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Post by HC92 on Feb 24, 2021 9:16:51 GMT -5
Perhaps I think people are exhausted and see the vaccine coming their way-no sense of urgency for testing. Definitely something to this. I do think anyone who goes to a doctor for any kind of illness is getting a Covid test. But I also think there is a Covid fatigue factor and some people just aren’t testing (or seeing a doctor) if they have mild symptoms of something.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 24, 2021 10:42:08 GMT -5
Perhaps I think people are exhausted and see the vaccine coming their way-no sense of urgency for testing. Definitely something to this. I do think anyone who goes to a doctor for any kind of illness is getting a Covid test. But I also think there is a Covid fatigue factor and some people just aren’t testing (or seeing a doctor) if they have mild symptoms of something. Not my experience at all, and not the standard of care being practiced by physicians in DC. If you have COVID symptoms, do not come to the office. Go to a testing center and be tested. If you are symptom-free, and you need to come to the office (i.e., no tele-medicine visit), they ask if you have COVID symptoms, and take your temperature before you are allowed to enter. If you don't have a fever, then you can have an in-office visit. Over the course of the past year, I have had five office visits, I was not tested for COVID once. I have had no visits to a dentist, so I don't know what dentists are doing. If you have a hospital appointment for a test or procedure, hospitals will require a COVID test in advance, which is often done by the hospital several days before the appointment. If you have an appointment at the hospital to be vaccinated, the hospital only takes your temperature and asks whether you have any COVID symptoms. (They also ask if you have tested positive for COVID, and whether you have ever experienced a significant allergic reaction to an injection; -- which is why they hold you for 15 minutes after the shot is administered.)
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Post by gks on Feb 24, 2021 12:44:17 GMT -5
Back to reality on this topic....
Charlie Baker yesterday said something to the effect of "stay tuned" when asked about fans at sporting events in the state. Nothing moves until he budges and with NY and NJ starting to allow fans both inside and out Baker will have no choice to allow them...or look like a complete fool.
Worcester will go along with what the Governor allows because they want as many people as allowed at Polar Park going to WooSox games.
Whether individual colleges allow it who knows.
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joshua1
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Post by joshua1 on Feb 25, 2021 1:21:23 GMT -5
Do we think fans might be allowed in the spring to watch football or other spring sports cause it would be safe as the games are outside
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Post by HC92 on Feb 25, 2021 7:22:17 GMT -5
Do we think fans might be allowed in the spring to watch football or other spring sports cause it would be safe as the games are outside I would consider it highly unlikely that there will be fans this Spring during PL football games or any other football games in Massachusetts. I agree it would be safe to have them and there is ample evidence that it would be safe as evidenced by all the NFL and college teams that have had them without causing any kind of outbreak. I just don’t think it will happen in our world.
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Post by gks on Feb 25, 2021 12:05:44 GMT -5
Reports are that Charlie Baker will announce today places like Fenway, Gillette and TD Garden will be allowed to have fans starting in March.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 25, 2021 12:35:05 GMT -5
Reports are that Charlie Baker will announce today places like Fenway, Gillette and TD Garden will be allowed to have fans starting in March. Places that bring revenue to the state? Hopefully they include non-revenue (or very modest revenue) stadia as well. Guessing the PL still wouldn’t allow it.
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Post by hc2020 on Feb 25, 2021 13:49:26 GMT -5
Today’s Announcement from Gov. Baker: If public health data continues to tend positive, Baker said the state will move into Phase 4, Step 1 of the reopening plan on March 22, which would allow indoor and outdoor stadiums, arenas, and ballparks to reopen at 12 percent capacity.
This would translate to Fitton being able to have up to 2800 spectators.
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Post by gks on Feb 25, 2021 14:14:33 GMT -5
Today’s Announcement from Gov. Baker: If public health data continues to tend positive, Baker said the state will move into Phase 4, Step 1 of the reopening plan on March 22, which would allow indoor and outdoor stadiums, arenas, and ballparks to reopen at 12 percent capacity. This would translate to Fitton being able to have up to 2800 spectators. If we're still at 12% capacity in the fall then Charlie Baker will have been run out of town.
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Post by Tom on Feb 25, 2021 15:38:59 GMT -5
Today’s Announcement from Gov. Baker: If public health data continues to tend positive, Baker said the state will move into Phase 4, Step 1 of the reopening plan on March 22, which would allow indoor and outdoor stadiums, arenas, and ballparks to reopen at 12 percent capacity. This would translate to Fitton being able to have up to 2800 spectators. Originally Phase 4 was the new normal. I hope that this has been re-defined and someday there will be a Phase 5 that has 100 percent capacity
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 28, 2021 11:14:29 GMT -5
First football game is at Lehigh at 12:00
Can HC fans make the trip? Does anybody know?
Looking at the Ivy League message board they are talking about a conference only fall football season. You can't make this stuff up. They are in the dark ages when it comes to athletics.
Makes you think why teams keep playing them.
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Post by hcpride on Feb 28, 2021 11:46:58 GMT -5
First football game is at Lehigh at 12:00 Can HC fans make the trip? Does anybody know? Looking at the Ivy League message board they are talking about a conference only fall football season. You can't make this stuff up. They are in the dark ages when it comes to athletics. Makes you think why teams keep playing them. Can Lehigh fans even make the trip? #erronthesafeside
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 28, 2021 11:49:27 GMT -5
First football game is at Lehigh at 12:00 Can HC fans make the trip? Does anybody know? Looking at the Ivy League message board they are talking about a conference only fall football season. You can't make this stuff up. They are in the dark ages when it comes to athletics. Makes you think why teams keep playing them. Can Lehigh fans even make the trip? #erronthesafeside Lehigh I think has not decided yet. You can socially distance at a football game outside. #letsgetbacktonormal
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Post by gks on Feb 28, 2021 12:32:25 GMT -5
Can Lehigh fans even make the trip? #erronthesafeside Lehigh I think has not decided yet. You can socially distance at a football game outside. #letsgetbacktonormal How about those that want to go to games can.... And those who want to stay home can do that....
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Post by matunuck on Feb 28, 2021 14:39:20 GMT -5
fwiw amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/618147/“There is a solid scientific reason for the fact that there are relatively few documented cases of transmission outdoors, even after a year of epidemiological work: The open air dilutes the virus very quickly, and the sun helps deactivate it, providing further protection. And super-spreading—the biggest driver of the pandemic— appears to be an exclusively indoor phenomenon. I’ve been tracking every report I can find for the past year, and have yet to find a confirmed super-spreading event that occurred solely outdoors. Such events might well have taken place, but if the risk were great enough to justify altering our lives, I would expect at least a few to have been documented by now.”
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Post by thecrossisback on Feb 28, 2021 14:59:17 GMT -5
Is anybody else fed up with the IVY League and their sports decisions?
I like playing Harvard and Yale in football but if this is the path these teams want to continue on let them walk.
Football problems
1. They do nothing for their fan bases but cancel sports. 2. They do not play in the FCS playoffs even though their teams deserve too. 3. Tough opponents and if you lose to them as a PL team you drop in the rankings. 4. They also bring 100 fans to Fitton at best. Time to send them packing. Let them play themselves and in 10 years their fan bases will be basically non existent.
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Post by hcpride on Feb 28, 2021 16:00:19 GMT -5
Is anybody else fed up with the IVY League and their sports decisions? I like playing Harvard and Yale in football but if this is the path these teams want to continue on let them walk. Football problems 1. They do nothing for their fan bases but cancel sports. 2. They do not play in the FCS playoffs even though their teams deserve too. 3. Tough opponents and if you lose to them as a PL team you drop in the rankings. 4. They also bring 100 fans to Fitton at best. Time to send them packing. Let them play themselves and in 10 years their fan bases will be basically non existent. We've had a few fans here (myself included) urge more games v CAA and less v Ivy. For a number of reasons.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 28, 2021 16:38:22 GMT -5
At least if that report is accurate, they are giving the non-league teams they are dropping adequate notification to schedule other games.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 1, 2021 7:48:14 GMT -5
From the language in the USNA COVID announcement posted in the men's hoops playoff thread, I draw an inference that a source, and perhaps the primary source, of the increase in infections at Annapolis are visitors coming onto the Academy grounds. If the inference is correct, that does not bode well for fans in the stands in the near-term.
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Post by hcpride on Mar 1, 2021 8:44:42 GMT -5
Today’s Announcement from Gov. Baker: If public health data continues to tend positive, Baker said the state will move into Phase 4, Step 1 of the reopening plan on March 22, which would allow indoor and outdoor stadiums, arenas, and ballparks to reopen at 12 percent capacity. This would translate to Fitton being able to have up to 2800 spectators. Would be clever if the MA Governor would even burp in the direction of science and differentiate between indoor v outdoor viewing sites. That would at least aid him (along with the faux precision of a number like 12%) in constructing a vague (albeit false) whiff of science in this particular Covid mandate.
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Post by bpob55 on Mar 2, 2021 8:43:56 GMT -5
There was a report yesterday that most if not all SEC teams are planning on having full capacities at games this fall.
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Post by crusader12 on Mar 9, 2021 9:28:07 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been talked about but I don't have time to read through the thread. Are fans going to be allowed at the HC Spring Football games? I assume we are probably playing behind the Hart Center. Would love to tailgate again.
Thanks!
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Post by Ignutz on Mar 9, 2021 20:51:17 GMT -5
I understand that Fr. Joe McShane, SJ, prez at Fordham, has announced that the Rose Hill campus will be open for all activities, academic and otherwise, in September.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 9, 2021 20:57:31 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been talked about but I don't have time to read through the thread. Are fans going to be allowed at the HC Spring Football games? I assume we are probably playing behind the Hart Center. Would love to tailgate again. Thanks! There won't be time for the 18-22 year old cohort to get fully vaccinated (two weeks after final shot) for the Spring season so it seems unlikely HC would open the gates to fans until the fall.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 10, 2021 6:53:25 GMT -5
I'm sure this has been talked about but I don't have time to read through the thread. Are fans going to be allowed at the HC Spring Football games? I assume we are probably playing behind the Hart Center. Would love to tailgate again. Thanks! Marcus Blossom said on Monday that a decision on fans will be made this weekend. He stated that, presently, fans are allowed by the state starting March 22nd. The Patriot League is allowing schools to decide. For the Lehigh game, fans of Lehigh are allowed; fans of Holy Cross are not. There is talk of restricting fans to students and families, at least initially. If HC were to host the PL playoff, then perhaps more fans. If HC were to host an opening round of the FCS playoff, perhaps more fans still.
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