Saw where the NCAA is thinking about having a 16 team tourney...

[Jack Lambert]

Did not say when but if it happens who you think gets in?

[KOdawg1]

All I've seen is where the NCAA was thinking about this, but ultimately decided to cancel the whole thing.

[deadheaddawg]

Yeah everything I've seen states that was what they were thinking about trying at first.

If you look at what's going on in Europe and you look at how many people here in America that still are not taking this seriously enough.....it's a pretty good bet that we won't see any organized sports for several weeks. This is going to shut down America for a while.


I don't think it makes much sense to try to have a 16 team tournament in may or june

[Todd4State]

Yeah everything I've seen states that was what they were thinking about trying at first.

If you look at what's going on in Europe and you look at how many people here in America that still are not taking this seriously enough.....it's a pretty good bet that we won't see any organized sports for several weeks. This is going to shut down America for a while.


I don't think it makes much sense to try to have a 16 team tournament in may or june

The most encouraging thing I've seen is China thinks that they are past the peak of this disease. Not sure why they think that but it may give us a decent timeline on what to possibly expect.

[deadheaddawg]

I assume China's VERY strict quarantine measures played a role in that. We aren't doing anything near what they did.

[msstate7]

I assume China's VERY strict quarantine measures played a role in that. We aren't doing anything near what they did.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-trace...-1492327?amp=1

They can trace first cases to November, so they didn't start the quarantine till 2 months after it started

[starkvegasdawg]

I assume China's VERY strict quarantine measures played a role in that. We aren't doing anything near what they did.

Yeah, I don't see us welding folks in their apartments.

[Jack Lambert]

I assume China's VERY strict quarantine measures played a role in that. We aren't doing anything near what they did.

still they have large families living in 300 square foot homes. Food is hard to get and I am sure they are not very healthy to begin with.

[hacker]

https://www.newsweek.com/china-trace...-1492327?amp=1

They can trace first cases to November, so they didn't start the quarantine till 2 months after it started

They have surveillance that trace civilians' movement and if they've been in proximity with someone who has either tested positive or has been around someone who has tested positive, they alert the local authorities. They are literally locking people in their houses. It's the largest and most strict quarantine in history. 60 million people on lockdown.

The good news is that it appears to be working:

[coachnorm]

I think this might give some insight in regards to sports and the virus?


joe rogan coronavirus serious

[ShotgunDawg]

I assume China's VERY strict quarantine measures played a role in that. We aren't doing anything near what they did.

And what's going to happen when China stops that quarantine?

This thing isn't going away. We just have to keep the infection level below that the threshold of what the United State medical system can handle at one time.

[ShotgunDawg]

They have surveillance that trace civilians' movement and if they've been in proximity with someone who has either tested positive or has been around someone who has tested positive, they alert the local authorities. They are literally locking people in their houses. It's the largest and most strict quarantine in history. 60 million people on lockdown.

The good news is that it appears to be working:

But what happens when the quarantine is over?

This is just delaying the inevitable unless we all are just quarantined for the rest of our lives

People are going to get this & it's going to spread. Hopefully it just spreads at a rate less than the capacity of the US medical system.

[hacker]

But what happens when the quarantine is over?

This is just delaying the inevitable unless we all are just quarantined for the rest of our lives

People are going to get this & it's going to spread. Hopefully it just spreads at a rate less than the capacity of the US medical system.

In China, where they actually have the capability to do so, they'll quarantine until there are no active cases. (Or that's their plan.) That's exactly how they got rid of the first SARS. They're much more equipped to handle this than we are. They also have more experience. This one is a lot more infectious though, so we'll see. But they're down from a high of ~5000 new cases per day to about 20.

In the US, you're right, we're just hoping that we can delay the inevitable, or "flatten the curve," so that the medical system can handle it. Seattle is already at capacity. I don't think enough people are taking it seriously though, so I think it's going to get pretty bad here over the next week or two. We're about 12 days behind Italy.

[Liverpooldawg]

But what happens when the quarantine is over?

This is just delaying the inevitable unless we all are just quarantined for the rest of our lives

People are going to get this & it's going to spread. Hopefully it just spreads at a rate less than the capacity of the US medical system.

No matter what was being said nobody ever thought we could stop this. The whole point of everything that is being done is do exactly what you said, keep it to where it doesn't swamp the system.

[Joebob]

Yeah, I don't see us welding folks in their apartments.

I think that’s an interesting idea though.