Snowbird parks and Coronavirus

dturm wrote:
I saw two bluebirds in a tree and a dead frog this morning. These observations, while valid have as much significance on the potential spread and mortality of a new infectious disease, coronavirus as the number of people killed in auto accidents. None is a valid way to evaluate what's going on. If you are saying that the deaths we eventually have from corona are less somehow because the absolute numbers are less than the flu or auto accidents... well that's just cold.

Comparing flu to corona is just mildly more significant. We have a very large percent of the population protected from the flu from previous mild infections or vaccination. Every individual who is protected acts as a roadblock to the spread during flu season. Yet we still have 10s of thousands of deaths each year.

No one has protection from corona. There are no roadblocks. We have to slow the spread so that our health care system does not get overwhelmed. Each person has to act responsibly to mitigate the spread. Not everyone is going to be infected, obviously. But, the potential is a little frightening.

This isn't hype. It's just running the numbers. That's why businesses, cities, counties and countries are cancelling group activities and travel.

Until we get accurate numbers from wide spread testing, caution is the only way to responsibly proceed.

I asked our parks management over the week end if they were talking to corporate about when group activities might be scaled back, suggesting that it would be prudent to get ahead of the curve on this issue. The answer back was yes they were in communication of corporate and the answer was they are waiting for more guidance from CDC and other agencies. If one watches much news on this coronavirus, you most likely notice that scientist are being push away from the cameras and mics, while national politicians down play the risk. Hopefully state level guidance will be forth coming.