every kid runs around with a nose full of snot during flu season too---

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Aug 7, 2020
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Tsisquan All-American

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Tsisquan

Previous username: mdou
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Regarding Covid demands by players- demand for 5 year covid medical coverage

byusage

8/7/20 6:59am

Since we're convinced that it doesn't affect healthy people, why does their requ

vagabonder

8/7/20 7:02am

It opens the door for all kinds of claims. It opens a bottomless pit of

byusage

8/7/20 7:07am

This! My 89 year-old father just fell getting out of his car. The ER filed

deljdc

8/7/20 9:22am

Good point. Counter argument would be an agent orange in Vietnam vets

cougfanz

8/7/20 7:08am

This isn’t true. It does affect healthy young people. They are not at the same

SouthernBlueBlood

8/7/20 7:27am

Healthy young people get the flu and the common cold too.

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:14am

Saying COVID is like the flu shows how uneducated you are on the subject.

TheLost

8/7/20 9:20am

I disagree. If Covid had been around forever and the flu was new, the perception

deljdc

8/7/20 9:23am

Because they are both respiratory illnesses?

TheLost

8/7/20 9:34am

bottom line

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:41am

So collage football players shouldn't be worried about it?

TheLost

8/7/20 9:43am

yep--there's a tipping point and we past it about 1 Trillion dollars ago

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:53am

Of course they shouldn't be worried about it. Look at the data.

stev

8/7/20 10:00am

reading fail---COVID is all about hype and political power---

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:33am

Again.. taking the 'simple minded approach'...

TheLost

8/7/20 9:39am

Simple doesn't mean it's wrong--

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:44am

Some coal miners don't get 'black lung'. so why should the rest worry about it?

TheLost

8/7/20 9:46am

and some married people don't get divorced---

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:50am

What’s you’re point? First death rates have been similar to bad flu seasons. Two

SouthernBlueBlood

8/7/20 9:29am

I wasn't disagreeing that young healthy people can catch covid--

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:36am

Kids die of gunshots all the time.. do your kids run around with loaded guns?

TheLost

8/7/20 9:40am

every kid runs around with a nose full of snot during flu season too---

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:45am

I give up. Enjoy your day watching TikTok.

TheLost

8/7/20 9:48am

did you put on yoga pants and post a new clip or something-----not interested.

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:51am

who is being simple now — straw man----are these viral loaded guns?

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:46am

Yea..

TheLost

8/7/20 9:52am

sample size of 6 people---not relevant outside your household

Tsisquan

8/7/20 9:54am

Good call.

Mitty

8/7/20 9:35am

The autonomous conferences already provide medical coverage

Everyman

8/7/20 7:02am

They have been scared silly by the hysterical media & social media

Busiturtle

8/7/20 7:03am

This is a calculated flexing of muscles by athletes.

Everyman

8/7/20 7:07am

Yes it is. But it's the type of stupid thing that would kill college athletics.

Division Bell

8/7/20 7:17am

let them skip the year, they'll likely have covid before the year is out anyway

Idahofallsblue

8/7/20 7:29am

I have no problem with the demands for extended health coverage

JoeExotic

8/7/20 7:39am

I have to agree here regarding the non-COVID health issues. Players put their...

BamaCoug

8/7/20 7:48am

Rec -> NFL... "insurance coverage is arguably the biggest threat to the sport."

TheLost

8/7/20 7:59am

(had to clean up this thread with a blocked user)... but here is my take on it.

TheLost

8/7/20 10:24am

Which is why I discouraged my kids from playing. I am a chiropractor and see

deljdc

8/7/20 11:02am

The athletes need to be taken care of with injuries for sure. But we are all at

byusage

8/7/20 11:30am

You are not locked into a small space with 120 naked-sweaty guys 12 hours a day.

TheLost

8/7/20 11:47am

I just can't believe these healthy specimens are so scared of this dumb virus.

Ham

8/7/20 10:58am

RE: I just can't believe these healthy specimens are so scared of this dumb

TheLost

8/7/20 11:11am

Those cases are definitely serious, but hardly the norm.

Ham

8/7/20 11:31am

So whats your acceptable number? 1 out of 100 (one on each team?)

TheLost

8/7/20 11:46am

That's a silly question. There's risk in everything.

Ham

8/7/20 11:55am

Isn't that why we have insurance?

TheLost

8/7/20 12:01pm

That's fine. But, to my original question, why are they so scared of COVID?

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