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Post by oldbeav on May 8, 2021 9:26:01 GMT -8
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Post by mbabeav on May 8, 2021 10:38:45 GMT -8
At least I saw students coming into Reser for their shots, Benton County's numbers should fall fast.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 8, 2021 11:43:57 GMT -8
There was a clinic right outside the stadium. Get your freaking vaccination.
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Post by irimi on May 8, 2021 14:19:29 GMT -8
You’d think that the athletes would’ve gotten their shots already. Weird.
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Post by mbabeav on May 8, 2021 14:59:03 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago.
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Post by Judge Smails on May 8, 2021 15:32:47 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Champ Flemings thoroughly objects to this post!
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Post by mbabeav on May 8, 2021 17:11:14 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Champ Flemings thoroughly objects to this post! Champ is a rare breed amongst football players.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 9, 2021 22:58:31 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Could you expand upon this thought?
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 10, 2021 10:04:22 GMT -8
School rules dictate every player must be vaccinated by next fall. Coach Smith must demand his players get vaccinated well before that so summer workouts and fall camp are not disrupted.
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Post by drunkandstoopidbeav on May 10, 2021 10:10:11 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Could you expand upon this thought? I'm assuming he's being a bit tongue in cheek. I've had my share of discussions about the fact that overweight people take the brunt of the hospitalizations and deaths in this country while people blame politicians. I figured out that link early, the press pretty much only addressed that link starting in March. I think mentioning that skinny countries had minimal covid deaths and that in this country 78% of all hospitalizations are people who are overweight or obese was off limits in today's media culture. www.newsweek.com/fact-check-do-overweight-people-account-most-covid-19-deaths-1574186. www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/78-of-covid-19-patients-hospitalized-in-the-us-overweight-or-obese-cdc-finds.htmlPeople make a big deal about BMI and a lot of athletes can have a high BMI due to bone structure and muscle mass. Heck, Jermar Jefferson and I both have the same 31 BMI... which is obese by current standards, which in this case are only batting .500.
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Post by obf on May 10, 2021 10:14:16 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Could you expand upon this thought? BMI is a silly and static index, it only takes Height and Weight into account. Most of my cross fit buddies who have less than 5% body fat and can left massives amounts of weight are all in the Obese (not overweight) category. Most football players would also fall into the overweight or obese category due to muscle mass. And since BMI is one of the qualifiers for the vaccine they should have all ben qualified earlier. Of course vaccines are open to everyone now, so it really doesn't matter.
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Post by mbabeav on May 10, 2021 10:26:19 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Could you expand upon this thought? The BMI calculation is a simple formula developed in the 1830's! It aims to estimate whether a person has a healthy weight by dividing their weight in kilograms (kg) by their height in meters squared. It is based on 1830's science but is relied on as a quick and dirty tool for a doc that may trigger further study, and certainly for most people if you have a really high BMI, you are probably seriously overweight. Fast facts on BMI: BMI has been used to give an idea about whether people are overweight or underweight for over 100 years. It divides a person’s weight by their height squared. A BMI of between 18.5 and 24.99 is considered healthy, but some people are healthy with other BMIs. Other solutions have been offered, such as a new way to calculate BMI, measuring fat, or using waist-to-height ratio. I come from a family with a genetic propensity towards a very thick skeleton and a slightly higher muscle mass - my doc likes where I am at but my BMI is 27.16 - a bit overweight. In order to qualify for a shot due to weight, your BMI has to be 25 or higher. A 6'2" linebacker who weighs 235 (outside linebacker ) has a BMI of 30.17, which makes them Obese (despite their 6% body fat). The BMI is really bad for young athletes when it comes to being used for medical purposes and their docs take it into account, but the CDC doesn't.
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Post by atownbeaver on May 10, 2021 11:18:18 GMT -8
Most athletes are "at risk" due to the use of an arbitrary and archaic BMI index, they are overweight, and qualified a while ago. Champ Flemings thoroughly objects to this post! You chuckle, but 5'5" and 150 puts him exactly at a BMI of 25.0 which is just barely considered overweight...
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Post by atownbeaver on May 10, 2021 11:34:37 GMT -8
Could you expand upon this thought? BMI is a silly and static index, it only takes Height and Weight into account. Most of my cross fit buddies who have less than 5% body fat and can left massives amounts of weight are all in the Obese (not overweight) category. Most football players would also fall into the overweight or obese category due to muscle mass. And since BMI is one of the qualifiers for the vaccine they should have all ben qualified earlier. Of course vaccines are open to everyone now, so it really doesn't matter. BMI is a population health measure, not an individual one. It was invented in the mid 1800s by a Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet and originally called the Quetelet index. He used this measure as the foundation of his new branch of science dubbed: Anthropometry, or basically literally, measuring people. It is a fitted statistical model based on some 6,000 observations Quetelet and his team gathered. But like most things, since it is quick and easy, doctors started misusing it from the outset as a measure of obesity. For MOST people in MOST places, it is accurate. it is not however, for all people in all places. It can readily identify how fat a population is. it cannot readily identify how fat a person is (or a subpopulation, like the football team as a sub population of OSU student body)
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Post by drunkandstoopidbeav on May 10, 2021 12:02:07 GMT -8
I remember reading a few decades back that there was a guy suing the Seattle (or Washington State, can't remember which) police department because he wasn't hired, they said he was obese and failed their BMI or body caliper test, whatever they used. He had aced all of the academics and slaughtered everyone on the physical skills challenges at the academy. Turned out he was a recent/current multi-time Mr. Olympia finalist or winner. He was begging for a hydrostatic weighing test, he doubted he had any fat but the bare minimum. Don't know if I ever heard what became of that.
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