Apparently myocarditis can be triggered by the common cold, flu and mono as well. So no sports ever again?
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Apparently myocarditis can be triggered by the common cold, flu and mono as well. So no sports ever again?
Well if they're truly scared about the virus then you can go ahead and cancel college sports until 2022 at the earliest. That will be the earliest a vaccine will widely available. All this thought that we're going to have one in early 2021 is bs being spewed by people who have no more of a clue when a vaccine will be ready than any of us.
If we don't play this year then college football as we know it is OVER. Period. End of discussion. Because if you think The Rock and his new XFL aren't watching all this very closely then you're not opening your eyes. You think they're not going to siphon off the best players in each conference for some sort of Minor League? Something like this is the exact push a minor league needs.
In a Court Of Law, using what is said about the triggering of myocarditis, could get any University in an indefensible posture. The University would be found to have had "Unclean Hands" to start off with because the student will plead that he or she had relied on the University to safeguard their health. The doctrine of "Detrimental Reliance" would weigh so heavy on the University that it would crush it. This could snare the conference or any supporting party for the "Detrimental Reliance"? Why do you think that waivers have been discussed?
70% we see college football
10% we play 10 games
This is what I'm talking about fear mongering among so many. It makes no sense for the sports journalists to pump info like "Covid-19 can wreck your heart" like it's some big new thing that is unique to the virus. Myocarditis can be triggered by ANY infection. About 65% of it heals on it's own and another 20% can be effectively treated and healed or managed.
But this is the continued moving goal posts.
Exactly. That is IF there is ever actually a reliable vaccine at all. At best it will probably be a yearly booster-based vaccine that is about 60% effective (like the flu vaccine). So we will have to live with this virus forever. Between people that get the virus and recover combined with a seasonal vaccine we will probably be able to reduce the numbers but it will never be fully gone it will become endemic to humans and will have surges up and down (much like the flu does). If we could get it down to flu level deaths in the US per year (flu kills about 50,000 in the US per year and kills about 100-150 children under 10 per year) then we will be doing well.