Lort, ISU reports 2.2% of campus move in's have The Covids

[Indndawg]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2020/08/08/covid-19-iowa-state-univeristy-virus-tests-find-2-2-returning-students-positive/3326674001/

This is from a state, that is in a perpetual state of social distancing.

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Holy crap! And social distancing is going to be out the window once they get on campus. I'd bet probably 10% of students bring this back home to mom and dad at some point in the semester, probably 20-30% will get it if the schools don't shut down.

Maybe that's how spring football can happen- the campuses will have already reached heard immunity (kidding, kinda)

[confucius say]

Everybody is going to come into contact with it. Now that is widely accepted that the virus is aerosolized (even the last holdout, the WHO, is coming around), we are all coming into co tact with it.

[Dawgology]

So...66 students...

The end is nigh.

[MetEdDawg]

So...66 students...

The end is nigh.

Maybe I missed the joke here but Iowa State has a little over 36,000 students. I get this is just move ins but you would be able to make a reasonable assumption the rest of the returning body would be roughly the same percentage. So if you hold with the 2.2% that would be 800 students. That's a lot of kids.

If we have 2.2% of public school kids catch it I will guarantee you all school will be 100% remote for the remainder of the year.

[Indndawg]

Maybe I missed the joke here but Iowa State has a little over 36,000 students. I get this is just move ins but you would be able to make a reasonable assumption the rest of the returning body would be roughly the same percentage. So if you hold with the 2.2% that would be 800 students. That's a lot of kids.

If we have 2.2% of public school kids catch it I will guarantee you all school will be 100% remote for the remainder of the year.

Also this is Iowa, not exactly overcrowded, beach parties.

[Homedawg]

Holy crap! And social distancing is going to be out the window once they get on campus. I'd bet probably 10% of students bring this back home to mom and dad at some point in the semester, probably 20-30% will get it if the schools don't shut down.

Maybe that's how spring football can happen- the campuses will have already reached heard immunity (kidding, kinda)
They came from mom and dad and already had it.....

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

They came from mom and dad and already had it.....

the 2.2% yes, not the ones who will get it while at college

[maroonmania]

I personally believe that college students coming back into their college town and socially interacting is much more of a major health concern than whether football games get played or not. Especially if the games are played with relatively few fans at the game. But while we've accepted that colleges will still have their students back in town and on campus for at least some classes it sounds like the college administrators are on the verge of killing the football season.

[HoopsDawg]

I personally believe that college students coming back into their college town and socially interacting is much more of a major health concern than whether football games get played or not. Especially if the games are played with relatively few fans at the game. But while we've accepted that colleges will still have their students back in town and on campus for at least some classes it sounds like the college administrators are on the verge of killing the football season.

I don't understand why the NCAA wouldn't allow no fault waivers to be signed like all kids and parents had to sign to play travel baseball this year.

[War Machine Dawg]

This is the trick for the Wuhan Virus fear mongering. Number of cases is a useless stat reported to cause panic. The numbers that actually mean something are hospital stay duration and deaths. Those two numbers are very, very low. But that wouldn't promote the narrative or give power mad governors an excuse to keep us in a state of perpetual lockdown. And there's no evidence that the lockdowns actually prevent viral spread. In fact, there's much more evidence that they make it worse by lowering immune system defenses, not to mention the host of other medical and economic issues caused by them. Until we decide to protect the most vulnerable segments, namely the 65+ age group and those with previously compromised immune systems, and pursue herd immunity by allowing everyone else to go back to living life as normal, then we'll continue to see this virus spread at a snail's pace when it should have burned through by now. See Sweden, that's what they did.

Or we could continue listening to the "experts" who have been wrong every step of the way and lost all credibility with anyone who has half a rational brain when they said the BLM riots are fine, but actually peacefully protesting the lockdowns, going to church or opening your business can't be allowed. The virus is clearly intelligent and won't infect the Woke rioters, no siree, Bob. Because our scientist experts told us so, it must be true.

[confucius say]

I personally believe that college students coming back into their college town and socially interacting is much more of a major health concern than whether football games get played or not. Especially if the games are played with relatively few fans at the game. But while we've accepted that colleges will still have their students back in town and on campus for at least some classes it sounds like the college administrators are on the verge of killing the football season.

This is what I've been saying. I've yet to see anybody articulate how playing football markedly moves the needle as compared to not playing football.

[chef dixon]

I personally believe that college students coming back into their college town and socially interacting is much more of a major health concern than whether football games get played or not. Especially if the games are played with relatively few fans at the game. But while we've accepted that colleges will still have their students back in town and on campus for at least some classes it sounds like the college administrators are on the verge of killing the football season.

It's not justifiable to do one and not the other. It's just another example of our country's disjointed, half-assed approach to this from the beginning.