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I agree with you that the media has made this worse, and I agree with you about people who politicize the issue. But 1.4 is 14x greater than the .1 death rate of the flu, and if this thing spreads like the flu does we’re going to lose several hundred thousand, if not millions, of Americans. And there are still plenty of people not taking it seriously. My neighbors are 60 years old, and their granddaughter lives with them. She just spent 5 days in New Orleans, which is dang near as bad as Seattle at this point. Since she’s been back she’s been out running around town every night. Currently her ex-boyfriend is back from college and is over there hanging out, and he’s been god knows where. They aren’t concerned about any of this. My stepdad’s buddy just called to ask him ride to Lafayette to go pick up a mattress with him, and seemed irritated when my stepdad said he’s not getting out. We also had some extended family invite us to a fish fry today. All of those people are literally ignoring the risk, and those are three examples I’ve seen in the last 30 minutes.

I bet if he went to 100 doctors and 99 said he needed the procedure he would get it. 99 out of 100 say the coronavirus is a major health crisis and a shocking amount of people latch onto the 1 doctor who says something different.

Well, since basically every scientist and expert in the world is saying this is a major issue, it might be time for people to quit latching onto the rare dissenter that is saying what everybody wants to hear. People are using these articles as justification to act irresponsibly. Dr. Brent Bost is a well-known local doctor. The last several weeks he’s been making YouTube “update” videos on Covid-19, and has consistently downplayed the seriousness of the virus. People are sharing his videos thousands of times on Facebook, with captions like “quit overreacting” or “see, it’s not that big of a deal!” But the WHO, CDC, and thousands of epidemiologists disagree with him. People are ignoring them, and listening to Dr. Bost, because he’s saying what they want to believe. There’s only one problem: he’s a gynecologist. People are legitimately choosing to believe updates on the coronavirus from an OB over those from the CDC, WHO, and infectious disease doctors. I’m not sure what’s worse: the irresponsibility of his videos, or the stupidity of the people who are taking them as gospel.

It’s amazing to me how people who want to pretend that this isn’t a big deal will ignore 99.9% of the experts and healthcare professionals, as well as the WHO and the CDC, and then post some article like this as “verification” that their denial of the problem is justified.

East chambers, Anahuac, and Barbers Hill have all cancelled next week. Hamshire Fannett is out until Thursday to give administrators a chance to better evaluate the situation, and they say if (when) we have a local case they could close for 3-4 weeks. Other districts are on spring break and have a week to see how things play out

Kinda funny how this works. 2 people 60 ft apart hitting a tennis ball back and forth is too dangerous, but piling 2000 kids into a school for 8 hours should be safe.

[Hidden Content] UIL saying they hope to complete the state tourney at a later date.

Will you be allowed in with your credentials?

I mean, it was a 50% chance they’d draw each other. Considering there’s about a 90% chance both teams will have all new “completely legitimate move ins” over 6’6” next season, I’m glad they’re facing each other in the semis and a school that legitimately sources it’s players will get a (slim) chance at winning a state championship. And if by some small chance the UIL rigged the draw, which is highly unlikely, I’d be willing to bet Yates and FF’s means of procuring players is the reason, not the color of those players’ skin.

Argyle and Yates would be interesting. Argyle is 26-4, and has broken 80 once all year, and 70 on 5 times total.

It seems like the uil bracket on the website automatically pairs them when the results are in, but then they’re redone when the state brackets are released. Could be wrong though.

For what it’s worth, Fairfield rolled through their semifinal game, then beat Argyle 40-39 in OT to win the championship.

No worries. They’ll be returning 90% of other schools’ scoring next year

32-29 with a minute to go in the half

HJ girls won 3-1

They have a winnable game against OSU this weekend at home (15-13 record), then will get a winnable first round game in the big 12 tourney. Winning one of two gives them 20 wins, and they added three quality wins to their resume in the last 10 days.

Despite OU attempting 29 free throws, and Texas attempting 2, the horns hit a 3 at the buzzer and win 52-51. They should be just about into the tourney now after being dead in the water two weeks ago. 5 straight wins, including their last three against ranked West Virginia, at ranked Texas tech, and now at 18-11 OU.

Texas up 1 against OU at OU with 1:32 left in the game. They just took their first two free throws of the game. OU has attempted 21

After trying to insult people about their inability to understand, it’s kind of ironic how badly you’re understanding Steve’s question.

Man. 31 fouls seems a bit much, even for a physical game

Tight one

Texas just managed to beat Tech in Lubbock. They had a stretch of 10 games where they were 2-8. All of a sudden they’ve won 4 straight, with back to back wins against ranked opponents, and are 18-11. They could mess around and make the big dance.

Another solution would be classifying schools based on their player pools, not their school enrollment. So in instances like this, where a district is clearly allowing students to transfer schools for athletic purposes, or allows kids to choose any school in the district regardless of their residency, have them play in 6A since they’re forming teams from thousands of kids (or tens of thousands), not the 700 or 800 zoned for their school.

Probably be a senior heavy team next year, too. And the year after that. And the... you get my point.

When you find the secret to growing 8 inches by spending more time in the gym let us know. That’s the only way small school high school teams are going to be able to compete with these big city junior college squads.