Power 5 talking about no fall football

#26
#26
It is.
But I have a question. Medical experts and the media were all anti masks in March and April, they said they did nothing. Then they changed their tune completely. Fauci testified to Congress that he lied to the people to prevent a mask shortage (which happened anyways). So is it any wonder why we can’t trust them? I mean Fauci said that New York did everything right despite having the highest deaths in the nation and around 80% of the nations infections starting in NY. But hey, because their numbers are down now they did it right?
It doesn’t make any sense!!! In California you can swim in the ocean but can’t sit on the beach, in PA I can’t swim in the lake but CAN sit on the beach. In Michigan you could sail on a sail boat but weren’t allowed on a motor boat. How does any of this make sense?
 
#28
#28
China?

Don't blame them. The overreaction is on us, no one else. We've known for months what this is and how to deal with it.
More like the lack of reaction is on us. Had we as a country taken it more seriously from the beginning we may not be in this situation. Had our leaders not turned it into a circus and been prepared for this we may not be in this situation.
 
#31
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More like the lack of reaction is on us. Had we as a country taken it more seriously from the beginning we may not be in this situation. Had our leaders not turned it into a circus and been prepared for this we may not be in this situation.

It's said to be a virus. There isn't much you can do in a semi-free Country with open travel, to prevent this from happening. Sweden had it right. Protect the vulnerable, get to herd immunity as fast as possible and get back to living.

I know in this day and age it's fashionable to try and assign blame to everything, but sometimes there really just isn't a place to assign it.
 
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#33
We shutdown our economy and did untold damage to our Country for years to come and all for what?

Now we are dragging our children into our fear delusions as they sit in virtual classrooms or actual classrooms with a mask on their face.

Yes, we did it to ourselves.
Because of?...
 
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#34
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Article from ESPN. Sources: Power 5 talking about no fall football

“Commissioners of the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting on Sunday, as there is growing concern among college athletics officials that the upcoming football season and other fall sports can't be played because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.

Several sources have indicated to ESPN that Big Ten presidents, following a meeting on Saturday, are ready to pull the plug on its fall sports season, and they wanted to gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences -- the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC -- will fall in line with them.

Sources told ESPN that a vast majority of Big Ten presidents have indicated that they would vote to postpone football season, hopefully to the spring. A Big Ten official confirmed to ESPN that no official vote took place during Saturday's meeting.

“It doesn't look good," one Power 5 athletic director said.

The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first FBS league to postpone the fall sports season, including football.

Presidents and chancellors of the Pac-12 universities are scheduled to meet on Tuesday.

Several sources have told ESPN over the last 48 hours that the postponement or cancellation of the football season seems inevitable. Many of those sources believed that it ultimately will take a Power 5 conference to move things in that direction, and that either the Big Ten or Pac-12 would probably be the first league to do it.

"Nobody wanted to be the first to do it," a Power 5 coach told ESPN, "and now nobody will want to be the last."

A Power 5 administrator added: "It feels like no one wants to, but it's reaching the point where someone is going to have to."

The ACC, Big 12 and SEC have wanted to wait to see what happened after thousands of students returned to their campuses this month, but they might be forced to act if the Big Ten and/or Pac-12 take action this week, the sources said.”

All of a sudden it became a “emergency“ when the commissioners realized that they were going to have to come up with some sort of a definite plan such as making a decision on playing football.
 
#35
#35
Looks like we'll spend far more time on the deer lease this fall.
Even going to throw in a hunting trip to Indiana in November to take the sting out.
 
#37
#37
It is.
But I have a question. Medical experts and the media were all anti masks in March and April, they said they did nothing. Then they changed their tune completely. Fauci testified to Congress that he lied to the people to prevent a mask shortage (which happened anyways). So is it any wonder why we can’t trust them? I mean Fauci said that New York did everything right despite having the highest deaths in the nation and around 80% of the nations infections starting in NY. But hey, because their numbers are down now they did it right?
It doesn’t make any sense!!! In California you can swim in the ocean but can’t sit on the beach, in PA I can’t swim in the lake but CAN sit on the beach. In Michigan you could sail on a sail boat but weren’t allowed on a motor boat. How does any of this make sense?

In March, the guidance was that we shouldn’t buy up all of the masks so that healthcare workers had enough. It wasn’t a secret or a lie, it was everywhere
 
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#38
For what it's worth
A Dr Megremis says Covid is on the decline in US

Tommy Megremis
Yesterday at 1:42 PM ·
The epidemic of COVID-19 is almost over in the USA. Even the recent mitigation measures and mask mandates will make no difference because if effective at all, they are not producing the intended result, which is clear from the infection rate slopes. The virus has reached a critical mass where the exposure is now everywhere we turn. Remember that around 90% of us will not be touched by this virus because of T cell mediated innate immunity, combined with a smaller percentage of adaptive immunity. In prior posts I attempted to establish that because the virus is so contagious that elimination or permanent control was useless and that any measures to mitigate early in the course of the pandemic has only delayed the ultimate outcome. And that can be seen in countries, once lauded such as Greece, Czech Republic and Germany where they are now battling truly surging infection rates as they attempt to open. What is that ultimate outcome? Again I turn to Sweden. It is over for them. Our clumsy efforts at mitigation places us more or less in the same camp with Sweden, except Sweden had no lockdowns and did not mandate them nor did they use masks. Except now because of our nearsighted leaders we are a little behind. We need to make up some pain which is what this recent "surge" is all about. Rather than allow for the natural course of events as did Sweden, we are now making up for the deficit. If you look at the mortality graph below you will see the difference.(you will have to click on the graph to see it entirely) The good news for the US is at current rates, we will be near the bottom of this second hill in about a month. It is hard to predict whether mitigation or lockdown extension will have any effect on this, but if it does, it will only prolong the course of events, not change them. It is clear from infection rates that we are on the downside as well, as you can see in the second graph. So overall we have good news. Mitigation was never a game plan because just like in a war one has to have a clear goal and mitigation was never a clear goal. There was never was an exit strategy. People still believe that if we contain the virus, we can cure the disease and get back to a normal life. That couldn't be further from the truth. If we use Sweden's stats as the gold standard of mortality rate of 0.055%, then we can expect about ~180,000 total deaths in the US. Think about that number compared to a total of 330 million residents. The shut downs that continue and the
deaths and morbidity completely unrelated to the virus being caused as a result, not to mention the economic damage is mind boggling. If our leaders can't see this, then they are truly ignorant and fearful of taking any responsibility for outcomes. Shame on these cowards. The data is now front and center for all to see, all they need to do is look. The relative risk for people has always been so so low, and we have reacted and treated this as if the world were ending. Shameful.


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Was he the same dude ( a gynnie) in the Spring that said:
"Dr. Tommy Megremis predicts 731 will die in U.S from Coronavirus (based on China Numbers)..."

Well, I guess he was sorta right... 731 did die, but it's the other 143,000 that got me worried...
 
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College football leadership is stupid......Here is a stat on corona virus cumulative to August 1, 2020.
deaths from the virus from all across the country age 0 to 24..... 255 total......US population is
330 million. With college football players off campus the dangers will be much, much greater-
drugs, gangs, parties. more contact with elders= ie family members over 65, etc,. The whole world is being duped by fear based on ignoring the facts on the death rate of the corona virus for college students... Utterly ridiculous;;;
 
#42
#42
So if the B1G cancels does that mean that the P12 will finally get a team in the CFP or do we just go with 3 SEC teams and other best team (Clemson/OK)?

It probably means that the Pac-12 would follow suit. And then pretty likely the other Power 5 in turn.
 
#44
#44
If you have an infected Florida team then are you going to allow them to come to Neyland to play a game and expose hundreds, or even thousands, of people they may come into contact with? They would have to stay at hotels and subject food and hotel service workers to possible exposure. If they take a charter they would have more potential exposure to more of their own team members due to air circulation in the cabin.

How would we know the accuracy of the testing in Gainesville before they came here? Would you trust all coaches to be truthful about the testing status of star players?

Due to limited knowledge of the status of an opposing team would a state governor keep that team from entering the state?

Just do not see how you can have a season with these questions. Unless you do not care about the players and people who might be exposed.

And least high school games are regional and involve people of mostly like populations. But mixing people from different geographical regions or states has the greater potential to produce mass cross contamination of the virus.

The prudent thing to do would be make decisions after we get a vaccine which looks like October or November at this point. The decision needs to be made on the basis of health and safety, not on emotion.

Before I get pounded for this I think people should be going back to work and schools need to reopen. That population is local and probably does not bring a contamination factor from outside the region to the local area. But interstate football just does not make sense right now.
What if the vaccine is only 50 to 75 percent effective or even less? That looks like what we will see. Remember that the common cold is made up of corona viruses and rhinoviruses. They got a vaccine for that yet?
 
#45
#45
More like the lack of reaction is on us. Had we as a country taken it more seriously from the beginning we may not be in this situation. Had our leaders not turned it into a circus and been prepared for this we may not be in this situation.

There was no keeping it out. No country in the northern hemisphere has been unscathed. It was here before anyone ever even knew it, then it was too late.
 
#46
#46
College football leadership is stupid......Here is a stat on corona virus cumulative to August 1, 2020.
deaths from the virus from all across the country age 0 to 24..... 255 total......US population is
330 million. With college football players off campus the dangers will be much, much greater-
drugs, gangs, parties. more contact with elders= ie family members over 65, etc,. The whole world is being duped by fear based on ignoring the facts on the death rate of the corona virus for college students... Utterly ridiculous;;;
You have a brain and are using it. Congratulations.
 
#49
#49
I bet you think New York did everything correctly too.

The people of New York didn't do what was right. They quickly suffered for it and changes their tune.

Make no mistake. The people in New York look at us dumb @ss yokels like "didn't you see what just happened to us you fools" they already thought southerners were dumb. We haven't done much to change that stereotype. I have family in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maine. None of them can believe their eyes, especially with what happened in Georgia.
 

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