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Hey Y'all. Governor Kemp says to start wearing a mask in public or............
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No College Football. I've been wearing one for months. What say you?
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I would not wear one just because he is making me...
We have had to wear masks since April at work so won't really effect me at all.
Wish he could have said that on May 1 instead of July 1 but 🤷🏿♂️
We are in the midst of a rapid spike in cases in GA and several other states. The age group that is with the biggest increase presently is the 18-29 yo which is probably the reason that deaths are still decreasing; however, individuals in this age group have been hospitalized and a few have died. If you add the 30-39 yo group, 18-39 yo old group make up right at 40% of all cases in GA now. Luckily for them, they are the least likely to become seriously ill or die. Unfortunately they do come in contact with individuals in more advanced age groups and can easily infect them. This age group is much less likely to social distance and wear masks in public thus increasing their chance of contracting and spreading the disease. I implore each and everyone in DawgNation to social distance and wear masks in public despite how uncomfortable if feels physically and psychologically. In addition please strongly encourage your teenagers and young adults to wear them as well. I do feel that if things continue as they are presently, college football and other sports will be in jeopardy as will bars etc. I cannot fathom going through a fall without college football. It will be bad enough if they limit fans in stands, but as things are now that may be the best scenario.
Physician and fanatic Dawg Fan
You disagree, doc?
Most doctors I know say the CDC is full of it, as evidenced the 100% rate of being wrong so far.
It's true that scientists are looking into people having immunity that were negative for antibodies. It makes sense with how well the northeast is doing after the terrible peak they had. With that being said, if the rest of the US catches up to the death rate in NY (160/100,000) it would lead to 528,000 deaths nationwide. Be careful what you wish for.
You keep posting articles without understanding what they say or just not reading past the headline.
Meredith Grey doesn’t count as a real doctor @Bankwalker
I am in my 20s, and it seems like almost everyone of my peers is “done” with Covid. I’ve even gone out to bars myself, life is kind of returning to normal.
But just because we are done with Covid doesn’t mean it’s done with us, and the cases in my area are increasing everyday now.
But if there is one way to get a rural southern town to start taking this seriously it is to threaten to cancel college football haha.
@Kirbstomper
or day, Georgia can only win a national title if it’s fans wear a mask. We’d all have one on yesterday. Except maybe some folks
Ready for 2021
Gosh, paw. If someone like you with an unbiased and edumacated opinion could just ‘splain it for me.
Does anyone have any connections to people in the know as to whether there will be a season at all this year? Seeming less likely by the day
Interesting that Covid hit at the end of Australia’s Summer. A country of 25 million only experienced 103 deaths to date. It’s now Winter in Brazil and deaths are soaring. The sun is a beautiful thing.
Matching the rate of NY seems highly unlikely. We won’t come anywhere near to those numbers again. Population density like NY’s isn’t replicated anywhere else. The virus is not only weakening, it is also running out of nursing homes to raid.
NYC experienced a very high rate of infection during the lockdown and even Cuomo questioned his decision to keep people confined, Plus he ordered nursing homes to accept infected covid patients, resulting in an enormous and unnecessary loss of life.
It is also pretty interesting that various locales around the World locked down at different times, and not necessarily relative to the arrival of the virus. Some acted quickly. Some delayed their response. What was consistent was the corresponding spike in deaths in each locale resulted right after the people were told to stop their active lifestyles and forced to stay indoors, rather than get out in the sunshine.
Vitamin D is essential for a healthy immune system. Your body produces it by being out in the sun’s rays. The sun is also a great sanitizer. NOW is when we need to see people out and about instead of shutting them up again until the cloudy days of Fall and Winter. If you keep everyone out of the sun all Summer then we are going to be more likely to see the second wave take a more serious toll, simply because staying inside has cumulatively unhealthy effects on the body.
This is along the same lines as the research starting to show that a sedentary lifestyle is worse than smoking, diabetes, or heart disease. “Sitting is the new smoking.”
@Bankwalker not discounting the positive effects of the sun but Australia is essentially an island that had fairly stringent regulations about travel and several lock downs while Brazil has been negligent for the most part allowing the virus to get out of hand. Also both countries are currently in winter. So to suggest infection based off/limited by sun exposure is a bit of a stretch. But thats my two cents. Now back to football :)