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I’ve been to Brazil in their winter months... it’s def not Cold weather that is helping the spread..
It's more like the our Spring, right? Same as we had when things started.
Unless there's a vaccination in the next 60 days then there won't be a normal season, if any at all. Just off the top of my head:
Without accepting the fact that players will get sick and infect other players, I just don't see how it's going to happen short of a vaccine. But one thing is for certain; Athletic Directors and conference officials are getting paid a lot of money to try and figure that out and they're a lot smarter than I am.
Don’t remember exactly I’m thinking like 85 during the day and cools off at night. So more like our current weather. If humidity helped the spread that would make hella sense in Brazil.
The good news.....
If 20 test positive......quarantine them. Still have access to 90 more players.
Those that get sick..... we have the comfort of knowing that they have a 99.99999% of surviving.....and a pretty high percentage of not even feeling ill.
They miss 2 games and replace the next group that tests positive.
Good thing Kirby has a deep roster.
I'll be honest, I had a hard time getting through your first sentence. There will not be a vaccine in the next 60 days by even the most optimistic appraisals out there so there's no reason to use that as any kind of bar to clear. The season, on whatever form it may happen, is going to have at least a metaphorical asterisk next to it anyway. If players test positive then I imagine they'll be out roughly 14 days, which seems to be the current quarantine standard. If it's your star QB, that's just bad luck. Or good luck if they miss 2 games that you win anyway. Then you wouldn't worry about them the rest of the season after they come off quarantine (most likely).
We're all thinking about the players (and rightly so), but what about the coaches? Sure, we have a number of very capable coaches who could step in and call plays, but can you imagine if Kirby, Monken, Lanning all test positive? We're deep on the roster of players, but would certainly be an interesting experience to roll into Tuscaloosa or Jacksonville without our head honchos.... 😬On the plus side, I'd be far more worried if ol Chaney was still calling plays. For obvious reasons - as we've all seen Chaney's ceiling, but also because he is certainly high risk of having serious complications if exposed.
I never said there would be a vaccine that soon. That's the point. There's no way we're seeing a normal college football season without one and there's really no way there will be one that soon.
That's fair. It just seemed an odd way to lead into it. I think we're on the same page. I don't see a "normal" season happening at this point, either. I think if we have a season (fingers crossed) you'll have significant fan attendance reductions, you'll have players miss games for testing positive like you mentioned, etc. It won't look like anything we've seen before, imo.
Pennsylvania locked EVERYTHING down in mid-March and opened only in rural areas (with restrictions) in June. It was like the zombie apocalypse in my town for two months. I really don't expect to see a high school football (or basketball, etc) season here. If we do, it will be social distanced with masks.
Give it another month and we'll all see that the fear was way overblown. Over here in Italy, public pools, gyms, bars, restaurants are all open and kids are back in school, and the world has not come to an end.
There's NO reason we can't play the season as scheduled and there's no reason why students can't be in the stands. Everybody else can wear a mask if it makes them feel safer.
It’s too hot to be outside so they’re all going indoors don’t you think?
A covid vaccine "may" help.....Just like flu vaccine may help, but remember in 2018, the flu vaccine had an effectiveness rate of just 10%. The virus is constantly mutuating. The idea that a vaccine will immediately allow us to jam 100K screaming fans into Sanford, spewing virus laden droplets at the top of our lungs is fantasy. We're gonna be dealing with this a LONG time. Send your thanks to the Chinese Communist government and please buy 'Merican as much as you can.
Im 27 and all my friends are doing the same thing..One of my friends asked me to go to the booty club last night..And im like are you serious???No one around my age cares..Its sad...
How do masks help the way most people use them? A non medical grade mask that they wear a week without washing if ever. COVID IS NOT AIRBORNE. When everyone goes to the Circle K and the cashier touches everyone’s items ( the little glass doesn’t help) and people don’t wash their hands nothing changes. Go stand 10 minutes in a public restroom and count people that exit without washing their hands. Two things are in short supply in this country, toilet paper and common sense. Misinformation and ignorance abound everywhere.