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It isn't possible for those more at risk to avoid exposure. Because if a football game is attended by 110,000 people, all of which are *not* at higher risk of complications, then they obtain the virus at the game and spread it throughout all of their own communities at stores, offices, restaurants, etc., and those who are more at risk are still exposed to the virus despite not being in high-risk situations. All it takes is one of those 110,000 people to fiddle around with a box of cereal at the store, a high-risk person comes and gets that cereal 20 minutes later, and now that virus is with the high-risk person.
It is why nothing is going to be "normal" until a vaccine is available that builds a person's antibodies.2021 D2Football Fantasy Champion
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Originally posted by KleShreen View Post
Now there's a bunch of rumors of a football season in the spring of 2021, with a championship around memorial day.
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Originally posted by KleShreen View Post
It isn't possible for those more at risk to avoid exposure. Because if a football game is attended by 110,000 people, all of which are *not* at higher risk of complications, then they obtain the virus at the game and spread it throughout all of their own communities at stores, offices, restaurants, etc., and those who are more at risk are still exposed to the virus despite not being in high-risk situations. All it takes is one of those 110,000 people to fiddle around with a box of cereal at the store, a high-risk person comes and gets that cereal 20 minutes later, and now that virus is with the high-risk person.
It is why nothing is going to be "normal" until a vaccine is available that builds a person's antibodies.
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I think the real question will be are schools back on campus in September, If yes then i think there will be football, If not then no there will not be football. It will also be interesting to see how that works out across states. Will there be schools back on campus in Ohio, but not Michigan? What will the GLIAC do if not all the school in the conference are back? We still have a long way to go till August.
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Originally posted by unc4life View PostI think the real question will be are schools back on campus in September, If yes then i think there will be football, If not then no there will not be football. It will also be interesting to see how that works out across states. Will there be schools back on campus in Ohio, but not Michigan? What will the GLIAC do if not all the school in the conference are back? We still have a long way to go till August.
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Originally posted by unc4life View PostI think the real question will be are schools back on campus in September, If yes then i think there will be football, If not then no there will not be football. It will also be interesting to see how that works out across states. Will there be schools back on campus in Ohio, but not Michigan? What will the GLIAC do if not all the school in the conference are back? We still have a long way to go till August.
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It's not the same at all, though. The "flu or a bad cold" still has a mortality rate of 0.01% and lower. This has a fatality rate of about 3-4% right now, and about 10% for those with pre-existing conditions, which is about half of the United States. 30-40x more deadly for healthy people, 100x more deadly for not-healthy people. And even if you are asymptomatic or get mild symptoms, there is now evidence that it still does permanent damage to your lungs, kidney, and liver, without you noticing, which could impact your life expectancy and/or create issues for you in the future. A "flu or bad cold" has no lasting, permanent effects. Flus and bad colds also have proven, effective treatments. We have no idea how to vaccinate for this virus, we have no idea how to prevent permanent damage from it even in people who have no symptoms, and we don't even have an effective treatment for it like we do for the cold and flu. We don't even create enough antibodies on our own from contracting and "recovering" from this to fight it off in the future. That's why some kind of vaccine is needed, to at least give us more antibodies to effectively fight it. There's always risk for people. But 99% of things you come in contact with at least have effective treatments to minimize the lasting effects of a virus. This does not, which is why it is dumb to take the risk. Until we can make it so the hospitalization rate of people who contract it goes down to what the flu is, about 1% rather than the current 33%, and so that the mortality rate is wayyyy below what it is currently at, every precaution possible should be taken for everybody. The flu kills about 40k people per year. But that's also with about 45 million people per year actually getting the flu. If 45 million people were to get this virus, with the current 3-4% mortality rate, then that's 1.35-1.8 million people dead instead of 40k. That would bring the entire country to its knees in every way imaginable.2021 D2Football Fantasy Champion
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Originally posted by champgymusa View Post
If schools are not person to person in September football is done...at least for this year...and for many schools with a thin cash flow it might be the death of sports...sad as hell...
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Originally posted by champgymusa View Post
If schools are not person to person in September football is done...at least for this year...and for many schools with a thin cash flow it might be the death of sports...sad as hell...2021 D2Football Fantasy Champion
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Originally posted by KleShreen View Post
It's not the same at all, though. The "flu or a bad cold" still has a mortality rate of 0.01% and lower. This has a fatality rate of about 3-4% right now, and about 10% for those with pre-existing conditions, which is about half of the United States. 30-40x more deadly for healthy people, 100x more deadly for not-healthy people. And even if you are asymptomatic or get mild symptoms, there is now evidence that it still does permanent damage to your lungs, kidney, and liver, without you noticing, which could impact your life expectancy and/or create issues for you in the future. A "flu or bad cold" has no lasting, permanent effects. Flus and bad colds also have proven, effective treatments. We have no idea how to vaccinate for this virus, we have no idea how to prevent permanent damage from it even in people who have no symptoms, and we don't even have an effective treatment for it like we do for the cold and flu. We don't even create enough antibodies on our own from contracting and "recovering" from this to fight it off in the future. That's why some kind of vaccine is needed, to at least give us more antibodies to effectively fight it. There's always risk for people. But 99% of things you come in contact with at least have effective treatments to minimize the lasting effects of a virus. This does not, which is why it is dumb to take the risk. Until we can make it so the hospitalization rate of people who contract it goes down to what the flu is, about 1% rather than the current 33%, and so that the mortality rate is wayyyy below what it is currently at, every precaution possible should be taken for everybody. The flu kills about 40k people per year. But that's also with about 45 million people per year actually getting the flu. If 45 million people were to get this virus, with the current 3-4% mortality rate, then that's 1.35-1.8 million people dead instead of 40k. That would bring the entire country to its knees in every way imaginable.
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The 45 million is the number of flu cases the US generally has each year (between 45 and 60 million confirmed). I was saying if the same number of people get this virus as get the flu, the death numbers would be to a point the economy would not recover from for decades.2021 D2Football Fantasy Champion
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Originally posted by KleShreen View Post
The 45 million is the number of flu cases the US generally has each year (between 45 and 60 million confirmed). I was saying if the same number of people get this virus as get the flu, the death numbers would be to a point the economy would not recover from for decades.
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If y'all need something to watch, r/CFB is streaming some games on NCAA 14 throughout the day
Texas @ Kansas in progress
UConn @ Rutgers 1:15
Boise State @ Memphis 2:30
UGA @ UF 3:45 (World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party)
Texas Tech @ Penn St. 5:00
WVU @Pitt 6:15 (Backyard Brawl)
UCF @ Alabama 7:30
Nebraska @ Oklahoma 8:45 (Game of the Century rematch)
Washington @ Oregon 10:00 (Border War)
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Originally posted by champgymusa View Post
If schools are not person to person in September football is done...at least for this year...and for many schools with a thin cash flow it might be the death of sports...sad as hell...
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