University of Alabama COVID-19 outbreak not great news for college football season

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Block M said:
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What would you consider significant?
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More than one case emerging from a day of testing.
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So two cases.
 

Block M said:
QUOTE="PMWinSTP, post: 2033091, member: 9786"]
What would you consider significant?
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More than one case emerging from a day of testing.
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Oh boy.... That's realistic. I can tell you right now you are going to be let down by this. There will be positive tests (Lord only knows how many false positives) no matter what happens. People will test positive, they'll probably miss a game or two as a result, they will do more testing, the world will move forward...
 


Didn’t Clemson and LSU already report like 20-30+ positive tests on their teams earlier this summer?
 

As more conferences cancel, the pot of money grows larger and larger for the last ones standing, making it increasingly difficult for them to do anything other than play.
 


Goldmember said:
As more conferences cancel, the pot of money grows larger and larger for the last ones standing, making it increasingly difficult for them to do anything other than play.
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What pot of $ are you referring to? CBS/ESPN aren't going to pay more than what they're already contractually obligated to pay. It's not like ESPN is going to take the $ they would have paid the B1G and just give it to the SEC as a gift for their "bravery".
 


Block M said:
Some progressives revel in the "Haha I told you so" moments. Self affirmation of intellectual superiority? Whatever the reason, its counterproductive from a national unity perspective.

If football works out for the ACC; great. If not, why rub it in?
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I like when morons get punched in the face....
Doesn't matter which side.
 

Block M said:
Some progressives revel in the "Haha I told you so" moments. Self affirmation of intellectual superiority? Whatever the reason, its counterproductive from a national unity perspective.

If football works out for the ACC; great. If not, why rub it in?
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both sides like to the haha I told you so.

Not sure it's a progressive thing.

Trumpsters are definitely not about national unity
 



salzie said:
both sides like to the haha I told you so.

Not sure it's a progressive thing.

Trumpsters are definitely not about national unity
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Trumpsters and their leaders relish every opportunity they can to troll those they hate.
 

Alabama would play football even if everyone on their team is actively infected. In fact, they might do so just to prove some type of point.
 

They had a whopping 1.04% positivity rate. How is that a bad thing?
 

Indeed! Only 500 out of 50,000 tests were positive.

It's not like this thing is contagious, and the other 49,500 are susceptible to be infected by the 500. It's basically over now!
 




Wally said:
I like when morons get punched in the face....
Doesn't matter which side.
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So you want them to catch Covid, a disease you think is very serious, because they disagree with you on something you didn't even know existed a year ago?

That's a healthy mindset.
 

Nope.

It’s really not that hard. But I’ll spoon-feed you:
it’s exactly the same as if a friend of yours gets behind the wheel of a car that you know has had its brake lines almost rusted out.

You plead with them not to get in that car and drive the mountain roads, because you know what will happen. You hope it doesn’t, of course, but it will. You don’t cheer when it happens, you mourn them. And you wonder what could’ve been, if they hadn’t been so stubborn about being wrong.
 

Saw a tweet today - (disclaimer - I have not personally verified this)

"The University of Alabama had more positive Covid-19 tests today than the entire nation of Canada."

If that's accurate, it certainly says something.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Saw a tweet today - (disclaimer - I have not personally verified this)

"The University of Alabama had more positive Covid-19 tests today than the entire nation of Canada."

If that's accurate, it certainly says something.
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Uhhh, what exactly does it say? That nobody was on campus until recently so up until recently there would have been zero tests done and now there are people being tested? Probably a shitload of people being tested now that have never been tested before because they never felt the need to get tested because they never felt sick?

Sounds like that's one thing it could be saying?
 

^^^^ bahahahaha haha!!!

Look at him trying to dance around the fact that can’t be hand-waived! Looks like neo from the matrix :LOL:
 


Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Uhhh, what exactly does it say? That nobody was on campus until recently so up until recently there would have been zero tests done and now there are people being tested? Probably a shitload of people being tested now that have never been tested before because they never felt the need to get tested because they never felt sick?

Sounds like that's one thing it could be saying?
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Well, we could listen to our Very Stable Genius president and stop testing so the Covid-19 numbers improve.
 




Block M said:
This is total chaos, IMO. Just let them play. Whatever happens, happens.
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The B1G's decision, however poorly communicated it may have been, was the right one. There is legitimate hope of a Spring season, even if it's only 50/50. The odds of a full Fall season for any conference is lower. At best there will be a few weeks played before they give up the ghost.
 
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Ogee Oglethorpe said:
Oh boy.... That's realistic. I can tell you right now you are going to be let down by this. There will be positive tests (Lord only knows how many false positives) no matter what happens. People will test positive, they'll probably miss a game or two as a result, they will do more testing, the world will move forward...
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You keep bringing up the large number of false positive test results, which in fact are rare. False negatives are much more common. It’s the nature of medical testing for fairly accurate methodology. Most false negatives occur before the actual test is conducted. Examples are: Either a sample doesn’t include the virus or the virus is killed during transportation.
 
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These new saliva tests might increase the false negative rate. We won’t know until they’re actually, rigorously verified and thus approved by the FDA.
 

WAGopher said:
You keep bringing up the large number of false positive test results, which in fact are rare.
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Rare? How in the world could anyone possibly know? You are asymptomatic, you go and get tested once, it says positive but who knows if that's accurate; you wait a week, self quarantine, whatever, the go and get tested and it is negative. Sooooo, you would bet your life that the first test was accurate? How in the world do you know?

You can't possibly know if the occurrence of false positives is rare or not really that rare at all.
 

^^^ good god, you can really see that lack of a college degree kicking in.

If it was positive, it means the virus was there. Being asymptomatic doesn’t mean you didn’t get infected, and most importantly doesn’t mean you can’t spread it.

You anti-science, anti-intelligence jackass
 

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