1 month from now: "Hospitals in university towns are overwhelmed with COVID patients as surge continues due to IRRESPONSIBLE COLLEGE STUDENTS being dumb and irresponsible...." (blaming personal decisions with no mention of the structural policies that created the environment the covid could surge in).
some stadiums are not even requiring vaccination or a negative test to enter... and doing it EVERY SINGLE WEEK. holy shit this is going to get insane. look at the spread from sturgis recently. wow this is gonna be nuts. how is this legal? how will no one be jailed for these murderous decisions? what a shithole country.
Colleague of mine went on vacation the the U.K., with a first stop in Portugal.
They’re currently stuck in quarantine in Portugal as they have Covid.
:surprised-pika:
if you search college football covid the articles about it are insane.
there is a fox news article titles something like "College Football Declares Independence from COVID" like covid is a foreign, enemy occupier and college football has won a war against it by pretending it doesn't exist.
State university students last year were so brazen in denying restrictions that entire frat houses had to go under house arrest to quarantine them. There were outbreaks all around campus and in businesses frequented by students. The semester went online like three weeks in, solely so the admins could collect in-person tuition fees.
This year it's worse. While people are required to wear masks in class, there's almost no sense of precaution outside of it. Restaurants, bars, groceries, gas stations along arterial interstates. Looks like that university has a full football season scheduled.
edit: Christ, in Florida too. I wouldn't go outside if I lived in Florida right now.
I would say that atleast at my (very blue) state university, the issue was the greek system, not the average student. Greek life through the worst of covid was having mulitiple hundred person+ parties that all were reported to the university and no action was taken.
Christ, in Florida too. I wouldn’t go outside if I lived in Florida right now.
Me too. It's a gigantic lab for producing covid variants.
These are the people who The Villages then hires as low level staff because they can be exploited more easily. It's like the story of Icarus getting drunk, building 1.5 wings, and breaking his neck on a trashcan after trying to climb onto his roof. The sun is just so much hotter down there.
I know so many people going to disney and the other theme parks. Most of these same people were making fun of the anti-lockdown protesters, completely oblivious to the fact that they've been taking advantage of the fact that those same asshole protesters won.
"see, the plandemic is a hoax! no masks or vaccines needed here, just good football fun"
"please pray, my beautiful football uncle is on a ventilator"
"those soviet demoncrats in the white house let my beautiful football uncle die, they were too focused on their fake vaccine and masks!"
Those attendance numbers are insane I had no idea that many people went to sports games
Football is a religion in the US. Not only is there pro and college football - communities can be insane fans for high school football if pro and college teams are too far away to go to. If Americans had 1/1,000th as much interest in universal healthcare as we do football - we'd have gotten it decades ago.
Recently the US has had ~1,500 covid deaths a day. And - of course - that's just one covid metric there's also illness, suffering, job losses, bankruptcy, etc. But 10,000,000s of Americans have decided they are past covid. They want to see sports live, go to concerts, go to bars, go to clubs and they want to do all sorts of other normal pre-covid stuff regardless of the health danger.
Mass death has become fully normalized for them. As time goes on - that will be true of more and more people. It's petrifying.
the normalization of mass spreading events is starting to make me feel like I'M the crazy one... amerikkka is so fucking insane
But remember the bible. "In the beginning God created football..."
Michigan death cult, surprised one of the games in the south wasn't the lucky winner by a long shot.
Honestly is. Like, the team sucks, they flat out suck, and you’re going for, what, the new delta COVID motion offense you fucking idiots?
U of M's got the largest stadium in the hemisphere (and third largest in the world). Couple that with a match-up against an in-state school and you get a packed as fuck superspreader event
ah fuck, #2 is named after pogromist Narendra Modi but at least DPRK is #1
Only speaking from my own experience, but while classes require masks they have us packed like sardines into classrooms. They've also made it clear that we are not going back online. If it's the same for these big football schools it's going to spread like wildfire.
If local gov’ts allow it people are gonna go, sporting events are probably one of the few social gatherings Americans have so not surprised by the crowd size.
