Good Day Might as well get some good news in. The pain we go through does show a good bit of difference if we compare the worst-case infection rate to the actual.
NPI is a Non-Pharmacutical Intervention - closing schools, gyms bars, etc has an effect.
Does hand wash distance mask and more vaccinated against regular Flu = YES.
Impressive numbers looking at last 4 years reg flu at week 50.
last year -- 24k in 3 weeks
This year week 50 216 total vs 24,000 years before.
The projected worst case is not actual MD was looking at Peak Jan 8, 2020 (130- 160 cases per 100k) and now we are in peak a bit earlier.
MD is at covidactnow.org Dark red counties are becoming reg red. MD is better than PA. Even Dark red in PA is scaling back.
PA -
We can flatten a curve, but it does cost many economic dollars.
Not an easy job to balance economic vs health.
ZARDOG wrote:
We can flatten a curve, but it does cost many economic dollars.Not an easy job to balance economic vs health.
Actually, the balance is simple, if painful: it's tough to have an economy without people. Health should win out.
Sadly, the U.S. is not willing to ease the hit on businesses and workers who are sidelined because of NPI - thus why there's a fear (and a rational one, at that) of losing everything because of a prophylactic shutdown. But shutting things down works - full stop.
I do hope that most people stay home this holiday season and consider the option of sitting out this ski season if they can. Skiing is an addiction for most of us, but it's a luxury for 99.9 percent of people. Luxuries can wait. Just my $0.02 on the matter.
songfta wrote:
ZARDOG wrote:
We can flatten a curve, but it does cost many economic dollars.Not an easy job to balance economic vs health.
Actually, the balance is simple, if painful: it's tough to have an economy without people. Health should win out.
Sadly, the U.S. is not willing to ease the hit on businesses and workers who are sidelined because of NPI - thus why there's a fear (and a rational one, at that) of losing everything because of a prophylactic shutdown. But shutting things down works - full stop.
I do hope that most people stay home this holiday season and consider the option of sitting out this ski season if they can. Skiing is an addiction for most of us, but it's a luxury for 99.9 percent of people. Luxuries can wait. Just my $0.02 on the matter.
It’s a good thing that the U.S. isn’t into paying people to not work, one guy said his son stays home because he makes more money that way, he is disappointed at the lack of work ethic this creates for his son
skiing is not a luxury to many it depends where you are from up north it’s part of schools curriculum to ski and it produces healthy kids, the alternative is having more obesity .
what is baffling is people actually flying to ski, they just don’t get it, when ski towns out west were some of the first to be recognized as spreader events it’s because they had so many people flying into the resorts and using other public transportation like shuttles etc, rather then sticking to private transportation
I have to disagree with this. Skiing is an outdoor activity that has natural social distancing built in when outdoors. We all need more time outdoors with or without a pandemic. If we follow the rules (mask up, keep 6 feet of distance, don't mix parties on the chair lifts), then skiing should be one of the safer activities that we can participate in. Plus, we keep the economy going and hopefully save the hills that we love skiing on in the process.
songfta wrote:
ZARDOG wrote:
We can flatten a curve, but it does cost many economic dollars.Not an easy job to balance economic vs health.
Actually, the balance is simple, if painful: it's tough to have an economy without people. Health should win out.
Sadly, the U.S. is not willing to ease the hit on businesses and workers who are sidelined because of NPI - thus why there's a fear (and a rational one, at that) of losing everything because of a prophylactic shutdown. But shutting things down works - full stop.
I do hope that most people stay home this holiday season and consider the option of sitting out this ski season if they can. Skiing is an addiction for most of us, but it's a luxury for 99.9 percent of people. Luxuries can wait. Just my $0.02 on the matter.
