B1G Says COVID Cancellations Will Be Forfeits

I think it's funny that after being 'out front' with last year's C-19 policy -- and later regretting it -- that this year the BTen is the last of the Power 5 to announce their policy. Altho KF said a couple weeks ago that the % of Iowa players vaxxed is "increasing", it would be nice if some reporter had the cojones to ask for a specific % so it could be compared to other BTen teams.
 
Agreed. It's like no one can think of incentives and how they may modify behavior. There should at least be a day on championship saturday to do makeup games.
Isn't the current policy trying to incent teams to reach 100% vaccination and thus avoid testing and the subsequent issues it could cause? If the policy would have allowed for make-up dates, wouldn't there be an incentive to report "covid issues" if a team could gain an advantage by playing at a later date (due to a key player or two being out from covid or even just being banged up)?
 
Isn't the current policy trying to incent teams to reach 100% vaccination and thus avoid testing and the subsequent issues it could cause? If the policy would have allowed for make-up dates, wouldn't there be an incentive to report "covid issues" if a team could gain an advantage by playing at a later date (due to a key player or two being out from covid or even just being banged up)?
The real issue is sabotage. It's not farfetched to think of a Harbaugh underling paying some low-level peon OSU staffer $50k cash to go into the Ohio State athletic dept the day before the UM/OSU game and say they "accidentally" found out they had contact with a covid case over the weekend and in return take down the team with them.
 
Which is still a bigger hurdle for Michigan to get over than Harbaugh just saying his team is struggling with too many cases of covid and ducking Ohio State and Iowa because his squad was playing shitty...
 
The real issue is sabotage. It's not farfetched to think of a Harbaugh underling paying some low-level peon OSU staffer $50k cash to go into the Ohio State athletic dept the day before the UM/OSU game and say they "accidentally" found out they had contact with a covid case over the weekend and in return take down the team with them.

Wow, you are really way out there in tin foil land. Is this the stuff you think about. If that is the rule then that is the new environment of big ten football.

The main point I think is that underlings of top coaches like Harbaugh are not going to do any sabotage by themselves nor head coaches ordering such a thing and possibly if found out just putting a total scarlet letter on their program.

If Ole Miss can get to 100% vaccination rates of players, coaches and staff then the hawks should be able to get to upper 90%'s.

I heard a great sort of dichotomous idea the other day where someone said [paraphrasing] 'parents and most people will kill, mame, clobber someone who is trying molest, kidnap, or hurt/kill their child or a child but these same adults for no good reason will NOT take a jab or two of a vaccine to keep from getting ill and potentially making their kids sick'.

It is mandated all around the country that almost all of these football players received multiple, about five, vaccines in order to go to K-12 grade schools. What is keeping these players and coaches and staff from getting vaxxed to protect themselves and their families and team personnel. And the personal freedom reason is a total straw man argument which is a fallacy because these people have had lot's of vaccine shots, they mostly wear seat belts and follow traffic laws and rules, they mostly pay their taxes, and follow group rules.
 
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What is forgotten is that the jab doesn't prevent covid. It keeps the lungs better so far thus less deaths. Natural immunity is much better.

There are more issues with enlarged hearts than previously thought.
 
On vaccinations. There are reasons that phd's don't trust vaccinations as they are on the front lines of research. My own experience is that research studies oft don't get published that show contrary results from what was desired.

Flu shots don't work well due to mutations. In the end, there are well published studies that in the end flu shots result in a more severe case due to limiting natural immunity.

Natural immunity gives people about a 17 year more or less window without flue shots. Get the flu and you typically get about 17 years.

Due to mutations, what you are really vaccinated for is less mucus lung issues. Vax's don't really prevent COVID but lesson lung symptoms.

It has been shown that those who have had it have FAR better immunity for variants than those vaxed.

There are real concerns the current vax program could create a situation where people who don't have natural immunity eventually get the whopper variant from which there is little protection like what happens from the regular flu.

Herd immunity heavily relies on natural immunity results or something close to it. Vax immunity doesn't come that close to natural immunity.

Those at risk likely should get the vax. The healthy is another story.

The lower educated don't trust vax's. Why? Blacks don't for a variety of reason including the radiation studies on blacks in St. Louis not that long ago.

Also this: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study

Why some athletes don't want the vax:
 

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