Well, sororities and fraternities are living on borrowed time. Now would be a good time to eliminate them from campuses. A sorority was responsible for the UNC issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
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Well, sororities and fraternities are living on borrowed time. Now would be a good time to eliminate them from campuses. A sorority was responsible for the UNC issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Sororities and fraternities don't really do anything but provide a target for people to hate. If fraternities and sororities go away, you'll have the same crowds at bars or apartment parties or even field parties for a lot of SEC teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Notre dame going remote for at least two weeks..... the clock is ticking. Guess we will never have in person classes again.... smh
It always gives me a chuckle when an entity tests an entire population and are suprised when a portion of that population has the virus. I'm just thinking...what were they expecting? The college and under age group are one of the most infected populations right now but are also the most asymptomatic or mild case populations. I would imagine for every 1 college student that has symptoms AND goes and gets tested there are probably an additional 5-6 that are asymptomatic/mild that never get tested....and that's conservative. The CDC indicates infection rates are 10x higher than they initially thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
If the same is true in Mississippi then we probably have had about 730,000 cases in the state at this point or approximately 23% of the population has had or currently has it. That could be extrapolated out for the US as well to about 56,000,000 cases or approx. 17% of the US population.
Nah, you won't have hundreds at an apartment party.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
No, you most definitely will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
I know of multiple reports in stk of 40-60 in an apt here. They go there Bc bars close at 11. It's no different. None. If not worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
You might not have hundreds at an apartment party, but you'lll have hundreds spread out over a handful of parties and they'll be just as crammed together if not more than they would be at the fraternity houses, where a good chunk of the people would be outside. Not sure it's going to make a practical difference as far as how quickly covid spreads. And if I were going to bet on how Starkville will react, I am guessing they will stay on brand and make things worse by busting up parties that are flowing into apartment parking lots and other open spaces and ensuring any partying is done in as tight of quarters as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
But not over 200. Big difference. It was a huge party.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
i disagree. If 40 people are in a place that can handle 10 thats worse than 1000 people in a place that can handle a 1000. And those thousand are going to find a place to go congregate, somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
1348 new cases today
Well that's not good... most since July 30th. I'm not gonna freak out about it though considering the really low reports on Sunday and Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by softballfanatic1
Yep, cases jumped dramatically today. This fall/winter is going to be challenging. I hope today?s number is not the start of a renewed upward trend. Time will tell.
It is 100% unavoidable with a new population being formed when colleges and schools start back. It...will...happen. After about 4-8 weeks the numbers will spike downward again once they hit 20% - 25% infection rate. Also, there will be far fewer deaths and hospitalizations with this spike due to the age range that will be most impacted (10 - 25 yoa).Quote:
Originally Posted by softballfanatic1
But there's no proof or guarantee any of those people would've gone somewhere else to party. Without the sorority sponsoring the party and without members, I'd take my chances it would be considerably less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Mises Institute. Woo boy, that's one of the wackiest groups I've ever had the pleasure of providing programming for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
Double post.
I'm talking about what's going on here!! Right now!! You can find huge groups together whenever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Eventually it will run out of host and die.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolphus Raymond
I do believe that?s the same response people were using back in July when numbers started to spike. Spikes are going to lead to spikes in death with this deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
I think college students partying is about as guaranteed as anything you can think of in life. You could probably model how much better 10 apartment parties with 20 people is than 1 fraternity party with 225 based on how many people were likely to have it in the population and I'm sure it would make some difference. But I'm not sure it would be a big one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Oktibbeha county w more than 75 cases in less than a week, shocked**** good news is state hospitalizations are at a low for the past month i believe.
You are correct and peep the numbers over the past 18 days...numbers in MS have been falling dramatically. Now, we have created a brand new population for the virus to run through with college and pre-college (highschool/elementary) kids coming together for the first time. Fortunately, that age range equates to less than .08% of the mortality rate for this thing and most of those were immunocompromised and it caught them early in the pandemic. This is why I said that this new population will result in fewer hospitalizations and deaths (within that age group). The danger is that age group bringing to others that are in a more at risk population.Quote:
Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless
With that said, the at risk population has already been hit pretty hard and achieved some level of immunity.
894 new cases yesterday. Think that's a good bit higher than last Wednesday's numbers but not positive. Thinking last Wednesday's numbers were in the high 600's?
REally wish MSDH would publish just reported numbers each day also so we can see a trend there as well as tracking it by date of first symptoms. Worldometer does this but I don't think they are using MSDH numbers.
Last Thursday number was 612.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
I just heard that a bunch of girls from the "W" came to Starkvegas, hit the Cotton District and sparked a rash of Covid-positive cases among MSU students.
Can anyone confirm?
It wouldn't shock me in the least bit. But at the same time, who tf cares? Students are going to get it because the average college student doesn't give one flying 17 about this virus and isn't going to let it stop them from going out and having fun. We can't expect college age kids to sit inside and do nothing for the next 8-12 months. It's not going to happen and I don't blame them. Saying all that, I have noticed most bars in the district adhering to the social distancing and mask guidelines so that probably helps a bit in this type of situation. Now, if those girls knowingly had the virus and purposefully went and spread it then that's pretty sh**** but the virus has been floating around the district for months I'd imagine so it'd be no real way of knowing how someone got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder
Yep. MSU abruptly and without warning to them pulled all of the interns from my place of work 2 weeks before their summer internship was up so they could quarantine. The students got a call one Thursday morning from MSU that said today is your last day. I asked the guy in our department if he was going to quarantine and he said "Yep. At every bar in town."Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
MSU had good intentions with the whole quarantine two weeks before returning thing, but they had to know that wouldn't work. And even if it happened to, it would all go to hell within the first week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
Not only do I not blame them for not holing up, they really shouldn't. They are at basically zero risk from the virus a shouldn't sacrifice a year of college for it. They just need to live their life and avoid at risk people the best they can and social distance when not around other low risk people who are voluntarily socializing. .Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I think this will be a year where a lot of kids don't go home but once or twice a semester to limit risk, which might end up being beneficial to the restaurants and bars in Starkville when/if they're able to open back up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
The university is actively encouraging kids not to go home during the semester. That is one of the reasons they shortened the academic calendar, cut fall break, and will end everything before Thanksgiving.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
So, you are right that that might add some additional weekend business.
According to worldometers this isn't correct. On worldometers though, the deaths are around 20... may have missed or double counted a day. This is still an outstanding total.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Can't be correct. You have to lock up for months. Have the govt take over and deliver you your groceries....Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Lmfao who pissed in your cornflakes. Football isn't cancelled yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Everyone may want to research this drug that Starkvegasdawg posted about a couple weeks ago. This drug has shown phenomenal results at Methodist in Houston on the sickest of sick patients diagnosed with COVID.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
There is a firefighter in Houston currently being treated at Memorial Hermann who was on his death bed; they fought through the red tape to get him this experimental drug earlier this week and his numbers are showing some improvement.
If this drug works like the research is starting to show, it could be huge for those hit hardest by this virus.
Hospitalizations on a good downward trend