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Nocleats

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To keep team totally safe and Covid free all summer, or to have what Clemson and LSU are going thru where already more than half of their players have already tested pos and more positive tests appearing weekly?
As much as it hurts isolating and quarantining now, they will be past it for the most part when season starts..

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Nocleats said:
To keep team totally safe and Covid free all summer, or to have what Clemson and LSU are going thru where already more than half of their players have already tested pos and more positive tests appearing weekly?
As much as it hurts isolating and quarantining now, they will be past it for the most part when season starts..

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Covid-19 will strike at every sports team in America in 2020. It's just impossible to not happen. The only Q is how to minimize it when it does
 
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Nocleats said:
To keep team totally safe and Covid free all summer, or to have what Clemson and LSU are going thru where already more than half of their players have already tested pos and more positive tests appearing weekly?
As much as it hurts isolating and quarantining now, they will be past it for the most part when season starts..

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When I was young and for that matter when our kids were young, most people thought it was better to have'um have "childhood diseases" early so they will not be disrupted when older and had school and other things that needed to not be interrupted. The only thing I wonder about that the to teams you refer to have to worry about later down the road/season is: can you get "it" more than once?
 
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Nocleats said:
To keep team totally safe and Covid free all summer, or to have what Clemson and LSU are going thru where already more than half of their players have already tested pos and more positive tests appearing weekly?
As much as it hurts isolating and quarantining now, they will be past it for the most part when season starts..

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Is that you Esiason?
 
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utvolpj said:
Are their players actually sick or just testing positive?
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And do they have any contact with people outside the team? The answer is yes. A player with no symptoms could give it to a classmate who gives it to their elderly grandparents or high risk parents and they die.
 
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It's not a one and done deal. You can catch it again. I mean, you haven't had just one cold have you? The severity of the symptoms and the outcome might be acceptable risks for young people. Not so much for their elderly relatives they come in contact with. I don't think getting it this summer will prevent you from getting it again in the fall. Clemson and LSU aren't trying to catch it
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
And do they have any contact with people outside the team? The answer is yes. A player with no symptoms could give it to a classmate who gives it to their elderly grandparents or high risk parents and they die.
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So you take reasonable steps to limit exposure to the elderly and high risk but let the rest of the students have a normal school year including student athletes. My 92 year old grandmother needs to limit exposure but my daughter needs normalcy.
 
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Nocleats said:
To keep team totally safe and Covid free all summer, or to have what Clemson and LSU are going thru where already more than half of their players have already tested pos and more positive tests appearing weekly?
As much as it hurts isolating and quarantining now, they will be past it for the most part when season starts..

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Lol, are you asking which situation is better for the players and their familes or for rabid fans? There's no "strategy" here for dealing with a black swan pandemic except to wait for a vaccine and then resume normality.
 
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Fauci says you can’t catch it again, no guarantee you can’t catch it again, masks are useless, you need to wear masks, 2 million will die, protests don’t spread the virus, friendly gatherings spread the virus.....
 
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The "experts", model scammers and Fauci will muck it up every time. I would rather players get it now and get over it than them to catch it during the season. They will have "flu like symptoms" and be done with it. Protect the elderly and let society get on with it. Young people who have it don't suffer any permanent damage. Let's play football and basketball, establish "herd immunity", get tested, abolish frivolous lawsuits, take vaccine when it is ready and ignore the media who is only agenda driven and sensationalize every incident.
 
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ksgovols said:
It's not a one and done deal. You can catch it again. I mean, you haven't had just one cold have you? The severity of the symptoms and the outcome might be acceptable risks for young people. Not so much for their elderly relatives they come in contact with. I don't think getting it this summer will prevent you from getting it again in the fall. Clemson and LSU aren't trying to catch it
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There's no peer reviewed studies that have said you can catch it again. I'm not saying you can't catch it again, just that you shouldn't be making the claim that you can catch it again. Re-infection might be possible, but there's nothing to indicate that is the case.
 
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rdk4121 said:
There's no peer reviewed studies that have said you can catch it again. I'm not saying you can't catch it again, just that you shouldn't be making the claim that you can catch it again. Re-infection might be possible, but there's nothing to indicate that is the case.
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Not wanting to argue, but, reinfection has already ocurred.
 
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rdk4121 said:
The good news is that in college kids, your chances of dying from COVID are less than that of the seasonal flu. Obviously it can still happen, but that risk is always there.
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Where is that data? I thought the opposite was true. Seasonal flu doesn't permanantly damage lungs, covid sometimes does, not a disease to fool with
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Not wanting to argue, but, reinfection has already ocurred.
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No, you've heard anecdotal cases at best. There have been zero accepted studies done on the subject matter. It is possible, and there are more than 1 strain of the disease anyway, so you could catch COVID again, but a different version. I'm not saying it can't happen, but to accept maybe a few possible cases as fact is a very bad perspective to have.
 
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