NCAA announced today that no fans will be allowed to attend the men's or women's tournament.
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NCAA announced today that no fans will be allowed to attend the men's or women's tournament.
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This is either a HUGE overreaction or a massive coverup regarding how dangerous this virus is.
smart move
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Originally Posted by Dawgology
Wow. Gotta think baseball won't be too far behind unless this thing lightens up big time over the next few months.
If we get in, watch out... this will be like playing at home
MLB opening day in 2 weeks. Will they allow fans?
The reaon I said that is that new reports are coming out in regards to COVID-19 indicating that it has already hit the top of the bell curve in Chine and is drastically trending down with the mortality rate plummeting. I also read a report this morning via NYT where they were reporting that COVID-19 appears to be less contagious than the common flu. Did they cancel the NCAA tournaments for Ebola or SARS? I honestly can't remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by deadheaddawg
Lol. Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Italy is definitely part of the conspiracy**Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
I've read several reports stating that as well. Also, I have some professional contact with the CDC who are telling me the same. We'll see how it goes and hopefully this is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
BravoQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Rep Given! We may have a huge advantage then lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Seattle has already cancelled their games against the rangers that would have been the home opener... I'm betting that won't be the last. New York.. Cali....Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
This goes for the women too. The Hump will be empty when the ladies host next week
You should read more reports... the amount of people in America is doubling every day now. This crap about it being less deadly than the common flu is just dumb. Just now, Italy just reported 200 people died in the past 24 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
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Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Yep... all 4,552 people are playing dead around the world...
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashb...23467b48e9ecf6
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
Death rate for the common flu is ~ 0.1%. Covid-19 is somewhere between 1 and 4%....even if it's on the low end, and that's being conservative, that's TEN TIMES more deadly.
Obviously the death rate is much higher with corona than flu, but wouldn't you have to figure in how likely you are to get it to determine which is more deadly? Flu seems to be much easier to get [34,000,000 - 49,000,000 cases since last October (CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden...-estimates.htm )]. So if you are much more likely to get one with a much lower death rate, it could still be more deadly then, right? Maybe I'm just looking at this from the wrong perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
When hopefully this is a forgotten issue, it'll be because of actions like these and not because our leaders "had a hunch" it wasn't as bad as the CDC thought it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloak
Or on an individual level most people are fine without much more than cold/flu like symptoms, but because of how contagious it is, even a small percentage requiring medica care would completely overwhelm the healthcare system if everyone got sick at the same time. All everyone is trying to do is prevent folks from dying because we can't find them a ventilator, much less get them into a hospital. This is about preventing a major healthcare crisis if thousands of folks suddenly need medical attention, not about the majority of people who only get a mild fever and stuffy nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
Well Ebola required contact with bodily fluids, which isn't common for folks to contact at sporting events. SARS didn't cause an entire major European country to shut down its borders and put the country on quarantine either. Only a little over 8,000 SARS cases were reported, compared to 113,000 and growing number of folks drunk on the coronavirus. So the scope of this is much larger than anything we've seen in my lifetime. And compared to swine flu/h1n1 and Zika, those each had much lower mortality rates. And we still may surpass the billion of so people that contracted swine flu if models showing 40-70% of the worlds population will contract the coronavirus are correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
It's trending down in China because they went to extreme measures to lock down people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
We can't do that here because too many people are dumb and think this is no more dangerous than the flu
Perhaps - one good thing about baseball is that it's played outside. That may or may not make any difference in the proliferation of the virus.Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Just to be on the safe side, it might be wise to stop shaking hands when you meet someone.
Yes, huge advantage for us. **Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
40-70% of the world's population? What is that based on? China is ground zero... their population is around 1.4 billion with say 100,000 cases (number being reported is ~ 81,000) is 0.0000714 of the Chinese populationQuote:
Originally Posted by dawgs
China is 10x worse than what they are reporting. They control the media over there and aren?t truthful about anything.
Yes, they drastically limited contact. I know a person who's son is in China. He and his wife were essentially not allowed to leave their apartment. The could not go shopping. Food had to be delivered to them, and then only payment by credit card - no transfer of cash. When using the elevator, they had to punch the buttons with a pen containing a special fluid (probably just alcohol). Those are just examples of the restrictions.Quote:
Originally Posted by deadheaddawg
Let's say it's a 100x worse... 10,000,000 cases with a population of 1.4 billion is 0.0071 of their population has it. 40-70% of the world's population is quite a reach, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless
There was a large USAA conference set for next week in Huntsville with 6,800 participants. It's been canceled because of the virus. That's a huge hit to the economy of the city, and is just one of many cancellations already announced or coming. Delta said passenger traffic is down about 30% systemwide (I think that's the number given on the Weather Channel this morning).
He didn't say it was less deadly. Read it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
I'm sure insurance companies are driving thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgology
Read what is posted before overreactingQuote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
German chancellor announced they are expecting at least 70% of their population to get exposure, fwiw.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
We aren't alone in this. Italy just announced they are closing all retail stores, bars, and restaurants. Only stores that will remain open are groceries and pharmacies.Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketDawg
Are "exposure" and "contraction" the same? I really don't know the terminologyQuote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
No, they are NOT the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Didn't think so. It would be interesting to know the contraction rate among the exposed group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
Hell no they aren?t. They are about to take a killing because of all of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg
One number I'd like to see, and I haven't seen it from anywhere, is what % of the "self isolated" people who have been exposed actually go on to get the disease.