steelcityroller

It all depends on where you live and work IMO. My mother works at a hospital and they had 2 employees catch it and die back in the spring. My brother, his ex wife, her older daughter and their son all had it in spring. They were exposed to people that worked at the nursing home in Sumner County that got hit hard. He is still having a hard time breathing. A co-worker of mine had it a month ago. My wife has two co-workers with it right now. Also works in Healthcare.

Does that include the Covid patients that Sumner Regional keeps sending to Trousdale and Smith County?

Many college football divisions and teams won't be far behind. https://www.si.com/college/2020/07/16/power-5-conferences-covid-testing-college-football

Got a source? https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/covid-19-hospitalizations-in-tennessee-set-new-records My mother, stepmom and stepsister all work in the health profession as well. In 3 different counties. Sumner County is sending patients away to other surrounding counties.

Is there another source? The only ones I see reporting this are Breitbart and Alex Jones. And both of those have as much credibility as a sack of dead crickets.

There are 100+ school systems in the state. I wouldn't pretend to know what all of them will be doing in a couple weeks. I also wouldn't assume that anybody is talking about every school system in the state in any of these topics. As of right now you have schools that are completely open, schools that are going 2 days a week, schools that are going 3 days a week, schools that have pushed start dates back until after Labor Day and schools are going online only to start the year.

And we are at 135k and having 800-900 deaths a day right now. I heard them say the other day that anything under 200k would be successful. Gotta keep raising that bar.

An empty threat. Nearly all funding comes from local taxes. And what federal funding there is has to be decided upon by congress. Which won't side with Trump on this issue. Also in an election year cutting funding for schools isn't a good look.

I think that you will have a handful of school systems go back for 1-2 weeks just so they can see where the kids are at and get them the distance learning materials/devices. And then they will be sent back to distance learning at home. I say that for several reasons. One being that I doubt all these school systems would be spending all this money on individual devices and hot spots for every student if they felt like they would be having a normal fall school year. Another being the staff that schools are or more so aren't hiring in several districts. You can't cut 10-15% of your staff and then be able to do the things these schools are saying they are gonna do with reopening. Another issue that isn't being brought up is PPE and cleaning equipment. They are saying right now that unless something is done then hospitals may once again be seeing a shortage on PPE and cleaning supplies because of the increased hospitalizations and protocols. What effect do you think opening thousands of schools across the country and requiring every staff member/student have a mask, hand sanitizer and gloves would have on that issue? I know for a fact that schools and suppliers are already having this conversation. There is a lot that is said behind closed doors that isn't told to the public because they would rather wait until the last minute than have to hear complaints and deal with the backlash for weeks. As they say need to know basis.

They are saying that it is starting to look like we will see all conferences delay the season and be playing in-conference only and without a postseason. Because there are situations where teams won't be allowed by state or school restrictions. The Big 10 has already made the announcement. The Pac and Big 12 are expected to join them as early as tomorrow. A handful of teams are expected to pull out as well. I've heard Stanford, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Rutgers, Wake Forest and USC all mentioned as teams that might cancel on their own. Notre Dame is supposedly in talks to take a teams spot in conference play in either the Big 10 or ACC.

The issue is that one can sign a waiver for themselves and then go home and give it to somebody else that did not sign a waiver. You are sending mixed signals when you mandate masks, make kids sit 6 feet apart in school and shut down certain businesses but then allow everybody to travel from county to county to go to football games on Friday night.

The NFL is wanting the players to put 35%of their salaries in escrow. They are also gonna give players an option to opt out of the 2020 season.

Even if it happens its gonna be much different. I was talking to a HS coach last night and he said they are talking about if they play only allowing people who purchase season passes into the games. That way everybody can sign a waiver and made to wear a mask. Some of your smaller conferences are starting to cancel their fall sports as well. The Big 10 and Pac 12 are talking about playing a shorter conference only schedule and pushing the start of the season back 2-4 weeks. NFL teams are talking about mandating masks and only allowing for fractional attendance to only season ticket holders. All the dominoes will fall in the next two weeks because its reaching that point where a decision has to be made or else everything just falls apart. Nobody wants to be the person to make the decision so everybody is just punting the ball back and forth.

Williamson County has pretty much the same setup. For them they have 4 levels. No spread which means there are no active cases in the community. Minimal spread which means that the active cases are 0 to .50% of the population. Moderate spread which means that the active cases are .50-1% of the population. Substantial spread which means that the active cases are over 1% of the population. So at the moment Williamson County would be in minimal and bordering on moderate.

I wonder how that works when school systems are talking about not even starting back until after Labor Day. Memphis is already doing it and Nashville and Knoxville are considering it.

The issue is that these kids all go to school. With hundreds-thousands of other kids. Who have family at home. It is not just about you. Its about EVERYBODY. That is why high school football is being looked at differently than college and pros. Because those kids have to be around so many others. Pros can go isolate in a bubble. You have record number deaths in Texas. You have record number deaths in Arizona. You have record number deaths in South Carolina. In Texas they they have had over 300 cases in children in day cares in June. In May that numbers around 50. Record number of cases across the country. Its getting worse. Anybody that doesn't realize that is in denial. In Texas, Oklahoma and South Carolina they are talking about shutting all football down high school, college and pro. It seems like one of those things where people don't get it until it hits home. I often forget that this is a state site so Covid may not even be an issue in some parts of the state. I know 3 people that have died from it and a relative that is not looking good right now. And those 3 people were 55-65 and still working. Not folks in a retirement home.

It isn't too much to ask for transparency from elected officials.

Its hard to argue that they are getting information when they don't even talk to groups directly involved in the decision. IE the governor not even talking to the TSSAA and the BOE not even talking to teachers/covid response teams.

That is par for the course in government at the moment. You have school systems making decisions and telling parents without even running it by faculty. Things change as well. Last week health officials got a memo ahead of time about the order. The memo said that the order was gonna apply to churches as well. Well that wasn't the case.

In my opinion its either all or nothing in terms of participation. If its bad enough that one sport can't play then all should be off the table for that time period. But there are states right now putting out different protocols for starting up that have football in a different tier than other sports. In Washington for example the state has to be in phase 4 of reopening for high school football to return but all other sports can return in phase 3.

Nobody can see the future. So all these decisions will keep getting kicked down the road until its no longer an issue one way or the other. Its really all that can be done.

I agree about the odd number of games. Also in that line of thinking who decides which games are dropped from each team's schedule? And who goes through and recreates all these schedules to reflect the dropped games and dates? What happens if a team has to miss several games? How does that effect their playoff eligibility and the teams that they were scheduled to play that week? Does a team that only plays 6 games, misses two region games and goes 6-0 get in over a team that is 7-1? Will there be restrictions on attendance like I've heard mentioned with over school assembly/events in the fall. It will be interesting to see how they do it.

You can sue all day long it doesn't matter if the ones you are appealing to are the very ones you are trying to sue.... They are talking right now about passing more legislation to give various groups immunity from liability related to Covid.

It will never happen because at this point nearly every business in the country could sue.

I can see pros because they could play without a crowd and accept the risks as legal working adults and isolate. I don't agree with college though should be the same as high schools.