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Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:32 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:32 pm to Cobrasize
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You’re right. I’m not saying they should or shouldn’t play, I just think if the football players have to be there, then so should the regular students. It just makes me sick to think that we would force the football players to do something that we don’t force the other kids to do.
The problem here is that there will be some programs with scum coaches that will force their players to play or not have a scholarship anymore which could negate there opportunity for an education.
Some of these athletes are living their best days to date with comforts never before experiencing.
I understand we may never see some of these players again due to the draft but the majority will be back. I have heard the NCAA is looking to add a year of eligibility for players if there is no season. To be honest I hope there is not. There will not be any type of post season for a NC.
People complaining that the virus has become political and health not the focus. Lets not do the same with football and have financial concerns outweigh the health.
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:50 pm to bamameister
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If you have to "guess" you understand being "afraid," you aren't "afraid" enough and I doubt seriously you get it. Nothing is a sure thing about the ongoing strength of this virus or longevity. A pandemic doesn't need willing human sacrifices to feed its count, it's proficient enough when we are most careful.
This doesn't honestly require an intellectual exercise to get this, just a value system.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you can frick right off with your pretentious moralizing.
There's no empirical reason for a teenager to be afraid for their own safety at school vis a vis COVID-19. If they're concerned about catching it and unwittingly spreading it to an at-risk family member or friend, that's completely different. But that's not what I was responding to.
We're likely to see huge increases in suicide and alcoholism because of the fear associated with the virus and subsequent response to it. We're also inevitably going to see an even more pronounced achievement gap with schools shifting to online instruction, along with everything that entails.
Of course, anyone attempting to quantify or express concern about the consequences of our response to the virus is simply engaging in intellectual exercises and must lack a value system, right?
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 7/21/20 at 1:35 pm to TideCPA
We got you already. Hope this doesn't touch you but it has already touched several people near and dear to me.
If you don't like the critisism, don't post.
If you don't like the critisism, don't post.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 1:53 pm to rcbama
Maybe I was wrong but if the CDC is already reporting to Washington and getting numbers back they can post(not sure of dynamics ) then Mississippi had our highest total cases today at over 1600 and 31 deaths
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 7/21/20 at 1:59 pm to rcbama
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If you don't like the critisism, don't post.
There's criticism and there's accusing someone of lacking a moral compass because they use an empirical approach to risk-taking. If you're the former, let's have a discussion. If you're the latter, you can go frick yourself.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 2:49 pm to TideCPA
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Of course, anyone attempting to quantify or express concern about the consequences of our response to the virus is simply engaging in intellectual exercises and must lack a value system, right?
No, wrong again. No amount of intellectualizing will get you to the right conclusion without a moral compass to drive it home. You can push all the stats at this you like, you can stuff it in any demographic that suit your argument, but no person is expendable, period.
No family head with an ounce of natural affection cares what the odds are in relation to their school-age children or grandchildren and the people that will be interacting with them by way of extension. Whether that moves your needle or not it all matters.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 3:26 pm to bamameister
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Minority patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus are more likely to have more serious cases of the illness, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that chest X-rays of blacks and Hispanics showed more severe disease progression than whites - about 1.5 times worse.
Scans of patients of color were more likely to be opaque, meaning there could be a buildup of fluid, a thickening of connective tissues or damage to the organs.
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Such a strange freaking virus
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:01 pm to Cobrasize
No need to talk to some one who has already made up their mind.
Telling people to frick themselves is far from intelligent dicussion.
See you later.
Telling people to frick themselves is far from intelligent dicussion.
See you later.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:11 pm to bamameister
quote:Figured you'd whip out the "if it saves just one life" fallacy at some point.
No, wrong again. No amount of intellectualizing will get you to the right conclusion without a moral compass to drive it home. You can push all the stats at this you like, you can stuff it in any demographic that suit your argument, but no person is expendable, period.
If our apparent threshold for risk to life is zero, then we might as well permanently shut down schools. They're a known vector for community spread of influenza, which kills tens of thousands annually in the US. How many teens die in traffic accidents going to and from school or school-related events each year? Not to mention the handful of kids who die from school sports related incidents or shootings. If you indeed subscribe to the belief that "no person is expendable" for any measure of societal liberty, then you must logically favor shuttering schools forever. Otherwise, you're clearly just operating "without a moral compass".
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:38 pm to TideCPA
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:51 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Well, I know eight people who have had.
Two dead, two hospitalized in isolation and one on a ventilator.
Three with no symptoms at all.
Two dead, two hospitalized in isolation and one on a ventilator.
Three with no symptoms at all.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:54 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Children murdered in just 2 weeks of July
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WSFA 12 News
@wsfa12news
Child Protect reports surge in abuse cases, pandemic-related stress likely a factor
Way more at stake here than people are willing to acknowledge.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 4:56 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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pandemic-related stress likely a factor
Little presumptuous of them I think . Everything is political ... sometimes people are just bad , doesn’t have to be a reason or excuse
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:28 pm to Bear88
I've never said I was for shut downs. While I am in the vulnerable category, I realize life and the economy must go on for many reasons.
That being said, acting like this is not serious and some kind of joke seems out of place to me.
That being said, acting like this is not serious and some kind of joke seems out of place to me.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:37 pm to rcbama
Not sure if you meant to reply to me or not but I didn’t say anything about lockdowns or not taking it seriously
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:41 pm to JustGetItRight
Bout like there were going to be about as many suicides as Covid deaths because of the lockdown of what 3,4 weeks in most places ? 
People can blame anything on something . Unless they were there or direct testimony , nobody knows for sure what caused a man to beat his child
People can blame anything on something . Unless they were there or direct testimony , nobody knows for sure what caused a man to beat his child
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:44 pm to Bear88
Not aimed at you Bear.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:55 pm to Bear88
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Bout like there were going to be about as many suicides as Covid deaths because of the lockdown of what 3,4 weeks in most places ?
What are you rambling about? I can't speak for anyone else but I'm in no way suggesting that there will be the same or even close but there will be more.
I gave you a scientific study that looks at the correlation between economic stress and increases in DV/suicide. The link isn't disputed by anyone that pays even casual attention - but hey feel free to keep asking like it doesn't exist.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 6:01 pm to JustGetItRight
I am not rambling about anything . People who think it is a hoax or don’t take it seriously like to point out all the things that could happen .. sure anything could happen but no article can definitely pinpoint that a case of child abuse was probably caused by Covid , drinking , wife cheating ... whatever reason you want to throw out there . Could be politically driven as well til the election just like a lot of the media is these days 
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