While it's true that some people are only thinking about their own selfish desires, I think you are overlooking the fact that a missed college football season could have a disastrous effect on our higher education system, the economies of many college towns, and countless other effects. You are being as short-sighted as the people you criticize.
Brilliant!Very interesting interview in Wired with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. What is becoming clear to doctors and researchers is that COVID-19 is a viscious disease that can have very serious and long-lasting/permanent health implictions for those who survive. We have to stop looking at the possibility of death as the only marker of whether we resume sports or send kids back to school, etc. The great majority do survive getting the virus, but at what cost? From the first several months of research, the science says it may be high.
"So now we can begin to understand that this virus attacks the circulatory system, it attacks the vascular and nervous systems, it attacks the respiratory system, it attacks our ability to bring in oxygen. That’s why people can go to the hospital and be on their phone, not in any respiratory distress, but have oxygen saturation in the 50s, which in the old days we’d think of as you’re near death. It also makes you understand why you can get these Covid toes, why you can lose your sense of taste or smell, why you can have a stroke. This virus attacks blood vessels, it creates blood clots. That is probably one of the reasons why it causes strokes. We have a very large number of deaths due to kidney failure, and we are having terrible results from the ventilators that we were so obsessed about early on, though lately it’s looking a little better, because we’ve learned more about how to use them for this disease. We have learned a tremendous amount about this virus, about how it infects people, how it kills, how it spreads, but the big surprise to me is the kind of pan-organ nature of its attack. It gives the lie to anybody who thought that a comparison with influenza was in the ballpark."
- Dr. Larry Brilliant
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
Three months ago, the epidemiologist weighed in on what we must do to defeat this new threat. We went back to ask: How are we doing, and what comes next?www.wired.com
Interesting read, thanks for posting. Scary stuff.Very interesting interview in Wired with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. What is becoming clear to doctors and researchers is that COVID-19 is a viscious disease that can have very serious and long-lasting/permanent health implictions for those who survive. We have to stop looking at the possibility of death as the only marker of whether we resume sports or send kids back to school, etc. The great majority do survive getting the virus, but at what cost? From the first several months of research, the science says it may be high.
"So now we can begin to understand that this virus attacks the circulatory system, it attacks the vascular and nervous systems, it attacks the respiratory system, it attacks our ability to bring in oxygen. That’s why people can go to the hospital and be on their phone, not in any respiratory distress, but have oxygen saturation in the 50s, which in the old days we’d think of as you’re near death. It also makes you understand why you can get these Covid toes, why you can lose your sense of taste or smell, why you can have a stroke. This virus attacks blood vessels, it creates blood clots. That is probably one of the reasons why it causes strokes. We have a very large number of deaths due to kidney failure, and we are having terrible results from the ventilators that we were so obsessed about early on, though lately it’s looking a little better, because we’ve learned more about how to use them for this disease. We have learned a tremendous amount about this virus, about how it infects people, how it kills, how it spreads, but the big surprise to me is the kind of pan-organ nature of its attack. It gives the lie to anybody who thought that a comparison with influenza was in the ballpark."
- Dr. Larry Brilliant
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
Three months ago, the epidemiologist weighed in on what we must do to defeat this new threat. We went back to ask: How are we doing, and what comes next?
That’s true but it’s a false choice fallacy
The difference is quite obvious, when you consider the possibility of how many people will suffer/die because they got infected from a person who got infected at tailgating/the game.
No matter how successful, I doubt there is a school in the country whose total budget has significantly more than some very small % coming from athletics revenue.
So this got me thinking: what are the actual types of cells that sars2 (cv19's virus) attacks?Very interesting interview in Wired with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. What is becoming clear to doctors and researchers is that COVID-19 is a viscious disease that can have very serious and long-lasting/permanent health implictions for those who survive. We have to stop looking at the possibility of death as the only marker of whether we resume sports or send kids back to school, etc. The great majority do survive getting the virus, but at what cost? From the first several months of research, the science says it may be high.
"So now we can begin to understand that this virus attacks the circulatory system, it attacks the vascular and nervous systems, it attacks the respiratory system, it attacks our ability to bring in oxygen. That’s why people can go to the hospital and be on their phone, not in any respiratory distress, but have oxygen saturation in the 50s, which in the old days we’d think of as you’re near death. It also makes you understand why you can get these Covid toes, why you can lose your sense of taste or smell, why you can have a stroke. This virus attacks blood vessels, it creates blood clots. That is probably one of the reasons why it causes strokes. We have a very large number of deaths due to kidney failure, and we are having terrible results from the ventilators that we were so obsessed about early on, though lately it’s looking a little better, because we’ve learned more about how to use them for this disease. We have learned a tremendous amount about this virus, about how it infects people, how it kills, how it spreads, but the big surprise to me is the kind of pan-organ nature of its attack. It gives the lie to anybody who thought that a comparison with influenza was in the ballpark."
- Dr. Larry Brilliant
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
Three months ago, the epidemiologist weighed in on what we must do to defeat this new threat. We went back to ask: How are we doing, and what comes next?
Post #13, same exact response since it's the same exact argument.
The problem is that the expenses don't all just go away if there's no season. And the revenue loss is huge.
I'm saying, cancel the seasons obviously (no operations/travel costs), furlough all coaches and employees, turn the lights off and the hvac settings on the buildings as minimal as possible to prevent substantial damage, and cancel scholarships for the athletes and instead ask the school to take that hit by offering them tuition waivers instead.
THis country would not exist if it the timid risk adverse extremism promoted by Plato had been prevalent during any crisis in the last 250 years. The old "if just one life is saved" tyranny once again
Very interesting interview in Wired with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. What is becoming clear to doctors and researchers is that COVID-19 is a viscious disease that can have very serious and long-lasting/permanent health implictions for those who survive. We have to stop looking at the possibility of death as the only marker of whether we resume sports or send kids back to school, etc. The great majority do survive getting the virus, but at what cost? From the first several months of research, the science says it may be high.
"So now we can begin to understand that this virus attacks the circulatory system, it attacks the vascular and nervous systems, it attacks the respiratory system, it attacks our ability to bring in oxygen. That’s why people can go to the hospital and be on their phone, not in any respiratory distress, but have oxygen saturation in the 50s, which in the old days we’d think of as you’re near death. It also makes you understand why you can get these Covid toes, why you can lose your sense of taste or smell, why you can have a stroke. This virus attacks blood vessels, it creates blood clots. That is probably one of the reasons why it causes strokes. We have a very large number of deaths due to kidney failure, and we are having terrible results from the ventilators that we were so obsessed about early on, though lately it’s looking a little better, because we’ve learned more about how to use them for this disease. We have learned a tremendous amount about this virus, about how it infects people, how it kills, how it spreads, but the big surprise to me is the kind of pan-organ nature of its attack. It gives the lie to anybody who thought that a comparison with influenza was in the ballpark."
- Dr. Larry Brilliant
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
Three months ago, the epidemiologist weighed in on what we must do to defeat this new threat. We went back to ask: How are we doing, and what comes next?
As long as it’s not me dying, then yes I am in agreement with you.
