This is weak. Nobody would do anything ending in death if they could predict the future.
The facts regarding risk just do not justify the hysteria. You’re more at risk in Brunswick, Ga if you’re under 25 than from C19 even if you live in NYC.
Your comment lets me, as well as everyone reading, know that you totally miss the point. You're absolutely right, no one would do anything ending in death if they could predict the future. Guess what? We for a fact know that human to human contact increases the risk of infection. Infection increases your risk of hospitalization and/or death. In essence, you're saying we know these kids have a chance of increasing the probability of hospitalization or death, but hey I'm bored on Saturday, let them take their chances. Do you think if Brandon knew his chances of death increased that day by participating in that activity he would have gone forward with it? By using Brandon as an example you picked a poor example, so you should probably just stand down on that.
You're a data guy. Here's some data for you. Doctors and scientists are finding a bigger and bigger correlation between vitamin D deficiency and Covid 19 mortality rates.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/...in-d-deficiency-and-covid-19-mortality-rates/
Do you know what race in America has the highest frequency of vitamin D deficiency? African Americans. It's not because of poor nutrition, but because the best way to absorb vitamin D naturally is through skin and sunlight. Well, because black people through thousands of years of evolution have darker skin, they have a harder time absorbing vitamin D naturally. Guess what race makes up the highest percentage of football players? African Americans. You're a smart guy, Liberty. I don't think you need me to connect the dots on that one.
Do you want to take this another step further? Let's do it...
In addition to vitamin D deficiency, what other factor increases the chance of hospitalization and death? Obesity:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-hospitals-challenges-much-harder/5221600002/
A growing number of studies and data on COVID-19 deaths confirm the link. The extra weight on people in the 40-plus BMI range who contract COVID-19 increases the chance they will require hospitalization, most likely in the intensive care unit. It also hampers the ability of physicians to treat them, especially with ventilators, doctors say.
Read that bolded part again. If you're not familiar with the BMI chart:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323586#bmi-charts
Essentially, that puts our OLs and DLs in the danger zone.
So if you're an African Amercian OL or DL, and you have to constantly make physical contact with people who are not subject to contact tracing...how do you feel about your chances of infection and possible hospitalization from Covid 19? From constant person to person contact from football activities, to biological predilection to vitamin D deficiency, to falling into the BMI danger zone for covid 19...well, isn't that a field full of probability landmines if you're an African American OL or DL? Heck, even if you're a caucasian OL or DL, your chances of Covid 19 hospitalization and possible death also increases.
As human beings, we have the responsibility to mitigate risk for others, not increase it.
We haven't even mentioned the long term negative effects Covid 19 has on the body once infected either.
That's OK though...they aren't someone's son, or brother, or husband, or friend. They're just a body in a uniform there for our entertainment, right? At best, this is just ignorance of the repurcussions of this virus, at worst, it's just callousness toward human life.
