Growing Optimism Enabling Officials to Plan for Essential Summer Workouts (SI)

[Jimdish255]

If there aren't consistent testing and quarantine rules in place for all FBS teams and schools this could fall apart. We've seen States go their own way and make poor decisions. And huge challenges already for schools in hard hit areas like Houston. They should welcome stringent rules and testing but are apparently traveling down a different path.

 

[Rewster]

First team with Herd immunity wins the Natty

 

[Jimdish255]

First team with Herd immunity wins the Natty

When restarting wins the race over science we know what the potential consequences are. So nothing wrong with trying to restart as long as you factor that in. But if you can't or won't do it with safety as a priority, the outcomes quickly move outside the scope of your control. Whether they move outside the scope of your liability is another question.

 

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I’m not starting another thread or changing the heading but...


>>Yahoo Sports reached out to more than 20 athletic directors, coaches and administrators in the aftermath of the Clemson news to gauge what the flurry of positive test numbers mean for the sport’s future.

The responses showed a pall of pessimism cast over the sport and underscored the difficult balance of health concerns, the financial pressures on football being played and the awkward optics of amateurism.<<

>>The most uncomfortable subject for administrators and coaches is the potential death of a player. There are concerns about pre-existing conditions that the virus can exploit and exacerbate. So far around college football, there’s been no positive case that’s publicly known that’s led to a player on a ventilator or gotten seriously ill. But what do administrators do when that image emerges?

With a dizzying flurry of cases the past few days, there’s no reason to think that the numbers will stop or slow. And for those in college athletics, it’s a reminder that they’ll be walking on a high wire in their attempt to execute a season the next six months.<<

 

[Exit 4]

The typical workplace now is well controlled. Brining these athletes back to train and play is a different beast. I find the concept of social distancing on a 100+ player football team pretty laughable. That said, one would think that in and of themselves this is a very low risk group after contact.

People in a lot of jobs like retail or working in kitchens still have a lot of exposure- not a football level - but it’s a lot and it’s 40 hours a week - week after week.

Regardless, what happens with the these pro and college level programs will provide us all with another data point as to what reality is with this menacing pandemic. Frankly we are all living the experiment at some capacity.

 

[uconndogs]

Agree.

 

[Waquoit]

Dr. Matteo Bassetti, the head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital,

Wasn't San Martino where the Flying Nun came from?

 

[Jimdish255]

It is certainly weakening in the U.S. Even assuming some book cooking in Florida and Texas, mortality rates are dropping dramatically across the country. For example, Ohio has an old population and a rising case count, but mortality is modest. Obesity is a big problem throughout the south, but mortality is modest there despite an explosion of cases.

It is normal for more severe strains of any disease to die out quicker because it is harder to jump to a new host if they keep killing the host they are in.

Something I hadn't heard before but kinda makes sense. This is why you play for time.

 

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[Palatine]

When restarting wins the race over science we know what the potential consequences are. So nothing wrong with trying to restart as long as you factor that in. But if you can't or won't do it with safety as a priority, the outcomes quickly move outside the scope of your control. Whether they move outside the scope of your liability is another question.

Well, when the science tells you it can't be spread by human contact, then it turns out it is virtually only spread by human contact. Then the "science" says don't wear a mask, then says you need to wear a mask. Then the science says you can catch it in church but not at a protest, and then ...you get my point.

Sometimes the "Law of Large Numbers" is much better "science" than the experts.

These experiments with sports teams will tell us more (and be much more accurate) than the CDC.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

LOL

 

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>>As the numbers of positive COVID-19 tests spike across the country, college coaches have become increasingly dour about the prospect of any kind of functional college football season.

College football was always going to be the hardest sport to come back and play amid the pandemic. The sport is already sputtering to return in the voluntary workout phase, without the significant exposure increases that will come with actual practices, a full locker room setting and thousands of students returning to campus sometime near the start of the season. Football remains a contact sport, and it’s telling that it’s flailing amid the non-contact portion of its return <<

 

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WaPo: The NCAA has lots of rules. Players’ parents wonder why it has none for coronavirus.

>>Hamilton is one of thousands of parents of college football players across the country grappling with unanswered questions about coronavirus this month as their sons returned to campuses for socially distanced workouts. And like other parents who spoke in phone interviews this week, Hamilton focused her criticism on the hands-off approach of the NCAA, which she and other parents blame for a balkanized, disjointed approach to the crisis across the sport that, in a way, parallels the federal government’s handling of the pandemic.


Some schools are testing every player every week. Some schools aren’t testing unless players develop symptoms. And some schools are requiring players to sign waivers, raising concerns among parents of hospital bills and legal liability in the event their sons develop severe covid-19 symptoms.


“It just seems like everyone’s freelancing,” Hamilton said. “The NCAA has rules and guidelines for everything under the sun … how are they not making any rules for this?”<<

 

[metsfan2323]

Well, when the science tells you it can't be spread by human contact, then it turns out it is virtually only spread by human contact. Then the "science" says don't wear a mask, then says you need to wear a mask.

The science never said "don't wear a mask", that was just the government lying to the public supposedly because there weren't enough masks to go around and they wanted to make sure there were enough for first responders. This has been admitted BTW and is not a conspiracy theory. So if you ever doubted whether or not the government would lie to the public when it is convenient for them to do so doubt no more. This was both parties BTW so i'm not being political. Makes you wonder what else we are being lied to about....I can certainly think of a few things but I won't go there.

 

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