[lex24]

Here's a real world reality.

As y'all may or may not know, I came to CA from CT on 9/30 to be with my in declining health father, not knowing which way things would turn or how long I would stay. He passed on Oct. 29, and only this coming Tuesday are his ashes being deposited, something I wanted to stick around for, as well as helping out my mother. The Covid spike has made me re-think any travel back to CT. When I came out we had about 40,000 cases per day. We're now pushing 200,000, so that changes the calculus quite a bit.

My sister and her family came from Sacramento a couple weekends ago, and they were planning to come for Thanksgiving. Then today I learned she wanted to come for the burial on Tuesday. After hearing we are in Purple Tier, the CDC saying not to travel for Thanksgiving, the curfew, looking at the rising cases and positive test rate, and watching Rachel Maddow on her first night on TV since her quarantine (and partner getting sick with Covid), I have re-thought our Thanksgiving plans and will now advocate my sister stays home.

So I guess my point is that the curfew doesn't do much to stop spread in and of itself, but these warnings definitely change behavior.  Without Purple Tier, curfew, and CDC, and Maddow warnings, I would have gone through with Thanksgiving plans.  This is why I don't think it's smart to be playing football games now. It sends the wrong message that things aren't that bad. In fact, they are terrible. With 200,000 new infections in a day already before Thanksgiving, if we don't change our behavior, we could easily see 250,000 to 300,000 per day by mid-December. We just can't have this. It's far better to make people know the seriousness of what is going on, to change behavior to stop spread in anyway possible.

It just sucks that small businesses have to be the ones taking it in the shorts to protect the public's health.  But the fact is if too many people die and hospitals are overwhelmed, there won't be any business to be had anyway.

Sorry about your father.  May he Rest In Peace.

[lex24]

Here's a real world reality.

As y'all may or may not know, I came to CA from CT on 9/30 to be with my in declining health father, not knowing which way things would turn or how long I would stay. He passed on Oct. 29, and only this coming Tuesday are his ashes being deposited, something I wanted to stick around for, as well as helping out my mother. The Covid spike has made me re-think any travel back to CT. When I came out we had about 40,000 cases per day. We're now pushing 200,000, so that changes the calculus quite a bit.

My sister and her family came from Sacramento a couple weekends ago, and they were planning to come for Thanksgiving. Then today I learned she wanted to come for the burial on Tuesday. After hearing we are in Purple Tier, the CDC saying not to travel for Thanksgiving, the curfew, looking at the rising cases and positive test rate, and watching Rachel Maddow on her first night on TV since her quarantine (and partner getting sick with Covid), I have re-thought our Thanksgiving plans and will now advocate my sister stays home.

So I guess my point is that the curfew doesn't do much to stop spread in and of itself, but these warnings definitely change behavior.  Without Purple Tier, curfew, and CDC, and Maddow warnings, I would have gone through with Thanksgiving plans.  This is why I don't think it's smart to be playing football games now. It sends the wrong message that things aren't that bad. In fact, they are terrible. With 200,000 new infections in a day already before Thanksgiving, if we don't change our behavior, we could easily see 250,000 to 300,000 per day by mid-December. We just can't have this. It's far better to make people know the seriousness of what is going on, to change behavior to stop spread in anyway possible.

It just sucks that small businesses have to be the ones taking it in the shorts to protect the public's health.  But the fact is if too many people die and hospitals are overwhelmed, there won't be any business to be had anyway.

Sorry about your father.  May he Rest In Peace.