Pa fall sports expected to start on time.

[Fightingscot82]

I'm not as concerned about the football players as I am the coaches, employees, and family members who are more susceptible to death from the virus. It takes one player to infect his unit who then all possibly infect others. An odd thing I've noticed from being on college campuses the last 20 years is that cleaning staff are the oldest employees.

[CALUPA69]

No fear-mongering, just facts. Get back to me when someone you know or love contracts the virus...

Statistics can be misleading. Since we're on the PSAC board let's consider these stats which I think give a confusing mixed message.
As of today Pa has had 85,983 cases. Of those 49,104 or 57%+ have been in the 5 county Greater Philly area. By comparison the 5 county Greater Pitt area has seen 3,746 cases or 4.3%. If we were talking any other stat eg. divorces, shootings, suicides etc, we would say the Philly area has a major problem that requires intensive attention but the Burgh has a normalish sort of number that could be handled. Returning to anything close to normal in the Southeast seems highly unlikely but let's not look at that as anything close to usual in Pa. I fully expect a normal beginning in August in 14-16 of PSAC members. Since all of this is evolving and could be here forever or gone next month, I'm not at all sure those 14-16 will have a normal year, but then who can say.
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[Wcball00]

There's a rather distinct difference between fear mongering and science. As somebody who grew up in rural Central PA, went to school in the middle of nowhere North Carolina, and now has spent the last 10 years in Chester County, the stupidity of some of you continues to push me harder and harder to the left.

[Wcball00]

I tried finding more details on WCU saying they'll be at "full capacity" but couldn't. Many colleges in the Northeast is going to single rooms.

I guess they don't want that being common knowledge; however, it was included in an email sent to students, faculty and staff from President Fiorentino on 6/11/2020:

"We will also welcome students back to campus in our traditional and USH housing, planning for utilizing full capacity, although we will implement modifications in support of the safety of our students, faculty, staff and community."

You are right though that little, extremely important part is left out of any publication on the university website. I tried to attach the email here, but it's about 200 KB too large of a document.

[WarriorVoice]

No fear-mongering, just facts. Get back to me when someone you know or love contracts the virus...

17 states are reporting higher hospitalizations, and 11 states set new records for daily cases. It MAY have subsided in the Northeast, but the rest of the country is in BIG trouble...

[Fightingscot82]

...and with the rest of the country in BIG trouble, comes the Northeast in BIG trouble sooner rather than later. I still can't believe WCU is planning on max capacity in dorms and university housing. Well, to be frank, yes I can. It's all about money - scared students will withdraw. Kids will come back with the university knowing they can't handle a breakout. Students will be sent home again and WCU will have all their tuition and every fee imaginable money.

I tried finding more details on WCU saying they'll be at "full capacity" but couldn't. Many colleges in the Northeast is going to single rooms.

[Wcball00]

17 states are reporting higher hospitalizations, and 11 states set new records for daily cases. It MAY have subsided in the Northeast, but the rest of the country is in BIG trouble...

...and with the rest of the country in BIG trouble, comes the Northeast in BIG trouble sooner rather than later. I still can't believe WCU is planning on max capacity in dorms and university housing. Well, to be frank, yes I can. It's all about money - scared students will withdraw. Kids will come back with the university knowing they can't handle a breakout. Students will be sent home again and WCU will have all their tuition and every fee imaginable money.

[WarriorVoice]

17 states are reporting higher hospitalizations, and 11 states set new records for daily cases. It MAY have subsided in the Northeast, but the rest of the country is in BIG trouble...

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

Be careful with Lyme disease...

https://igenex.com/tick-talk/can-you...disease-twice/

Hard to say. But regarding the different strains of Lyme's in the article---some medical folks talk about how the Covid-19 has branched off into different mutations of the disease. Crazy stuff!

Everybody has a different body chemistry. Why do some people die from bee stings or from eating nuts while others would never be harmed from it. Some are not affected at all from Covid while others get sick and still others die from it. Go figure.

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[CALUPA69]

No doubt about that! I went to a birthday party a few weeks ago just with family members present. But the young kids had been to several campgrounds and probably around a lot of their relatives in the weeks prior. Well, the next few days after said party I did notice my lungs felt kind of odd and different. No fever or any other symptoms. Feel absolutely fine now. Did I get exposed to it? Possibly. This s hit is everywhere. Maybe it is better to get a little bit of it in your system and hope that you will then be immune to it.

Herd immunity is our only real chance at the moment to get through this. Many will die but many, many will live and be fine. Or so we hope that is how it works. I don't think the medical and science community can even tell us that.

I know that living in rural western PA Lyme Disease is a big concern. I know people who have had it. I have always spent much time in the outdoors and the woods. I've probably dug no fewer than 100 ticks out of me over the years. To the best of my knowledge I don't have it. My guess is that I probably got exposed to some of it years back and gained a protective immunity from it. Or on the other hand maybe I do have it and I just don't know it. Hard to say. I never really had any of the spotlight symptoms of it.

We all need to build our immunity to Covid-19. Or maybe there is no such thing. Hard to know. Our president, government, and medical/scientific professionals haven't offered much in the way of solutions or leadership.

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Be careful with Lyme disease...

https://igenex.com/tick-talk/can-you...disease-twice/

[IUP CRIMSON HAWKS]

Football players are testing positive because they are actually getting tested. Many of us may have had it and not even knew it.

Campuses will be a giant crap show. Kids are going to go nuts.

No doubt about that! I went to a birthday party a few weeks ago just with family members present. But the young kids had been to several campgrounds and probably around a lot of their relatives in the weeks prior. Well, the next few days after said party I did notice my lungs felt kind of odd and different. No fever or any other symptoms. Feel absolutely fine now. Did I get exposed to it? Possibly. This s hit is everywhere. Maybe it is better to get a little bit of it in your system and hope that you will then be immune to it.

Herd immunity is our only real chance at the moment to get through this. Many will die but many, many will live and be fine. Or so we hope that is how it works. I don't think the medical and science community can even tell us that.

I know that living in rural western PA Lyme Disease is a big concern. I know people who have had it. I have always spent much time in the outdoors and the woods. I've probably dug no fewer than 100 ticks out of me over the years. To the best of my knowledge I don't have it. My guess is that I probably got exposed to some of it years back and gained a protective immunity from it. Or on the other hand maybe I do have it and I just don't know it. Hard to say. I never really had any of the spotlight symptoms of it.

We all need to build our immunity to Covid-19. Or maybe there is no such thing. Hard to know. Our president, government, and medical/scientific professionals haven't offered much in the way of solutions or leadership.

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[WarriorVoice]

Football players are testing positive because they are actually getting tested. Many of us may have had it and not even knew it.

Campuses will be a giant crap show. Kids are going to go nuts.

The way we're going we may never know how many people had it, and those who have passed from it, paid the price for all of us...

[ShoNuff]

Football players are testing positive because they are actually getting tested. Many of us may have had it and not even knew it.

Campuses will be a giant crap show. Kids are going to go nuts.

That is the truth!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

If this many football players are testing positive is there any reason not to think that many thousand in the regular student body would test positive?

Just thinking out loud but I think we are having a 'Houston, we have a problem' moment.

Football players are testing positive because they are actually getting tested. Many of us may have had it and not even knew it.

Campuses will be a giant crap show. Kids are going to go nuts.