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Post by Pollux on Apr 21, 2020 15:15:13 GMT -5
FUN FACTS: 99% those who "died from covid" had 2 to 3 underlying diseases 70% were OVER THE AGE OF 80 with underlying health issues 62% were "SUSPECTED to have died from CV19" but were NEVER TESTED Yes but you can also get it and die if you’re not old or have an underlying condition. Even if there’s a lesser percentage that doesn’t mean you should treat each day like there’s no threat and not be proactive.
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Post by The Hoff on Apr 21, 2020 21:33:54 GMT -5
FUN FACTS: 99% those who "died from covid" had 2 to 3 underlying diseases 70% were OVER THE AGE OF 80 with underlying health issues 62% were "SUSPECTED to have died from CV19" but were NEVER TESTED Yes but you can also get it and die if you’re not old or have an underlying condition. Even if there’s a lesser percentage that doesn’t mean you should treat each day like there’s no threat and not be proactive. You can also die in car wrecks. Ban cars? You can never ban all threats. Handle them intelligently.
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Post by fastfreddie on Apr 22, 2020 10:40:00 GMT -5
Interesting study coming out of USC and The California Health Dept. Their study claims that there are almost 500,000 people in the greater LA area that have Covid-19 and are undiagnosed.
If this is true, than the death rate for Covid-19 is much, much lower than anyone has been reporting. Here is why: We almost certainly know every case of Codid-19 deaths (and as Hoff was saying, they could even be inflating that number). But if the common denominator is much higher (total cases of Covid-19), than the death rate is significantly lower.
There is a big difference between 100 deaths/10,000 cases and 100 deaths/500,000 cases.
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Post by The Hoff on Apr 22, 2020 21:40:35 GMT -5
Interesting study coming out of USC and The California Health Dept. Their study claims that there are almost 500,000 people in the greater LA area that have Covid-19 and are undiagnosed. If this is true, than the death rate for Covid-19 is much, much lower than anyone has been reporting. Here is why: We almost certainly know every case of Codid-19 deaths (and as Hoff was saying, they could even be inflating that number). But if the common denominator is much higher (total cases of Covid-19), than the death rate is significantly lower. There is a big difference between 100 deaths/10,000 cases and 100 deaths/500,000 cases. Stanford and Massachusetts General studies have reached the same conclusions. The infection rate is higher than thought, so the death rate is much lower even before factoring over reporting deaths.
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Post by fastfreddie on Apr 24, 2020 13:22:28 GMT -5
Draft hang-over: Disappointing again.
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Post by Pollux on Apr 26, 2020 12:00:59 GMT -5
Draft hang-over: Disappointing again. What did you feel was disappointing?
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Post by Pollux on Apr 26, 2020 12:01:41 GMT -5
Yes but you can also get it and die if you’re not old or have an underlying condition. Even if there’s a lesser percentage that doesn’t mean you should treat each day like there’s no threat and not be proactive. You can also die in car wrecks. Ban cars? You can never ban all threats. Handle them intelligently. Trying to flatten the curve is doing it intelligently.
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Post by fastfreddie on Apr 27, 2020 8:24:57 GMT -5
Draft hang-over: Disappointing again. What did you feel was disappointing? I wanted them to draft Tua or make a trade for a bunch of picks. I don't even feel like they tried, according to some of the reports coming out of Miami. I think Swift is a small, under-sized back. I liked both JK Dobbins and Jonathan Taylor better. But I also thought there were some good DT's on the board that they could have taken in the second round. Seems like they went heavy on offense for this draft (took another RB later in this draft, WTF?). Detroit was second from last in team defense last year. I feel like they swapped Darrius Slay for Okunah and didn't really improve on defense.
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Post by Pollux on Apr 28, 2020 16:03:30 GMT -5
What did you feel was disappointing? I wanted them to draft Tua or make a trade for a bunch of picks. I don't even feel like they tried, according to some of the reports coming out of Miami. I think Swift is a small, under-sized back. I liked both JK Dobbins and Jonathan Taylor better. But I also thought there were some good DT's on the board that they could have taken in the second round. Seems like they went heavy on offense for this draft (took another RB later in this draft, WTF?). Detroit was second from last in team defense last year. I feel like they swapped Darrius Slay for Okunah and didn't really improve on defense. There was no way they were going to take Tua. Not if you believe that they have this win now edict. It was reported during draft weekend that the Lions received no offers to trade. So it’s kinda hard to trade down for picks if you don’t have an offer. Swift was many teams top RB in this draft. He had a first round grade and was ranked as high as 14th on different lists. Okwara was a first round talent too and probably would have went much higher had he not been injured. Slay didn’t want to be here and publicly got himself sent out of town by running his mouth. Okudah’s floor may be a very good corner so while that seems like a wash I guess they got some cap space out of it. This team is a lot closer on offense than it is on defense and that’s how they’re going to win and apply pressure this year if possible. I don’t think any of the guys available when they took Swift were going to transform this defense this season. A few of the guys people kept saying they wanted there fell until later in the round or the next one. Don’t forget they’re counting on a hopefully healthy Hand and Bryant. Day 3 late round picks are a toss up so who knows? It sounds like the defensive linemen they took have some upside even though they took them late. I don’t hate the draft and I don’t love it but I think it was solid.
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Post by fastfreddie on May 15, 2020 11:35:58 GMT -5
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Post by fastfreddie on Jul 16, 2020 7:56:36 GMT -5
So where is everyone at in regards to the mask/no-mask battle?
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Post by Pollux on Jul 16, 2020 15:55:26 GMT -5
So where is everyone at in regards to the mask/no-mask battle? If 90% of people wore one for 60-90 days we’d probably be done with this. At this point if you aren’t willing to mask up you’re the reason we won’t have fall sports. I don’t care what your reason is for not doing it but at least own the consequences of your actions.
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Post by fastfreddie on Aug 3, 2020 9:48:47 GMT -5
So where is everyone at in regards to the mask/no-mask battle? If 90% of people wore one for 60-90 days we’d probably be done with this. At this point if you aren’t willing to mask up you’re the reason we won’t have fall sports. I don’t care what your reason is for not doing it but at least own the consequences of your actions. I agree with you, Pollux.
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Post by Pollux on Aug 3, 2020 16:21:24 GMT -5
If 90% of people wore one for 60-90 days we’d probably be done with this. At this point if you aren’t willing to mask up you’re the reason we won’t have fall sports. I don’t care what your reason is for not doing it but at least own the consequences of your actions. I agree with you, Pollux. Things are rough. I don’t know if we’re going to have football or not based on what MLB is going through.
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Post by The Hoff on Aug 6, 2020 13:03:07 GMT -5
I agree with you, Pollux. Things are rough. I don’t know if we’re going to have football or not based on what MLB is going through. B10 just released a shortened schedule. Conference only games. This followed the UConn announcement cancelling the season. We'll see. NCAA is strangely quit right now on all of this.
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Post by fastfreddie on Aug 6, 2020 15:11:10 GMT -5
Things are rough. I don’t know if we’re going to have football or not based on what MLB is going through. B10 just released a shortened schedule. Conference only games. This followed the UConn announcement cancelling the season. We'll see. NCAA is strangely quit right now on all of this. I think NCAA football has the worst odds of playing any games. If students are not on campus, how can they have games and practices?
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Post by Pollux on Aug 6, 2020 18:31:27 GMT -5
B10 just released a shortened schedule. Conference only games. This followed the UConn announcement cancelling the season. We'll see. NCAA is strangely quit right now on all of this. I think NCAA football has the worst odds of playing any games. If students are not on campus, how can they have games and practices? It looks like the players are organizing in a couple of the Power 5 conferences as well. So even if the NCAA tries the players might be out. Not that the NCAA can stop the conferences from deciding to play or not.
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Post by The Hoff on Aug 10, 2020 20:34:30 GMT -5
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Post by Pollux on Aug 11, 2020 22:04:20 GMT -5
Think there’s any smoke to teams jumping conferences so that they can play?
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Post by fastfreddie on Aug 14, 2020 7:44:09 GMT -5
Nebraska got slapped down pretty hard. But I have a feeling this may be setting up Nebraska's departure in the next few years. I can see them going back to the Big 12.
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Post by The Hoff on Aug 15, 2020 20:11:04 GMT -5
Nebraska got slapped down pretty hard. But I have a feeling this may be setting up Nebraska's departure in the next few years. I can see them going back to the Big 12. Interesting. I can still envision 4 16 team super conferences broken down by region.
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Post by Juicy on Aug 16, 2020 10:53:05 GMT -5
The “their taking our rights crowd” cost us college football.
No shoes no shirt no service. But telling someone they need to wear a shirt and shoes and a mask it taking it too far.
Gtfo.
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Post by fastfreddie on Aug 17, 2020 13:35:52 GMT -5
The “their taking our rights crowd” cost us college football. No shoes no shirt no service. But telling someone they need to wear a shirt and shoes and a mask it taking it too far. Gtfo. I agree with you Juicy. Such a shame that this whole thing was made political, and couldn't just be about common sense. Before any of data/studies/science came out about wearing masks, I told my family to wear the mask, because it will reduce the chance of catching or spreading covid. I knew full well that the virus needs N95 to filter out, but even a standard mask can reduce or slow it down. Even it only reduced the chance to spreadeing by 10-15-20%, it was worth it to wear a mask.
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Post by Pollux on Aug 22, 2020 12:33:21 GMT -5
Nebraska got slapped down pretty hard. But I have a feeling this may be setting up Nebraska's departure in the next few years. I can see them going back to the Big 12. Interesting. I can still envision 4 16 team super conferences broken down by region. That’s the way it looked like it was going to go.
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Post by Pollux on Aug 22, 2020 12:33:43 GMT -5
The “their taking our rights crowd” cost us college football. No shoes no shirt no service. But telling someone they need to wear a shirt and shoes and a mask it taking it too far. Gtfo. Agreed.
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