Shot.
Meanwhile, the diagnosis of college football’s most successful active head coach is the latest in a string of COVID-related issues sustained this week by the country’s most high-profile conference. Florida and Vanderbilt have, at least, a combined 60 players out for virus reasons, resulting in postponements of their games this weekend against LSU and Missouri, respectively. Ole Miss is battling an outbreak as well, coach Lane Kiffin told reporters Wednesday.
Agendas are a bitch, ain’t they?
All the bad news is unnerving, but Saban testing positive perhaps the most so, if only because you have to figure he’s among the most cautious and protected people, not just in college football, but in the entire country. He thinks he was exposed when the team traveled for a road game ($$).
“Look, I basically feel like when we’re in our own personal bubble here, I think everybody’s in a much safer place,” he said. “I think, as soon as you travel, you get exposed to a lot more things and a lot more people. Even though I’ve worn a mask on the sideline, and I wear a mask all the time, in the hotel, on the bus, on the plane. Nobody really knows how this occurs, but I know that our medical staff has done a really good job.
Something that can probably be said by every SEC football program.
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Clavis is such a fucking clown. He is quickly becoming a Skip Bayless level troll.
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You start doing it a time or two for giggles and you get such a response that you think it’s what everyone wants. Twitter being around only makes the feedback loop that much worse. The vast majority of people just roll their eyes, but he only sees those favorite counts and retweet numbers. So goes the race to be wrong first across social media.
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The while make grievance, performative asshole act is profitable and will always have an audience.
Rush got there first, and clavis has carved a lane to be the sports, particularly college sports, version.
That’s all this is about. He’s a smart guys who sees an opportunity to lucratively monetize being a Bleacher Report comment section.
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He wore a mask everywhere and still managed to get it? Pro maskers for the win there…
He shook hands with Kiffen at midfield after the game. It ain’t s rocket science.
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Wearing a mask protects others by reducing particles the wearer emits. It is less effective in keeping the mask wearer from breathing in the particles. The public health benefit is if everyone wears a mask there are fewer virus particles in the air.
The problem is he was in an area (Mississippi) where a lot of people don’t protect others by wearing a mask creating a greater risk he was breathing in the virus.
I suspect you have been exposed to the explanation of the public health benefit of wearing a mask to protect the people around you but you may not have pain attention.
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If their position was that masks were 100% effective you’d have a point.
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If they were at all effective than so would you.
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If you’re prepared to make the case that you can sneeze into a mask without it stopping any bodily fluid that would contain the virus be my guest. I’m not a doctor I just wear a mask into stores bc it’s simple to do and doesn’t hurt me at all.
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I’m a believer in wearing PROPER masks the PROPER way. Snug fitting (around the head and neck, not ears) and made of a material proven to be more effective at stopping the magical 0.3micron aerosol particles, both to the wearer and those he encounters. Check out the company ‘Filti.’
But there is a point to be made about the flimsy masks you see not doing shit. Of course they stop things like a sneeze…..but those larger “droplet” dispersals are shown to go to the ground pretty quickly. The real danger is in the lingering aerosols, and those surgical masks don’t really do much in that department. And seriously, the control demonstration should not really be an unimpeded sneeze. Of course anything helps stop that, but who the hell just blasts a sneeze out straight, especially now that we’ve been conditioned to do this into our elbows, even with our masks on.
The real test should be a heavy breather breathing normally, maybe with the occasional cough, wearing one of those blue surgical masks. That’s where the fake security of the mask comes in.
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Very well, I’ll concede that point. Is there a case to be made that breathing into a mask doesn’t result in the retention of droplets that could contain the virus? Logically I would think a mask made of any material would at least stop something. I agree that we should be wearing the masks that effectively block the virus (from what I’ve read the thing Pruitt was wearing barely does anything), but at the same time anything is probably better than nothing and definitely can’t hurt. Unless of course the false sense of security causes somebody to contract the virus when they think they’re safe.
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I PERSONALLY share the same sentiments……since having kids (who are still little), I’d throw on the surgical masks around the house when I had flu like symptoms. The wife thought i was a dork who faked illness (obviously now, who knows how well those were working)
Where we differ is the “anything is better than nothing and definitely can’t hurt” as a public mandate….till when ? Look, the “muhhh freedom” ignorance embarrasses me as a republican…. but as somebody who takes pride in trying to understand, what I would describe as the american “ethos” with shades of constitutional principles, I find the “shut up just do it” mentality a little troubling. And the longer something goes, even more so. That’s not to suggest I think we’re done with the virus (#virusdontcare) but that it’s not really the American way to “just shut up and do it.” At least not forever. I think historically our ethos as individuals is much closer to a libertarian mindset of as few restrictions as possible. And so as the virus winds down, whenever that happens, I’m going to be curious to see how the mask wearing goes. At some point the “rubes who don’t know shit” are going to have a point.
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I’m pretty torn on the public mandate myself. Does one person’s freedom to not wear a mask trump another person’s freedom to not have a virus spread to them? I don’t think there’s an easy answer, but I lean toward the government not getting involved. I’m more of a proponent of businesses setting their own policies then we as consumers can decide whether we choose to patronize accordingly.
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They still reduce the spread. I concede the hankies and stuff don’t work as well, but they are all better than nothing. And the virus is mainly attached to the larger particles that fall to the floor, though there’s evidence now that it’s more air-borne than originally thought.
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You mean he wore a seatbelt and still died in a car wreck? What’s the point then?!?
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Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer. Never smoked. Therefore, smoking is healthy and the surgeon general is full of shit.
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We’ve avoided the virus so far. I just hope the trip to Tuscaloosa doesn’t lead to infections.
Also, if UF and Mizzou are both too sick this week, how likely is it they play each other next week?
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This is my fear, especially after reading that Ole Miss is battling an outbreak. The players can be as careful as possible but rolling around for 3 hours every Saturday with 21 other guys isn’t conducive to avoiding the virus. Seems like just a matter of time before it hits every team. I sure would hate to lose the Florida game, though. They are by far the team I want to just hammer this year. Please make it so.
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I hope CNS comes through okay. No symptoms thus far. Of course if Georgia wins Saturday, his streak against former assistants will still be intact. 😦
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If Georgia wins Saturday there’s a good chance we get another crack at him in December.
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I’m assuming freezing cold takes exposed has gotten hold of this one?
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It’s kind of funny to me. 8 months in, this virus’s two greatest weapons are a) using a carrier to infect others before carrier knows he is spreading and b) moves slower than the news cycle.
Anyone dunking on/praising a specific policy move within 4 weeks of the start date is just asking to get clowned. You need at least 6 weeks and probably 10 to get a somewhat accurate measure of benefits and costs.
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With all due respect to Coach Saban, he has no idea how he got it. I have a hard time believing that he got it walking the sidelines at Ol’ Miss if only because the incubation time is too short. On the other hand, I have seen that he is religious, and enclosed churches are, unfortunately, great places to get it. And I am not saying he got it at church, either. I am saying that he can’t possibly know where he got it; the only thing we know is that if he doesn’t isolate he will give it to someone else. Hope he gets better.
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Stay sfae and virus free Coach Smart.
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Every time I see one of these we’ve beat COVID posts – ha ha – rescind the shutdowns and protocols, I wonder how Winston Wolf would react.
So Missouri, Vandy, LSU, & Florida are not playing this weekend. Saban will be at home this weekend. The Falcons are shut down. Football (professional or collegiate) has been on network TV every day for the last week due to COVID rescheduling.
We are not even close to being out of the woods on this thing. Everyone needs to stop taking a victory lap. Revisit protocols – what was working earlier and isn’t working now. Has there been any changes? What can be done better?
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