OT NBA season suspended & NCAA cancelling all sports for coronavirus

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  1. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Ok. We got word all special programs staff are already being sent home indefinitely, so it doesn't surprise me.
     
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    talk about a cascade event. It was less than 24 hours ago when the NBA postponed a game. Since then, just about everything has been cancelled, postponed, or suspended
     
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    Fuck!
     
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    Stop sweating the small stuff.

    What I want to know is what happens to my season-long dominance of our Yahoo Fantasy Basketball League? :dunno:
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Once the NBA goes, it all goes. Plus Tom Hanks got it...
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Much like before, nobody will care.
     
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    He may have been wrong. But the vast majority are still the elderly and/or people with compromised respiratory conditions. These figures are being updated all the time, but the WHO as of a week ago had these figures:

    "Overall, China CDC found, 2.3% of confirmed cases died. But the fatality rate was 14.8% in people 80 or older, likely reflecting the presence of other diseases, a weaker immune system, or simply worse overall health. By contrast, the fatality rate was 1.3% in 50-somethings, 0.4% in 40-somethings, and 0.2% in people 10 to 39."
     
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    The gym I go to there is always someone hacking away and blowing their nose, sweating like crazy.
    No mask though, if I saw someone with a mask on I'd probably ask them if they are sick?
    Everyone is good about wiping down the equipment.
    They were lined up today outside of costco way before opening.
     
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    Just found out I get paid if schools close. Whew! A relief.

    @THE HCP I really hope Jody, like Mark Cuban looks into making sure you guys are taken care of.

    Everyone stay safe. Oh, and wash those fucking hands. What? You washed them? Wash them again.
     
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    With new episodes examining why people are dying from Covid-19 and finding a cure???
     
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    And one of the main characters won't make it out alive!!!!
     
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    ok then....let's say 77 million people get COVID-19 in the USA before a vaccine is available. Let's say about 15% of each age you mentioned get the virus. That would mean that of people under 60, there could be 250,000 deaths using the rates you posted. Multiply that by 20 and you could have 5 million people under 60 die by this virus world wide

    do I think it will get that bad? probably not...but some experts are expecting close to those kinds of number if we can't flatten the curves. Sly posted a video of an expert predicting 48 million hospitalizations. An expert testified in a close door session in congress there could be 70-150 million Americans infected. That seems ridiculous until you consider that 60-70 million Americans can contract the flu some years....and we have vaccines for flu...not for COVID-19

    I think limiting crowds is a good idea, and sporting events are crown-intense
     
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    Got word the Grizz are able to get a charter and leave PDX today as well.
     
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    Disneyland closed. This shit is real
     
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    I'm really surprised the WWE and UFC haven't done anything yet?
     
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    We have 94,837 ICU beds in the United States. These beds have a normal occupancy rate of 65-80%. Also with the limited availability of coronavirus tests, patients are being seen in emergency rooms and not being tested. If they are finally tested emergency room personnel have already been exposed and have to be removed from patient care.

    I know, old people, who needs them, they cost us money, yadda yadda. But, it would not take much to overwhelm our critical and frontline emergency medical personnel in this country. That means not having the beds and staff available to treat not only people with the coronavirus but the people who regularly occupy the 65-80% of the ICU beds.

    Yes, so far the coronavirus is not as harmful to young people as it is to the olds. But that doesn't mean that it can't have a very serious and negative effect on our entire healthcare system.
     
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    "Let's say"? So far there are around 128,000 confirmed cases. https://corona.help/ So "let's say" there are 77,000,000 people that get C-19? So a 601% increase of current cases? Then go through the rest of your numbers and "multiply that by 20"?

    I realize your love of stats, but that seems a bit of an overreach. Going from a current 4718 deaths to 5,000,000? Then again, if it is not an overreach, it won't really matter will it?
     
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