How safe is it to go to tournaments right now?

"recommendations for Health Care Personnel (HPC)"

So...you actually led the horse to a dry creek bed, not water.  Oops.

Thanks for finally admitting your mistake (let's just give the benefit of the doubt and call it a mistake rather than an agenda or simply the hubris of deciding you know better than the health officials tasked with informing the public on this issue).

I admitted no mistake.  You must be delusional.

I don't criticize you for having opinions and/or expressing them.  I do point out when your opinions are misleading, illogical, or as in this case, potentially damaging for people listening to them and heeding them.  That's the potential price you naturally pay when you transition over from having opinions to  expressing them.  Feel free to do the same...if I post something that seems unsupported or is demonstrably incorrect, point it out.  If I then defend myself repeatedly without ever supporting what I am saying with verifiable information (or conversely saying that it is just my opinion and no big deal and then actually stopping instead of trying to back up my opinion with more fuzzy logic), keep holding my feet to the fire.

If you had just said from the get go "well, yeah, the shipping packages part is my personal opinion and I don't recommend people follow my advice because it's above and beyond what the CDC recommends at this point", then there would have been nothing else, and the set of interactions you perceive as a chip on my shoulder would not be happening.   Instead you doubled down with "common sense" and "reasonable to assume" something not so reasonable.  

I find it hard to believe though with your penchant for posting opinions first, fact finding if called out later, that you don't run into this more often.  It's probably the way you couch things...a lot of people may read some of your more dubious conclusions and think "well, they mean well" and move on.  I know I do, on a regular basis.  This time, though, you are shouting fire in a crowded virtual theatre.

Not intentionally...but effectively and logically the same.  Maybe if you had any reasonable explanation for adding that 4th point...but alas, there is none and you know it full well, having glossed over it every time.  You can continue to contort (unsuccessfully), or you can actually leave/stop as you have claimed to do several times now.  Either way, it was a mistake (or worse, a willful misleading), and we both know you can't address it directly without exposing it as exactly that.

Forget this method if it's a blitz tournament

The U.S. is one of the two developed nations without guaranteed paid sick leave. More than 1 in 4 private industry workers don’t have this benefit including more than half in the bottom 25% of the wage distribution, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

“These are the people who are really living paycheck to paycheck,” said Amy Traub, an associate director of policy and research at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. “So, they have a tremendous economic need to go into work, even if they have symptoms of the flu or the coronavirus.”

Making matters worse, many workers who don’t have access to paid sick leave work in child care, restaurants, hotels, and travel where they come into contact with many people everyday and could help spread the virus. In these service occupations, more than 2 in 5 of the workers don’t get paid sick days, according to the Labor Department.

The home of the brave. 

  Yahoo is reporting a 6th death in the U.S due to the virus.....

During the period in which this new virus has killed 3000 people, some 18,000 have died from regular flu. Of course, it is unknown how quickly it will continue to spread and for how long, but it is currently not on course to bring about the end of humanity. 

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they say F.S. Key wrote that last line in for the native american.

There's 12X's as many Corona cases as SARS....with 5X's as many deaths. All in 2 mo's. SARS went on for over 9 mo's.

Good factoid 👍

This could work, but I would not want to get caught in a time scramble while wearing those gloves. 

What if we talked to the Corona, tried to reason with it, showed it there was a better way, a better host to inhabit, then it might leave our bodies.

..."come here Snookles."

I loved that old song by The Knack - My Corona. 

I can understand people buying some extra supplies, but what i don't understand are people loading up on bottled water.  Are they really so scared that they think it will get so bad that it disrupts the water supply?  I can't see that happening, but maybe i'm missing something.

Lemmings. 

Every time that song is playing somebody is either flipping burgers at burger something, or just finished a workout, or in extra American cases - just finished taming the dragon.

I imagine the biggest risk to public health right now are those individuals who like to hide the fact they're ill. This is one situation where we actually need people to overreact, so to speak.