Mertz has COVID

[Baron Winnebago]

I don’t believe they actively will but if 3 dudes have it rooming together who have been with each other all week /weekend I would guess more positives will come out in the coming days... just like other schools outbreaks & cancellations they’ve dealt with. I sure hope not but It’ll be something to watch this week

Though 3 people who live together are most likely to get it from each other vs. just contact at practice and games. If the team is above the big ten threshold, they'll cancel, but ain't no body looking to blow a bigger hole in their athletic department budget than absolutely necessary

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Well the morons on RSS would beg to differ....those imbeciles seriously believe that Wisc will actively now try and get the game cancelled. I am not shocked they don't realize that by doing that they would be sacrificing basically half their season.

This has all been a conspiracy against us brother. It goes all the way to the top.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Hillary Clinton

 

[Jim14510]

This has all been a conspiracy against us brother. It goes all the way to the top.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Hillary Clinton

All starting to make sense.

 

[cwessel76]

Over in the Wisconsin sports subreddit somebody there remembered hearing about a 0.5% false positive rate in Big Ten Covid testing so far. Those rapid result tests are getting very accurate.

Edit: posted this on Tater Island and figured it was worth a repeat.

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According to this BBC article from earlier this month there is a false positive rate of somewhere between 0.5-0.8%. Odds are significantly higher than he has it than he doesn’t.

https://www.bbc.com/news/54270373

A few caveats:

-The article states that this figure is from community testing and not a random sample. Community testing, according to the article, means that those numbers assume that those individuals are more likely to show symptoms than those who are randomly tested. I haven’t seen anything indicating whether or not Mertz was showing symptoms.

-Not sure if that figure is for rapid response or
PCR testing specifically.

-Our luck indicates that his PCR results will indicate a negative result and our woes will continue. FML.

 

[Lionsfan93]

Yes he is. I’m wondering if the 3rd stringer is at this point?

Careful now, this ain't Tater Island, it's the Platinum Board. And this is a pretty tater-esque post...

 

[BIGSTICK67]

They just said on 1620 a moment ago that Chryst said they DO NOT have an outbreak, and from his understanding the game is not in jeopardy.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

They just said on 1620 a moment ago that Chryst said they DO NOT have an outbreak, and from his understanding the game is not in jeopardy.

They'll crawl over broken glass to play assuming their testing numbers don't force the Big Ten to cancel

 

[cwessel76]

They just said on 1620 a moment ago that Chryst said they DO NOT have an outbreak, and from his understanding the game is not in jeopardy.

Did he deny reports on Mertz?

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Did he deny reports on Mertz?

He didn't. He just said he wasn't going to comment on specific players. It was a very generic statement. I'm sure there'll be more to come prior to the end of today.

 

[Cash68847]

Careful now, this ain't Tater Island, it's the Platinum Board. And this is a pretty tater-esque post...

Well they might be down to the 4th stringer. The one Wisconsin board was confident they would whoop our ass with Chase Wolf. If we somehow lose to a 4th stringer it will be pretty bad.

 

[Jim14510]

Well they might be down to the 4th stringer. The one Wisconsin board was confident they would whoop our ass with Chase Wolf. If we somehow lose to a 4th stringer it will be pretty bad.

Who's the 3rd?

 

[COYS]

Who's the 3rd?

Chase Wolf. He was not at practice today. People speculating covid related.

 

[BingoDingo]

Chase Wolf. He was not at practice today. People speculating covid related.

Badass

 

[Cash68847]

Who's the 3rd?

1. Coan
2. Mertz
3. Wolf. It sounds like Wolf has covid too. He didn’t practice today.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

This is going to be Chinander's magnum opus

 

[Cash68847]

This is going to be Chinander's magnum opus

Will our offense break 20 on Wisconsin?

 

[Jim14510]

Will our offense break 20 on Wisconsin?

38-17 heard it here first

 

[Cash68847]

38-17 heard it here first

It’s about time we kick their ass. I don’t care who their qb is. Hopefully we can jump on them early.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

hope those 3 QBS have their wills prepared. Prob won’t be a game with the funerals.

 

[COYS]

Will our offense break 20 on Wisconsin?

We put up a hell of a lot more on them last year and that was with a better Wisky defense and significantly worse oline. Yes, we would break 20.