OT NBA season suspended & NCAA cancelling all sports for coronavirus

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  1. wizenheimer

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    CBA experts, help me on this:

    if the NBA dramatically curtails attendance at games and in the playoffs or if they even cancel some games....will that mean that next season's salary cap be dramatically reduced as well?

    and what I'm also wondering: the CDC is saying it will be 12-18 months before a vaccine is widely available. There are already predictions that the spread of the virus could wane in the summer, but come back big time in the fall and winter....does that mean the NBA might cancel next season as well?
     
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    They have no idea how many people are infected with C-19 so the death rate is a pure guess because many people just think they have the flu.
     
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    0.1% for flu, not .01%, but...yeah.
     
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    From what I've heard the NBA has insurance in place to protect their losses in these type of situations. I'm not sure how much of it would be covered though.
     
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    It's not an either or situation. Coronavirus does not cure, prevent, or kill the flu.

    You're a numbers guy so here are some for you.

    Average number of ICU beds per 100,000 people in the USA: 35

    Average cost effective occupancy rate: 85%

    Do we have enough resources to handle the regular flu, other medical emergencies, and the coronavirus?

    Everything points to no.

    Because of this the death rates of flu, cancer, heart attacks, and other medical conditions are going to go up during this.
     
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    did the death rate of all that other stuff go up during h1n1 or any previous outbreaks?
     
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    that's not the question.
    My question is of his assertion that more people will die from other things because of this, has that happened before with other outbreaks. Did they cause spikes in deaths from other sources?
     
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    But you are asking if it happened with H1N1 which was already covered when he said-
    H1N1 is just another form of the regular flu.
     
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    I said other outbreaks, h1n1 wasnt the only virus out break to happen... so no Im not asking about just that one specifically...
     
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    In my country, gatherings over 5,000 people were banned last last week and this week the rule will apply to gatherings over 2,000 people.
     
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    They are going up in countries like Italy and and South Korea. Emergency rooms are being overrun and are at overcapacity. If you have people at an emergency room and respiratory distress because of the coronavirus and then suddenly an ambulance shows up with a heart attack patient and then a second ambulance shows up with an overdose hospitals don't put the coronavirus people back at the end of the line. Even if you add thousands of more hospital beds we don't have the personnel care for the people in the beds.
     
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    I think it's inevitable that they start playing games w/o fans, or at least severely limit attendance.

    Dame's idea of playing at the PF isn't that bad.
     
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    Apparently the city of San Francisco asked the Warriors to cancel their upcoming games and the team said no.
     
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    Just listened to an interview with Dr. Ben Carson. He said the average age of fatatlities from C-19 is 80. So the people dying from this, for the most part, are the same people that are dying from any other illness at that age.
     
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    Isn't Ben Carson one of Trump's puppets?
     
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    He's the director of Housing and Urban Development.
     
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    Yes, everyone dies from something. I'm glad Dr Carson was able to clear that up for us.
     
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    well he sure sounded like a trump puppet when he was talking about the Grand princess and you wouldn't say what the plan was due to it wasn't fully formulated.
     
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