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Pac-12 football players threaten to opt out over coronavirus, other concerns https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pac-12-football-players-threaten-to-opt-out-over-coronavirus-other-concerns/ar-BB17u501?ocid=msedgdhp

Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican who has frequently refused to wear a mask, has tested positive for coronavirus. "I can't help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, that if I might have put some germs or some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in," Gohmert said. He added that he has been wearing a mask more during the past two weeks than he has in the past three or four months. "I can't help but think that if I hadn't been wearing a mask so much in the last 10 days or so, I really wonder if I would have gotten it," Gohmert added. "You know, moving the mask around, getting it just right, we're bound to put some virus on the mask that I sucked in. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/louie-gohmert-whos-refused-to-wear-a-mask-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ar-BB17ku0w?ocid=msedgdhp

Ex-officials say Trump administration didn't use pandemic 'playbooks' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-officials-say-trump-administration-didnt-use-pandemic-playbooks/ar-BB17jqkR?ocid=msedgdhp © Alex Wong/Getty Images President George W. Bush speaks about the administration's national strategy for pandemic influenza preparedness and response at William Natcher Center of the National Institutes of Health, Nov. 1, 2005, in Bethesda, Md. President Donald Trump proclaimed in late March that “nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion.” Confronted with criticism of a lethargic national response, he lamented “a system we inherited” from past administrations. The problem with both statements, according to former public health officials, is that prior administrations not only “knew there’d be a pandemic,” they planned for it – extensively. They did so by crafting so-called “playbooks” and engaging in “table-top exercises” for hypothetical outbreaks – the results of which bore a striking resemblance to gaps that have emerged in the federal government’s response to COVID-19. "I think that this current pandemic has really played out in many ways similar to exercises and table-top simulations that we had done many years ago,” said Dr. James Lawler, a former White House National Security Council (NSC) official during both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations who worked specifically on pandemic preparedness.

Your Face Mask Protects You in More Ways Than One, Study Finds https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/your-face-mask-protects-you-in-more-ways-than-one-study-finds/ar-BB17hyPy?ocid=msedgdhp However, new research is finding that masks do in fact protect you from coronavirus, and they do so by reducing the viral load, which can lessen the severity of symptoms or keep the virus away altogether.

Target joins Walmart in staying closed for Thanksgiving this year

Coronavirus Is Back With a Vengeance in Places Where It Had All but Vanished https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coronavirus-is-back-with-a-vengeance-in-places-where-it-had-all-but-vanished/ar-BB17eAg9?ocid=msedgdhp

Most people are no longer infectious 10 days after they begin having symptoms, so the CDC is now discouraging people from getting tested a second time. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-changes-covid-19-guidance-how-long-patients-need-be-n1234883

Paranoia again. My first case in Wuhan was Tung & Cheek, your serious.

Fall football only, if can't play this fall cancel the 2020 FB season.

Not going to be an easy process for either state just to decide what to do to finish schooling in 2020.

Hopefully we have some k-12 classroom schooling.

I posted an article, I never suggested holding kids back. You tell me, how do we, say get to January?

My brother in law UND '75 lives in Houston, claims his neighbor saw the smoke.

It’s Opening Day https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/it-s-opening-day-here-s-what-you-may-have-forgotten/ar-BB175ytF?ocid=msedgdhp

FOX News Houston consulate was epicenter of research theft by China, State Department says

Don't be so paranoid.

Elementay school at full capacity would be like putting all local daycares into one.

1. To not overwelme the health care system, till we get a vaccine.

Vaccine is the ace in the hole, need to dig it out. How do we get through these next 6 months without overwelming medical care? Masks, wash hands, social distancing, plexiglass, and etc. Partial lock downs? Open everything up?

Another 1.4 M unemployment claims announced this morning.

I think they blew it in this modern day with the virus. Should be happy with a full game played and call it a tie. Use the porposed overtime only for tournaments.

Can the schools learn something from the meat packing plants? Maybe kids couldn't adhere to all the rule changes needed to comply to a good fight against the pandemic? Maybe the administration and teachers don't know what would be a good and economical plan of attach, if the schools were full of students?

Don't know the answer here, but something seems to be going in the right direction for the meat packing plants across the country. Seems to be meat in grocery stores. They are no longer in the news as hot spots that shut down. Did they figure something out? I'm just guessing, but may be it's masks, washing hands, social/at work distancing, any signs of not feeling good- stay at home, plexiglass and etc? Are they all back open?

AP-NORC poll: Very few Americans back full school reopening https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/07/22/ap-norc-poll-very-few-americans-back-full-school-reopening/24569122/