Quote:According to a recent study, having fans at NFL and NCAA football games last year did not increase the spread of the coronavirus.

The study, conducted by medRxiv, sought to prove whether the limited and varied fan attendance at college and pro games throughout the country during 2020 and the first part of 2021, had any “substantial” impact on the spread of the coronavirus.

To assess the impact, the study group ad to look at several factors:

In this time-series cross-sectional study, we matched every county hosting game(s) with in-person attendance (treated) in 2020 and 2021 with a county that has an identical game history for up to 14 days (control). We employed a standard matching method to further refine this matched set so that the treated and matched control counties have similar population size, non-pharmaceutical intervention(s) in place, and COVID-19 trends. We assessed the effect of hosting games with in-person attendance using a difference-in-difference estimator.

The results were clear and decisive.

“The matching algorithm returned 361 matching sets of counties,” the report read. “The effect of in-person attendance at NFL and NCAA games on community COVID-19 spread is not significant as it did not surpass 5 new daily cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents on average.”

The study concluded:

This time-series, cross-sectional matching study with a difference-in-differences design did not find an increase in COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the counties where NFL and NCAA games were held with in-person attendance. Our study suggests that NFL and NCAA football games hosted with limited in-person attendance do not cause a significant increase in local COVID-19 cases.

Moreover, the report did not find any substantial increase in Covid cases in the counties where NFL and NCAA games were held.

While the study was based only on limited, in-person attendance, the study’s findings would presumably be big news. If, you know, there was a media interested in good news.

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Quote:Remember a couple of weeks ago when all the Buccaneers fans were causing another Covid outbreak because of their maskless Super Bowl celebrating?

Yeah, apparently that did not happen.

Two weeks after the media departed their D.C. and New York enclaves to poison America’s biggest sporting event with their doomsaying alarmism, it now appears as though absolutely none of their foul prophecies came to pass.

Here is data from Hillsborough County, Florida, which is where the Super Bowl was held. Two weeks is the established timeframe for determining whether a coronavirus outbreak occurred. Two weeks after the Super Bowl, there is no evidence of an outbreak.

Additional tracking data from Hillsborough County shows that the number of cases over the last week is trending down. Other data shows a 9.49% decrease in the number of cases from February 8 to February 15, one week after the Super Bowl. A larger timeframe, from January 25 to February 20, which encompasses the two weeks before the Super Bowl and the two-week incubation period after the game, shows a 20.3% decline in the number of cases.

You’ll remember, the media freakout over maskless Super Bowl celebrations was such that CNN’s Randi Kaye actually called the police (the police are good again?) to snitch on fans who were partying without masks.

“I gave a call to Tampa Police to ask them what’s going on with all these people that are out and about and not wearing masks,” the snitch explained Sunday on the air, “there is a mask mandate in the City of Tampa while this pandemic is underway and during this time of the game there.”

Other great media takes from the pandemic paranoia included these gems:

Of course, none of these doctors will be called to account anywhere in the mainstream media for their wildly inaccurate predictions precisely because their “predictions” were based on politics, not science.

So, in the end, the only “superspreader” event that took place at the Super Bowl was the media’s spread of lies and misinformation.

But church attendance and a Trump rally is deadly. Instant death!

No shock that News4Jax was shown here. That "news" channel is notorious for fear-mongering and bullsh!t sensationalism.

(02-22-2021 01:42 PM)No2rdame Wrote:  No shock that News4Jax was shown here. That "news" channel is notorious for fear-mongering and bullsh!t sensationalism.

All three of our local news stations are the same. That's why I don't waste my time watching any of them. Unfortunately, the dumb Libturds do.