hoopsfan
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10-19-20 05:13 PM - Post#315079
In response to PennFan10
As much as I will deeply miss hoops if the season is cancelled, for reasons of public safety I'd understand. I think that is the position all of us will take.
Whatever the decision is I hope it is a deeply considered one. For instance I periodically check the Covid dashboards for universities in my area. Harvard in the last 7 days has tested 16,000+ and has a positivity rate of .08. Northeastern tests every other day and by now has tested nearly 300,00 times. Their positivity rate for the last 7 days is .04.
Northeastern has had all its students on campus and has been extremely aggressive about testing, tracing and isolating when called for. They are also planning to play a conference only schedule and on their twitter site you can see videos of their guys shooting in the gym with masks on. OTOH we know the Ivies are mostly sans students totally sans competition.
It will be very interesting to see if they indeed can have a safe and full season. Only time will tell. And if they do, will it be because in general they set their goals on managing for Covid in all aspects? And if the Ivies do not try, will it be because of whatever set of variables, they have set a context of greater caution overall?
I am not saying there is a right or wrong approach. But what is clear are is that there are different approaches being tried which in some ways will become a real-time experiment in public health management.
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