Social Distancing?
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FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
SD will be put to the test up here in Michigan, the first nice weekend.
Well, if the SD is the reason for 99% and they KNOW THAT! Then how in the world can Governors allow church services attended in person? I fully get it that MOST places are not having services but what about the few that do? To me it's like saying a restaurant can offer in plate dollar specials if people come in to to buy the meal rather than have window take out
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
I guess you will always have the rouge churches who don't realize or care.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
Don't they have a limit on public gatherings? In Michigan, its 10.
I don't know about the 10 person limit in that state. In Virginia, unless he's changed in the last couple of days, Falwell of Liberty University is allowing student to return to campus. I hope he's changed his mind.. I heard him on a Sunday morning interview. That's a Baptist college.
But according to research by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it's not just the person next to us we should worry about: coughing spreads droplets as far as 6 meters, and sneezing as much as 8 meters. These droplets stay suspended in the air for up to 10 minutes.
It's 10, but I thought that was an order from the Federal government, not the state of Ohio.
When was the last time you saw a gathering of more than 10 people, other than maybe in the checkout area of the grocery store?
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
SD and washing hands....all venues here in Thailand make it mandatory to wash your hands before entering...they even supply all hand washes...I still carry a small tube of hand wash when I go out....
Officials are giving mixed messages. Virus is so contagious that millions will eventually get infected with or without social distances. Other problem is social distancing may delay the public immunity effect which is the only way a highly contagios virus can be stopped anyway
Well, I'm not Valuist, but since you asked, latest stats from the CDC, 12,450 Americans die of Heart disease every week.
You asked if the Virginia limit of 10 people would be enforced. I asked you a question, which you didn't answer. Considering Virginia and Maryland have the longest lockdowns, going to June 10, I would say those 10 people limits most definitely would be enforced.
Good point. And I think the number of overall US deaths daily is about 8000 per day.
The Ohio governor actually has been quite proactive. Ohio has been pretty much in lock step with Illinois in shutting the state down. The head of the health department in Ohio got headlines three weeks ago saying 100,000 Ohio residents likely had the virus at that moment. Just shows how the modeling can be way off.
It's academic at this point but short of the President declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution, none of these government entities at any level have the legal authority to enforce these shutdowns. A few (Charlie Baker in Massachusetts for example) have openly acknowledged that. There are no built in exceptions in the 1st Amendment for pandemics. That's the long and short of it.
The far-right wackos that pastor these mega-churches know this, and some are more worried about protecting their rights than they are about protecting the health and safety of their sheep who hang on every word they say. Besides, Jesus will heal them after all... (right?!?!?!)
Here in New Orleans, even the Democrat Mayor tacitly admitted as much when she announced the closures of non-essential businesses 3 weeks or so ago. When asked how she planned to enforce the restrictions, she said all she could do was not renew their licenses if they violated the rules.
The more I think about it, this may be why the governors of some of these deep-red Great Plains states with low case/death numbers are hesitant to jump on board the shutdown train. I know these realities affected DeSantis' decision making in Florida, and he will likely pay a heavy political price for it in the end.
The far-right wackos that pastor these mega-churches know this, and some are more worried about protecting their rights than they are about protecting the health and safety of their sheep who hang on every word they say. Besides, Jesus will heal them after all... (right?!?!?!)
Here in New Orleans, even the Democrat Mayor tacitly admitted as much when she announced the closures of non-essential businesses 3 weeks or so ago. When asked how she planned to enforce the restrictions, she said all she could do was not renew their licenses if they violated the rules.
The more I think about it, this may be why the governors of some of these deep-red Great Plains states with low case/death numbers are hesitant to jump on board the shutdown train. I know these realities affected DeSantis' decision making in Florida, and he will likely pay a heavy political price for it in the end.