8% of Texas students test positive

[Sean Miller Fan]

Texas created a pretty good case study when they made all students who wanted to go to the Texas-UTEP game get a COVID test. If you tested negative, you got a ticket. Well, 8% of the students tested positive which seems about accurate. If you count the kids showing symptoms, a lot of college campuses out there have about 10% of students with COVID at any given time and that's astronomically high.

OK, just so we don't get the typical replies: yes, I know none of these kids will require hospitalization or even get sick. The concern is that for every so many positive COVID tests from young people, 1 old person will catch it either from them or from one of their contacts...and they'll die.

 

[Las Panteras]

What is the point of this?

The kids tested positive BEFORE they entered the stadium.

What does this have to do with CFB?

 

[upj87]

What is the point of this?

The kids tested positive BEFORE they entered the stadium.

What does this have to do with CFB?

nothing....he likes playing with percentages of completely healthy people..sort of like reporting 8% of kids returning to school today will have cancer in their 50's...pretty meaningless, but he gets off on it..

 

[cashisking884]

Once again, you don’t see a potential selection bias here?

 

[ameoba defense]

Once again, you don’t see a potential selection bias here?

Of course. The students that are being careful aren't going to a football game. It would be like testing the students who are in a bar. The positive rate would be high, because these are the fools who are reckless, and most likely to get infected.

 

[revampedpanthers]

Texas created a pretty good case study when they made all students who wanted to go to the Texas-UTEP game get a COVID test. If you tested negative, you got a ticket. Well, 8% of the students tested positive which seems about accurate. If you count the kids showing symptoms, a lot of college campuses out there have about 10% of students with COVID at any given time and that's astronomically high.

OK, just so we don't get the typical replies: yes, I know none of these kids will require hospitalization or even get sick. The concern is that for every so many positive COVID tests from young people, 1 old person will catch it either from them or from one of their contacts...and they'll die.

To be honest that one old person who catches it has a 20 percent chance of dieing that's if they are over 80 numbers thankfully go way down after that. The high numbers are why we should be isolating these kids to campus. It will actually make the general population safer as they are the main vectors of spread. Keep them on campus and by Christmas this part of the population will in essence be vaccinated. If they were home they would still be out spreading the virus and then giving it to parents and grandparents.

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

Texas created a pretty good case study when they made all students who wanted to go to the Texas-UTEP game get a COVID test. If you tested negative, you got a ticket. Well, 8% of the students tested positive which seems about accurate. If you count the kids showing symptoms, a lot of college campuses out there have about 10% of students with COVID at any given time and that's astronomically high.

OK, just so we don't get the typical replies: yes, I know none of these kids will require hospitalization or even get sick. The concern is that for every so many positive COVID tests from young people, 1 old person will catch it either from them or from one of their contacts...and they'll die.

Old people don't care, stop your worrying for them.

 

[bayardstreet]

If and when this virus is defeated let’s hope SMF can find his way back to basketball related data.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Once again, you don’t see a potential selection bias here?

Not at all. These were asymptomatic students.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The high numbers are why we should be isolating these kids to campus. It will actually make the general population safer as they are the main vectors of spread.

Or how about just closing campuses down? If you want to carry on having in-person classes, fine but to have these kids living on campus but taking 100% online classes is ridiculously stupid. There's no need to be there in that case. They're literally just there to party in those cases.

 

[pitt-girl]

Or how about just closing campuses down? If you want to carry on having in-person classes, fine but to have these kids living on campus but taking 100% online classes is ridiculously stupid. There's no need to be there in that case. They're literally just there to party in those cases.

Ei yi yi.

We are waaaaay passed this argument. Sending them home would be the worst thing to do. What's the point of bringing it up again and again and again???

What's done is done. The kids are on campus and they will be fine. I think there's a chance (maybe small but still a chance) that looking back it may have been the smartest thing to happen. We are creating herd immunity in a self-contained environment,

Either way, give it a rest.

 

[revampedpanthers]

Or how about just closing campuses down? If you want to carry on having in-person classes, fine but to have these kids living on campus but taking 100% online classes is ridiculously stupid. There's no need to be there in that case. They're literally just there to party in those cases.

Because if they are home taking courses they will still be out partying at home. If they are home they will be around their parents daily and their grandparents at times, or their parents will be around their parents. At least with them on campus they can spread it amongst themselves and hopefully become immune to it so they don't bring it back at Christmas. Like I said it's like a big vaccination party. They get it while on campus and when they go home and party during the break they will no longer spread it.

 

[revampedpanthers]

Ei yi yi.

We are waaaaay passed this argument. Sending them home would be the worst thing to do. What's the point of bringing it up again and again and again???

What's done is done. The kids are on campus and they will be fine. I think there's a chance (maybe small but still a chance) that looking back it may have been the smartest thing to happen. We are creating herd immunity in a self-contained environment,

Either way, give it a rest.

Exactly and since this is the demographic responsible for the majority of the spread in the last few months when they come home they will no longer spread this around.

 

[cashisking884]

Not at all. These were asymptomatic students.

You’re lost here.

 

[pierre93]

Old people don't care, stop your worrying for them.

My parents are older and if they passed away from covid19 I'd be beside myself. So with that said your comment is beyond pathetic but typical.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Ei yi yi.

We are waaaaay passed this argument. Sending them home would be the worst thing to do. What's the point of bringing it up again and again and again???

What's done is done. The kids are on campus and they will be fine. I think there's a chance (maybe small but still a chance) that looking back it may have been the smartest thing to happen. We are creating herd immunity in a self-contained environment,

Either way, give it a rest.

That's a great point. SMF, do you get off by this? You keep on repeating and bringing this stuff up, like you get some perverse pleasure out of it.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

Ei yi yi.

We are waaaaay passed this argument. Sending them home would be the worst thing to do. What's the point of bringing it up again and again and again???

What's done is done. The kids are on campus and they will be fine. I think there's a chance (maybe small but still a chance) that looking back it may have been the smartest thing to happen. We are creating herd immunity in a self-contained environment,

Either way, give it a rest.

Asking SMF to give it a rest is akin to asking an avalanche to stop on it's own, half way down a mountain.

There are forces within him that just can't stop.

 

[pitt-girl]

That's a great point. SMF, do you get off by this? You keep on repeating and bringing this stuff up, like you get some perverse pleasure out of it.

Hey - feeling any better?

 

[BanksvilleDave]

Ei yi yi.

We are waaaaay passed this argument. Sending them home would be the worst thing to do. What's the point of bringing it up again and again and again???

What's done is done. The kids are on campus and they will be fine. I think there's a chance (maybe small but still a chance) that looking back it may have been the smartest thing to happen. We are creating herd immunity in a self-contained environment,

Either way, give it a rest.

Easy to say when you don't live in a college town. As one from the state college area, our town has been invaded by sick people, and much of our community is not built to 'work from home'. My wife has cancer, which in itself is terrible, but now to collect all these sick people where we live? This is such bs.

 

[Dointhatrag]

Herd immunity

 

[pierre93]

Easy to say when you don't live in a college town. As one from the state college area, our town has been invaded by sick people, and much of our community is not built to 'work from home'. My wife has cancer, which in itself is terrible, but now to collect all these sick people where we live? This is such bs.

Sorry to hear about your wife during these tough times. Hang in there and God Bless!

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

My parents are older and if they passed away from covid19 I'd be beside myself. So with that said your comment is beyond pathetic but typical.

Typical of what? Nobody is wishing ill will on your parents bud so lighten up.

I see old people everywhere, most don't care about staying home or the virus. They're the ones ripping their masks off before they're even out the door of an establishment.

 

[BanksvilleDave]

Sorry to hear about your wife during these tough times. Hang in there and God Bless!

Thank you. Images have shown the tumor for 3 years, but the folks here misdiagnosed it as a fiber cyst each time. Wasn't until she had her breast reduction that they found the 4cm tumor and removed it. One of our local hospitals systematically failed to adhere to their own dense breast protocol. Anyway, in some way we're fortunate to find it and fortunate in a way that it is es+ her2-.

Back to topic, we all knew this is how the return to college was going to go. It is what it is, in that regard. There's lots of weird things going on out here with the school districts and bus companies as well. Im not opposed to the return to schooling, and i agree with the idea of more online schooling, but that brings up a whole other issue of socio-economics in rural communties as many families here dont have access to high speed internet outside of hughesnet. School districts say they didnt have the option to blend online and in-person. It was literally, if you dont have high speed, you gotta come to school. If you do have internet, you can choose to take online class but it will be for the entire year with a cobbled curriculum. No switching permitted.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Hey - feeling any better?

Another rough night, but ate some yogurt and the probiotics seems to working because I feel better and have an appetite. But am washed out. If I still feel bad tomorrow, I am going to get tested.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Easy to say when you don't live in a college town. As one from the state college area, our town has been invaded by sick people, and much of our community is not built to 'work from home'. My wife has cancer, which in itself is terrible, but now to collect all these sick people where we live? This is such bs.

So you send all these "sick people" back home to continue the spread?

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Thank you. Images have shown the tumor for 3 years, but the folks here misdiagnosed it as a fiber cyst each time. Wasn't until she had her breast reduction that they found the 4cm tumor and removed it. One of our local hospitals systematically failed to adhere to their own dense breast protocol. Anyway, in some way we're fortunate to find it and fortunate in a way that it is es+ her2-.

Back to topic, we all knew this is how the return to college was going to go. It is what it is, in that regard. There's lots of weird things going on out here with the school districts and bus companies as well. Im not opposed to the return to schooling, and i agree with the idea of more online schooling, but that brings up a whole other issue of socio-economics in rural communties as many families here dont have access to high speed internet outside of hughesnet. School districts say they didnt have the option to blend online and in-person. It was literally, if you dont have high speed, you gotta come to school. If you do have internet, you can choose to take online class but it will be for the entire year with a cobbled curriculum. No switching permitted.

It is why I have said from the beginning, football is not a real problem, but oncampus life is. To cancel football out of "safety" concerns, yet have all of these kids come back to campus and have the football teams practice is the height of hypocrisy and stupidity by these colleges. We find out college presidents are mostly pure bureaucrats.

 

[BanksvilleDave]

So you send all these "sick people" back home to continue the spread?

They came here. Not the other way around. We didn't have a problem. Now we do. I dont see how any of this is fair to my community that a bunch of sick kids from Philly or New York or wherever else bring their disease with them and now we have to rot with it. So yeah, i say send them home and make them quarantine under parental supervison. I seriously doubt the dorms and apartments have hepa filtation systems, and all the other students that aren't infected are at risk, not to mention the greater community. We dont exactly have the greatest health care facilities here either. Infection rates, misdiagnosis, cleanliness, etc...not ringing endorsements for handling pandemics. We dont have the luxury of a Penn, Johns H, or UPMC here.

 

[revampedpanthers]

Typical of what? Nobody is wishing ill will on your parents bud so lighten up.

I see old people everywhere, most don't care about staying home or the virus. They're the ones ripping their masks off before they're even out the door of an establishment.

Some care some don't. I got on my dad ,who's 79, for running around all the time a month or so after the quarantine started. He said he only has a few good years left and he wasn't spending anymore time wasting it.

 

[JD1976]

They came here. Not the other way around. We didn't have a problem. Now we do. I dont see how any of this is fair to my community that a bunch of sick kids from Philly or New York or wherever else bring their disease with them and now we have to rot with it. So yeah, i say send them home and make them quarantine under parental supervison. I seriously doubt the dorms and apartments have hepa filtation systems, and all the other students that aren't infected are at risk, not to mention the greater community. We dont exactly have the greatest health care facilities here either. Infection rates, misdiagnosis, cleanliness, etc...not ringing endorsements for handling pandemics. We dont have the luxury of a Penn, Johns H, or UPMC here.

First, I'm sorry to hear about your wife. I too live in Centre County and understand the perspective. However, this is a little bit of a "chicken or egg" argument because those of us who live in this area understand that without the University and the student population, our quality of life as we know it is significantly different. We wouldn't have the businesses, the infrastructure or the decent level of medical care that we do if this was just another Central PA cow town.

The PSU students were mostly away from mid-March until the 3rd week of August -- and there was no doubt that they were coming back by the latter date. That gave all of us several months to make the determination if this area is still right for us and to figure out how to minimize exposure to the inevitable spike in cases. I know most people can't pack up and leave, but there should have been little surprise what was coming.

 

[BanksvilleDave]

First, I'm sorry to hear about your wife. I too live in Centre County and understand the perspective. However, this is a little bit of a "chicken or egg" argument because those of us who live in this area understand that without the University and the student population, our quality of life as we know it is significantly different. We wouldn't have the businesses, the infrastructure or the decent level of medical care that we do if this was just another Central PA cow town.

The PSU students were mostly away from mid-March until the 3rd week of August -- and there was no doubt that they were coming back by the latter date. That gave all of us several months to make the determination if this area is still right for us and to figure out how to minimize exposure to the inevitable spike in cases. I know most people can't pack up and leave, but there should have been little surprise what was coming.

Oh you're absolutely correct that the university has it's place, and really the borough really made some very strong mandates prior to move in week. The problem is those mandates dont apply to university park. Not surprised, still disappointed.

 

[pitt-girl]

Easy to say when you don't live in a college town. As one from the state college area, our town has been invaded by sick people, and much of our community is not built to 'work from home'. My wife has cancer, which in itself is terrible, but now to collect all these sick people where we live? This is such bs.

I am truly sorry to hear about your wife. I understand from your vantage point my post would sound very cavalier.

All these decisions have been hard calls from so many different angles. It appears PITT is doing a good job (so far) managing the students and the virus. I do think that sending any students home en masse would be a horrible mistake right now. Think about all the means of transportation that are utilized and the spread just from the travel.. Then they get back home and potentially spread it to those in their own community.

Stay strong and best wishes to you and your wife for a positive outcome.

 

[tps48]

Texas created a pretty good case study when they made all students who wanted to go to the Texas-UTEP game get a COVID test. If you tested negative, you got a ticket. Well, 8% of the students tested positive which seems about accurate. If you count the kids showing symptoms, a lot of college campuses out there have about 10% of students with COVID at any given time and that's astronomically high.

OK, just so we don't get the typical replies: yes, I know none of these kids will require hospitalization or even get sick. The concern is that for every so many positive COVID tests from young people, 1 old person will catch it either from them or from one of their contacts...and they'll die.

Please go to Texas.

 

[VolPanther]

My parents are older and if they passed away from covid19 I'd be beside myself. So with that said your comment is beyond pathetic but typical.

then buy them a bubble to live in my parents are elderly too and couldn’t give 2 shits about about COVID and spend zero time worrying about it or not living their lives. I go see them regularly and they encourage all of us to come visit. If you’re worried about it that’s fine and not bashing you but most people I know aren’t letting this force us to stay in the house and live like hermits. I go to work go out and live my life and I would go to a sporting event with half capacity with not even a second thought. I’m not going to bars or places that are jam packed but I’m also not sitting on my couch afraid to leave the house. I think people should do whatever they are comfortable doing and dont judge those who arent as comfortable doing things.