“Non-Pro” Sports Cancelled - Does that Include College Football?
November 15th, 2020 at 6:51 PM ^
Whitmer said college sports wouldn't be affected for the same reason pro won't be: availability of rapid testing.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:18 PM ^
Damnit. This was our chance to not play Ohio State.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:25 PM ^
Nah - we can always still start licking toilet seats when hate week begins...
If OSU's playoff bid is on the line, I vote we do it.
November 16th, 2020 at 7:51 AM ^
Unfortunately, I don’t think OSU’s playoff bid will hinge on beating a listless 1-6 Michigan team.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:22 PM ^
If the spring shutdown tells us anything, this “3-week pause” is just the beginning, and more restrictions will be added. Personally, I put the odds that we play on 12/12 at about 25%.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^
That said, I will not erase "AHHHHHHHHH!" from 12/12 on my desk calendar.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:16 PM ^
After spending the last 48 hours at Mott’s, there’s something unsettling about the football program having access to noninvasive rapid testing and Mott’s Children does not. Doesn’t seem right.
One of our Physicians was clearly frustrated, making the comment to me and my wife: “the race horses down the street get whatever they want.”
I’m firmly in the shutdown the season and reallocate the resources camp now. My perspective has completely changed and our record has nothing to do with it.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:48 PM ^
I believe the rapid tests players do are not accurate enough to be relied upon for hospital patients compared to the other test hospitals are using.
November 16th, 2020 at 7:47 AM ^
They are using old tests from April at the hospital. So it’s not about the rapid test as much as it’s about the invasive test that is ridiculously hard to get a sample.
November 17th, 2020 at 11:18 AM ^
Correct. When I went for a rapid test few weeks ago they said accuracy is ~60% with symptoms and ~45% if asymptomatic, and I ended up doing the PCR testing instead.
November 15th, 2020 at 6:52 PM ^
Just as long as we get tonight's hockey game!
November 15th, 2020 at 6:53 PM ^
Better re-wording of original post: Can we keep college hockey?
November 15th, 2020 at 6:55 PM ^
I wish they would cancel football but keep hockey.
November 15th, 2020 at 6:55 PM ^
College and Pro can proceed...HS football playoffs are on hold.
November 15th, 2020 at 6:56 PM ^
Just one more reason to pay the players! Woo!
November 15th, 2020 at 6:57 PM ^
What I don’t get is, if it’s non professional teams being suspended, then why are the Lions still being allowed to play their games?
November 15th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
:-) but they did beat the hapless Washington Almost Football Team today.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:04 PM ^
So I pulled up to the grocery story and got out of the car just as the Lions went up by 21. When I started the car to go home, roughly 30-35 minutes later, the WFT had just tied the score.
The saddest thing? I wasn’t the least bit surprised.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:12 PM ^
They should be called the "Washington WTFs" after losing to the Lions.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:15 PM ^
Washington is the shittiest team in the shittiest division.
November 15th, 2020 at 10:29 PM ^
With the shittiest owner
November 15th, 2020 at 7:29 PM ^
Thanks to Chase Young. just saying.
November 15th, 2020 at 6:58 PM ^
How does it affect my bowling league?
November 15th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
Depends on whether your bowling league is a multi million dollar revenue generator.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
You have to stay home and play with your balls alone.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:14 PM ^
He now can stay home and polish them 24/7.
November 15th, 2020 at 10:33 PM ^
One of the great sight gags is the guy on the right. Looks like a fireman from Dubuque. Laughed my ass off during the movie when he showed up with Jesus.
November 16th, 2020 at 12:04 AM ^
Liam rules.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
I believe they are suspended for 3 weeks, not canceled. There is an article in the other paper from McCabe. Sorry, on phone , and can’t link
November 15th, 2020 at 7:06 PM ^
All I know is Chase Young did Lions fans a disservice today. By hitting Matt Stafford late and giving them 15 yards he helped them gain the necessary yardage to put Prater in field goal range thus providing Matt Patricia the opportunity to live another day as the coach of the Lions.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:23 PM ^
OSU finding all sorts of ways to hurt the state
November 15th, 2020 at 10:57 PM ^
I was actually able to watch the lions today, and holy shit Okudah is terrible.
November 15th, 2020 at 7:22 PM ^
Still don’t think dine in restaurants should be included. Blue Lep or Ricks? I can see. Your local Applebee’s or family restaurant? No
November 15th, 2020 at 8:24 PM ^
Of course. But the philosophy seems to be "let's use a bulldozer, not a scalpel."
November 15th, 2020 at 8:36 PM ^
Unfortunately scalpel isn't that effective when people still want to act idiotic and reckless when left to their own devices.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
There will always be idiots and reckless people in the world. Always. That is a fundamental truth as regards human nature.
November 16th, 2020 at 7:58 AM ^
That’s true, NittanyFan, as evidenced by rallies held across the country with people refusing to wear masks and getting left out in the cold to get hypothermia. Reckless Idiots flocking together in the name of one common purpose- ignorance.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:05 PM ^
Ah yes, why did we not think of using the scalpel to curb the global pandemic. If only we'd thought to stop doing the one, very specific thing that is responsible for 100% of the spread of this virus. Brilliant. Bravo.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
If we're being honest, neither the bulldozer nor the scalpel is going to curb the pandemic.
As the last 8 months have shown, NOTHING will curb it, short of the vaccine.
So, I'd prefer the scalpel. It limits the collateral damage.
November 15th, 2020 at 9:59 PM ^
Instead of posting walruses, go on the record and tell us a strategy that will curb the pandemic.
We're 8 months in and we haven't curbed it yet. So what's a new strategy that will work?
November 15th, 2020 at 10:05 PM ^
BORK! BORK! BORK!
November 15th, 2020 at 10:09 PM ^
So, to reset the status of this conversation:
(1) You responded to me initially, challenging my opinion with a thoughtful reply. That is cool.
(2) I responded back to you, addressing your post and challenging you back with an admittedly difficult to answer question. I think that was fine.
(3) Ever since, you have posted nothing but walrus pictures.
November 16th, 2020 at 9:30 AM ^
1) He posted Seals not Walruses
2) Our initial shutdown dropped the cases and deaths considerably in a short time. I believe the efforts right now are to reduce the new cases, specifically the new hospitalization rate, to ensure the death rate does not spike
3) If people wore masks and social distanced without being told to, we would not have this shutdown. I'm frustrated that my kids are missing their hockey and soccer, and I don't blame the Governor, I blame the people who refuse to wear masks, and wear them appropriately.
4) Now that it is cooler, masks are way more comfortable to wear
5) I wore my glasses for one day with a mask and hated it. Glass wearers I have no idea how you survive. Good on you. Keep it up
6) If people take this seriously and work together, this can only last for 3 weeks. If people are assholes, then we run the risk of not only extending this order, but having more restrictions
7) What is a scalpal method that would be better.
November 16th, 2020 at 11:02 AM ^
Obvious fucking troll is obvious. How/why you haven't been banned yet I will never comprehend. I will say, you play your part pretty well. Just trollolololol, and then when challenged you keep a veneer of civility as that seems to be protecting you so far.
You don't deserve a more thoughtful response than seal pictures. I've tried having honest, genuine exchanges with you, but all you do is constantly "whatabout", move the goal posts, and generally do everything you can to confound the discussion with nonsense. It's transparent, and clear.
Hey mods, how about some goddamn consistency?
November 15th, 2020 at 10:27 PM ^
This is the very simple and plain truth. Masks are very effective against the spread to others-and affords protection to the wearer as well. If 80 percent of the population properly wear masks the present emergent nature of this pandemic is arrested. It is that simple.
Defiant, willful ignorance does nothing to mitigate the effects of this virus.
November 15th, 2020 at 10:37 PM ^
Thanks for the response. How do we then get to this "80 percent of the population properly wearing masks" metric?
Answers such as "better leadership from President Trump" or "if people will just do it!" are, frankly, non-useful answers at this point. We've been hearing those talking points for months now. Those talking points have done nothing to prevent us from being at the current moment.
November 15th, 2020 at 10:57 PM ^
Based on your posting history I'm guessing you're asking in bad faith but air flow, air filtration, universal masking when inside outside your home at all times, and rapid free testing for all so people can safely visit lived ones over Thanksgiving.
No more Covid security theater of disinfectants and 6 feet, this thing is airborne. Act like it.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:04 PM ^
I'm not asking in bad faith. Thanks for your response.
Questions back:
(1) What exactly do you mean by "air flow" and "air filtration?" What are the specifics on that?
(2) "Universal masking when inside outside your home at all times" has been advised for months on end. What is different about your current proposal?
(3) Daily testing levels have increased in this country by a factor of 3 since early summer. Whereas in June we were conducting 500K tests in America per day, now we are at 1.5MM. American testing levels are on above or on par with levels in every European or North American country outside of Iceland and Denmark.
How much higher do you propose we go? Is it possible that the fact that we aren't higher is possibly due to logistical concerns? If it is do to logistical concerns, how do we clear those concerns? Should we at least acknowledge the progress made on this front to this point?