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Post by cardrock on Mar 26, 2020 19:08:12 GMT -6
Just interested in everyone’s/anyone’s take on how much of an impact loss of spring practice will be for college football this (hopefully) fall. Also University of Louisville last year moved their spring practice up and I believe did as well this year. Wondering if in the future colleges look at options such as this when it comes to possible changes and how they plan/conduct off season schedules. I believe if this whole thing (virus) lingers into the summer it will have a major impact in quality football plus early season injuries showing up. Really hope the boys do what they can to stay healthy now and be ready as much as possible when they come back.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Mar 26, 2020 19:37:57 GMT -6
There will be an update coming from the NCAA on or around april 15.. Early thinking from the staff is that any school that did not complete their spring practices will be granted extra practice days in June.
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 26, 2020 19:52:34 GMT -6
Optimistic to think June will find anything normal. Summer classes are washed out, there will be a high risk for bringing together 100 people in close quarters even if the virus is halfway under control. Hope the kids and coaches can return to normal, but doubt we see it.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 26, 2020 20:08:53 GMT -6
To be very honest, I’m not 100% sure the college football season will start on time, especially if fall camps have to be pushed back to be be sure the virus is under control.
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Post by BSU Card Fan in AZ on Mar 26, 2020 20:10:49 GMT -6
Whatever is required. Everyone is in the same boat
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 26, 2020 20:39:58 GMT -6
Whatever is required. Everyone is in the same boat Possible to have a season if all goes well. But probably one where the football team bravely faces disease at higher risk assembled in locker rooms, meeting rooms and bus trips to road games.
That boat is no joy ride for any administration to face launching.
The boat is also a leaky one for those of us who might be looking at school on campus, even starting late, and having to row that boat across the river.
On campus seems a real question, with a lot of the faculty and staff relatively high risk, and there is the specter of seeing more than a few students casualties.
I'm not betting any University will be considered a low risk business as usual environment.
More likely we suffer in online Hell next semester. Maybe just online Limbo or Purgatory if we are lucky.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 26, 2020 20:48:11 GMT -6
I’m high risk myself. Gotta admit that becomes a bit more terrifying as each day goes by and younger and younger people die. (And too many people are still too cavalier about it) I have considered there will be no college football this year. And then I try to push it out of my mind as ridiculous.
The Indy 500 could still be a real gamble, even in August, putting a couple hundred thousand people in one spot. Especially considering the hygiene of some of those folks....
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 26, 2020 21:35:15 GMT -6
Indy becomes epicenter of second wave?
Would the fans who come to see crashes and vicariously experience risk take one themselves?
Hell yes says the biker gang in the infield!
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Mar 27, 2020 6:33:41 GMT -6
I’m high risk myself. Gotta admit that becomes a bit more terrifying as each day goes by and younger and younger people die. (And too many people are still too cavalier about it) I have considered there will be no college football this year. And then I try to push it out of my mind as ridiculous. The Indy 500 could still be a real gamble, even in August, putting a couple hundred thousand people in one spot. Especially considering the hygiene of some of those folks.... That's the issue. With no vaccine, unless you're 100% certain that every person who's had it, or is carrying it has either gotten over it or (sadly) died, all these delays are going to do is re-spark another wave of spreading once gatherings do happen again. I get that the point of the shelter in place and quarantines are in an attempt to flatten the curve, but what happens to the curve when all those orders go away? We're going to be right back in the same spot in a month.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 6:46:03 GMT -6
Indy becomes epicenter of second wave? Would the fans who come to see crashes and vicariously experience risk take one themselves? Hell yes says the biker gang in the infield! Wrestle in the mud of the Snake Pit. It will wash away any disease. Trust me.
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 27, 2020 6:46:45 GMT -6
That flat curve helps two ways. We control the first wave. We stop mitigation now it's a .tsunami.
The second way it helps? The second wave is smaller. Not tsunami. Not as big as we will see in April May this time. Which will be very bad. But smaller than if we stop doing anything now.
And. The second wave is delayed.
That is more time to get prepared for it, not like the first. Plenty of tests. More knowledge. More time for treatment and vaccine development.
Yes, odds are we then have to mitigate a second time. Maybe a third wave. But again smaller.
OR we maintain some mitigation longer. Not full blown stay home, but keep some mitigation in place.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Mar 27, 2020 7:00:03 GMT -6
The big problem with "flattening the curve" is that it stretches out the disease for a long, long time. You still have as many sick and dead, but it lasts a lot longer.
At some point, you have to let people live their lives. Whatever dangers that holds.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 27, 2020 7:19:50 GMT -6
Or we can totally overwhelm our health care system right now and allow people with other diseases, illness, injuries etc to die as well .... but hey, just let nature take its course and kill/damage A LOT of people, right?
My daughter works in health care in a hospital in an area that’s not even hard hit yet and they have to reuse PPE because they don’t have enough horns and masks, conserve medicine they normally use to help people with athsma and other breathing problems, can’t use nebulizers, etc. She said they know the worst is yet to come.
The point in all of this is to prevent our hospitals from being totally overwhelmed, drs and nurses from being burned out and sickened, and buy time to develop a viable treatment or vaccine.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Mar 27, 2020 7:29:29 GMT -6
I don't see our current tackling of the problem actually flattening the curve. There are still way too many businesses operating as usual, too many people being cavalier about the whole thing, and not a strong enough edict from any levels of government (or either party), regarding people staying home.
The gov't is trying to play both sides, where they appear to care about the health and well being of the people, while doing everything they can to ensure profit centers aren't disrupted. If the country is truly "back to work" by Easter, I feel this is going to explode all over again.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Mar 27, 2020 7:41:22 GMT -6
The point in all of this is to prevent our hospitals from being totally overwhelmed, drs and nurses from being burned out and sickened, and buy time to develop a viable treatment or vaccine. There are some people in government and the media with other motivations. I don't recall "flattening the curve" for previous pandemics. If this is a new concept, whoever developed it didn't take into account the economic devastation that would occur. This is going to take years to recover from, economically. Will any lives be saved, overall? If the answer is no, then it's not worth it.
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