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There's a lot of time between now and August.

IF a suitable treatment is discovered that mitigates the severe cases and keeps people out of ICU's and off the ventilators, then everything gets to go back to normal really, really quickly.

The Browns are being punished for something horrible. Lift the curse.

Not a vaccine; treatments.

Vaccines keep you from getting infected in the first place.
Treatments help you handle the disease if you do get infected.

Vaccines are a LOOOOONG way off.
Treatments could come along at any time.

So, people would still get infected by the tens of thousands... but, if it doesn't create hospitalizations that require ICU beds and ventilators, then it suddenly isn't such a big deal, at all.

Well, it could have been, right?

The Elf has been around much longer than the "dawg." We've won titles with the Elf. We've actually not won diddly poo since we've incorporated the "dawg" and it's logos and references.

We have moved, suffered and endured an 0-16 season with the Dawg.

If there is a curse on the Browns it lies with the Dawg not the Elf.

I say we render the Dawg dead and move forward with the Elf. But we know that will not happen.

GC. About the season, ( can I just caveat my position so it's clear, I might as well make it a signature, so everyone would know where my mind is.)
( There are 350 million people in America, if 75 million of them have to die of this virus, then I'm ok with that, and I expect everyone else needs to be too.) That's where I stand so given that, meaning, I'm not trying to shut down the world to save the insurance companies and stop patients waiting to be seen on lawns outside of hospitals and bodies stacked like cord wood. But as a people we have to be ok with it!

Now everyone knows where I stand, Here's my idea on the season,
1. Thank our wonderful Govenor for all he's done and set him out of office for a few minutes and let me be governor and I'd put forth these,
"written down signed statements" as
To re-open the economy that was shut down for the emergency: and this effects the season of football as sports are a part of it.

2. Re-open all sit down restaurants, bars, and non essential businesses that were open as of the latest date where things were shutdown,
One day before Mothers' day. ( Oh Yeah!, people need to have to wear face masks in sit down restaurants, but all the families can get together in restaurants, on Mothers' day.)

3. Re-open all movie theaters, trampoline parks, and whatever else was in that group, on Memorial day.

4. Return all schools to and thus sports, to in person status, (at least as far as the state ordering them to be shut down is concerned)
by August 1st

It would take away uncertainty.

And then if you Let people voluntarily do whatever they've been doing, and want to keep doing or not, then it would be possible.

This would allow for Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketaball, the Olympics, Whatever! College sports! to resume, and would "Save America" from the economic freefall.
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eh: Yeah! and allow: 35-million people to die of the (1918 flu version 2020) IF! , cause that was my original impression of what to expect of this, going back to March 20-26th, BUT! it totally skewed to the low end by a Million; from March 31st-April 3rd. ( We don't have 2 million cases currently in the State of Ohio; symptomatic and needing a hospital?) We aren't still seeing exponentially doubling of cases every 24 hours-72 hours. :::::


But-

"Ah "screw" it let's take a look at that Cierra"

35-75 million? There are 6 billion on earth and everybody dies, 100% minus 2, 3, it's not deplorable, I didn't say to execute em, it's a disease, it's not murder or even war. Gotta let life go on.

Wear the mask when you are not eating, seems pretty straight forward to me.

Besides the insanity of accepting 35-75 million deaths as being okay... which is deplorable insanity... how is it that you’re supposed to eat at a sit down restaurant AND wear a mask, as you propose?

You know what they say about coulda, shoulda, woulda, right?

Coulda, shoulda, woulda didn't.

well, you don't have to be because that number was never going to happen even in the worst case scenarios.

The absolute worst number I was ever able to calculate was 10 million, and that was based on 70% of the population getting infected and then 4% of the infected dying.... which is definitely over-the-top (and ignoring any attempt to factor for asymptomatic cases).

I think that 17.5% is artificially high right now, due to certain areas being hit especially hard and bumping up against their capacity to treat.

Once time goes on, I think that number will drop as capacity issues ease.