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Penn State may shut Down

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Hearing some rumblings that the students may not be going back to classes after Spring Break. If true, I wonder how this impacts the wrestling team.
 
Thank you Captain Obvious, but my question pertains to using the wresting facilities, practice, ect.
 
The one professor told my niece they may get another week off, make it up in May.
 
Pretty sure Cael will let them practice.

Cael isn't the final word here. Administration may just shut the campus down and all activities with it. Hopefully is doesn't come to that but things are changing very rapidly.
 
This.

The only logistical issue (assuming nobody actually contracts the disease) is if the dorms get shut down -- anybody living there might have to crash on some teammates' couches for a while.

Unless the NCAA cancels championships, not seeing the university prohibiting practices.
The NCAA might cancel the championship
 
Cornell shut down and are doing online classes only. Starting when they leave for spring break on March 28 and will finish the final 6 weeks online.
 
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Thank you Captain Obvious, but my question pertains to using the wresting facilities, practice, ect.

It may prove interesting what autonomy if any the NLWC has under such circumstances.

I have my own opinions on all of this, which I suspect will ruffle some feathers, so it can remain a discussion for another time and place.
 
Cornell shut down and are doing online classes only. Starting when they leave for spring break on March 28 and will finish the final 6 weeks online.
My niece is going to Rutgers Nursing School.
They are not going back to regular classrooms after break..
I'm thinking the Championships could be in doubt if travel limits get put into place. That's what has happened in Italy.
 
This.

The only logistical issue (assuming nobody actually contracts the disease) is if the dorms get shut down -- anybody living there might have to crash on some teammates' couches for a while.

Unless the NCAA cancels championships, not seeing the university prohibiting practices.
Not even thinking of the wrestling team, where would the average student stay if the dorms closed?
 
This.

The only logistical issue (assuming nobody actually contracts the disease) is if the dorms get shut down -- anybody living there might have to crash on some teammates' couches for a while.

Unless the NCAA cancels championships, not seeing the university prohibiting practices.


Has Snyder moved out of Caels basement? There may be room down thar.
 
Not even thinking of the wrestling team, where would the average student stay if the dorms closed?
At home with their parents.

The students most impacted (other than athletes) would be international students. And they too might be able to crash on friends' couches or sublet.
 
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Yes, the one positive of this is we get to keep my oldest daughter home for a few months before going to D.C. for an internship this summer.
 
My guess is that PSU announces today that classes will be via video conferencing for the remainder of March. Beyond that will be TBD. I fully expect it to last until the end of the semester.
 
I definitely don’t want to get in an argument with anyone, I think a lot of people are misinterpreting the reasons for these closures. It’s not necessarily about protecting yourself— it’s about buying our severely under equipped healthcare industry (socialized or capitalized, doesn’t matter much) some time to prepare for the inevitable massive overload of cases.

I found this breakdown by some random person pretty compelling. The scale of the problem is what many people are having trouble grasping. Even if the death rate was lower than something like the flu (it’s not), the infection rate is going to be much much higher. by extension, that’s going to mean more people each and every one of us know and likely love are going to be hospitalized and possibly killed by this thing. Whether it’s two in100, or four in 100, It’s a big deal, and I think we should all do our part and have patience as public health officials do what they can to reduce the impact.

No, it’s not a trusted source, but depending on which “team“ you are on is there a trusted source in this day and age? How about a little common sense? there is no need to be panicked, or even concerned for your own life if you are under a certain age. there’s every reason in the world to act sensibly and try to help our doctors and hospitals be in the best position possible to deal with this.
 
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I definitely don’t want to get in an argument with anyone, I think a lot of people are misinterpreting the reasons for these closures. It’s not necessarily about protecting yourself— it’s about buying our severely under equipped healthcare industry (socialized or capitalized, doesn’t matter much) some time to prepare for the inevitable massive overload of cases.

I found this breakdown by some random person pretty compelling. The scale of the problem is what many people are having trouble grasping. Even if the death rate was lower than something like the flu (it’s not), the infection rate is going to be much much higher. by extension, that’s going to mean more people each and everyone of us know and likely love are going to be hospitalized and possibly killed by this thing. Whether it’s two in100, or four in 100, It’s a big deal, and I think we should all do our part and have patience as public health officials do what they can to reduce the impact.

No, it’s not a trusted source, but depending on which “team“ you are on is there a trusted source in this day and age? How about a little common sense? there is no need to be panicked, or even concerned for your own life if you are under a certain age. there’s every reason in the world to act sensibly and try to help our doctors and hospitals be in the best position possible to deal with this.

Exponential math doesn’t lie.

If they limit the initial exposure, the max number may not balloon to a number that would cripple the hospitals.

Especially since it appears this virus takes 2 weeks to show symptoms.
 
Exponential math doesn’t lie...
Yeah, exponential math is powerful stuff. Imagine a Petrie dish, and introduce a single bacterium that doubles in area every hour. Then for hours and hours and hours, the problem will seem tiny, but if you don’t stop it while it’s small, the last few doubling will take your breath away.

So the people who say “very few people are dying so far, therefore we must be overreacting” are making noises but not making a relevant argument. The only things that matter are the rates. If the rates turn out to be high, then by the time the deaths are high it will be too late to do much.
 
Yeah, exponential math is powerful stuff. Imagine a Petrie dish, and introduce a single bacterium that doubles in area every hour. Then for hours and hours and hours, the problem will seem tiny, but if you don’t stop it while it’s small, the last few doubling will take your breath away.

So the people who say “very few people are dying so far, therefore we must be overreacting” are making noises but not making a relevant argument. The only things that matter are the rates. If the rates turn out to be high, then by the time the deaths are high it will be too late to do much.


You’re a believer now? yesterday you were cracking Zombie Ebola and quarantine Mary jokes.
 
Yeah, exponential math is powerful stuff. Imagine a Petrie dish, and introduce a single bacterium that doubles in area every hour. Then for hours and hours and hours, the problem will seem tiny, but if you don’t stop it while it’s small, the last few doubling will take your breath away.

So the people who say “very few people are dying so far, therefore we must be overreacting” are making noises but not making a relevant argument. The only things that matter are the rates. If the rates turn out to be high, then by the time the deaths are high it will be too late to do much.

Quite true! Our brains are woefully inadequate at the concept of incredibly large numbers. For example, 1 billion is so enormous that it's hard to fathom. It would take a person counting for 12 days, non stop, to reach 1 million. Counting to 1 billion, assuming no breaks, and 1 second to say each number?

32 years.
 
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You’re a believer now? yesterday you were cracking Zombie Ebola and quarantine Mary jokes.
It’s always a good time to make jokes! :)

(Also my Zombie post was actually a believer’s joke. I was saying “if you think this is bad, it could get worse!” :) )

Also, I’m not really a believer until we know what the rates are. But right now the rates seem worse than flu.
 
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