It would be a sure way to create resentment among the people who are left out. The opposite of “we’re all in this together” for minimal to no financial gain. And every school would have to agree. Any school uncomfortable with that would sink it for everyone.
I agree with you that sports is important for morale and I miss it as much as anyone but I would encourage you to do some research on herd immunity. It doesn’t work with coronaviruses like it does with other communicable diseases. They mutate and immunity disappears. That’s why we get flu vaccines every year and why we get colds over and over. Throwing the doors open and “getting it over with” doesn’t work. We won’t achieve anything approaching herd immunity until we have a vaccine. That’s why we have the social distancing strategy...to minimize the damage until we have a vaccine. This sucks but you are correct in saying it is what it is and it’s going to be with us for a while. The key for responsible leaders is to minimize loss of life in the meantime and that means social distancing.
Yes, accurate. You pulled one sentence from a long article. I didn’t say no one would be immune without a vaccine. I said we won’t get to herd immunity without one and that’s exactly what the article concludes.
My proposal is to ban it for this season. It would hardly be the only major change students will be dealing with on campus this fall. Plenty of advanced notice, strategically placed signs and law enforcement handing out citations would quickly take care of things. And martial law would not have to be declared!
We are compromising now. We aren’t under a total lockdown. There would be significant economic damage if we let the virus run wild. Sick people can’t work, dead people can’t work or buy things, and an overwhelmed healthcare system would lead to even more death and economic damage. The economy is taking a hit no matter what.
The good news is that CBS reported yesterday that Remdesivir has past the two most recent tests and looks more and more like a viable treatment. Also, Johns Hopkins reported on the progress of a vaccine that may be available as early as September. I just love science.
My proposal is to ban it for this season. It would hardly be the only major change students will be dealing with on campus this fall. Plenty of advanced notice, strategically placed signs and law enforcement handing out citations would quickly take care of things. And martial law would not have to be declared!
Yes, that possible but with even the best of things, there comes a point where it’s not worth the effort. I can’t see university leaders choosing to do all that just so that a handful of people can sit 6 feet apart in a stadium with zero atmosphere, most with a much worse view that they would have on TV for virtually no, if any, financial gain. It wouldn’t make sense. Let’s just all watch the game son TV, if they are played.My proposal is to ban it for this season. It would hardly be the only major change students will be dealing with on campus this fall. Plenty of advanced notice, strategically placed signs and law enforcement handing out citations would quickly take care of things. And martial law would not have to be declared!
I’ve been following that development and it looks promising. Let’s hope.
Well, that happens when you have some people who insist on pushing a narrative.
I didn’t say this particular virus would do anything. We don’t know enough about it to know what it will do. We can only compare it to similar viruses. You’re taking a piece of what I said out of context to argue with it. If you want to quibble with my use of the word “disappears”, fair enough. “Wanes” is more accurate but it is accurate.
When you think about it, that's basically what we've done anyway, except that we've kept more people home than they have, but when you allow any businesses to stay open, essential or not, & allow people to still go to them, you are at best slowing the spread, which I know was the acknowledged idea from the start, but that's not a sustainable strategy, you can't do that for a year to a year & a half. Anyway, we need to come up with the next phase, which is what we are doing, or starting to anyway, but I just hope people realize, deaths & illnesses ain't stopping, & when they happen it doesn't mean you have to close everything down again, you can't keep doing that long term. We have to understand we're going to live with this, until we get a vaccine, which isn't even a guarantee. I'm curious to see if Sweden gets herd immunity, & if they are free from illness if they do.
You know it’s a bit weird how some have just kind of “moved on” from this, almost like it’s a TV show they’re tired of. I understand that many have been financially affected. But when you look at the hardship of the Great Depression and WWII where folks either went without altogether or had to ration items like meat, sugar and flour, seems like what we have been asked to sacrifice is on a much lesser scale. We are rapidly approaching 70,000 dead and no slow down in sight in terms of deaths per day.
Other than not going to work, I don't think a lot of people, like a huge %, have sacrificed a damn thing. So I don't think people have necessarily moved on from it so much as they never moved into it, so to speak, in the 1st place. I was at Meier today, & it was unbelievable how many people weren't doing anything to take precautions, nothing whatsoever. Of all the western countries, our restrictions have been the weakest--that's why our #'s are so bad. Nowhere else could you walk around with no mask, 2 feet away from everyone, everytime you walk by them. Not to mention the fact that THOUSANDS of people are out nearly every day, at least in my town, which isn't that big of a town. We're really not locked down at all to begin with, absolute half-assed effort, & the #'s are only going to continue to rise, I guarantee it. No more going to the store for me, it's instacart or curbside pickup from now on. This was the last straw, what I saw today. Also though, yes some people are angry because they know they're going to lose their businesses, or jobs, if this continues much longer--& those are legitimate concerns, they feel like they might as well be dead if they lose those things, which might be a bit extreme, but the point is--they have a point, & you have a point--that's the reality of this situation. It's a lose lose, at a HUGE scale. Absolutely disastrous situation. Idk what happens from here, we need some majorly good things to happen in the biggest way. Hopefully this Rensellear, or whatever it's called will make a difference, & hopefully something else will come along soon after it to really make a significant difference. We can only hope. This virus ain't going away though, we're going to have to figure out how to live with it, & the risk of it.
Have you looked at the unemployment numbers?
Not even close
Not even close man. They didn’t have near the safety nets in the 20’, 30’s and 40’s that we do now. Similar unemployment numbers? Sure. Similar way of life? No. Talk to you elders man.
I never said similar way of life.
I don’t know. But if were military spending, no one would bat an eye. Am I wrong?
Yes, you're wrong. We don't spend even a trillion a year on military spending.
Does your Internet still work? Is your freezer still full of food? And can you still order from Amazon and get things delivered to your door in two days. If so you are not experiencing the great depression.
When 30 million Americans are out of work and the country is printing 4 trillion dollars to prop up the economy, it's a Depression.
