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I don't doubt that the above is accurate. The tone on the radio has changed in the last five days and that tone has to be coming from somewhere. Meanwhile, pro baseball, hockey and basketball are chugging along.
 
Yea, if football is gone no way other fall sports will be played. I'm very afraid of the impact to winter and spring sports; I can't see winter sports being played either. To be a real pessimist what worries me the most now is how many sports survive. No football revenue will put a major hurt on all athletic departments. Is Stanford's cuts just the beginning?
 
Reddington said:
Meanwhile, pro baseball, hockey and basketball are chugging along.
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Hockey and basketball, maybe (because of the "bubble" their players are living in). For baseball that's pretty debatable. St Louis is the case-in-point for the kind of thing everyone expected and still expect would happen, with games cancelled and teams being sidelined for long stretches, making schedules and standings something of a joke, etc etc.

(And it is much easier to make profession athletes spend their lives in such a 'bubble' in exchange for the $$ they receive. And even at that, MLB couldn't convince their players to go for such a 'bubble'.)
 
I understand that multiple pro seasons happening does not fit the narrative for some people. I think it is great myself. The NHL has not had one positive test yet in the bubble.
 
I understand that multiple pro seasons happening does not fit the narrative for some people. I think it is great myself. The NHL has not had one positive test yet in the bubble.
 
Reddington said:
I understand that multiple pro seasons happening does not fit the narrative for some people. I think it is great myself. The NHL has not had one positive test yet in the bubble.
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The fact that the St Louis Cardinals have only managed to play five of their 18 (?) scheduled games (and counting) is not "my narrative"; it is the fact.

The fact that the NBA and NHL are doing well in their bubbles says very little with regard to college football, or college hockey, or any other college sport. The 'model' more closely matching what college athletics would be trying is MLB, and they are most decidedly not "chugging along".
 
Chugging and Cruising are two different words. No one talked about long term consequences of the swine flu and or sars and it sure didn't shutdown sports. Just saying.
 
Reddington said:
Chugging and Cruising are two different words. No one talked about long term consequences of the swine flu and or sars and it sure didn't shutdown sports. Just saying.
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H1N1 in 2009 is "credited" with causing 12.500 deaths in the US.

There were a TOTAL of eight SARS cases in the US, with zero deaths.

The death toll for COVID-19 is currently over 163,000, and we're not remotely close to being done adding to that total.

"Just saying"
 
Big Hockey Tournaments went well in Minnesota and New England and the 1,000,000 basketball challenge all went off without a hitch. Shhh it's a secret .. it does not fit the narrative. They weren't in a bubble either.
 
Reddington said:
Big Hockey Tournaments went well in Minnesota and New England and the 1,000,000 basketball challenge all went off without a hitch. Shhh it's a secret .. it does not fit the narrative. They weren't in a bubble either.
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Trying to have a discussion with pod people is a waste of your time.
 
robertearle said:
H1N1 in 2009 is "credited" with causing 12.500 deaths in the US.

There were a TOTAL of eight SARS cases in the US, with zero deaths.

The death toll for COVID-19 is currently over 163,000, and we're not remotely close to being done adding to that total.

"Just saying"
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Shhh it's a secret .. it does not fit the narrative.
 
Why the sudden shift to cancel football? Was there some new medical information available in the past week that they didn't have when posting schedules one week ago? These student athletes, who have worked their entire lives for this, now have their seasons whisked away. If the fear is really for their well being, they'd be better off on the football field and following a team safety protocol rather than joining the rest of the college community for alternative 'activities' on weekends! The mental health impact will far surpass the potential impact of some positive COVID cases.
 
.06 of the population is 60 percent of the cases. FYI continue to ignore the Scandinavian countries and Holland that are living with the virus and operating almost as usual. Death Rates are down and the moronic states that put Covid patients into nursing homes are no longer doing that. It is what it is no college football, no college hockey. It's a shame. That's not political.

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Why the sudden shift to cancel football? Easy - liability reasons, in the B1G especially. There is a very public case of an IU player who had covid who now apparently has heart problems. While the NCAA model works very well for the vast majority of student-athletes (and all women players), it apparently is 'unfair' to a handful of football players in P5 programs and if the season continued and more start to have long term health issues after contracting covid, it would be easy pick'ins for any decent lawyer to say the schools put profits over the health of the players. Ripple effect of this will be severe I am afraid for the non-revenue sports and I am hoping there will be a women's hockey season next winter (this year is lost).
 
Back in March and April, when New York was going through the worst of their outbreak and Gov Cuomo was doing daily press conferences, I heard him say something like this at least a half-dozen times:

In an emergency like this, it is essentially impossible to get the reaction just right; to some degree or another, you are either going to over-react or under-react. In the face of a pandemic, over-reacting is better.
 
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To quote the great Squirrely Dan, "Allegedly". :D
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For many decades now, the US Census has tracked the numbers of deaths in the US population. Regardless of cause (though they track that, too), just the number of people who died in a given period of time. And with that information, they are really quite good at knowing "how many people will die in the month of June", or "how many will die during the second week of July", etc etc.

Since the end of March, the US has been exceeding the expected number of deaths from all causes. By a LOT. Once more, this is not deaths attributed to COVID, or heart disease or cancer or whatever else. No subjectivity or 'co-morbidities' etc. Just how many people have died.

Scroll down the the chart titled 'Weekly number of deaths from all causes'.

And then explain to me please what is "allegedly" causing all those deaths, if not COVID. I'm all ears.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...ess_deaths.htm
 
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robertearle said:
For many decades now, the US Census has tracked the numbers of deaths in the US population. Regardless of cause (though they track that, too), just the number of people who died in a given period of time. And with that information, they are really quite good at knowing "how many people will die in the month of June", or "how many will die during the second week of July", etc etc.

Since the end of March, the US has been exceeding the expected number of deaths from all causes. By a LOT. Once more, this is not deaths attributed to COVID, or heart disease or cancer or whatever else. No subjectivity or 'co-morbidities' etc. Just how many people have died.

Scroll down the the chart titled 'Weekly number of deaths from all causes'.

And then explain to me please what is "allegedly" causing all those deaths, if not COVID. I'm all ears.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...ess_deaths.htm
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"Allegedly" refers to the numerous deaths that were attributed to COVID but were realistically due to another cause. They happened to test positive for COVID when they died. Not saying a lot of people haven't died from symptoms of COVID. Just a lot were incorrectly attributed to COVID.

Having said all of that, because the smiley face emojis (or whatever they're called) aren't working, no one saw that I put a "Big Grin" emoji at the end of my statement. I was just making a joke, sort of, that the "real numbers" (if anyone knows what those are) could be disputed or skewed to however you want to present your case for whatever you believe. This is true for anything.
 
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