OT 100% NOT the Official Off-Topic/Politics/Corona Thread
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UA sent a survey to all students this morning with four open ended questions (which is a recipe for disaster typically, and will also severely diminish the number of responses).
How has the pandemic impacted your experience as a student?
What pandemic-related concerns do you have about returning to campus?
What ideas do you have about encouraging all Razorbacks to behave responsibly with respect for the health and safety of others (i.e. wearing a mask, staying 6-ft apart, washing hands, quarantining if sick)?
What ideas do you have for innovative and engaging campus activities and events while taking health and safety measures into consideration?
How has the pandemic impacted your experience as a student?
What pandemic-related concerns do you have about returning to campus?
What ideas do you have about encouraging all Razorbacks to behave responsibly with respect for the health and safety of others (i.e. wearing a mask, staying 6-ft apart, washing hands, quarantining if sick)?
What ideas do you have for innovative and engaging campus activities and events while taking health and safety measures into consideration?
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https://www.thescore.com/ncaaf/news/1981666
South Carolina Governor says if cases continue to increase, he won't allow football in the fall.
South Carolina Governor says if cases continue to increase, he won't allow football in the fall.
Using that China approach. We only release part of the numbers. We have about 60 other players, but 30 of them tested positive. We will wait another 14 days to release that we are in the clear.
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Decrease in hospitalization though, which means a whole lot more to me...
unless you are trying to scare people with numbers, then you just pick the largest one and add words like "double" or "most ever in history of the world!"
This is true...very very true...similar to win Dr. Smith said awhile back on Twitter that “We wear masks not for the 99% that survive but the 1% that die...which in Arkansas is 30,000” then the next tweet said the positive test rate at the time was like 3%....so let’s scare everyone to death and assume every person in Arkansas gets it even though at the time maybe 900 people would die if you put both tweets together!!
HIPAA. Violation... you can’t put out anyone’s health conditions/medical issues out on the airwaves without written permission.
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I think hospitalizations tend to lag, so it'll be interesting to see if those numbers go up in the next few days.
Wolken looking more like SWOLEken in his avatar pic
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Just a general question, but how often are players at one school being tested? Do they only get tested once?
Just thought I’d leave this here. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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I figure you don't post something without having looked into it so I'm gonna stay on the sideline.
Tests have sensitivity and specificity percentages. The higher the sensitivity the lower the false negatives. The higher the specificity, the lower the false positives. Therefore, I’d have to know more about the specificity of the tests...which I don’t. However, it was disturbing to see this update from the CDC this week saying a portion of those individuals testing positive may just have a cold...
This link from the CDC states approximately 95% specificity.
Which puts approximately 2,500 people possibly testing false positive per day. Honestly, that number seems fine in the grand scheme of things.
Bruh, you don't need those, don't worry.
The government will tell you what you can and can't do with your life. Liberties are for the idiots who believe that individuals are sovereign beings. Am I right, Comrade?
The difference in deaths from Covid vs deaths that might have Covid is going to be huge.
I looked at a week in Arkansas in Feb and it had like 400 deaths with flu and flu cause of death was like 8 or 9. I'm not saying it's going to be the same difference with this but 1/2 wouldn't surprise me. Doubt we ever get told for certain. Too many careers on the line.
Cases have been rising for a long time. Young people don't get hospitalized very often.
So, to be clear. They are treating "antibody cases" as positive, active cases? As well as, positives from colds, etc?
It’s just a mask bro.
Can’t believe the government would mandate you do something, guess I’ll stop wearing my seatbelt on my car too to show how cool and defiant I can be.
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States include positive antibody tests in their probable case numbers but not in their confirmed case numbers from what I understand so they wouldn't factor in to the "active" case numbers that we see
Your chances of dying by not wearing your seatbelt are 107x more likely than dying from COVID for not wearing a mask.
Additionally, I’ve never understood how a government could enforce seatbelts but allow motorcycles.
One is a steel cage weighing about 2000 pounds on four tires to provide optimal balance. The other is less than half the weight, leaves the passenger completely open to the environment, and is exponentially more unstable. But to save lives, we’ve decided to regulate the first one.
This is referencing antibody tests. Its been discussed a bunch how they are inaccurate. The results being reported by the schools are from Covid diagnostic tests.
I wasn’t talking about schools. I was talking about an exponential increase in positive results and the CDC coming out and saying, “BTW, if you test positive, it may be a cold...but we’re still going to mark you as positive.”
Agree with that. They shouldn’t count. Strangely, I’ve actually heard more real life examples of people that had it but then test negative for the antibodies months later.
I see nobody had a rebuttal to this sound logic. I rest my case
Ha, what an argument. Let's take one govenment overreach to justify another one. At least with seatbelts it was enforced to help the other driver not yourself.
Smell particle is much smaller than Covid particle so there is definitely a scenario where you can smell a fart but not get Covid.
However, cloth masks are not that scenario.
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744
It’s all about being able to write tickets.
Additionally, I’ve never understood how a government could enforce seatbelts but allow motorcycles.
One is a steel cage weighing about 2000 pounds on four tires to provide optimal balance. The other is less than half the weight, leaves the passenger completely open to the environment, and is exponentially more unstable. But to save lives, we’ve decided to regulate the first one.
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