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  1. I swear it's like christmas everytime I check this thread. Go Zips! Loving the FeelGood feeling about ZipsFB 😊
  2. I mean...people sitting out bowl games is technically not relevant to the Zips right? So c'mon...you can deal better with opinions you don't agree with than that take. 😆
  3. Ah yes, but there is an i in Capitalism, Investment and Business. These are adults. This is a business. I'm not sure if you haven't heard but the NCAA, ESPN, and all these media outlets make billions. I can't believe I'm the one defending capitalism...but there it is.
  4. Do you have any idea how much NFL drafting insurance policies are? I'm not gonna lie dude...you seem really out of touch. Here's the NCAA's numbers on it. The best insurance policies will do is "up to $10-million". I doubt it's even easy to 'prove' your losses too, most end up getting denied according to the NCAA, and they cost around $30,000 a year for football players. How many college fringe NFL players (rounds 5-7) got $30,000 laying around? And if you're already being considered for Rounds 1-4 there's probably nothing in a Bowl game that's going to shift your value, other than getting injured. Why spend $30,000 to roll the dice on getting an insurance claim denied, instead of rolling the dice on being drafted without the risk in a meaningless game that exists only for old Alumni to drink beer on a weeknight? Like c'mon man...
  5. I honestly despise this talking point. Why on Earth would you play in a meaningless football game, where you could accept all the risk for no possible gain? What incentive is there for a Player? I'm pretty sure 100% of your teammates would not care, when you're considering your own financial future. It's more PT to them. The teammates aren't really affected negatively, it's the fans who are. This is Capitalism 101. Don't take on lots of potential opportunity cost, for little to no opportunity gain.
  6. Yes it is ire, specifically directed at a "debate"... a "debate" that only occured after the political statement of specific individuals. Hence, you should probably direct your attention to them and not those who respond to knock it down.
  7. You and I have a different definition of "wrong". What you call "wrong" I call "common sense". Incase you haven't heard we're in the middle of a surge that is cancelling games. It's literally a program insulating itself from further disruption. It's a slam dunk no brainer; just from a program standpoint, let alone public health standpoint. Sorry your personal enjoyment is more important than public health. Good lord man, you're an Akron Alumni, please be better and more reasonable than this.
  8. I think it's pretty obvious that stars matter. The predictive power of Stars vs No-Stars is obviously seen in some of the posts above of the top "stars" teams. However the individual categories of 5-Stars vs. 3-Stars probably have less predictive power overall. Players probably don't live up to their Star-Rating at similar % across all the categories, and lower the Star-categories the more likely they are to outperform their ranking (because 5-stars can only go "down" in perception, and 1-stars can only go "up" in perception). Wasn't Tra'von Chapman a 4-star recruit that transferred here? When WMU was the top of the MAC it had the highest Star rated recruiting classes for a couple of years, if memory serves me correct. Pulling in a few 3-star recruits more than most other MAC programs. It DEFINITELY matters.
  9. Any word on MAC teams? The dominos are slowly moving at some schools. Boston College Requires Fans vaccinated. Michigan State does as well UConn pulls a Playhouse Square: Proof of vax or neg test Xavier also playing that game
  10. I always love when my two schools play against each other. Not to worry, I'm always a Zips fan first. 😈 I want the Zips to beat the Bobcats three times a year. Every year. 😈
  11. I do believe my OP was in direct response to someone else, so (again) your ire should be directed towards those posters not me.
  12. Not trying hard at all actually. It's child's play. I'm ascribing to your statements exactly what you said in those statements. I didn't graduate from Can't State afterall. I mean I'll agree with you there...there is a lot of "fear mongering", specifically in regards to fear mongering. There's a lot of fear-mongering over fear-mongering. It's like the kettle calling the pot black. Hypocrisy at its best. Or perhaps hypocrisy isn't the best adjective...more like projection.
  13. Don't need to remember every intricate idea to have (and advocate for) a basic level of competency in understanding/seeking out information. You don't have to remember what Red-Queen Hypothesis is in Evolutionary theory to understand the idea it describes. It's okay to not remember too. What's downright depressing is when people arrogantly assert they know more than those who actually do. And it's embarrassing when they are University of Akron alumni. Ala @Hilltopper's dissuasive comment.
  14. Common misconception. The message from scientists was always, increased protection. There was always the warning that with the rate of mutation with SARS-CoV-2 that there would be a constant need to be vigilant AND potentially booster. Measles, polio and smallpox vaccination also doesn't make one immune because nothing is ever 100%. Influenza does this every year as well, it out mutates our antibodies to it. But we've learned how to identify dominant strains, and learned how it spreads so we can widespread vaccinate against it every year, thus successfully reducing the yearly deaths in the US to ~40,000 annually. If we did not vaccinate world wide for dominate strains of influenza every year, it most certainly would kill more people. Measles and polio are not extinct, they very much still exist. They've been controlled with such widespread use of vaccination there is effectively no path for it to spread rapidly in most developed nations, and when cases are found they are immediately contact traced and isolated. We have had measles outbreaks amongst unvaccinated peoples over the past decade in the US, which was a concern. Smallpox was eradicated because of an extremely aggressive vaccination effort, where the WHO literally tracked down every active case in the world and vaccinated all the people around the sick person. The aggressive vaccination campaign successfully eliminated it. But it's a game of statistics, nothing is ever 100%, that's why they targeted all the people around the sick person thus effectively reducing the chance of spread to effectively zero. The difference is, the WHO aggressively tracked down every single case in the World to eradicate the disease. China has taken this approach with SARS-CoV-2, just this past week they locked down Xi'an after it went from a handful of cases to several thousand in like two days. They still don't have very good vaccination infrastructure though, as I've talked with several Chinese friends who live in Xi'an about this. Note I'm not advocating for this aggressive policy, I think with vaccination and boosting we can effectively control the worst effects (hospitalizations and deaths). It wasn't the original message, most people misinterpreted it and it becomes a game of telephone. There were hopes that one round of vaccination would be enough, if enough people did it quick enough...however most researchers were not so hopeful. Just as the US began widespread vaccination in February of 2021 guess what India did? They removed all restrictions (no more masking, no more social distancing) for their month-long religious holidays, despite not having widespread vaccination. Predictably, they had outbreaks which ultimately led to the Delta varant. Guess what the United States started doing in March/April of 2021? Most states began lifting most restrictions, despite India having a massive wave...and Delta then made its way here. The viruses themselves is the major difference. They all have different transmissibilities, latency periods, incubation times, asymptomacy etc. You have to realize we didn't get control of measles overnight, it took years of targeted aggressive vaccination between 1963 (when it was introduced) through 1968. Same with Polio but 1956-1959. The Polio vaccine took three shots, and by 1959 some parents were neglecting to finish the 2nd and 3rd shots which led to spikes in cases; and recommendations for a 4th round of boosters for polio. You and I have luckily lived in a time period where most of this was ancient history. However for those studying infectious disease, nothing going on now is "new"...we just haven't faced something like this (luckily) for several decades. Sorry for the novel. But I desperately want people to understand this as best they can.
  15. No, no, not a doctor...just a humble alumni who bothered to learn something while they were at the University Of Akron, and bothers to read the scientific research on a semi-regular basis.
  16. And?Just because something will be with us forever doesn't mean you should/can treat it trivally, especially in the initial phases of novel viruse's adaptation to the human immune system and our immune system to it. There's a saturation point to adaptation which you hope to reach a stable, predicable, rate of mutation. This is why H1N1 (which is the chief culprit for the 1918 pandemic) is not as deadly today. It reached its mutable saturation point to which there's only a limited scope for which it can mutate, and our immune system has a wider ability to adapt to those mutations...and we learned how to treat patients to increase survivability. With the 1918 pandemic it wasn't the virus that killed you, it was your autoimmune cytokine shock that killed you. You literally drowned in your own autoimmune response of trying to fight the virus. If given enough time, most people fought it off. The problem was...they drowned long before that could happen. The original projections back in February 2020 based on the rate of mutation, to reach a point of normalcy was at the earliest 2022...latest 2025. We're right on track for that projection. Huh, it's almost as if science works or something.
  17. It's important for University of Akron alumni to be as informed as possible, and this has affected all sports fans. My first post was succinct and direct as possible, @blueandgold responded with a, not fully accurate understanding which needed to be addressed. Perhaps you should redirect your ire there; to the incorrect understandings rather than the corrections. We shouldn't be an echochamber for misunderstandings. Pangolins, however, would make a wonderful mascot.
  18. The "common cold" isn't one virus, it's a series of viruses that tend to spread seasonally and have similar symptoms, as I listed above; and all have different characteristics such as HMPV which mostly impacts children, and appears to have been circulating for 200 years. The Human Coronavirus that you suggest was discovered in 1965 was actually discovered in 1961 by a Common Cold research laboratory. That doesn't mean it qualifies for being registered as a "common cold" virus, nor that it was the "original virus" for the common cold. It was a virus identified after samples from a patient with general symptoms. That doesn't mean it's classified as a "Common Cold Virus". I know this might sound arbitrary, but to researchers it isn't. Symptoms do not equal classification. The inability of Kendal et. al. to cultivate the virus was what led to the discovery of the new clade of viruses. Simply producing a fever (aka cold) is not good enough for combating disease. This is why the first SARS-CoV-2 patient identified in a hospital in Wuhan was labeled as "SARS?" because the symptoms pointed to an upper respiratory virus, but all tests (even SARS-1 tests) came up negative and could not be identified by viral analysis. The only evidence they had of infection was the chest X-Rays...the same method that SARS-CoV-1 was originally identified in 2003...and something researchers had been warning about for the nearly 2-decades since. The 60-odd years later...and the advent of RNA analysis, we've been able to trace viruses and their evolutionary clades. Clumping coronaviruses in with the viruses I listed in the previous post, as if to suggest they are something to be ignored or "common", is incredibly ignorant. SARS and MERS demonstrate exactly why they are a clade of viruses that should not be so ignorantly ignored or brushed aside as "common" because they jumping to humans are far from "common". From RNA analysis we know all Coronaviruses, evolutionarily speaking, originate from Bats. Which is why researchers became increasingly concerned about the encroachment of domesticated animal farms in rural China, India, Pakistan and SE Asia because of the overlap with wild bat populations. Ironically this is where Pangolins, the most trafficked mammal on the planet, come into our little story...but that is a story for another time.
  19. Drive-in testing location, you can schedule it with any of the local pharmacies. PCR is the way to go if you really want to know. I did not have it when I got sick earlier this year this winter. How they get the numbers is from the PCR tests, or the diagnosis from a professional consultation per the CDC guidelines. The at-home tests are for personal records, they aren't reported.
  20. Hope springs eternal. But it's all about the $$$$$$$$ they'll find a way to make it happen. I was more referring to the NCAA Tournament and not the conferences...
  21. LeBron is as ignorant as Karen Rodgers. I'll take my understanding of science from people who actually graduated from college. 😉
  22. Data from the CDC: Unvaccinated: 451 cases per 100k Vaccinated: 134 cases per 100k Boosted: 48 cases per 100k Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k With the rate of mutation we see in SARS-CoV-2 the only way to increase the chance of not contracting new strains is boosting. Though the level of protection given from Vaccines and Boosters is undeniable.
  23. Please stop comparing SARS-CoV-2 to influenza and flu-like viruses. It's not even close to a similar comparison. Rhinoviruses, RSVs, and Parainfluenza viruses are responsible for "the common cold" and comparing them to Coronaviruses is laughably ignorant. Like, not even the same phylogenetic branches of the viral clades, or in how they interact with our cells and how the immune system develops antibodies for them. Having similar symptoms does not equal similarity.
  24. Because we live in the United States of America where we can legally bribe politicians in the form of campaign contributions, so we can circumvent the intention of common-sense laws.
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