On Tigerdroppings, the word is that the LHSAA has said no high school football (or basketball) until Louisiana is in Phase 4 (100% open with no restrictions.) Discuss...
Gonna have to do a reach around to claim sportsman's paradise. This is bigger than what it seems on the surface. The effects on recruiting? Just damn.
If its a given that masks are the way to turn things around, and based on the reaction I saw to the governor's mask mandate Saturday, I would say there will be no high school football or basketball this year.
People are dreaming, naive, or heaven forbid, stupid. NOTHING will be normal until the US gets this shit under control. Yeah, a few schools will open, and then close when the first teacher, mom, or grandpa dies. It’s just not magically going to end. Herd immunity is a pipe dream, a distant vaccine is a hope. Masks and social distancing both reduce rates of infection, but not to 0%. I’ve not seen, recently, a picture of any crowds in Louisiana, but NC crowds are a disaster —— bars, beach, you name it. Did see a beach picture from NJ over the weekend. People were shoulder to shoulder. Hell, I wouldn’t do that in the best of times. As long as people take half assed measures, the results will be half assed. And more will die, suffer strokes, suffer heart damage. . . . the list goes on and on. PS: I’m sick of this shit!
I was ready to contradict you, but you tied it all together nicely with that last paragraph. As Mr. Miyagi said to Daniel-san, "Walk on road. Walk on left side, OK. Walk on right side, OK. Walk in middle, sooner or later, get squashed like grape." I don't know if herd immunity or full quarantine measures will stop this thing, but until we commit fully to one solution or another, it will just keep going.
theres no controlling a pandemic. it do what it do. heres some louisiana infectees following the 6 foot rule celebrating their dependence.
I am waiting to see what Texas will do. Many counties in Texas have very few cases. The explosion of cases have occurred in Dallas and (big surprise) Houston ( though only 239 deaths so far for them.) To a lesser degree, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio have larger numbers of cases. Collin County, where I live, has under 4000 cases total during the pandemic ( population of 1 million or more.) Denton County, where I will send my daughter back to college next month, has nearly 3000 total cases. I am struggling with understanding how we can keep sidelining our young people. As a teacher, I had no idea how many "immunocompromised" teachers there were around me. I put the quotes because schools aren't going to "become petri dishes" of disease; they always HAVE been. That's why teachers tend to get sick a lot their first few years in the classroom. Yet, now half of my colleagues insist they are high risk. I am sorry, but if they were, how could they teach during even flu season? I can understand in cases like a kidney transplant colleague at another school...where she wants to teach remotely. Can we keep our schools closed indefinitely? Can we take away any and all enjoyment from healthy young people?
Agree 100%. I was sick constantly the first two years I taught. Hardly ever the last 8 years. As an older teacher, I went through Purcell by the gallon it seemed. I also ALWAYS got flu and pneumonia shots. I was hyper aware of the very real threat of flu. The Covid-19 problem is 3 fold, and is amplified amplified in schools: 1) Asymptomatic spread 2) Children coming to school from a host of differing family situations 3) Children then bringing Covid-19 home from school. From what I have learned it seems like crowded indoor activity and spread through families account for most cases. Schools hit both of those right on the nose. Due to my age and high risk factors, I would resign rather than teach face to face in the classroom. This year. My education is Oceanography, Physics, MBA and MEd. I am not in any way at Epidemiologist or Infection Disease kind of guy, but I expect 99% of the schools that open, if they open face to face at all, will NOT stay open. Yeah, Bumfuck, Idaho schools might stay open, but nowhere that has either a meaningful population or people transiting will be able to do so. It’s not political, it’s why epidemic/pandemics are so devastating. And the danger is so much more than suffocating to death. All kinds of health hazards are cropping up in those that survive (I lost a great authoritative article on what we know to date about non-death outcomes). I can’t quote the diseases and numbers, but. . . .
