End of season in jeopardy?

[Rochelobe]

44 minutes ago, 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.  

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]

I’m doing it, but I am sick of the phrase “follow the science”!  

[Ulty]

7 hours ago, CAHusker said:

I’m doing it, but I am sick of the phrase “follow the science”!  

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." 

[nic]

Is this another “will there be a college football season” thread? 

[DevoHusker]

1 hour ago, Ulty said:

 "don't be a selfish a$$hole." 

 

I want to see this one go at least Statewide, if not nationally 

[RedDenver]

11 hours ago, 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.

This is the thing that gets me.

[Crusader Husker]

Somehow I thought this was a thread about Alex Trebek...I guess not.

[DrinkinwitTerrellFarley]

10 hours ago, CAHusker said:

I’m doing it, but I am sick of the phrase “follow the science”!  

I'm tired of "the new normal" myself but feckless leadership and a populace unwilling to trust science has been a major contributer to put us in this predicament.

[HANC]

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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[Huskers93-97]

17 minutes ago, 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.

[Guy Chamberlin]

I'm tired of the phrase "unprecedented times" but I can't exactly deny it. 

[runningblind]

14 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

I'm tired of the phrase "unprecedented times" but I can't exactly deny it. 

I'm ready for some precedented times.

[Rochelobe]

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/

 

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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. 

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%

 

[drfish]

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.

[I am I]

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?