Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Dropped words matter.

 

It's possible that as the virus has sort of moved around the country that some are hearing it for the first time. If you don't pay that much attention to the news I think it's possible. When it was in the Northeast I bet that people in the midwest were not paying that much attention. I know that many were not paying attention in the Southeast. How many, I don't know.

 

Agree, but at least some of that imprecision was part of the point.

The actual tally of cases is assuredly far larger than what is shown by The Times’s count, the most comprehensive public measure of the virus in college sports. The Times was able to gather complete data for just 78 of the 130 universities in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Football Bowl Subdivision, the top level of college football. Some of those schools released the pandemic statistics only in response to requests filed under public records laws.

The remaining schools, many of them public institutions, released no statistics or limited information about their athletic departments, or they stopped providing data just ahead of football season. This had the effect of drawing a curtain of secrecy around college sports during the gravest public health crisis in the United States in a century.

Surprised they at least didn't link to this, though.

Tracking the Coronavirus at U.S. Colleges and Universities

 

College basketball during COVID-19 crisis tests our safety, priorities

 

If you’ve been walking across Antarctica since February, yes. Otherwise, not a chance.

 

teh media

 

You said it was a must read. For who exactly? I submit that it is for exactly the same people who have read 30 of these.

 

White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Friday or submit his resignation

Dictator-like stuff. Get the vaccine out the door ASAP but if Hahn thinks it needs to be reviewed for another day, let him do it.

If anything, I bet this reduces people's faith in the vaccine. It's almost as if Trump wants to sandbag Biden's administration.

 

Exactly? Try again.

Those 30 you say you've read were by staffers and freelancers, some of whom might have talked with clinicians.

This was first-person accounts by the clinicians. As much as people in the business want something out of the box, something different, WaPo presents a little differently - at the very least, directly from them instead of through staffers/freelancers/editors - and you're here pissing all over it.

If you're going to troll, try harder, please.

 

I try not to be a big identity politics guy, but Doyel writes everything with a narcissistic, bullying “look motherfucker” edge. It’s tiring.

So is the nurse testing thing. Do we want to test them daily? The only reason we’re doing that with athletes is because, without it, the hand-wringing over them not getting tested all the time would be relentless from the media. Hell - it has been relentless, and it pinballs around social media in a hyperventilating fashion.

If a nurse in Indiana can’t get tested whenever she wants that’s a story unto itself *regardless of whether athletes are getting tested* Tests are not a zero sum event at this point in terms of supply. Tests are not a power play. We have to stop applying power political dynamics to every part of every equation.

 

there are dozens of first person accounts on social media every day. Of nurses and doctors staring right into a camera after their shift, saying these things.

There have been first person healthcare worker accounts for nine months.

I do not doubt their experiences. I think that Covid is awful and real. I just don’t know that it’s reaching the group of people that you think it’s reaching. I believe it is reaching the group of people who already agree.

I am not trolling. I am offering a counterpoint.

 

But they kind of are.

It's a resources and priorities question.

What are our priorities?

And how do we distribute our resources in service of them?