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31 symptomatic positives and they are mad that they had to test for Covid?

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Yeah, I tend to agree with Monica Gandhi that asymptomatic testing is not necessary, but if that many were symptomatic then what can you do?

That seems at odds with some of the original stories, so I don't know what to believe about this number.

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Yes, a lot of things still don't add up. So I will see if I can make up facts to explain things in a possibly entertaining way. For example, they are indeed mad at having to test for Covid, despite the tests revealing 31 symptomatic positives, because they are aware of about a dozen other teams who had at least a couple dozen symptomatic players and staff, but weren't required to test and so played anyway.

And, they were positive despite being 99.5% vaccinated, because Bill Gates is not a fan of California teams, so he remotely deactivated the vaccine in Cal players using his nanochips flowing through their blood streams.

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I especially like your second paragraph.

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Does anyone know if USC had the option to refuse rescheduling and instead take the forfeit win? And if so, am I supposed to stop hating them?

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Someone was saying that forfeits don't count for bowl eligibility and SC only has 4 wins with 3 games (including Cal) left to play

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Given that bit of information we may all go on hating U$C as per usual.

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Going an entire four weeks without hating them would he a helluva challenge.

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USC does not need a forfeit game win vs. Cal to improve their recruiting.

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I blame Buh, and the City of Berkeley, and Libruls for worrying about a mild fake flu.

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Are you trying to be funny,drunk and trying to be funny, or just drunk?

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It continues to boggle my mind how slowly the pertinent information has been dribbling out. First we don't know if they're out because of positive tests or contact tracing. Then we learn they all tested positive, but have no knowledge on symptomatic cases. Now it turns out 3/4ths (or so) of the positive tests were symptomatic.

Is there some reason (other than ignorance of the importance of this info) that it's been dribbled out like this?

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She thought that almost all of the positive tests were asymptomatic. New info indicates that most of them actually did have symptoms. That changes her opinion on the matter, as she thinks people with symptoms should get tested.

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Yep. Symptomatic v asymptomatic matters, regardless of vaccination status.

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