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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSouth Carolina is opening tomorrow!
Alignment with federal task force guidelines: no
Working vaccine: no
Effective therapeutic treatments: no
Plausible plan based on rigorous epidemic modeling: no
Demonstrated precedent for plan elsewhere: no
Well-defined testing procedures: no
Adequate testing capacity: no
Proven negative correlation with seasonal weather: no
Adequate hospital ICU surge capacity: no
Cooperation with neighboring states: no
Overwhelming support of voluntary measures by residents: no
Availability of surgical masks to general public: no
Immunity to Satan's virus by being washed in the blood of Jesus: Amen!
I'm staying the F home. I'll sip on lattes and watch the apocalypse out my window and on TV.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)In a viral crisis it comes down to something similar to what Gov. Cuomo said:
What affects one of us, affects all of us. What affects one state affects all states and also the World.
These premature and irresponsible, impulsive drives to open up are going to look very bad in retrospect and will live, historically, in infamy. Those Governors and officials who are misrepresenting this to the people will have a rather very negative place in the annals of the crisis; something like the villains in a story.
misanthrope
(7,405 posts)If you can say you don't have an increase in confirmed positives, then you can deny a dramatic upsurge. Remember, the feudal systems from which the Deep South cultures are derived viewed those below landed gentry as disposable.
Shermann
(7,313 posts)It's hard to fudge that death count though. Those facts are stubborn things.
still_one
(91,807 posts)essaynnc
(791 posts)We here in North Carolina will be watching you closely. If your experiment succeeds will open up too! If not, we'll just sit back and stay where we're at. Thanks!
Shermann
(7,313 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Finally getting to see some NC/SC banter here on DU made my evening.
NC DUer here.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)all I can say is at least some of the folks in York County and the Indian Land portion of Lancaster County aren't going hog wild to open. They are waiting for the NC side of the metro to open.
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/05/02/sc-restaurants-prepare-reopen-when-home-or-work-order-is-lifted/
SouthernLiberal
(407 posts)Although that is what I would be doing even if it was safe. I live alone in a suburb of Columbia, and I don't drive. I have pretty much been alone in my house since 2013.
Tanuki
(14,887 posts)where I live. I am so sad and sorry to think of the lives that will be lost needlessly because of this, on top of those who have died already due to the criminal incompetence and indifference of ImPOTUS and his gang of grifters. South Carolina is a beautiful state and I have spent many happy days there in years gone by. The people there and everywhere deserve better.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,480 posts)A common spring and summer theme at least two-states deep along the coast is to "head for the beach". That means hundreds of thousands of vacationers and weekenders from Knoxville to Dayton to Charlotte to Pittsburgh to Atlanta will be making beach visit plans.
Anyone like me that's lived near SC's Grand Strand (for example) knows the teaming, shoulder-to-shoulder, bumper-to-bumper mess that means in the summertime on beaches, boardwalks, restaurants and hundreds of trinket shops.
It means thousands will be carrying COVID-19 back home with them after their romp on the beach. It also means the groups of international tourism investors do not give a shit.
Here's an interesting discussion on Myrtle Beach/Horry County News Online regarding concerns during hurricane season:
Will it be tough and ugly? Yes: Horry leaders prepare for hurricane-coronavirus mix
By Tyler Fleming
May 03, 2020 05:30 AM,
Link: https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/coronavirus/article242457636.html
(snips)
With the 2020 hurricane season predicted to bring an above-average number of storms, all of this will need to change in the era of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Social distancing makes sleeping and working in close quarters a dangerous situation. Maintaining a 6-foot distance becomes harder when thousands of people need to evacuate in a short period of time and government operations cannot be done remotely.
Local emergency leaders now have to plan for the worst all while dealing with a pandemic: what an evacuation order might look for Horry Countys coast; how the Red Cross will house people seeking shelter; and how critical services can safely continue if a loss of electricity makes remote working impossible.
Preparing for the 2020 hurricane season is uncharted territory for Horry Countys public safety leader Randy Webster, even after decades of working in Horry Countys emergency response teams.
KY................
Shermann
(7,313 posts)Is that anything like a tornado-shark mix?
Lord help us.
stopbush
(24,366 posts)Sad to hear what other Americans are up against.