gostangs wrote:They are not false. CDC has the survival rate in that age group at 99.7pct. Imagine being so selfish you want those young people to ruin their lives missing important experiences because you are scared of your shadow. At risk? Stay home but dont deny young people their full lives.
I seems to spread fairly easily among college age in close quarters (see OSU sorority). According to NCAA.org there are about 73,700 NCAA football players. If half them get infected that means only about 110 college football players will die.
None of these stories are surprising. Most interesting part is that the UNC athletic department knew this was going to happen, told the athletes to stay virtual for classes, and plan on continuing to play football even if campus is shut down for other students.
JasonB wrote:And of course nobody cares about the professors.
If youΓÇÖre at risk, stay home and go remote. Otherwise...suck it up and go teach class? Teachers/professors act like theyΓÇÖre indispensable to society but now whine nonstop about having to do their job; meanwhile waiters, grocery store clerks, auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, etc. etc. are out here everyday doing theirs.
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JasonB wrote:And of course nobody cares about the professors.
If youΓÇÖre at risk, stay home and go remote. Otherwise...suck it up and go teach class? Teachers/professors act like theyΓÇÖre indispensable to society but now whine nonstop about having to do their job; meanwhile waiters, grocery store clerks, auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, etc. etc. are out here everyday doing theirs.
Spoken like someone that as no clue as to all the issues educators face. You would have a completely different and much more educated take on things if you were married to a teacher.
JasonB wrote:And of course nobody cares about the professors.
If youΓÇÖre at risk, stay home and go remote. Otherwise...suck it up and go teach class? Teachers/professors act like theyΓÇÖre indispensable to society but now whine nonstop about having to do their job; meanwhile waiters, grocery store clerks, auto mechanics, plumbers, electricians, etc. etc. are out here everyday doing theirs.
Spoken like someone that as no clue as to all the issues educators face. You would have a completely different and much more educated take on things if you were married to a teacher.
I would argue that the Profs teaching in-person classes at SMU right now (Grad courses have already started for the Fall) are safer than the woman checking me out at the local Tom Thumb who has been at her job non-stop since this thing started.
Where is the outrage for our front-line grocery workers?
Let's see you get back to campus, call a girl friend you went out with some last year, good night kiss (maybe more) and then go to a bar with your buds, order a pitcher which everyone grabs, its hot, you sweat, and the virus spreads. Young people are going to be social. Either you accept that they will be social and some get sick or you keep them locked down until next fall and do remote learning. Its not rocket science here. I truly believe that the death rate for people in that age group are even lower since there are a bunch of non-symptomatics who have never been tested.
PonyTime wrote: Where is the outrage for our front-line grocery workers?
Outrage is there. It has put a spotlight on how little we pay the backbone of a functioning system. The effort to call them heroes is lame because they aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart- they have such low pay and benefits that missing work is not an option so they shall have to risk the front line for said low pay.
Also HC irony that his twitter account was tweeting about the "covid hoax" as he was taking his last breaths thanks to covid. He was an at risk person and shouldn't have been out and about without a mask or at events where no one was wearing them. Sad for his family that he would do that to them.
Elder people are getting killed by the younger people getting the virus. And some of those young people while not dying are having long last side effects. But honestly screw it. I enjoyed posting here as an alumn for many years. But sometimes you just have to walk away.
PonyTime wrote: Where is the outrage for our front-line grocery workers?
Outrage is there. It has put a spotlight on how little we pay the backbone of a functioning system. The effort to call them heroes is lame because they aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart- they have such low pay and benefits that missing work is not an option so they shall have to risk the front line for said low pay.
What do you propose? Mandating that stores raise their pay to $15/hr or whatever will only expedite self-checkouts and the eradication of many of their jobs altogether.
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PonyTime wrote: Where is the outrage for our front-line grocery workers?
Outrage is there. It has put a spotlight on how little we pay the backbone of a functioning system. The effort to call them heroes is lame because they aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart- they have such low pay and benefits that missing work is not an option so they shall have to risk the front line for said low pay.
You have to feel bad for the low hourly wage "essential" retail workers. They got their $1200 stimulus checks, but most don't make as much as many other relatively low paid but now laid off workers who have been collecting 6 bills/week on top of whatever their state paid them.
Sourcing (per Finebaum this afternoon) was a party off campus has dialed up the exposure at UNC. Brown voiced the "it's just fine not having students on campus, it's safer" trumpet blast in trying to say that his players are now better off. MAJOR foul up to an already shaky season for the ACC.
On a positive note, at least UNC is not dealing with FSU's issues....
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