Bruce Herrald hopes by June 1 teams can meet/practice. ND students back on campus for Aug 10 classes
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Ridiculous. A test represents a point in time. Are you going to test everyone (players, refs, coaches, trainers, camera crew, announcers, field crew, etc.) every 8 hours? Then if you get a positive, then what?
Get up off your lazy butts and get this country moving again. You are going to get this at some point.... it’s a virus. If you are above 60 or are in poor health / have a compromised immune system then yes you need to be extra cautious and stay home.
#HerdImmunity
#WhatWeAreDoingIsWorseThanTheVirus
#WeAreSoftAndHaveWeakLeaders
#StopLettingMediaScareYouToDeath
#ThereIsRiskInEverythingWeDo
It's sad to me that we have 3,000 people dying a day from this and people still think it's less severe than the common flu.
Safety precautions don't work, huh? Then why bother having them. Isn't quarantine a safety precaution? Your statement is simply false. It does slow down the spread. Jumping to a 40% rate is not going to happen. That is fear mongering. Sensible precautions will do the trick. Letting the whole economy tank will cause the whole country to tank and the deaths and health problems from that will make Covid - 19 look like a joke.
The problem is, we have more questions than answers right now.
If it were so easy to re-start sports, the NBA would have done so already. After all, they don't have to go to class on a college campus.
They work for those that can follow them. You must live somewhere unique if you don't have idiots walking around all over. It's like seeing half the people with masks on having them tucked under their chin.....
And have a shit ton less people inolved compared to football
and what happens if a player tests positive? Is the entire team quarantined for 2 weeks and they forfeit upcoming games while in quarantine?
so many questions and issues. so few answers.
there's a lot that has to be figured out. it was easy to shut down sports but re-starting them will be difficult, to say the least.
Would almost have to be like twice daily testing with the 5 minute result machine. Good thing it is a medical school. Guessing on campus all the kids will be required to wear masks. Could see a dozen guys at a time out for a couple weeks. That could hurt for sure. Travel would be tricky and would have to remain masked up.
We aren't at 3,000. It may get there or may not. Depends on how well people behave themselves. And a biggie is the nursing homes, so how do you completely fix it so a worker is not bringing in COVID to a nursing home? That would be key as they are by far the most at risk, but people want to lump everyone together and make it seem like a death sentence to all.
Bingo. Anyone who cannot quarantine and hide in their closet for 12 months is going to get this virus, we just are. There is no one riding in with a cure anytime soon to save us from getting it. So quarantine the at risk and the rest of us rip through this. The media will focus on the odd ball examples of Joe athlete who gets it and it kills him. They do this with pediatric deaths from regular flu which for some reason people seem to handle, but not COVID. Even though COVID has killed 0 kids. Flu A and B has killed kids, but COVID is the boogie man.
As far as I’m concerned the NBA can stay closed forever. They really amped up this mess by absolutely panicking. Up until they shut down, this country was powering through the virus doing everyday life activities. This was despite the virus being here as early as December 31st if not sooner circulating among us. Once the NBA shut down, the country followed suit. Meanwhile all of these NBA players infected have passed away.
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I have not worn a mask yet. I am in contact with people all the time. I am smart enough to not touch them and maintain a little distance between us. Masks are not needed if you watch your spacing. I see such a very small number of people disregarding cautionary steps. Some will be stupid; but, that percentage is very small. I don't see number of cases suddenly escalating. Going up a little - yes. Remember, young (65 and under) and average health have very low chance of death. They do with common flu too.
Locking up inside your closet doesn’t work. If you believe this you are sheeple. Go to Lowe’s? Sure that’s ok. Go to a neighbors or the beach? You can be arrested. You are being controlled while unemployment will get to 30%. Disaster. This is what a certain political party wants. Open up the country. Take care of those most vulnerable.
At least they will make Hawkeye ones. Maybe by then they have the N95 ones available to all, which would make it even safer. Hard to eat or drink though. I see the one guy in the back with a drink with his mask part way down.
Odd. I have received not a phone call, email or snail mail about this, and am a season ticket holder. Can another season ticket holder verify this tweet as accurate, and if so, through what means of communication?
remember that Michigan is still on shut down so that would also eliminate UM and MSU. of course penis head in crappy valley says schools that can play should and screw everyone else.
the NJ numbers are looking WAY better...hospitalized patients are down 1000 from last Friday and are under 5000 right now, we're sending home way more patients than we are admitting, much less people on ventilators. The biggest issue is in the Long Term Care facilities...where deaths there are 52% of the overall deaths in NJ.
I'm pretty convinced that NJ will have sports again in the fall, but I'm not positive how many fans will be allowed in the stadium.
Barta is the B1G's rep for discussions at the NCAA level for what to do with fall sports, which is where their focus is for now.
Who are the NWO folks and how have they managed to hold a whole nation hostage?
Haha, wait, there are actually people who talk like this?? I thought you were just crazy strawmen that were so looney you couldn’t possibly be real.
Guess you’re the kind of fruitcake he was hired to counterbalance!
And very like about 100% of those people who died in those age groups had other significant health issues going on already before COVID.
If I did the math correctly about 2,866 people age 61 and over tested positive so far. With roughly 320 deaths in that group, that is a death rate of about 11% for those who get it in those groups, of course could be many others in that age group that had it and never tested and were fine. We don't know and may never know unless we just blanket tested everyone for antibodies, because as soon as we get a vaccine we won't be worrying about it.
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Unlike the people in that age group KF has 0 issues with getting a test whenever he needs it. Is probably in significantly better shape and has a better diet than 99% of people in his age group.
Of the 320 deaths in that age group, how many had no pre-existing health issues (if you know)? Thanks.
The CDC has been woefully bad at providing good data through all of this. The question you just posed should be able to be easily answered. Based on the serology tests conducted in France, Netherlands, etc, and the ones here in the States in counties/cities, the virus is way more prevalent (anywhere from 25-55x as much) as the official test totals would show. The only people getting tests are the sick and showing symptoms. The vast majority of people who get it either have no symptoms or so mild they need no hospitalization. For those under 60, it is less deadly than the season flu. Over 60 starts to get more serious, and it has ravaged the nursing homes obviously. Protect the elderly, the nursing homes and those at risk. Send the kids back to school as they are not the vectors for the disease. In fact, the studies done in other countries show those kids who do get it do so from their parents. Closing the schools has been the dumbest thing we could have done. Well, that and deciding to quarantine all the healthy people.
I see Notre Dame announced that classes are starting Aug. 10. Time for the schools to make a decision and go with it. Students on campus are at no more risk, in fact are likely at less risk, than sheltering in place in their homes.
As of today, in NJ, 47% of the deaths were over 80 and 33% over aged 65 for a total of 80% of the deaths. Only 45 deaths were in the age 18-29 group.
58% of the deaths had cardiovascular disease and 34% were diabetic.
students going back in September should really not be an issue.
