5-6 days after exposure is the ‘optimal’ testing period, right? If they test negative from that point (Although if there was no alleged exposure, what are we basing that time period on??) I assume that’s where the “up to 14 days” part comes in. At least, I’d hope that’s how it’ll work. It would be extremely confusing to not be flexible about this.
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Will be interesting to see what/when Juwan speaks on this.
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That’s what I don’t get. Unless people within the Athletic Department are interacting in-person across team bubbles… which makes no sense. In that case what are your protocols even for?
I’m just sad for the team, and can’t imagine what they’re feeling. Hoping the state/AD are being extra cautious given the new strain. It angers me, but I can understand that. Hopefully at that point what could be a special season can resume in two weeks… For now, As BB mentioned, time to go for a walk (ie light up and play Civ VI for 5 straight hours).
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One issue about the potential flexibility of the wording is that they simultaneously are treating the entire athletic department as a single entity. So in 7 days the basketball team may just be twiddling their thumbs, but some other team is in the thick of it. I’m not sure they would be flexible for half the athletic department, unfortunately.
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The new variant actually is a more contagious variant. They use the 14 day as a understood incubation period although most covid positive patients usually present symptoms within three to five days. By the way the UK variant has been present in the states for a couple weeks now. You are completely right that they can do the testing within a week and test out of it though
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No other state has shut down an entire athletic department, including teams that have not tested positive during the fall or winter seasons, correct?
Any department-wide or team-wide shut downs prior to this have been made by the teams/ADs as far as I’m aware. Have I missed anything?
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Unbelievable. 
. Anyone living in Michigan knows that the governor and the health department are going to be extremely conservative and err on the side of shutting things down. Without knowing more, I can’t say they are wrong. But if there are no positive cases on the basketball team and no interaction between sports, this decision seems illogical and for PR.
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I posted this in the Purdue thread about something completely different. In spite of what I want to say about this, I’m going to just take a breath and repost this thought regarding how Michigan and Purdue handled things yesterday and consider how it may also apply to this situation:
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Something you are apparently used to,
Well, I guess we can at least hope that this UK variant doesn’t become pervasive throughout the country and cancel this year’s NCAA tournament too…
Look man if this is truly causing you this much stress you might want to reevaluate some things or just take a step back from sports for a bit. The basketball team doesn’t play solely for your enjoyment and it’s very clear that this is not happening for no reason.
At the very least though, just refrain from publicizing your entire tantrum.
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Just don’t really understand what makes a basketball player any different than a regular student if they haven’t been interacting with whatever team has the positive results. Like I said before, seems like if you’re going to be extra cautious you shut down the whole University, or else use the science/common sense approach and more narrowly tailor the shutdown
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It’s definitely gonna be the dominant strain by March. Gotta hope the teams can just stay away from it
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It actually is probably going to be dominant within the country over the next couple of months but it’s not concerning. They know that it is more contagious but it doesn’t cause any worse sickness. Mutations are usually common with viruses. Hopefully the vaccinations start cutting down cases
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I know this sucks. But let’s just take the silver lining here. We are pausing on a really good high. Regardless of what happens, this basketball team is viewed as one of the top 4 teams in the country. If we don’t play, it doesn’t hurt us. And I’m sure our players will be ready when everything starts again, because they will be hungry to make a statement and not to be forgotten
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Basically, the only real answer here is this policy is primarily designed as a PR move to say they took strong action to stop the UK strain.
The justifiable actions here are quarantining like I suggested or do a full Washtenaw County lockdown to try and stamp out the strain completely
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Not being able to practice for 2 weeks could be season derailing
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Didn’t the basketball team have it’s own quarantine protocols in place? I have to imagine they weren’t allowed off campus, right?
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