Mhm and what about hands on experiences? AKA any healthcare program, any bio/chem/etc program that does labs and experiments.

Your argument may hold merit for a business degree not some people actually need to be on campus. Also, if you paid any attention or spoke with a college student from the spring semester, you'd know that the online aspects were completely terrible for many programs.

Either way though, even if you were right about students not needing to go to campus (you're not), that doesn't magically make it okay for people to participate in a sport during a pandemic so I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue.

But you know, that's just the way life is nowadays.

It doesn't make it magically ok for people to go to bars, pool parties, gatherings, out to eat etc etc during a pandemic, yet they still do it right? So why shouldn't athletes be able to play a sport when they're safer doing that than any of the former shit?

That's fine if they want to keep sports canceled, but then keep everything canceled. Doing just one or the other doesn't get anybody anywhere, as we've been seeing first hand for months here in this Country.

I say let the students who want to play, be able to do it. Michigan said they would let any player opt out from playing if they didn't want to due to covid and you can still have your scholarship. Let the ones who want to opt out do so , and carry on with the ones who want to do it.

You should go play then.

First part: probably wrong. If you sit next to someone in class (most classes are digital these days, but let's put that aside for now), you're not guaranteed to catch it. Stay 6 feet away and wear your masks, and your odds go way down. However, play football with someone who has covid, and you'll most assuredly catch it. It's a contact sport with heavy breathing and sweat flying everywhere. It would just take one person to infect everyone.

And not even just other players are at risk: you're talking about trainers, coaches, and other athletic staff—people who might not be young and in their prime. Plus some athletes are at higher risk just from existing health issues like heavy weight, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, HBP, heart arrhythmia, asthma, etc. So we can't act like these guys are all invincible.

But like I said above, colleges are doing a lot of stuff online because covid is a serious risk. So it's hypocritical to say covid is too dangerous to have F2F classes but safe enough for a bunch of sweaty dudes to beat each other off and exchange bodily fluids.

I mean at the end of the day I'm down for whatever. As long as players know and accept the risks, do whatever you want. Same as knowing the risk for CTE and playing football anyway: as long as everyone is making an informed decision, I'm fine with it.

This post was edited by Terps on Aug 12 2020 08:19pm

Those average college kids aren't wearing masks and staying 6ft away from each other, that's the whole point. They aren't practicing that kind of shit. They're literally having Covid Parties, where everybody throws money into a pot and the first person who gets sick with covid wins all the money. Dumb shit like that.

That's also why those athletes, coaches, trainers etc will be constantly being tested for covid. If a positive test comes up, they go into isolation for a week or however long until they test negative again. It's also why they said they'll be doing other tests for people who do test positive. Heart tests, lung tests etc etc to better help them if some complications do happen to arise.

It's also hypocritical to say covid is too dangerous for sports, but ok for F2F classes, pools, bars, restaurants etc. If it's safe enough for thousands of students (far more than those who would be playing sports) to have F2F classes etc, why isn't it safe enough for them to do sports as well? Especially since those doing the sports are being tested every day, or every other day.

The majority of those teachers, staff, average students etc in those class rooms are never being tested, so the majority of them wont know that they could possibly be positive until they've already passed it onto who knows how many other people. The athletes will find that out very quickly with constant testing and then actions can be taken, while minimizing the risk of further possible spread.

The fact of the matter is that this Country went without sports for months and it didn't do jack shit to lower, or maintain the curve of this virus. So to use sports as a reason why this virus can't be controlled is nothing more than a bunch of bull shit. Especially when you factor in that the athletes etc are the ones actually being tested, rather than how many millions of other jack wagons running around doing dumb shit spreading the virus without any knowledge of having it.

Sports are being used as the fall guy/the excuse/reason why this and that are happening, or could happen. When in reality sports is low on the list of why our Country is still in such a shit show regarding this virus and the spread of it.

This post was edited by Hako on Aug 12 2020 08:50pm

Dude they have been labelling any death of someone who has it as corona death even if they had heart attacks or died from some preexisting condition. Fear is what it is about.

Rippp

You are correct. Got hit by a truck but you had Covid? Covid death!

Can not tell if serious or not cause you always talk shit lol