WIth Oregon governor cracking down on Covid again, should the Trials be moved? To where? Does Georgia have a stadium?

What a whiner! Unclutch your little pearls, zip up and walk away from your keyboard. The athletes should feel fortunate that Trials are happening and that the Games are still on. That is it. It has nothing to do with blaming the governor or Oregon. If any other town had this stadium and the combination of warm and cool weather to support sprints/jumps and distance then the Trials would be there. Georgia? Texas? Clueless privileged whiner. Oregon numbers are going up, hospitalizations are as well. It will a small state with smaller capacity. They can host the athletes and a smaller crowd of friends and family. There are crazy times happening in empty stadiums at all levels. The athletes will understand that we are in the middle of something different and will not hold Gov. Brown responsible. Grow up.

rojo wrote:

Iron Bars wrote:

Based on the experience with hosting prior high profile events (Worlds Q. etc) Sacramento State, Stanford or Drake would be good choices.

You can't hold it in California. The natural place to hold it would be Mt. Sac since they have an amazing stadium and were initially awarded the contract, but since they just cancelled their HS state meet for some reason I'm ruling them out.

California has been almost as tyrannical and unscientific on Covid. I would like to see the trials somewhere where they would fill a stadium. Drake could be a good chase, Austin was another thought.

Too bad Oregon is such a liberal cesspool. Looks like a beautiful state.

It is in a lot of ways not including Portland, Salem and some of the Eugene area. Look up the 7 wonders of Oregon. Plenty of things to do here even during pandemics if you love the outdoors. No need for masks and nobody from Karenstan to call you on it unless you hang around populated areas.

Sure send it down to Cali so I can go! Got my shots, will go masked.

But do realize, with the Covid variants out there, and the knuckleheads who don't get vaxed, people will get sick and die wherever the trials are held.

there wont be an Olympics

5 rings wrote:

there wont be an Olympics

Of that we are pretty sure. But there can still be a US Olympic Trials (viz 1980, Hayward stands full).

I repeat my question: is it possible that the Oregon governor will require athletes to wear masks, as a condition for holding the Trials in Eugene?

Oregon only has liberals in the urban areas. The rest of the state seems to be filled with batsh** crazy gun folk who think the laws don’t apply to them.

PineTree Alley wrote:

Too bad Oregon is such a liberal cesspool. Looks like a beautiful state.

I don’t understand how someone could live in Oregon right now and not be going insane. Pathetic

Big Red wrote:

Sure send it down to Cali so I can go! Got my shots, will go masked.

But do realize, with the Covid variants out there, and the knuckleheads who don't get vaxed, people will get sick and die wherever the trials are held.

Anyone that wants to get the vaccine can get it. If someone doesn’t want to get vaccinated and ends up getting sick and dying, that should not be a concern of anyone other than that person. The only people they are putting “at risk” are others who chose not to get the vaccine and that is their right

rojo wrote:

Even though most vulnerable have had the opportunity by now to be vaccinated, the Oregon governor has put much of Oregon into a big lockdown yet again. She seems focused on the number of Covid cases, as deaths and hospitalizations aren't going to be nearly as high as several months ago when Covid cases rose.

Can't tell if you're being disingenuous or just not paying attention, as the article that you linked describes how the governor's actions are based on hospitalization numbers. There is no mention of overall case numbers.

Why are they holding a trials at all for an Olympic games that will be cancelled? By 2024 when we have the next Olympic Games they will be able to run just fine in OR.

We live in 2 different Americas, while Florida and Texas have completely opened up their numbers are going down but Oregon with the strictest mandates is leading the nation in COVID infections.

RED vs BLUE

Oregon is not leading the nation in COVID infections. Not even close. You could make the point you are trying to make without blanket falsehoods.

wazzu1452 wrote:

We live in 2 different Americas, while Florida and Texas have completely opened up their numbers are going down but Oregon with the strictest mandates is leading the nation in COVID infections.

RED vs BLUE

oldschoollrc wrote:

Oregon is not leading the nation in COVID infections. Not even close. You could make the point you are trying to make without blanket falsehoods.

wazzu1452 wrote:

We live in 2 different Americas, while Florida and Texas have completely opened up their numbers are going down but Oregon with the strictest mandates is leading the nation in COVID infections.

RED vs BLUE

AGAIN - Oregon leads country in COVID-19 case rate

Oregon is 100% run by the Democrat Party!

briswiss wrote:

PineTree Alley wrote:

Too bad Oregon is such a liberal cesspool. Looks like a beautiful state.

I don’t understand how someone could live in Oregon right now and not be going insane. Pathetic

Yep. As others are indicating, the places (blue) with the tightest controls are having the largest increases. While forrests are mismanaged and allowed to burn in the summers, these control freaks won't allow a flu virus to burn through the population and achieve herd immunity hence delaying the process and having more spikes. Those that need protection due to age and comorbidities should take precautions and allow the rest to move on.

The truth is....Fauci et al know more than they are telling us. They don't know what this synthetic China virus that was released on the world will mutate to. Therefore get your vaccination and keep wearing your mask. Open borders though.....

Read The Faucian Bargain. Lord Nefarious is working through these people.

Gov. Kate Brownshirt ran away from "protestors" yesterday while touring a vaccination site because he asked a question about the efficacy of the vaccination and wanted to know how long he'd have to wear a mask. They cited security issues for her backdoor departure. Meanwhile....peaceful protesting continues with nuclear timeclock precision and frequency in Portland whe protestors demand and will recieve federal funds for side effects of tear gas used on them.

So, call the rural areas of Oregon gun loving miscreants if you will but I think recent law changes in Florida and Idaho pushing back against these idiots and tranny madness is rather appealing to the majority of the country outside the blue havens of debauchery. I actually like Florida law finding that using your car to legally to run over a few of the violent protestors a balance to the open hard drug policies and heroine stations in the PNW.

You skipped the part where Texas has triple the death rate.

The weather sucks in Texas. Most runners would rather run in an empty stadium in Oregon than run in Texas.

As for Georgia..Rojo seems to have missed out on what's happening in the world.

Kate Brown will not allow us to ever go back to normal. I don’t foresee places like Eugene and Portland hosting events for at least a few more years. I don’t think many Portland businesses will ever allow people without masks indoors again. I still see tons of people driving alone wearing masks, walking outside alone wearing masks, etc. It’s become part of the virtue signaling culture out here. No way that’s changing in 2 months. We can’t even go to a freaking gym for at least 3 more weeks! (Admittedly, gyms can be open but they can only have up to 6 people, including workers, so they’re all closed.)

Simply put, even if the science and evidence say it’s safe to have the trials, the culture here won’t allow it.