Stanford releases fall plan. 50% of student are allowed back each quarter. How is it possible to still have sports teams?

Its likely to change after protests, beach going, and summer activities cause a covid-19 spike. Am I the only one who thinks a spike is coming?

Kvothe wrote:

Its likely to change after protests, beach going, and summer activities cause a covid-19 spike. Am I the only one who thinks a spike is coming?

You are not. There are many other sheep just like you.

uh oh wrote:

Stanford is only allowing half of undergraduate students on campus each quarter, alternating groups every quarter. How will this affect sports teams?

https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/covid-19/2020/06/03/a-message-from-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-and-provost-persis-drell-on-academic-planning-for-the-fall-quarter-and-2020-21-academic-year/

Sports teams are the dumbest thing that could possibly be prioritized right now.

Yes, which means it will spike over the next 2 weeks and we will have herd immunity by August. The protesters will be hailed as heroes for saving millions of lives.

Easy solution, let all athletes be part of the 1/2 who stays on campus. I fully expect the season to be cancelled though.

But it says all freshmen will be there in the first quarter, seniors in the spring. And each quarter a different half of students goes home while the other comes to campus. They will have to plan classes/labs based on which group is on campus so it won’t work to just have athletes there all the time. Not enough dorms.

All D1 NCAA sports will happen for the 2020-2021 school year. At Stanford, athletes will be on campus at the very least when they are in season. Football has been permitted to return to campus June 15th. Distance runners are especially fortunate in this case as they will be on campus for their three seasons (xc, indoor, outdoor), allowing them to be on campus for the entirety of the "normal" academic year (fall-spring quarters).

Kvothe wrote:

Its likely to change after protests, beach going, and summer activities cause a covid-19 spike. Am I the only one who thinks a spike is coming?

If there is a spike, it won't be until the fall, and testing capacity is more than adequate to handle it. Not like it is that much of a risk for the students (the faculty are more of an issue).

Here is hospitalization data from my state (it is a pretty good way to track things as case numbers can vary a lot based upon the testing criteria being used, and deaths, while a reliable indicator, have a longer lag time before showing up in the stats).

We reopened things the last week of April. At that point we had 784 confirmed hospitalizations and 210 suspect hospitalizations (total of 994) today (about 6 weeks later) we have 231 confirmed hospitalizations and 125 suspected hospitalizations (total of 356). So hospitalizations have fallen by about 65% (and over 70% below where they were at the peak of the outbreak) even though people are interacting more and we are testing more. It doesn't really spread outdoors that effectively, so worrying about the beach is pretty pointless.

Yes just you and your Loony Lefty Bro’s. No spike and normalcy will be here very soon. Yeah buddy

Yes, you are. You have been wrong from the start and you will be wrong again. If there is a spike it will be manufactured.

doubtful any sports take place at schools this year.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/alabama-football-coronavirus-spt-trnd/index.html

LOL at all you republican idiots.

There's already been an increase in cases in 10 states and a spike in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

Please look at the full information and numbers out of those states. Yes, Florida is seeing more cases, but they are testing twice as many people. A month ago, Florida was averaging about 12,000 - 15,000 TESTS a day. We are now averaging 28,000 TESTS a day. In fact, the past few days we've tested between 30,000-40,000 people a day. Of course there will be a few more positives if we are testing 15,000 more people! Florida's daily percentage of positives is usually between 3% and 5%. Please look into all facts instead of just reading an article that is looking for sensationalism and negativity

zxczxcv wrote:

There's already been an increase in cases in 10 states and a spike in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

Define "spike". I see too many people rolling out that more positive tests are coming in and in every case I have seen it has been because MORE TESTING HAS BEEN DONE!

We do not know how many cases there were 6 weeks ago because many who get the virus show no symptoms and some are mild enough people don't realize it was the virus.

Seyta wrote:

uh oh wrote:

Stanford is only allowing half of undergraduate students on campus each quarter, alternating groups every quarter. How will this affect sports ?/

Sports teams are the dumbest thing that could possibly be prioritized right now.

Do tell. What should our priorities be?

Snitching?

Rioting?

Staying home and watching Netflix?

priority should be to get people working and stopping looting and rioting.

Rocket Surgeon wrote:

Seyta wrote:

Sports teams are the dumbest thing that could possibly be prioritized right now.

Do tell. What should our priorities be?

Snitching?

Rioting?

Staying home and watching Netflix?

Perhaps recovery of ACTUAL industries that impact day-to-day life.

For example, in no specific order:

- Dealing with the meat shortage

- Dealing with the high level of infections among grocery store workers.

- Restoring halted surgical operations in hospitals

- Schools

- Childcare facilities so working parents can actually get back to work without issue

- Restaurant industry, which impacts a massive number of workers in the US

Sports though? They should have the absolute lowest priority, in the company of things like Concerts and Music Festivals.

Seyta wrote:

Rocket Surgeon wrote:

Do tell. What should our priorities be?

Snitching?

Rioting?

Staying home and watching Netflix?

Perhaps recovery of ACTUAL industries that impact day-to-day life.

For example, in no specific order:

- Dealing with the meat shortage

- Dealing with the high level of infections among grocery store workers.

- Restoring halted surgical operations in hospitals

- Schools

- Childcare facilities so working parents can actually get back to work without issue

- Restaurant industry, which impacts a massive number of workers in the US

Sports though? They should have the absolute lowest priority, in the company of things like Concerts and Music Festivals.

Sure, but not sure what there is about starting schools and restaurants which would prevent starting sports? The XC coaches cant coach if they cant go out for dinner afterwards? If your young and healthy just start it all back up, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.