The NEA and local teachers unions are dead set against re-opening. If they have their way this will have a crushing impact on our already devastated economy. I look at my own grandsons, ages 9-11. Both are very smart. Home schooling work takes them 2 hours or less per day. They have had no social interaction with their peers over four months. They are becoming withdrawn. We are sucking the life out of our children.
George just wondering if those teachers have legitimate health and safety concerns for themselves or are they just being bloodsucking and lazy? Or are they just all making political stands against Trump?
I dunno...to me the states that didn't manage to flatten the curve look much like the red area of the old "flatten the curve" graph, and the states now having increases are getting their turn in the blue area; https://s.abcnews.com/images/Health/FlatteningTheCurve_041420_v02_BV_hpEmbed_17x12_992.jpg
You need to consider other ramifications besides your potential loss of college football and the specter of singing karaoke to an empty room. But I predict a groundswell change in how covid is perceived if we elect the old guy in the basement.
So maybe it's a coincidence but I wonder if the weather is a big factor in where the virus is hitting. During the colder weather when northern states were cold and their population stayed mostly indoors, the pandemic hit there. Now in the summer the hottest states like AZ, FL, and TX have people staying more indoors in air conditioning and the numbers have risen. Could be that HVAC systems have an impact on the spread. Just some random thoughts.
Good thought Gipper..... could be that is a contributing factor. In fact the one main bar that I used to go to before this recent rash of new cases has installed new HVAC filters and they tout that change in their ventilation. However daily on Facebook they post how they are having to deal with irritated sometimes combative would be patrons who won't wear their masks or keep any social distancing because their "rights" are being taken away etc. etc. etc. which illustrates the virus transmission problem they were causing when they could just come in and hang all over each other at the bar.
George other than the continuous health threat the inconveniences and removal of many things that were fun in life is a serious consequence of the virus running out of control. I don't think I'm alone in this thinking..... and maybe there is a denial by some of the ramifications of a fall with no college football but when I see that a New Yorker who hasn't a clue about CFB is at the helm and not doing everything he can to limit the spread of the virus but on the contrary encouraging careless spread of the virus it is very very discouraging and defeating. Children, teachers, administrators and parents are supposed to damn the torpedoes full speed ahead while full grown athletes, college administrators and coaches are probably cancelling their season because of the spread of the virus. Something is amiss with that.... someone isn't looking at this properly and it seems hopeless to most Americans because we are not unified in our approach and we don't have a nationally focused determination to limit the spread of Covi-19 and consequently it is out of control.
Do you read what you write before you hit the "Post" button? A "New Yorker" who knows nothing about football" ? When did you pull that one out of your ass?
I worked for 10 years for a guy from L.I. who cared about pro sports.... as I assume most New Yorkers do.... but he grew up not really having any college team to identify with. What's the national football power up there for New York City natives? Rutgers? Army? UConn? Columbia? I used work down at Jacob Javitz for many years and try having a college football conversation with any of those guys. Now that same labor group in LA at Staples and it's quite an identity they have with USC. Trump coming from the New York City elite is an alum of Fordham and Penn ( as in Wharton.. not Penn St). Now there is a college football hotbed for ya.....
I did find this below in a google search and obviously as usual it was all about Trump and his ego getting massaged by a Trump friendly crowd: Not as likely to find him at USC-UCLA.... LOL "Trump, as has been widely documented, has long sought out friendly crowds to make sure he receives the applause he so obviously desperately needs, and, after a few missteps, he has consistently found them at college football games in the South. He was widely cheered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in November, and thus came to the Superdome expecting the same. He was not disappointed: I’m not sure how it sounded on television, but inside the stadium, the roars of approval were nearly as loud as the ones for LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. (Nearly.) They loved him."
Here's an article on Trump and sports. Who is a bigger danger to sports not resuming, Trump or Democratic governor Newsome? Trump hopes U.S. sport can resume soon, wants fans 'back in arenas'
With everything we are facing right now, pandemic, riots, anarchy, defunding and abolishing police, exploding crime rates etc, and what really has you depressed is college football? Seriously?
CFB is the one distraction that can keep my attention diverted from all of the other troubles in the world. And here is Fauci explaining the chief culprit for lack of infection control and the virus running rampant.... controlling our lives in the process: "Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Thursday that partisanship is hurting the US response to Covid-19 in his latest blunt assessment of the country's handling of the pandemic. "You have to be having blindfolders on and covering your ears to think that we don't live in a very divisive society now, from a political standpoint," Fauci said on "Podcast-19," FiveThirtyEight's podcast on Covid-19. "I mean, it's just unfortunate, but it is what it is. And you know, from experience historically, that when you don't have unanimity in an approach to something, you're not as effective in how you handle it. So I think you'd have to make the assumption that if there wasn't such divisiveness, that we would have a more coordinated approach." If George W was the decider..... Donald Trump is the divider. Nice job....
I think if this country had to fight WWII under our present leadership we would all wind up speaking German and wearing Swastikas.
Yes, the country is certainly divided...yes, the pandemic has certainly been politicized. And, yes, we can have different opinions on who is most at fault for the divisiveness... But if you think it's ALL on Trump than you are blinder than I thought.