For sure. So many people want to help, but get pissed at others who who have a different solution.
That is literally all a political argument is. People who want to help in one way or another, and getting pissed at people who see a different means of creating a solution. It prevents honest conversation, because everyone thinks they have “inside information” that the other side doesn’t understand.
No - half of the country is not racist, zenophobic, homophobic assholes.
No - Half of the country does not support us being communist.
We are all both informed and misinformed, and the truth is in the middle. Just like this scenario. I don’t feel like collapsing the economy for .002% of the population is the answer.
The article was pure trash written by somebody who is apparently really upset that the NFL is playing games. It’s no different than the opposite side of the spectrum of somebody minimizing the virus as nothing more than a flu. It’s sensationalistic garbage.
With that said, it sucks what Armstead is going through and obviously there are a few young people who will have lingering effects.
You know what bothers me about this line of thinking? That these players have the option to opt out if they want. They have a “choice” to play or not just like regular folks have a “choice” to go to work at businesses that decide to open. They know what they’re getting into and nobody is forcing them to do it.
The risk management is up to the individual not the business. Don’t blame the business for trying to run their business as safely as they can and, no, a bubble for many months is not an option like the writer offers up. Those bubbles for the NBA and NHL were only for the playoffs, that’s why they were able to pull it off. Can’t do that for an entire season.
She took a stance a while ago. That sports aren’t safe from Covid and should be shut down. That the owners are greedy for even having sports. Never mind that the NFLPA and players have a choice. They could have voted to shut the season down. They could have chose not to play.
All the data suggests that she is wrong. She has nothing to support her outlandish claims and over reactions. So let’s use the one and only outlier that she can find to try to hammer home her point. Problem is there are no facts to even support that Armsteads issues are Covid related complications. We do not know if other factors are involved. She ignores any and all data as she tries to hammer home her point.
Nevermind the fact that the WHO is now claiming that lockdowns shouldn’t be used to control the virus, only to buy time. Well, like you said, the NFL had time, laid out a plan and is following it to the T, issuing out massive fines for anyone not in compliance with their safety protocol. If it was all about profit, they’d have more fans (who they’d care less about since they’re not the product). The writer is just another example of a media member with a narrative to push.
Each area is a little different. We all know this virus is worse for folks with underlying issues and deteriorating immune responses due to age. But, what else might be causing symptoms to be worse?
City water vs well water, city pollution vs country fresh air, healthy diet vs fast food diet, vitamin takers vs non-vitamin takers, drug/alcohol/tobacco heavy users and abusers vs those with limited or no usage at all, always or frequent mask wearers vs non or seldom mask wearers. List goes on. Will we hear more on this blood type study?
My wife is an ER nurse and gets OT on med surge where they’ve taken those with severe symptoms and has worked the Covid test tents too. She said almost every severe case that they see says they wear masks at work or whenever in public. Also, she has failed every fit test for an n95 mask but she continues to work there. Several docs and nurses have tested positive. Impossible to tell where people actually got it even through contact tracing. My wife has not had symptoms nor ever been tested. But, going back to blood type, she’s 0+.
Obviously cases are so high and climbing due to testing numbers. Most that go to the Covid tent are symptomless and have to test because they were ‘in contact’ with a positive, need regular tests for work or just curious if they have it. Those with multiple symptoms go to the ER for rapid testing.
Now the big thing is getting overwhelmed again. Masks very possibly could ‘slow’ the spread but there isn’t proof it saves lives. See, in the UP we’ve had less than a handful of hospitalizations and ICU patients from late April through July as we were in phase 5 and no mask mandates other than Walmart and hospitals. The state mask mandate came mid July and by mid August hospitalizations spiked. Then colleges and K-12 schools started and most had mask mandates. Cases climbed as some colleges had manditory weekly testing of a certain % of attending students. Hospitalizations continued to rise. Some elementaries did not mandate masks and one school was entirely up to the parents K-12 and had 1 case in the HS in the first 5.5 weeks(loss of taste only). When the health department stepped in to ‘enforce’ masks in schools in the last 2.5 weeks cases have risen quote a bit but instead of shutting down everything they’ve just quarantined direct contacts of the infected.
Due to the HD stepping in with their mask order we pulled our youngest two from school after trying 2 weeks of virtual. So we’ll home school until they lift the mask mandate. Virtual was super unorganized and the kids lose focus being in front of a computer without a controlled classroom environment for 6-7 hours. Homeschool is 3-4 hours a day for 4 days a week. The school is still allowing our kids to go there for recess where they don’t have to wear masks and can still get exposed and the teachers are still emailing lesson plans for us to follow.
Our oldest can handle the virtual on his own and we actually sent him back to school once we learned his teachers don’t make them wear masks. And in case they need to put them on for a minute I made a couple that do nothing to stop viruses or restrict breathing. One is a face shield where I cut out a huge area over the eyes and trimmed the bottom and sides it only barely covers his mouth and nose and stays out away from his face and won’t fog up. The other is just a bandana. I rolled half of it up so he could tie it around his head and the triangle part left hangs loosely over his face and I cut the eyes out of that too. Super easy to flip up when he has to cough or sneeze down his shirt.
