(08-12-2020 02:34 PM)ilovegymnast Wrote: When it comes to playing in the spring the MAC better have all Saturday games. I don't want to see any weekday games.
The real question is whether ESPN wants to see weeknight games enough to make it worth the MAC's while ... say, twelve FCS games spread across two weeks with ESPN footing the buy before the MAC season proper starts.
(08-08-2020 11:25 PM)banker Wrote: You guys do know that the infection and death rates in the US for Covid are identical to Europe, don’t you?
The infection and case mortality rates are in the same neighborhood, but neither of those are a percentage of the
population, so it is easy to get distracted from the fact that the death rates are
nowhere near the same. The abysmal state of US reporting, using "pundits" as if they are people who know what they are talking about, exacerbates the problem.
At present, more people dying of Covid19 in the US in two days than die in the EU in a month, and the EU has 100m larger population.
(08-13-2020 07:23 AM)GRBRONCO Wrote: There is a county medical examiner in Michigan on record stating he’ll list suicides as COVID if they test positive.
Data is not the plural of anecdote.
By the same token, there are people admitted to hospital for covid19 infection with death certificates that list "natural causes" and therefore don't get counted. Without a national effort and enforced national standards, you are going to have both overcounts and undercounts, though in states with very high rates of infection there is certainly a temptation on governors to press for undercounts, so a systematic bias to undercounting is more likely than a systematic bias to overcounting.
The good news is that even though normal people are absymally underinformed if they rely on US media, the experts are actually relying on the best available information and as a result of the global efforts to work on the problem, less expensive tests and multiple vaccines the show some promise are under development. There is every reason to hope that January we will be seeing basketball played, even if initially in closed arenas, and that by April it will be possible to have the same kind of fans in the stands as is possible today in Taiwan, where they decided to take the problem seriously and have the infection under control.