Coronavirus:

[HONDO74]

How Is New York Having Crazy Parties With No COVID Surge?
https://news.yahoo.com/york-having-craz ... 14175.html

New Jersey and New York have had similar regulations, travel restrictions, and contact tracing efforts. Giant, raucous boat parties in New York are making headlines, too. So why aren’t infection rates following suit the same way? Why are two states that were both early coronavirus hot spots on seemingly divergent courses all these months later?

As of Thursday, New Jersey’s case rate per 100,000 people was 30 over the past seven days, according to The New York Times. The state had a positivity rate of 1.77 percent on its tests over the past week, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.

Meanwhile, New York’s case rate per 100,000 was 24 over the past seven days, according to the Times. This week, the state had a positivity rate of 0.97 percent on its tests, according to Johns Hopkins. For the past month, that number was 1.06 percent. The state was testing 3.5 people per 1,000, a rate that was trending upward according to Johns Hopkins.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

New Jersey and New York have had similar regulations, travel restrictions, and contact tracing efforts. Giant, raucous boat parties in New York are making headlines, too. So why aren’t infection rates following suit the same way? Why are two states that were both early coronavirus hot spots on seemingly divergent courses all these months later?

They are not on the same time scale for one.

Ridiculous parties in CA, too.

[up148]

Maybe the silence before the storm.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe the silence before the storm.

Storms, storms, it's not just singular and it never was.

[HONDO74]

Looks like the people in this country have decided to determine their own fate ?

Harleys everywhere, masks nowhere: Sturgis draws thousands
250,000 people are expected
https://www.ky3.com/2020/08/07/harleys- ... thousands/

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis on Friday as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.

The rally could become one of the largest public gatherings since the pandemic began, with organizers expecting 250,000 people from all over the country to make their way through Sturgis during the 10-day event. That would be roughly half the number of previous years, but local residents — and a few bikers — worry that the crowds could create a “super-spreader” event.

Many who rode their bikes into Sturgis on Friday expressed defiance at the rules and restrictions that have marked life in many locales during the pandemic. People rode from across the country to a state that offered a reprieve from coronavirus restrictions, as South Dakota has no special limits on indoor crowds, no mask mandates and a governor who is eager to welcome visitors and the money they bring.

“Screw COVID,” read the design on one T-shirt being hawked. “I went to Sturgis.”

[robert.]

This is not really a biker crowd. What you see in Sturgis is a tee shirt do rag crowd. Most of these "bikers' are man cave guys. They pull a harley davidson behind a motor home. Then stay 20 miles outside of town. Riding into town only to be seen or to buy a new tee shirt. Most motorcyclist don't like large crowds.
It should have the same results as spring break 2020. It is amazing how people cant calm down and not do something for a year. Oh well hopefully life goes on. I have had a few more trade shows cancelled. Next one up is Miami beach Jan 14-19 2021. I can see it getting the axe. So far Miami's board of health keeps renewing a month by month lease on the convention center. They use it for a virus headquarter. It's leased out till oct. 6 with options to go longer. All of the antique dealers i work with during the show. Have said " They wont go in 2021." Most wont return for the show ever again. 3-4 bad years of business in a row. Has made them toss in the towel.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Chris Webster]

From this Bill Gates interview in Wired:

At this point, are you optimistic?

Yes. You have to admit there’s been trillions of dollars of economic damage done and a lot of debts, but the innovation pipeline on scaling up diagnostics, on new therapeutics, on vaccines is actually quite impressive. And that makes me feel like, for the rich world, we should largely be able to end this thing by the end of 2021, and for the world at large by the end of 2022.] That is only because of the scale of the innovation that’s taking place. Now whenever we get this done, we will have lost many years in malaria and polio and HIV and the indebtedness of countries of all sizes and instability. It’ll take you years beyond that before you’d even get back to where you were at the start of 2020. It’s not World War I or World War II, but it is in that order of magnitude as a negative shock to the system.

[robert.]

I got an email alert today. No in person school . First semester will be all virtual. Nov 11 earliest possible date for in person. No fall sports.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I got an email alert today. No in person school . First semester will be all virtual. Nov 11 earliest possible date for in person. No fall sports.

County or the entire state?

[robert.]

Central bucks for class/sports. Piaa. Will rule on state wide sports in 2 weeks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Central bucks for class/sports. Piaa. Will rule on state wide sports in 2 weeks.

Curious to see what that brings.

[robert.]

Governor wolf recommended no sports. Last Thursday he made that statement. Now the PIAA is rethinking their stance on having fall sports. Pennridge canceled their football season.

[robert.]

Philadelphia public league cancelled all sports. Will revisit options Feb of 2021.

[Chris Webster]

Dan Patrick: Big 10, Pac-12 Will Cancel Their College Football Seasons
also
SEC commissioner: League unlikely to play football in fall if all other conferences cancel season