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Well, I found out today that one of the two major boat shows we are planning on displaying our boats at this fall just got cancelled due to Covid19. If the second boat show gets cancelled in October, I'm not sure how I will be able to make it through the losses without closing up shop with a $1M loss. Yikes 😮
I'm pretty upset that we basically gave up as a nation before we were in the clear and we have to start all over if we are to beat this thing. It's embarrassing as a nation, it will hurt our economy far worse than the 3 weeks saved by rushing to open and I just don't understand. We should have stayed the course instead of declaring mission accomplished too early.
Have to say I'm pretty darn frustrated right now.
Well have you ever worn a mask?! It’s uncomfortable!!
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I have to admit. I laughed at your post. I didn't want to, but I did. Thanks Kasey, I needed that.
I feel the love flowing both ways on this thread today. Nice to see. We're all in this together.
Not going to catch up on all 102 pages here, but just gonna give a little status update
I have seen more positive cases in our emergency room in the last 48 hours than 3 weeks during the lockdown
the good news is that it seems to be mildly symptomatic patients who can go home versus the original critical ICU care needed
long story short, this is going the opposite way we want it to and fast as far as confirmed cases go
I feel for you big time. I sincerely hope you can survive or pivot in some way. I’m in the tradeshow business. Contractor/Decorator side. The last two weeks our company & every major competitor of ours and layed off ALL of their furloughed employees permanently...roughly 85% of the workforce producing the events. That tells me tradeshows are in real trouble for the long term. I’ve started looking elsewhere already, even though I’m lucky enough to still be employed (for now...ZERO company revenue since mid-March). I had to call my entire team yesterday and inform of the news...worst day of my career. My friends lives are completely ruined. It’s just not right.
I am sorry to hear about what you and your coworkers are going through and that you had to share that news with your employees.
If there's a silver lining here, it's that 991,501 (more people being tested means more data) people in Georgia have been tested with 81,291 confirmed cases. 8.1% of those tested were positive. Of those confirmed cases 2,323 were admitted to ICU. That's 2.8%.
I have no problem with the masks. I wear one every day. I kind of have to.
But it almost feels like some are setting the stage to put all the blame on the mask when something doesn't go right. Spike in numbers? " It's those folks that didn't wear the masks!" No football season? "Masks! And Trump too!"
Segments of society have become extremely good in deflecting responsibility and assigning blame to others for complex issues. I guess this is human nature to some extent. It's happened all throughout history. But right now it seems to be at a peak high.
I'm just saying, don't undersell the masks but don't oversell it either.
I also see that rhetoric is being pushed to blame re-openings and people that didn't push strict lock downs (which it's been months ago ya know). I can see the setup. They're getting ready to blast from the TV's and newspapers "see, it's these people fault now". These same rhetoric pushers will completely dismiss some other events. Such as millions in the streets for the past few weeks...
This is how they fool the country. They give a small piece of a complex puzzle and start assigning the blame as they deem fit. I find it dishonest myself and it tends to have the opposite affect on me. Modern politics, and it's all about politics, gives me despair for our future.
My sentiments exactly.
I was expecting a huge spike in cases from the protests. It was all over the news and doctors were really worried about it. We haven't seen a spike related to them yet though so that's good news. Shows how effective masks can be in an outdoor setting which is a good sign that we could have fans in the stands for football.
How do we know recent spikes aren't the result of protests and riots? Statistics don't provide details on cause or exact time and location of contraction. Come on, you can do better than this blatant deflection.
100% agree @RxDawg , but again as I mentioned in an earlier post that received multiple down votes... this is the first pandemic to be politically weaponized. Am I surprised this is the case - no.
My primary focus is on taking personal responsibility, which includes maintaining social distancing and wearing a mask in public. I've had Pneumonia 3 times, including one time that almost killed me. I do not want to get C-19, but I also realize how closing the economy has negatively impacted tens of millions of people, far more than have been infected with C-19. It's a tough balancing act and I'm very concerned that another full lockdown would be a devastating blow to the economy that we simply cannot absorb.