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Post by 00hmh on Aug 25, 2020 19:23:10 GMT -6
I went with 400 as that would be approximately 2% of the student population. Might say it's my 2 cents worth as the old saying goes. 2% testing positive if it were the whole population is not that bad but the problem is that by the time we have tested and detected 400, we will have tested a fraction of the population and seen a lot of symptomatic cases. And probably in a very much shorter period than we want. The number of cases, at this level of student carelessness may double every week. Let's hope we get smarter. Start with maybe a 100 total now, that could be 1600+ in 5 weeks.
I don't know how many would be showing up on the dashboard, but enough to scare people for sure.
Maybe we don't start with that many, but the schools that are testing are finding reasons not to let kids on campus. Purdue had several thousand out of 40,000 told to not come, based on screening or testing. We are not really doing either as rigorously as Purdue, relying on self reports.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 25, 2020 19:27:20 GMT -6
Heres the thing I would guess if its happening in high school its happening at BSU.. I know without any doubt that there are multiple high school kids testing positive or having mild symptons and just not telling anyone because they want to be at school or playing sports.
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Post by lmills72 on Aug 25, 2020 19:46:54 GMT -6
Kids and parents. What selfish dicks we were/are.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 25, 2020 19:48:34 GMT -6
Heres the thing I would guess if its happening in high school its happening at BSU.. I know without any doubt that there are multiple high school kids testing positive or having mild symptons and just not telling anyone because they want to be at school or playing sports.
What we are seeing is predictable enough and our culture wars about masks aren't helping anything.
We'd not have as much problem or as much need to have the fear element you mention if we had done this right and had levels down to manageable numbers after a controlled reopening and then a summer lull. No, we jumped the gun and the summer "lull" that never occurred doubled the number of cases at the spring peak. That wasn't the kids making mistakes.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Aug 26, 2020 7:34:04 GMT -6
Two days ago say Indiana's highest number of new cases ever according to Google COVID tracker. Ball State must apparently be immune to this surge, as they remain at only 18 positive cases. Clearly everyone needs to move to campus, as it's the last safe frontier in the country!
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 26, 2020 8:17:43 GMT -6
Two days ago say Indiana's highest number of new cases ever according to Google COVID tracker. Ball State must apparently be immune to this surge, as they remain at only 18 positive cases. Clearly everyone needs to move to campus, as it's the last safe frontier in the country! Oh dear.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Aug 26, 2020 8:57:23 GMT -6
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Post by sdacardinal on Aug 26, 2020 9:23:11 GMT -6
It was reported that the University of Alabama had 600 cases. I think they are still open.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 26, 2020 9:51:27 GMT -6
It was reported that the University of Alabama had 600 cases. I think they are still open. Closing down would mean the virus in not a hoax. And it would mean football would not happen. Damn. Can't do that.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Aug 26, 2020 11:11:12 GMT -6
Calhoun you should have started a poll for how often Ball State would update their COVID dashboard. I'm guessing once every 8-12 days
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 26, 2020 11:43:21 GMT -6
That isn't clear is it. The turn around on tests is variable, not all the data that is relevant is included. So I am not sure how useful the dashboard is. Delaware County data is now updated on a pretty regular basis, probably be similar to that. But still not all that useful. A lot of lag.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 26, 2020 12:04:06 GMT -6
Calhoun you should have started a poll for how often Ball State would update their COVID dashboard. I'm guessing once every 8-12 days Yea for real just look at twitter all kinds of kids saying they have tested positive
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 26, 2020 19:40:15 GMT -6
For those who have not checked they added a section for self reporting
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 26, 2020 22:36:41 GMT -6
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Aug 27, 2020 6:32:58 GMT -6
Up to 33 today.
And 110 self reporting.
I can see where the self reporting can be abused, so i don't know how much I can trust that number.
Of course, 00 self-abuses himself daily, so there's that.
(Just kidding, don't get your knickers in a twist!)
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