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Also there's been something coming up a lot to make note of- Vitamin D. And today there was a study out of Indonesia that found: 4% of the people with normal vitamin D levels died, while 98% of the vitamin D deficient people died. This could mean that the disease lowers your Vitamin D levels. But either way it seems like a good idea and definitely doesn't hurt to make sure you get a sufficient amount of vitamin D (obviously will be much easier now as the weather gets warms, just need to spend time outside each day)

getting natural sunlight increases VitaminD levels. get outside! 

I do that every chance I get

Still won't cure COVID, but sure makes you feel better!

Right it's not a cure, but there has been indications that having sufficient Vitamin D leads to better outcomes if you're infected. Plus it's really easy to get and no harm at all. 

Let's you and I bury the hatchet.  VItamin D and methanol would be the best thing for everybody right now.  I think it would cure more than Covid-19.  What do you say?

Monarch Motor Speedway www.MMSdirt.com and 82 Speedway www.82Speedway.com are both opening up this weekend. Several sprint shows between the two will take place this month and throughout the season...Governor Abbott laid out the rules this afternoon and we're back up and running all with new safety rules in place.   

great news!

With fans too. Limited to 25% but racing in 2020 is looking better all the time I'd say. 

For us that live here in Central Pa we maybe in trouble with getting vitamin D by sunlight as the sun only shines one day a week and thats in a good week! lol 

egras was out to lunch with this post---an anti-America post to say the least.  Yes, some "experts", like pelosi and her nutty doctor friends who share her politics are hoping beyond hope that not only has the problem continuing, but continuing until the end of the year--they hope and hope and hope.    "4 outcomes "many experts" say and the one that says we may get some racing in this year is the least likely outcome".  Ruin the country.  Party first, the hell with the country, especially employment and the economy--- thru November!!   The best thing by far that happened early on in these problem times is "stopping global travel", something the other party was against.  Something they don't want to talk about now and the media won't ask them about it either.

I'd be surprised if 99% of the race tracks in this country are not racing by the end of May or earlier.  

Lawlessness + liberalism = HELL -  NYC, Detroit, Chicago, 
Seattle, LA  Who the H runs those cities. 

That is certainly true. If we were not complaining about not racing because of the crazyness going on we would be complaing about not racing because of the weather. The best weather we have had this spring was the weekends that we raced in early March.

That might just be the stupidest political post I've seen on here yet

Anti-American?  Thanks.  

I was mistaken that one of the biggest parts of being an American was being able to form my own opinion with what is hopefully still a free media.  I guess I was wrong.  I am assuming your media sources are the only credible ones?

I hate that politics continue to have to be brought into this.  I can't stand Nancy Pelosi FYI.  I don't need her "nutty doctors" to help me form an opinion about this---I have my own family members who have been hospitalized with this---3 to date.  I have listened to doctors and scientists alike on shows from Fox News, to CNN, in the president's daily briefing and my governor's daily briefing.  Haven't heard anything different in principle come out of any of their mouths.  They all agree with what's going on with some small differences on how to move forward.   Notice I said doctors and scientists---not politicians.  The politicians are simply vessels to spread the health dept's recommendations filled with jabs at the other party.  I can drown out the jabs and listen to the facts.  

I'm not sure why my sharing of an article----that has 4 very different outcomes, all very valid by the way, would cause someone to get so pissed off.  What am I missing?   I absolutely hate every second of this.  Why does sharing information turn this in to kill the messenger?  

Let me rephrase the title of the post:  How about "Dirt track racing nationwide, at every track in America, uninterrupted, like it has always been--not looking good for 2020"  Is that better?   We are approaching May, and some tracks are not even thinking about opening.  How is that normal?   Would you like to put a wager on your 99% of tracks open by end of May?  

Thanks revjimk.  I agree with you most of the time. But, we don't always see eye to eye, and I respect your opinions at least.  I would never call you anti-American for giving them to me either.  

And I didn't even give an opinion.  I just shared the link to an article.  

Agree 100%. Hate that people keep bringing politics into this whole thing when the politicans are doing as you said listening to scientists and doctors, but everyone has to judge everything on their political affiliation. Someone who votes Republican or Democrat hears one of their party members say something then all of a sudden that is how they formulate their opinion. Heck, I didn't vote for my governor but I will say he has at least done a good job in handling this and letting the director of health speak about the scientific things. All of the politicans are as you said vessels and this is a worldwide thing that the whole world is doing. Plus everything that the scientists are saying are consistent with everything that everyone learned in school if they were actually paying attention in school, some of this is not rocket science. And everyone is entitled to their opinion, some people think theirs is just worth more than other people's opinion because of their political affiliation when it doesn't matter any more than the next persons. I've come to the conclusion that even if this wasn't going on, people will find something else to bring their stupid political banter into it as if they are going to change anyone's opinion

After reading some of the rules and regulations for some of the tracks attempting to open I see where this is going for me personally.  I'm high risk so I'll be watching all of my racing on PPV along with NASCAR when they get back up and running.  Even if I was willing to take the risk I'd avoid crowds as I wouldn't want to pass this virus onto my wife.  I'm not interested in getting into the middle of the debates on here, just saying that live racing will not work for me for the forseable future.  Either the virus will have to run it's course or a vaccine will need to become available before I'll attend any races.  Looking as some of the rules these tracks are implementing where the first 25% get in I wouldn't even bother making the drive.  I'm old, fat and slow so I'd never be anywhere close to the front of the line.  Some rules pages are suggesting online ticket sales but I'm not going to hover over the "enter" button like it's some kind of eBay bid just to see a damn race. 

Have a good season everyone.  I'll be back when I stand a chance of actually seeing a live race. 

Stan Meissner

Stan---be careful.  dirtraceorbust may read what you said, and judging by your negativity, those are very anti-American thoughts!  After all, 99% of tracks will be open and everything will be back to normal by the end of May. 

(I'm kidding of course)

Seriously though, I don't blame you one bit.  I have a lot of races on my radar.  If they are allowed to run, I will go.  I'm 46 and, as far as I know, perfectly healthy.  Contrary to some of the accusations thrown my way, I am not sitting here wearing a mask, and typing in gloves.  I have been going to work, the store, and will not be afraid to go to the track if they public health dept. says it's okay to do so.  The spread doesn't even need to stop.  Hell, I think the only way out of this is to get it through the community while protecting the vulnerable.  So, I fully expect to get it---if I haven't already!

Hope to see you at the track in 2021.  This ain't going to be a normal year no matter what smoke people try to blow up everyone's asses.  

So the Oxford vaccine mentioned 2 weeks ago that was aiming to potentially be approved and ready for production by September got some more bits of promising news. First was the vaccine protected rhesus macaques monkeys from being infected despite being exposed to large amounts of the virus. These monkeys are the most similar to humans, so this is a very good step (a Chinese vaccine also achieved these results last week). They also got started with the human trials for oxford vaccine, a few weeks earlier than their original target of mid-May. Lastly they were hoping to have 1 million doses ready by September if it got approved, well a vaccine producer in India is going to produce 40 million doses at risk by September to help hitting the ground running even faster if it passes trials. 

I know many are apprehensive about a rushed vaccine, and I am as well. But I am much less so about this particular one. This group was already in trials for a MERS vaccine doing the traditional steps and already established safety, so when covid emerged they just adjusted the vaccine a bit for this new virus. That is why I'm paying very close attention to this particular candidate, they pretty much had a head start on everyone and to me looks like the best odds of quickly being approved. Let's hope it works in humans and can be fully available to the world by the end of the year to move back on to completely normal life.

Getting a vaccine to the vulnerable population and medical community would make this situation 10,000 times better!

As I stated in earlier posts, I would weigh the risk/reward of the vaccine for myself in my family.  I am not an anti-vaxxer by any means, but would not jump on it if the big risk is gone at that point.  I'm going to push my parents to get it----though they will likely refuse.  I think the reward is much higher than the risk for those in their 70's and above. 

"PATRIOTISM means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country"..... Theodore Roosevelt