Okay Now It's Postponed For Real
ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This knocks out football, soccer, volleyball, field hockey, and cross country. Notably, basketball and hockey are not yet on the chopping block. They probably will be, but let a man hold on to his hopes of seeing Kent Johnson and Owen Power and all the other super-talented guys in this hockey recruiting class while he can.
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August 11th, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
Those Siberian test groups are gonna be busy.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:33 PM ^
Those who fail the test will be shot as traitors.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:06 PM ^
Right after their month long Chernobyl clean-up detail.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:35 PM ^
Is that what you gave to Litvinenko, Vlad?
August 11th, 2020 at 3:37 PM ^
And he's planning on making it available to everyone in late October. I look forward to hearing about a bunch of people in hospitals with motor oil poisoning in early November.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
The only results we'll hear about this vaccine is that it is a resounding success or lies or unreliable leaked stuff.
Actually a bunch of countries are trying to buy a bunch of doses from Russia so I guess we could get honest information from some of them.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:18 PM ^
They've approved for use after studying fewer than 100 patients. What could go wrong.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:02 PM ^
I'm sure that protomolecule based vaccine will work just fine...
August 11th, 2020 at 10:42 PM ^
I'm eagerly awaiting the follow-up to Tiamat's Wrath.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:36 PM ^
haaa., ok Vlady you take the first dose of the imported Russian vaccine ... lol
August 11th, 2020 at 3:18 PM ^
Defer to spring in hopes of a vaccine so they can generate max revenue......
August 11th, 2020 at 3:22 PM ^
You'd need a vaccine approved and ready for mass distribution in about 3 months for that to happen. High-risk individuals would get the bulk of the doses in the first few months before low-risk people like college athletes were able to get it.
Spring ain't happening.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:28 PM ^
They have been preparing for mass production for months. We may have one by September or October.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:46 PM ^
Yes, but there's a big difference between preparing and actually distributing it across the country. And the timeline is still early 2021 for that because most of the leading candidates for a vaccine are still in Phase II or III of their clinical trials.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:10 PM ^
That is true but theyre still mass producing doses in the hopes they pass so they are ready right away. Distribution is nothing new so shouldnt be a hold up.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:19 PM ^
Its the physically getting the shot part of the distribution process that will be the clusterfuck part of this process. Moving millions of doses from factories across the country is the easy part. Moving them from the local distribution points to your doctor's offices and local CVS and Walgreens or even random parking lots like they did for early COVID testing is also relatively easy.
Getting an actual appointment when almost every single person in your area (shoutout to the antivaxers who will fuck up the next phase of this...) is also going to want an appointment is the part that's going to take months to sort out.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
We already do this every year for the flu. Yes the scale will be bigger, but I have confidence in us being able to handle it. Even if it takes months, we've been staying at home for 5 months already now, whats a couple more?
August 11th, 2020 at 5:11 PM ^
Only around 35-40% of the population gets the flu shot annually per the CDC. And those doses are spread out over months with no real urgency to get it. For the COVID vaccine, you're looking at double that amount with an extreme immediate demand to get it.
Yes we'll handle it, but the process of getting enough of the population vaccinated is going to take months. It's not going to be like we have a vaccine Jan 1, and Feb 1 things are back to normal.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:58 PM ^
No. We won’t. That is highly unlikely.
August 11th, 2020 at 10:46 PM ^
You can't prepare for mass production without knowing what that process looks like, what the nuances and product release specifications and assays are. I've been on new product launches that take more than six months to get specificity assays validated and another six months to get them transferred and validated at the manufacturing site. Keep dreaming.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:47 PM ^
But high risk people like Don Brown would be at the front of the line.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
That stache needs to be protected at all costs.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:20 PM ^
2020 - The year of endless suck
August 11th, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
2021 cannot come soon enough...
August 11th, 2020 at 4:03 PM ^
It's been 4 straight years of endless suck.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:40 PM ^
millions multiplying in my 401K say differently...
August 11th, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^
My portfolio is doing great, too. But I have the ability to look beyond my own bank account and narrow self-interest to see that the world is on fire.
August 12th, 2020 at 12:42 AM ^
The world is is actually getting less "on fire".
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
But the media wants you to believe otherwise because they profit greatly from it.
August 12th, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
You realize that was from 2018, right? I didn't even bother to listen to it. Thanks for trying to waste everybody's time.
Yeah, 1,000 Americans are dying everyday, 160K + so far. The media isn't trying to scare us - they're simply reporting the facts. And the facts are pretty scary. Keep your head up your ass, though, it seems to be working for you. We'll come get you when things are normal again and we'll teach you media literacy.
August 12th, 2020 at 3:36 PM ^
World is still not on fire ya silly goofball.
The point of the video from 2018 is that the trend is more peaceful over time, coronavirus won't change that.
But people are consuming too much media these days that preys on their fears etc. and they think the sky is falling when things are actually getting better.
So again, RELAX, world still not on fire. Put down your phone for a while, turn off the laptop, go outside.
If you think the media isn't constantly trying to frighten people, pit people against each other, then man, you are the biggest dumbass on this board.... and that is saying something.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:25 PM ^
Tell that to my wife...
August 11th, 2020 at 3:21 PM ^
Let's get this party started. Put the players in a bubble, or let it ride. Let players opt out if they want.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:12 PM ^
and lets legalize steroids, and make helmets optional, and make concussion tests optional, and get rid of doctors medically retiring kids for their own good.
Sometimes you need rules to protect people from themselves or from the other players who make stupid choices, especially 20 year olds who dont have the life experience to yet realize theyre not invincible.
August 11th, 2020 at 5:44 PM ^
My elderly father shared a meme about how everything went down hill when kids started wearing bike helmets because stupid should hurt. I get the sentiment, but I had coincidentally just talked to a friend that employs people with disabilities. He mentioned that he knew a half dozen people who crashed their bicycles while not wearing a helmet and now have a host of physical and mental ailments. A better moral than stupid should hurt is don't be stupid. Learn from other people.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:28 PM ^
The best mistakes to learn from are the ones that others make
August 11th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
Exactly what I've been telling my son since he could form words. He still does everything the hard way.
August 11th, 2020 at 10:48 PM ^
Survivor's bias is a thing. You know why we don't hear about the people that died drinking out of a garden hose or riding in the back of grampa's pick-up truck? That's because they are dead.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:42 PM ^
its all about choice... let folks opt out of playing and watching for that matter... what gets ppl really pissed off is when you prove something is safe (like Coach did) yet the bureaucrats take your rights away
August 11th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
As Roy Orbison said: http://tiny.cc/o31nsz
Oh well...
August 11th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
The Big10 network should just spend its Saturdays this fall replaying the 1997 season games. I can think of two fan bases at least that would be happy with that decision.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:30 PM ^
Good luck and good fortune to this blog, which now becomes primarily a left-leaning political site for at least half a year. I don't mean that sarcastically in any way. I bevel guilted several weeks ago when this appeared to be the scenario, and I hope there's a lot of energy in this community to keep contributing in any way they can. Still the best sports blog on the internet.
My reading of the data is not aligned with this decision, but what the hell do I know? The only thing anyone can do is make the best judgment of the facts and act accordingly. We all have to fight for the things in this world we believe in. See Captain America's speech at the end of Winter Soldier. Here is a cell phone.
August 11th, 2020 at 4:22 PM ^
Reality has a very liberal bias.
August 11th, 2020 at 6:44 PM ^
you're not wrong, as with most of social media (and the brick and mortar old time main media outlets too)
August 11th, 2020 at 7:35 PM ^
A fact based bias!
August 11th, 2020 at 3:33 PM ^
B10 making decisions based on health and safety. PAC12 likely will follow.
SEC and ACC will treat this as a political opportunity to steal recruits.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:37 PM ^
More likethe SEC + Clemson.
August 11th, 2020 at 3:43 PM ^
I will give BTN some credit. Dave Revsine was actually taking Warren to task. Warren seems legitimately shook.
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