JimF-LowBari Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 18 minutes ago, HockeyDad said: I have to chuckle at how advanced we feel we are in the year 2020. I found an old newspaper article from my little home town in northern Michigan about the 1918 flu epidemic. Guess what I found? They implemented the same social distancing actions back then that we are today. I think maybe we assume they bumbled their way through it, making no changes to their daily lives while their neighbors dropped around them. Nope. They largely did the same things. Closed the schools. Closed the churches. Closed the nonessential businesses. Discouraged people from aggregating. Same things we are doing right now. The result? An estimated 1/3 infection rate, and you know the mortality rate, around 3 percent. One large mistake they made - they held a liberty bond drive and the whole town turned out for it. It was a big party. Sounds just like what happened in Philadelphia. A couple weeks later, the sick started arriving at the hospital. Kicker was local board of health ok’Ed the liberty bond rally. And city was run by local blue bloods more than experts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terri Schehr Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 16 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said: i highly dout they will give refunds, they don't know and make cancelling a pain My subscription expires next month. I’m just letting it lapse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 58 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said: OK. Since there are no famous barbers, as far as I can think of, Perry Como but don’t think he has said anything about this.... 🤪 Uncle was a barber on WV/KY border. Had a frigging pompadour like Foghorn Leghorn (loud like him too) until he passed in the 2000s. Would you go to a barber with a 50s hairdo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Terri Schehr said: My subscription expires next month. I’m just letting it lapse. Make sure they don’t re up you behind your back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) WE'RE SAVED! The pimple-faced, hoodie-wearing Pied Piper of people's feelings, Mark Zuck..., head of Facebook, is preparing for an influx... He CARES SO MUCH! (corona-cough-BS). He's a digital crack dealer. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21185204/facebook-coronavirus-depression-anxiety-content-moderation-mark-zuckerberg-interview Give every marching member a free "drum corps phone" and a group FB password, and send them out to practice! We're saved! Edited March 19, 2020 by garfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 47 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said: OK. Since there are no famous barbers, as far as I can think of, let me go with: actor. If a famous actor says, "Don't worry about the coronavirus; it's not going to be any worse than the seasonal flu", and Jeff noted that here in the context of our discussion of the coronavirus and whether it would shut down the DCI tour, and he said something like, "I think that's dangerous rhetoric", you wouldn't say Jeff was making a political statement. If a famous politician says, "Don't worry about the coronavirus; it's not going to be any worse than the seasonal flu", and jeff noted that here in the context of our discussion of the coronavirus and whether it would shut down the DCI tour, and he said something like, "I think that's dangerous rhetoric", you would say that Jeff was making a political statement. Even though the famous person's quote is the same in both cases; even though Jeff's response is the same in both cases. You know in your heart that the political cheap shots you constantly fly under the radar here violate the spirit if not the letter of the rules, and you insult us all by suggesting you think we are too stupid to see through the tortured logic of your stilted excuses. You have provided some helpful posts here when focused on how to protect ourselves from the spread of the virus. Unfortunately, you have undone much of their goodwill, and are on the brink of denying at least one poster the potential benefit of the discussion at large, because I just can’t take it anymore. Every word devoted to politics and blame is a squandered resource that might have saved a life or at least made for a better one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, cixelsyd said: Nice game you have going with the hypothetical quotes. Can we all play? If a famous actor said "Read my lips - no new taxes"... If a famous actor said "If you like your doctor/plan, you can keep your doctor/plan"... I mean, these are hypothetical (and in my case, bipartisan), so no harm no foul, right? If the famous actor's comments were relevant to a discussion here, sure. But we can make this less hypothetical: Just two days ago, a reasonably famous actor (or so I'm told; I'd heard her name before but couldn't tell you what she's done) complained that all the government-imposed shutdowns were an overreaction, and she was roundly criticized by others for doing so. Then yesterday, a member of Congress said pretty much the same thing. His comment got less attention, although I saw a few people comparing the two remarks. If in the course of this discussion here on whether DCI will be shut down due to coronavirus, Jeff pointed to the actor's comment as an example of how, in his opinion, some people have their heads in the sand on this issue, you'd say: not political. But if Jeff instead pointed to the very similar politician's comment to make the same point, you'd say: political! verboten! For the sake of comity, I get why DCP would find it necessary to make the distinction. It's still silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, garfield said: Better yet, let's stop socializing everything, give people their tax money back, charge them with building their own mask stockpile, and then hold them responsible instead of the government when they blow their reserve on Big Macs, porn, and spring break. Some problems just can't be solved on an individual basis. This is probably one of them. If you build up a big stockpile of personal protective equipment and I don't, and particularly if a lot of people act like me and don't to this, and a pandemic hits, then there's still a decent chance that a large percentage of the population gets sick, and the government has to shut down schools and lots of businesses, and the stock market tanks, and unemployment skyrockets, and even though you've got a mask and you're pretty careful about hygiene, so many other people around you are sick that you get it too. You slip up just once and forget and touch your face after touching a door handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 46 minutes ago, HockeyDad said: I have to chuckle at how advanced we feel we are in the year 2020. I found an old newspaper article from my little home town in northern Michigan about the 1918 flu epidemic. Guess what I found? They implemented the same social distancing actions back then that we are today. I think maybe we assume they bumbled their way through it, making no changes to their daily lives while their neighbors dropped around them. Nope. They largely did the same things. Closed the schools. Closed the churches. Closed the nonessential businesses. Discouraged people from aggregating. Same things we are doing right now. The result? An estimated 1/3 infection rate, and you know the mortality rate, around 3 percent. One large mistake they made - they held a liberty bond drive and the whole town turned out for it. It was a big party. Sounds just like what happened in Philadelphia. A couple weeks later, the sick started arriving at the hospital. Also in 1918-19, Spain complained about everyone calling it the Spanish Flu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 minute ago, N.E. Brigand said: If the famous actor's comments were relevant to a discussion here, sure. But we can make this less hypothetical: Just two days ago, a reasonably famous actor (or so I'm told; I'd heard her name before but couldn't tell you what she's done) complained that all the government-imposed shutdowns were an overreaction, and she was roundly criticized by others for doing so. Then yesterday, a member of Congress said pretty much the same thing. His comment got less attention, although I saw a few people comparing the two remarks. If in the course of this discussion here on whether DCI will be shut down due to coronavirus, Jeff pointed to the actor's comment as an example of how, in his opinion, some people have their heads in the sand on this issue, you'd say: not political. But if Jeff instead pointed to the very similar politician's comment to make the same point, you'd say: political! verboten! For the sake of comity, I get why DCP would find it necessary to make the distinction. It's still silly. If one were as obsessed with an actor as you are with a particular politician, they would be John Hinckley, and that certainly had political ramifications. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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