SEC Protocols announced today

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The SEC will require two tests per week and coaches will be required to wear a face mask or neck gaiter on the sideline at all times during games, the conference announced Friday as part of its initial medical protocols.

Coaches and players who are not competing will be required to wear a face mask or neck gaiter that must "cover both the nose and mouth such that neither nostrils nor the tip of the nose is visible." Competing players must wear a neck gaiter during timeouts or when conferring with coaches on the sideline.

Players will be tested six days (typically Sunday) and three days (typically Wednesday) before a game. A positive test will trigger a 14-day quarantine.
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SEC protocols include masks for sideline coaches
 
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I just don’t see it working. Players will end up testing positive, teams are going to cancel when their starting QB and 7 other players test positive during the same week. If the season starts I doubt it lasts long.
 
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bigorangecrush89 said:
Yeah there’s no way they make it through 10 games, if they even make it to game 1. This is such a farce. They would be better off just cancelling the season instead of this nonsense.
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Given how much money is on the line, they are assuredly not "better off" canceling the season as opposed to giving it a shot. Every game successfully played equates to huge revenue, so you're incentivized to try anything and everything to get these games on television.

One thing that seems conspicuously absent from this and other articles is what happens to players who do not test positive but have been in contact with positive cases. There's language about the isolation of those "presumed" to be infected, but assuming that presumption is based on showing symptoms without a positive test then this policy seems very generous and would allow games to continue despite one or more positive cases on the team (contrary to what you're seeing in MLB). Coupled with their guidelines regarding discontinuation of games/the season ("unsafe" campus/community positive test rates being the only issue of real concern), I'd be very surprised if the season isn't plodding along in mid-late October.
 
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I'm glad they're playing... but the only study I have seen relating to outdoor transmission found no evidence it occurs.

Think about it. If you were trying to kill people with a poison carried on water droplets and aerosols... would you have any hope of achieving a deadly "load" outdoors? It, like airborne viruses, would dilute so quickly that no one would be harmed.

Glad they're playing... but someone, somewhere has to convince people the Emperor has no clothes.
 
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bigorangecrush89 said:
Yeah there’s no way they make it through 10 games, if they even make it to game 1. This is such a farce. They would be better off just cancelling the season instead of this nonsense.
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Yup. It's complete stupidity on display for all to see.

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Given how much money is on the line, they are assuredly not "better off" canceling the season as opposed to giving it a shot. Every game successfully played equates to huge revenue, so you're incentivized to try anything and everything to get these games on television.

One thing that seems conspicuously absent from this and other articles is what happens to players who do not test positive but have been in contact with positive cases. There's language about the isolation of those "presumed" to be infected, but assuming that presumption is based on showing symptoms without a positive test then this policy seems very generous and would allow games to continue despite one or more positive cases on the team (contrary to what you're seeing in MLB). Coupled with their guidelines regarding discontinuation of games/the season ("unsafe" campus/community positive test rates being the only issue of real concern), I'd be very surprised if the season isn't plodding along in mid-late October.
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Pretty sure he wasn't talking about monetarily when he said "better off." I'm pretty sure he meant medically everyone would be better off and I agree with him. If people's health and safety was the top concern, the season would already have been cancelled and all classes would've been moved to online only for the fall semester.
 
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“A positive test will trigger a 14-day quarantine.”

This is tough. If a positive test happens later in the week (Thursday/Friday/Sat), a player is pretty much guaranteed to miss 3 full games.

It takes old people who aren’t in great shape 14 days to get over this. It typically doesn’t take that for young guys in phenomenal shape.
 
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Gonna take an almost impossible amount of work to stay on top of it. I can see if teams can keep the positive cases down to a handful a week, the season can go on. Even if it's crucial players, it is what it is. But if double digits amount of players per team each week start testing positive, it will probably be over.
 
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I am beginning to wonder how I have survived for my 57 years. Oh the risks I have taken by exposing myself to life in general. I was listed as a positive COVID case when I was admitted for hernia surgery last week.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Pretty sure he wasn't talking about monetarily when he said "better off." I'm pretty sure he meant medically everyone would be better off and I agree with him. If people's health and safety was the top concern, the season would already have been cancelled and all classes would've been moved to online only for the fall semester.
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Well, yeah, it's not up for debate that it's safer to play sports (and do anything, really) when there's not a pandemic as opposed to during the midst of one. Deciding to play college football is a balancing act between the health risk posed to players from being on the gridiron (exceedingly minor) and the amount of money lost due to a cancelled season (exceedingly large).

I agree that in a perfect world you could err on the side of extreme caution for absolutely everything and suffer no repercussions for doing so, but it's clear that a compelling reason to take a very small risk with high upside exists when it comes to SEC football. FCS/D2/D3 conferences are cancelling left and right because they're already screwed (fixed costs exceed revenue to begin with, so the only issue with cancelling this season is whether or not it makes sense to ever play), but teams in the Power 5 conferences have a chance to at least somewhat mitigate financial fallout and I can't blame them for attempting to do so.
 
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Jaws said:
“A positive test will trigger a 14-day quarantine.”

This is tough. If a positive test happens later in the week (Thursday/Friday/Sat), a player is pretty much guaranteed to miss 3 full games.

It takes old people who aren’t in great shape 14 days to get over this. It typically doesn’t take that for young guys in phenomenal shape.
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It says they are testing 6 and 3 days before each game, so a 14-day quarantine would never lead to a player being ruled out of three games. I don't think how long it takes for a player to get over the illness has anything to with the 14-day time period. It's the amount of time most people are allegedly contagious.
 
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Jaws said:
“A positive test will trigger a 14-day quarantine.”

This is tough. If a positive test happens later in the week (Thursday/Friday/Sat), a player is pretty much guaranteed to miss 3 full games.

It takes old people who aren’t in great shape 14 days to get over this. It typically doesn’t take that for young guys in phenomenal shape.
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Seven to ten days I heard for healthy folk.
 
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The only real way to do this and be 100% sure you are covering your bases as best as possible is to quarantine everyone every day until they can get a negative rapid result every single day. And they're not gonna test people every single day.

The virus has a 2-14 day incubation period. Therefore you could contract it on Friday, and not even test positive until Sunday. So therefore, anyone you were in contact with between Friday and Sunday was potentially exposed, and that's if you showed signs in 2 tests, and had enough virus to get a positive test in two days. There is no way to avoid this.

The best thing you could do would be to test players first thing every single day, to make sure that whoever is testing positive is noticed immediately, and that they are quarantined before they spend days around other people waiting for a test or test result.

Ultimately, I'm not sure that testing isnt futile, but if you can test every single person every single day, that's the most effective way to control. And you cant do that, way too expensive. Not to mention, I had it done, and that may have been the most uncomfortable experience ever. I didnt realize they needed to go so far up my nose they got part of my brain.
 
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