Seems unlikely college players would be able to effectively practice in a time frame that allows July games.
Also be interesting to see how many players who are not being compensated will take on significantly more risk to make money for universities and the NCAA.
If we end up with tiny silver linings like college athletes being paid it would be a nice albeit insignificant offset.
Yeah, it’s inevitable that it’ll be ground zero for whole kingdoms of conspiracy theories. All part of the ‘New 9/11’ package.
Well this is more like running the climate denialist FUD playbook. Cherry pick studies that sound good, take them out of context, throw anything against the wall to see if it sticks, ignore what’s actually happening in hospitals right now, Italy is a huge outlier because reasons, etc.
I feel like in the US we have passed the average deaths per day in a really bad flu season with our current deaths per day.
The Washington Post saying we have hit 2000, doubling in just two days. So congrats. #USA1 #FLUAINTSHIT
Report in from Reno (not in person, but group Email)
Washoe county (basically reno/sparks) 75 cases no fatals. Testing is FINALLY going better, but we still don’t have the instant tests, so the numbers will get worse. But interestingly, we’re staffing down in ER and overflow tent - not enough volume - which of course could change in a heartbeat - Or maybe Reno will be Boulder from The Stand, because I don’t consider this a “healthy” area - weather may be helping sun to 50’s then dry snow down into the 20’s at night. Who knows.
MM MD
Shit I leave the thread for a couple hours to make dinner and now we are inching towards civil war
My experience hanging out in Reno, including accidentally stumbling into the bingo room in the basement of a casino, has not been that this was an area populated by particularly healthy citizens.
They will because we are going to blow past the rest of the world combined in most metrics.
Can you elaborate a bit?
Over 2200 and over 500 today. Washington looks to be ramping up now too.
One of Microbet’s rich neighbors probably. Manhattan Beach thinks they’re better than everyone else and don’t have to follow the rules.
Mariano’s employee at the store near me tested positive and I was planning on going there tonight. I will be wearing gloves and a mask so might still go to the location since it might be less busy now that someone that works there tested positive
Good to hear Hobbes. Was getting concerned, not going to lie.
Imagine wanting to surf El Porto so bad you get a $1000 ticket. At least pick a good spot! Style police should write him another ticket for wearing a zipperless wetsuit and riding a mayhem surfboard. This guy is lost as fuck does he thinks he is in San Clemente?
I don’t understand the idea that initial viral load matters.
Surely it’s exponential growth of the virus internally. If you start at 10^2 or 10^4 why would it matter if you are sending up at 10^9 anyway
Backup cop is ready to draw in case he pulls a gun out of his wetsuit.
How about more time to make antibodies or whatever your immune response is?
Viral/bacterial load always matters, I think. It’s pretty much never 1 unit of pathogen even causes an infection and certainly not that it’s the same thing as a huge load.
I assume there’s some threshold of viral concentration that actually does the damage to you. A smaller initial exposure presumably allows more time for an immune response before that threshold is reached. Just guessing, may be drunk on the success of my last foray into Dartboard Virology.
I don’t bother with the extreme caution on packages either, but for a different reason. At some point, there’s nothing you can do. I wash my hands after opening packages but I’m not leaving packages to sit for 48 hours. At that point, if I’m going to catch this from opening a package, so be it. The risk/reward on living your life to that extreme level of risk avoidance I think is too much.
There’s a lot of stuff that has happened in the past several years that has been eating away at the constitution. But the concept that states cannot discriminate against residents of other states to the benefit of their own residents, and especially cannot restrict interstate travel, is one of the most well established tenets of the privileges and immunities clause of the constitution. I mean, I’m not saying it’s not going to happen at this point, but it is wildly unconstitutional.
