October 15th, 2020 at 11:31 AM ^
Starting to pile up this week.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:36 PM ^
Exactly as everyone who didn't have their head buried up trump's ass said the cases would.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:53 PM ^
Your lack of class is showing.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
This is a strategy to shut people up that no longer works with me. I'm done being nice and couldn't care less if offensive people get butt-hurt about it.
October 15th, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
Something something live long enough to become the villain.
October 15th, 2020 at 7:19 PM ^
Explain to me when the world starts living again? Or do we just keep fearing every breath we take for....reasons....
October 15th, 2020 at 11:37 AM ^
Why can't they just not let it dominate their life? We've been given our orders.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:46 AM ^
I mean we’ll probably look back on this and realize things like the nba bubble and cancelling games for Covid tests was an overreaction.
Covid is a population health crisis; but the impact individual sports teams have on community spread is a drop in the bucket. The concerns of myocarditis were legitimate—but as time goes on, they do not look to be coming to fruition. And that is good news for everyone. But leagues are kidding themselves if they think nipping a Covid outbreak on a football team is going to have any noticeable impact on the spread in the community at large.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
As epidemiologists say if it looks like an overreaction in hindsight then you probably did it right. Paraphrasing there but I've heard more than a few of them say something like that.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Right. And it was the right approach to take initially without a doubt. But when you realized you overreacted, shouldnt you adjust the appropriate level of reaction?
And now that we’re we’re 7-8 Months into this, we have enough data to realize what was an overreaction and what can cautiously return to a semblance of normal
lockdowns? Initially Worth it just in case, but Probably not happening again, at least not to the same extent
closing schools? Initially worth it just in case, probably not happening again in most of the world
October 15th, 2020 at 12:02 PM ^
I think you missed the point. It seems like an over reaction because the action worked. The point being we have only 200k dead because we locked down and it feels like an over reaction. But if you don’t lock down you have over a million or many more dead, and suddenly that lockdown looks like a really good idea.
October 15th, 2020 at 12:04 PM ^
I got the point.
I said that i think we’ll look back on how we’re handling college football season and realize it was an overreaction.
Not that it was the wrong decision to take in a time in a time of uncertainty; just that it was an overreaction in retrospect
October 15th, 2020 at 12:07 PM ^
Games are being cancelled/postponed left and right, Florida has less than 50 players available this week, and Nick Saban has COVID. What exactly was the overreaction?
October 15th, 2020 at 12:31 PM ^
He definitely didn't get it.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:13 PM ^
Before the SEC started, I saw someone say that ~25% of games had been cancelled or postponed. I would say that it's proving that the college football world is underreacting to the pandemic. SEC didn't seem to have too many issues early on, but now we've seen some disruption to their schedule. We will see how it plays out, but I'm guessing your assertions are going to be wrong.
October 15th, 2020 at 6:50 PM ^
200K death and it feels like an overreaction? It's more of an underreaction compared to the rest of the world. We're doing so much worse because of incompetent leadership and selfish people.
October 15th, 2020 at 12:03 PM ^
Many places are still doing on-line school. Multiple schools that have been doing more in person classes have had brief closures. I suspect we’ll have more targeted closings and less that cover a larger geographic area.
October 15th, 2020 at 3:13 PM ^
There was no overreaction. The Steps taken to lessen the impact have done what the smart virus experts said, which is reduce spread and reduce death and disability. One has to be very dumb to not understand this. Are you very dumb, arrogant, or intending to be sarcastic?
Are you the kind of person who says taking insulin and watching his diet is an overreaction to diabetes? Seems like it.
October 15th, 2020 at 2:08 PM ^
Agreed, a bit of caution isn't bad. Much like buying home insurance, overall it is a huge waste of money, but done to mitigate risk!
One thing we can't talk away is that we have 5% of the world's population, but 20% of the deaths, and please don't do the everyone else is lying bit.
October 15th, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
"The concerns of myocarditis were legitimate—but as time goes on, they do not look to be coming to fruition."
I hope you're right, but I believe it's far too early to arrive at the medical conclusion that heart issues aren't a long-term concern. That will only be revealed over time by ongoing research.
October 16th, 2020 at 1:36 AM ^
I havent bothered to try to find other research, but I wonder if there has been large population screening for myocarditis related to other viral infections in the past of persons without cardiac specific symptoms. It would be interesting to know if subclinical inflammation of the myocardium with viral infections is more of the norm with many viruses than we think.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:38 PM ^
things like the nba bubble and cancelling games for Covid tests was an overreaction.
But leagues are kidding themselves if they think nipping a Covid outbreak on a football team is going to have any noticeable impact on thejust spread in the community at large.
This may be a bit cynical, but the point of things like professional sports bubbles is only partially about preventing community spread. A factor you can't discount is that there is HUGE money on the line - for the teams, investors, networks, ancillary vendors, etc. These players and coaches are a financial investment, and the games are how they generate revenue. They are trying to protect their investments and revenue streams.
So is it an overreaction? For the average American, absolutely over the top. When you've got billions* of dollars on the line? Not so much.
*Yes, billions. In 2019, the NFL raked in over $15 billion. MLB over $11 billion. NBA over $9 billion. NHL had over $5 billion and even the MLS had about $1 billion in revenue in 2019. The top 4 leagues made $40 billion last year.
They're not shutting it down and if bubbles is what it takes, then bubbles it is.
As for college, a bit of a different dynamic there, but the NCAA had about $1 billion in revenue and the top schools are all earning over $100 million from CFB alone. And the top conferences made over $700 million in revenue last year.
Don't discount the power of money at play here. It's not just about community spread when you start talking big money sports.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:40 AM ^
December 12th is going to be quite the day for College football.
They may have to go with the High School Football O'ramas(sp?) This was basically the pre-season for HS football. Where you have 4 teams 2 on each side that play 1 quarter against the other 2.
So on one side you have Florida/Georgia and on the other LSU/Alabama. 1st Quarter: Florida vs LSU, 2nd Q: Georgia vs Alabama, 3rd Q: Florida vs Alabama, and 4rth Q: Georgia vs LSU.
Or I guess everyone can just play double headers and such?
October 15th, 2020 at 1:56 PM ^
Have never heard of that concept before.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:45 AM ^
*toilet flushing sounds*
October 15th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
ThePonyConqueror down the tubes straight to Bolivia?
Wishful thinking.
October 15th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
Fall surge is starting.
~8k new cases reported in Oklahoma over the past week, ~11k in Ohio. Wouldn't be surprised if the Texas schools start postponing games soon (a ridiculous ~31k new cases in the past week), and California too (~23k)
October 15th, 2020 at 12:16 PM ^
It's starting to look like it'll be another lonely Christmas for old Vlad.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:35 PM ^
Wait a sec. How can you be lonely when you have a gymnast girlfriend?
October 15th, 2020 at 2:30 PM ^
My pommel horse ain't what it used to be.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:01 PM ^
Fall surge has been going on ... steady increase in Ohio (and most places) since early Sept.
Granted, there have only been 1500 cases total and 40 deaths in the entire county I live in but still a bit scary
October 15th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
NFL and CFB are going to approach the same problem around the same time in December. Cases are going up again nationally and I imagine that's not going to change soon. These leagues are going to run out of time to reschedule all of their games most likely. Can't really do double headers in football so I imagine some make-up games that end up being of no significance at the end of the season will just be cancelled
October 15th, 2020 at 12:03 PM ^
Not sure if it is just the perception, but the NFL and college are having problems.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:23 PM ^
Hopefully college football gets shutdown for good before December 12th.
October 15th, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
Deancember*
October 15th, 2020 at 1:38 PM ^
what do you think the odds are the Minnesota game is postponed?
October 15th, 2020 at 1:46 PM ^
Why is the SEC Quarantine period 14 days, while the B1G's is 21 days?
October 15th, 2020 at 2:28 PM ^
SEC speed
October 15th, 2020 at 5:59 PM ^
True ... would like to understand why the B1G is not following the CDC 14 days protocol ?!
October 15th, 2020 at 8:16 PM ^
My guess is since the B1G caved err found new science and data and is giving everyone football. They want to make sure that no one gets it. They are saying, "If you get this, you have to sit out an extra week."
October 15th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
I seriously wonder what kind of things i would test positive for if i were tested every single day of the year.
October 15th, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
AIDS. Seriously, get an AIDS test every day and one day it will be positive and you will have AIDS.
October 15th, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
As Holiday Inn Express continues to thrive......
October 15th, 2020 at 7:37 PM ^
Not fun