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Per Cincy's discussion about how reopening doesn't necessarily mean businesses all actually open or that customers patronize them...

I don't know what is different in Oklahoma to make it such an outlier. 

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New reported cases and deaths are edging down.  The "experts" predicted a disaster by mid-May. 

Can you please stop this shit?

We all took measures to avoid disaster and it seems to have worked.  That's the whole point.  It's really hard to respect someone who shits on experts.  

Well, OK does have a lot of reservations......


I'll be here all week.

Only two.  Osage and Choctaw.

I can't account for the huge disparity.  Our caseload and mortality numbers are trending down.

Okay, if I misunderstood, that's fine.  


But still, honestly, these numbers like two weeks and 6 feet apart aren't hard-and-fast, precise measures.  Just because there hasn't been a spike exactly 14 days later doesn't mean anything yet.

Every place you go has stickers and tape and ropes every 6 feet.....when that's largely an arbitrary distance.  When a sneeze can send particles 40+ feet, we're standing around 6 feet apart like it's the next best thing to a hazmat suit.  

Cincy, I appreciate your optimism.  It's a good thing.  But I just don't want the general consensus to be that we're out of the woods when we're still surrounded by trees.

I'd be looking for hospitalizations here, rather than increased cases, since testing still remains somewhat of a challenge.

Wouldn't it be nice if testing wasn't such a challenge?

Doesn't OK have lots of land classified as something other than 'normal' and 'reservation'?  I'd like to know more about that.

There's a lot of land owned by the various tribes.  And on that land, tribal law sometimes takes precedence over state law.  Card-carrying tribal members can buy tribal license plates.

I have no particular expertise in this area.  This might interest you.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Tribal_Statistical_Area

Can you please stop this shit?

We all took measures to avoid disaster and it seems to have worked.  That's the whole point.  It's really hard to respect someone who shits on experts. 

Okay, if I misunderstood, that's fine. 


But still, honestly, these numbers like two weeks and 6 feet apart aren't hard-and-fast, precise measures.  Just because there hasn't been a spike exactly 14 days later doesn't mean anything yet.

Every place you go has stickers and tape and ropes every 6 feet.....when that's largely an arbitrary distance.  When a sneeze can send particles 40+ feet, we're standing around 6 feet apart like it's the next best thing to a hazmat suit. 

Cincy, I appreciate your optimism.  It's a good thing.  But I just don't want the general consensus to be that we're out of the woods when we're still surrounded by trees.

I'm confused by your statements.  The experts tell us to maintain social distance of 6 feet.  Should we or should we not listen to the experts?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/social-distancing.html