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NCAA Basketball And Clownzano Twitter Aggregation Thread

goblue96

goblue96

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Bmack said:
I guess Abilene Christian gets a religious exemption from this must-be-masked-on-the-bench rule? Can someone then explain the Texas bench player's exemption? Independence? Texas already seceded? maybe thats how abilene gets out fo tit too. Greg Abbott said no maske mandate so these guys took it to indiana.
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Third shift car washers don't need to be masked.
 
CJ_24

CJ_24

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DeadMan said:
You’re a dumbass.
  1. The teams flew in a less than a week ago after playing teams not in the “bubble.” Multiple players (and refs) have already tested positive while in this “bubble.” It’s not useless theater when spread is actually possible.
  2. There are fans in the arena! Plus staff, hotel staff, etc. It’s not a true bubble.
  3. There are no negatives to wearing a mask. Maybe it gives someone the chance to not get the rona after being close to them. It’s not theater.
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My argument does not presume the existence of a bubble. It's straight-forward. The players are "exposing themselves to spread" while hey are playing basketball. Then they are also "exposing themselves" with their teammates when they are not involved in a game. (Unless one believes that they are comfortable enough to not wear a mask while playing basketball against strangers, but not comfortable enough to remove it around their teammates.) Given that, what "spread" are they preventing by wearing a mask while they are on the bench during the game.

The fans argument is nonsense, they are so far removed from the floor that the risk is nil. Unless the disease defies physics and wofts hundreds of feet in the air in a large arena to be breathed in, in transmissible quantities, by people sitting hundreds of feet away.

There are downsides to wearing a mask in these situations. It enables a false sense of security, and it enables this weird vritue-by-fear cult that believes that masks in any and all situations is some talismanic savior of a brooding omnipresent killer, when neither of those is even remotely scientifically true.
Wearing a mask in a crowded hallway or confined space is a good idea that makes scientific sense. Wearing it outside or in a large arena when you are at the same time not wearing it while engaging in heavy physical activity with strangers is nonsensical.
 
DeadMan

DeadMan

aka spiker or DeadMong
CJ_24 said:
My argument does not presume the existence of a bubble. It's straight-forward. The players are "exposing themselves to spread" while hey are playing basketball. Then they are also "exposing themselves" with their teammates when they are not involved in a game. (Unless one believes that they are comfortable enough to not wear a mask while playing basketball against strangers, but not comfortable enough to remove it around their teammates.) Given that, what "spread" are they preventing by wearing a mask while they are on the bench during the game.

The fans argument is nonsense, they are so far removed from the floor that the risk is nil. Unless the disease defies physics and wofts hundreds of feet in the air in a large arena to be breathed in, in transmissible quantities, by people sitting hundreds of feet away.

There are downsides to wearing a mask in these situations. It enables a false sense of security, and it enables this weird vritue-by-fear cult that believes that masks in any and all situations is some talismanic savior of a brooding omnipresent killer, when neither of those is even remotely scientifically true.
Wearing a mask in a crowded hallway or confined space is a good idea that makes scientific sense. Wearing it outside or in a large arena when you are at the same time not wearing it while engaging in heavy physical activity with strangers is nonsensical.
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It’s been a year. How do you not understand this? Masks make you safer. Sure, the benefit for the coaches and players is small, but there is one. And there’s no downside to wearing a mask on the bench. So wear the fucking mask. It’s not a special kind of stupid.

By the way, put the thesaurus away. “Brooding omnipresent killer”? Are you fucking kidding me?
 
doh

doh

THANK YOU Dermott McHeshi
CJ_24 said:
Team 1 plays team 2. Team 1 has players A and B. Team 2 has players C and D. Players A and B interact in the locker room, hotel, and at meals w/o masks. Same for players C and D. Players A and C play basketball against each other. Then A interacts with B after the game and likewise for C and D. (This hypothetical assumes B and D do not play in the game; an assumption that does not apply to the majority of the players in the tournament.)
How is wearing a mask on the sideline "stopping the spread" when A is interacting with B and C w/o mask and C is interacting with B and D w/o masks?
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Is this the longest paragraph in the history of (n)Utopia?

No one reads posts with more than 17 words.
 
fried rice

fried rice

Who wants to sex Mutombo?
DeadMan said:
It’s been a year. How do you not understand this? Masks make you safer. Sure, the benefit for the coaches and players is small, but there is one. And there’s no downside to wearing a mask on the bench. So wear the fucking mask. It’s not a special kind of stupid.

By the way, put the thesaurus away. “Brooding omnipresent killer”? Are you fucking kidding me?
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I’m not sure what you’re on about, his verbiage is perfectly cromulent.
 
Karl Hungus

Karl Hungus

Here to fix the cable
DeadMan said:
It’s been a year. How do you not understand this? Masks make you safer. Sure, the benefit for the coaches and players is small, but there is one. And there’s no downside to wearing a mask on the bench. So wear the fucking mask. It’s not a special kind of stupid.

By the way, put the thesaurus away. “Brooding omnipresent killer”? Are you fucking kidding me?
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CJ_24

CJ_24

Well-Known Member
DeadMan said:
It’s been a year. How do you not understand this? Masks make you safer. Sure, the benefit for the coaches and players is small, but there is one. And there’s no downside to wearing a mask on the bench. So wear the fucking mask. It’s not a special kind of stupid.

By the way, put the thesaurus away. “Brooding omnipresent killer”? Are you fucking kidding me?
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It's been a year, that is exactly right. We have enough information to tailor the safety measures commensurate with the risk in a particular situation. Just as we do in every other circumstance in life. There is enough information to move beyond the lack of nuanced position of "mask good, no mask bad."

It's fear mongering to insist on protections in situations where they serve no purpose just for the sake of insisting on them. Moreover, it undermines the message for the areas where it is important to implement those protections because the alarmists start to sound like the boy who cried wolf. So yes, there is a downside to insisting on wearing a mask when the utility of wearing one is infinitesimal.
 
Brick

Brick

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@CJ_24 is right. players and corches wearing masks on the sidelines makes no logical sense. u folks being afraid to be labeled trumpkins are shook af.

FAUCI was right at the beginning. it has become EVERYTHING IS OK AS LONG AS U WEAR A MASK. if they cared about covid at all these games just wouldn't be happening.
 
Bmack

Bmack

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Mod Alumni
Brick said:
@CJ_24 is right. players and corches wearing masks on the sidelines makes no logical sense. u folks being afraid to be labeled trumpkins are shook af.

FAUCI was right at the beginning. it has become EVERYTHING IS OK AS LONG AS U WEAR A MASK. if they cared about covid at all these games just wouldn't be happening.
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is there a requirement that players on the bench wear a mask?
 
Bmack

Bmack

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6 loyola player and at least 1 illiniois player on bench without mask. Why is this fucking thread of conversation even started?
 
Bmack

Bmack

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The illinois coach goes through stretches with his mask down. guess he'ss be getting a sanction since hes not keeping in line with the mask REQUIREMENT?
 
Bmack

Bmack

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@CJ_24 would walk past the the sidewalk throng of people wating to get inside the mexcian restaurant on taco tuesday look into the fully packed establishment of diners and say
" we really have to start letting restaurants open back up, it makes no sense that the proprietor of this mexican restaurant can't make any money"
 
Brick

Brick

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Bmack said:
@CJ_24 would walk past the the sidewalk throng of people wating to get inside the mexcian restaurant on taco tuesday look into the fully packed establishment of diners and say
" we really have to start letting restaurants open back up, it makes no sense that the proprietor of this mexican restaurant can't make any money"
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deadman the guy who goes to brunch every sunday judging all the people not wearing masks correctly.

GOTTA HAVE MY BASKETBALL
 
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