Indiana just opted to fully reopen in a Stage 5 return to normalcy

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[Sherman A1]

1. Pardon me for a moment

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Everyone has to treat MAGAts and Evangelicals as COVID infected anyway. Now Hoosiers too.

[soothsayer]

2. Um. Why? Oh does it ruin absentee ballot ability?

Just spitballin’.

Cuz... there’s some scurrilous reason...

[Awsi Dooger]

4. Trump wants to use something as an example

There won't be enough time or honest results to verify Indiana's move as a failure, so Trump will chirp the opposite in forthcoming weeks as people vote

[soothsayer]

6. Yeah that was my other thought but won't someone point to the numbers?

Or are their numbers somehow amazing, with loads of testing and contact tracers?

[Volaris]

13. Oh theres time. It's only gonna take 2 weeks for the case numbers to start spiking.

[Demsrule86]

17. There is enough time...and cases and deaths will go up.

[Delphinus]

14. No,

we had to provide an excuse (there were I think eleven we could choose from) to get an absentee ballot.

[Chiyo-chichi]

27. I don't fulfill any of the criteria for an Indiana absentee ballot.

We're one of 4 states with the most restrictive absentee voting rules.
I'm planning to vote early in person.

[TwilightZone]

3. Money over lives.

Not surprising.

[BlueJac]

5. Nice to know where not to go!

[mobeau69]

8. Take out about three counties and ya got Mississippi.

Ohio’s not much different.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. It's always been a good place not to go.

[sfstaxprep]

7. Didn't Notre Dame Football Team Have An Outbreak? nt

[ProfessorGAC]

9. They Did

10 players positive, 13 players in quarantine.
It was not clear from the crawl if the 13 included the 10 positive, or was on top of the 10.

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. God and Amy Creepy Barrett will bless them.

[spanone]

10. Pence Country.

[indyblue]

11. Governor is worried about reelection

[Delphinus]

16. Welcome to DU!

[kas125]

18. Yep, that's exactly what it is. All over the internet they're all saying

they're voting for whoever the libertarian guy is because they're sick of the masks and the shutdowns, so he's scared. I don't care what the hell he says, I'm not going to any of those places until I think it's safe and right now it isn't.

[Squinch]

12. Trending between 600 and 1100 new cases per day.

[Volaris]

15. And we should expect that to AT LEAST double by Oct 15th.

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. Vice President AIDS Outbreak must be proud.

[davsand]

21. Sitting in Illinois about 45 minutes from the Indiana state line and I'm worried.

There's one county between us and Indiana, and there's an interstate running just outside of town. Oh yeah, I am worried. Not sure any place is "safe" these days, but damn, I sure would prefer to be someplace a little further away from this.

Can we put up some roadblocks, ya think? Would it REALLY be so wrong? When I think about the Big Ten starting up sports again--I'm 10 miles from the U of Illinois campus--and now Indiana opening up without any sort of restrictions, it definitely gives me pause for thought.

SMH. I think maybe I'll start stockpiling groceries.


Laura

[MissB]

30. At least use curbside pickup

Our cases are pretty low and most are masking. Trending up a bit after the Labor Day weekend but not too bad yet.

But no way are we opening up like that.

[bamagal62]

22. This should be interesting. I guess in 2-3 weeks we'll start to see

The hospitals getting overwhelmed. What is wrong with people?

[Boogiemack]

23. Just can't keep those addicts away from their addictions.

People just cannot live having to interact with each other without being entertained, high or in trouble. Sigh...

[dhill926]

24. so glad I moved out of that shithole state...

14 years ago. Some great people there....but they're outnumbered now...

[rzemanfl]

25. There are 80 young men living in my grandson's fraternity house in Bloomington.

65 tested positive for COVID-19.

[Nevilledog]

26. This is just insane.

[MissB]

28. How many citizens are willing to resume those activities?

Doesn’t matter how much they open if not enough folks show up.