So is MOCO just never opening?

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Anonymous wrote:So Tuesday? Omg, I hope this is true.

What are you going to do next Tuesday that you can't do the day after tomorrow?

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No vaccine? No opening.

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Anonymous wrote:So Tuesday? Omg, I hope this is true.

What are you going to do next Tuesday that you can't do the day after tomorrow?

DP. I’d love to have a playground to take my kids to. Otherwise nothing will really change for us, except it would bring childcare centers closer to opening up. Definitely planning to hold off on things like haircuts for a while but it would be nice to get my dermo appointment rescheduled.

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Anonymous wrote:So Tuesday? Omg, I hope this is true.

What are you going to do next Tuesday that you can't do the day after tomorrow?

DP. I’d love to have a playground to take my kids to. Otherwise nothing will really change for us, except it would bring childcare centers closer to opening up. Definitely planning to hold off on things like haircuts for a while but it would be nice to get my dermo appointment rescheduled.

Life changing.

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Anonymous wrote:No vaccine? No opening.

That’s not how any of this works.

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Anonymous wrote:So Tuesday? Omg, I hope this is true.

What are you going to do next Tuesday that you can't do the day after tomorrow?

DP. I’d love to have a playground to take my kids to. Otherwise nothing will really change for us, except it would bring childcare centers closer to opening up. Definitely planning to hold off on things like haircuts for a while but it would be nice to get my dermo appointment rescheduled.

I think that you can probably do that now? My kid's orthodontist has started seeing patients again.

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Anonymous wrote:New data dashboard:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/HHS/RightNav/Coronavirus-data.html

The thing that jumps out is the 70% hospital bed utilization target. Under normal conditions Maryland expects a 71% average utilization rate, so looking for 14 days under 70% during a pandemic seems... odd...

There have been 474 COVID deaths in MoCo according to that link. And this link says 342 deaths have been in nursing homes. That's 72% of all deaths. It seems to me that they just need to quarantine nursing homes and their staff. Once they keep them away from everyone else, there will be almost no deaths.
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/hcf-resources

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Anonymous wrote:New data dashboard:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/HHS/RightNav/Coronavirus-data.html

The thing that jumps out is the 70% hospital bed utilization target. Under normal conditions Maryland expects a 71% average utilization rate, so looking for 14 days under 70% during a pandemic seems... odd...

There have been 474 COVID deaths in MoCo according to that link. And this link says 342 deaths have been in nursing homes. That's 72% of all deaths. It seems to me that they just need to quarantine nursing homes and their staff. Once they keep them away from everyone else, there will be almost no deaths.
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/hcf-resources

Yep, but say that to people here and they accuse you of hating old people.

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Anonymous wrote:New data dashboard:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/HHS/RightNav/Coronavirus-data.html

The thing that jumps out is the 70% hospital bed utilization target. Under normal conditions Maryland expects a 71% average utilization rate, so looking for 14 days under 70% during a pandemic seems... odd...

There have been 474 COVID deaths in MoCo according to that link. And this link says 342 deaths have been in nursing homes. That's 72% of all deaths. It seems to me that they just need to quarantine nursing homes and their staff. Once they keep them away from everyone else, there will be almost no deaths.
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/hcf-resources

"Just."

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Anonymous wrote:they need to take the nursing home cases out of the equation.

This. It’s totally absurd to count people who were almost dead already!

Nice.

Actually, they need to be treated differently because they’re not community spread deaths, so they’re not indicative of the virus circulating in the broader community. That’s how Hogan is considering it (it’s in MD’s reopening plan), but in MoCo Elrich and Gayles aren’t separating them out.

It’s the cavalier, offensive wording that is the problem.

Life matters, at 3 or 83. That poster should be ashamed of herself.

No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

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No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

I'm just going to point out here that the oldest boomers are 74.

At least be accurate about the people who should, in your opinion, be graciously willing to die for the greater good.

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No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

I'm just going to point out here that the oldest boomers are 74.

At least be accurate about the people who should, in your opinion, be graciously willing to die for the greater good.

Nobody needs to die. The elderly just need to step off! Stay indoors. Stop assuming decision-making roles. Stop lobbying to keep society closed because they alone are at-risk here. If we had real leaders they would hear their lobbying/concerns and politely show the Boomers the door. And the American Boomers would retire with humility -- a tall order, to be sure.

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No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

I'm just going to point out here that the oldest boomers are 74.

At least be accurate about the people who should, in your opinion, be graciously willing to die for the greater good.

Nobody needs to die. The elderly just need to step off! Stay indoors. Stop assuming decision-making roles. Stop lobbying to keep society closed because they alone are at-risk here. If we had real leaders they would hear their lobbying/concerns and politely show the Boomers the door. And the American Boomers would retire with humility -- a tall order, to be sure.

Stupid old people, trying to stay involved in life, when they should just stay inside and act as though they were already dead.

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No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

I'm just going to point out here that the oldest boomers are 74.

At least be accurate about the people who should, in your opinion, be graciously willing to die for the greater good.

Nobody needs to die. The elderly just need to step off! Stay indoors. Stop assuming decision-making roles. Stop lobbying to keep society closed because they alone are at-risk here. If we had real leaders they would hear their lobbying/concerns and politely show the Boomers the door. And the American Boomers would retire with humility -- a tall order, to be sure.

Stupid old people, trying to stay involved in life, when they should just stay inside and act as though they were already dead.

The nerve!

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No, not all life is equally valuable in the long run, and every single civilization that has ever existed (minus MoCo, of course) understood that. People at the end of their lives are not as important to the future of the nation/civ as are children. A jagged boomer pill, but utterly irrefutable. Frankly, all civs that contributed to world culture in the long run engendered selflessness and humility in their elderly such that when their time was short they would step back from public life, not assume they should continue to have a decision-making role, quietly retire into a private life, and relinquish their wealth for the sake of future generations. And they never in a million years would expect the children and vital adults to forsake their responsibilities to the greater good just for the sake of the Boomer Good.

Yeah but not so much of any of that ethic in modern America, amirite?

I'm just going to point out here that the oldest boomers are 74.

At least be accurate about the people who should, in your opinion, be graciously willing to die for the greater good.

Nobody needs to die. The elderly just need to step off! Stay indoors. Stop assuming decision-making roles. Stop lobbying to keep society closed because they alone are at-risk here. If we had real leaders they would hear their lobbying/concerns and politely show the Boomers the door. And the American Boomers would retire with humility -- a tall order, to be sure.

Stupid old people, trying to stay involved in life, when they should just stay inside and act as though they were already dead.

The nerve!

Because that’s exactly what we’ve been saying. You got it!