Whitmer Recommends Moving High School Football to Spring
Just watched her press conference. She stressed that the decision is up to the MHSAA, but she's recommending they consider moving football to the spring, and moving track and other non-contact spring sports to the fall. She said the MHSAA is expected to make a decision on this by July 20 or so.
Seems like this would greatly impact Michigan HS football players in terms of being recruited, unless the rest of the country follows suit.
For us in Michigan, I would agree, and if we can get enough folks to realize and act as if the greater good really is worth prioritizing, we can keep it that way.
I have relatives in Texas, Florida, and Arizona, and friends in Georgia, who wish their governors had taken action earlier. With the rate of increase in Covid-19 cases in those states and others right now, they might be looking to trade up for a Whitmer before long.
Most of the cases are Covids shoved into nursing homes and convenient accounting of positives. Thanks Democratic leaders. Not.
Once the not career politician stops blowing up the lefty Socialist world and gets reelected the third wave is coming.
Then the next set of nonsense.
The Google programmed robots flip position as convenient. Fake people.
What language is that? It sounds like English, but like it’s being spoken by a total moron.
You make the mistake of thinking this isn’t almost 100% political at this point.
Tell that to Governor Abbott and Governor Ducey
I hope you are right. If in several weeks, the growing number of ICU patients are not translating to deaths I’d feel - much better agreeing with your statement.
We are undoubtedly in better shape. Much more testing, greater availability of PPE, while Drs don’t have a silver bullet, they do have tools at their disposal. I just struggle to look at full ICUs in Texas and Arizona and feel like this is remotely under control.
A few numbers for you to consider Nittany.
March 30 - highest US total death up to that date - 672 deaths
June 30 - 529 deaths
Yes the March 30th number is slightly higher, but not consistent with a narrative that based on actual health impacts, we were in much worse shape. Deaths did rise pretty quickly after that. April 1st was the first day we exceeded 1000 deaths. Hopefully we are not following a similar trajectory here.
I simply ask you to read the numbers, the survival curves of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Facts are facts even if we knew nothing about the virus.
A 100 years ago, we knew far far less about the Spanish flu, which was far more deadly and killed far more young and healthy, yet it was gone completely after two years. I am not saying that COVID-19 necessarily follow the same path, but it going away on its one is not heresy.
It's not necessarily the mortality rate, it's the mortality rate * potential victims that make it dangerous. The sheer number of people who could be hospitalized at one time. (Theoretically) 0% were immune to Covid 19 on Jan 1. 0.5% * 328 million is a large number.
That's the whole flattening the curve thing everyone forgot about 2 minutes after the lock-down went into effect.
The common flu is generally not killing 100s of people a day in June.
You're right - flu deaths are Nov - March and thousand die each year
Pop quiz: guess the last year influenza killed 125,000 Americans in 4 months.
Roughly 50ish years ago...not arguing either side of this, but in the 50s and 60s, flu killed 100,000+ in a single flu season once each decade.
It’s very admirable to see you’ve decided that the “IT’S JUST THE FLU DAMNIT!” hill is the one that you’re going to die on no matter how stupid it is.
If they moved track to the fall then you're basically cancelling cross country, which seems weird.
I don't blame anyone for struggling with these decisions right now. Vaccine developmeny seems to be going well, but it's still unlikely to be generally available until mid-2021 at this rate.
I quite like the idea. It makes sense this year, and possibly beyond.
I think it would improve interest in high school football as well - no football competition for eyeballs and fan interest from the colleges and NFL, and I think a lot of folks and families would much rather sit outside and watch a football game on an April/May/June evening in Michigan than late October or November.
Preseason training camp might be more difficult to arrange and carry out, but we'd see (Fewer summer heat exhaustion health risks as well).
The problem with exchanging spring and fall sports is you run the risk of HS seniors missing out on their spring sport for the 2nd consecutive time, can't do it, just start the fall season and if there has to be a shut-down, figure it out in the spring.
Excellent Point! Just imagine you're in Track & Field and your season is canceled yet again b/c your sport got moved to the danger zone in order to protect football.
Where did the nickname “big gretch” come from? Is that something her or her staff came up with?
You don't want to know.
A Detroit rapper got her some white buffs
Also stretchin Gretchen but that hasn’t gone viral
It sure should LOL
Sheer stupidity. Is it really going to be a healthier activity in March/April than September/October? Where does the football team practice? On the same field as Soccer/Lacrosse? In the gym with Basketball?
You swap the fall and spring sports across the board. Problem solved..
It gets volleyball out of the gym and swimming and diving out of the pool in the fall. There are no indoor spring sports, so everything that you moved to fall would be outdoors.
re: the effects on Michigan high school athletes and their chances of being recruited:
- that's only a small % of the total number of athletes competing
- many have been offered and verbally committed prior to their senior season anyway
- the better athletes will not go without offers
- with the early-signing and other developments, the NLI day no longer has the significance it once had.
- many schools will have a better idea later in the spring of their roster needs and scholarship availability
- there's the possibility that other states may follow suit, in which case:
- I'm sure NCAA recruiters currently are and will adjust
- if this does take place, I could easily imagine some sort of combines (taking the necessary precautions) for high school seniors taking place in winter or even the fall before
- it may increase some red-shirting (or gray-shirting) for some, but in many cases, that might work in the student-athlete's best interest
- this is (for now) a one-off situation, which everyone (especially recruiters) are well aware of.
Gretchen is one of the dumbest shits in this world. Every time she opens her mouth the air head is obvious.
Awwww poor Mongo. Show me on the doll where Gretchen touched you.
Why does she look so hot in this picture?
It's the tousled hair.
That's an old picture. I mean a young picture. I mean, you know what I mean.
Weird penis fixation you have.
Weird Stretchin' Gretchen fixation you have.
She is lost in a liberal drain. Safety & being smart doesn't override freedom. Unless you need government to hold your hand.
Go to an airport and, when they demand to search your bags and put you through the metal detector, yell “SAFETY DOESN’T OVERRIDE MY FREEDOM!”
Let me know how it goes.
Dude I get it, you’re stupid. You don’t have to keep convincing me, I totally acknowledge it.
You sound like such a cuck. Stop attacking everyone that doesn't agree with you and move back to the CHOP Zone.
Jesus dude.
Cuck. CHOP Zone?
Do you have a fucking shred of self awareness? Are you 14?
I recommend not incentivizing low quality nursing homes to take in covid positive patients when they take care of ppl who happen to be in a very high risk demographic for the virus. Maybe save a couple thousand lives. But that’s just me.
This study actually suggests that quality of the nursing home had less of an impact than you’d think:
‘Differences in nursing homes’ federal quality ratings and profit status have no bearing on the probability of COVID-19 infections, a University of Chicago researcher said during testimony before the U.S. Senate on Thursday — but preliminary data does indicate a strong connection between race and coronavirus outbreaks.“
“Nursing homes with the lowest percent [of] white residents were more than twice as likely to have cases or deaths as those with the highest percent [of] white residents.”
“We conclude from this analysis that while some nursing homes undoubtedly had better infection control practices than others, the enormity of this pandemic, coupled with the inherent vulnerability of the nursing home setting, left even the highest-quality nursing homes largely unprepared,” Konetzka said.”
Doesn’t change the overall point. The states with some of highest death tolls had a large amount from nursing homes. When you incentivize taking in covid positive ppl of all ages, the facilities that are low rated most likely struggle with funding and will jump all over it. Either way, even high quality nursing homes weren’t equipped to treat these ppl. So why make it an option at all? That’s how that kid was able to film himself beating that old man. She isn’t infallible. If ppl are going to defend, without question, that decision then rational discourse is long gone.
That video of the big young "roommate" repeatedly punching that helpless old man in the head was absolutely disgusting. How in the hell was that situation ever created? Just imagine what else goes on in some of these "care" facilities that never comes to light.
One reason Ohio hasn't suggested this idea is because that shift would mean typical fall sports would not miss a season (having played in the fall of '19 and then again in the spring of '21), but the spring seasons could suffer back-to-back cancelled/shortened seasons if things get out of control again.
Imagine being a baseball kid and having your junior season canceled and your senior season moved ahead, only to be cut short due to growing concerns.
This! (always wanted to make that pithy reply and now it's off my bucket list)
If kids are going to be in school, what difference would this make?
She's trying to micro manage a virus. Let these poor kids have their lives. Literally zero percent chance of dying of covid at their age per CDC website.
"Literally zero" ? You know that zero is an absolute number, correct?
Link please?
(Edit @11:45pm)
I just saw a Reuters story that the US set a new record Tuesday with over 47,000 cases.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN2412TA
Earlier today I saw a couple reports that Dr. Fauci warned Monday of the possibility of over 100,000 new cases/day within weeks if our country doesn't step up efforts to control the recent surge.
How can you possibly claim that "literally zero" deaths will occur in the younger population with numbers like these right now?
A) Doesn't know what "literally" means
B) is ignorant/stupid
C) enjoys positing misinformation
D) is a Sith
Some folks are operating on the notion that no young people have health issues that make them vulnerable. It seems many are desperate to defend their hopes, and in doing so are betraying their own capacity for critical thinking.