Apparently 5 Alabama Players Tested Positive for SARS-CoV-2
There's the link to the tweet.
Tested Tuesday, practiced together Wednesday, results Thursday.
How's this going to work now with coaches and mandated isolation?
Football is going to be a slow mo train wreck this year.
I don’t even understand how this is relevant. Corona is over. When the same politicians screeching about new normal and we can’t do anything until a vaccine are seen out and about with protestors that proves this whole thing is political. We flattened the curve 2 months ago and now that you can burn down a business but not open it up to support your family, we were lied to. We are not just going back into lockdown once these protests burn out.
Preach.
This is going to give a whole new meaning to "SEC bagmen" this year. The SEC will have bagmen running around with bags of coronavirus trying to infect their rival teams. The smart SEC teams (Exhaustive List: Vanderbilt) are purposefully infecting all of their players right now so there will be no surprises come football season.
The SEC, it just means more.
Why the fuck would they practice before the first test results? That’s just stupid
Not all tests are the same. But bogus, leveraged and ef'd interpretations of test results remain the same. The song remains the same.
Hear my song
Yeah... People don't you listen now? Sing along!
My opinion is no less ef'd... but is hyper different from @ wolverine1987...it pretty much always has been... and likely always will be. Those that quote data rarely present it... and instead quote bias.
Serological testing is probably even more dangerous. The response to this pandemic is a problem. The responses to this post are an even bigger problem.
This was and is a public health issue. Very few CFB players are going to die of CoVid19, it is true, even if we swab their helmets and jock straps with fresh SARS CoV 2 which is what Alabama evidently did. I can't say as much for the grandparents or family members of CFB players. I can't say as much for the disproportionate risk to black players and families.
Most of all I can't say. And really, neither can anyone. We are figuring this out as we go.
Sweden is interesting in it's approach and it's health care system. Neither of which applies to phase 1/phase 2 recovery plans or NCAA sports 2020. The plan and history of 2020 is a one off. There will be no redo, but given the tenor of this post likely many re-writes.
I will follow the best plan of the public health officials in charge where my actions affect others. Let's not let innocent, maybe ignorant and certainly biased views persuade others to put others at risk for the sake of Michigan sports. Let's Go Blue!
It's not about you... it never was. It's certainly not about football.
Oops.
"Sweden’s top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight Covid-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.
“If we were to encounter the same illness with the same knowledge that we have today, I think our response would land somewhere in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done,” Anders Tegnell said in an interview with Swedish Radio."
He's commendably admitting he could have done better (rare for public officials). I read that interview and in no way does it undercut the Swedish approach. Every country could have done better. Well maybe not Japan, which also pursued the Swedish approach--Japan isn't even testing and has great numbers. And still be says he wouldn't go full lockdown like other countries. Lastly, in a separate interview he makes clear that nursing home policy was a big part of the death rate and should have changed. And he still says he wouldn't do what other countries have done lockdown wise. No oops there at all.
Apples to Oranges 1987.
If you want to say it is fine to let the weak die. No problem. Come out and say it.
No need ... you already did.
Sweden did that as well with a much much better regional largely socialized medical structure to back it up. We don't have that. They drew a line where we did not.
Which isn't to say we wouldn't have either knowing what we know now. But, of course, we didn't know how bad it would be or who would be most vulnerable.
There was a time during the pandemic (and it's not over) when we thought it might overwhelm our health care system which is nowhere near as solid as Sweden's with respect to the relative populations. If it had, people would have died of non related illness and elective Tommy John like surgery would have been lost to the well off and sport enthused.
You are playing with data in ways that mislead. Japan is not Sweden is not corn fed Amurica. Sure, there are things to learn from other countries and state approaches, but it is an n of 1 for all decisions future and past.
It's easy to second guess Moeller if Desmond dropped the ball. It's hard to swallow a spread punt formation on a supposed last play. Either way, for me, you stick to your team.
My team are the public health officials and epidemiologists doing their civic duty. What team are you on?
You say it is OK to let CoVid spread without testing/tracing and containment amongst CFB players. Many of these players come from populations disproportionately at risk. It's weak to use strength to justify risk to the vulnerable. I think that is what you are doing when you say CFB players are not at risk. You do much worse when you question public health policy with inuendo and "data".
I disagree 1987, as usual. Somethings die hard. A little death may be a good thing in the long run... we just disagree about who dies and when. Go Blue!