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On 10/28/2020 at 12:08 PM, Cappybara said:
Oh my sweet summer child
Bless your heart.
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Cixelsyd that was a valiant effort by these kids and young adults that tried to do the virtual march on. But I am in the opinion camp that believes virtual is a waste of time and energy and is in some ways a joke.
From the majority of active posters on the message board is that the hope for a season is over. The hope for corps not to fold is also fading.
As someone has mentioned in another post, we are 7 months away from a season. There is no press releases coming from any of the corps. They are out of the proverbial F's to give.
Also another person who has been ridiculed for their opinion of getting on with a season with fans and judges. All shot down here. This is the can't do anything area don't step on the lawn!
Anyway budgets cuts are coming to schools and the first budget to go will be fine arts. Among the fine arts Marching band will lead those budget cuts. Art class stands a way better chance of getting funded before band. Keep on banging the doom and gloom 5 gallon buckets.
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1 hour ago, Continental said:
I suspect drill aka "marching and maneuvering" would be affected by the placement of home furnishings. Formations might not be as perfect as possible due to the lack of space caused by couches, desks, comfy chairs, etc. Tripping on a throw rug could completely offset a company front.
Would that require a temporary new judging category perhaps called "GF" (General Furnishing)? If so would it be incorporated as part of GE or Guard? If cushions are used as part of the performance perhaps it would be part of Guard as they are easy to toss.
The Couchmen have not had any issues in the past. The one issue they did encounter was the DTCB (distance to cold beverages). I believe at one point penalty's were given to the Ottoman's for disruption of a clear path to cold beverages. Not sure about the specifics.
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2 minutes ago, skevinp said:
There’s nothing much left to talk about that doesn’t violate the rules because we aren’t talking about the amazing 2020 DCI shows we just saw.
True, it seems like it was ok but if you try to venture out there the wind is too strong. As in I thought it was ok to share stories and how things are having an affect.
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A great deal of posts but none actually indicating a corps or DCI has made any statement or additional statement regarding marching in 2021.
Someone was sharing personal stories, Since it was the OP I thought it was good to go and shared my own story, only to get a back handed political reply to my post - followed up with a racism claim.
Looks like self inflicted derailing of the thread to me.
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I'm not sure that DCI and the corps are ever going to get into the insurance statements for life or medical. If and when they do I will be interested to read such statements.
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DCI nor any corps that I have read - as of today have not made any statements regarding the easy or difficulty on insurance. Same on any waiver statements. So far no news.
Reading a little about life insurance policies it seems you can still get them and they still honor the policies.
I have a friend who had the wuhan covid-19 they mentioned to him that he might have some lingering lung issues and he has been seeing a pulmonologist for the 2 months now with a couple of Spirometry tests. His results for the FVC and FEV1 started borderline abnormal and is in the normal range the last check. He was able to get a life insurance policy even without a exam.
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12 hours ago, Cappybara said:
Caution: prudent forethought to minimize risk
I thought I’d put that definition out there since @dansseemed to be a bit confused (based on his reaction emoji to my comment) as to why no solid plans have been put out by any corps. Hope that clears things up for ya.
Some corps seemed to have plenty to say during the summer on different subjects. Coming up with a statement should not be to hard for them.
The comments directed at the reaction emoji is hypocrisy.
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27 minutes ago, skevinp said:
Just a reminder the OP asked what DCI/corps have said they plan to do, not what we think they will do or should do.
Some of the trouble is that the corps seem to be hiding from making statements. Pretty weak.
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37 minutes ago, CrownBariDad said:
They had about 19 bands. The weather held off for the morning group. They cleared the stands after the morning group (COVID safety), so the Wife didn't stay for the rest of the competition. I suspect rain was an issue the rest of the day. The Daughter's band (CG instructor) scored well. I haven't seen the final talley.
They were also "competing" with a local air show featuring the Thunderbirds. I think the TBirds got in their performance before the rains closed in -- at least from my house near the field it sounded like it.
Cool deal. Glad for your Daughters band! Thanks for sharing.
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On 10/23/2020 at 6:17 AM, CrownBariDad said:
Hearing there may be about 20 bands at this weekend's competition.
How was the competition? Did the weather cooperate?
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3 hours ago, Poppycock said:
Most charter bus companies are already out of business too.
Specifically CA (west coast) and NY (east coast) coach lines are either out of business or going out of business. The ones that are not out of business have not had any revenue since March 21st or near that date. Many of the other coach lines in the rest of the country are struggling to not declare bankruptcy.
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10 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
it was 80 here today. quite comfy
You can google it if you want. Might not hurt. But your reply does prove you don't "know it all".
Great news about the warm temps.
Stay Frosty Oscar Mike.
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2 hours ago, MikeD said:
Actually, according to the WHO, the survival rate is around 97%.
From the WHO dashboard: 41,570,883 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,134,940 deaths, reported to WHO.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex
1-4 yrs 15
5-14 yrs 39
15-24yrs 383
last updated October 21
No doubt that for those ages noted above, the survival rate is higher than 97% its probably more like 99.9%.
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1 hour ago, dans said:
So, you're a moderator on this site now?
Yeah as skevinp said, if someone starts a thread they can ask for it to be closed. I did not know that either but I have seen that on other sites message boards.
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23 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:
it wasn't. i replied to your comment about how you only see bad news in here. Not all of us follow every circuit everywhere
Great news thanks for sharing.
Stay Frosty.
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1 hour ago, Jeff Ream said:
Hi,
I didn't post that to be political. It's just those are the only events where i don't see the normal protocols for crowd size being followed. And if you knew anything about me and thought before you typed, you'd know i do not support rioting. But then again, thinking before you type is a challenge across all forms of social media these days
During the summer you did not see any other events that did not follow the "normal" protocols?
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1 hour ago, Jeff Ream said:
no offense, but i follow the circuits close to home, so what Georgia is doing would not be on my radar in the slightest.
Thread is about band cancellations. Did not realize it was for band's only in one geographical location.
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Not really - you can plan for the worst case situation and go from there.
Probably DONT include the states that have shutdowns. Leave them out. Maybe just tour in the South?
Stay Frosty.
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11 hours ago, Bucbari said:
Just my opinion, but is the marching band programs in Texas, is their primary goal to compete, or to provide entertainment at half time. No high school in Texas is providing a 25 million budget for their music programs like many of the stadiums that are being built so that a bunch of 18 year olds pituiraries (sic) can entertain Daddy. If I was 18 again, and I'm not, I'm 66, I would refuse to do half time shows just on principal. I think I'm going to take some flak but it is my opinion. Hehehehe so flame away.
Totally agree with your opinion.
In the last decade the budgets for Texas schools has stayed flat (about the same). The amount of people who move to the state each day is amazing. For some districts you would think that would also increase the school budgets but in most cases it has not.
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What consistent guidelines from state to state that will allow DCI not to be a disaster?
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2 hours ago, CrownBariDad said:
Hearing there may be about 20 bands at this weekend's competition.
Some good news. Thanks for sharing the information.
I think it proves a point when you look at the lack of interest here with "reply's". Has to be bad news before the band wagon starts to roll again.
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6 hours ago, JimF-LowBari said:
You’re saying I need more caffeine? 🤪
On my second Keurig after burning out the first one. Get all types of pods at Ollie’s Bargin store so least get a variety. My wife and I burned out a Mr Coffee (thank you Joe DiMaggio) so long term addict. 🤫😬 Yeah Mr Coffee was definitely Mr Caffeine. And that was powered by Dunkin..:
"Keurig is deceptively expensive, environmentally wasteful, and worst of all, its design eliminates some of the best experiences of buying, brewing, and drinking coffee."
"Keurig’s packaging is a big “F you” to the environment. As Mother Jones puts it, in 2013 Green Mountain produced 8.3 billion K-Cups–or enough 2″x2″ containers to circle the globe 10.5 times. It’s enough to even make the K-Cup’s inventor renounce his own invention."
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5 minutes ago, cixelsyd said:
Right now, that is true. That is why we are cancelling events here in 2020.
But that is not what I was asking. Continental asserted that something you said elsewhere is germane to this thread (or what Continental believes to be the "objective" of this thread, still unstated).
So far, this thread has been asking whether drum corps shows, or appearances of individual corps at such shows, have been impacted by disease concerns prior to 2020. So far, the answers show that individual corps have taken a sick day on occasion, and one corps had to take several such sick days in succession... but no entire events have been cancelled on that account.
Of course, no other drum corps seasons have had the kind of pandemic/quarantine situations that we face here in 2020. So if anyone thinks drum corps history holds some sort of profound relevance to the challenges it faces today, they will have to be specific.
So I was just about to reply with respect to the assertion that something was said in another thread that directly pertained to the subject of this thread. Obviously not.
Other than weather related I can't remember entire shows or series of shows cancelled due to health reasons.
Skyriders 🌈 missed more than a few shows I believe due to buses being condemned or deemed unsafe for travel on the roads. Believe that all went down in Colorado. 1987 tour. But again that was just one corps safety and I find it fishy that the Colorado department of transportation suddenly took an interest in just the skyriders buses.
Drum Corps wear for Halloween?
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I don't really participate in the Halloween spirit. I would think the Boston costume from wicked games would have worked well.