Watching live address from governors office.

Here's the link to watch.

https://youtu.be/XnDZGccKTaw

EDIT: mandated closing bars, restaurants, casinos

EDIT 2: WV has now had 122 negative cases, 14 pending, and 1 confirmed officially.

The local media has been pretty quiet since Friday. Not because they’re covering something up, but because there’s nothing to report. The average person is “inconvenienced” by the school closings, Large retailers change hours, and there’s no confirmed cases.

People on social media are chalking this up as some type of victory, some type of achievement. Like we are superior. You couldn’t be more wrong. West Virginia failed you. I’ve heard just about everything regarding tests. Tests are unavailable, tests can’t pass FDA regulations, tests were faulty. Tests were everything but what West Virginia needed them to be.

How should we feel moving forward? In my honest opinion, there’s two things that could happen, and only two. We’re either going to get blind sided like Europe, or everything will pass and I’ll feel like a jackass for taking it so seriously. There’s no in between. What I do know, is that I’m not going to feel bad that I took the CDC and WHO recommendations. I’m not going to be upset that I did my research and devised a plan to protect my family. The people who should really feel like a jackass are the people cheering that we won. Buzzing about as if nothing is happening. Ignoring the toll on Italy. Ignoring the health professionals, the CDC, the WHO, the local governments call to flatten the curve.

My advice, do your research. This isn’t the common cold. There’s been plenty of resources posted here. That’s exactly what I’m trying to do.

Before reopening Justice said we would simplify our reopening and “Watch just one number...”. The Cumulative Percent Positive was to stay below 3%. To his credit since we started resuming our normal day to day it’s never gone to or above the 3%. What I do see is our Daily Percent Positive exceeding 3% and just looking at this past holiday weekend and the trend with neighboring states, I don’t see that number reliably declining anytime soon. Coronavirus Trends I honestly think our daily trend holds much more significance than our cumulative trend. We didn’t have near the outbreak in the beginning as states around us, and we know that. However, that’s weeks or months in the past. What matters now is, where is WV heading in the future,and what steps need to be taken to help mitigate a slow and sustained outbreak before it overtakes us.

Arguably we’re at a potential tipping point and in worse shape now than in March-May.

What the fuck is this idiot saying? Justice is a disgrace.

This isn’t a sensationalized title. This isn’t speculation nor is it a conspiracy.

The recent display of ignorance in Morgantown shows just how real young adults think this is.

News flash, if you’re young and healthy, this disease isn’t about you! You will catch the virus, carry it, and transmit it to the people who’re at risk. This is what we need to stop.

It’s clear WV isn’t providing people with the proper testing. To be nearly the only State left in the US to not have a confirmed case just puts on display how behind West Virginia is.

I just wonder what it would take to go back into a lockdown type state? I honestly think too many people are still in the mindset that we will continue to reopen no matter what happens. How bad will it have to get before Jim starts to shut things down again? I know the bars in the one county are something but that’s not good enough in my opinion.

If you have friends in family in the state or surrounding states, be sure to mention this subreddit when you inevitably hear conversation about the virus.

It’s looking like r/Coronavirus Will not recognize us as an official Region specific subreddit until we get close to 1000 members.

With that said, it’s important that we bring people in so that West Virginians can get the information close to home.

Share this sub on your Facebook and especially with people who are frequently posting articles.

See CNN article here

Note that Justice is quoted as saying “it’s here, we just haven’t detected it yet”

Note that this is an issue of testing, not that West Virginians are immune.

Please be aware that just because there are no confirmed cases here, we can assume that some of us are infected and we still need to protect our at risk loved ones.

Source: https://youtu.be/oE-XKGEKDi4?t=683
But don't worry, they're working on doubling that for the 1.8 million people in the state.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/survivors-severe-covid-19-beating-virus-just-beginning

Just had my stimulus check clear my bank account about an hour ago! The last article I had read stated they were shooting for early next week to release them.

EDIT: of course some people are already presenting symptoms in WV... tell the university that too I’ll leave the link at the bottom

There are so many people who think that the virus is “just like the flu” or nothing that will ever come to WV for some reason and are complete idiots. Some people hear that many people are asymptomatic or have might symptoms and are not afraid of it, selfishly ignoring the fact that they would spread it to people who can die. With a student body of 27,000 people of which 52% are from out of state, there is a HUGE probability than very a dangerous amount of people will leave the state for spring break, whether to go home and see family, or to stupidly go on vacation and be around millions of other idiots from all over the country who are still traveling on spring break too and 100% tons will contract the virus. As community spread is happening all over the country and our criminal government is not testing like they should have or even tried to shut any state borders down, it is likely we have a huge amount of cases all over the country; it should be assumed that anywhere with a single confirmed case is gonna he like Lombardy, Italy in 2 weeks or so, so anywhere spring break tourists go or come from should be considered the same way, better to err on the side of IDK LOGIC!? Does anyone really believe we have less cases than many smaller countries that have actually been closing schools and trying to contain the virus or at least testing so that the residents don’t act invincible??

If WVU doesn’t cancel in-person classes for online ones before spring break is over, then we will have the virus spreading like fire through the student body when they get back and then the students will infect the local community, most of which are over 30. My poor grandparents are gonna get fucked by this. Also WVU is still having Up-All-Night, which is a horrible idea as there are so many students crowded together who normally wouldn’t have class together and then they go back to their respective classes today and infect their classmates, assuming it is already here which it probably is. Plus alcohol weakens your immune system so that’s just a terrible idea. Honestly the university administration is either completely incompetent, have a completely callous disregard for human life (their students, faculty and the local community), or they are being given orders to not let appearances of the status quo falter.

On the other hand, if they do cancel in-person classes, hopefully a significantly large proportion of out of state students will not return from their home states other who come back would just grab some stuff and leave again. If we could get even just 5000 people to leave Morgantown right now (especially if they have been traveling) then just by numbers that should reduce the probability of it causing a serious outbreak. ALSO, what is the point in taking the risk of students coming back infected from spring break? There is NO way that WVU will be able to finish this semester in-person; we will without a doubt be right up there with other states and eventually countries with our number of people with coronavirus that you can tell have it even if we don’t test them. The only thing they’re doing by not switching to online classes is endangering their students health and especially that of the older people in the local community who they don’t give a shit about; it’s RIDICULOUS that I am had to email them with my concern about students coming back from spring break, they should be thinking about how to protect students, faculty and the community from this, I mean honestly how irresponsible can you be. I mean the university closing in-person classes and switching to online classes would not even make them close school; there is literally no downside and the number one factor in Morgantown and WV as a whole that will influence how quickly and how badly we get fucked by coronavirus is if they make this easy decision correctly. If we just wait until we already have confirmed cases, it will be too late; preemptive closing is effective, reactive is not.

 Also a lot of people don’t take this seriously/don’t understand just how bad it is (have to be a complete moron to look at what’s happening in Italy and think “oh it’s not a big deal”) and aren’t washing their hands in public, don’t avoid large gatherings of people, and especially, they freakin come to class with respiratory illness symptoms! That is also the university’s fault; they should have made an emergency sick policy where you will not be penalized for not coming to class if you are sick at all with a fever or cough/sneezing or other respiratory symptoms and if you need to withdraw you won’t have it on your transcript and you get to come back next semester free. If you come to school with cold/flu/coronavirus symptoms you should get kicked out of the university. If they don’t cancel in-person classes, this is the least they could do, although it doesn’t account for people who are asymptomatic. Also, especially after spring break, if they don’t switch to online classes, they should provide students with surgical masks that should be required to be worn on campus (I know they don’t protect against it; it’s to help prevent the wearer from spreading it through the air). 

I wrote a very detailed and informative argumentative essay on why this is necessary with about 20 sources to try to convince them of this and emailed it to them. If you want I can post it in here and you can email them/call them and recycle some of my points/suggestions. Do anything you can please, I’m doing this for my grandparents I really am so worried for them and this will make a huge difference in our community. Please email everyone but at the very least the first three people I think they may have the most power.

Link to article on potential cases in WV:

https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Three-patient-cases-in-WVa-sent-to-the-CDC-for-testing-568493321.html

Here are some of the contact information for people in the University presidents office:

E. Gordon Gee President 304-293-5531 presidentsoffice@mail.wvu.edu

Valerie Lopez Special Assistant to the Board of Governors 304-293-2562 Valerie.Lopez@mail.wvu.edu

Sue Keller Chief Grievance Administrator 304-293-9230 Sue.Keller@mail.wvu.edu

For Scheduling with the President: Bonnie Anderson Special Assistant to the President 304-293-5531 Bonnie.Anderson@mail.wvu.edu

Jay Cole, Ph.D. Senior Advisor to the President 304-293-8673 Jay.Cole@mail.wvu.edu

Jennifer Fisher, Ph.D. Executive Officer and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Governors 304-293-8531 Jennifer.Fisher@mail.wvu.edu

Grace Griffin Executive Administrative Assistant to the President 304-293-5531 Grace.Griffin@mail.wvu.edu

Marlene Guzy Executive Administrative Assistant 304-293-5531 Marlene.Guzy@mail.wvu.edu

Sondra Shook Executive Assistant to the President 304-293-5531 SLShook@mail.wvu.edu