If you support social distancing and not gathering in large groups you shouldn’t support this. Let’s not be hypocrites.
Pollard announces plan for 25,000 fans at season opener
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Iowa State Courts COVID-19 by Inviting 25,000 Fans to a Football Game
The school is ranked 23rd in college football and No. 1 in recklessness.
You forget there will be less than half the normal amount of people. Kind of like it took me half the time to get to and from work in April and May because there were fewer cars using the roads.
We could only be so lucky. Randy would probably go ask to be infected with the Covid at a clinic just so he could blame ISU for it. Just like the students "pushed him" on the BB court.
Iowa State Courts COVID-19 by Inviting 25,000 Fans to a Football Game
The school is ranked 23rd in college football and No. 1 in recklessness.www.thedailybeast.com
Lots of hyperbole in that article.
So I'm not that familiar with the Daily Beast. I take it over the top opinion pieces and hot takes are their schtick.Iowa State Courts COVID-19 by Inviting 25,000 Fans to a Football Game
The school is ranked 23rd in college football and No. 1 in recklessness.
Iowa State Courts COVID-19 by Inviting 25,000 Fans to a Football Game
The school is ranked 23rd in college football and No. 1 in recklessness.
For the record, that's a really cool pic of the student section/crowd.
And I'm not sure if this will be a good decision, but anyone who sees those numbers and reads that JT holds 60,000 can come to the conclusion that the crowd won't look like that on 9/12.
Looks like that photo must be at least 13 years old or so since there are a lot of swirly bird logos on shirts/hats.
Edit: The more I look at it, it almost looks photo edited to crop people close together since a lot of the rows don't seem to line up.
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I kept my season tickets with the intent of going to games if they allowed fans but I now may take a wait and see approach about going to the 1st game. The 3 of us that have tickets together decided the other week we were going to games if they allow fans but that was before all this new testing data got factored into the totals and made Ames a hot spot. I'm torn on what to do, I'm considering staying at home for Game 1 and then re-evaluating before the OU game based on what happens. That's enough time to find out how well people follow the mitigation rules put in place and is 3 weeks between games so should be enough data out there to tell if there was any increased spread tied to attending the game.
Personally I think if everyone follows these mitigation guidelines set by ISU the risk is low that attending a FB game is going to be a super spreader. They have tighter guidelines in place than they have at most HS FB games or youth sport events right now where there is less distancing, mask wearing, and possibly concessions being sold than what ISU is setting out to do. Granted we are talking about a lot less people at a HS game to but watch the Friday night FB highlights and tell me how sitting in the HS FB bleachers with many people not wearing masks or properly distancing in some cases so how is that not any worse than what ISU is attempting to do on a larger scale. I've seen people not wearing masks or properly distancing at youth sport events all summer and haven't seen them come under enough scrutiny for it.
Personally I think if everyone follows these mitigation guidelines set by ISU the risk is low that attending a FB game is going to be a super spreader. They have tighter guidelines in place than they have at most HS FB games or youth sport events right now where there is less distancing, mask wearing, and possibly concessions being sold than what ISU is setting out to do. Granted we are talking about a lot less people at a HS game to but watch the Friday night FB highlights and tell me how sitting in the HS FB bleachers with many people not wearing masks or properly distancing in some cases so how is that not any worse than what ISU is attempting to do on a larger scale. I've seen people not wearing masks or properly distancing at youth sport events all summer and haven't seen them come under enough scrutiny for it.
FWIW Hearing rumors they're already shifting to no fans at the first game now.
What has changed since Monday that would make them reverse their decision? I cant think of anything so I doubt your “rumors”.
I'm thinking 2005 since I started in 2007 and I have this Beat Iowa shirt.
I don't know details so I don't know what changed exactly. I suppose national media pressure or the numbers are still exploding possibly. But, no fans at the first game is what I'm hearing
