see mode. And expecting the laughing icon for whatever reason 🙄

i gotta be honest being able to avoid some people and say its the government telling me to do so has appeal

I think you're right. The face diapers do no real good after all, it's more a sign of obedience to the king.

Some people will pay a lot of money for that sort of thing.

Cases are down to less than half what they were well before Thanksgiving, so I don’t think you can attribute most of it to holiday travel. Also, if you look the curve (Google’s continual map based on NYT data) in October to before Thanksgiving, the slope was increasing like crazy. It actually seems to generally start tapering off soon after that point, so I’m not sure how much stock can be put into the holiday travel theory. All that said, the article is just one perspective, even if the author is from John’s Hopkins. And although it would great if true, I’m not sure that gets us DCI in 2021, since corps may well (and probably should) require proof of vaccination from all members, or at least that or a test result showing that the member has already had it. At this point, that seems unlikely to be obtainable for a significant percentage of interested parties. Also, I gave you a laughing icon, but only out of respect for your request. 😷🙂😷

Or Washington DC.

Maybe the headline should be in an even bigger font so I can see it from down the hallway.

We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news. By Marty Makary Feb. 18, 2021 12:35 pm ET SHARE TEXT 1,792 ILLUSTRATION: MARTIN KOZLOWSKI Listen to this article 7 minutes 00:00 1x Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted? In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.

"A placard commemorating NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign was installed on the Perseverance Mars rover on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three fingernail-sized chips affixed to the upper-left corner of the placard feature the names of 10,932,295 people who participated. They were individually stenciled onto the chips by electron beam, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest. The name of the Boston Crusaders is now on the surface of Mars!" 67You and 66 others 4 Comments

It's rumored that when Perseverance touched down, it found Gerry Shellmer's drum sticks.

I call it kabuki theater. We’re down to 2.8% positivity rate and it’s lower every day in Illinois. We have all the variants here and they’re having no impact. It will be a year March 16th since we were locked down in Illinois. The problem with quarantines is that no one knows how to end them.

Now this is how you get back on topic.

Didn't think of it at the time, but face diapers sounds better than face depends!

Mars Township, PA (above Pittsburgh)? Seriously that’s cool....

I thought Mars was where Blue Devils practiced?

That is only part of what needs to happen if there will be Drum Corps in 2021. Logistic & financials also need to work. We all understand that you, as a marching member, really (REALLY!) want a 2021 season. But unless the logistics & financials work out would be a huge mistake for DCI to have a 2021 event. Is a 2021 event worth bankrupting DCI and several Drum Corps, perhaps ending the activity all together?

Part of the current Covid situation is that no one in Government (both current & previous administration, nor NIH & CDC (or WHO for that matter)) have defined what parameters signal the end of the pandemic. I suspect it will be some combination of % vaccinated & number of cases/day, but if no one with some degree of authority states what the measurable end goal is then the goalposts will keep moving. What it will NOT be is 100% vaccinated & zero cases - that was achieved when smallpox was eradicated & took a massive worldwide effort over several decades. If you are on a trip & you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there?

This activity depends upon the availability of rehearsal facilities and performance venues the majority of which are schools. Until that issue is resolved there will not be touring drum corps and no more face diapers to wear.

I am not confident the "checkbooks" are going to be able to find corps places to stay all summer when this is over... unfortunately, I think 2021 is going to be a year where a lot of people are going to need to decide whether they will donate money to something that may not exist in 2022...

Love it!

This is Ronny's sister. That video was taken in 2019 during the DCI championships. Ronny slipped and fell on his back n the bathroom of the hotel he was staying at in Indiana and was even in the hospital, but even in all his pain, he wanted to be there no matter what to see 'his kids'. He is the red dot (probably wearing USC shirt) and shouting "BLUE DEVILS!" They all knew he had fallen and were happy to see him. They were either pointing or giving the #1 sign because they had just won, again.

Virginia is in 1B; I fall into this & got my 1st shot a week ago.