[OutsiderFan]

Based on the responses, it seems the greater point is being missed, well there are two actually:

1. Omicron isn't nearly as damaging to health as the previous Covid versions
2. Everyone is going to get exposed to it, and many will be infected without ever knowing *

* The notion only family of players can attend under the guise of protecting player health, is cosmically stupid when you consider everyone is getting exposed. That means those family members will be too, and they will be infecting players, even when unrelated fan locked out of the building are not.

Omicron impacts are so mild it seems like we might all be better off getting exposed to Omicron to create herd immunity with potential to end the pandemic, or at least get us to a place where we can live with it like the other cold viruses out there. It wasn't smart to do this when the virus was so novel before vaccine. But now that the "novelness" is gone, so many are vax'd, and hospitalizations aren't surging at a high rate with infections in heavily vax'd populations like SCC, it is. And like I inferred, this is going to happen anyway, whether we like it or not.

Finally, the data from South Africa shows the Omicron surge is tremendous in terms of creating infections at rapid rate, but it doesn't last long. In two weeks the numbers will start coming down precipitously, so these "stay away" policies will be in place when the surge is rapidly dissipating, and in place to protects against a threat that doesn't exist. Stanford isn't going to change its policy two weeks after implementing it, so it will have cost itself at least a month of basketball attendance for basically nothing.

To recap:

1. Omicron isn't that damaging to individual health or medical system
2. Everyone is going to get infected/exposed to it because of its exceptional infectivity
3. SCC is one of the highest vax'd populations in the world
4. The first three points demonstrate shutdowns in SCC will do more harm than good to whoever is shutting down

[OutsiderFan]

Based on the responses, it seems the greater point is being missed, well there are two actually:

1. Omicron isn't nearly as damaging to health as the previous Covid versions
2. Everyone is going to get exposed to it, and many will be infected without ever knowing *

* The notion only family of players can attend under the guise of protecting player health, is cosmically stupid when you consider everyone is getting exposed. That means those family members will be too, and they will be infecting players, even when unrelated fan locked out of the building are not.

Omicron impacts are so mild it seems like we might all be better off getting exposed to Omicron to create herd immunity with potential to end the pandemic, or at least get us to a place where we can live with it like the other cold viruses out there. It wasn't smart to do this when the virus was so novel before vaccine. But now that the "novelness" is gone, so many are vax'd, and hospitalizations aren't surging at a high rate with infections in heavily vax'd populations like SCC, it is. And like I inferred, this is going to happen anyway, whether we like it or not.

Finally, the data from South Africa shows the Omicron surge is tremendous in terms of creating infections at rapid rate, but it doesn't last long. In two weeks the numbers will start coming down precipitously, so these "stay away" policies will be in place when the surge is rapidly dissipating, and in place to protects against a threat that doesn't exist. Stanford isn't going to change its policy two weeks after implementing it, so it will have cost itself at least a month of basketball attendance for basically nothing.

To recap:

1. Omicron isn't that damaging to individual health or medical system
2. Everyone is going to get infected/exposed to it because of its exceptional infectivity
3. SCC is one of the highest vax'd populations in the world
4. The first three points demonstrate shutdowns in SCC will do more harm than good to whoever is shutting down