Las Vegas bowl cancelled

[starkvegasdawg]

Scratch one with an SEC tie in.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/se...wRH1ldPF3UbUx8

[ShotgunDawg]

We'll be in Birmingham anyway

[MetEdDawg]

We'll be in Birmingham anyway

If the Bham Bowl happens. We had over 3,000 positive cases recorded yesterday in Alabama (we report Covid cases on a 1 day lag). 648 of those in Jefferson County, which is the county the city of Birmingham is in.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them cancel it in the coming weeks if that trend continues.

[CaptainObvious]

If Dr. Dobbs has his way, there will not be any more games played by Mississippi teams.

[Todd4State]

If Dr. Dobbs has his way, there will not be any more games played by Mississippi teams.

Yeah well unfortunately for him in the SEC it just means more.

[Johnson85]

If Dr. Dobbs has his way, there will not be any more games played by Mississippi teams.

It's mighty rich listening to that jackass criticize other people after his performance. It shouldn't take a pHd to recognize that cold and flu season comes every year, and the only way COVID wasn't still going to be a problem by cold and flu season would be if we already had a lot of cross immunity from other coronaviruses.

Sometimes decisions are hard and it's not fair to criticize them with the benefit of hindsight, but it didn't take hindsight to know that burning so much political capital and public good will working to defer cases until cold and flu season was moronic.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

If Dr. Dobbs has his way, there will not be any more games played by Mississippi teams.

We will be doing good to get these last two games in.

[Liverpooldawg]

If current trends continue all sports will be stopped again. It's the hospital stuff that will be the cause.

[dawg1]

How about let the kids play with no fans there? College age kids are not the ones filling the hospitals.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Flu season looks to light this year.**

[RocketDawg]

Flu season looks to light this year.**

Flu is indeed light this year. It could be that masks are helping, or not much human interaction is responsible. Most people have a bunch of masks now, so after Covid is gone it could be that we'll be wearing masks for the flu for a while.

[Liverpooldawg]

It's mighty rich listening to that jackass criticize other people after his performance. It shouldn't take a pHd to recognize that cold and flu season comes every year, and the only way COVID wasn't still going to be a problem by cold and flu season would be if we already had a lot of cross immunity from other coronaviruses.

Sometimes decisions are hard and it's not fair to criticize them with the benefit of hindsight, but it didn't take hindsight to know that burning so much political capital and public good will working to defer cases until cold and flu season was moronic.

That's asinine, especially the comment about "deferring" cases. The guy has been begging and pleading with us to follow the guidelines since the beginning. We basically have ignored him at every turn. The power to actually issue orders does not lie with him. The power to follow him also doesn't rest with him. If you want to know who to blame, it's us.

[Johnson85]

That's asinine, especially the comment about "deferring" cases. The guy has been begging and pleading with us to follow the guidelines since the beginning. We basically have ignored him at every turn. The power to actually issue orders does not lie with him. The power to follow him also doesn't rest with him. If you want to know who to blame, it's us.

We have not ignored him. We don't have pandemics because of moral failings. We have pandemics because sometimes there are novel contagious viruses. We listened and locked down for mostly no purpose after the first two weeks. In hindsight, even the first two weeks were pointless, but we didn't know as much about the virus then. We seriously damaged the finances of our hospitals and more or less accomplished nothing other than ensuring that our powder is not dry when we need it. And it wouldn't have taken any great effort for Dobbs to learn that there was going to be a limit to how much people would adjust their behavior in response to a pandemic. It would have basically required that he have a little bit of curiosity and ask somebody.

Also, it is somewhat fascinating to me that in school, when we learned about flagellants during the black death, it was sort of with the context of "can you believe how ignorant and crazy those people were"? But apparently there is a deep seated human need to believe we could have avoided bad things if we just acted more morally rather than accepting that there are bad things that happen that we can't avoid short of choosing something worse.

[StarkVegasSteve]

We have not ignored him. We don't have pandemics because of moral failings. We have pandemics because sometimes there are novel contagious viruses. We listened and locked down for mostly no purpose after the first two weeks. In hindsight, even the first two weeks were pointless, but we didn't know as much about the virus then. We seriously damaged the finances of our hospitals and more or less accomplished nothing other than ensuring that our powder is dry when we need it. And it wouldn't have taken any great effort for Dobbs to learn that there was going to be a limit to how much people would adjust their behavior in response to a pandemic. It would have basically required that he have a little bit of curiosity and ask somebody.

Also, it is somewhat fascinating to me that in school, when we learned about flagellants during the black death, it was sort of with the context of "can you believe how ignorant and crazy those people were"? But apparently there is a deep seated human need to believe we could have avoided bad things if we just acted more morally rather than accepting that there are bad things that happen that we can't avoid short of choosing something worse.

This is what people don't get. This was going to happen. There's no way to fully stop it without a vaccine. The onus can't completely be on healthy people, but some have made it out that way. You have an obligation to take care of yourself. It's always been that way. If you're in a high risk category and choose to go out into large crowds then that tells me that you believe the reward is greater than the risk and you know what could happen. In the words of Ron Swanson, "If you want to eat garbage and balloon up to 600 lbs then that's your right". But you can't turn around and then get mad at others because they didn't protect you. You didn't protect yourself. I have a good friend who is a DIE HARD bulldog, but he's in a high risk category for this stuff. So he's made the sacrifice to not go to any ballgame and basically avoid large crowds whenever possible. He's taking care of himself instead of expecting others to do it and then getting mad when he inevitably would get sick.

[Johnson85]

This is what people don't get. This was going to happen. There's no way to fully stop it without a vaccine. The onus can't completely be on healthy people, but some have made it out that way. You have an obligation to take care of yourself. It's always been that way. If you're in a high risk category and choose to go out into large crowds then that tells me that you believe the reward is greater than the risk and you know what could happen. In the words of Ron Swanson, "If you want to eat garbage and balloon up to 600 lbs then that's your right". But you can't turn around and then get mad at others because they didn't protect you. You didn't protect yourself. I have a good friend who is a DIE HARD bulldog, but he's in a high risk category for this stuff. So he's made the sacrifice to not go to any ballgame and basically avoid large crowds whenever possible. He's taking care of himself instead of expecting others to do it and then getting mad when he inevitably would get sick.

Yep. As awful as China acted, once the virus was out of Wuhan (which probably happened extremely early), they probably couldn't have stopped it from blowing up into a pandemic even if they had tried. They could have made the harm a lot less bad early on if they had just been forthcoming and at least attempted to contain it from spreading internationally, and that could have made a big difference as far as getting our supply chains for medical supplies ready, but it probably wouldn't have utlimately prevented the pandemic.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Yep. As awful as China acted, once the virus was out of Wuhan (which probably happened extremely early), they probably couldn't have stopped it from blowing up into a pandemic even if they had tried. They could have made the harm a lot less bad early on if they had just been forthcoming and at least attempted to contain it from spreading internationally, and that could have made a big difference as far as getting our supply chains for medical supplies ready, but it probably wouldn't have utlimately prevented the pandemic.

It may never come out, but I believe this virus has been here for 12.5 to 13 months. I fully believe that it's been in the US since at least the middle of November 2019.

[Liverpooldawg]

We have not ignored him. We don't have pandemics because of moral failings. We have pandemics because sometimes there are novel contagious viruses. We listened and locked down for mostly no purpose after the first two weeks. In hindsight, even the first two weeks were pointless, but we didn't know as much about the virus then. We seriously damaged the finances of our hospitals and more or less accomplished nothing other than ensuring that our powder is not dry when we need it. And it wouldn't have taken any great effort for Dobbs to learn that there was going to be a limit to how much people would adjust their behavior in response to a pandemic. It would have basically required that he have a little bit of curiosity and ask somebody.

Also, it is somewhat fascinating to me that in school, when we learned about flagellants during the black death, it was sort of with the context of "can you believe how ignorant and crazy those people were"? But apparently there is a deep seated human need to believe we could have avoided bad things if we just acted more morally rather than accepting that there are bad things that happen that we can't avoid short of choosing something worse.

You are aware of the difference between mitigating and avoiding? Why does it have to be all or nothing. i don't get the "either it stops it cold or it's useless" point of view. I will never get that view in a million years. Like it or not there IS a moral component to this. We have a moral duty to our fellow man to do our best not to let our actions endanger other's lives. That is the basis of all peaceful civilization.

[Johnson85]

You are aware of the difference between mitigating and avoiding? Why does it have to be all or nothing. i don't get the "either it stops it cold or it's useless" point of view. I will never get that view in a million years.

I don't get why people always engage in straw men. Nothing I said has anything to do with an all or nothing approach.

Like it or not there IS a moral component to this. We have a moral duty to our fellow man to do our best not to let our actions endanger other's lives. That is the basis of all peaceful civilization.

AGain, you can flagellate yourself in the streets if you'd like. But we don't have a pandemic because people aren't doing that. We have a pandemic because of there is a novel coronavirus that's very contagious and pretty bad. It was going to be bad no matter what we did. It's going to be worse because we spent the spring and parts of the summer with empty hospitals while asking people to make sacrifices that aren't sustainable. We'd be in much better shape if we had told people to live more or less normally but to wear masks when near people in public and waited until cold and flu season to ask people to lock it down for a couple of weeks to let the hospitals get some breathing room. But that's not going to happen now because we have a state health officer that is apparently unaware that cold and flu season comes every year.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I don't get why people always engage in straw men. Nothing I said has anything to do with an all or nothing approach.

AGain, you can flagellate yourself in the streets if you'd like. But we don't have a pandemic because people aren't doing that. We have a pandemic because of there is a novel coronavirus that's very contagious and pretty bad. It was going to be bad no matter what we did. It's going to be worse because we spent the spring and parts of the summer with empty hospitals while asking people to make sacrifices that aren't sustainable. We'd be in much better shape if we had told people to live more or less normally but to wear masks when near people in public and waited until cold and flu season to ask people to lock it down for a couple of weeks to let the hospitals get some breathing room. But that's not going to happen now because we have a state health officer that is apparently unaware that cold and flu season comes every year.

This is where it gets tricky because we have people in this state who for whatever reason(political, stubbornness, etc.) will not wear a mask no matter what. And these aren't healthy people either. It's obese people, older people, or people who have actual comorbidities. And then you have people like Robert Foster who is openly telling people to not wear their masks. Now I'm in the camp that it should be your choice whether you wear one or not, but if you're not going to wear one then don't A)complain when you get the virus or B) go into large public areas (grocery stores, restaurants, ballgames, etc.) where close contact is unavoidable and just straight up refuse to wear one.

I guess I say all that to say that some parts of the state haven't done a good job of controlling it, but at the same time it was unavoidable that we were going to have a flu season spike. Everyone has been saying that since March. We're in it now though so we have to do our best and live it with at this point. Heck, we might as well just steer into the skid and let it run it's course.

[CaptainObvious]

I was a skeptic. Then my wife got it from a patient, then I got it, then my son who was home for Thanksgiving got it.

I?m a believer. We have avoided the hospital but the boredom that goes along with quarantine is pretty miserable. I have felt blah but my breathing is manageable. But the muscle and joint aches.... my gosh those were awful.