I don’t really know why we could’ve not done the same now, back in 1947, NYC was able to vaccinate 6m people in less than a month. One of the paper pointed out that the real number might be 2.5million, still a miracle compare to 2021.
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I mean we don’t have 6 million vaccines yet, but yes please. Interesting story
To bring together a couple of points from above…when you look at the current state and prolonged shut down of HS sports, I am of the opinion that their current situation is due to the MHSAA green-lighting resuming football in September even though it was “strongly recommended against”. I’m sure the University doesn’t want to that type of payback.
Still this wreaks of a lot of “theater” as noted above. The problem of why we are where we are is because of ridiculous half-measures that have been taken all along. More effective than some other states sure but its foolish to think the school can continue “business as normal” and just isolating athletics is going to keep this from spreading. Not to mention that we know who patient zero is so it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to contract trace from there to see if there is crossover into other programs. I would hope the AD and medical staff is working on that now.
That being said, if this is to buy a little time to see where this spreads I can get behind that. 14 days is too long if there is no demonstrated spread and positive tests. Lets give this the week and maybe we can restart next Sunday hopefully could be in the cards.
I do think if I’m Warde/Juwan, I am looking at a plan B. This could blow up and/or the state could be unreasonable so looking at setting up shop somewhere else is a proactive solution. I’d hate to see these young men lose out on what is shaping up to be an incredible season.
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Purdue’s athletic department is so confident in it’s process and that it has followed all protocols that they can have a guy test positive and still play. The keystone cops running our athletic department don’t know what is going on, let a player go the UK (of all places) without any protocols other than testing and have to shut it all down.
There is no way these people should keep their jobs. This is staggering incompetence (assuming reports are true regarding what happened).
Just needed to vent.
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After reading this thread and all other info I can find. I don’t think people should be blaming the state. This is on the AD for treating non revenue sports differently. They allowed some athletes to travel for Christmas. Now they have to clean up their mess. Before any more athletes get sick. I’m disappointed at the AD and and any athletes if they didn’t follow the rules.
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That team was not struggling at the time of the incident, they had been rolling for more than a month.
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There is no dispute that Warde botched it. But It is the State to blame that they (still?) don’t have a policy on traveler back from UK. The strain is discovered before X’mas, and New York City requires 14 day quarantine/testing since Dec. 23rd on anyone arriving from UK.
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I disagree because the AD doesn’t need the state to set rules for them. They should be able to institute quarenten protocol. Regardless of what the state does right or wrong.
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You’re making this somewhat of a false dichotomy. It’s not either/or. Both can have botched this situation.
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This is a different variant and 50% more contagious then the initial Corona 19 disease from China. If or when this genie gets out of the bottle thousands more may die.
Dr.B
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Already happened.
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If you didn’t expect a shutdown at some point idk what to tell you. I get that the anger is over nobody in the basketball program testing positive. But if 14 days is all it ends up being, the season is not derailed at all.
It’s silly to have much of a reaction either way right now (of course you can be sad as a player/fan) without really knowing anything. If there are 50 positives in the coming days, would you still see this as an awful decision? What if it breaks 100? I can’t imagine calling for the heads of people (or saying bad stuff about them in general) less than 24 hours after this broke! People who at least at some level are erring on the side of caution and safety. Let it play out a little. A 2 week shutdown is really not very long at all. Thinking things like the B1G title is out of reach now is absurd. Things will work themselves out. And if they don’t, there will be plenty of time to see some heads roll if that’s what you’re after lol.
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If you didn’t expect a shutdown at some point idk what to tell you. I get that the anger is over nobody in the basketball program testing positive. But if 14 days is all it ends up being, the season is not derailed at all.
I’m more concerned about the fact that the team actually getting covid is still relatively inevitable. They will be locked down for the next two weeks, then may come back, play a game, and then be locked down for 2 more weeks. At that point we may be talking about season ruining postponements.
My question would be if the basketball team contributed to any of those positive cases. If the answer is no, then yeah, I still think people could say it didn’t make much sense.
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Yup, already happened. The WCHD has put out alerts that if you were at a couple different places (like a Meijer) at a specific time of day, you are to isolate and get yourself tested. How many people got exposed at these public spaces?
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Jokes are supposed to be funny.
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I can’t say I know what the right thing to do is, but I can say that I am a whole lot more confident in the university administration’s ability to make prudent noises than I am in it’s ability to actually be prudent.
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Isn’t the Pistons playing hard and losing by 5 or fewer points in nearly every game enough for you?
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I’ve heard that some vaccines are being held for the people who already got their first shot will be able to get their second shot. There’s a time-frame it is supposed to be given in to be effective.
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Some interesting quotes in here.
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The TL;DR of this article is that the MDHHS is saying that this was a recommendation and not an order, and that there would have been no penalty if the recommendation was ignored. People in the AD indicate that they were strong-armed into the decision and that they weren’t under the impression that there would be no penalties.
Also this:
A source told The News there are no men’s or women’s basketball players or hockey players who have tested positive during the latest cycle of tests, and the majority of athletes on campus have not had close contact with the athletes who have tested positive for the COVID-19 variant.
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