We've survived much worse viruses and pandemics. We'll be fine, as a group anyway.
Cable/network news and social media would disagree.
We've survived much worse viruses and pandemics. We'll be fine, as a group anyway.
That is a good idea. Short of being in the hospital. If that happened to get full, what then though. What I would worry about is people hiding the fact they are sick and not getting tested because of the implications of testing positive.
It's interesting because colleges could actually think about a strict quarantine. If there's a dorm set up as the Covid dorm that anybody that tests positive could move to for 2-3 weeks with food service and access to online courses, those students don't need to go to a grocery store, aren't essential workers, and aren't caretakers for others.
Those are the things that aren't possible for essential workers and family caretakers.
I love how these magical pieces of cloth can now solve everything. Ironically my belief of magic is also taking a real hit.
The funny thing about science and statistics is that it is’t a simple it solves everything or nothing... there can be a meaningful and scientifically proven 50-60% decrease in the likelihood of catching/spreading COVID with a simple mask. That can make a difference in millions of infections over a year’s time.
If you live in the dorm or if you are a student, I'm pretty sure ISU could require testing as a condition to be in Ames. That's all assuming they have the capability for wide scale testing.
Blum makes a great point on the recent podcast with CW. Generalizing some here, but he said what happens when 10,000 students show up in Ames in a month and 8% test positive, 800 students, what do you do, how do you mitigate, manage or can you even control that? What does that do to the city of Ames, story county? Who is enforcing self isolation if that magnitude? All for masks, not sure that is going to get it done.
10,000?? Try more like 30,000 students.
There's no way there will be any fans in Jack Trice this fall besides maybe family members of players and coaches.
The chances of there even being football played at all are probably now less than 50/50. This country is just too stupid, and it's WAY too late now to do anything about it. We had a chance back in March and April, but threw it away because nobody believes in science.
We're all getting what we deserved. Actually I don't really deserve it because I've basically stayed at home this entire time, and the few times I have gone out I've worn a mask, but we're all together in this together, so as a society we've all failed.
The funny thing about science and statistics is that it is’t a simple it solves everything or nothing... there can be a meaningful and scientifically proven 50-60% decrease in the likelihood of catching/spreading COVID with a simple mask. That can make a difference in millions of infections over a year’s time.
The Ivy League was the first one to shut down their tournament, but they weren't the reason March Madness got cancelled. That was Rudy Gobert. He tested positive, the NBA postponed their season that Wednesday night, then on Thursday all the other tournaments got cancelled.Sounds like Ivy League will announce this week a postponement of all fall sports. If you remember, they lead the way on the March Madness shutdown and the same could be coming for football and basketball (again).
I imagine many will announce a delay to spring to try and buy time, but I don’t know any expert that believes March/April next year will be better than this fall.
Sounds like Ivy League will announce this week a postponement of all fall sports. If you remember, they lead the way on the March Madness shutdown and the same could be coming for football and basketball (again).
I imagine many will announce a delay to spring to try and buy time, but I don’t know any expert that believes March/April next year will be better than this fall.
Sounds like Ivy League will announce this week a postponement of all fall sports. If you remember, they lead the way on the March Madness shutdown and the same could be coming for football and basketball (again).
I imagine many will announce a delay to spring to try and buy time, but I don’t know any expert that believes March/April next year will be better than this fall.
Require masks at all events is what I'd say.100% agree. So now is the moment of truth and your facing the fact there has not been a successful coronavirus vaccine, ever. Maybe this time there will be, ( I hope) but SARS didn’t have one, plus when is it safe and ready for all? 2021? So what is the collective of society prepared to do until that time that doesn’t crater millions of livelihoods of adults and children alike?
100% agree. So now is the moment of truth and your facing the fact there has not been a successful coronavirus vaccine, ever. Maybe this time there will be, ( I hope) but SARS didn’t have one, plus when is it safe and ready for all? 2021? So what is the collective of society prepared to do until that time?
We're all getting what we deserved. Actually I don't really deserve it because I've basically stayed at home this entire time, and the few times I have gone out I've worn a mask, but we're all together in this together, so as a society we've all failed.
If there is no college football or college basketball. College athletics as a whole will cease to exist like it did before.There won't be any college basketball games this year either most likely.
People might as well wake up to the facts of this thing. Just hoping and being optimistic about it isn't going to change anything.... news alert..... the virus doesn't care if you like sports or not?
And it also doesn't know where one state ends and another begins either by the way.