At leasr 30 LSU players quarantined due to COVID 19
https://www.si.com/college/2020/06/20/lsu-football-players-quarantined-coronavirus
“At least 30 of LSU's 115 players have been isolated because they tested positive for COVID-19 or were found to have had contact with those who tested positive.”
“None of the positive cases have been traced back to workouts within the facility, but have been contracted in the community, at bars and restaurants”
Listen man. I totally get it. It sucks. And its extemely unfortunate and sad. And unfair to those it does affect including the loss of loved ones. But man, life needs to go on regardless. It just does. More people are suffering with everything shut down than there are with those that are getting sick and hospitalized. Loss of jobs/unemployment, suicide rates, homelessness - Those are all sad and worth assessing as well. There is a linear curve that exists where the risks of exposure and hospitalization have to be compared and trumped by all the other risks isolation and shutdown creates. Its just a fact of life right now. And we need to learn to embrace it as a society at some point or there will be a plethora of when worse societal issues once the virus is gone (if it even leaves).
Like I said, this may not be a popular opinion or at least agreed with by many, but sometimes life has a way of kicking us in the nuts and we as a society need to just help each other get through it instead of trying to just get around it.
The problem is, we CAN get back to normal, IF people followed the advice of keeping social distancing and wear masks everywhere they go. The science is showing that wearing masks does work. But Americans are too "proud??" to follow scientific advice so we cannot get back to normal without putting hundreds of thousands lives at risk.
EVERYONE wants things to get back to normal as fast as we can. The only way that is going to happen is every to follow rules, and that is not happening.
I agree with the premise of your post, but getting back to normal and social distancing / masks are somewhat mutually exclusive. Movie theaters, sports venues, bars, restaurants and a host of other aspects of life simply cannot exist with social distancing (many only are economically feasible if they operate at close to capacity). And honestly, many just find the masks to be intrusive. Bottom line is that we need normal society to start to come back, and we can do that by taking better precautions to protect those most as risk of a bad outcome (nursing homes, hospitals, senior living, elderly in general, people with preexisting conditions) while allowing those not at risk to resume normalcy. I would have no problem going to a crowded venue. I wouldn’t, however, advise that my mom do so.
I'm sorry you find wearing a mask on your face so intrusive. Those of us who work in healthcare laugh at that (really hard) because we've been wearing masks at work all day for years and none of us see it as anything but normal. Now there are people who need to wear one for maybe an hour or so a day and they get their panties in a bunch because it's "intrusive."
Except those stories (long term issues) are anecdotal
Aluminum-foil hat: On.
SEC schools are intentionally exposing all their players in the hope that they'll have everything cleared by the fall.
Win at all costs
I think this is the exact strategy, not a conspiracy.
No way. It's not like any of these schools are making the players sign waivers
Sure, but if you have any that get hospitalized, sick for an extended period of time and can't practice and/or lose a bunch of weight before the season, that's a big risk if its the wrong guy(s).
I've been thinking this for some time. On it's face: kinda crazy. But you look at the schools who are experiencing major amounts of cases - Alabama, Clemson, LSU - and you have to wonder why this is most prevalent at successful schools who have made it very clear where their priorities lie. Maybe it's not as nefarious as a management decision, but perhaps the players understand this dynamic themselves.
or were found to have had contact with those who tested positive
Why don't they just test these guys?
PCR test won't pick up a positive until 6 or 7 days after exposure. So those that were just exposed have to sit tight and assume they have it for now.
Kansas State is also having to adjust on the fly; earlier this evening they announced a 2-week shutdown of football workouts after 14 athletes tested positive for Covid-19.
Welcome to the new CFB normal.
Must be in the drinking water.
Everything else is in that Mississippi River water, so that makes sense.
K-State also ended their workouts due to an outbreak of COVID. This worries me that too many teams may experience these outbreaks all year which could shutdown college football.
Door is open for Tom Herman and the mad hatter to take the big xii because Lincoln and Kliemann are acting Charmin soft.
K-State also ended their workouts due to an outbreak of COVID. This worries me that too many teams may experience these outbreaks all year which could shutdown college football.
Wow a trifecta post.
Let’s go back to the beginning where “everyone is going to get it eventually, we just need to keep rhe health system(s) from being overwhelmed”. Isn’t a university environment the best place to let it run it’s course? Students are away from families for months and therefore unlikely to spread to high risk parents/grandparents.
Yea, I understand coaches and teachers are more likely to be at risk. But they don’t eat in the cafeteria or sleep in dorms. Protecting them is much easier.
Trying to shield students from exposure seems to be kicking the can diwn rhe road. (Unless you buy into the notion that a vaccine is inevitable and somewhat imminent.)
The thing that folks don’t seem to get is that young people do experience symptoms. Some of them end up in the hospital fighting for their lives. Just because few die, doesn’t mean some won’t go through hell. All of the patients who hold the records for things like “longest stay in the ICU” (63 days was the silver medal at one major hospital a month ago) in the NYC area are younger people under 35. Older folks lose that fight.
I was just going to say that. People look at death rates alone and think that because a group is extremely unlikely to pass away from COVID and take that to mean there is no risk. There are plenty of young people really struggling with it, and even though they by and large pull through, it's often a very difficult few weeks with lingering effects. My young brother in law (he's around 30 and extremely fit/healthy) was never hospitalized but was extremely ill for about 3 weeks and wasn't really back to normal until a couple more after that.
Even if we look at this purely from a football standpoint, that's likely season-ending for a player if he gets it Sept 1 or after. And who takes care of him? His roommate? Or does he get sent home to his higher-risk parents? I know we all want to watch football, but there's more to it than that right now.
It really doesn’t matter anymore. If they report on EVERY FUCKING CASE up to herd immunity - we will lose our collective minds.
Season happens or it doesn’t.
Bet they are all the starters and are being "pre-infected" to kick it out by the start of the season..
Not good.