(08-13-2020 01:06 AM)BellarmineGrad Wrote: (08-12-2020 11:09 AM)Big Smooth Wrote: PAC 12 cancels basketball until 2021. There goes our opening game and paycheck
Curse you, COVID-19!
It will be interesting to see how much this delays the schedule release and how impacted the schedule is by all the pandemic goings-on.
What was the opening game?
At this point, it doesn't look like there will be a basketball season, despite the fact that colleges are starting back and the kids are spreading the virus among themselves anyway. The more young people realize that there is almost zero risk to them from COVID, the more they will socialize with each other. There is no putting the genie back in th bottle. The virus will continue to spread regardless of cancellations. I have yet to hear any rationale for not going about our usual business. If it makes people feel better we can all wear masks.
It is abundantly clear that shutdown v. reopening is a political hot potato, which makes no rationale sense. Not sure that right or left has or should have anything to do with it. If it were just right v. left I could understand it to a degree. It clearly has become a Trump v. anti-Trump thing, however. If Trump had been and remained a staunch advocate of shutting down, I'm pretty sure that schools, including colleges, would be full bore for opening up. Of course, Trump is significantly to blame for this attitude with his extremely inarticulate handling of COViD (and other) issues.
If someone knows the rationale for continuing to shut things down, please let me know what it is. I do not believe I have heard it explained by any government official.
What i would really like to hear discussed in a cold, calculated method is what are the risks of dieing from COVID 19 for every age and for every co-morbidity.