re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

So who’s gonna shut the casinos down?
On one hand we can’t be having that many people in one place, on the other hand they aren’t gonna forfeit that money.

You say putting people at a “slight” inconvenience as if there are thousands and thousands of workers that just got fricked out of paychecks because of all these closures and cancellations.

Here in Paulding County, GA, schools were just closed indefinitely, though they're aiming to reopen in two weeks. The University System of Georgia, which includes UGA, Kennesaw State, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, etc., are all closed for at least 2 weeks. All schools will be going to online learning and will reevaluate in 2 weeks.

There are some parents of young ones pretty pissed...the county came out of nowhere with this and now parents are going to have to find child care or miss work. A lot of folks can't miss work without losing their paychecks, especially if they're healthy.

I give props to Brian Kemp and our local schoolboard for making the tough decision of erring on the side of caution, but some folks are in a real tough spot right now.

shite is crazy right now. Time for us to put our heads down and get through this shite best we can.

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Is that saying heat and humidity slow transmission rate by 1-5%? That's how it reads to me.

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I believe this is the important part...

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One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0266 and 0.0106, respectively.

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So remember R is how many people and infected person infected on average. If R is 2 then an infected person will infect 2 other people. Then the spread increases.

For every 1 degree Celsius increase the R is reduced by .02

So let’s say the temp increases by 20 degrees and humidity by 20%. The R would decrease by about 0.3, it’s not dramatic but combined with other measures (social distancing,etc.) it could make a big enough impact.

If the average temp goes up by 40 degrees, then R goes down by 2. That would basically knock this thing out.

A few games? Y’all keep acting like it’s nothing. They’ve shut down all sports across the country. You know how many jobs are involved in that? It’s not just johnnys math teacher cancelling a weekly practice.

Sweet Caroline at Pat O’s piano bar. Errbody touchin errbody.

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but some folks are in a real tough spot right now.

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This will be interesting over the next few weeks.. All of these men and women that work for a living and keep things we take for granted running, now will have their children home from school for a few weeks minimum. How bad is this going to slow down the economy...?

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This will be interesting over the next few weeks.. All of these men and women that work for a living and keep things we take for granted running, now will have their children home from school for a few weeks minimum. How bad is this going to slow down the economy...?

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We're in a unique position here because the federal government is not running lead on our national response. State and local governments are running lead. Businesses and corporations are running lead. Private professional organizations like MLB, NHL, NBA, etc. are running lead.

I think this leads to the feds playing a reactive roll. Given the consequences of all those other parties making relatively drastic decisions, I think the feds need to do the same. Not sure if that means halting the market for a bit, providing unprecedented federal aid, or what, but they absolutely have to react to what's happening.

When you lead from behind, you are often left with less options.

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According to the CDC? A whopping 1200 cases

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Out of less than 8,000 TOTAL tests.

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So today basically everything good about America closed. But I have not seen any new information about new cases/deaths. Anybody care to share?

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CDC has tested 77 people this entire week. That's not a typo. 77 people. We don't know shite.