re: Alright, season or no?

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We have 110 people under one roof at work and we haven’t missed a day during this EPIDEMIC. We didn’t reduce our hours or days. We actually up the hours to 10 per day. Are we just lucky?

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Similar situation here. 50-ish people in one corporate office. Fortunately for us everyone has their own office with a door so it's easy to avoid much intermingling.

Alabama-USC game canceled with Pac-12 moving to league-only play (BamaOnLine)

I'm very tired of seeing this argument; it's full of holes. Your original premise might be true, but 6 weeks after you unknowingly have COVID, you develop lung problems, or two weeks after, you suffer a deep vein thrombosis, or worse, a stroke. And it's all because of the insidious effects of the disease, even if you didn't know you had it. It's NOT just a respiratory disease, it attacks most organ systems in the body in some form or fashion and in many cases, causes permanent damage to the victim. And it's not just people with underlying conditions, some are healthy as a horse, get COVID, don't know it, and stuff starts happening. This disease is not without consequences, even if you don't get sick. You just don't know it's attacking you.

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yeah more positive tests and more people recovering lowers the CFR. Which means this is much much less dangerous than originally thought. If you are under 65 and don't have heart problems or weights problems you have probably already had it and wouldn't know.

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Nick Saban is 68

This is what happens when people are selfish and can't sacrifice for even their immediate future.

In European countries like Italy, Spain and Germany they shut things down and kept them shut till the virus died down so low it would take much longer time to build back up in a threat.

This is what allowed them to resume their soccer seasons and finish them.



Over here we were entitled and arrogant. We didn't even have a total shut down in most places, they just told us to social distance, closed all non-essentials and we wore masks.

People of course rejected this and demanded everything open back up.



Well we are about to reap what we have sown because with how the virus is transmitting they are legitimately about to be forced to cancel.

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I'm very tired of seeing this argument; it's full of holes. Your original premise might be true, but 6 weeks after you unknowingly have COVID, you develop lung problems, or two weeks after, you suffer a deep vein thrombosis, or worse, a stroke. And it's all because of the insidious effects of the disease, even if you didn't know you had it. It's NOT just a respiratory disease, it attacks most organ systems in the body in some form or fashion and in many cases, causes permanent damage to the victim. And it's not just people with underlying conditions, some are healthy as a horse, get COVID, don't know it, and stuff starts happening. This disease is not without consequences, even if you don't get sick. You just don't know it's attacking you.

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Perfect example right here.

You just said the truth; it isn't just about the death rate. This virus is doing permanent damage to people's internal organs and that is what isn't being reported by our terrible media.

Yet look at how many downvoted you?


That is an example of who we are as a nation. It's also why they will eventually cancel football this season. We are too stubborn and arrogant even in front of the truth.

Read actual medical jorunals and stop listening to both political sides of the agenda driven medias.

This Covid crap is nasty.

Its a good article, but its "a snapshot of the roughly the 5% of patients who become critically ill". That's their words at the beginning of the article. They also point out that people who are: obese, have high blood pressure, diabetes, or are older are far and away more likely to end up with a severe case. Its all about your immunities beating back the disease in its early stages. I have heard other Doctors say, since this is a new disease, we do not know for certain that those who completely recovered wont have some kind of serious side effects down the road. They just dont know because its a novel disease. All they can say is "We dont know".

The case load is certainly building up because of the 2 or 3 cases they get each week, who dont recover for months-if at all. Over several months that case load has built up, and we are definitively headed for a crisis in the hospitals. I heard on the news last night, talk in one country, might have been Canada, saying they should just let them die because the hospitals cant handle them.

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Its a good article, but its "a snapshot of the roughly the 5% of patients who become critically ill". That's their words at the beginning of the article.

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That’s true and I didn’t like that being in there because they are now finding that people who otherwise had mild or no symptoms are still showing some of the same damage to organ systems. It may be less severe and not be as clinically significant now but in most cases it is permanent and could cause problems down the road. Of particular interest to young people and athletes were otherwise asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people whose chest X-rays still showed lung damage that amazed clinicians in it’s degree. They thought the patients would at least be short of breath and gasping as up to 10% of their lung capacity was shut off due to the body compartmentalizing areas that were opaque from virus loads; the “ground glass” X-rays you hear of. The body had shunted blood flow away from the areas in an attempt to isolate the virus and protect itself but also permanently scarring those areas.
They are regularly finding crap like that which nobody knows about until somebody stumbles across it.

That’s what bothers me about Coronavirus, the stuff we don’t know. Because what we have found so far is some scary shite. If it’s just an upper respiratory illness, the “flu”, hey, I’m with the ones that say carry on, full speed ahead, but it’s not by any measure. And the reality is, until we find a vaccine, it will continue to spread and the rate of spread is accelerating again so that case numbers are doubling in days, not weeks or months. So even though we are still talking about a small PERCENTAGE of people getting hospitalized and/or critical, we have a denominator problem in that it’s getting bigger, too big. Five percent of 330 million people is over 16 million people.

I swear, if we never get to see Jalen Waddle, Najee Harris, or others play for Bama again, I'm gonna lose it.