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In a few years we will all have had this virus. Stopping it has never been the goal. Slowing it so as not to overburden the system with extreme cases is the goal. In that way we minimize death toll. in the meantime, just lay low and please don’t go to the doctor with cold and flu symptoms. It isn’t cancer, early diagnosis will not save your life.

do you mandate testing and force isolation? Now who is being fascist? Identifying those infected does what exactly? It does nothing in terms of treatment. if sick or vulnerable you should lay low, hydrate and rest. Don’t expose others. You will likely experience nothing beyond a flu. if you take a serious turn for the worse you should seek treatment and if then tested positive you will be admitted in isolation.

I don’t think anyone ever called it a “hoax” did they? I think the debate has always been the myth vs reality of its lethality and disruption....now the reality is we’ve shut down the world over something that has killed fewer people than dogs have this year...

I’d like someone to define what success looks like in this fight. Is it about infection rate or death or both? To me, infection rate isn’t the right measure. I care about morbidity and adverse outcomes of infection- negative impact lasting longer than 6 months post I.e. wrecked lungs or heart. Is that a linear regression percentage of the total infections? Likely not. We are already seeing extreme variation based on specific variables. Virus has an 10.5% kill rate in those with CVD. Give me Cherbourg, Paris, Berlin for this fight

You can’t have Corona virus without some lime disease...

I agree not black and white...the reaction right now IS extreme. I’m disappointed about the NCAAs, but I am more concerned about the financial markets and societal breakdown that we seem to be on the precipice of.

Well at least no ICU nurses or docs have kids...oh wait

Monsanto and climate change unearthed the bat in China...next we will learn that the victims become zombies...

I do want to call out that it isn’t just the sporting events. They are the prescient example, but It’s American institutions and way of life. We don’t prevent arenas from selling alcohol and corn syrup and other things that lead to the pandemics in this country that kill on a way bigger scale than Covid19...Diabetes, cancer, alcoholism

It is callous, but everybody dies. The world is here for the living. You lose a regiment to win a war. What is the greater good? Protect everyone who might get sick (who might get sick anyway btw) or continue living the great American experiment? We can’t live in fear of biology.

Don’t walk outside, you could die.

Western MI is on outside looking in with a sweep of SCSU possibly putting them into the top 15 in PWR...

Nowhere near this panic

Totally agree that it’s risk management. ensuring financial liquidity and preventing lawsuits would have been a smart move from the federal govt.

I appreciate your opinion and very much appreciate how you ended your post- such is the way it should be in this great country. Fear and the reactions of people are the greater danger than the pathogen itself. With six degrees of separation, it doesn’t take much to quarantine all of society. Is this virus such a threat that stopping its spread is more important than living our normal lives? I haven’t seen facts that indicate that it is. The simple reality is this virus is here to stay now...it will come every year. We will eventually vaccinate, but it will mutate- just like flu and other Coronaviruses. if society shuts down from natural pathogens- we are at midnight on the doomsday clock.

Do they shut it down if a player gets influenza or measles? They certainly don’t from STIs....

Never a bad idea to be prepared. My grandfathers taught me to live off the land if need be. Fishing tackle, shotgun, rifle, ammo, water purification, sleeping bags, batteries, Matches, some basic medicines- you can live a very long time.

The shutting down of American Institutions like the NCAA tournaments and the NBA send the completely wrong message. It invokes greater fear.

I’m with you on this. I feel like the actions being taken are akin to throwing gasoline on a fire...I understand that people are being cautious of a bad case scenario, but wow. we live in a biological world and we are biological organisms. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Not to be callous, but the old and compromised who are vulnerable to Covid19 are also vulnerable to any number of pathogens as well as the extremely deadly fall and broken hip. perspective: 37 deaths in US so far from Covid19...49 deaths per year on average in the US from lightning strikes... I recognize that we are early in the potential exponential growth of this virus, and it could get worse. The common sense approach as opposed to the shut down everything approach seemed like the more rationale management strategy. Politics and risk management (aka lawsuits) seem to be the order of the day rather than common sense. Which is unfortunate. the doomsday scenario with people dying in the halls of hospitals while the lucky get vented seems like science fiction. If I’m wrong, then we’re all in deep !@#$.

The voters that left Pinto off their ballots should be ashamed.

I haven’t watched Washe specifically, but generally speaking it’s about not standing square, keeping your stick slightly above the ice, putting your stick into the red dot, not honoring the attacking player first stick on ice rule, etc.

Every center cheats on the draw...it’s kind of like offensive line holding in the NFL...to what degree

I think they are talking about breaking a PWR tie using RPI, which is what the NCAA uses, per my understanding.

I think I’m with you. Here’s what I have: worcester: UND vs Atlantic Umass vs Clarkson allentown: Mankato vs Maine PSU vs Lowell albany: Cornell vs Michigan BC vs OSU loveland: UMD vs ASU DU vs BSU

I don’t respect Omaha enough to hate them...in fact, I forget they exist until we play them and they cry and act classless.