Georgia 247 thread discussing their covid protocols
Per a Georgia 247 staff member:
"Players and staffers who test positive are required to quarantine 10 days from when symptoms began.
I've done some digging on the testing out of the COVID protocol and I believe the rule is the individual must test negative twice and 24 hours apart in order to exit quarantine early. As of right now, there's no surveillance testing at all, to my knowledge, unless the individual is unvaccinated. Players who show COVID symptoms are tested."
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:54 AM ^
I mean is your primary goal with testing to protect the individual or the community? Because if an asymptomatic person can spread the disease and you know they were exposed they should absolutely get tested and isolate if positive.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
This is America. No one gives a flying fuck about community.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:20 PM ^
Hey now, that show was great!!!
#sixseasonsandamovie
December 23rd, 2021 at 1:28 PM ^
It's very unfortunate, but for a huge segment of America you are 100% correct and it saddens me greatly.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:27 AM ^
I think it's been policy for a while that if you're unvaccinated you still need tests but if you're vaccinated you only need a test with symptoms. Either way, I see a Nick Saban situation coming up where they get negative tests and show no symptoms, regardless of what's actually going on.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:29 AM ^
That's how I read it, too. Also, I have scoured everywhere and can find little to nothing on official CFP covid protocols. Maybe the CFP Committee is leaving vague for max flexibility, but it seems as of right now the teams are in charge of their own protocols. I even checked the Orange Bowl and Hard Rock Stadium websites. As far as I can tell, their is no vax mandate for anyone. And no mask mandate except for unvaxed Hard Rock Stadium employees. They recommend mask usage for guests, but do dot mandate it. I am not sure this even falls under SEC or B1G control, because it is not a conference game and the game is at a neutral site.
December 22nd, 2021 at 1:02 PM ^
Thank God they're playing this game in Florida! No chance anyone will overstep their bounds!
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:57 AM ^
Yes that sounds correct. A georgia reporter said today that JT Daniels was vaccinated and showing symptoms. Going to be a long, nightmarish 10 days until the game.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:27 AM ^
People should only be tested if they have symptoms. At this point, everyone is either vaxxed or has chosen not to be, and this strain is much more mild. The testing of perfectly healthy and 3x vaxxed people is just silly, and finds too many false positives. Also, asymptomatic people cannot spread this, this has been know for a long time now. We have to adjust with all this new info.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:42 AM ^
Also the earth is flat, this has been know for a long time now
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:43 AM ^
Asymptomatic can absolutely spread it.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^
On this thread we have one poster saying that asymptomatic carriers can spread COVID and another saying that they can't. Yay, internet!
As for the severity of Omicron--what I've read is that data suggests it may be milder, but some caveats apply. I can't remember the details, but other factors in South Africa (the younger population, the level of immunity in the population) may explain why Omicron cases were milder.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:11 PM ^
Compare the plots of cases vs. deaths for the previous waves in South Africa vs. the current wave (you can do this easily on Google). Same thing in the UK. The much lower death rate in the Omicron wave is pretty remarkable (and a good thing!). This is comparing waves in the same population, not something unique to SA. It’s also the expected progression of a viral pandemic (more contagious, less deadly is what evolution would tend to select for).
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:48 AM ^
didn't know Dr. Joe Rogan was a Mgoblog reader
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:52 AM ^
Asymptomatic people can indeed spread Covid. Fight misinformation... please.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:35 PM ^
Where people get confused is with asymptomatic cases being less likely to spread than someone who is showing symptoms.
Source University of Georgia. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210826170205.htm
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:55 AM ^
Asymptomatic people can absolutely spread a virus. Ask the Aztecs.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
From the very beginning with SARS-CoV-2 or "Covid Classic," asymptomatic individuals are not just contagious, but may be at peak contagiousness. Recall that symptoms are the result of the immune response, not viral load. The immune response lags a few days behind, thus so do the symptoms (this wasn't true with SARS or MERS because they didn't enter cells as efficiently upon infection).
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
Here I had this wrong all along listening to virologists, infectious disease experts and even my Doctor.
Thanks for clearing this up...apparently these idiots need a couple more years of medical schooling.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:30 PM ^
ZERO scientific proof omicron is more mild.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^
So important I had to say it twice. ZERO scientific proof omicron is more mild.
December 22nd, 2021 at 2:45 PM ^
There’s actual multiple studies out as of today to suggest omicron is more mild. 80% less likely to result in hospitalization (South Africa) & 66% less likely to result in hospitalization (Scotland).
Seems way too early to be confident in this data, but encouraging nonetheless. Give it another 2-4 weeks before we have a better understanding of the severity.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:30 AM ^
Any public record of UM's protocols? When is their last round of testing before the Orange Bowl?
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:55 AM ^
The CFP is an opportunity of a lifetime for these kids (and coaches).
They should all be brought back together, isolated in the submarine, and tested every day.
I know it's Christmas, but college sports teams often have activities scheduled over the Christmas holiday. And for nothing as big as the CFP.
If you let players go back to their home towns now and mingle with whomever, you are just asking for them to get Omicron.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:05 PM ^
I wouldn't let the submarine leave Ann Arbor until Tuesday or Wednesday. Fly them back to Miami for Spring Practice to see what they'll miss next week.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:33 AM ^
I posted about C19 being a wild card with teams, sports scheduling, and bowl games in general and idiots like M(oron) forLife jumped down my throat for even mentioning it. That was followed by an idiot copying9 and pasting year old data on the alpha and delta variants as if he/she/they were some kind of authority.
So I don't see this thread ending well.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:37 AM ^
The negative test twice 24 hrs apart is an NFL rule. Don't know that I've heard about it being used in NCAA. Aside from one random comment on a message board, does anyone know if it's true?
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:08 PM ^
I don't think the NCAA has any control over bowl game covid protocols, especially the six CFP controlled bowls. The FBS conferences have contracted together and established a committee to control those six bowls.
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^
The vast majority of us will get omicron. Just gotta make sure your body is best equipped to fight it
December 22nd, 2021 at 11:52 AM ^
Just like the cold or the flu. Gotta learn how best to live with it.
December 22nd, 2021 at 1:50 PM ^
Please let's not open that can again. Everyone has their "opinion" at this point, and no one is changing their mind. I don't understand the need to get these little comments in all the time.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:11 PM ^
Equipped to fight it = being vaccinated.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:30 PM ^
And boosted.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:36 PM ^
And masked.
December 22nd, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
And not eating ass
December 22nd, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
4 out 5 dentists recommend eating ass
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
And if you’re gonna catch it, best to catch Omicron opposed to Delta. Natural immunity plus vaccine protection is probably the best you can be, but of course not feasible for all
December 22nd, 2021 at 5:02 PM ^
Or be one of the 160 million americans who have had it.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
I'm ready, alcohol kills germs and I have plenty of that. Bring it on!
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
I sure would like to see the playoffs take place with all four schools sporting virtually full rosters. Not interested in seeing asterisks next to the winner’s name, especially if it reads “Michigan.”
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:14 PM ^
After the last decade or so I've learned that asterisks are only applied by the losers and are not acknowledged by almost everyone else. ESPN, media, Analysts, Recruits, none of them remember the details they just remember who won.
Just win!
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:37 PM ^
There's a huge asterisk on our loss this year that virtually all of the CFB world recognizes as an asterisk.
Our win against OSU in 2011 will always feel like an asterisk win to me.
If Michigan barely beats a half strength Georgia then loses to a full strength Bama, or barely beats both of them while they are both at half strength then all you're going to hear about is how it took covid for the B1G to beat the SEC.
Any recruit seriously considering ANY of these schools is ALSO going to be looking at all of these factors.
So, gotta say I disagree.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
The CFB world recognizes the asterisk on the MSU loss in the context of this year, but it’s not going to stop people from including it in the “Harbaugh can’t beat Mel Tucker / Harbaugh can’t consistently beat his rivals” narrative next year. Hell, the 2015 loss featured even worse officiating and is still only remembered as “trouble with the punt” (itself a pretty fluky way to lose) and one more rivalry loss.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:15 PM ^
I don't quite understand the asterisk thing. Nobody is putting an asterisk next to Alabama's championship last year.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:39 PM ^
They should put one next to Alabama's win over Texas when Colt McCoy got hurt on the first drive.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
I say fuck it, win* the* whole* thing*.
December 22nd, 2021 at 3:06 PM ^
Banners >>>>>>> subjective asterisks - so fuck how it goes down. Just win.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
I think I speak for the majority here when I say I’m done with covid.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
OK, but COVID’s not done with us. Good luck getting a virus to respect your take.
December 22nd, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
COVID-badger don't care.