Why do people continue to doubt a football season....
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Not to nit pick, but your info says 200 from influenza and 244 from influenza both from the 2018. And those numbers are with no lockdown or remote learning. I agree that kids seem better at taking this on, but really it is comparing apples and oranges
200 is for 15-24, the 244 is for 0-14. So they are different age categories. It's not comparing apples and oranges. Viruses will spread no matter what we do. We can't do full lockdown (literally where no one leaves their homes) for 6 weeks as people would starve and society would collapse. Do we really want to close all these businesses and put all those people out of work again? for what? The virus is going to make its way through the population. Period. Just like seasonal flu makes its way through a population. Pretending that we can magically "stop the spread" is fantasy-land. The young and healthy are literally a society's front-line defense against any virus. Ordering healthy people into a quarantine is anti-science and against everything we have known and studied about how to combat these things for decades.
Dude. All we have to do is wear a mask, not go to a party or large gathering, and it should get better. How the hell can the rest of the world do this, but Americans are just to damn stubborn to figure it out.... I will tell you how. It is social media. The flu and Covid are different. Not sure why you do not believe the doctors here.
Why is it so hard to wear a mask? I keep seeing youtube videos and articles and social media posts about their danger..... but I have yet to see a single death from a freaking mask.
The U.S. actually ranks pretty highly in terms of compliance with mask-wearing. The Phillipines has had some of the highest mask-wearing (more than 90%) of anywhere in the world with a strict lockdown, and cases are surging in the Phillipines. Why is that if masks are the panacea? There has yet to be a definitive study on the efficacy of masks to combat respiratory viruses. Make no mistake, I'll wear a mask if a business asks that I do, or a person asks that i do in their home. Hong Kong has had some of the highest mask compliance anywhere and they are headed into their second round of lockdown. Lockdowns only delay the inevitable, which is the virus will make its way through a certain percentage of the population. There is no getting around the science of a contagious virus, which is rather lethal for older folks and less lethal than the seasonal flu for younger age groups. So our answer is to quarantine healthy people. It makes no sense.
The U S and mask wearing compliance? Where do they get those numbers? Who watches and tallies who is wearing them. Western countries like ours do not wear masks because it is not normal to us. We still fly all over the country and go on vacations regardless.
We already knew it was harder on older people but younger asymptomatic kids give it to older people, and that is the issue. Older people deserve a little more respect than what many are giving them.
1) MLB has had its fair share of problems (darn you Cardinals)
2) you can’t create any form of a bubble with college kids taking classes
3) professional athletes are getting paid very handsomely for taking the risk of playing- college athletes are not- IMO- you can justify professional seasons but college seasons are a different scenario
No it’s not different. Both are voluntary. You assume because one group gets paid it’s easier to do the right things and put up with more distancing etc. But fact is the athletes are choosing in both instances. The pros for money and love of the game, college for exposure and love of the game. The college players are free to choose not to participate. No one would be forcing anything.
What you just posted is in fact different. Exposure and Job are different no matter how you look at it.
And in the spring, you can still be playing for exposure. I am pissed like everyone else because we need to try. But this has been a crazy year and all we can do is tighten the seat belt and sit down for the ride.
Yeah it’s crazy. I think this is a decision the big ten will live to regret when the other conferences are able to have a successful season. But we will see. I may be wrong and this all becomes a shit show for the big 12, SEC and ACC. Why the big ten would choose to buck the power 5 trend to play is beyond me.
