(07-27-2020 08:45 PM)biglizard Wrote: Frenchie is probably the only other physician I know who is so laissez faire about all of this.
I know hundreds of them.
Almost none will say so in public
(Hundreds May be an exaggeration)
Here's the deal. We as physicians know this is a bad virus. It's part of the spectrum of contagious diseases we see every day. We're not "laissez faire". But we're not paralyzed with fear. Luc is in a position that is very high risk in anesthesiology and I'm at moderate risk because I do radiology procedures on inpatients. I work under the assumption that everyone is positive until proven otherwise.
The data is incontrovertible. Healthy young athletes are at minimal risk of serious complications. Minimal. I would also argue that athletes in the controlled environment of of the UAB athletic department are actually
SAFER than the general student population because of the level of testing they receive and their movements are more monitored. My guess is they'll mostly be taking classes on line as well to even reduce the risk during the season.
And before someone starts in on "we don't know the long term effects" discussion I invite you to peruse the data from the UNC center on catastrophic athletic injuries
https://nccsir.unc.edu/reports/. These are real long term risks. Known. Quantifiable. Catastrophic. We as fans and as players know these risks and consider them acceptable. This doesn't include the long term effects of musculoskeletal and CNS injuries but we have made a determination as fans and players that these are also acceptable but need to be improved.
Sorry for prolonging the misery of this thread.
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No matter what you say, your opinions on this aren’t congruent with any physicians that I know... you three are definite outliers.
Are your opinions and laissez faire attitudes about exposures and loosening restrictions based on the severely reduced cases and income the initial lockdowns caused? If so, that’s certainly understandable, but obviously extremely biased.
Football related neurologic and musculoskeletal injuries are a known and intrinsic part of the game. Players go into competition knowing the risk of those type of injuries with eyes wide open. Exposure to a novel virus that could lead to long term health issues, death, or spread to other at-risk individuals is not an intrinsic part of the game.
I don’t think any of us are paralyzed with fear. Some of us are just more cautious than others and realize that attempting college football is not feasible nor safe. I understand that we will probably attempt a season in some modified way, but I think there is a near zero chance the season plays out to full completion.