nominee and likely winnar
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Ordered a home test kit.
For several months I’ve been suffering from asthma for the first time in ~35 years.
It’s usually alleviated somewhat though not fully by taking anti-histamines. I have an inhaler which I try not to use because it’s pretty bad for you.
An elderly couple who are neighbours and who’ve become good friends have been told by a hospital they probably contracted COVID back in March.
Late one evening in the summer he knocked on our door in a panic because she had turned very pale and was fainting, and in the rush to go and help I forgot about a mask, which was negligent on my part.
I was holding her upright on the bed for about 5 minutes while he called for an ambulance, but distanced myself as soon as possible when I realised we all should have been wearing masks (they weren’t either).
I’ve had no other classic COVID symptoms like fever, headaches, loss of taste or smell and Mrs j has had nothing at all but it’s a huge coincidence if asthma should randomly choose to return in 2020.
This has been weighing on my mind for too long now. I’ve been careful to socially distance and am one of the most masked people around here.
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Sports and athletic departments are, football is not
Edit: athletic departments also spend everything they have every year to maintain a veneer if amateurism and justifying their existence. Otherwise we’d never have million dollar per year non revenue sport coaches
Here is Ohio State’s rowing facility:
They literally can’t spend all the money and somehow they still convince rich morons to make huge donations to the athletic department.
More generally, lol giving money to massively wealthy universities with billions of dollars in their endowment. In addition to the absolute fact that you’re wasting your money, the schools won’t even use your money for the stuff they promise to use it for!
The family of Michael Moritz, the late lawyer who donated $30.3 million to Ohio State University in 2001 and whose name is attached to its law school, is disputing how the college is using the gift.
Lou Ann Moritz Ransom—the widow of Michel Moritz—and their son, Jeff, claim the donation was meant to endow four faculty chairs and award 30 law school scholarships annually, the reports. They say the money has funded between 12 and 16 full-ride scholarships annually, and is being used for development fees, which was not Michael Moritz’s intent. The university has pulled up to 1.3 percent of all gifts to fund development efforts since 1994.
Dude thinks he’s endowing scholarships and they use his money to wine and dine other donors. GJGE.
And even if they do earmark you money for its intended purpose, money is fungible. So if you donate to the Russian literature department, the university may direct other funds away from the department with the end result being the department has the same level of funding with or without your donation.
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Exactly rich people donating to Ivey league schools is so terrible. Might be worst use of charitable funds possible.
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I’ve donated to my school exactly once, the year after I graduated (I love my school, just don’t find the need to give them more of my money). It was only a couple hundred bucks, tops. I earmarked part of it to go to campus security because I was always disappointed in the lack of lighting at night. To my pleasant surprise, the school’s police department/security/whatever actually wrote me a letter thanking me for it.
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You can typically donate to specific departments, clubs, and/or programs. Donating generally to Harvard is for chumps. Donating directly to school-run community counseling centers and struggling GSA clubs is dope.
Not if it gets your thick as pigshit failson in to start making connections.
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my best friend can’t send his kid to daycare all this week cuz a teacher got pozzed. So now they gotta take the kid somewhere today to try and get tested
Sounds like a kid that probably has chump genes.
I’ve asked my coworkers this exact question - is it possible to donate and know the money won’t just be (effectively) diverted to somewhere else? So far no one can answer.
It’s pretty crazy the hoops we jump through to keep top donors happy - white glove service, dinners in their honor, made up awards with shiny medals. There’s a lot of fuzzy accounting silliness that goes into where the money goes and who gets credit (anyone in the family who wants it).
My dept., solely dedicated to donations, employs about 400 people by my count. We bring in about $1B/year.
The stones parking lot is fucking tiny. No idea where they are going to put tables and still have an area for their players to park. The FF places nearby sure as shit wont be happy to let the poker players park in their lots
From my understating most schools lose money on football.
Football at nothing schools is a money pit. Power 5 is not. Conflating “most schools” with what we’re talking about is a mistake
That last link i gave shows some in the big schools lose money too. Not most but some.
I use to have a better link for just football at top schools but i cant find it.
They also have a huge incentive to show a loss since they don’t want to pay the players.
Are you willing to share the county? If so, I can look it up and see how it’s doing inside the metrics I use even though it sounds like it’s doing badly already.
The guy Steven Millman who Fatboy8 links to wrote an excellent piece about how spread works. He said it works in generations. The first generation is the few people who are positive that show up inside anything that could be described as a superspreader event. I’d imagine based on all the evidence we’ve received that college dorms/behaviors are superspreader lifestyles. I’ll end the post I’m making here with using what he said about how spread works. Essentially, once it starts it doesn’t stop until mitigation efforts are put in place.
For your thing about the refunds, couldn’t there be lawsuits if they closed the school right after the refund period ended? I’d think to get away with that they’d have to go another 4 to 6 weeks before shutting down. Scary to think about, I’m sure. Stay safe and well.
A ‘fun’ fact is as of today on 1point3acres, we are just 71,000 active cases short of the peak active case number we had on July 26 (for reference, July 4 had around 980k fewer active cases than July 26, and OFB June 1 had over 1.5 million fewer active cases than July 26). When the stuff converged shortly after July 4, spread went insane in a very short period of time. The problem now is we’re just barely starting the next part of the pandemic.
Based on past history, this is extraordinarily bad news to me, especially knowing how little mitigation is going on outside of masks in many places. It will be a few more weeks before we’re in max terrible behavioral conditions with masks, so by November 1 we’ll have a good idea of about how bad it can get with just that level of mitigation. Everyone’s finally about to get to test their hypotheses about what case maxes can be and if there really is a wall of heat that isn’t ever surpassed. If we start seeing something like 10k new cases per day in Alabama, it’s unlikely there’s a wall. Everywhere else that currently appears capable of massive spread is doing a lot of mitigation. Behavior is beginning to be set in stone and now we just wait for heat and length of spread prior to mitigation, if any.
The context of this Millman post has been removed, but I’ve kept as much of his intent for it as possible.
He also made a similar post in a different way about Sturgis on August 9 while it was going on. I honestly can’t tell if he over shot the numbers guess of how many would be infected while there, but Dan could probably figure out if the spread is tracking similarly to Millman’s guesses based on the 250,000 believed cases that have come out of the rally since it ended on August 16. I’ll copy in the Sturgis post if anyone wants to see it.
Unless I missed it, that article said nothing about the big schools.
FCS football programs losing money is not at all surprising. Is there a single P5 football program losing money?
lol, he should have gone to Oceans 11, it was 20 degrees cooler over there.
Also, I have never seen Elsinore’s chips so clean. If he didn’t have the wider shots, I wouldn’t have believed this was real. 