(11-18-2020 09:56 AM)Centdukesfan Wrote: Lets continue to throw away joy of every kind for the illusion of safety. There is approaching 0 risk for college aged athletes and the vast vast majority of the administration that supports them.
Case rates are soaring based on absurdly high cycle thresholds, in most states being ~40. This high and you will catch mostly people who have recovered from COVID. This is not good epidemiology. New York Times is reported this in August and still nothing has been done about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/healt...sting.html
This becomes increasingly problematic as more and more people have recovered but will still test positive with tests that are too sensitive.
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/...07681?s=20
This is not questioning the validity of the covid pandemic, but rather our response to it which is flawed flawed flawed.
Last Tuesday, a couple of buds and I were at BW3 for lunch.
I chose Coors Light draft because I am a cheap bastard and I love me some clean, crisp, American draft beer. One of my buds criticized my selection and told me how much superior his own choice, Miller Lite, is.
I bet him that he couldn't tell the difference between Coors Light and Miller Lite. He scoffed and insisted that he could tell the difference immediately. So, I had the waitress bring him two unmarked samplers of the two and only she would know which was which.
He proceeded to taste the two. It took him a couple of sips before he declared which was which. He was wrong!
We all cracked up, even the waitress, and rubbed his nose in it. Then, just for grins, my other bud and I drank from the glasses that he had just drank from to see if we could tell any difference. There was a slight difference. Coors was a little stronger but darned close in taste.
The next day, our bud, who couldn't tell the difference between Coors Light and Miller Lite, wasn't feeling so great and tested positive for Covid.
Whoa! Just 24 hours earlier, my other bud and I had been sharing his beer glass.
He is doing well and staying home. He can't smell or taste anything, which is pure hell for a Bourbon lover, but he is otherwise fine.
My other bud and I have no symptoms at all. That is how weird this whole, crazy Covid business is.
By the way, it appears he was infected at a wedding in Williamsburg the weekend before, as others at the wedding also became infected. So, he was Covid-positive when we were drinking from his beer glass.