Yes, absolutely. Depends if I’m still teleworking. Again, depends
“Someone high up”, LOL!!! I said it back in April, and I’ll say it again, THERE WILL 100% be a season this year!!! If anyone wants to place a friendly wager on that presumtion, PLEASE let me know!!! The only question now is whether or not there will be fans in the stands, and if so, to what extent. My guess is 50% capacity will be allowed at most stadiums, including Beaver Stadium.
Did you manage to read my entire post or just the first line? I said it wasn’t ideal, but it was still better than 100%....can’t really argue with that but you did. At some point we have to realize we can’t stop people from catching the virus and we can’t shut down until there are zero cases. Our economy can’t survive it. I can’t believe I had to post this.
A restaurant does not have the extreme population density of the stadium so apples to oranges. I would be ok with going to the stadium at 50k or 100k personally but because of my profession I will not do it until there is a vaccine. I work in healthcare and have the potential to be a covid carrier and a super spreader in a place like a stadium.
I turn 59 this October so that includes me. I came to this realization a couple of weeks ago that regardless of what happens I cannot go this fall. Kind of sucks living less than three miles from the stadium. But getting Covid-19 would suck more.
Thank you for some sanity. This whole concept of "they could be liable ..." is completely overblown. In theory, it sounds reasonable, but the reality is the virus has anywhere from a couple of days to 14 days incubation. Nobody is going to be able to prove they picked up the virus at the stadium vs classroom vs dorm room vs hallway vs restaurant vs grocery store vs bar, etc etc etc. ... or anywhere else they were throughout the previous 2 weeks. End of case .
It’s not apples and oranges when you look at the context....it’s an example of 50% is better than 100%. Are you saying having 50,000 people is not better than having 100,000? I’m not sure how you can back that up.
I chuckled at that last point. My great grandfather, great-great grandfather, and 3rd-great-grandfather were all employed in the shoe industry in Massachusetts. But my grandfather and his brother were civil engineers, my dad was an engineer (industrial furnaces), and I studied chemistry at State. Times change.
There is still no social distancing at 50k fans, there is social distancing at 50% restaurant capacity. This really is an easy concept. I think social distancing can potentially happen at 20-30k fans.
I wasn’t talking about social distancing....in fact I said you can’t have 6 feet between fans at a football game. The easiest concept is that fewer people are better than more people. That’s easy.
Please. There is not going to be sympathy for people that go to football stadiums and then get the virus, from whatever source.
Doesn’t matter what I’m trying to say, people will twist it to where they can argue about it.
And nothing in your response explains how anyone can say that having 50,000 people isn’t better than having 100,000.
I should have made myself more clear. That bet would be if the season starts on time, not if it will finish. I do still think it will finish in some manner as well. It may be shortened, but a national champion will be crowned.
I’m not taking a side here, merely asking a question. I’ve seen this argument a lot, and agree that we have to open up. I’m a little more leery since I know someone in his 30’s, completely healthy otherwise, but who got his arse handed to him by Covid-19....ventilator, LONG hospital stay, etc. He’s recovered, but still not sure to what capacity his health will ultimately return. My question is this - why have we seen countries hit extremely hard (Spain, Italy, etc) not just flatten, but pretty much eradicate the curve? Of course it’s not completely gone, but compared to our plateau (and now increasing spikes), what the hell are we doing wrong? And why do the powers that be seem to be ignoring it?
The problem is no one other than the politicians gets a say. It doesn’t matter what people want, it’s what the governors want.
I think the main thing in all of this is the amount of testing and the accuracy of those tests. As we do more and more testing, of course we’re going to have more cases. We have no way of knowing what the other countries are doing in terms of testing.
Yeah, I’d say 50/50 is generous. Case in point - if a player tests positive, then theoretically he has exposed his entire team AND players from any teams he played against (and ultimately every team THAT team has played). So wouldn’t every team along the chain have to quarantine for 14 days? Is the ncaa going to postpone games in that timespan or simply forfeit them? A champion could be crowned simply for being most healthy.
. We deserve it.
And this could be the same six months from now or even a year from now. We may never get a vaccine and if we do it may only be minimally effective. So basically we have to shut down all large gatherings forever. At some point we have to make a decision to going back to living our lives and dealing with the fallout. How long that takes probably has a lot to do with the election results in November.
True, but regardless of how accurate the testing may be, results are revealing NEW cases, not just people who’ve already had it (which btw, we still haven’t even scratched the surface on that list).
We’re in agreement, but whether we have an effective vaccine or not, we’ll still know a helluva lot more about the longer-term effects of the disease by then. Sooner is better, but better is best.
It simply isn't clearly pretty much over. Not worth talking about with the likes of you. Enjoy the games at the stadium, I absolutely encourage you to go with no mask.
