Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

[BleedorangeinGA]

There are plenty of hospital beds available. Stop with the scare tactics. We’ve never come close to overwhelming the hospitals. But people have died because hospitals have been shut down for surgeries that are needed.

Bass, was at Emory in Atlanta and can tell you there aren’t plenty of beds and the staff is stretched very thin. Not a good time to have medical issues as it’s very slow treatment for emergency service.

 

[scvolfan7]

There are plenty of hospital beds available. Stop with the scare tactics. We’ve never come close to overwhelming the hospitals. But people have died because hospitals have been shut down for surgeries that are needed.

There’s a problem with hospital beds but it’s because doctors are putting people on ventilators. Gotta give them steroids to help reduce inflammation that comes from the cytokines

 

[WesTnVol]

Prophet Star moment: 2 things will happen in the next 2-3 years
1-The real numbers/sats of the Rona virus will come out( they are now compromised by politics and greed)
2-Bender & Bender will have an advertisement for all those who have been harmed by being forced to wear a mask (either by governments or big businesses)

 

[Vols2DaWall]

The selfishness and arrogance of some on here is quite amazing. Wearing a mask reduces transmissions and saves lives. It’s Christ-like and patriotic to do this at this time. I promise you that Tennessee is not immune from becoming overloaded with COVID cases.

I wish some of you had to work and see the ICUs of hospitals. Numbers are increasing, our resources are being stretched thin, and people are dying. Not just dying, but suffering significant morbidity. Listen to healthcare leaders. Hell, listen to our AD, listen to coach Pruitt. We have a really great chance at a vaccine by the winter and can help out a large portion of our society and community.

 

[OrangenSC]

My reasoning has absolutely nothing to do with test anxiety (I suffered from it) and everything to do with the actual test. In every standardized test a student needs almost zero knowledge of whatever subject they're taking. What they do need is to know how to take the test. That's what education is today. It's not teaching a subject anymore. It's all education students on how to take a standardized test. It makes perfect sense because a teacher's job depends on that one test. So, instead of teaching a student all they know about a subject teachers educate their students bin how to take a test. Better test results = keeping their jobs. It also doesn't help that administration pushes test scores in every single meeting for 75% of the meeting. Take standardized testing away and I think students will be much less stressed and will be able to gain more knowledge of the subject they are taking. I'm also all for specializing students in high school. Aka letting them choose their profession early an focus on it.

As a just-retired high school teacher, I approve of this message.

 

[Vols2DaWall]

There’s a problem with hospital beds but it’s because doctors are putting people on ventilators. Gotta give them steroids to help reduce inflammation that comes from the cytokines

Even using decadron, there are tons of people still being intubated. And it’s not mild settings. These people are on high amounts of PEEP and FiO2. And they stay on the vent for a long time. Average ventilator days are insanely long.

 

[RikidyBones]

The selfishness and arrogance of some on here is quite amazing. Wearing a mask reduces transmissions and saves lives. It’s Christ-like and patriotic to do this at this time. I promise you that Tennessee is not immune from becoming overloaded with COVID cases.

I wish some of you had to work and see the ICUs of hospitals. Numbers are increasing, our resources are being stretched thin, and people are dying. Not just dying, but suffering significant morbidity. Listen to healthcare leaders. Hell, listen to our AD, listen to coach Pruitt. We have a really great chance at a vaccine by the winter and can help out a large portion of our society and community.

Listen to health professionals... like these ?

or these

 

[scvolfan7]

Even using decadron, there are tons of people still being intubated. And it’s not mild settings. These people are on high amounts of PEEP and FiO2. And they stay on the vent for a long time. Average ventilator days are insanely long.

Interesting. Do you have any numbers on that?

 

[i2amavol]

The selfishness and arrogance of some on here is quite amazing. Wearing a mask reduces transmissions and saves lives. It’s Christ-like and patriotic to do this at this time. I promise you that Tennessee is not immune from becoming overloaded with COVID cases.

I wish some of you had to work and see the ICUs of hospitals. Numbers are increasing, our resources are being stretched thin, and people are dying. Not just dying, but suffering significant morbidity. Listen to healthcare leaders. Hell, listen to our AD, listen to coach Pruitt. We have a really great chance at a vaccine by the winter and can help out a large portion of our society and community.

I had a friend who was on a ventilator for a couple weeks. He begged me to take it out, it was so uncomfortable. I don't understand why I do not have nightmares about that. I can't imagine how terrible it would be to be alone in a hospital, on a ventilator for several days.

You may not be afraid of that, but you are not the only one whose life is at stake. Everyone's life is potentially at stake.

Excellent post.

 

[UTProf]

woah
I thought wearing masks prevented you from getting it....
That’s what there forcing us to do atleast
If the hospitals didn’t prepare after what happened in the spring then shame on them
More testing equals more cases while dropping the death rate

Your mask protects me. My mask protects you.

As for the hospitals... the simple truth is they can and have prepared wards but they can't use what they don't have. The main thing being vents. This country simply does not have many ICU rooms with ventilators in any area/state. We have the capacity to vent around 20.5 people per 100,000 -- that's it and as you can imagine most of those vents are going to be located in cities with higher populations. Canada can only do 8.7 and others even less. Most illnesses simply don't require the use of ventilators long term and we don't have them on hand to use. No one does (the US has the most and we have a pitiful amount when it comes to what could be required if steps weren't/aren't taken to flatten the curve which is why we've seen such drastic measures taken even under Trump).

To put it in perspective how few vents we have/are needed in normal life... When the Las Vegas shooting happened a few years ago, they pioneered vent sharing because they couldn't handle the casualties otherwise -- simply put there weren't enough vents and that was in a well equipped city with lots of hospitals but a mass shooting was enough to overwhelm the system. In that scenario sharing worked because they had physical trauma rather than communicable illnesses and those patients were not in need of long term vents.

This particular illness very often requires ventilation if you are hospitalized with it -- that is the main issue. And for an added terrifying thought: only about half of the ventilators we have are capable of being used on children.

 

[OrangenSC]

I had a nightmare last night. First play of the first game JG threw into a crowd of players with both sides in black and white uniforms with very little different. The announcers said we had it. Then a player started running the other way and almost ran it all the way in because at first everyone was just standing around in shock. All I could think was not again. Everyone kept looking at each like the GSU game waiting on someone else to do something. It...was...a...nightmare.

I refuse to like this.

 

[Devo182]

If we are still playing on Sept 5th vs Charlotte, surely we are practicing within 2 weeks, no? I feel like I haven't heard a peep about practice from anywhere.

Has anybody heard any rumblings on practice yet? I am ready to get @Fingers'd

 

[volinbama256]

The selfishness and arrogance of some on here is quite amazing. Wearing a mask reduces transmissions and saves lives. It’s Christ-like and patriotic to do this at this time. I promise you that Tennessee is not immune from becoming overloaded with COVID cases.

I wish some of you had to work and see the ICUs of hospitals. Numbers are increasing, our resources are being stretched thin, and people are dying. Not just dying, but suffering significant morbidity. Listen to healthcare leaders. Hell, listen to our AD, listen to coach Pruitt. We have a really great chance at a vaccine by the winter and can help out a large portion of our society and community.

sounds like you work in healthcare.... give us a true/honest profile of these folks highlighted--- Are they young/middle aged/usually healthy people, or are most already high risk, over 60, pre-existing conditions?

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

it isnt hard.

it's the premise of Christianity.

Your theology needs a lot of work

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

This is all a pointless discussion. We aren’t getting sports. We could have had them, but some folks in April and May and June wanted to pretend this was a mild virus and that everything was fine. So now we get nothing. Maybe in 2021.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Bass, was at Emory in Atlanta and can tell you there aren’t plenty of beds and the staff is stretched very thin. Not a good time to have medical issues as it’s very slow treatment for emergency service.

My wife works at a hospital in Atlanta. Not Emory. She got sent home early again today due to lack of work

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

This is all a pointless discussion. We aren’t getting sports. We could have had them, but some folks in April and May and June wanted to pretend this was a mild virus and that everything was fine. So now we get nothing. Maybe in 2021.

Baseball

 

[Orange Studs]

This is all a pointless discussion. We aren’t getting sports. We could have had them, but some folks in April and May and June wanted to pretend this was a mild virus and that everything was fine. So now we get nothing. Maybe in 2021.

You must be referring to the protesters.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Listen to health professionals... like these ? View attachment 293903

or these View attachment 293905

It’s amazing how selective Covid is. If you go to a football game, you hate people and you’re not a Christian. You might kill grandma!

But covid knows when people are protesting and, because it’s such a good cause, it stays away. Thank you medical professionals

 

[BleedorangeinGA]

My wife works at a hospital in Atlanta. Not Emory. She got sent home early again today due to lack of work

I understand and certainly not saying that isn’t the case. All I can go by was my experience in Emory.

 

[Catbone]

There is no clear answer . All I know is


F CHINA

 

[GoBigOrange86]

You must be referring to the protesters.

It’s not monocausal. It’s protests, it’s reopening too soon, it’s bars, it’s people refusing to wear a mask. This country has utterly failed when faced with a monumental problem.

 

[Dooby15]

It’s amazing how selective Covid is. If you go to a football game, you hate peiple and your not a Christian. You might kill grandma!

But covid knows when people are protesting and, because it’s such a good cause, it stays away. Thank you medical professionals

It also doesn’t like non conference games and is less of a virus with in conference play.

 

[Orange Studs]

It’s not monocausal. It’s protests, it’s reopening too soon, it’s bars, it’s people refusing to wear a mask. This country has utterly failed when faced with a monumental problem.

Call what you want. So thousands of people in one area shouting and screaming didn't have any effect on spike? seriously?