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You guys cannot gripe about, as you put it when you wrote - "In other words, Warren thinks he and his colleagues know best,..." You do the same concerning our comments, which are, at times, deleted for the most asinine of reasons.
Trying to give a bit of hope yesterday, I mentioned an old drug has had great results in trials treating covid. It was disappeared. How does giving hope hurt anyone when the hope is based on scientific evidence? Again, I expect this to be erased. The overlords will see to it.
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Mr. Franklin was a very wise individual living in a time when pandemics culled great swaths of individuals. Yet, he still said this, while making no mention of extraordinary circumstances negating that statement.
It seems you who work for DawgNation feel free to espouse what we cannot, as seen in this article. Yet, someone having a degree in journalism (ABJ UGA '91) from the university you cover cannot voice their opinions freely.
For the sake of temporary safety from covid, our liberty is being abridged by those who know better, yet have show themselves to be duplicitous when it suites them. This is being done in many ways, and in many areas - all by fiat. If you cannot see the danger arising from such actions where our rights are concerned, I fear for the world my grandchildren will experience when grown and raising kids of their own.
If writing such as this bothers you to the extent you feel compelled to delete it, please delete my DawgNation membership. I suffer greatly due to Agent Orange exposure. When I joined the military in the mid-seventies, I did so thinking I was insuring our constitution would not be violated to the degree it now is. I also attend no professional sports, nor do I watch them, though I once loved doing so. Our constitutional rights mean that much to this veteran who has been treated scurrilously by our government - no matter the party in charge. If anyone had a reason to think and act differently...
"if the health, safety, and possible even life/death of players and others in a few situations was my responsibility, I err on the side of saftey.""
Questions: Would you allow your 18 year old(if you had one) to attend college providing it has classes or would you have them sit out a year and wait for a vaccine? If you had a 16 year old who had their DL would you also allow them to carry a cell phone" If their safety is you're greatest concern, you wouldn't. Maybe they are the exception and wouldn't text under any circumstances, but it's just too much of a risk, wouldn't you agree? Thousands of kids die annually from car wrecks where either they or the driver of the other vehicle was texting. Better to err on the side of safety and since kids die in car wrecks(thousands annually) they shouldn't be allowed to be in cars. No kids in cars, then no kids dying in cars. Solves that problem.
If your 19 year old wanted to attend a small party of friends(say a dozen) would you err on the side of caution and not allow them to go? Tell them to "wait a year" to do anything with friends. I realize these may be hypothetical questions to you but I am curious how people calling for a shutdown based on "if there is any risk at all it's better to err on the side of safety" apply that same mandst to other "risky" areas of life.
What about the risk of brain concussions and other debilitating injuries that happen regularly across the football spectrum? Should football even be played at all if there is any chance of these injuries happening no matter how low the odds are, that is , if your desire is to err on the side of caution?
The bottom line is, life is full of risks. So is football. We do our best and we try to use our best judgment without being overly protective and hysterical. Covid is going to cross paths with teens and young adults. It's inevitable. Kids don't shut themselves up in lock-down mode indefinitely. For the overwhelming majority they will either be asymptomatic or experience flu like symptoms and yes a few cases will need hospitalizations. And yes you will hear about the rare death or two. (The media will make sure of that unlike deaths by other diseases) But that is a risk that these kids are not only willing to take but are going to take, regardless if Spankey tells them they can play football or not.
You misspelled Kirby Smart in the headline.
Maybe the worst take I've ever read.
Boo-Hoo-Hoo for poor Justin. If he got a raw deal from the Big 10 he has only himself to blame. He had an opportunity to do some great things in the SEC while at Georgia but he wasn't willing to compete for his position. When he didn't earn the starting job by just showing up and putting on a uniform he chose to run back to daddy to find him a place to play that wouldn't ask him to compete for the job. Well, he found it in the Big 10 at OSU. Too bad, so sad, see ya later!
Granted, the SEC may not play either, but at least they are still considering it at this point.
Isn't this a bit like saying the nation got a raw deal from covid ?