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cHiZzLeVOL said:
Stop comparing the US to other countries especially small countries Italy’s population is 60,317,000 the US population is 328,200,000 that difference is 5.44 if you are saying Italy’s cases are at 200 new a day multiply that by 5.44 which puts the average case rate at over 1,000 for a population our size.

Hence Italy is not in a better situation.
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He compared the whole of Italy to just the state of Tennessee though....
 
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tnhunter 10 said:
I know if you show up at my wife's ER with covid symptoms, you will be prescribed a z-pak, zinc, vitd and vitamin c.
My wife has to wear an N95 under a surgical mask, gown up head to toe and wear a faceshield. The cases have increased in the Tr-Cities.
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Your wife is obviously seeing new cases in real time but yesterday for some reason the number of cases reported to the state from the 4-county region of that area really surged relative to the previous day's reported number of active cases.

Even though the numbers are increasing the rate of spread appears to be declining albeit from astronomical rates to begin with. For reference the rate of spread for the entire state was reported at 1.06 yesterday.

The Covid hospitalization rate for the entire state is 4.5% of cases so if the area is anywhere in line with that then I’m guessing something like 50-60 people are in the hospitals there right now.

Tell your wife that the good folks on VolNation genuinely appreciate her service and our thoughts are for her safety.

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hello fellas. I have no idea how long it’s been but probably that vandy game , 2018. I got sick so I figured I’d say I can see the risk for anyone with underlying health issues. I get results tomorrow, it’s gone already, I’m symptom free, but I was very sick for about 36 hours. I’m in great health and I’m not for sure yet what flu like virus I had but my body purged itself without my participation for a day then I slept a day then it left. I had occasional random chills Friday through Sunday then felt fine Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday my (something’s off) meter was going off and I had no energy. Couldn’t stay awake and alert enough to drive. So combined with the weird chills I determined it’s time to go swab. Stopped at the house and didn’t leave it came down thru my failed stop sign no brakes , my body decided it wants this out. So I was very sick and symptoms were the purging , inability to stay awake I slept in some places I didn’t intend to, and hiccups , once I was all fluids I got hiccups and was throwing up into my mouth a lot of the times so I went grape koolaid for that because most everything was already unpleasant enough. That’s it no fever just those random chills, I got it out, and I slept. It left just like that now I finally caught a break, home, it’s hot, I want to say I see the danger because I got pretty sick for a minute, but the flu to me is worse because it’s a week usually. I feel if that was COVID we are doing more damage exaggerating this than helping because it’s basically the same as the flu going around we just have any knowledge so it’s overreacted. I know some may not be as healthy and more at risk but I’d take my week of summer with the kids back, baseball, fall camp, and risk getting the flu living my life Like I do every winter at flu season. Just put some water, Gatorade, grape koolaid and a box of disposable plumbing rags or something by your spot within reach of warm running water, then just Iive your life I’d go thru it again for my week with babies and some vols football .
 
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jordan4vols said:
My covid test came back positive. Still have had no symptoms except allergy like sneezing 10 days ago. Ran 2.5 miles last night. Hopefully I’ll remain asymptomatic.
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It could be positive from the coronavirus that causes the common cold. There are other strains that produce positives. Be careful now though, a certain subset of people who get it go thru an immune response overdrive and the cytokine problem. Good luck
 
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I’ve been reading the usual hype on Kentucky coming into fall camp and some of their fans are dumbfounded that almost everyone expects them to lose to Tennessee. They don’t understand why anyone should think Tennessee has a better team from a conference perspective for 2020.

They think that they have recruited just as well as Tennessee and honestly I guess if you squinted really hard maybe they’re close to being right. Their team talent composite in 2019 ranked #34. Tennessee was only at #16. They had 15 blue chips on their roster last year while Tennessee only had 33. They signed the #25 best recruiting class for 2020 with 7 blue chips while Tennessee was only able to bring in a class ranked #10 and could only convince 13 blue chips to sign on the dotted line.

Okay, so their claim to recruiting parity with us is delusional. I mean I don’t know how else to describe it.

The other issue I have with their fans is they think they had just as good of a football team as we had last year. It’s true their final record last year was 8-5 and our final record last year was 8-5. But here’s the thing about that. We (UK & UT) had 6 common opponents and of course squared off against each other so we can compare 7 games for each team and determine, oranges to oranges, how each fared. Kentucky won 2 and lost 5 of those 7 games while Tennessee was able to win only 5 of their 7 games and lost absolutely every single one of the other 2.

Okay, so their claim to have had just as good a team as Tennessee last year is again purely delusional.

Of course the most glaring hurdle they face is that not a single player on their roster has any living memory of that program ever having won a football game in Neyland Stadium. The last time Kentucky won in Knoxville the guys on their team now hadn’t even started preschool. In fact, most were still in diapers.

When I read what their writers write and what their fans say on message boards I can only think of one word. #sad. smh.
 
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unioncityvol said:
hello fellas. I have no idea how long it’s been but probably that vandy game , 2018. I got sick so I figured I’d say I can see the risk for anyone with underlying health issues. I get results tomorrow, it’s gone already, I’m symptom free, but I was very sick for about 36 hours. I’m in great health and I’m not for sure yet what flu like virus I had but my body purged itself without my participation for a day then I slept a day then it left. I had occasional random chills Friday through Sunday then felt fine Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday my (something’s off) meter was going off and I had no energy. Couldn’t stay awake and alert enough to drive. So combined with the weird chills I determined it’s time to go swab. Stopped at the house and didn’t leave it came down thru my failed stop sign no brakes , my body decided it wants this out. So I was very sick and symptoms were the purging , inability to stay awake I slept in some places I didn’t intend to, and hiccups , once I was all fluids I got hiccups and was throwing up into my mouth a lot of the times so I went grape koolaid for that because most everything was already unpleasant enough. That’s it no fever just those random chills, I got it out, and I slept. It left just like that now I finally caught a break, home, it’s hot, I want to say I see the danger because I got pretty sick for a minute, but the flu to me is worse because it’s a week usually. I feel if that was COVID we are doing more damage exaggerating this than helping because it’s basically the same as the flu going around we just have any knowledge so it’s overreacted. I know some may not be as healthy and more at risk but I’d take my week of summer with the kids back, baseball, fall camp, and risk getting the flu living my life Like I do every winter at flu season. Just put some water, Gatorade, grape koolaid and a box of disposable plumbing rags or something by your spot within reach of warm running water, then just Iive your life I’d go thru it again for my week with babies and some vols football .
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Really glad to hear that your symptoms were so mild and mostly that they only last a couple of days. I'm only 29 years old and have no risk factors but when i came down with covid and tested positive i had fever and stomach issues for 18 days. I think that's the most fascinating thing about the disease is how incredibly different it affects every person.

also, one thing i've noticed and there seems to be some momentum to this in the scientific community is how it is affecting different blood types. i had fever and other symptoms for over 2 weeks while 6-7 other people i know got it and had little to no symptoms. I have A+ blood type where as they all had O blood types. I also know a couple of other people with A blood types who also seemed to have more severe symptoms than my friends who were O type.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
I’ve been reading the usual hype on Kentucky coming into fall camp and some of their fans are dumbfounded that almost everyone expects them to lose to Tennessee. They don’t understand why anyone should think Tennessee has a better team from a conference perspective for 2020.

They think that they have recruited just as well as Tennessee and honestly I guess if you squinted really hard maybe they’re close to being right. Their team talent composite in 2019 ranked #34. Tennessee was only at #16. They had 15 blue chips on their roster last year while Tennessee only had 33. They signed the #25 best recruiting class for 2020 with 7 blue chips while Tennessee was only able to bring in a class ranked #10 and could only convince 13 blue chips to sign on the dotted line.

Okay, so their claim to recruiting parity with us is delusional. I mean I don’t know how else to describe it.

The other issue I have with their fans is they think they had just as good of a football team as we had last year. It’s true their final record last year was 8-5 and our final record last year was 8-5. But here’s the thing about that. We (UK & UT) had 6 common opponents and of course squared off against each other so we can compare 7 games for each team and determine, oranges to oranges, how each fared. Kentucky won 2 and lost 5 of those 7 games while Tennessee was able to win only 5 of their 7 games and lost absolutely every single one of the other 2.

Okay, so their claim to have had just as good a team as Tennessee last year is again purely delusional.

Of course the most glaring hurdle they face is that not a single player on their roster has any living memory of that program ever having won a football game in Neyland Stadium. The last time Kentucky won in Knoxville the guys on their team now hadn’t even started preschool. In fact, most were still in diapers.

When I read what their writers write and what their fans say on message boards I can only think of one word. #sad. smh.
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Not to mention built into that 8-5 is a cross divisional rivalry with MSU, and ours is Bama.
 
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Cactus Jack said:
Really glad to hear that your symptoms were so mild and mostly that they only last a couple of days. I'm only 29 years old and have no risk factors but when i came down with covid and tested positive i had fever and stomach issues for 18 days. I think that's the most fascinating thing about the disease is how incredibly different it affects every person.

also, one thing i've noticed and there seems to be some momentum to this in the scientific community is how it is affecting different blood types. i had fever and other symptoms for over 2 weeks while 6-7 other people i know got it and had little to no symptoms. I have A+ blood type where as they all had O blood types. I also know a couple of other people with A blood types who also seemed to have more severe symptoms than my friends who were O type.
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That’s crazy about the blood type! I was just thinking about that this weekend for some reason, and wondering if there was a link to the disease being more severe to certain blood types. If that is the case, I wonder why? Can a virus be produced to only cause severe disease in a certain subset? Here’s a conspiracy for you...I wonder what blood type the POTUS is?
 
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Cactus Jack said:
Really glad to hear that your symptoms were so mild and mostly that they only last a couple of days. I'm only 29 years old and have no risk factors but when i came down with covid and tested positive i had fever and stomach issues for 18 days. I think that's the most fascinating thing about the disease is how incredibly different it affects every person.

also, one thing i've noticed and there seems to be some momentum to this in the scientific community is how it is affecting different blood types. i had fever and other symptoms for over 2 weeks while 6-7 other people i know got it and had little to no symptoms. I have A+ blood type where as they all had O blood types. I also know a couple of other people with A blood types who also seemed to have more severe symptoms than my friends who were O type.
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It's been shown in the literature that A blood types are at risk for more severe disease than O
 
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Yes comparing countries that closed to those who didn’t, there is no appreciable difference in rates of infection. I’m sure this disappoints Laura Glass because it was her 8th grade science project on which this lockdown was based back in 2006. It was resoundingly denounced by epidemiologists back when Bush adopted it. It’s amazing how quickly science changes.
 
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