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Crowded stadiums, pandemic create combustible mix this fall
AP ^ | September 11, 2021 | TOM MURPHY

Posted on 09/12/2021 3:55:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

More than 65,000 fans packed a stadium in Tampa to watch Tom Brady lead the Buccaneers to a win in the NFL’s season opener, just hours after President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new plan to slow the latest COVID-19 surge.

Most people at the open-air stadium Thursday night didn’t wear masks. There was no vaccine requirement for fans, something Biden has urged sports and entertainment venues to impose. Many other football stadiums are taking a similarly lax approach to pandemic measures this fall, and that worries health experts.

This fall’s crowded college and professional football stadiums could create ripe conditions for COVID-19 to spread among unvaccinated fans, experts say.

The risk of catching or passing a virus that has infected more than 40 million people in the United States will depend on where the stadium is and whether the game is outdoors, among other factors.

HOW RISKY ARE STADIUMS?

It’s difficult to predict how many COVID-19 cases might develop from a single event. That depends partly on infection rates where the venue is located and how many people are vaccinated.

The highly contagious delta variant has triggered a surge in infections this summer that just recently started to taper. The seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. sits at about 150,000 after starting September above 167,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.

At those rates, it is “basically a certainty” that there will be at least one infected person at any gathering of a thousand people, epidemiologist Ryan Demmer said.

Many football stadiums seat 60,000 fans or more.

“At any sort of large event like at a football stadium, without question there will be many infected people there,” said Demmer of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antiamericannfl; antifa; apepee; blm; fjb; fjoebidenchant; queernfl; sports; stadiums; takeaknee; tommurphy
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1 posted on 09/12/2021 3:55:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not so far...


2 posted on 09/12/2021 3:57:48 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They just hate the thought of people living their lives outside the bureaucratic sphere of influence.
3 posted on 09/12/2021 3:58:54 PM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Check out the US Open tennis tournament in Queens NYC.

Packed stadium, hardly as mask in sight.

Kaiser Wilhelm will be unhappy.


4 posted on 09/12/2021 3:59:31 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: MinorityRepublican

No articles written by Tom on Lollapalooza, BLM protests, Obama parties, etc...hmmm...

5 posted on 09/12/2021 4:01:28 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MinorityRepublican

AP is terrorist news network.


6 posted on 09/12/2021 4:03:11 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Or crowded, unprotected borders with tens of thousands of illegals entering the country illegally.


7 posted on 09/12/2021 4:04:07 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MinorityRepublican
 
 
Masters of fear porn aren't they. It's OUTSIDE, in the SUNLIGHT, not cooped up in a dark enclosed space in each other's faces. That's where real trouble germinates.
 
 

8 posted on 09/12/2021 4:09:43 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They want the “F&CK JOE BIDEN” chants to STOP, this is to scare the powers that be, into cancelling them


9 posted on 09/12/2021 4:11:03 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: lapsus calami

The writer hasn’t been to a Trump rally lately.


10 posted on 09/12/2021 4:12:06 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican
"It’s difficult to predict how many COVID-19 cases might develop from a single event."

FEAR AND SMEAR

UNTIL MID-TERM ELECTIONS ARE OVER

11 posted on 09/12/2021 4:12:37 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

AP is American Pravda


12 posted on 09/12/2021 4:14:45 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
 
 
The F-Biden chants that have been spreading at football games lately are gonna be perceived as more of a threat than the spread of Covid19 - looks like it's getting some panties in a wad.
 
 

13 posted on 09/12/2021 4:15:25 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Do you MinorityRepublican believe this story is true?


14 posted on 09/12/2021 4:16:59 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: MinorityRepublican

During the worst strict lockdowns and bars closed you could still see De Blasio and his wife in close ranks with anti-American BLM marchers. But requests by priests and rabbis and ministers to have 6 ft apart congregations gather met with “Are you out of your mind? That’s a superspreader. Irresponsible and illegal.”

Question: How can tens of thousands of football fans (I am not one) show their devout idolatry to Floyd and other fallen BLM icons if they can’t get to the stadium to kneel? Kneel at home in front of the TV? Maybe.


15 posted on 09/12/2021 4:17:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lapsus calami
I just listened to a Dr. at Brown University who said wearing a mask outside is (IMOW) stupid.

I believe everyone agrees on that point....except Dr. Fauci who still thinks 2 masks could do the trick.

In the meantime, that same doctor also said that CLOTH masks are pretty useless. The little blue masks are better.

16 posted on 09/12/2021 4:17:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like Tom Murphy of the Associated Pravda is pooting in his little diaper with concern over this.


17 posted on 09/12/2021 4:17:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I believe the Buffalo Bills had a loaded stadium.

Of course it's NY and Fauci and Cuomo are BFF so we did not hear a thing about it being a super spreader.

18 posted on 09/12/2021 4:19:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

High tech digital image isolation available today means authorities zeroed in on each face in that photo and results showed all had CDC approved masks and were carrying little cards saying they got two jabs.

If you believe that you think Americans all love to give up their freedoms to Fauci and Biden without hesitation.


19 posted on 09/12/2021 4:20:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Do you MinorityRepublican believe this story is true?

No sir.

20 posted on 09/12/2021 4:22:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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