re: COVID effect on regular season play

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You just helped my argument. Nearly 2 million cases and 111,000 deaths in a short span of time, yet you hear ZERO outrage about thousands upon thousands of people gathering to protest around the world. Where were all the leaders and scientist stating that this is going to kill so many people. If you went to the park to walk your dog without a mask, they shame you. If you protest with thousands shoulder you shoulder you are praised. Anyways, that’s not what this thread is about lefty

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Idk what news you're watching but the news and others mentioned constantly how this will affect the spread of the virus, that there will be a spike in cases and that people should be wearing masks no matter what.

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Just give everyone the test again. If they test negative they’re fine. The 7-day quarantine made sense when you couldn’t test everyone exposed

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The chances that a coronavirus test will give you a false negative (indicating that you are not infected when you actually are infected) depend upon the type of test you have and when in the course of your infection the test is performed. There are two main types of tests:

nasal/throat swab tests and saliva tests, both of which detect the virus itself
blood tests that detect antibodies that your immune system produces in response to the infection.
If you get the nasal/throat swab or saliva test, you will get a false-negative test result:

100% of the time on the day you are exposed to the virus. (There are so few viral particles in your nose or saliva so soon after infection that the test cannot detect them.)
About 40% of the time if you are tested four days after exposure to the virus.
About 20% of the time if you develop symptoms and are tested three days after those symptoms started.

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Also if they test positive they’re fine as a college football player. But that’s a separate discussion

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This is the dumbest thing ever said on this thread.

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There's not gonna be a season. It's not going away. Teams are gonna have more outbreaks and it will be done

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Nope. They will find a way to have a season because there is too much money at stake.

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this is simply not true. you may be deaf but i have read and heard a number of references warning us of the effects of this regarding Covid. these protestors in the streets are mostly young people and many, if not most, of folks in that age group have not been concerned with covid for awhile now.

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You are being dishonest. The "media" did not mention anything related to covid and the protestors until after they were called out for hypocrisy by Fox News (4-5 days later). And when they did finally mention it, it was a very quick cursory mention. Now the media is all over it because the protests have all but stopped AND Trump is about to have a rally this weekend. YOU and the media are dishonest.

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estimated the death count is high by as much as 85% ,

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haha, nice number pull out of your arse... more knowledgeable people believe that deaths are UNDER-reported, despite the consensus of brainwashed idiots believing the opposite...

but that's not my favorite part of your post - THIS is:

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young people asymmetrical infecting rarely infects

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a couple of years ago when over 80,000 people in the US died from the flu?

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pretty sure you just made that up, and Google agrees with me...

is that some QAnon inside info that the Deep State won't let mainstream media air?

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Turn off CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC et al..., you're buying the goods from commies.

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Don't watch any of them... I read research papers.

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Yes, but you and your lefty buddies fail to acknowledge that it was at least 5 days into the protests when the "media" began to briefly mention the covid risks related to the protesters....and then, it was just a brief mention. The only reason they "mentioned" it after 5 days was because FOX News began pointing out their hypocrisy.

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Tucker? Sean? Is that you?

Don't attempt to state what I experienced. I watch/read/follow a variety of news sources because diversity of information is the only way to get the full picture of what's going on. And the FACT is that the news sources I follow were speaking about it the whole time. If you want to be a sheep and blindly follow one news channels narrative, that's fine with me. I don't care to attempt to change your mind. This is not about politics for me, its about health, wellness, and safety. But just remember that being blindly loyal to something still means you're blind.

Oh and I don't have to be a "lefty" to disagree with you. I know this is a sports board but life is not a football game. There aren't just two sides.

It's just my opinion, but if everyone (and I mean everyone) would just wear a mask for two months the rate of infection would be so low that the season would go on as scheduled. There would be no problem reopening cities and states.

There were two barbers in Missouri that had 140 clients while they were infected. None of the 140 got infected. Everyone in the salon was required to wear masks and obey social distancing. ...The masks seem to be crucial. They don't help you much but they keep you from infecting others.