What Does Nebraska Know that We Don't?
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how to husk corn?
Their biggest football team is a minor league team masquerading as college students
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@dogisbadob the Huskers are not that good
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@forsweden sure is wild to play with the slider chronologically and watch the infections travel in waves throughout the country over the last 18 months. Based on the trend, I can almost guarantee Nebraska will turn white hot again in a month or two.
2009 Corvette Coupe, 2004 BMW 330Ci, lots n lots of pedal powered things!
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@stuckmtb Its crazy seeing it ricochet around like that
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@forsweden Want to know Nebraska's secret?
I know it...
It's isolation and space.
The people who live away from the big metro areas rarely leave their small communities, and within their communities they're happy giving each other space. They already talk to each other 6 feet apart, there's no need to get closer when no one else is around. They only gather in small groups because there's not really enough people to gather in a large group (at least, not enough people all interested in the same thing). Most big events are outdoors, because that's where all the interesting stuff happens (county fairs, rodeos, demolition derbies, even concerts).
So, basically do nothing, and see only the same few people only at a distance.
At least Omaha and Lincoln have fairly high vaccination rates. My home town's vaccination rates are dismal. (Latest numbers I could find for my home town were at 24%, and I'm sure it wasn't due to lack of availability.)
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@stuckmtb said in What Does Nebraska Know that We Don't?:
Based on the trend, I can almost guarantee Nebraska will turn white hot again in a month or two.
I've always thought that rural Nebraska was 20 years behind the cultural timeline. Seems like the pandemic timeline moves a whole lot quicker.
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Nebraska stopped publishing COVID data back in June, leaving it up to individual counties to report their infection rate through different channels. Last week, Governor Ricketts original order against reporting expired, and he replaced it with one that makes it illegal for counties with populations less than 20,000 to publish COVID data. This would seem to limit reporting to the areas around Omaha and Lincoln. If I were cynical, I might think that the governor wants everybody to think that COVID only hits those city folk and leaves the good old rural population alone.
The issue isn't what Nebraska knows that we don't. It's what we know that Nebraska doesn't. People are dying and ignoring the problem won't make it go away.
From the most recent health department press releases, I get the impression that they aren't even supposed to mention COVID.
https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/News-Releases.aspxThere is nothing since the governor declare the end of the pandemic in the state at the end of June.
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@roadkilled Just like with outlawing the collection of gun data, this will achieve the same ends. It will cease to exist if you can't quantify it, right???
Long story short, Shrodinger killed the cat.
