re: 2022 Recruiting and beyond. (Updated: 20/JUN/2021)

I don't see large gatherings being allowed until there's a vaccine.

So there very likely won't be a football season, sadly.

The problem is that a lot of people (more than normal) are going to the ICU and taking at least a week to recover in intensive care. The flu, while deadly as well, doesn't usually send healthy people to the ICU. Having healthy people there as well as unhealthy means that the beds are occupied. Right now COVID-19 is 10x deadlier than the flu.

https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year

'During a March 11 hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on coronavirus preparedness, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, put it plainly: "The seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1%,” he told the congressional panel, whereas coronavirus is "10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu," per STAT news.'

IMO, the mortality rate nor the total infected are the big issues. The problem is that we don't have a vaccine to cure. Once this is identified, which I believe will happen soon, we can all get back to some degree of normalcy. By the end of April, i will be shocked of we haven't turned the corner.

Or maybe...just maybe...people notice after reopening the mass chaos they feared never occurs and start going back to normal. Hopefully at least.

shite Gainesville is basically done with it. When it first started streets were dead. Now it's back to normal traffic outside of the students. People are drained and arent going to wait a year to go back to normal for a strong flu.

shite got out of control because of how it shocked Italy and New York. H1N1 was not quite as dangerous, but there was no panic at all and we did fine. Time for herd immunity.

20% of the global population (roughly) is high risk. In America, in America it would be around 92.6 million people. If a young, healthy person lives with their parents this person would be unable to work as well without risking the lives of his or her parents.

I don't think we can risk 92.6 million people of our population and retain the labor that you want to return to, we're not China. Losing that many people would cripple our economy, destroy everything we have tried to build and may be a sign of the end of our empire.

Instead of crying to go back to your job, protest why our government is set up the way it is. Why weren't they prepared? Why don't they have any measures to combat this? Why didn't they listen to the CDC and the CIA regarding Operation Dark Winter?

There are tons of things to be mad about, but definitely use this time to join the fight in changing how our society operates. Don't fight to have a bunch of people die.

Straws just said 20 percent of the population will die from this?

Maybe I misread this...but that is

Of those high risk, they still only have a low chance of death if hospitalized. Yes they are certainly high risk, and need to be protected. But not at the expense of destroying everything.

I mean driving a car is insanely dangerous. Yet we do it daily. We are at the point that the hospitals have had ample time to prepare. It's time to take the hit and get back to normal life.

We can't just stop this from spreading. It doesn't work like that. We delayed to flatten the curve, not limit the amount of people exposed, which they have said for months isn't really possible without a vaccine or herd immunity.

If you don't feel safe. Stay home, have things delivered, etc.

You can't do this long term. It would destroy everything.

What I said - 20% of the global population (roughly) is high risk. In America, it would be around 92.6 million people.

What you said - 328 million Americans x 20% is 65.6 million, but who is counting. Plus, there is no way that many people in the US are at high risk.

Idiot.

What Gatorwhatever said - Straws just said 20 percent of the population will die from this?

I said at risk, and that we can't risk to lose that many people. We can't even risk to lose half of that.

46.3 million is okay?

What about 20 million?

Perhaps we have different views on how the world should return. I think our government should be held accountable -- Bush, Obama and Trump included. They were completely unprepared for this in spite of a massive warning by the CIA/CDC. I also think there is a smarter way than "good luck meemaw".

But, I encourage you guys to go out. From what I know you're both pretty old so we'll see how quickly you regret.

I just want to make it clear: I agree with you wholeheartedly and I'm a political moderate, I honestly don't care who was wrong when in regards to this. You make a good point, I'll just make another thread.

Diwun fricking Black will finally be on campus this December. I'm so goddamn glad that he finally got his shot. Kid really deserves it.