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Topic: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?

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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #42 on: September 07, 2020, 04:42:41 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 07, 2020, 04:38:31 PM
Post of the year (for a different reason).  This is incredible.  Bravery against a virus. 

You were one of those gay guys in the 80s calling your lover a pussy if he insisted on a condom, weren't you?  Maybe you still are.
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OAM, has it ever occurred to you that people here are mean to you because you say BS like that? 
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« Reply #43 on: September 07, 2020, 04:44:46 PM »
But my next post explains it all away and everyone can be friends again, right?

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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #44 on: September 07, 2020, 04:44:59 PM »
Fro... Wtf is wrong with you? Please refrain from replying to anymore of my comments.
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #45 on: September 07, 2020, 04:56:38 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on September 07, 2020, 04:06:37 PM
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The Big Ten has elected to curl up into the fetal position and do nothing, at the first sign of adversity.

High School, Pros, other College Conferences are all going to give it a go. They might not make it through the season, but they are at least willing to give it the old college try.


They threw the breaks on a massive financial engine and moved a football season. That doesn't seem like nothing. 

Here's the thing, doing what you want because it feels normal isn't brave. It's just not. We can discuss if it's cowardly (maybe), but it ain't brave. 
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #46 on: September 07, 2020, 08:28:48 PM »
JFC this thread is an abortion.

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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #47 on: September 07, 2020, 10:33:35 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on September 07, 2020, 03:26:41 PM
Definition of bravery


1: the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty


At no point in human history (until now) has it been considered courageous to curl up into the fetal position at the first sign of adversity, and do absolutely nothing. That's always been known as cowardice.
Wearing a mask is not analogous to curling up into a fetal position, although I believe that you have on occasion implied that it is.
Wearing a mask is about not infecting others.  It is not a sign of either bravery or cowardice.
It is not brave to go without a mask any more than it is brave to go around coughing and sneezing when you have the flu.
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #48 on: September 10, 2020, 10:34:17 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on September 07, 2020, 08:28:48 PM
JFC this thread is an abortion.




For those of you who chose “The unknown scares me (for them) and they shouldn't be playing at all” – WHY?!?! 

Through this entire ordeal of booting college football back up, among other attempted reboots such as grade school kids returning to K-12 classes, two words have been bastardized as excuses to keep everything shut down: "unknown" and “contagious.”

Yes, COVID has medical unknowns, but statistically speaking (emphasizing statistically) driving your car to the post office comes with unknown risks. And the same goes for leaning on the “contagious” excuse. Again, statistically speaking, car wrecks carry a numerically raw statistical inevitability that follows the similarly varying (though predictable) probability rates as living in a reality of other contagious illnesses, such as the common flu that goes around every year.

Again, the “unknown” and “contagious” excuses have been intentionally bastardized to bypass properly equating COVID likelihoods into statistical terms by which we daily cope with a reality filled with other statistical unknowns and inevitabilities.

We’re at a point where those who want to move on and return to functionality (SEC, ACC, private K-12 schools) should be allowed to take on the risk. And for those who want to wallow in self-loathing uncertainty (PAC 12, California public K-12 schools) should continue sitting on their hands while the rest of the world passes them by.
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #49 on: September 10, 2020, 01:05:20 PM »
Catsby, some folks is scared to death of car wrecks and the common flu

these folks are just the same as those folks, they're scared and can't help themselves.

hell, a lady in my office is deathly a scared of spiders, doesn't seem to be much she can do about it.  She's understands it's not logical.

I'm somewhat a scared of heights.  Maybe cause I can jump very high and I'm not accustomed to being in the air
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #50 on: September 10, 2020, 02:32:24 PM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on September 10, 2020, 10:34:17 AM

For those of you who chose “The unknown scares me (for them) and they shouldn't be playing at all” – WHY?!?!
I voted for "I'm fairly concerned and understand why the B1G and PAC-12 did what they did"

Which is, quite frankly, not that far away from “The unknown scares me (for them) and they shouldn't be playing at all”

The primary difference is... Who chooses? 

I'm fairly concerned. I could see this blow up in their faces. I don't want to watch as a Purdue player gets COVID due to an on-field infection, gets hospitalized and dies, and all of a sudden my alma mater's name is dragged through the mud because they put him out there. I think that risk, to my school, is low. Probably larger that it will happen to SOME school. BUT, I'm not going to tell the conferences to play or not to play. Not my decision. I understand why they made the decision they did; you can agree or disagree, but it's not your decision either. 

However, some people don't seem to understand that they're not in charge. They argue this topic like they've actually got a say in the matter and/or anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion. 
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« Reply #51 on: September 10, 2020, 03:02:59 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 10, 2020, 02:32:24 PM
I voted for "I'm fairly concerned and understand why the B1G and PAC-12 did what they did"

Which is, quite frankly, not that far away from “The unknown scares me (for them) and they shouldn't be playing at all”

The primary difference is... Who chooses?

I'm fairly concerned. I could see this blow up in their faces. I don't want to watch as a Purdue player gets COVID due to an on-field infection, gets hospitalized and dies, and all of a sudden my alma mater's name is dragged through the mud because they put him out there. I think that risk, to my school, is low. Probably larger that it will happen to SOME school. BUT, I'm not going to tell the conferences to play or not to play. Not my decision. I understand why they made the decision they did; you can agree or disagree, but it's not your decision either.

However, some people don't seem to understand that they're not in charge. They argue this topic like they've actually got a say in the matter and/or anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion.
I guess my thing is if, God forbid, that scenario plays out then no school should be dragged through the mud. I know it will, but it shouldn’t. It should just be looked at as a terrible tragedy that is no one’s fault.
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #52 on: September 10, 2020, 03:44:31 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 07, 2020, 04:42:41 PM
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OAM, has it ever occurred to you that people here are mean to you because you say BS like that?
I was thinking the same thing.  

There are times when OAM and I agree and times when we disagree but we generally keep it civil.  You  can disagree and keep it civil.  
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #53 on: September 10, 2020, 04:02:40 PM »
what's the fun in that

that's like a peaceful protest w/o any bricks, looting, fires, tear gas , and rubber bullets
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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #54 on: September 10, 2020, 04:54:30 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 10, 2020, 02:32:24 PM

However, some people don't seem to understand that they're not in charge. They argue this topic like they've actually got a say in the matter and/or anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinion.


Maybe they are compelled to speak because those who are in charge handle themselves like dumbasses...*cough*chough*...Kevin Warren.

Ohio State be proud you've got a leader like this:


https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1304154548819374083

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Re: Do you care about the non-lethal aspects of Covid-19?
« Reply #55 on: September 10, 2020, 05:14:59 PM »
If you are a conference official with the Big Ten or Pac 12 what are you rooting for in regards to the CFB season this fall?
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