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[ChicagoTiger85]

And confirmed or "probable."

8000 people die in America every day from all causes. And the death rate has DECREASED every year since 2014.

Excess deaths have gone up by about the same amount as the COVID deaths.

 

[ChicagoTiger85]

I mean - it's a pretty dumb tweet by Tim. Society evolves and the world changes.

Maybe he wasn’t implying what some people think.

 

[Cavitybacks]

So if they play, those players won’t come into contact with anyone who is not a healthy, low risk football player? They won’t come into contact with hundreds of coaches and support staff, not to mention others around the team? And how many of those healthy players and staffers they expose while playing, if they too become infected, would later come into contact with friends and family, coworkers, and the general population who are not as safe? The idea that someone who is contagious with a respiratory illness that can kill others or make them very sick should be allowed to come to work in any profession and expose everyone around them is crazy. There is no arguing that the risk to that athlete is significantly lower than most, but it’s not about the risk to the individual who is sick, it’s about the risk to the people who will be exposed down the line if they are exposed to that person.

If my company or any company I know has an employee who is sick with any illness that is contagious, COVID19 or not, we don’t allow them to come to work even if they feel like working. Professional athletes should be no different.

They’re not “sick”. They’ve just tested positive, which doesn’t mean much. And people aren’t dying from Covid. Studies are showing they have 4 other co morbidities. So they may be dying with it. Also we have a vaccine. I don’t know a single person who has been to the hospital that is vaxed, and in my field, I’ve seen over thousand people with Covid.

My sister is a hospitalist at MUSC and theyre telling them to come to work unless they are symptomatic and not to go by a test. Nurses are trying to test out of work. We gotta go back to the old standards of fever/chills stay at home. Sore throat and runny nose- go to work.

And you’re insane if you think these players are putting others at risk by playing football but the same players are allowed to go to restaurants and are allowed to attend the football game and watch from the stadium.

We aren’t worried about full stadiums.

 

[1Clemzunfan]

They’re not “sick”. They’ve just tested positive, which doesn’t mean much. And people aren’t dying from Covid. Studies are showing they have 4 other co morbidities. So they may be dying with it. Also we have a vaccine. I don’t know a single person who has been to the hospital that is vaxed, and in my field, I’ve seen over thousand people with Covid.

My sister is a hospitalist at MUSC and theyre telling them to come to work unless they are symptomatic and not to go by a test. Nurses are trying to test out of work. We gotta go back to the old standards of fever/chills stay at home. Sore throat and runny nose- go to work.

And you’re insane if you think these players are putting others at risk by playing football but the same players are allowed to go to restaurants and are allowed to attend the football game and watch from the stadium.

We aren’t worried about full stadiums.

So by your logic, if I shoot a fat person or an old person in the stomach and they die on the operating table because they were not in good enough physical shape before I shot them to survive the surgery that a young person would have made it through I have not killed them by shooting them, they died because they had a comorbidity?

That is the logic you are using by saying COVID doesn't kill. COVID absolutely kills. People with comorbidities are just not as physically prepared for the battle it brings as young healthy people. But these people would not have died when they died if they didnt get COVID. COVID is the catalyst just like the gun shot or a car wreck or pneumonia or cancer or anything else would be to someone whonisnt as physically fit.

I guess from now own a fat person can never die from anything other than being fat. An old person can never die of anything other tham being old.

 

[Cavitybacks]

So by your logic, if I shoot a fat person or an old person in the stomach and they die on the operating table because they were not in good enough physical shape before I shot them to survive the surgery that a young person would have made it through I have not killed them by shooting them, they died because they had a comorbidity?

That is the logic you are using by saying COVID doesn't kill. COVID absolutely kills. People with comorbidities are just not as physically prepared for the battle it brings as young healthy people. But these people would not have died when they died if they didnt get COVID. COVID is the catalyst just like the gun shot or a car wreck or pneumonia or cancer or anything else would be to someone whonisnt as physically fit.

I guess from now own a fat person can never die from anything other than being fat. An old person can never die of anything other tham being old.

Not my point. Some people have to work. Athletes working is not putting others at risk who are vulnerable.

 

[1Clemzunfan]

Not my point. Some people have to work. Athletes working is not putting others at risk who are vulnerable.

What do you mean that isn't your point? It is what you said. You said, "And people aren’t dying from Covid. Studies are showing they have 4 other co morbidities. So they may be dying with it."

 

[Cavitybacks]

Of course if you’re sick, you shouldn’t play. But Tim’s point was that guys are generally out due to positive tests. Very few athletes are sick from Covid, thank God.

 

[Jwilliamsiii]

🤣🤣😂🤣😂where were the snowflakes when Michael Jordan was playing in the nba finals with the flu? Smh