College Football Will Be Postponed

If there was a union today, there's zero chance they play.
I’m not so sure. All of this would have been negotiated. Because there would have been a venue for negotiation. There wouldn’t be 11th hour “demands,” etc.
 


Bet on what?? You’ve outlined no specific criteria for a bet.

You don’t ever put an opinion of your own out. You only criticize others.

So safe to say you won’t dare put yourself out there on this.

You said a vaccine is just around the corner and will allow a spring season. I said you’re delusional. You objected. I asked if you want to bet on it. You ignored the question (twice). Later in the day I posted a news piece printed today with Fauci being quoted he real best case timeline is second and third quarter of 2021. I’m not sure why they aren’t being more upfront.
 


"Unmitigated disaster". Man that term is used a lot these days. Warren is going to be an awesome commissioner.
I'm sure he cares deeply about what a blow-hard Trumpster sports talk-show host thinks of him.
 


Yeah who cares if a player gets infected and that causes a heart disease that will kill them in their 30’s, and it was entirely preventable by cancelling the fall season?? Just so long as it never gets transmitted during a game. That’s what matters.

Wait, I confused, now you would like to prevent heart disease? But when I mentioned heart disease as the biggest killer in the United States you mocked me. Heart disease is preventable. Healthy diets and lifestyles prevent heart disease. Yet we hear nothing from you urging people to eat better on a daily basis? But this pandemic has you worried about a couple cases of heart disease now?

As a collective whole Gopher Nation are we not smarter than this? Does CNN tell us what to say and do every morning?
 

Yet again, Sanford brings another teams offensive production to a screeching stop.
 

Wait, I confused, now you would like to prevent heart disease? But when I mentioned heart disease as the biggest killer in the United States you mocked me. Heart disease is preventable. Healthy diets and lifestyles prevent heart disease. Yet we hear nothing from you urging people to eat better on a daily basis? But this pandemic has you worried about a couple cases of heart disease now?

As a collective whole Gopher Nation are we not smarter than this? Does CNN tell us what to say and do every morning?

If you have heart disease can you spread it to others?
 

Wait, I confused, now you would like to prevent heart disease? But when I mentioned heart disease as the biggest killer in the United States you mocked me. Heart disease is preventable. Healthy diets and lifestyles prevent heart disease. Yet we hear nothing from you urging people to eat better on a daily basis? But this pandemic has you worried about a couple cases of heart disease now?

As a collective whole Gopher Nation are we not smarter than this? Does CNN tell us what to say and do every morning?


It's pathetic how pandemic deniers, science deniers, Fox News watchers, and Trump lackeys are pretty much the same people. The people who are concerned about Covid-19 aren't worried about "a couple of cases of heart disease". What bothers them are the many thousands of people who in February were living, working, and looking forward to many more years of happy and productive lives who are now dead or struggling with health issues caused by a virus they got from being too close to people who were showing no outward signs of being sick. And add to those victims the over 900 health care workers in America who have died since February because of their selfless and courageous efforts to take care of their Covid-19 patients and try to keep them alive.
 
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It's pathetic how pandemic deniers, science deniers, Fox News watchers, and Trump lackeys are pretty much the same people. The people who are concerned about Covid-19 aren't worried about a couple of cases of heart disease. What bothers them are the many thousands of people who in February were living, working, and looking forward to many more years of happy and productive lives who are now dead or struggling with health issues caused by a virus they got from being to close to people who were showing no outward signs of being sick. And add to the victims the over 900 health care workers in America who have died since February because of their selfless and courageous efforts to take care of .their Covid-19 patients and try to keep them alive.

These just are not real facts. Sorry. You are running in a platform that if someone doesn’t believe what you believe in they must be a Fox need watcher?

I’m a democrat.That kind of throws a wrench in your accusations. It sounds like you are not a Covid-19 expert... it sounds more like you dislike anything that doesn’t not align with your parties political lines. That’s not me, I look at the whole picture and make the most educated decisions I can based on what I know. Not because I don’t like the president. I know your better than that.
 

It's pathetic how pandemic deniers, science deniers, Fox News watchers, and Trump lackeys are pretty much the same people. The people who are concerned about Covid-19 aren't worried about "a couple of cases of heart disease". What bothers them are the many thousands of people who in February were living, working, and looking forward to many more years of happy and productive lives who are now dead or struggling with health issues caused by a virus they got from being too close to people who were showing no outward signs of being sick. And add to those victims the over 900 health care workers in America who have died since February because of their selfless and courageous efforts to take care of their Covid-19 patients and try to keep them alive.

Just curious where you are getting 900 from? The Guardian story?

Below is I believe the legitimate tracker at 163 as of today, your at almost 6 times that number. Still a tragedy. Everyone of these a hero. I think the rampant inflation of every bad statistic is part of what gets a little tiresome to refute.

Even in the Guardian story claiming 900 deaths, they acknowledge that they have only confirmed 167 of 922 deaths to be COVID related. But suspicion is proof, if someone dies and it fits your narrative claim the bogeyman.


This list will be updated regularly. If you would like to add a fallen healthcare worker to this list, please email Kristina Fiore at [email protected].
Updated Aug. 11, 2020.








Milagros Abellera, RN, Nix Health, San Antonio, Texas

Divinia "Debbie" Accad, RN, Detroit VA Medical Center
Romeo Agtarap, RN, New York Presbyterian/Columbia Irving Medical Center, New York
Felicia Ailende, RN, nurse, BRIA of Forest Edge, Chicago
Nancy Ajemian, MD, Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Jerry Alford, RN, DCH Northport Medical Center, Alabama
Niaz Ali, MD, Riverview Medical Center, New Jersey
Larrice Anderson, RN, New Orleans East Hospital
Leonardo Aponte, MD, Clínica Latina, Wisconsin
Earline Austin, MD, Staten Island University Hospital, New York
Nicanor "Nick" Baltazar, RN, Long Island Care Center, Flushing, New York
Jeff Baumbach, RN, St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton, California
Earl Bailey, RN, Broward County, Florida
Celia Yap Banago, RN, Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Alex Bass, physician assistant, NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island, New York
Glenn Barquet, MD, Mercy Hospital, Miami, Florida
Valery Bayshtok, MD, family medicine, New York
Angeline Bernadell, nursing home aide, Stratford, Connecticut
Hooshang Behroozi, MD, pediatrician, New York City

George Blankenship, MD, retired retina surgeon, Hilton Head, South Carolina
James Boudwin, MD, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Ronald Brisman, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York (retired)
François H. Brutus, MD, Brookdale Hospital, New York
Brittany Bruner-Ringo, nurse, Los Angeles
Santo Buccheri, MD, private practice, Hartford, Connecticut
Irving Buterman, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York
Patrick Cain, RN, McLaren Flint Hospital, Michigan
Luis Caldera Nieves, MD, gynecologist, Miami, Florida
Evelyn Caro, RN, Holy Cross Hospital, Maryland
Ricardo Castaneda, MD, psychiatrist, New York
Rosary Celaya Castro-Olega, RN, Los Angeles, California
Sudheer Singh Chauhan, MD, Jamaica Hospital, New York
Charlie Chin Song Chen, DO, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, New York
John Coman, MD, internal medicine, New York
Paul Constantine, MD, family practice, Orange County, California
Kenneth Conte, MD, private practice, New Jersey
Joseph Costa, MD, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore

Jeannie Danker, MD, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
Navnitrai Kantilal Dave, MD, neonatologist, Corpus Christi, Texas
Dana Davis, RN, Baptist Health, Louisville, Kentucky
Ydelfonso Decoo, MD, pediatrician, Queens, New York
Leo Dela Cruz, MD, Christ Hospital, New Jersey
Ernesto DeLeon, RN, Bellevue Hospital, New York
Samantha Diaz, medical assistant, Florida
Danielle DiCenso, RN, Hialeah Hospital, Florida
Karla Dominguez, pediatric intensive care nurse, El Paso, Texas
Daisy Doronila, RN, Hudson County Jail, New Jersey
Orlando Espinoza, MD, family practitioner, Broward County, Florida
Lisa Ewald, RN, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
Jess Fajardo, Center For Hypertension Internal Medicine, Odessa, Texas
Jessie Ariel Ferreras, MD, Valley Medical Group, Waldwick, New Jersey
David Finn, MD, medical director, opioid treatment at Water Street, New York
Christopher Firlit, DMD, MD, Ascension Macomb Hospital, Michigan
Devin Francis, radiologic technologist, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami
Renee Marie French, RN, Columbia Presbyterian, New York
Arthur Friedman, MD, Independent Physician Association of Nassau/Suffolk counties, Smithtown, New York

Frank Gabrin, MD, East Orange General Hospital, New Jersey
Jay Galst, MD, ophthalmologist, New York
Dulce Garcia, clinical interpreter, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill
Renato Garcia, RN, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey
Deborah Gatewood, phlebotomist, Beaumont Hospital, Michigan
Michael Giuliano, DO, Mountainside Medical Group, New Jersey
James T. Goodrich, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Antonio Guzman, MD, Corpus Christi Medical Center, Texas
Krist Angielen Castro Guzman, nurse, Meadowbrook Bolingbrook, Illinoia
Herbert P. Henderson Jr., MD, Manchester Family Medicine, Maryland
Harvey Hirsch, MD, Pediatrician, Lakewood, New Jersey
James House, RN, Omni Continuing Care, Detroit
Alex Hsu, MD, Northwest Medical Center, Weston, Florida
Araceli Buendia Ilagan, RN, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami
Aleyamma John, RN, Queens Hospital, New York
Kurt Julian, RN, Evergreen Health, Kirkland, Washington
Stephan Kamholz, MD, Maimonides Medical Center, New York
Jay Kavet, MD, internist, New York City
Kious Kelly, RN, Mount Sinai West, New York

Satyender Dev Khanna, MD, surgeon, Clara Maass Medical Center, New Jersey
Priya Khanna, MD, nephrologist, Clara Maass Medical Center, New Jersey
Kim King-Smith, EKG technologist, Newark University Hospital, New Jersey
Larry Klein, MD, retired ob/gyn, Newport Beach, California
Chaihan Korn, MD, Advanced Cardiovascular Associates, Alabama
Robert Lancaster, MD, psychiatrist, Louisiana
Marques LaRue Bolden, MD, Indianapolis, Indiana
Theresa Lococo, RN, Kings County Hospital, New York
Maria Lopez, RN, University of Illinois, Chicago
Felicisimo Luna, RN, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, New Jersey
James Mahoney, MD, University Hospital of Brooklyn, New York
Mike Marceaux, RN, Christus Highland Hospital, Louisiana
Celia Lardizabal Marcos, RN, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Los Angeles
Emilia Matos, MD, Yuma Regional Medical Center, Arizona
Kelly Mazzarella, RN, Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, New York
Jill McCulloch, MD, child psychiatrist, Pittsburgh
Francis Mee, RN, Tewksbury State Hospital, Massachusetts
Sydney Mehl, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Lois Merrell, RN, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Anjanette Miller, RN, Chicago
Francis Molinari, MD, Clara Maass Medical Center, New Jersey
Godwin Molokwu, MD, PhD, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey
Edwin Montanano, RN, Hudson County Jail, New Jersey
Matthew Moore, radiologic technologist, Staten Island, New York
Nola Mae Moore, MD, physician, Washington state
William Vincent Murdock, MRI technologist, University of Miami Health System
John F. Murray, MD, San Francisco General Hospital (retired)
Kimberly Napper, RN, Mississippi
Darioush Nasseri, MD, Baltimore, Maryland (retired)
Eddie Negron, MD, private practice, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Ann Marie Negrotto Eady, MD, Houston, Texas
Joan Neudecker, RN, Buffalo, New York
Freda Ocran, RN, Jacobi Medical Center, New York
Sandra Oldfield, RN, Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center, California
Pamela Orlando, RN, Valley Hospital, New Jersey
Joyce Pacubas-Le Blanc, RN, Chicago Medical Center
Marybeth Papetti, RN, CareOne at Livingston Assisted Living, New Jersey

Angelo Pastalas, MD, family physician, Detroit
Tomas Pattugalan, MD, primary care physician, Queens, New York
Pilar Pe, RN, Fort Washington Medical Center, Maryland
Ruben Daniel Pechero, MD, orthopedic surgery, McAllen, Texas
David Perea, RN, traveling nurse, Reno, Nevada
Bredy Pierre-Louis, MD, family medicine, Brooklyn, New York
Nisar Quraishi, MD, internal medicine, NYU Langone, New York
Brandi Ramirez, LVN, Clarksville, Texas
Tina Reeves, RN, Pickaway Correctional Institution, Orient, Ohio
Nick Rizos, MD, ob/gyn, Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Maria Roaquin, RN, New York Presbyterian, Cortlandt Manor, New York
Ivan Rodriguez, MD, internal medicine, Brooklyn, New York
Burton Rose, MD, Creator of UpToDate
Thomas Rose, MD, Dale Medical Center, Ozark, Alabama
Victor Rivera, MD, pediatrician, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
Charlie Safley, MD, dermatologist, Memphis, Tennessee
Barry Sakowitz, MD, internal medicine, Paramus, New Jersey
Elliott Samet, MD, pediatrician, St. Mary's Hospital, New Jersey
Eugene Sayfie, MD, cardiologist, University of Miami Hospital

Ellyn Schreiner, RN, Dayton, Ohio
Stephen Schwartz, MD, University of Washington, Seattle
Gary Sclar, MD, Mount Sinai Queens, New York
Sam Scolaro, MD, private practice, Riverview, Florida
Richard Gerald Shugarman, MD, ophthalmologist, Florida
Franklin Sequiera, MD, interventional radiologist, Indiana
Noel Sinkiat, RN, Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C.
James Simpson, mental health technician, Sunstone Youth Treatment Center, Burien, Washington
Tony Sisemore, nursing assistant, Stollwood Convalescent Hospital, Woodland, California
Javier Sloyer, MD, anesthesiologist, New York
Charles Rodney Smith, MD, psychiatrist, New Orleans
Howard Snyder III, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Joshua Suzuki, MD, ob/gyn, Seattle
Arthrur Sydeco Tayengco, MD, ob/gyn, Las Vegas
Adlin Thompson, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Isabella Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, New York
Carlos Vallejo, MD, private practice, Weston, Florida
Jorge Vallejo, MD, retired, Miami
Jesus Villaluz, patient transport services, Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, New Jersey
Valeria Viveros, nursing assistant, Riverside, California

Guido Volcovici, MD, pulmonologist, lower Westchester County, New York
Gary Webber, MD, general surgeon, Mount Sinai Queens, New York
Robert Harris Weitzman, MD, retired pulmonologist, New Jersey
Shenetta White-Ballard, nurse, Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation, Port Allen, Louisiana
Kenneth Whitney, PA, NYU Winthrop, Massapequa Park, New York
Diedre Wilkes, mammogram technologist, Newnan, Georgia
Petal Williams-Richards, respiratory therapist, BronxCare Health System
Judy Wilson-Griffin, RN, St. Mary's Hospital, St. Louis
Samantha Wissinger, RN, Sandusky, Michigan
David Wolin, MD, radiologist, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York
Sina Zaim, MD, Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey
Jesus Zambrano, MD, pediatrician, Oceanside, New York
Jack Zoller, MD, ob/gyn, New Orleans
 

These just are not real facts. Sorry. You are running in a platform that if someone doesn’t believe what you believe in they must be a Fox need watcher?

I’m a democrat.That kind of throws a wrench in your accusations. It sounds like you are not a Covid-19 expert... it sounds more like you dislike anything that doesn’t not align with your parties political lines. That’s not me, I look at the whole picture and make the most educated decisions I can based on what I know. Not because I don’t like the president. I know your better than that.
Yes, because in the new world, if I don't love you, I hate you. I am an independent. I think for myself. MOST people are not all good or all bad, all right or all wrong. Not too many actual thinkers left Alaska; people want others to tell them how to think. Enraged people click hyperlinks like junkies and they are loyal to their dealers.
 

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

George Orwell - 1984
 



Yes, because in the new world, if I don't love you, I hate you. I am an independent. I think for myself. MOST people are not all good or all bad, all right or all wrong. Not too many actual thinkers left Alaska; people want others to tell them how to think. Enraged people click hyperlinks like junkies and they are loyal to their dealers.
Love this post. So grateful to be raised without a doctrine to either party, any religion or myth or any person. In pausing to reflect on thoughts and ideas we can learn how to think not what to think. By nature we want to believe what we believe and we want others to agree with us. This gives the illusion of safety but only in facing fear is their courage. People hate change until the pain of staying the same becomes unbearable and in that course they will hate, insult others that do not believe what they do.
 


The same logic sent our auto industry to


You don't stop the world for a rare side effect of a rare infection (see demographics of COVID).
1. Ummmm, what?
2. Stopping college football is not stopping the world.
 

some- not all - of the players want to have it both ways.

on the one hand, they say they want to play.

on the other hand, they say they will not waive their right to pursue legal action against their school if they were to experience serious medical issues.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Gophers get, what, $40-million a year from BTN? One or two lawsuits could wipe that out. That is what administrators are facing.
 

The same logic sent our auto industry to


You don't stop the world for a rare side effect of a rare infection (see demographics of COVID).
The world was never stopped. I'm not even saying they shouldn't try to play football this fall. But to continue to act like this is exactly like the flu is ridiculous.
 

The world was never stopped. I'm not even saying they shouldn't try to play football this fall. But to continue to act like this is exactly like the flu is ridiculous.

How about this, it's more infectious and less lethal than the flu.
 

Of the perils that could befall a college football player in 2020, while playing the game, COVID-19 wouldn’t even make an objective Top 10 list.

So what’s the REAL issue?
 

2:00 announcement coming officially postponing fall season to the spring. Yeah, right.

Things will get very interesting now. Will the Gophers pursue their own season like Nebraska, Ohio State, MIchigan, Penn State and Iowa plan to?
 


I’m not so sure. All of this would have been negotiated. Because there would have been a venue for negotiation. There wouldn’t be 11th hour “demands,” etc.

People assume that the players are all thinking they have a raw deal and are willing to sit-out. Yesterday was the closest, in 150 years,major college football players have come to organizing. And it was specificall for the purpose of playing the season on-time.
 


Darn this year sucks. At least we can ride the high of the 2019 season. Any chance Bateman reconsiders now?
 




This is the right decision. We all need to do our part to try and get Covid under control so sports can come back--no bubble.

COVID is never going away. It's a new cold virus that will continue to circulate. It has now run through most of the vulnerable population, and the death rate will continue to drop.

The faster people come to grips with this reality, the faster we'll go back to normal.
 





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