'Bama is promoting " Protect our Herd " as a promotion to get more university students vaccinated. Students show proof of vaccination and they are entered to win the following prizes, - tickets to away football games including the Atlanta game against the Canes, several $1K scholarships , all access on campus parking passes, or lunch with a 'Bama VP who was a player on the 92' National Championship football team. Also the University doubled their incentive to get more students vaccinated with each earning $40 in 'Bama cash to spend on campus.
You’ve got people in every state that refuse to get vaccinated and/or wear masks, and Delta is ripping through children and younger people more than Alpha ever did. I don’t think the Northeast is reversing course so much as altering the course. I don’t doubt the Northeast will have a spike soon, but it won’t be the complete mess Florida and Louisiana and Texas are right now.
I guess at least we don't have to deal with the additional unhealthy foods taxes I guess. My county doesn't have a sales tax on food.
Perhaps he was confused. It is very customary to do 15% or 20%. Some do it on top of tax and alcohol.
Do you have an example of someplace having the same type of problem as FL or TX?
When there's an increase in cases, there's health measures taken to slow and reverse it. That seems very straight forward. Mitigation measures change based on current conditions. Ideally, before conditions get so bad that it's harder to impact change.
I hope you are right about the northeast spike not being as bad as FL, LA and TX but I wouldn't bet on it. Last winter, when the northeast states were "doing everything right" and FL was "trying to kill people" they were both similar. The vaccination rates aren't really that much higher in most of the northeast states than FL. It's less than 10% more in most cases.
Boy did those 'Bama fans snow you - probably becaue you weren't wearing a big name shirt LOL Truly consistently some of the worst ranked fans are 'Bama sadly, along with Ohio State, Oklahoma, Michigan, USC, LSU, Miami, Texas Tech, Auburn - lots of big name schools are all up there. I have a collection of OSU shirts because I live a few miles from Ohio State and I cannot tolerate wearing my shirts in public on home weekends with other fans from all schools I think it's a weird culture I cannot support no matter who it is now. I think ESPN has helped create a nasty environment that seriously didn't exist when I was in college. The O-H I-O thing in public is obnxious and we get it all the time in when we travel since my spouse always wears hats on vacation (most are OSU or Washington Nationals), but other than UofM, no average fans really care about others, but really how we've done college football is disgusting anyway. Which truly is why I no longer watch. The arrogance of certain divisions really causes animosity that is childish. I actually refuse to talk sports with my 'Bama, OSU, and other big name school friends around this time of year. Even my Maryland friends are weird about sports. I'd rather watch something in the arts as it is
Why not just mandate it like other schools are?
Probably the absolute worst I've seen for any fans, though, are OSU. There seems be both a sort of persecution complex and an almost fascist hatred of the perceived "other". I could give several examples, but here's one in particularly bad taste. I was once at a wedding in the Columbus area for a couple that attended a different university (not Michigan or any other school in the same athletic conference, so not an established rival). As a tribute, the DJ played their school's fight song. Well, this was obviously too much an affront to OSU, because several of the OSU grads in attendance started booing and singing their own school's fight song as loud as possibly. Really? You couldn't let the couple, whose WEDDING YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE CELEBRATING, have at least one brief moment of school pride, Buckeye fans? Is the mere acknowledgement of another university too much bear?
Agree with you 100% on the OSU fans. I've been to many places as a visiting fan (Miami if you can't tell by my screen name). The worst treatment, by far, I've ever received was in Columbus. People were shouting obscene things from over a block away on the other side of the street out of windows and balconies. It's like they were using binoculars to spot visiting fans.
I did remove to reedit my post
however I find the worst behaved people are drunken fans who have no connections to the school. I think that was awful unless it was an inside joke.
saturdayblitz.com
Funny, I know of another school whose band was attacked when visiting OSU...I did remove to reedit my post
This is the Penn State story I am speaking of. Even 10 years prior, I dont' recall ever hearing nasty stories like this.
OSU Band Targeted by Penn State Fans
Fans Threaten OSU Band
Penn State University is apologizing for some conduct which took place off the field and before Saturday night’s game in State College.
It appears the Ohio State University Marching Band was the target of unsportsmanlike behavior at the hands of some Nittany Lions fans.
Neither school is happy about what happened in Happy Valley.
With nearly 110,000 people attending the game, Penn State officials say it is possible there were "a couple jerks" among the fans.
OSU graduate Evan Mohr says it was much more than that.
"The threat of physical violence, people standing on hood of my car, mud balls being thrown," Mohr said of the environment before the game.
OSU band director Dr. Jon Woods says the band’s march towards the stadium got physical.
"I saw a fan pushing their way into the ranks of the band, which is frightening,†Dr. Woods said.
His feelings are echoed all across online message boards where Buckeyes say attending Saturday’s game was the worst experience they ever had.
One Ohio State band member posted a message saying someone urinated into a bottle and threw the bottle at the band. That is in addition to grabbing, punching, and yelling of profanities the band endured.
Dr. Woods says the conduct definitely crossed the line.
"This was without a doubt the most hostile environment that I've ever experienced at a college football game,†the 21-year veteran director told 10TV.
An unofficial website for Penn State shows Lions fans saying they're downright embarrassed by the behavior of fellow fans.
Buckeye fans across the country say they should be.
“One Penn State guy just grabbed another guy and threw him up against the car for no reason,†Ohio State fan Matt Snezik said.
OSU's Marching band received a letter of apology Monday from Penn State's president and the school’s band director.
Some Penn State fans are blaming the late-night kickoff for the excessive behavior, saying it gave people more time to get drunk.
www.cnbc.com
I'll jump in on that too. Florida, which is home to roughly 6.5% of the nation's population, has about 17% of US Covid-19 hospitalizations. What other state is at or near those levels?
