Football isn’t happening...

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Delmar said:
Sounds simple. Then why haven’t the schools made that choice already? A good ambulance chaser doesn’t need facts on his side. Just create some reasonable doubt and hysteria and you can make lots of money.
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Society cannot be scared to live. That’s all there is to this. If you’re scared of getting sick, watch the game from home. This shi+ has to end.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
If I had to make a prediction, I would say we'll hear early next week that the SEC plans to do a conference only schedule as well.

And then in early August we'll see the season get pushed to the Spring. Just a feeling.
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There is a date that all SEC authorities that is a drop-dead (the season) date. Early August works but not a hair later.
 
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Delmar said:
One death might be too many if it gets laid at the feet of the university and it’s found they didn’t do enough to prevent it. One death could be a multi-million lawsuit for the school and a lot of schools may not want to take the chance. And don’t say it can’t happen. The manufacturer of Roundup herbicide has lost case after case on unscientific data and on nothing more than hype from environmental groups and activist judges who think they know more than the scientists. It wouldn’t take much for a good ambulance chaser to drum up public sentiment to get a few deaths pinned on a school due to COVID exposure and then the millions of dollars pile up. This is what the schools are saddled with deciding right now.
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Respectfully, although legal liability is a piece of this puzzle, I don't think that's the overriding concern. It's public perception and optics. Almost all of these colleges and universities are public, taxpayer funded institutions. How does it look when the colleges don't have their general student population on campus (or severely limit on-campus attendance) and at the same time require unpaid student athletes to show up, practice and play, which will obviously put them at greater risk? Also, as an article posted above indicates, it is becoming more likely that test kits will once again become scarce. People with symptoms showing up at emergency rooms can't get tested, but the college down the street is hoarding test kits so it can test student athletes weekly? Just so they can play a game? Sorry, to the general public, that looks asinine. Or worse. That's what's driving the decision makers. Not so much fear of lawsuits. JMHO.
 
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sjt18 said:
So basically the politics of fear and the threat of lawsuits should stop us from living? Are you ready to apply that to every part of American life?
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Not for me. I’ll keep on living. But I’m not the university with a big decision to make either. Again, if all this was as simple as some folks say, the decision would have already been made. There are reasons that it hasn’t. Personal decision is that I wouldn’t attend a game in a full stadium or even half full but, then again, I care about my health and some family members with health issues that I would not want exposed. And I couldn’t give a red rat’s rear end if that makes me a “sheeple” or not. Nobody else’s opinion on that matters to me. I’ll just watch it on TV (if played) and play more golf this fall with the extra time and I’m good with that. Everybody else can do as they please.
 
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MAUSERWERKE said:
Respectfully, although legal liability is a piece of this puzzle, I don't think that's the overriding concern. It's public perception and optics. Almost all of these colleges and universities are public, taxpayer funded institutions. How does it look when the colleges don't have their general student population on campus (or severely limit on-campus attendance) and at the same time require unpaid student athletes to show up, practice and play, which will obviously put them at greater risk? Also, as an article posted above indicates, it is becoming more likely that test kits will once again become scarce. People with symptoms showing up at emergency rooms can't get tested, but the college down the street is hoarding test kits so it can test student athletes weekly? Just so they can play a game? Sorry, to the general public, that look asinine. Or worse. That's what's driving the decision makers. Not so much fear of lawsuits. JMHO.
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Good points and I agree to a point. Liability isn’t all of it. Perception and appearance are very important to schools and businesses. That’s why all these entities put out statements condemning racism after the recent mess. Whether they actually believe it and support it are two entirely different things. They look better doing it.! But again, I ask the question. If liability isn’t a big piece of it, why are these schools demanding the athletes sign releases?
 
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Delmar said:
Not for me. I’ll keep on living. But I’m not the university with a big decision to make either. Again, if all this was as simple as some folks say, the decision would have already been made. There are reasons that it hasn’t. Personal decision is that I wouldn’t attend a game in a full stadium or even half full but, then again, I care about my health and some family members with health issues that I would not want exposed. And I couldn’t give a red rat’s rear end if that makes me a “sheeple” or not. Nobody else’s opinion on that matters to me. I’ll just watch it on TV (if played) and play more golf this fall with the extra time and I’m good with that. Everybody else can do as they please.
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If that is truly your reasoning then have you avoided going for fear of bringing the flu back to a vulnerable family member?

Politics are the reason there is any doubt whatsoever. This is a bad virus. But it isn't SARS or MERS bad. It isn't even as bad as some of the influenza strains that have broken out and killed lots of people.

Fauci was never more correct than when he wrote that this will likely end up being not much different than a severe flu season back in February. Covid is unlikely to reach even half the number of cases of a typical flu season. There is little chance that hospitalizations will reach the level of a typical flu season. The difference in mortality is very much due to the failure to count deaths associated with the two viruses the same way.

You are being manipulated by a narrative. You are being convinced that the Emperor's new clothes are the most beautiful ever made... as he rides down the street naked. The numbers COULD someday justify the hysteria (I doubt it but it could)... so far they do not.
 
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Behr said:
I'd also like the link to VolAllens info that all 2400 people he's been in contact with didn't have the Rona.

Obviously he wouldn't lie about that but Jack would about 5 people dieing.
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I just think it would have been big news
 
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MAUSERWERKE said:
The telling paragraph:

'A team doctor provided a startling example [of how scarcity of testing kits could affect athletics]. In one southern city recently, a testing site for those feeling ill ran out of tests within minutes of opening. Several blocks away, a university athletic department was conducting tests of asymptomatic athletes that, eventually this August, will bang into one another only to be tested again and again each week. “At that point, how do you justify sports?” says the team physician who wished to remain anonymous. “That’s why it’s all going to come to a crashing halt.” '
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Easy, just don't test athletes unless they feel sick. They are in the peak shape of their lives, and the risk of them dying is almost zilch. Anyone who works with them that is vulnerable needs to take precautions.
 
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