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RPI 2020 Off-season Overtime: In Memory of Turk181
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Today is 29 November 2020. In honor of Nyah Philip, there are 307 days until RPI's next game.
This is based upon 2 October 2021 for the start of next season.
Last edited by Ralph Baer; 11-30-2020, 12:06 AM.
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Originally posted by Waite21 View PostIs her name Nayh or, as the RPI Athletics website has it, Nyah?
Johnny Cash used to sing about a boy named Sue, but I never heard about a girl (or a boy, for that matter) named Nyah.
I fixed it.
Never heard of it either. It looks like it reached its peak around the year that she was probably born, and is dying off again. https://www.mamanatural.com/baby-names/girls/nyah/Last edited by Ralph Baer; 11-30-2020, 12:12 AM.
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Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
So much will depend on what pandemic statistics look like down the road. Probably not the best place to put this but I am just not sure that all this hop-e about the vaccines will be reflected in any way in the over all picture (numbers) for some time, perhaps more than a year. Given that the vaccines are not a treatment for current infection and will not immediately be expected to stop any spread, and add to that the fact that perhaps as many as 50% or more of people will simply not take any of them. the number of new cases and deaths just might not decrease much for some time. If that is the case, I wonder what the powers that be (politicians, school president,s, ECAC, etc) will do then. Will they continue to use the stats as they do now or will they begin to ignore them, or will they use some other metric to bolster whatever decisions they make??
BTW if the number of new cases and number of new deaths reported falls precipitously, then something else has to be going on. So it is near impossible to predict that we will have anything resembling a return to normal in NCAA hockey even that far out.
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I think the prospects for hockey next year are very good. Over the next couple of months you are going to see some very bad stuff. Millions of cases, thousands of deaths. And if you think that is bad enough, don’t get hurt or sick from other than Covid and think the hospitals will have lots of room, beds, and staff to care for you because they won’t. And those that do will have a workforce totally burnt to a crisp, But with all those cases and mass vaccination you will see a gradual, steady reduction in the numbers and they will stay down. Once that happens you can begin to return to ‘normal’. And if you think once we get to a certain level of disease control ,just open the flood gates and things will be fine, I can tell you are not a healthcare provider. I’m sure they are just hankering to go through this a few more times so people can go out to dinner. Or to a hockey game. They say patience is a virtue for a reason.
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I'm no expert but I certainly believe JHU is a very reliable source. Some very interesting info and data in the is article...including: "..... Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths. "
https://web.archive.org/web/20201126...ue-to-covid-19
Deaths from other causes (heat disease, cancers, respiratory illness, pneumonia ) are being recategorized as COVID death, thereby causing the glaring daily headlines. Add in the unknown millions of people who are walking around unknowingly with COVID and the actual mortality rate is drastically lower than what we are being led to believe.
“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,” Briand concluded.""Ralph is the Chuck Norris of this board. Ralph doesnt sleep he just waits." - fishcore12
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