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The ACC will delay the start of competition for all fall sports until at least Sept. 1
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<blockquote data-quote="MidtownJacket" data-source="post: 727353" data-attributes="member: 959"><p>I’d be curious to know what percentage of the folks who are anti-mask also believe in QAnon.. </p><p></p><p>I suspect the conspiracy theory / my common sense is more valuable than the opinions of lifelong epidemiologists crowd heavily overlaps. </p><p></p><p>This isn’t meant as a shot across anyone’s bow; it is more a question to try to understand the reasoning behind people who aren’t willing to act in accordance with the medical community’s recommendations. There are reams of data backed, scientific studies from expert medical organizations talking about the severity of this specific virus beyond more common infectious agents and yet we struggle with the same “fake news” arguments I read about in the paper and shake my head sadly for. </p><p></p><p>To summarize the many points which make this more dangerous than a common flu/virus: </p><p></p><p>1) Asymptotic people can spread the disease </p><p>2) Asymptotic, as well as symptomatic, patients have shown signs of non-repairable lung damage after contracting the illness </p><p>3) This virus appears to be especially capable at infecting people via “super spreader” events where one infected person introduces significantly higher amounts of the contagion into an environment and gets exponentially more people sick than with a common cold / virus </p><p>4) We have no known vaccination or accepted treatment protocol</p><p>5) Our hospital system is, in many places including Houston, overly taxed already leading to pediatric hospitals attempting to provide overflow beds to cover our sick </p><p>6) The treatment protocols (extensive mask wearing by care givers, quarantined access preventing trusted friends / family members from interacting with patients once they begin treatment) has led to significantly higher instances of panic/hallucinations/ptsd like symptoms among patients and can’t readily be addressed in our current environment </p><p>7) In severe cases requiring intubation, the prognosis hasn’t been good </p><p></p><p>The list is longer but frankly my whiskey supply isn’t strong enough to continue beyond this. </p><p></p><p>When faced with the above list, I can not for the life of me understand why people are against an action (mask wearing) that protects the people they are around - even if minimally - from some of the worst of it. Have we really become such a vain society that we feel compelled to not do everything we can to protect each other?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MidtownJacket, post: 727353, member: 959"] I’d be curious to know what percentage of the folks who are anti-mask also believe in QAnon.. I suspect the conspiracy theory / my common sense is more valuable than the opinions of lifelong epidemiologists crowd heavily overlaps. This isn’t meant as a shot across anyone’s bow; it is more a question to try to understand the reasoning behind people who aren’t willing to act in accordance with the medical community’s recommendations. There are reams of data backed, scientific studies from expert medical organizations talking about the severity of this specific virus beyond more common infectious agents and yet we struggle with the same “fake news” arguments I read about in the paper and shake my head sadly for. To summarize the many points which make this more dangerous than a common flu/virus: 1) Asymptotic people can spread the disease 2) Asymptotic, as well as symptomatic, patients have shown signs of non-repairable lung damage after contracting the illness 3) This virus appears to be especially capable at infecting people via “super spreader” events where one infected person introduces significantly higher amounts of the contagion into an environment and gets exponentially more people sick than with a common cold / virus 4) We have no known vaccination or accepted treatment protocol 5) Our hospital system is, in many places including Houston, overly taxed already leading to pediatric hospitals attempting to provide overflow beds to cover our sick 6) The treatment protocols (extensive mask wearing by care givers, quarantined access preventing trusted friends / family members from interacting with patients once they begin treatment) has led to significantly higher instances of panic/hallucinations/ptsd like symptoms among patients and can’t readily be addressed in our current environment 7) In severe cases requiring intubation, the prognosis hasn’t been good The list is longer but frankly my whiskey supply isn’t strong enough to continue beyond this. When faced with the above list, I can not for the life of me understand why people are against an action (mask wearing) that protects the people they are around - even if minimally - from some of the worst of it. Have we really become such a vain society that we feel compelled to not do everything we can to protect each other? [/QUOTE]
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