End of season in jeopardy?

DrinkinwitTerrellFarley said:
Yep, exactly.  Two friends of mine, their fathers have passed away from the virus recently.   Less than two weeks ago, a friend from college in her 40's lost her life to Covid-19 and leaves behind a young daughter.  Everyone has pandemic fatigue at this point but we need to keep following science and caring about other people.  
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This pandemic has really exposed how anti-science and selfish a significant portion of our citizens are.   

I just don't get it.   Most of the anti-maskers are the loudest "open up our city" complainers.   Yet they defy the 2nd best way (after a vaccine) to actually open things up.

*sigh* 

 
CAHusker said:
I’m doing it, but I am sick of the phrase “follow the science”!  
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Yeah, some of the catchphrases are getting tiresome. Our school sends out multiple emails a week that still say some variation of "we're all in this together!" Ugh.

But constant reinforcement is an effective form of communication. That's why advertising works. That's why so many people believe the obvious lies of politicians if they just keep repeating the lie over and over. 

So yes, we need to keep up the message of "follow the science." But if you don't like that one, there are others. How about "listen to the experts" or "don't be a selfish a$$hole." 

 
drfish said:
6.  I would have no problem with people refusing to wear masks if the mask protected them and not the others around them.  If you want to take a health risk, fine.  You are an adult and you can make your own decisions.  However, the decision not to wear a mask is a decision to put the people around you at risk and you don't have a valid right to do that.
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This is the thing that gets me.

 
Talks are happening about the possible and potential delay of the CFP.  Again, reason for thread was to see if anyone was/is worried about the season being stopped, delayed, ended....

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HANC said:
Talks are happening about the possible and potential delay of the CFP.  Again, reason for thread was to see if anyone was/is worried about the season being stopped, delayed, ended....

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Delaying the CFP would be good for the BIG10. It would allow us potential opportunity to re-schedule games.

 
Interesting article showing the current status of COVID cases in counties that host a Power 5 Conference team.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/sports/ncaaf/2020/11/13/college-football-covid-19-cases-jump-big-ten-big-12-counties/6270975002/

In fact, data analysis conducted by Emory's Rollins School of Public Health for USA TODAY found that the counties in which Power Five schools are located have seen an even larger spike in COVID-19 cases than the nationwide average, with communities in the Big Ten and Big 12 experiencing the most dramatic increases in their seven-day averages of daily new cases per 100,000 residents. 
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Interesting that currently the new case per day rate/100K residents in Lancaster County is 3x higher than Los Angeles County. The bolded number is the new cases/day/100K residents over the last 7 days.

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Univ  County Cases Change*






Illinois


Champaign


80


65%




Indiana


Monroe


38


60%




Iowa


Johnson


107


144%




Maryland


Prince George's


21


36%




Michigan


Washtenaw


31


49%




Michigan State


Ingham


35


58%




Minnesota


Hennepin


71


74%




Nebraska


Lancaster


65


47%




Northwestern


Cook


81


55%




Ohio State


Franklin


43


56%




Penn State


Centre


31


38%




Purdue


Tippecanoe


78


59%




Rutgers


Middlesex


24


30%




Wisconsin


Dane


72


21%
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Univ County Cases Change*






Arizona


Pima


26


30%




Arizona State


Maricopa


26


43%




California-Berkeley


Alameda


8


37%




Colorado


Boulder


48


60%




Oregon


Lane


12


44%




Oregon State


Benton


10


117%




Stanford


Santa Clara


11


56%




UCLA


Los Angeles


20


47%




USC


Los Angeles


20


47%




Utah


Salt Lake


91


43%




Washington


King


20


80%




Washington State


Whitman


24


35%
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Cities in the midwest (where COVID is rising significantly compared to the coasts) with large university populations.  Yes, they have football teams.  They also have thousands of students who are more prone to party and ignore prevention recommendations.  This is probably cherry picking data (using the data that support your premise while ignoring the data that do not support it (Americans have become very good at this) and cum hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy (occurring together, therefore there is a causal relationship.  Does anybody REALLY believe that it is due to football teams spreading virus and not irresponsible general college population spreading virus?  If anything, the virus rates in all 5 conferences and the timing of the start of play suggests that the two are not related since the relationship to 1st game played and increases are much different.  Relating COVID spikes to FBS power 5 football is not supported by an initial look at the data.  If it was football related, then the curves in all the conferences should begin at roughly similar intervals from the onset of play.  I would argue that the graph shows the opposite.  There is no consistent relationship between the onset of games in power 5 conferences and the onset of spikes in cases.

 
At this point, I care less about cases and more about outcomes. 
 

the cases of this will go on forever, as far as we know. 
 

the outcomes of those cases has changed dramatically. Give me the outcomes of the cases. 

Of ALL cases, what are the outcome? 

 
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