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Finally.......things may be turning in the right direction
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Just a little something to stir the pot...
Students are safe for campus.....
Students are safe for intramural sports...
But not for any type of football.......very interesting...
At least schools are still participating in badminton, cornhole and E sports......students need their exercise.
Makes no sense.
FYI—Ga state vs Murray St opener just canceled.
fWIW
2 thoughts spring to mind:
1- Wouldn't the data be valuable...public health perspective? If we're in the same situation next Fall, would the data/comparison between the 2 approaches be valuable to future decison makers??
2- Don't really get ur privacy take here....haven't we heard about positive cases already? Do u expect we'll hear about them going forward...in the SEC, ACC, and/or Big12 ??
Agenda? Yeah, maybe a sliver of fairness/clarity in the reporting of this story...but prolly too much to ask in 2020.
Someone else DV'd your comment for some reason, not me.
I agree, the info would be useful. I just don't think those conferences will announce anything. They won't want people pointing out their players would have been safer on campus. My point was, unless the schools announce X number of athletes have tested positive, then journalists would have no way of being able to track this because of patient privacy laws. It's not like the Athens police blotter the Dawgnation writers check for a story.
Big Ten and Pac 12
SEC, ACC, and Big 12
Flash of disappointing news, UNC tried to open but quickly had to revert to online only. Per WSJ Schools are having to do this.
Mixed reports as my son headed back to his school. Kids wearing masks and all But off campus parties with no precautions.
Perhaps we can play football even with online Only classes?
Piggy backed here instead of starting a Wrong Direction Thread.
What? College kids going to parties? What do people think they do when they are home?
If we can just delay the inevitable a little bit longer until flu season.
Spineless. These new cases shouldn’t be a surprise. UNC also announced they expected most of their students to make alternate housing plans, so now that they have brought them all back together, they are now going to send them back home again. Just like they did when the thing started.
There are a lot of people that aren't going to like this but everybody and their brother should have expected a spike of cases in college towns. Kids are going to be kids and be the social creatures they are. In my opinion it would have made more sense to bring them all back to campus 3 weeks ago and got this out of the way before classes began.
If colleges are going to close becasue of cases they are not going to be able to have anything on campus..In Georgia by far the leading age group for positive cases are 18-29 year olds with as of yesterday 56,687 positive cases reported, however for that age group with that high number there have only been 39 deaths to date. I'm not sure what is acceptable risk ..while sending kids in this age group home will reduce their ability to get a good education and reduce liability for the schools..it will do nothing to slow the virus . Young people are going to be young people unless you lock them up and with the fatality rate of this virus I can't see anyone wanting to do that.
Right after all those students signed year-long apartment leases....
School leadership simply must have taken into account that cases will likely rise. In that age group serious illness is very rare, so it's an acceptable risk. To call kids back to school and then cancel it would be borderline criminal...thanks for your money, now go home and do all this online. That will not end well for the schools.
I'm worried it's going to happen in football too. They're going to test them like crazy, and find a bunch of asymptomatic positive cases and flip out.
Yep. "We know you don't feel sick...but trust us, you are positive. Therefore, to prevent you from killing people unintentionally, even though the mortality rate is absurdly low, we are going put you in quarantine for two weeks. And would you mind filling out this form telling us everyone you have been around for the last week so we can quarantine them as well just in case?"
Yep, this is going to be a total poop-show.