2020 Michigan Offseason Thread

[CWSooner]

Last I checked official US count was 177k. So negative 23,000 people should have died? Wtf are you even saying.

COVID deaths have been overcounted, this thing has been politicized, it’s nowhere near as lethal as idiots in media or hype would have you believe- and I literally personally know 15 people who have had it and not one of them has died and only a couple of them were actually very sick.

Your comprehension is better than that.
In annual expected deaths by natural causes, we have had over 200,000 more than were projected.  177,000 of them are attributed to COVID.  23,000+ of them are attributed to other causes or are unknown.
If anything, we are undercounting COVID deaths, not overcounting them.

[MrNubbz]

I'm not a conspiracy theorist however I personally know of 4 people who signed up to get tested.Had yet to be tested but received positive results.That tells me something smell in Denmark,I've heard other people state this but was like meh,until I became aware of it.Either Hospitals or big pharma seem to be angling for some reimbursement or research coin IMHO.

[Cincydawg]

My GUESS is the testing facilities are not always very well organized with respect to data.  They may confuse samples, confuse results, report incorrectly, etc., just like everything else in life.  I'd say this is incompetence, not some dark conspiratorial plan.

Incompetence is easy to expect and understand with millions of tests being conducted, if even 0.01% are messed up, it's a lot.

[Mdot21]

I'm not a conspiracy theorist however I personally know of 4 people who signed up to get tested.Had yet to be tested but received positive results.That tells me something smell in Denmark,I've heard other people state this but was like meh,until I became aware of it.Either Hospitals or big pharma seem to be angling for some reimbursement or research coin IMHO.

This exact thing happened to my father. They are over-counting the shit out of these positive cases. And just because someone tests positive doesn't mean they died or even got sick. Both of my sisters were positive, one was sick for a week with flu-like symptoms- and the other- all she got was headaches and a runny nose for a couple days. This whole f'n thing has been blown out of proportion.

This is not a disease that is indiscrimantely wiping out the young and healthy and killing a high % of people who get infected and killing millions of people. There are 350 million people in this country. You're talking about a disease that has killed .0005 % of the population- if you believe the inflated death toll numbers- which I do not. And of that .0005% - VAST MAJORITY WERE OLD AS SHIT, SICK AS SHIT, OR FAT, OBESE AND DIABETIC AND WERE PRONE TO GET KILLED BY ANY DISEASE.

[FearlessF]

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds defended the state's reporting of coronavirus data on Thursday, a day after the Iowa Department of Public Health made substantial changes to those numbers because of a technical problem that had skewed them.

"The credibility and the accuracy of our data is a top priority," the governor said at a news conference. She described the reporting efforts as "a work in progress over time."

The health department Wednesday changed data reported on its coronavirus website. Department leaders said they were fixing a computer problem that had backdated recent coronavirus test results and made them appear to have happened months ago. The mix-up happened with both positive and negative test results, they said.

Reynolds said she learned about the problem last week. The state's medical director, Dr. Caitlin Pedati, said she learned of the problem in late July.

[bayareabadger]

This exact thing happened to my father. They are over-counting the shit out of these positive cases. And just because someone tests positive doesn't mean they died or even got sick. Both of my sisters were positive, one was sick for a week with flu-like symptoms- and the other- all she got was headaches and a runny nose for a couple days. This whole f'n thing has been blown out of proportion.

This is not a disease that is indiscrimantely wiping out the young and healthy and killing a high % of people who get infected and killing millions of people. There are 350 million people in this country. You're talking about a disease that has killed .0005 % of the population- if you believe the inflated death toll numbers- which I do not. And of that .0005% - VAST MAJORITY WERE OLD AS SHIT, SICK AS SHIT, OR FAT, OBESE AND DIABETIC AND WERE PRONE TO GET KILLED BY ANY DISEASE.

It wouldn’t be the precision expected of this board if it wasn’t pointed out that % sign makes that statement off by a factor of 100. So either 0.0005 of the population or 0.05 percent of the population. Thank you for your time.

[FearlessF]

it's the thought that counts

details are just details

[ELA]

McCaffrey transferring?

[Temp430]

McCaffrey transferring?

That's the news.  Where he's transferring to I have not heard.  Nico Collins has signed with an agent and is going to the NFL too.  When it rains it sucks big time.

McCaffrey was one of the players lobbying the administration to re-start the Big Ten football season.  So the day they announce its on again he's says he's gone?  I don't get it.  There were rumors that Milton would start if they were playing now but there are always rumors like that in camp.  McCaffry was way ahead of Milton last year.

[bayareabadger]

That's the news.  Where he's transferring to I have not heard.  Nico Collins has signed with an agent and is going to the NFL too.  When it rains it sucks big time.

McCaffrey was one of the players lobbying the administration to re-start the Big Ten football season.  So the day they announce its on again he's says he's gone?  I don't get it.  There were rumors that Milton would start if they were playing now but there are always rumors like that in camp.  McCaffry was way ahead of Milton last year.

I mean, he's in camp and sees how good Milton is. Maybe he just knows.

Plus with a free year, he can opt out, finish his degree, grad transfer and get a shot starting somewhere smaller next year. Too bad.

[MrNubbz]

That's the news.  Where he's transferring to I have not heard.  Nico Collins has signed with an agent and is going to the NFL too.  When it rains it sucks big time.

I was surprised Nico didn't bolt last year.His ability to hang onto the ball is incredible at least from what I've seen and evidently Pro Football Focus bore this out last season

[Mdot21]

LOL. When it rains it pours. I'm not buying the Milton hype bullshit. Worlds of talent, but he was super inconsistent and had serious bouts of inaccuracy. That just doesn't get fixed overnight. Especially in a weird year like this with zero off-season because of COVID. And especially with piss poor coaching like Michigan has.

So McCaffrey is jumping ship, along with Michigan's best offensive player in Nico, it's best OL in Mayfield and it's best DB in Ambry. Oh and there is a real good chance Kwity Paye- their best DL might opt out as well. 

Has Ohio State had any of these opt outs? How come I feel like it's only Michigan.

[Honestbuckeye]

Wyatt Davis and Shaun Wade held out for a long time, but gave up hope and opted out last week.  

However- nether signed with an agent and are both coming back.  

[MrNubbz]

Damn it seems like those two just signed their LOIs - where the hell does the time go