Dear SEC: Alabama has 531 COVID cases in 3 days
The University of Alabama enters the kingdom of shame after hundreds of students were videotaped partying without masks. (And, yes, given that Alabama is the center of the college football universe, reports like this are relevant on this board.)
https://tuscaloosathread.com/531-new-covid-19-cases-at-university-of-alabama-in-five-days/
August 24th, 2020 at 8:19 PM ^
Shocked. Not shocked.
of course the SEC powers that be will ignore all of this and carry on with their primary pursuit of footbawwww.
August 25th, 2020 at 8:58 AM ^
Powerful people in the southern US are not going to care about a bunch of black kids getting sick if they can make money off of it.
August 25th, 2020 at 10:12 AM ^
I actually read the article and it said that prior to enrollment they performed 30,000 tests and came back with 310 positives. That's a 1.03% positivity rate.
Michigan does about 30,000 tests per day on average. We are nowhere near 1%, more like 2-4%.
When put in context the Covid positives are surprisingly low.
August 25th, 2020 at 10:38 AM ^
Maybe if you actually read it, you’d have seen that the numbers came from “point of care” testing, which means testing only people who are sick enough to seek testing and care or some who feel they were exposed. This is not a randomized sampling of the campus.
There are undoubtedly many more on campus who have it and aren’t seeking care and testing for whatever reason but are spreading it. You are using the “logic” of Trump: if we don’t test for it, it’s not happening.
“According to the website, the new figure only represents positive tests found through sentinel testing, point of care testing at campus health centers and self-reported tests from private providers in the area.
Entry testing was not included in the numbers shared Wednesday.”
August 25th, 2020 at 10:41 AM ^
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Roughly 95% of the next 200 comments will consist of the same political partisan bullshit (both sides) the board, and candidly most of America, seem to wallow in whenever the topic of Covid-19 is discussed.
Read on at your own risk. You've been warned.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:02 PM ^
So listening to the overwhelming majority of scientists and doctors is wallowing in partisan bullshit?
What's it like to be the perfect centrist who knows all and only calls ball and strikes?
August 25th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^
Well the parties are science and logic vs rampant stupidity. You know every post is either going to be 'see, this is going poorly, as expected' vs 'this is an acceptable level of cases/deaths/whatever heres my crayon math to show that actually more people have herpes and have died from cows than sharks so its fine.'
August 25th, 2020 at 11:49 AM ^
Found the racist.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Like the B1G should of done, they allowed these “blacks” to make their own decisions.
Crazy concept in Michigan unfortunately.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:50 PM ^
Agreed but we capitalize Black now. Like God, and Trump and Hitler and Jesus of Nazareth.
August 25th, 2020 at 10:54 AM ^
If it meant another football championship, they'd inject themselves with the virus.
The dipshits in Columbus would go even further and inject their grandparents if it meant a championship.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:11 PM ^
Gustave - You might still be hiding in your parents basement but we are fighting like hell to save our football season for all of us.
You’re welcome.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
Maybe work on humanity and saving as many actual people ...the foosball can wait and guess what, we'll all survive without it.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:25 PM ^
Are you serious?
lol you think you have to choose between “humanity” and playing football?
Jesus man
How pathetic is it that a program like Michigan is hiding in the basement letting Nebraska and Iowa fight for them?
Buckeye Nation is fighting harder for Michigan football than Michigan fans are. It’s sad how much more in common you have with Rutgers/Maryland than you do with the B1G.
August 25th, 2020 at 12:46 PM ^
You aren't fighting for shit. You're screeching on message boards and some of your idiots are doing a Tennessee Jeff 2.0.
August 25th, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
jjelliso- I’ll be protesting and writing letters to Warren doing my part.
I know Michigan hasn’t been a football school for a long time, I guess I just thought you guys had a little fight left in you.
Sit on the sidelines with Northwestern, Maryland, and Rutgers. We’ll fight for this conference.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:16 PM ^
You may want to consider finding something other than football to base your happiness on. Your need to be combative suggests that you have some mental health issues that need addressing. Even if osu were to win against us this year and win the conference, you'd still be behind Michigan in wins and conference titles. A missed year won't change that.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
Have you guys always been this soft? Serious question.
i remember when this used to be a rivalry now it’s like talking on a Northwestern football forum.
I’m not mad, I’m just sad for the truly passionate Michigan fans out there.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:42 PM ^
We're passionate. That's why we're on the blog. But most here have already accepted the importance of postponing the season. I've seen the OSU website where y'all seem to just now be going through the denial and anger stages of grieving. Your own sense of self worth is so tied into a game that you've all made it harder than it needed to be because you can't make sense of a universe without OSU football. That's truly sad. The world is much bigger (and the people in it are much more important) than OSU football. If it makes you feel any better, at least your fanbase isn't as passionate as the SEC is. If you were, you'd be doing more than writing letters and crying on our board. Also, your fanbase's "efforts" are embarrassing the conference. You're acting like spoiled children having a tantrum and everyone notices. They just don't agree with you.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:49 PM ^
Mgo - This isn't about Ohio State football. The sad thing is we are more passionate about Michigan football than some Michigan fans are on this board.
We are acting like people should act when a something you care about it ripped away for no other reason than politics.
August 25th, 2020 at 3:40 PM ^
My cousin died from covid by the way, so you can take the "no other reason" bullshit back to one of your boards.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:35 PM ^
Warren will wipe his ass with your letters and laugh at your protests. You're not fighting, you're clowning. It's a game, get a life.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:43 PM ^
You’re not defending Warren are you? lol, please tell me you don’t support that clown.
Football is so much more than a game, and that is ok. It is a part of our culture, and that is fine.
Where are you from by the way if you don’t mind me asking?
I don’t want to judge all Michiganders based off of you if you aren’t even from the Midwest.
August 25th, 2020 at 4:15 PM ^
I'm telling you that Warren doesn't give a shit about your dumb letters or Wade's public masturbation. It's sad that a game played by other people is the most important thing in your life.
August 25th, 2020 at 1:02 PM ^
I guess I should expect that a Buckeye fan wouldn't understand there are things more important than football. Pathetic? Spare me the tired macho BS, man.
August 25th, 2020 at 1:47 PM ^
Jesus, when did you guys become such a defeatist culture?
Football is such an important of all of our culture, and that’s ok.
We will continue to fight for you even if you are too soft to fight for yourselves.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:52 PM ^
Ok. Thanks? You can go away now.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
I am going to leave. I feel like I'm on a Rutgers football forum right now. Hell they even have more fight than you guys do.
The next time you shit on Nebraska for fighting for this conference, just remember they are more B1G than you guys have been for a long long time.
So take your asses out of our conference along with Rutgers and Maryland.
I've never been more embarrassed of a so called "traditional program" in my life. You guys are pathetic.
August 25th, 2020 at 3:01 PM ^
Sorry about Fields. This will make you feel better until 2021.
Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry statistics
All-time series Michigan leads, 58–51–6
Largest victory Michigan 86, Ohio State 0
August 25th, 2020 at 3:04 PM ^
As soft as you guys have become where football is of such little importance in your communities.
You have 7 years left to post the all time series record.
This used to be a rivalry of respect. We have no respect for you guys. You are such a sore thumb culturally now to the rest of the B1G. You have aligned yourselves with Rutgers, Maryland, and Northwestern.
Penn State is our rival. Northwestern is yours.
August 26th, 2020 at 11:44 AM ^
you care enough to piss away your time on this board. Or you just don't have anything better to do until your shift at Wendy's starts.
August 29th, 2020 at 2:15 PM ^
As a Michigan fan for 49 years living in the buckeye state I agree with you 100 percent
August 29th, 2020 at 2:15 PM ^
As a Michigan fan for 49 years living in the buckeye state I agree with you 100 percent
August 26th, 2020 at 9:08 AM ^
Judging by the turnout at the Wade protest at the B1G offices, not many of your little minions from Buckeye nation left their doublewide crawlspace to join in either.
I'm sorry you pissed away last month's lot rent on your Justin Fields jersey for this season. . .
August 24th, 2020 at 8:21 PM ^
They would still play if Saban were on a ventilator. Not that they should, but I expect the SEC schools will do everything they can to continue playing because football is everything down here and there's also a political point to be made.
August 24th, 2020 at 9:11 PM ^
Unfortunately both sides are trying to make political points. It’s what makes all of so stupid and hard to follow. The world of feed us facts and only facts is long gone. Worst situation is this is an election year for all of us.
August 24th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
When exactly did this world of "facts and only facts" exist?
August 24th, 2020 at 10:26 PM ^
Not in my lifetime. But it used to be that even cbs and abc had anchors on their national shows who were politically moderate. I don't remember watching nbc. News showed used to give the news. Now they're so far off the left side of the spectrum they're dragging moderates to what would have been considered radical 20 years ago.
August 24th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
Of course the news was moderate, they just ignored reporting on the shit a huge proportion of the population was going through.
August 24th, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
Can you name one policy endorsed by the majority of the left that would have been considered radical 20 years ago?
August 24th, 2020 at 11:41 PM ^
Gay marriage?
August 25th, 2020 at 12:10 AM ^
simply uttering the word socialism in the political realm when i was a child was political suicide...even for a democrat. i was a registered democrat most of my life, but the democratic party was pulled from beneath my feet as the policies radicalized. socialized medicine, open boarders, raising taxes only to spend more. in the past working age men and women providing for themselves ans their dependents was the expectation of all, not expecting the government to provide for those persons. shifting the cost of healthcare from employers who benefit from a healthy workforce to the government doesnt make sense. Bill Clinton was an outspoken supporter of border security because of how poor security was crushing low income Americans and preventing them from improving their economic status. Raising taxes to pay down debt I conpletely support, raising taxes to create more soending in a dsficit environment is unwise to say the least. Demovrats pushed fiscal responsibility liong ago...days long gone.
August 25th, 2020 at 1:10 AM ^
I regret that I have but only one up vote to give this poster..... But I also realize that the Republicans also have to assume some of the responsibility.
August 25th, 2020 at 8:29 AM ^
The narrow, egocentric thinking, here, is pathological. (The Republicans have had control of our legislative branch for most of my 67 years and a good number of years they have controlled both houses and the executive branch-and now they have politicized the SC in their favor-"some of the responsibility"???) The fact is that our little planet is in desperate need of cooperation-across all political/national and economic lines. The limiting factor here is a human one. Even religion has not been able to make a dent in our egocentrism.
It's time for us to pay attention to those godless Europeans-on all kinds of fronts. Those carrots that are hanging in front of us have long since rotted. Time to wake up and smell the roses.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:12 AM ^
Get ready to realize the Republican Party has been pulled from underneath your feet as well. Unless you support things like economic elitism with no middle class, lower educational standards, deficit spending, social and religious control by the federal gov’t, racism, and lawlessness in the name of justice and freedom. The last 40 years have been a pretty ugly transformation for a once proud party.
August 25th, 2020 at 2:34 AM ^
Oh trust me, they are cool with all that stuff.
When you have a facist authoritarian running the country into the ground, but their biggest complaint is that the other party wants to make sure people have affordable healthcare, you can be that sure that when he's talking about the good ol Democrats, he's thinking about Strom Thurmond.
August 25th, 2020 at 7:23 AM ^
“Working age men and women providing for themselves and their dependents.” This was much more attainable “back in the day,” as wages were much higher as compared to they are now. Wages haven’t kept up with the rise of inflation and even working class people are much poorer now than they were back then. Excess wealth has been concentrated into the upper class since those days instead of trickling down to the workers.
“shifting cost of healthcare from employers to government doesn’t make sense.” Well that’s not really how that works. Your employer doesn’t “provide” your healthcare. They choose which insurance agency to go through and what plan to use and they make contributions to it (you might by crazy if you think most companies are actually choosing the best healthcare option for their employees). By shifting to a government healthcare option, your employer would still be contributing to the healthcare plans of their employees. The major difference with the government plan is that you’re paying into a non-profit instead of paying these insurance agencies to record billions in profits while also cutting out a large portion of the administration costs. This alone drops the cost of healthcare below what we pay now. It “doesn’t make sense,” except that it makes perfect sense. Instead of you paying for insurance out of your paycheck and then paying out of pocket costs, you pay slightly more in taxes and your out of pocket costs virtually disappear. In the end it SAVES you money, as has been the case in every country around the world that went to a government based healthcare plan.
”Raising taxes,” doesn’t inherently mean spending more money. In fact, more often than not, it actually means saving money.
August 25th, 2020 at 10:41 AM ^
See infrastructure/education in Kansas along with health care in Tennessee
August 25th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
Wages have kept up with inflation, and then some (A LOT OF SOME...) for CEO's. CEO's are people too!!!
August 25th, 2020 at 8:56 AM ^
Do you want to guess at what the marginal tax rate for the wealthy was during the good, ol' past you're yearning for?
Also, shifting the cost from employers does make perfect sense. A healthy society benefits everyone - government, business, and individuals. How many people stay in crappy jobs they hate just because of healthcare benefits? These people are less productive and unhappier. We'd be far better off with a system that doesn't tie healthcare to your job. People would be willing to take a chance on starting a business if they didn't have to worry about healthcare for their families for example. Also, if the current economic situation doesn't show that healthcare tied to jobs is a bad idea, I don't know what will.