08-13-2020, 03:37 AM
It is continuously bewildering to see so many people missing the important points with this pandemic and the number of them being missed:
- It’s not just about how many die; it’s about how many get sick and have long term health complications.
- Spread must be mitigated or non-Covid care stops; Hospitals lose revenue without elective procedures.
- Masks & distancing needed to keep economy going at some level to avoid the above.
- School closure isn’t just about whether kids get sick or not, it’s also that they become spread vectors.
- High percentage of recovered infected have myocarditis; requires 3-6 months no competitive sports.
- If we don’t knock down spread in unison, the pandemic will last longer.
The last point is why the NCAA allowing each conference to make its own decisions about playing sports, and each campus being allowed to decide to have students on campus or not, no matter it’s virus outbreak situation, is as dumb and reckless as the Federal Government punting on any national management of the pandemic and leaving it to individual states to figure out on their own.
If some conferences have students on campus and play sports while others are shuttered without sports, we are creating conditions to make the pandemic last longer than it would if we all acted together, on the same standards at the same time. How can university leaders not understand this? How can they say playing sports is the most important thing before we get the pandemic under control?
The name of our country is UNITED States, yet we act as individuals without unity or sacrifice for others. Can it be any wonder why we are failing so spectacularly to get a pandemic under control that requires everyone being united and acting is unison to stop it? Texas has a 35% positive test rate over last week according to Johns Hopkins and four Big 12 members, but it’s cool to play sports with less than pro mitigation. California has a 9% positive average over last week and it’s shut everything down.
Stopping the virus spread has to be the number one goal if we are ever going to stop it. The pro sports leagues have demonstrated what needs to be done to stop spread - massive testing, isolation, and strict protocols - yet we don’t have the ability to apply those lessons to greater society and instead conclude that if the pros can play so can the colleges, blithely missing the fact they are in a bubble and/or doing mass testing and strictly managing behavior, even failing to realize how the fact they are paid factors in.
And how foolish to think “football provides structure, and is safer for players than the general student body,” and your conclusion be let’s continue with football and not freak out about the 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 thousand of those regular students not being given the safe environments of the football program.
What in living hell is wrong with our society?
- It’s not just about how many die; it’s about how many get sick and have long term health complications.
- Spread must be mitigated or non-Covid care stops; Hospitals lose revenue without elective procedures.
- Masks & distancing needed to keep economy going at some level to avoid the above.
- School closure isn’t just about whether kids get sick or not, it’s also that they become spread vectors.
- High percentage of recovered infected have myocarditis; requires 3-6 months no competitive sports.
- If we don’t knock down spread in unison, the pandemic will last longer.
The last point is why the NCAA allowing each conference to make its own decisions about playing sports, and each campus being allowed to decide to have students on campus or not, no matter it’s virus outbreak situation, is as dumb and reckless as the Federal Government punting on any national management of the pandemic and leaving it to individual states to figure out on their own.
If some conferences have students on campus and play sports while others are shuttered without sports, we are creating conditions to make the pandemic last longer than it would if we all acted together, on the same standards at the same time. How can university leaders not understand this? How can they say playing sports is the most important thing before we get the pandemic under control?
The name of our country is UNITED States, yet we act as individuals without unity or sacrifice for others. Can it be any wonder why we are failing so spectacularly to get a pandemic under control that requires everyone being united and acting is unison to stop it? Texas has a 35% positive test rate over last week according to Johns Hopkins and four Big 12 members, but it’s cool to play sports with less than pro mitigation. California has a 9% positive average over last week and it’s shut everything down.
Stopping the virus spread has to be the number one goal if we are ever going to stop it. The pro sports leagues have demonstrated what needs to be done to stop spread - massive testing, isolation, and strict protocols - yet we don’t have the ability to apply those lessons to greater society and instead conclude that if the pros can play so can the colleges, blithely missing the fact they are in a bubble and/or doing mass testing and strictly managing behavior, even failing to realize how the fact they are paid factors in.
And how foolish to think “football provides structure, and is safer for players than the general student body,” and your conclusion be let’s continue with football and not freak out about the 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 thousand of those regular students not being given the safe environments of the football program.
What in living hell is wrong with our society?