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We have 2 this year who might be able to play at small schools. I think we have a couple freshmen and sophomore who might be even better when they're seniors.

I've never bought into the herd immunity idea. The numbers just don't seem to add up, at least in my mind. If we took our current national rate of about 200,000 cases per day, and an estimate of 70% immune for herd immunity, that would take over 1000 days to get to the almost 230,000,000 people needed for herd immunity. If we wanted to get to 70% immune in one year, we'd need to average 630,000 new cases every day.

Thanks! I appreciate that!

After our successful high school golf season, I was given a pretty cool honor. Champaign paper's coach of the year I couldn't find a way to sneak in that I was an Indiana fan, but I really thought about it!

And to think, a little over a year ago, a pretty large percentage of the fanbase was convinced he wasn't the right coach. Not saying that as a "haha" type of statement, just showing how quickly things have changed.

Can't really tell with the info provide. I would be interested in seeing what the numbers would be for the general population. If about 20% of the population has been to a grocery store in the last week, it would suggest little spread happening there.

My point was you saying that "supermarkets are the leading cause of spread" isn't at all what the article was saying. That would be like saying, being in a car is the biggest spreader because 97% of people who tested positive have have been in a car in the last week. More people go to supermarkets than most other public places, so more people have been at them in the last week. I guess I could say that making out with 300 random people doesn't spread it at all because zero people reported doing that in the week before testing positive.

I just looked again, and the 7 day positivity rate in my county is just over 20%. If that barista ever needs a new job, send her this way. Places here just don't care.

I'm not saying this in a sarcastic way (I'm really not), but I think you should read the article if you didn't already. " Experts at PHE today insisted their data did not suggest supermarkets were at the centre of coronavirus transmission in the UK, saying it does not prove where someone was infected with the disease. And Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said it was 'misleading and irresponsible' to suggest supermarkets are a source of Covid-19 transmission. She said: 'Supermarkets are one of the very few places that people can visit during lockdown so it is unsurprising that they feature strongly when people are asked where they have visited.'"

Here's an easy way to spot doctors/scientists who are just looking for notoriety. If they use the words scam, hoax, or spiderweb of lies (or whatever that crazy video this summer said), they are just looking for notoriety. Reputable doctors and scientists don't talk like that. If you see any of those things being referenced, find a different source.

People must be living in way different places than me. Around me, restaurants are supposed to be carry out only, and 6 out of the 7 in the towns that make up my school district are still open for in person eating. Going into any of the gas stations, you'll be lucky to see anybody else wearing a mask. I'm in a rural area so I get that people might not be as strict about things as in cities, but in public I don't even see 25% of people wearing masks. This idea that everyone is wearing masks isn't even close. Our county is getting close to a 20% positivity rate, and the county health department can't keep up with contact tracing because we're having so many cases. Still very few people wearing masks.

As a physics teacher and golf coach, I'm like, "wait, you guys haven't thought about that?" haha

I wonder if Foles had the Tua/Thomas Allen injury of a dislocated hip, or other severe hip injury.

I like that it doesn't have to be stored at such a cold temperature. It is supposed to last 30 days in a normal refrigerator. That was a major concern I had about the Pfizer vaccine. Distribution of that would be a nightmare for our country, let alone some countries in different parts of the world. Also, how will distribution work? Will someone decide on 1 vaccine that "wins" and then that will be the only option, or will there be competing vaccines that make it to market?

It is a Pfizer product, so it would probably be a good investment, unless someone else gets the vaccine first. Then you might need the Xanax.

Probably shaking his head in disbelief like most Bears fans.

No problem! I grew an actual brussels sprout in my garden this year that got about 4 feet tall. I am going to harvest some off of it this weekend. I just read that it is decently cold hardy, but only down to about 10 degrees, so not for midwestern winters. It looks like some people in warmer climates do grow them over the winter. I was thinking I could grow shoots/sprouts/microgreens indoors, but it doesn't seem like that's a thing. I might have been thinking of broccoli instead of brussels sprouts.

I grew actual Brussels sprouts, but not Brussels sprouts sprouts if that makes sense lol. I think they might be in one of the mixes I'm going to try.

I don't have any good ideas for things that are legal that you can grow in your garage! I'm going to start growing some sprouts this weekend. I've tried it in the past with mixed results, so I finally bought trays for growing them in. Should work better than the Rubbermaid container I've used in the past! They're really nutrient rich, and I like that they only take a few days to be ready to eat. You can keep trying different sprouts all the time to see what you like best.

I liken how it spreads to a game of tag. If nobody is it, nobody will get caught. Once someone is it, they can catch a lot of people in a hurry. Same thing with the virus. I think people get lulled into a false sense of security because they aren't around people who have the virus. If you go to a party with 50 people, and nobody there is sick, you won't get sick. Now with it spreading quickly, those get togethers that were having zero people sick are starting to have 1 or 2, and they infect a lot of people at the get together. I don't see things slowing down much until 2021 with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and cold weather coming up.

For those of you who have schools in your area who are doing remote learning, do the teachers get to teach from home or do they still have to go to the school? My district just said yesterday that we'd still have to come in to the school each day if we go remote.

Yeah, I think yesterday's news was a really good step forward. I'm just cautiously optimistic. It's like we've jumped out to a 2 touchdown lead on OSU. It is a great start, but still a long ways to go. Does anybody know if most vaccines being developed are 2 shots where you have to wait 28 days between them? Also, do the other vaccines need to be kept as cold as the Pfizer one?

I just told you my thoughts.

I know a lot of people are excited about the early vaccine results (with good reason), but there are still a lot of questions to answer before it will be available. There are only 94 people in the trial who tested positive, so it is a really small amount of people. It could end up being 90% effective, or it could end up being way less. They've only released results obtained from testing 1 week after the 2nd shot. How long is the vaccine going to last? Are there any lasting side effects? Is it going to be safe for people who are at high risk? Those people usually aren't included in the trials. Is it going to lessen the symptoms if you do get the virus? The results haven't been published for peer review yet. We're basically just going off of the companies press release. Will the trial hold up to scrutiny? The 90% results are definitely encouraging, but it still has a ways to go. They're working on answering those questions, but they're still going to have to be answered before the vaccine can be distributed. Hopefully all those questions get answered soon and they can start moving the vaccine.

The school I work at is pretty similar. We do a good job of making sure kids are wearing masks. Through contact tracing we've been able to find a couple kids who ended up testing positive before they could be around a lot of people at school. We did have the elementary school in our district have a handful of staff members test positive that I would assume could be traced back to the school. It was 4 or 5 out of about 15 staff members.