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You have roughly the same chance of dying in a car wreck, yet rational people don't decide to stay away from vehicles. Ever feel like you have awakened one day, and you are living in a Twilight Zone episode where everyone around you are acting irrational and you are the only sane one? All of 2020 has felt like that.
I think you are right. And thousands of fans will skip this season also. No tailgating at Commonwealth so why go to the game? UK will not have a hard time reducing seats. We are considering volunteering giving up ours for the season and then take a look in 2021 when things are more clearHe has to what is best for his new expanding family. I expect many players to sit out this season.
You have roughly the same chance of dying in a car wreck, yet rational people
However, more than 32,000 people are killed
Terry has already said this is it. He was likely eligible for a year due to the knee. Beats me. Then again, he has plenty on his mind with a baby on the way.It would be in the best interest of the NCAA to give anybody who sits out an extra year of eligibility. Hopefully things play out well for everybody
Do you ever stop to think it’s weird that you “woke up in the Twilight Zone” is a more rational explanation than you aren’t following the right news sources? So you are just misinformed? Odds are you aren’t the sane one just by pure probability.
When he said "you", perhaps he referred to 22 year old prime caliber athletes, as opposed to the public at large? And a 22 year old athlete is absolutely more likely to die from an accident than the virus. With that said, whatever Wilson does is his business. I do find it astonishing that virus fans, not necessarily including you, but absolutely including some others on this board, are desperately hoping for no football on a football board.No. Not even close, and a clear expression of the irrationality of which you complain.
Covid has claimed 150,000 American lives in just over 5 months, a factor of at least nine times the mortality rate of car accidents over a comparable period of time. We lose about 103-105 per day to car accidents. We have been at high multiples of that number for many months from Covid.
And I wear seat belts, and do not drink and drive, rational decisions which reduce my odds of dying in a car accident, significantly.
And I will not die in a car accident because someone else refused to wear a seatbelt: I and others could die if the wrong person in our proximity fails to wear a mask or violates other common sense measures.
Even assuming the accuracy of those numbers, perhaps excess deaths are indirectly caused by lockdowns and the resultant lower quality of life. Suicides, opiate deaths, homicides, missed diagnosis for health issues, increased obesity in America (instead of the freshman 15, there is now the covid 19), and, in much of the world, starvation.Lol so it's that easy huh. This year's deaths minus last year's deaths, and that's the deaths by covid? That's something you're peddling.
My god.
As of May 18, 2020, there were less than 2,000 people under the age of 44 killed by the coronavirus. Based on the total deaths from the virus under 18, a grand total of 21, and the incredibly disproportionate number of elderly deaths, I would venture that the vast majority of deaths from the virus between 19 and 44 involve people much closer to the age of 44 than to 19. So, obviously, automobile accidents are much deadlier than the coronavirus for a 44 year old, let alone a 22 year old, let alone an athlete who is 22 years old and who isn't morbidly obese or recovering from cancer. On the other hand, the virus is deadlier, in orders of magnitude, for the average octogenarian."Reducing motor vehicle crash deaths was one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century for the US. However, more than 32,000 people are killed and 2 million are injured each year from motor vehicle crashes. In 2013, the US crash death rate was more than twice the average of other high-income countries. In the US, front seat belt use was lower than in most other comparison countries. One in 3 crash deaths in the US involved drunk driving, and almost 1 in 3 involved speeding. Lower death rates in other high-income countries and a high percentage of risk factors in the US suggest that we can make more progress in reducing crash deaths."
https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
https://policyadvice.net/car-insurance/insights/how-many-people-die-in-car-accidents/
Even assuming the accuracy of those numbers, perhaps excess deaths are indirectly caused by lockdowns and the resultant lower quality of life. Suicides, opiate deaths, homicides, missed diagnosis for health issues, increased obesity in America (instead of the freshman 15, there is now the covid 19), and, in much of the world, starvation.
That makes zero sense. Jk,jk. That is obviously the most common sense thing.Question...wouldn’t it be best to plan to play, then if you do catch the virus, isolate for a couple of weeks and receive the best possible medical care, build up an immunity, and then be even more secure to be around your family?
When he said "you", perhaps he referred to 22 year old prime caliber athletes, as opposed to the public at large? And a 22 year old athlete is absolutely more likely to die from an accident than the virus. With that said, whatever Wilson does is his business. I do find it astonishing that virus fans, not necessarily including you, but absolutely including some others on this board, are desperately hoping for no football on a football board.
When he said "you", perhaps he referred to 22 year old prime caliber athletes, as opposed to the public at large? And a 22 year old athlete is absolutely more likely to die from an accident than the virus. With that said, whatever Wilson does is his business. I do find it astonishing that virus fans, not necessarily including you, but a
bsolutely including some others on this board, are desperately hoping for no football on a football board.
He better watch out for the flu and strep too.He has a baby girl that is scheduled to be born in the next couple weeks.
With all the COVID stuff going on he is just thinking what will be best for his new baby girl, girl friend (baby's mother) and his duty as a new father.
Obviously I want his to play but I will support what ever he decides to do play or set out and respect that he is putting his new family 1st over himself.
I agree with you, some people not anyone specifically posting here, seem to want this to take over the world and we end up being hermits afraid to step outside.
They throw all the testing numbers out there com ppl lately ignoring all the false positives. Matthew Stafford had a positive test, and 5 negative within 2 days of the positive, same for Jimmy Johnson. Both obviously negative but are counted as having covid. Then there is the testing in Florida that were showing 100% positive results when it was actually 7%. People getting positive results who have never taken a test. Yet we are expected to take every report as 100% accurate.
When what appears to be a positive breakthrough on cue the same people are on TV trying to discredit the report.
This may be the end of mankind, but the only things for sure is our economy has been wrecked and our individual freedoms have been trampled on by projections that at best were way off, hopefully not intentionally.
But, I know how to grow a garden, how to can food, hunt and fish , make jerky so I wont starve.
I agree with you, some people not anyone specifically posting here, seem to want this to take over the world and we end up being hermits afraid to step outside.
They throw all the testing numbers out there com ppl lately ignoring all the false positives. Matthew Stafford had a positive test, and 5 negative within 2 days of the positive, same for Jimmy Johnson. Both obviously negative but are counted as having covid. Then there is the testing in Florida that were showing 100% positive results when it was actually 7%. People getting positive results who have never taken a test. Yet we are expected to take every report as 100% accurate.
When what appears to be a positive breakthrough on cue the same people are on TV trying to discredit the report.
This may be the end of mankind, but the only things for sure is our economy has been wrecked and our individual freedoms have been trampled on by projections that at best were way off, hopefully not intentionally.
But, I know how to grow a garden, how to can food, hunt and fish , make jerky so I wont starve.
We can skin a buck and run a trot line and a country boy can survive
No. Not even close, and a clear expression of the irrationality of which you complain.
Covid has claimed 150,000 American lives in just over 5 months, a factor of at least nine times the mortality rate of car accidents over a comparable period of time. We lose about 103-105 per day to car accidents. We have been at high multiples of that number for many months from Covid.
And I wear seat belts, and do not drink and drive, rational decisions which reduce my odds of dying in a car accident, significantly.
And I will not die in a car accident because someone else refused to wear a seatbelt: I and others could die if the wrong person in our proximity fails to wear a mask or violates other common sense measures.
No. "Covid has claimed x over the last 5 months" is BS and you know it.
As to what those with a “smidge of education” should believe, I’ll stick with John’s Hopkins University. They’ve been “smidgen” on a high level for a long time.
When he said "you", perhaps he referred to 22 year old prime caliber athletes, as opposed to the public at large? And a 22 year old athlete is absolutely more likely to die from an accident than the virus. With that said, whatever Wilson does is his business. I do find it astonishing that virus fans, not necessarily including you, but absolutely including some others on this board, are desperately hoping for no football on a football board.
First, I specifically said "whatever Wilson does is his own business"- the only reason I even addressed this topic in the first place was to rebut the misconception that the virus is more dangerous to that age demographic than an auto accident; it's not. Second, I have no doubt whatsoever that many posters here are absolutely hoping that the season is cancelled- previous posts on too many threads to number have made that abundantly clear (one poster's constant parroting "no vaccine no football" is just one example). Finally, you're the one the one who brought up the name Trump on a football thread, not me. Can't resist, can you?Why do you think caution equates to "desperately hoping for no football". That is some Trumpian math if I've seen it.
If Terry is getting ready to have a kid, throw facts out the window. When you have a child you are responsible for, especially if its your first, there is a tendency to get a little conservative. And that makes sense.