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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    These numbers don't make any sense at face value. There must be some additional context. Do you have a source? It seems to imply that Maryland has had 53.7 people die from covid out of every 1000 people. There are about 6 million people in MD. That would equate to about 322,000 covid fatalities...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    I have never had cancer. Am I considered a cancer survivor? The premise of your latest posts seems to be that anyone who has not died is a covid-19 survivor and that is simply not the case. Using the total state population just isn't an accurate statistical analysis. This does not mean the...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    I'm glad we got that out of the way. So maybe we should listen to those who are. From somebody who claimed in a previous post that there were only 170,000 people on the planet 2020 years ago. People on here keep puffing their chest out and making comments about others "hiding from death" and...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    On some days COVID-19 has been the leading cause of death in the country and is consistently in the top 3. Maybe if we looked at it this way we'd be a little more careful.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    This is the issue I can't quite wrap my head around with the "isolate the critical" proposal. It sounds good, but I just can't see any good logistical solution to this. Where do you isolate them? People just can't stay in their homes without some interaction with the outside world (grocery...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    China doesn't pay the tariffs. Not to say that the tariffs don't have some impact on their economy, but they do not pay the tariffs.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    This article has an incredible video illustrating the movement of cell phones from Florida to the rest of the country after spring break. It also has a link to another visual showing the same information for travel leaving NYC...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    One of the more frustrating things with regard to determining an accurate mortality rate for this is possibly, at least in part, due to how it's being reported (not necessarily by the media, but by health agencies across the world). This may explain the discrepancies we see that show a...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    Do you have a source for this? This is great news if we are finally testing at this scale. This is .64%, not .0064%. Still more than 6x more lethal than the flu.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    I get what you're saying. Time will tell what the mortality rate for COVID-19 ends up being. I think the difference is simply a matter of acting based on the information we have at a particular point in time. Early indications for COVID-19 showed a potential mortality rate of 1%-4.5%. And this...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    No? Do you think that all the various strands of the flu formed independently and just happen to be strands of an existing virus? But you are right, COVID-19 will always be COVID-19. Nobody here suggested otherwise. The point that was being made goes all the way back to a comment from FHHSAHS...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    And why do think it's almost always a different strain? Because it mutated.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    There is a reason why you have to get a new flu vaccine every year.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    Agreed.
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    Because young people are still getting sick. Recent data is showing that up to 20% of infected people ages 20-44 have been hospitalized, and 2%-4% are ICU. And these are taking beds away from not only seniors who may be infected, but people who may require hospitalization for other reasons such...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    It was a simple question. Not sure why you didn't give a straight answer. I don't know you, so I don't know if you're joking or if you think Y2K was some sort of joke. I suspected that latter so I thought I would ask to be sure. If that's the case, it just reinforces the point I made earlier in...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    Care to elaborate on what you mean by this?
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    Nope. And I never claimed they did. Just simply stating the facts that other countries are testing more people. That turned out to be a good decision. Too bad we didn't take advantage of that time to prepare. I'm not going to refute any of this because I'm not familiar with the facts in this...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    For sure. Which is why I said what the mortality rate currently looks like, not what it is. But we have to act given the information we have. This is definitely the type of situation where it's far smarter to play it safe rather than hope for a miracle that it will just disappear. You seem to...
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    All MPSSAA winter and spring sports have been suspended indefinitely

    There are a few differences worth pointing out here that make the current situation quite different. First and foremost is the mortality rate. It currently looks like COVID-19 has a mortality rate somewhere between 1% and 3.5%. The flu typically has a mortality rate of about 0.1%. So it appears...
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