SEC Protocols announced today

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TNHopeful505 said:
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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I had the test too....I'll have to have symptoms before I go through that nightmare again, felt like he was digging for China. On the flip side, I have a friend who had it done, she said it wasn't that bad. She asked the nurse about it, the nurse said it's all in who does it.
 
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Too much money at stake. There’s going to be a season. Even if individual games have to be postponed or cancelled due to an outbreak, they will find a way to power through. They will do what MLB is doing and go off highest winning percentage for the standings. It may not be the smartest thing but these universities are highly dependent upon the money made from football and all of them are already facing massive deficits. I just don’t see them backing down.
 
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99gator said:
I’ll say it before and I’ll say it again.

Thank god our current culture did not deal with smallpox or something of that sort.
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In the unlikely event lockdowns and social distancing overcome this, it will be back. The chaos and economic damage it has caused has been certainly noted in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Gaza, San Francisco, etc.and shown a very simple way and cheap way to do damage to the US.

Why build nukes, hijack planes or anything else when the culture of an existing virus will do more ?
 
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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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This is why I thought they'd look at SEC slate only but starting earlier and play every other week...kinda gives you the ability to reset. This is serious stuff, but I do know some folks in the 50+ age range who had it and after about a day or two of high fever, they were quarantined but working remotely fairly normally within a few days. Certainly not the case for everyone, but two weeks between each game would probably, in most cases, only cause player to miss one game.

Still don't think we'll get too far with this season.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
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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Not to mention the current test methods have an alarmingly high false positive/negative rate. That adds even more difficulty.
 
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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 was wondering the same thing. Medical facilities only use a cheek swab test now. I have four family members that have to deal with it on a weekly basis.
 
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Smokebern20 said:
Dumb. Just flat out stupid.
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Easy,,,, I don't think the post was serious, more "tongue in cheek". But, if in fact serious, this poster has the attitude many parents had when I was growing up and when we raise our young'uns. Which was to get all them "things" out of the way before they start to school..
 
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maxorange said:
The governor of Ohio wants to know what happens when you subsequently submit two negative tests after the positive.

What are the criteria against false negatives (which def are happening) and are those players SOL?
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Or wrong either way? I know of a hospital lab person who got tired and flustered by these falsies. This person took 3 tests, dipped them in water, sent them in, they all three returned positive!!
 
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