Poll of the Day > How come there hasn't been massive COVID outbreaks from the football games?

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Ive been looking at some footage from the college and professional football games that have been going on for the past month, and wondering why there hasnt been massive outbreaks. Im seeing crowds of nearly 100 thousand people packed in close together without even wearing masks! Is this like the BLM riots from last year where these mass gatherings are safe? Dont Republicans really like football and arent they the ones who are unvaccinated? Im just having a hard time understanding how all these people are still alive because Ive been told over and over from people on this board that those types of activities are extremely dangerous and that they would lead to massive casualties. Can anyone explain this to me?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/liamfox/2021/08/20/these-nfl-teams-are-requiring-proof-of-vaccination-from-fans-this-season/?sh=430ceb15118b

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You could ask the same thing about the MLB. 50k people in a single stadium as well.

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Lots of places require you to be vaccinated or have a recent negative test. some places have on site rapid testing as well.

Also, at least at college football games, a lot of schools require you to be vaccinated as part of enrollment, and, at any college football game a large portion of fans by default are vaccinated college kids.

There's a reason stadiums are mostly open now whereas a year ago before the vaccine they weren't.

but, here is what happens when you have large scale events that are NOT planned responsibly:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-dakota-covid-cases-quintuple-after-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-n1277567

Well it was explained but TC seems at a loss for words.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

Well it was explained but TC seems at a loss for words.

That's usually how this goes. TC points out some apparent, surface-level inconsistency that might suggest that Covid precautions are ineffective and/or unnecessary, other people put in the barest minimum of effort that could be considered research and find that he's left out some crucial details that mean everything is actually working exactly according to the expectations of anyone that understands public health. He then proceeds to ignore everybody that acknowledges that in any way and only respond to statements that don't clearly prove him wrong when taken out of context.

It's at the point where I'm genuinely unsure if he's actually this clueless or if it's a clever ruse to trick other people into better substantiating their understanding of the situation. He seems bizarrely persistent for somebody who's genuinely so clueless (one would think being so consistently shut down so many times would discourage somebody from continuing), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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adjl posted...

That's usually how this goes. TC points out some apparent, surface-level inconsistency that might suggest that Covid precautions are ineffective and/or unnecessary, other people put in the barest minimum of effort that could be considered research and find that he's left out some crucial details that mean everything is actually working exactly according to the expectations of anyone that understands public health. He then proceeds to ignore everybody that acknowledges that in any way and only respond to statements that don't clearly prove him wrong when taken out of context.

It's at the point where I'm genuinely unsure if he's actually this clueless or if it's a clever ruse to trick other people into better substantiating their understanding of the situation. He seems bizarrely persistent for somebody who's genuinely so clueless (one would think being so consistently shut down so many times would discourage somebody from continuing), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

He just has everyone blocked so he can't learn

Actually he's just a troll, but my first suggestion is funnier

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