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I find it exceptionally hard to believe Cal is the only FBS football program in the country with a major Covid outbreak on its team.  My cynical assumption is other schools simply aren't testing, or have defied CDC guidelines about how to manage asymptomatic infections.

Same here.  And no one on campus is dying.  Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . but others who were infected by Cal players/students may be.
The tracing of that is impossible (and our experience at attempting same beyond lame).  So, it's going to come down to society's tolerance levels, which will be informed by death rates and many other factors.  

And kiddoc, you may think Oakland's policy of sending kids home for 10 days is great from a medical profession perspective - and it probably is - but I guarantee you parents (working parents, in particular) want and need their kids at school, especially if there are no Zoom alternatives (which is the case at our high school).  [I'm convinced that the dissatisfaction with the handling of public schools is why the Newsom recall ever had any semblance of legs (and why he put such a premium on getting/keeping schools open)].  If parents aren't seeing kids get really sick, let alone dying, it's going to be hard policy to maintain shuttering kids for 10 days at a time with a positive test or close contact to same.

Again, we're just going to muddle through this, including in collegiate sports realm, as is ROW, frankly.

[teejers1]

I find it exceptionally hard to believe Cal is the only FBS football program in the country with a major Covid outbreak on its team.  My cynical assumption is other schools simply aren't testing, or have defied CDC guidelines about how to manage asymptomatic infections.

Same here.  And no one on campus is dying.  Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . but others who were infected by Cal players/students may be.
The tracing of that is impossible (and our experience at attempting same beyond lame).  So, it's going to come down to society's tolerance levels, which will be informed by death rates and many other factors.  

And kiddoc, you may think Oakland's policy of sending kids home for 10 days is great from a medical profession perspective - and it probably is - but I guarantee you parents (working parents, in particular) want and need their kids at school, especially if there are no Zoom alternatives (which is the case at our high school).  [I'm convinced that the dissatisfaction with the handling of public schools is why the Newsom recall ever had any semblance of legs (and why he put such a premium on getting/keeping schools open)].  If parents aren't seeing kids get really sick, let alone dying, it's going to be hard policy to maintain shuttering kids for 10 days at a time with a positive test or close contact to same.

Again, we're just going to muddle through this, including in collegiate sports realm, as is ROW, frankly.