October 19th, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
Guess this explains some of the recent betting line movement.
#BRINGBACKOPPONENTWATCH
October 19th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
Was just gonna say the same. Probably means a couple of them are starters/key contributors given how much it moved.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:02 PM ^
Here is the overview of the Covid situation in Minnesota: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html
It is safe to say, the trends are very worrisome. I would say it is 50/50 whether or not this game happens.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:09 PM ^
I was just thinking the same. Not that the state trends mean much for such a hyper specific group of people that should otherwise have no reason to come into contact with anyone else, but if you already have an outbreak, it's not far to get to the conference threshold for not playing.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:13 PM ^
I fully expect this game not to happen because it would be fun to have a game and fun is cancelled this year quite apparently.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
I agree with a lot of this, but the bulk of the COVID growth within Minnesota (which I agree is pretty bad) is not around the twin cities area where U of Minnesota is. Rural MN is getting slammed by COVID, near the border of the Dakotas where COVID is having a damn field day in the last few weeks. For those who haven't been following it, ND and SD are now 1st and 3rd, respectively, in COVID cases per capita, and SD is about to jump Louisiana for 2nd soon. So that part of MN is getting hit really hard, whereas Minneapolis is kinda bad but not too bad.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:21 PM ^
Just like here in Michigan. The UP and other rural areas in the north are getting hit now.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:25 PM ^
The outbreaks are greatest in the rural red area where people don't masks because freedum.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:29 PM ^
"Murica!!!
October 19th, 2020 at 3:13 PM ^
Getting Covid is a “Buck o’ five”, if you don’t put in who will?
October 19th, 2020 at 2:01 PM ^
Alternate take: the outbreaks are currently greatest in the rural red areas because this is a virus, and viruses spread. There was no outbreak in the UP and Northern Michigan like downstate for many months. Now it's spreading there. It spreads everywhere eventually.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:50 PM ^
Dude - don't argue with him. He has a narrative in his head and it has all GOT to be because they are Republican.
October 19th, 2020 at 5:45 PM ^
Good news this miraculously disappeared this past Easter or we would be in much worse shape.
I'm guessing it's making a comeback because unpatriotic liberals are refusing to drink their daily shots of bleach.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:19 PM ^
This is a weak take. Do viruses spread? Sure. But, they are dependent on human behavior to do so. The rate of spread can be slowed or accelerated by how humans act. In many of these states, and especially the rural areas, they did little to nothing to prevent it.The rural areas are actually the easiest to protect from a virus like this, but we failed.
Don't ignore the human factor. This idea of 'it's just getting here now' is wrong.
October 19th, 2020 at 4:07 PM ^
I agree that this is the bigger driver. It's gettting everywhere eventually. Everywhere that's not being hit badly right now has either already been hit hard or will be hit hard. Behavior matters some but let's be clear, our behavior hasn't been good enough anywhere to avoid getting hit at some point.
October 19th, 2020 at 4:16 PM ^
Also, per the CDC, over 80% of recent cases are of people who reported regularly or always wearing a mask in public.
October 19th, 2020 at 7:11 PM ^
That's self-reporting, so could be very accurate or just kind of accurate.
October 20th, 2020 at 6:50 AM ^
Per how masks work, they’re much more effective in preventing you from spreading the virus to others than they are in preventing you from getting it. Masks are about keeping others safe, not keeping yourself safe. Even then, it isn’t 100%, it just lowers the risks.
So the bigger question (ignoring the potential inaccuracies of the number) is t whether 80% of people were wearing masks. Its how many people they were around that weren’t wearing their masks.
As many of us have also seen in our treks through the public, some people “wear their mask,” but ignore a host of other health and safety guidelines. Wearing your mask doesn’t do you a whole lot of good if you lift your mask to scratch your nose while you’re at the grocery store. It doesn’t do you much good if you’re touching your nose and mouth after you leave the grocery store after using the carts. Wearing a mask is just one of many things we have to do to help slow the spread and limit the risks. Wearing a mask isn’t going to make you immune, especially if you’re being careless in other areas.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:49 PM ^
Or because there are less infected folk there in general?
But don't let that spoil your "Blue" political jabs.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
The top 17 states in terms of total cases/million are all GOP states.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:24 PM ^
Depends on how you're defining "GOP states" because as many as 4 of those (FL, NV, AZ and maybe GA) are going to be blue in this next election, at least as the polls are currently predicting. The rest are red for sure, so your overall point (the bulk of the top states) still stands.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:40 PM ^
Now do deaths/million!
October 19th, 2020 at 3:17 PM ^
I don’t know if it is a red/blue situation. like most things in America Covid spread is more about economic status and education. People with less of both are transmitting because they don’t have cushy, white collar jobs they can do from home. Red/Blue are just elites distracting people to prevent class consciousness.
October 19th, 2020 at 4:48 PM ^
This is just nonsense. I live in a very red area and people are wearing masks nearly everywhere I go and it is only once in a great while when someone is not wearing one.
October 19th, 2020 at 10:39 PM ^
Ah, so there is an exception to the rule-congrats on being the one red area that is wearing masks...I am sure it is just as you are reporting it to be. It certainly is not that way out here in the rural, crimson state of denial Kansas-which is sky-rocketing up the charts.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:46 PM ^
Most of the outbreaks in the SD area are due to Sturgis bike rally.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:02 PM ^
It's pretty fucking stupid. Minn is bad, Wisc is like setting up field hospitals, ND & SD are #1 and #2 in per capita cases and my state, Iowa, has like a 48% positivity rate. Hope that motorcycle rally was worth it!
October 19th, 2020 at 7:06 PM ^
Ask that question to a biker! To us its worth everything!
October 19th, 2020 at 1:26 PM ^
To be honest, every state in the Big Ten West (including Indiana) is doing pretty shitty when it comes to COVID so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those games are cancelled this year.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:36 PM ^
Ass eating must be on the uptick.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:08 PM ^
How would gamblers know about the Gophers Covid situation? I don't buy that as the reason the line moved. This is the main reason he isn't giving out names.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:15 PM ^
You underestimate the means with which sharps have to get this information. The players themselves know, which means those in the program know, their friends know, and it's not that hard to find out via inside information and it only takes one or a small number of big bettors. When they start dropping bets for tens of thousands of dollars, the line will move pretty quickly.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:33 PM ^
What TrueBlue2003 said. People tend to pay closer attention when there's money on the line, and even closer attention when that money is their livelihood.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:50 PM ^
Here's a good writeup of his news conference.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^
Found it interesting that virtually the first words out of his mouth is that it’s rivalry week. Michigan will acknowledge it’s a rivalry, but pretty much as an after thought.
October 19th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
You access Twitter from your browser rather than the Twitter App? You rebel...
October 19th, 2020 at 12:34 PM ^
I do this as well, but only because I operate under the theory that not having the app will result in less time spent on Twitter overall.
The theory is not holding up very well.
October 19th, 2020 at 12:41 PM ^
Did the same thing with Facebook and it didn't work. So I deleted my Facebook account instead which thus far has worked.
October 19th, 2020 at 12:46 PM ^
Deleting my Facebook account ended up being a great decision. Fuck that hellsite
October 19th, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
I did it over a decade ago and I haven't missed it.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:17 PM ^
Deleted mine as well a few years back, dont miss it.
October 19th, 2020 at 12:47 PM ^
I have taken the even more radical step of never creating a Facebook page.
That also appears to be working quite well.
October 19th, 2020 at 12:56 PM ^
I go so far as to call it "the site of which we will not name"
Social media as a whole is an absolute cesspool!
October 19th, 2020 at 1:52 PM ^
agree 100%!
can you imagine a person walking around 20 years ago, taking pictures of themselves (and what they're about to eat, or where they at) with a camera and then scanning those pictures and attaching it to an email or a letter and sending it to a number of friends and people they know?!
upon seeing that activity, any rationale human would thought that self-picture taker (and mailer) was (at best) a raging narcissist... and just because its more convenient in the era of smart phones and social media, doesn't make that conduct less narcissistic or desperate (for attention)
October 19th, 2020 at 2:40 PM ^
Shhhh, hope the Millennials and Gen Z's didn't read this as a good portion of them will need to crawl back into their safe space for awhile.
October 19th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^
To be fair, Facebook is mostly patrolled by older folks and Twitter seems to have become a bizarro place for old politicians to zing one another. However...younger people seem to have an outsized famous for being famous presence on the other platforms du jour. Famous for being famous is nothing new; just a new way of getting there.
October 19th, 2020 at 1:22 PM ^
But without Facebook, how did you successfully creep-up to and win-over your far-too-young-for-you-but-hot wife??? Facebook was (literally) made for creeping on younger women! :-D
October 19th, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Thanks to Facebook, I now converse regularly with friends from all over the country, and I have introduced friends from one part of my life to friends from another part, and now we're all friends and converse regularly. I never see political ads of any kind, and keep my friend list to people I know personally. The only downside of Facebook for me is the political discussions between like-minded friends. You just can't get away from politics if you want to stay plugged in at all.
October 20th, 2020 at 1:39 PM ^
But how could you not ever discuss politics among friends at this point in history? Why would you want to avoid it? It’s the most important political period in recent history.