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Who's next? College football OK for 2021, maybe.
There was an update in the local paper this morning about Wake Forest. They have had 121 cases since school resumed mid-August, out of a total of around 6,000 students. Positivity has been below 1%.EVERYTHING IS FINE!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe but for how long. You did notice the large amount of MLB games that were postponed, right? Yet because of their kind of scheduling they were able to reschedule most. yet some may never be played. St. Louis Cardinals ring a bell???The season will go on.
Man you are thick. It’s not solely about the hospitalization of college students it’s about the people they end up infecting. The only way to manage this virus prior to a vaccine is to limit its spread. The only way to do that is to limit the amount of people that are infected and to have a testing program that identifies carriers so that they can isolate. That being said, I think you would feel differently if someone you cared about was one of those college students who were hospitalized and or died.
Don't agree Corbi and I think you're missing the point. Tejas has provided some very interesting information. Those who test positive need to self isolate and stay away from Grandma and Grandpa. It's the unbelievably low rate of hospitalizations and zero deaths which is most interesting.Man you are thick. It’s not solely about the hospitalization of college students it’s about the people they end up infecting. The only way to manage this virus prior to a vaccine is to limit its spread. The only way to do that is to limit the amount of people that are infected and to have a testing program that identifies carriers so that they can isolate. That being said, I think you would feel differently if someone you cared about was one of those college students who were hospitalized and or died.
There was an update in the local paper this morning about Wake Forest. They have had 121 cases since school resumed mid-August, out of a total of around 6,000 students. Positivity has been below 1%.
Here is their dashboard.
Campus Health
Providing updates from the Campus Health committee's work, as well as direction to relevant health information for the Wake Forest campus community.ourwayforward.wfu.edu
Don't agree Corbi and I think you're missing the point. Tejas has provided some very interesting information. Those who test positive need to self isolate and stay away from Grandma and Grandpa. It's the unbelievably low rate of hospitalizations and zero deaths which is most interesting.
Who's next? College football OK for 2021, maybe.
OMG! Only two hospitalizations? Are you kidding me? Let's play ball this fall!
Much ado about nothing?
So send them home so they can visit Nana.Man you are thick. It’s not solely about the hospitalization of college students it’s about the people they end up infecting. The only way to manage this virus prior to a vaccine is to limit its spread. The only way to do that is to limit the amount of people that are infected and to have a testing program that identifies carriers so that they can isolate. That being said, I think you would feel differently if someone you cared about was one of those college students who were hospitalized and or died.
Generally agree, but that's not what the study Tejas cited was talking about. Of course your arguments have nothing to do with the BIG football programs where every player is tested every day. Are you now saying we should cancel the season?You are assuming they are getting tested. We don’t have a coordinated nationwide testing program and that is the biggest problem with how this crisis has been handled. Had we had a coordinated national testing program in place months ago, all of us could have resumed a semblance of a normal life. We don’t so Asymptomatic spread is rampant and the biggest reason why this virus is out control in our country. Absent a vaccine or national testing program that can help identify and isolate the carriers, the only way to beat back this virus is to deprive the virus of more hosts. The only way to do that is to promote behaviors that prevent more people from contracting it in the first place. Things like staying home, social distancing, and wearing masks. Having thousands of college kids going back to school on a college campus and expecting them to not socialize is not a strategy compatible with a goal of limiting the spread of the virus.
Generally agree, but that's not what the study Tejas cited was talking about. Of course your arguments have nothing to do with the BIG football programs where every player is tested every day. Are you now saying we should cancel the season?
There was an update in the local paper this morning about Wake Forest. They have had 121 cases since school resumed mid-August, out of a total of around 6,000 students. Positivity has been below 1%.
Here is their dashboard.
Campus Health
Providing updates from the Campus Health committee's work, as well as direction to relevant health information for the Wake Forest campus community.ourwayforward.wfu.edu
Does a normal life include playing a football game???“Maybe” for 2021? You’re hysterical. Even if there STILL isn’t a vaccine, we aren’t going to pause normal life for literally years, even if it’s the “right” thing to do ... completely unrealistic.
Man you are thick. It’s not solely about the hospitalization of college students it’s about the people they end up infecting. The only way to manage this virus prior to a vaccine is to limit its spread. The only way to do that is to limit the amount of people that are infected and to have a testing program that identifies carriers so that they can isolate. That being said, I think you would feel differently if someone you cared about was one of those college students who were hospitalized and or died.
I know. I was contrasting the ND situation with the WFU status. it is possible to have a school open and not have catastrophic incidences of cases. Hard, but possible.It was postponed because of isolations on the ND team. Not Wake Forest.
Does a normal life include playing a football game???
So much for Big TenTeUSF has now had to pause their workouts since they just played ND. Will be interesting to see if the game itself was a spreading event:
Uh, yeah? If it hypothetically took us ten years to find a vaccine, would you support cancelling college sports and in-person classes for a decade? Lol. Everything in between “wait however long it takes” and “resume normal activities” is worthy of debate ... obviously, to sensible people.
Maybe but haven't they already closed down Wisconsin and MSU? I would imagine there sadly be more to follow.I know. I was contrasting the ND situation with the WFU status. it is possible to have a school open and not have catastrophic incidences of cases. Hard, but possible.
No, I would support shutting down the country until we had the ability to rapidly test and isolate and trace any infections to keep it at a manageable level. Why does everyone think there's no in between than shutting down the country forever, or allowing 2 million people to die until we get herd immunity?
It’s completely unrealistic to get 300 million+ to stay locked down for months when hospitals aren’t at capacity. Period. We can Zoom each other all day about how dumb the non-compliant people are, but it won’t change the situation. Efforts would be so much better spent on making normal life (and importantly, normal economic activity) as “safe” as possible. People will lock down for March and April to let the hospitals gear up and not get overwhelmed, but they won’t suffer the immense mental health and economic damage from lockdowns several months in. Again, we can judge them, but it’s the reality of the situation, IMO.
We wouldn't even have to shut down entirely if people would just follow the basic, simple safety procedures such as wearing a mask and social distancing when out. That does mean you can't do certain things, but there are a lot of things one could still do safely. We would already have this under pretty good control if people wore masks and stayed away from groups as much as possible.It wouldn't take months. It would be done in 3 weeks, IF the opening up came with mass scale testing. It's what should have been done before. Instead we are going to drag this out forever.
We wouldn't even have to shut down entirely if people would just follow the basic, simple safety procedures such as wearing a mask and social distancing when out. That does mean you can't do certain things, but there are a lot of things one could still do safely. We would already have this under pretty good control if people wore masks and stayed away from groups as much as possible.
Update: In order to reduce its test positivity %, it has added 900 players to its roster.Update: ND now with 18 positive cases.
Notre Dame has 18 positive cases in latest testing
The Notre Dame football team on Monday announced 18 positive tests in its latest round of COVID-19 testing, bringing the team's total to 25 players currently in isolation.www.espn.com