Quote Originally Posted by Really Clark? View Post
You are confusing contact with the virus and contracting the virus. Thats two separate things. You can most definitely have contact with someone or an object with the virus but not contract the virus yourself. Going by your hypothesis, then the coronavirus would have the largest R0 in history and that’s not true, it’s not even close to highest rate. Chickenpox is 3-4 times higher in infection rate for example.
Well 17 me. Damn it people, I am not a syth lord that deals in absolutes. So yeah, you can walk past a person with the virus and not immediately light on fire.
Maybe if we all treated the virus with this level of respect, we might be actually seriously talking about football this year and fall semester school. It is the downplaying it from the get go that has our numbers where they are.

I have said from day 1 of this thing, if we do not take every single possible precaution within reason, we are not having football. If we did have football, it would not be with fans in the stands as we did last year.

No one can argue with the absolute best way not to get this thing is to distance.
2nd best way not to get it is wear a mask if you can't distance.
3rd best thing is to constantly wash your hands.

Point taken, you can be in contact with someone and not immediately get it. But there is a serious risk if you are in contact with someone. Not like Measles bad, but pretty bad.