Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

Before I get hammered on this, this info was from WSJ

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

I don't recall BB saying what he wanted to open with.
A track that size wouldn't make any money from a Summit race, with the cost of glue, crew, etc. However , I would give the local help a paycheck , so they would still be available for the bigger events, down the road.
I guess I'm just the type who doesn't like to assign nefarious motives to a businessman trying to save his business.

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

I work for an "essential" manufacturing company. There are a few thousand employees. Most of us wear masks, some wear gloves too. It has become second nature for me to clean common areas with a bleach/ water blend, wash, wash, wash my hands and use sanitizer often. Need to lotion up too. Folks with medical conditions have been allowed to stay home for 3 weeks. Most of us are pretty good at social distancing, not talking directly at each other, etc, by now. The cafeteria is open, but everything is wrapped up. We have had a couple of COVID-19 cases, but no deaths as far as I know. In the beginning it was sketchy: we didn`t know what to expect and we were all on edge. Everyone is pretty comfortable with work, at this point.
We are looking forward to testing kits, to make sure we are all clear. Social distance, wash, wash, wash. We can beat this.
Mike A114

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I am at work and shouldn't be wasting time on the internet but this is the first opportunity I have had to sit since 0630 today and it is now 1615 in the afternoon and I wanted to see what is happening with my racing family. Part of the shelter-in-place is to reduce the risk of spread and reduce the potential contact sources. The other part of shelter-in-place is to reduce the risk of harm to oneself, or others, necessitating the need to enter the health-care system for treatment for an injury that may have been avoidable. Injuries happen, even going to the fridge to grab another beer, but wrenching on or under a car, engaging in racing activities, riding your motorcycle, joy-riding the streets because no one else is on the road and gasoline is a buck-fifty-a-gallon, all increases risk of injury.

No one, and I mean no one, wants to expose themselves to the hospital-setting with the Covid-19 floating around. Sit tight, take it easy, live to race another day. Sure this is wrecking the economy, but it is the best option we have at the moment to contain this.

Trust me, I know.

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

I think 98% is low. There is no telling how many people contracted the virus, never symptomized. We mostly only test those with symptoms. I agree about the older age group assessment, but that is why I said do what you want to do. I don't see going to a drag race as any more probable for exposure than WalMart, Walgreen's, or the grocery store.

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

Lest anyone assume I am some extreme right-wing wacko, understand that I work for the state government at a level that I was included in making the decision to close our state capitol building and to send all our staff home except essentials. But I tend to see things from a reality view rather than emotional. I have made decisions my entire life mitigating the risk involved. I do not need someone else telling me about the danger of one thing or another and I sure don't need more fear based explanations justifying some arbitrary authority destroying our country.

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

"arbitrary authority" Who or what are you talking about?

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

And likely kill one or two.

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The golf courses were open here on Long Island and they got so crowded that they were all shut down last week.

They even pulled the cups an inch and half out of the hole and all you had to do was hit the cup, saved everybody from reaching in the hole.

Re: Bill Bader Jr. "we are going to open"
 

Quarintine, inforced isolation for a fixed period of time for persons infected
or exposed to a contagious disease.
Tyrany, absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly admistered, a cruel exercise
of power.
You decide?