The dumb-asses are still sharing water bottles . . .
That's all it takes.
Between you and
@Lats of Peace , this bolsters my "all of the above" theory. However, you're not totally off base with your point, either. All kinds of childhood sickness and germs get spread via shared water bottles on youth sports teams since very few coaches probaby take time to properly clean them between games.
Specifically related to COVID, protocols are less strict this sports season, so an increased likelihood of infection via water bottles is plausible. Last year, at least for the school-sponsored teams in my part of Kiwi Land, the "return to play protocols" explicitly made it clear players and officials were not to have access to common/shared water or sports drinks and were to instead bring their own, clearly-marked beverages. This year, there are no COVID protocols apart from generic instructions to do whatever the host school's county health department/district requires, this being little more than instructions when/where masks are required. So, it wouldn't surprise me if the professional leagues have similarly gone lax on their restrictions for this season as compared to last season.
Why hire a person at all? Just have a stack of tablets locked to WebMD and vending machines for the appropriate pharmaceuticals.
This has been looked into for quite some time. Back when I was still a college student, my AI class briefly studied expert systems where one of the ideas was a database of diseases and symptoms that could be queried with symptoms and return results such as:
> Symptoms exactly match (disease), or
> Symptoms partially match (disease) except for presence/absence of (symptom).
The biggest stumbling blocks are the fact different people sometimes have different symptoms for the same disease and the fact many normies might complain of symptoms so generic that making a diagnosis based solely on a database lookup would difficult at best if not impractical.
I am kind of worried/not about another shut down occurring. I would like to have some campus experience for college, but there is a good possibility the powers that be will claim in-person is too dangerous and shut things down.
Here, a number of colleges have already made the decision to start the upcoming semester completely online including the one that two of my coworkers attend as seniors. For them (and anyone else in college right now), it sucks that their college experience has been less than ideal with them being forced off campus in favor of virtual learning with few opportunities to pursue extracurricular activities. It adds insult to injury when the same schools insist that these students pay the same tuition amount for reduced opportunities and offerings.
Edited to add:
Borsabill said:
Biden has now washed his hands of the whole thing.
A bit ironic given how many people claimed Trump's efforts to address COVID were a failure and then President-Elect Biden would be the one to take care of it once and for all.
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