Ole Miss-A&M game this weekend postponed

[Tnphil]

Due to Covid issues with OM

Wonder if this might effect our game with A&M on the 19th?


Edit: Just read that OM plays LSU on the 19th....So unless there is cancellations by us and LSU on the 19th the OM-A&M game will be deemed a no contest.

[Black Diamond Vol]

Since there's a lot on the line for A&M, and our game with Vandy is meaningless, I would think they'd cancel UT-Vandy and move A&M up to this week.

[PirateVOL]

Due to Covid issues with OM

Wonder if this might effect our game with A&M on the 19th?


Edit: Just read that OM plays LSU on the 19th....So unless there is cancellations by us and LSU on the 19th the OM-A&M game will be deemed a no contest.

we’ll wake up to playing A&M Saturday

[Tnphil]

we’ll wake up to playing A&M Saturday

Got that feeling too.

[Coupe De VOL]

I would not be surprised if the entire season gets cancelled in a couple of weeks.  We have had 15 cases of COVID positives this month at the lab where I work.  We have a big workforce and are the biggest employer in Howard Co Merryland, but still...15 cases in the first seven days of the month.  We get notifications of every case and it has just exploded the last few days.  This next month or two could be worse than March and April of this year.  - could be-   Hospitalizations are way up in MD as well.  All of us susceptible folks do need to be a little wary and cautious.  I'm not a germaphobe and I'm not totally isolating, but I am limiting my going out and I am avoiding crowds if I can help it.  We all just might need to hunker down as best we can these next few months.  One of my old college football teammates died from Covid 3 weeks ago.  Even before that sad news, I have realized that if I ever get hospitalized with this thing, there will be a good chance I will not make it.  I am just a little too old and way too damn fat.  However, since February, I have lost 75 pounds!  I still have a ways to go, but damn, it has been tuff.  I have been eating low carb, and I feel that  kind of diet helps my immune system the best.  So I hate to be preachy, but have you guard up, eat well, and try to reduce the stress as much as you can.  Addressing your stress just might be the best thing you can do.  So I guess that means stop watching UT football     Seroiusly folks, be safe out there.  If you are younger and healthy - you got not much to worry about, except to take care of and protect your loved ones who are susceptible. 

[Creek Walker]

I would not be surprised if the entire season gets cancelled in a couple of weeks.  We have had 15 cases of COVID positives this month at the lab where I work.  We have a big workforce and are the biggest employer in Howard Co Merryland, but still...15 cases in the first seven days of the month.  We get notifications of every case and it has just exploded the last few days.  This next month or two could be worse than March and April of this year.  - could be-   Hospitalizations are way up in MD as well.  All of us susceptible folks do need to be a little wary and cautious.  I'm not a germaphobe and I'm not totally isolating, but I am limiting my going out and I am avoiding crowds if I can help it.  We all just might need to hunker down as best we can these next few months.  One of my old college football teammates died from Covid 3 weeks ago.  Even before that sad news, I have realized that if I ever get hospitalized with this thing, there will be a good chance I will not make it.  I am just a little too old and way too damn fat.  However, since February, I have lost 75 pounds!  I still have a ways to go, but damn, it has been tuff.  I have been eating low carb, and I feel that  kind of diet helps my immune system the best.  So I hate to be preachy, but have you guard up, eat well, and try to reduce the stress as much as you can.  Addressing your stress just might be the best thing you can do.  So I guess that means stop watching UT football     Seroiusly folks, be safe out there.  If you are younger and healthy - you got not much to worry about, except to take care of and protect your loved ones who are susceptible. 

I hope I'm wrong but I fear that we're going to find out in the next 6-8 weeks that the younger and healthier aren't as immune to this as we've been led to believe. Coalfield's football coach, Rock Henry, just died from it, 8 days after coaching his team in the state semifinals. He was 54. I know a woman in her 30s who is in the hospital right now literally fighting for her life. A buddy called last night and said that his 35-year-old wife had just gone into the hospital. I hate it, I'm sick of it, I think some of the precautions are overblown (and I think mandatory quarantines are completely out of control), but there are still a lot of morons out there trying to say it's "just the flu" and that is complete foolishness.

[Tnphil]

I hope I'm wrong but I fear that we're going to find out in the next 6-8 weeks that the younger and healthier aren't as immune to this as we've been led to believe. Coalfield's football coach, Rock Henry, just died from it, 8 days after coaching his team in the state semifinals. He was 54. I know a woman in her 30s who is in the hospital right now literally fighting for her life. A buddy called last night and said that his 35-year-old wife had just gone into the hospital. I hate it, I'm sick of it, I think some of the precautions are overblown (and I think mandatory quarantines are completely out of control), but there are still a lot of morons out there trying to say it's "just the flu" and that is complete foolishness.

Same here in the county I live...The numbers have blown up in the last 2 months and we've had a mask mandate on and off in the last 4 months and been in one for 5 weeks now.....Our numbers really started exploding when they when back to full time school here in late Oct. Just yesterday they went back to virtual school. Kids were spreading it at school...teachers were getting sick...and kids were bringing it back home to adults.

In the last 2 months more younger people have gotten it and I have seen more 40's and 50' dying from it here than since this all started. Here the past 5 months things have been back to normal....stores...restaurants....etc. People here don't use common sense...I can drive one square mile of my house and see gatherings at houses with 15-20 cars lined on the street.

[Coupe De VOL]

I hope I'm wrong but I fear that we're going to find out in the next 6-8 weeks that the younger and healthier aren't as immune to this as we've been led to believe. Coalfield's football coach, Rock Henry, just died from it, 8 days after coaching his team in the state semifinals. He was 54. I know a woman in her 30s who is in the hospital right now literally fighting for her life. A buddy called last night and said that his 35-year-old wife had just gone into the hospital. I hate it, I'm sick of it, I think some of the precautions are overblown (and I think mandatory quarantines are completely out of control), but there are still a lot of morons out there trying to say it's "just the flu" and that is complete foolishness.

I think you are right, but for the most part, severe cases in younger healthy folks do happen, but they are kinda rare.  1 in a 1,000 or 1 in 10,000 - I forget, but along those lines.  But like you say, that can change.  I have a friend who is heathly and 40 yrs old and he got hospitalized by it in April.  No pre-existing susceptibilities, and he wound up on a respirator   .  It took him a good long while to recover, and I am not even sure if he ever fully recovered.  One thing I am convinced of is that all of these experts still don't have a great handle on this thing - and how could they?  It is called a 'novel' virus for a reason.  I have heard some scary cases where some people have gotten it twice.  Now if that became more prevalent, jeez, it would really screw up the works.  However, that kind of thing where folks can get it twice are probably just fluke events.  But we really don't know.  This think could evolve and change and if it did so in a bad way, it could be even more devastating.  Chances of nightmare scenarios like that are slim, IMO, but possible.  What do I know, I am just an engineer, not an epidemiologist, dammit :-)  It's best to be cautious.  The thing is both overblown and taken too lightly at the same damn time    

[VinnieVOL]

Me, my wife and all 3 kids had it first week of November.  Not fun but we definitely didn't get the worst if it.

[Coupe De VOL]

Me, my wife and all 3 kids had it first week of November.  Not fun but we definitely didn't get the worst if it.

It's great to hear y'all got thru it.  I was sick from what seemed like Dec thru March and kinda wondered if I had gotten it.  I was only bad sick for a few days, but the damn thing would not go away.  I got the anti-body test in April/May and it was negative.  I was a little bummed about that, because I was hoping to have gone thru it already.  Wishful thinking, I guess.

[Creek Walker]

Me, my wife and all 3 kids had it first week of November.  Not fun but we definitely didn't get the worst if it.

My brother and sister both had it last week and were hardly sick at all. My son had it two weeks ago and was hardly sick. I started having muscle aches and running a low-grade fever yesterday. If it continues then I'll go get tested.

It's really weird how some people are impacted so severely and most people are not. I heard from a lady this morning who said her 50-year-old construction worker (fit as a fiddle) husband has now been admitted to the hospital and placed on oxygen.

I think there's something to the genetic aspect theory. Rock Henry, the coach at Coalfield who died, his younger brother is currently in ICU with it. Both are relatively young and relatively healthy. It would really defy logic for both to be severely sick if there isn't a genetic component. I also heard from a nurse at a Middle TN hospital yesterday who said they had 2 parents and both their sons in the ICU all at the same time. Early on I remember reading a NYT story about an Italian family in NYC with multiple members who either died or were in ICU.

[BanditVol]

My brother and sister both had it last week and were hardly sick at all. My son had it two weeks ago and was hardly sick. I started having muscle aches and running a low-grade fever yesterday. If it continues then I'll go get tested.

It's really weird how some people are impacted so severely and most people are not. I heard from a lady this morning who said her 50-year-old construction worker (fit as a fiddle) husband has now been admitted to the hospital and placed on oxygen.

I think there's something to the genetic aspect theory. Rock Henry, the coach at Coalfield who died, his younger brother is currently in ICU with it. Both are relatively young and relatively healthy. It would really defy logic for both to be severely sick if there isn't a genetic component. I also heard from a nurse at a Middle TN hospital yesterday who said they had 2 parents and both their sons in the ICU all at the same time. Early on I remember reading a NYT story about an Italian family in NYC with multiple members who either died or were in ICU.

Likely its definitely genetic, a virus is a literally dna/rna that commanders cells in the host and takes them over, which is why antibiotics dont work on viruses.