If you Google piaa news, you will find newly released articles and videos about HS football starting on time. Governor suggests all fall sports be canceled. My estimated guess is that it will be canceled. Many school districts already opted out. Now, certain individuals are proposing football be played in the spring. Bone headed suggestion if you ask me.
I think it will be cancelled or delayed. The chance of it being played in the fall is very little. Within a week or two of starting workouts at our local high school, a player tested positive. It’s going to happen like that everywhere. The only thing keeping college football and the NFL pressing to proceed is money, as usual.
We’re gettin good news here in Georgia about the virus. I don’t understand all the numbers and stuff but the news here said the numbers are gettin better.
FULL STADIUMS!
That article is from the beginning of June. Numbers may have changed since then? For better or worse. I hope it isn’t as deadly as we thought, but since that article was written approximately 50,000 more Americans lost their life to COVID.
As 99 said, an article from early June which has not aged well. Also it comes from a false premise that people were saying the death rate was 5% or more. Not true, they were saying that if healthcare services got overrun the death rate percentage would soar because people who otherwise could have been treated and survived would die.
That was the whole point of flattening the curve, it was abundantly clear from the beginning that the virus itself if treated with existing healthcare infrastructure had a 1% or less death rate. If the ERs were overrun and not enough beds were available? That's when the mortality rate went up.
I even remember falchi saying back in March or early April that even though the numbers show a 5% death rate, he felt the real mortality rate was somewhere around 1% or less.
Even still, people do realize that if everyone in the United States got it, a 1% death rate is 3.2 million people? So, I mean yeah it doesn't look bad when you just say 1%... but when you say 3.2 million it looks a lot worse doesn't it?
