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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3542767, member: 1023"] I recently heard the ad from Arkansas talking about how Woodrow Wilson “encouraged” colleges to play in 1918 as if that was a rational comparison. Of course it ignores that 100 years ago the world and medical science were in radically different places than they are today. Plus that Wilson, with the country at war made a conscious effort to downplay the extent of the flu as did France Germany and Great Britain. In fact it was named the Spanish Flu because as a neutral country Spain actually reported true impacts. Then of course there is the question of testing. We can’t get enough for the general public but they want 1000s for the Arkansas football team. And all the others as well. Seems to me it is time for grown ups to step in and say ENOUGH! If the governors of California, Oregon, Washington, Ohio, Massachusetts New York and a few others said knock it off that would do it. [/QUOTE]