Devastated. We can’t have nice things, etc, etc. Hoping it all works out.
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singling out athletic activities makes no sense at all. has the person gone to other places at all? if the situation is so severe it only make sense when the whole university except the hospitals shut down, maybe the entire county.
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Don’t really agree that an Econ major zooming in for a seminar has the same exposure as a team in a locker room together (maybe they have closed the locker room) or lifting or guarding.
I think they will be allowed to test out of this over the course of a week or so. 14 days doesn’t make much sense from a virology perspective.
It is super crappy that some athletes apparently were allowed to travel while others weren’t, given that they all are equally StudentAthletes.
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on hinder sight, that athlete should be quarantined at home or a facility, but such policy should be applied to everyone traveling to UK and return. i think that NYC has such policy since 12/23.
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Drawing the line at the entire athletic department seems completely arbitrary. The variant is almost surely going to be more widespread at the end of these two weeks. Either shut down the entire university or just those who have had known exposure. What potential contact do the basketball players have with a swimmer or diver that they wouldn’t have with any other student on campus?
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I agree, the contradictions in college sports are inescapable. But within one athletic department, the Athletic Director should have been overseeing the protocols by team and ensuring consistency. Perhaps Michigan has some of the same differences in valuing revenue vs. non-revenue sports that are cited in the article. It is believable, but disappointing, because we like to think of Michigan as being different (better) than the rest of college sports with regard to valuing academics, amateurism and the balance between being a student and athlete.
My own first reaction was informed by the many inconsistencies in how the shut downs have been applied in the State of Michigan. One example - opening bars and casinos, while keeping barber shops and bowling alleys closed, then citing science as guiding the decisions. Given all of the unknowns about the B117 strain of the virus, caution is is a smart approach. What if we learn that B117 is not just more contagious, but also more virulent? And I had not considered the potential for shared interactions on campus that have been cited by other posters.
I don’t like that a Michigan athletics shutdown was deemed necessary, but athlete safety is more important to me than wins and losses. I can understand the decision. I’m grateful for the season we have had so far and I am hopeful the basketball team will be able to resume the season in a couple of weeks.
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all i can say is that this pandemic exposed how incompetent the health departments across the country are, they were totally unprepared for and have no coherent responses/policies. They spent much of their pre-pandemic effort on racial disparities which is, IMO, 80% genetics and 20% SES and cared little about potential pandemics like this one that everyone knew would be here some day.
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I find no State or Washtenaw “pandemic order” on their websites this morning regarding the UM teams isolating. Hopefully “journalist” will get to the bottom of this and find out which entity and person handed this order out. It would have been the state health director or some one from the Washtenaw health department.
For those wondering why the rest of the University isn’t shut down, it basically is. Everything that can be done remote is being done remote. I’ve stepped on campus once in the last three months and that was just to get some files off my office desktop.
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“basically is” = “a lot of exceptions and voluntarily”?
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This is comical. No exposure or positives on the basketball team and people are somehow trying to paint this shutdown as “the right thing to do.” These kids have done it the right way all year while being tested as much as anyone in the country and now their getting their season taken away from them for two weeks. This isn’t an “expert” decision but rather a political one. There isn’t an ounce of common sense or rational thought put into this.
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I mean, I have to sign up for a time slot if I want to enter my department. And the University keeps tabs on who is entering the building through our card swipes. But no, there’s no national guard barring me from going in if I want, if that’s what you mean by shutdown.
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You should quarantine for 14 days. You may have run into someone from the Michigan Golf Team and could be at risk!!!
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Over 15 years ago I spent several months in the University of Michigan hospital, unable to move a muscle. I learned how to breathe again. I went to a football game with staff, saw Lloyd Carr, and saw John Navarre be a total class act with another patient. I fully recovered and have worked for disability programs for 15 years. I never want to see ANYONE go through a medical hardship, go on a ventilator.
I took a day to think about Dylan’s tweets from last night and this board’s reaction (I’m sure it is not everyone). I’m no longer furious or upset, but I am beginning to doubt whether this is the right community for me. And I remember reading Dylan’s posts on Rivals back in the Amaker days.
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the policy makers made this policy not because the policy is effective because they can and they need to do something to show their existence while not put their career in jeopardy. That is my take. They don’t have guts to shut down the entire community but shutting down AD is a low risk move for themselves.
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I didn’t read every post btw last night and now, but i think a lot of criticism is on the arbitrary nature of the action and lack of action of AD on the athletes traveling to UK. I don’t think that anyone disagree that actions need to be taken to contain the spread of a more dangerous strain but shutting down AD and only AD is either ineffective or unnecessary.
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One article stated 5 positive cases and 15 presumed positive. Yikes !
My negative reaction is due to the disbelief that Michigan is the only basketball team in the country to be shut down that I am aware of this season without a positive case being traced back to anyone within the program.
I am all for doing what is most safe for everyone involved. As of right now, it doesn’t feel whatever standard the state is setting within the athletic department at UofM is being implemented anywhere else across the country. Hard to comprehend.
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Yes. Someone clearly dropped the ball in the athletic department allowing the athlete to go to the UK and then rejoin the team right after. That’s on us. It’s perfectly understandable to pause all the sports teams with the positive/presumed cases. But I don’t know that it’s appropriate to treat all Michigan sports teams identically here. Do we have to wait for all sports teams to have no cases before we can restart?
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The reason for the extreme measure is the COVID variant b.1.1.7.
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