Covid Outbreak on Oklahoma football team
https://mobile.twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1294703786699763717
2 straight weeks of 0 new cases among OU players
students return to campus last week
9 new Covid cases on OU team reported today
August 15th, 2020 at 3:47 PM ^
Damn you 2020!!!
Chances other Power 5 Conferences fold? 65%?
August 15th, 2020 at 3:50 PM ^
Waiting for the poster who was excited that 99.7% of Notre Dame students reported to campus without CoVID, as some sign that the season was fated to carry forth.
August 15th, 2020 at 3:53 PM ^
ND has had 44 positive cases with 10% positive test rate since that initial round
check out this trend line in one freaking week
August 15th, 2020 at 5:23 PM ^
UNC is having similar challenges
https://abc11.com/unc-identifies-cluster-of-covid-19-cases-at-sigma-nu-fraternity/6372151/
Can’t imagine being a freshman and being quarantined your first week of school.
August 15th, 2020 at 10:47 PM ^
Had this convo with a my gf the other day. Feel absolutely terrible for kids from elementary school to college age. They have and are missing out on so much socialization. Such a shitty situation.
August 15th, 2020 at 11:00 PM ^
Needlessly.
August 16th, 2020 at 8:57 AM ^
Neither can the current freshmen. Look at all the party videos on Twitter. Football isn't happening and some of these places may have to pull back on plans for in-person classes and further limit campus housing.
August 20th, 2020 at 5:00 AM ^
Note: UNC cancelled in-person classes the day after this comment. Good job, self.
August 15th, 2020 at 4:28 PM ^
99.9. But I don't mind if various reactionary coaches and sentiments get exposed first.
August 15th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
100%
August 15th, 2020 at 5:08 PM ^
The BIG10 guidelines say it’s about at least a month before the athletes that test positive can play.
https://www.si.com/college/indiana/football/big-ten-cardiologists-report-covid-19-heart-damage
So one outbreak can probably effect 10-40 players if they are shedding virus asymptotically during a practice. That wipes out the team. It makes no sense to even try to play.
August 15th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Sorry all, no football. We had a chance but ijohnb, NittanyFan, J, and freelion all made the decision 3 months ago that their constitutional right to sit down at Applebee’s was more important. Soooo here we are.
August 15th, 2020 at 4:02 PM ^
Please stop. This is a virus that is spreading throughout the country. It is going to spread. Masks will slow the spread but it’s still going to spread and some football players will get it. Not every headline needs the response that it’s all because some people disagree on masks.
August 15th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
I'd be inclined to agree if not for what's happening in the rest of the world.
August 15th, 2020 at 4:21 PM ^
I’m kinda confused by what you mean, TBH. The US isn’t in the highest positive rate group (many other countries are) and LARGE swaths of the rest of the world report no data whatsoever. I wear a mask, I support wearing masks, but I honestly just don’t know what you mean.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoothed
August 15th, 2020 at 4:41 PM ^
Stop it you're ruining a perfectly good simple minded narrative
August 16th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
So the 94 who upvoted your "tongue in cheek" comment are being trolled then? Brilliant!!
August 16th, 2020 at 12:59 PM ^
Yeah dude, respiratory viruses are fake news.
August 15th, 2020 at 5:00 PM ^
That's sort of a meaningless stat that doesn't really back up any kind of argument. Other (3rd world? Less developed?) countries who are probably only testing sick people have a higher positive rate? *gasp* Denominators matter. How about cases per million population?
Indonesia has 502 cases per million while the US is at 16,666 per million. Argentina ~6k, Mexico ~4k, etc.
August 15th, 2020 at 5:37 PM ^
We’ll let you percolate on the flaw in your logic...
August 15th, 2020 at 6:03 PM ^
This does not mean what you seem to think it means or perhaps what you want to suggest it means. But of course you probably know that already.
By all reasonable measures the US has by far the worst government response in the entire world. It’s not even disputable anymore.
Government actions can reduce the number of cases and more indirectly the number of deaths. Do it as a total or per pop. Do it for any G20 or Top 30 industrialized country. Do it for any country with a significant population. Otherwise don't waste our time.
August 15th, 2020 at 7:29 PM ^
You might know that those things are sortable data points in the the subset of charts on that site... had you looked. But... nah.
August 15th, 2020 at 8:06 PM ^
Well then shouldn’t you have cited that relevant data, rather than the immaterial data you referenced in your post.
August 16th, 2020 at 11:22 AM ^
By all reasonable measures the US has by far the worst government response in the entire world. It’s not even disputable anymore.
We are down there. But the clown show going on in Mexico is on a different level. They still won't test on a large scale and President AMLO (who has said that an amulet will protect him) won't wear a mask until "corruption ends."
Every expert agrees that Mexico's real Covid numbers are far, far higher than the official numbers they're releasing (which still aren't good). They've barely conducted a million tests of their population of 125 million and half have been positive.
August 16th, 2020 at 5:51 PM ^
If it makes anyone feel better, Brazil's response has been even worse. Sure, given our resources we should have done a lot better, but without accounting for relative wealth, Brazil has been worse.
August 15th, 2020 at 6:10 PM ^
I’m kinda confused by what you mean, TBH. The US isn’t in the highest positive rate group (many other countries are) and LARGE swaths of the rest of the world report no data whatsoever. I wear a mask, I support wearing masks, but I honestly just don’t know what you mean.
You're kinda confused, but I'm really confused. Here's a chart of deaths from Covid from the same website you cited. At first glance it doesn't look so bad. We expect the USA to have more deaths since our population is greater. Then you notice the scale on the left. The USA has a daily death toll averaging around 1000. A lot of these other countries are right around 0, after hitting their peaks around the same time we did back in April.
Are you saying we're doing fine relative to other countries because of our positive test rate %? Or are you saying we're doing well because there are a lot of third world countries who don't have our resources to do testing? I guess I really don't understand what you mean, because the numbers that seem the most important to me are just dreadful.
August 15th, 2020 at 6:12 PM ^
Yea but what matters more?
aggregate data? Or the opinion of one man on twitter? Let’s cherry pick another Covid truther MD telling us why this is blown out of proportion
August 15th, 2020 at 8:26 PM ^
I swear people believe America is this otherworldly super-power that other countries should genuflect toward whenever they are in its presence when they want to flex, yet when it comes to something like COVID-19 it's all "hey, at least we report our positive rate unlike Bolivia".
Again, the US has a positive test rate closer to Iran, India, and Senegal than they do Italy, Germany, Sweden, Japan, China, etc. Is America the worst country in terms of his handling of COVID-19? No. It is depressing that the richest, most powerful nation in the world by most metrics is in that conversation? Yep.
August 15th, 2020 at 11:43 PM ^
It’s almost as if we should have a pandemic response team or something of the sort....
August 15th, 2020 at 10:32 PM ^
C’mon Clarence. Don’t be the independent thinker on the board. Fall in line like the rest of the sheep voluntarily being led around by the nose ring of fear.
August 15th, 2020 at 11:14 PM ^
Fox News rules! We are doomed.
August 16th, 2020 at 12:57 AM ^
and by that reasoning we should listen to Alex Jones---you know, as an "independent thinker".
August 16th, 2020 at 7:45 AM ^
Alex Jones is an idiot. Do better.
August 16th, 2020 at 2:57 PM ^
Seriously? That was obviously the point.
August 16th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
The conclusion that someone with a bit of reading comprehension would draw from my statement would be that I wouldn’t listen to someone that I thought was an idiot Therefore your statement about me listening to him was false. Follow me here big guy.
August 18th, 2020 at 7:37 PM ^
You keep missing the point.
August 16th, 2020 at 11:33 AM ^
You nitwit.
Do you people ever say anything of substance? All I keep seeing are stupid fucking platitudes, and catchy words like "sheep", or "narrative". That, or ridiculously bad faith arguments, you didn't even provide that. Either say something coherent, or shut the fuck up.
August 16th, 2020 at 9:47 PM ^
Is that like your catchy word of “idiot” that you called someone below?
August 15th, 2020 at 4:13 PM ^
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out ideas!
August 15th, 2020 at 4:19 PM ^
The fact that you consider "disagreeing on masks" to be a valid view that can be held during a pandemic shows how fucked we are as a country
August 15th, 2020 at 11:11 PM ^
If you really want to do something that will make an actual difference, fire up a hazmat suit. People pick their masks, take them on/off, etc etc...virtually worthless.
Btw, Fauci also mentioned goggles help, so we are getting closer and closer to full on hazmat.
August 16th, 2020 at 12:23 PM ^
"People pick their masks, take them on/off, etc etc...virtually worthless."
And this just shows how uneducated you are about the topic. Peddling the same mask talking points from April. Really? Lol
August 15th, 2020 at 5:36 PM ^
The disease is going to spread, yes. But the main cause of spread, by far, is lack of social distancing. And the jackasses who don't wear masks are the biggest spreaders. To suggest otherwise is absurd.
August 16th, 2020 at 2:26 AM ^
August 15th, 2020 at 6:04 PM ^
But the reason it is spreading is because there are people who decided that it was necessary to be out and about, and without a mask, and in restaurants. No, we’ve had to endure the small facts faction saying it was no big deal and would go away for four months.
There would not be this many cases happening on campus if people isolated from each other. There could’ve been a different outcome, which is why folks belabor the point.
August 15th, 2020 at 6:49 PM ^
So young people didn’t wear masks and packed bars. They fucked up. They have to deal with the consequences along with everyone else
August 16th, 2020 at 11:40 AM ^
It isn't just young people. Most of the idiots that I see out without masks are middle aged, or older.
August 15th, 2020 at 11:06 PM ^
Wear tinfoil hats, not masks.
August 16th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
It isn't just that "people disagree on masks". It's that the president of the country has been actively obstructing the response and discouraging his minions from cooperating with measures to stop the virus. As a result, 170,000 Americans have died in five months. And we are going to blow through the 200,000 upper estimate that Fauci gave at the end of March in about five weeks.
Conservatives are willing to destroy the country so that their in-group can feel like they are in control. If they are willing to kill 200,000 people, killing democracy is nothing to them.