If there is no lax in 2021, it will be due to the reality of what occurs from now through ~ the first month of the spring semester, not fear and loathing. At some point activities like non revenue intercollegiate sports must resume despite the presence of the virus, but that point is not the U.S.'s current pace of 1k deaths and over 40k new cases per day.JBFortunato wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:23 amYou don't need any degree whatsoever to understand the basic data about this virus that is readily available. And, which absolutely and obviously supports what Reddogg has said above. I'm not sure why so many people seem to have a vested interest in perpetuating that fear, and trying to shout down those who speak out against it. It is especially obnoxious when that effort to drown out dissent comes in the form of questions about medical degrees and whether one is "qualified" to speak on the subject. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.Drcthru wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:14 pmYour degrees and/or extensive experiences in medicine, epidemiology, infectious disease and virology are???Reddogg wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:15 pmMasks and social distancing are not the issue or the answer. The failure to accept or follow science and data is the problem. Young people should not even be a candidate for the vaccine.Seahawk wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:39 pm I don’t see young healthy people being prioritized for a vaccine so I don’t think an athletes only on campus model will work. Very pessimistic about lax in 2021 absent a major change in personal behavior ie masks social distancing which is driving hot spots. That said, let’s see if football and basketball can be even partially successful.
The vid has relatively no impact on them. The virus is seasonal and reaches resistance at approximately 20 percent. closing schools and isolating the young is the opposite of what we should be doing. If there is no lax, it will be due to fear and loathing not because of the Vid.
Having said that, I put the odds of a 2021 lax season at 60-40.
Literally nothing about the readily available data supports Reddogg. Let's take the word of experts at MIT and Johns Hopkins on the efficacy of masks and social distancing over Reddogg.
https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-update ... masks-work
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... ed-to-know
Not many people have a vested interest in perpetuating fear, many people have a vested interest in reality. The reality is it's impossible to know if a novel virus is seasonal, its potential long term effects, or its resistance point. Maybe it doesn't have an effect on many young people, but they certainly can spread it to vulnerable people.
A lot (good or bad) can happen between now and February: increase in testing, decrease in time for test results to come back, development and availability of therapeutics and vaccines, Government actions, and the general population's compliance with adhering to expert recommendations (washing hands, masks, social distancing).