(09-30-2019 07:28 PM)Bogg Wrote: (09-30-2019 03:31 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: This is like postponing a game because there's lightning 50 miles away.
We've turned into a nation of people with no concept of what constitutes a genuine risk to our health & safety.
(09-30-2019 04:34 PM)JRsec Wrote: (09-30-2019 03:31 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: This is like postponing a game because there's lightning 50 miles away.
We've turned into a nation of people with no concept of what constitutes a genuine risk to our health & safety.
I'm waiting for the delay in games due to the heat index. You would think that human beings had never been exposed to the elements and weather of outdoor conditions.
I wish I could say that I'm surprised that college football fans are willing to sacrifice actual lives in order to best accommodate ESPN's bottom line, but sadly....
More people will die in accidents in Connecticut that day by an astronomically wider margin than there would be people infected by EEE attending the UConn/USF game.
From the day you were born life was out to kill you. Microbes, viruses, contaminants, onca cells, poor foods, the lack of physical activity, accidents, crime, war, acts of terrorism, automobile travel, train travel, and thanks to lousy screening apparently somebody trusted with the pre-flight ground check of the planes you might be boarding. And in the end Bogg we all die.
Therefore you have a choice to make. Do you live anyway and face all of it bravely, or do you get in your safe space, insulate yourself, and pray your ventilation system isn't pumping in carbon dioxide.
You are more likely on any given day to be killed by anything I might have listed above than by equine encephalitis.
What is hysterical is the way that some in our government elevate the real risk in order to prove to themselves how high a % of the population they can get to be reactionary.
If there is anything I hate it is the fear mongering over risks so infinitesimally small so as to ignore that almost anything else that day is more likely to kill you, including lightening.
People who allow fear to dictate the course of their lives will never actually experience the joy of living. Hells bells if the ice machine at the game hasn't been properly maintained mold in your drink may kill you too.
And for the record if the game was called off completely and the students returned to their dormitories or apartments they would be more likely to contract meningitis than getting EEE from the going to the game.