SEC Protocols announced today

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TNHopeful505 said:
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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Sidebar: If the reason why we are having to wear masks is because someone that may be infected could possibly eject the virus in the mucus or saliva when they sneeze or cough, then why can't you just simply spit or blow your nose onto a test kit... instead of shoving a 3 ft rod up your nose?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Sidebar: If the reason why we are having to wear masks is because someone that may be infected could possibly eject the virus in the mucus or saliva when they sneeze or cough, then why can't you just simply spit or blow your nose onto a test kit... instead of shoving a 3 ft rod up your nose?
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I asked that same question.

Shouldn't an oral swab do the trick?
 
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Smokefatty said:
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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If you test positive 3 days before a game (likely Wednesday), then you miss the next 2 Wednesdays. That just gives you Thursday and Friday to practice for the next game. You likely may not play unless you are doing isolated practicing and conditioning.
 
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TrumpedUpVol said:
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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Well then all parties involved should start being brutally honest with everyone and stop trying to frame this in such a way to make it more "palletable" to the general public. They might as well release a statement telling everyone...

"Despite out best efforts, we know this situation is unmanageable and the spread of COVID-19 through both the participation and in-person spectatorship of college football is certain. However despite the enormous health risks to student athletes, coaches, officials, grounds crews, and fans who attend the games, we simply must ignore these risks and attempt to execute the season as planned due to the enormously negative financial impact this would potentially have on universities and local economies."
 
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Smokefatty said:
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..
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If they’re ruled out on a Wednesday, they’re definitely out the first Saturday (day 3 of quarantine) and the following Saturday (day 10 of quarantine). Then they’d be out for the following week until Wednesday, so they’d miss Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed? of practices for the 3rd week. Sure, I guess they could play on 1-2 days practice, but I doubt it. So it’s very likely they miss 3 games with a Wednesday positive test.
 
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beachmaster said:
Seven to ten days I heard for healthy folk.
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Sounds about right, which makes the 14 days the SEC is suggesting awfully harsh. It’s a 3-game window, maybe 2 if you want to play a guy with 1-2 practices under his belt for the week.
 
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How about teams employing a designated "infecter" that spreads the virus to as many players on the other team as possible. In the insanity that is SEC football I wouldn't put it past someone to try it. Not really but could you imagine?
 
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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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My son had to play his spring baseball this summer. They had a bunch of restrictions like this. Some of the kids and parents didn’t want to do it. My son told me he just wanted to play baseball. I’m glad we did. Had a fun season and we got two weeks before we start fallball.
 
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TrumpedUpVol said:
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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Brave Volunteer said:
Well then all parties involved should start being brutally honest with everyone and stop trying to frame this in such a way to make it more "palletable" to the general public. They might as well release a statement telling everyone...

"Despite out best efforts, we know this situation is unmanageable and the spread of COVID-19 through both the participation and in-person spectatorship of college football is certain. However despite the enormous health risks to student athletes, coaches, officials, grounds crews, and fans who attend the games, we simply must ignore these risks and attempt to execute the season as planned due to the enormously negative financial impact this would potentially have on universities and local economies."
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This goes without saying for any semi-thinking person.
 
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Zues1 said:
Okay I'll date myself. Who remembers the character from bazooka Joe bubble gum Mort? Always wore a turtleneck that covered his mouth. That guy was so ahead of his time.
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Michael Jackson was ahead of his time as well in always wearing a mask in public.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
If you test positive 3 days before a game (likely Wednesday), then you miss the next 2 Wednesdays. That just gives you Thursday and Friday to practice for the next game. You likely may not play unless you are doing isolated practicing and conditioning.
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If they go off of what the CDC recommends after testing positive you can be retested in approximately 5 to 7 days to see if you test negative. Because normally that is the time it takes the virus to form if you test positive that means you’ve had it for that amount of time. So you would most likely be rid of it the next 5 to 7 days.
 
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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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The SEC also outlined its considerations for the discontinuation of games:
• Inability to isolate new positive cases or quarantine high-risk contacts of cases of university students.
• Unavailability or inability to perform symptomatic, surveillance or pre-competition testing when warranted.
• Campuswide or local community positivity test rates that are considered unsafe by local public health officials.
• Inability to perform adequate contact tracing consistent with local, state or federal requirements or recommendations.
• Local public health officials indicate an inability for the hospital infrastructure to accommodate a surge in COVID-19-related hospitalizations.

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See the one underlined? Can you imagine the coordination between several medical teams in order to pull that alone off?
 
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Delmar said:
Well done. That response is straight out of the Trump playbook and he would be proud of you. He says stupid stuff daily and he or his toadies have to walk it back. And I’m being kind when I say daily. It’s really every time he opens his trap.
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I didnt walk anything back.
 
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And this just in, “Alabama has NO reported cases of COVID-19 and made it an entire season playing all starters. Just how does Nicky do it?!”

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