The GW game was canceled either way, because GW just tweeted that it is on pause beyond Feb. 9.
Spiders paused through February 12 - GMU, Dayton, GW, and VCU games postponed
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So not playing basketball means they won’t get the virus and all the college kids who got the virus got it while playing basketballMaybe initially, yes. But the long-term affects are still unknown and not super encouraging. This article says that 70%-80% of people who had asymptomatic cases -- no symptoms! -- had lung damage worse than long-time smokers. Some may be reversible with time, but that's unknown. There's also evidence of brain, heart and vascular issues in some people who get it.
My suspicion, unfortunately, is that in a decade or a few, there's going to be a major health fallout from this, much the way you see happen among soldiers decades after wars or even in first responders in the aftermath of 9/11. Those folks mostly survived the initial incident but then died young from any number of cancers or other medical issues caused by those events.
I don't think it's just as simple as saying, hey, they're young, they'll get it and be fine. Hopefully they all will be, but how will they feel when they're 50 or 60? That's the great unknown.
Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smoking
An Instagram post claims lung damage from COVID-19 infection can be much worse than from smoking. This is true.www.usatoday.com
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8legs1dream
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well so much for my forced optimistic view that we would be back in business for the Feb 9th game to shake the rust before the VCU home and home. I am at a loss for words, this is unbelievably bad.
Does a double pause equal an unpause?
Yeah - what happens if you get a COVID pause in the A10 tourney? They can't wait 2 weeks - do you just forfeit the game?
Yogi Berra never met Chris Mooney.
Sounds familiar. I think I remember something like that when I took Monk's Math in the Business School.
The A10 just announced that it is moving the conference tournament to PlayStation5.
Do we both have 5 positive players? If so then we could play the GW game with just those...
Just an idea...
A10 tourney will simply be a hunger games survival tourney. Put all teams in one hotel. Wait 1 week - whoever has least amount of positive cases - wins.
I don't know if I should speak for 97 but I think I got it. Mooney. Gift registry. The Wedding Planner.
How much did we milk that story. I've come to realize we give multi million extensions (or really really nice gifts) at Richmond for stuff like that over actual results.
Fear mongering BS.Maybe initially, yes. But the long-term affects are still unknown and not super encouraging. This article says that 70%-80% of people who had asymptomatic cases -- no symptoms! -- had lung damage worse than long-time smokers. Some may be reversible with time, but that's unknown. There's also evidence of brain, heart and vascular issues in some people who get it.
My suspicion, unfortunately, is that in a decade or a few, there's going to be a major health fallout from this, much the way you see happen among soldiers decades after wars or even in first responders in the aftermath of 9/11. Those folks mostly survived the initial incident but then died young from any number of cancers or other medical issues caused by those events.
I don't think it's just as simple as saying, hey, they're young, they'll get it and be fine. Hopefully they all will be, but how will they feel when they're 50 or 60? That's the great unknown.
Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smoking
An Instagram post claims lung damage from COVID-19 infection can be much worse than from smoking. This is true.www.usatoday.com
Just because you personally don't believe it doesn't make it BS. Are you a doctor who has treated hundreds of covid patients? I'm guessing not. Hopefully the lung issues get better for most people who have covid, but there are portions of the lung that do not regenerate or heal.
My only point in posting it was to show that there is much we don't know about long-term effects, so it's not just as cut and dry as saying everyone who gets over it will be fine.
Thanks for speaking the truth. Mooney has zero control of this program. Three covid pauses and no one knows why it happens.
Disagree. All players were allowed to take a pass and almost all didn’t. All the players STILL get an extra year of eligibility and I doubt the majority of seniors will use it. The fact of the matter is life goes on. No one likes what COVID-19 has forced us to do, some so much so that they decided that it is not real and others refuse to do things that are believed to be beneficial to all. Each player makes his own decision and none of them get to choose for it to be the way it was before COVID.
I also think the blame for the current mess is more about the A10 and UR‘s athletic department than the NCAA. The A10 could have taken more drastic measures like other conferences did (no non-conference games, back to back contests, etc). The NCAA said yes there will be a NCAA tournament and that teams had to play 13 games to qualify. Easily could have gotten to the 13 games with only conference games. The thing is if a conference did that, it was most likely only going to get one bid. The A10 and its member institutions wanted more. The A10 went with business as usual and from many current forecasts the A10 will get one bid. The best laid plans...... Then you have UR at the top of the league in missed games and pauses. Somehow the school 6 miles down the road has been able to stay out of major trouble (so far). How do you explain that one?
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
that was my greatest fear going into the latest shutdown and it looks like that is exactly how it's going to play out
The A-10, Hardnt, Mooney someone has the answer right? Oh wait I have to hibernate for a few days and figure this out. Oh we have to reschedule all these games! I can't find any opponents to face against. Looks at the drawing board "well we still have no clue just make some stuff up and roll with it"!! A couple days later cancel more games. Have no practice or workouts for two weeks again. Have VCU coming into town with a few days after this Covid pause. Its a disaster.....
And, in addition to the health scares with lungs and all that, I know some college students who had covid and still don't have their taste or smell, but will randomly get these awful, awful smells out of nowhere. I guess some on here might say who cares, big deal, but I know I would not want to go through life without being able to taste or smell things, and/or having awful smell hallucinations or whatever the heck they are. That would kind of suck.
Perhaps you should roll down the window.
So we haven’t been practicing or working hard for the past many years? That’s why we haven’t made the tournament?
But the point is the players could get covid whether they play basketball or not just like thousands of others. Tell you what we should just require everyone to stay in their homes......let’s see how long your food supply last.
Yes, that seems a week too long at least if only one positive and contract tracing, but as others have noted, the rules seem to be in constant flux - and open to interpretation. BUt that long of a pause does indicate to me more than one positive.
I think schools have to apply minimum guideline restrictions but can add to the length of the pause out of extreme convenience caution as it applies to each case.
Well, we will never know what the true situation was. Chances are if 1 one player was positive that other players also then tested positive given that they practice together.
But all we can do is speculate because the powers that be at the RC continue to lack any semblance of transparency. I honestly just don't understand how coming out and explaining what happened and what is happening and what is being done to prevent it from happening in the future is seen as a bad thing.
Wonder if this will have any effect on the A10 tourney playing in the Robins Center? Since we can't keep our team clear of these pauses.
Trying to find out how these timelines are suppose to work.
If I am exposed to a COVID Positive on day 1
Isolate on day 2
test negative on day 3
test positive on day 5
What day would my isolation be over?
What day would my close contacts isolation be over?
Does the period start on day 1? or day 5?
If I am exposed to a COVID Positive on day 1
Isolate on day 2
test negative on day 3
test positive on day 5
What day would my isolation be over?
What day would my close contacts isolation be over?
Does the period start on day 1? or day 5?
I think the point is to not take unnecessary risks that can be avoided. I would argue basketball is one of these risks.
Getting food, on the other hand, would seem like a necessary risk. Also, it’s one you can do in as safe a way as possible (I.e. wear a mask, stay socially distant, etc.)
Day 5. And isolation doesn't end until your 14 days after symptoms. So if you have no symptoms - it is 14 days (or some now do 10) from the positive test.
But if you test positive on Day 5 and have a cough and fever on day 9-10. You need to isolate for 14 days after last symptom. Close contacts isolate from the day they are in last contact with you - but the best bet is for them to wait 5-6 days and then get tested. So if I come into contact with you on Monday, and you call me on Wednesday and say you have tested positive - I could go get tested on Fri or Sat. and that should tell me if you transmitted it to me.
But as you can tell - I error on the safe side compared to others and that is the problem. There is no clear consistent guidance on this and everyone does it different. Example - I have a friend in Chesterfield county that says if your kid goes to school and is identified as a close contact to a positive case - it is 14 days isolation from the date of contact, no questions asked. But other places are saying wait 5-6 days, get tested, and if negative - you can come back.
I have also heard some school districts in other states saying if your a close contact but have no symptoms - no need to isolate. And as mentioned above - some say 10 days, other says 14 days.
When they get tired of Big Hat No Cattle they revert to No Cattle No Cattle.
VDH/CDC guidelines say quarantine period of 14 days for a close personal contact and a day 10 day quarantine period if you test positive.
Now, we are testing our athletes on a frequent basis so I would imagine that is someone had a close personal contact we are not saying they are out for 14 days. They probably have to have multiple negative tests to break the quarantine.
Again, the only way I can see we are in this extended pause like we are is that we have had multiple players test positive over a period of a couple days. One player got it, likely spread it at practice, tested positive and then a few days later, one or more other players tested positive.
Now, we are testing our athletes on a frequent basis so I would imagine that is someone had a close personal contact we are not saying they are out for 14 days. They probably have to have multiple negative tests to break the quarantine.
Again, the only way I can see we are in this extended pause like we are is that we have had multiple players test positive over a period of a couple days. One player got it, likely spread it at practice, tested positive and then a few days later, one or more other players tested positive.
For some reason I thought the recent posts were saying that the only way that 2/13 was less than 14 days after 1/31 was if we had multiple players test positive.
So I was like "huh?"
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