Originally the COVID section was an "Emergency" site apparently. I suspect that emergency designation may no longer be applicable.
At the time lots of disturbing news about COVID was bubbling up from different places and there were events relevant to this board. It was very convenient to come to one area and get updates on events directly impacting Stanford.
Social distancing at Stanford venues
Stanford holding remote finals
The Pac-12 holding Pac-12 hoops without fans
NCAA stopping all sports
Stanford announcing a virtual Spring Quarter
All of those rather unprecedented steps directly impacting Stanford student-athletes happened in a span of 2 weeks. Behind all of them was an emerging pandemic, an emergency. How that pandemic was handled impacted the outlook for all of those Stanford related items and many other things.
I had no idea that POTUS45 would work diligently to imply that those that believe in fighting COVID with PPE, testing and tracing would be seen as enemies of POTUS45 himself. However, as President Trump has laid the groundwork so consistently for 100+ days it now is impossible to talk about COVID mitigation without implying something about POTUS45. Now in the USA every option or choice on COVID is oddly binary with one position clearly pro-Trump and the other anti-Trump.
That's too bad, but hard to imagine COVID will become less politicized as we march closer to November. I would advocate treating COVID as political and banning it. EXCEPT I really expect that in the next 30 days COVID will directly impact NCAA sports for the 2020-2021 academic year making it more relevant to Stanford Athletics than any other item in slow June-July period.
Tough call
At the time lots of disturbing news about COVID was bubbling up from different places and there were events relevant to this board. It was very convenient to come to one area and get updates on events directly impacting Stanford.
Social distancing at Stanford venues
Stanford holding remote finals
The Pac-12 holding Pac-12 hoops without fans
NCAA stopping all sports
Stanford announcing a virtual Spring Quarter
All of those rather unprecedented steps directly impacting Stanford student-athletes happened in a span of 2 weeks. Behind all of them was an emerging pandemic, an emergency. How that pandemic was handled impacted the outlook for all of those Stanford related items and many other things.
I had no idea that POTUS45 would work diligently to imply that those that believe in fighting COVID with PPE, testing and tracing would be seen as enemies of POTUS45 himself. However, as President Trump has laid the groundwork so consistently for 100+ days it now is impossible to talk about COVID mitigation without implying something about POTUS45. Now in the USA every option or choice on COVID is oddly binary with one position clearly pro-Trump and the other anti-Trump.
That's too bad, but hard to imagine COVID will become less politicized as we march closer to November. I would advocate treating COVID as political and banning it. EXCEPT I really expect that in the next 30 days COVID will directly impact NCAA sports for the 2020-2021 academic year making it more relevant to Stanford Athletics than any other item in slow June-July period.
Tough call