Definitely Barry’s pride and ego coming out. He inherited a football program, and athletic department, that was three decades behind the times when he arrived as football coach in 1990. He rebuilt football at Wisconsin, and through football success the entire athletic department. But the state helped build him as well, spending countless millions in hard earned disposable income over the years. It is pretty arrogant indeed to even ask for any kind of donation in these uncertain times. Let’s get people back to work and kids back to school first.
Yes, I think we can get back to work and school more and better only with more and better testing. I was a little dismayed to hear the Univ of IA was going to allow students with minimal testing back on campus and perhaps little ongoing testing.
But in a way, with little money and development going into testing from the Fed govt over the past 5 months way too many people even now are waiting 5-7 days to get a test result which makes the test result useless to a big degree.
Sports teams are catching their infections because they have the money to test at a Rapid Result method. They buy the Abbot style fast result PCR result machine like the White House has.
Dr. Sax the head of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital has been saying for a long time like many others that cheaper and quicker antigen tests should be used on people who are non-symptomatic to just find out if they have or had Covid. Then if they have antigens give them a PCR test to see if they are an active spreader. This kind of method can at least clear people as being WELL.
He says to only give the PCR test to sick people and isolate them until the results are back. This is how some countries have pushed cases down to very low levels.
I wouldn't go to a large university now without masks and small class sizes and distances nor would I want my kid or grandkids to go.
And we do not know the long range problems with catching covid even if you never initially have symptoms,
All you have to look at is the connection between chicken pox as a child and then shingles as an adult.
I hate it when our leaders say stupid shit like little kids are basically immune from covid when we dont know what happens a year or two , or ten years, or 20 years later to people from it.
