OT NBA season suspended & NCAA cancelling all sports for coronavirus

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  1. illmatic99

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    Since the official wording, as I understand it is "suspended" rather than cancelled, I'd say hold off on declaring a full-season winner.

    Gramps...
     
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    I say just announce I won! I was so close to winning...
     
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    Yes there have been reports of people contracting it twice, but there does not seem to be conclusive proof that they did (in the cases I read about). The cases where the person seemed to contract it again are immediately following their initial illness, not months later and "experts" think they were not really completely clear.
     
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    Maybe the Blazers can do a little wheeling and dealing before the season starts up again.
     
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    If true that you can't contract it twice it opens the door to vaccination based on a weakened or dead virus
     
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    Good friend who used to work with us and is now with the Grizz just sent me this.....
     
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    Jazz used the plane yesterday and the Grizz today. Damn!
     
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    Reported cases of relapses more than getting it twice
     
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    From what i gather, they might be OK with the same plane stuff. Most viruses require hosts to survive and be transmitted, and while it's not specifically known with covid-19, other coronaviruses don't seem to last too long on simply surfaces. Most of the transmission with this one are apparently direct person to person contact via coughing/resp droplets. And also, plane staff have supposedly been super vigilant in disinfecting their aircrafts after use of late.

    All that said, i'd be very surprised if this were only localized to Rudy and the Jazz.
     
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    I think way too many people are still thinking of this as a common flu. So far, it's proving to be significantly more fatal than the flu. And it's also proving to be as easily spread, if not easier. At one point yesterday, there were around 8500 reported cases in Italy and 630 deaths. That's a 7% mortality rate. Worldwide it's still hovering around 3%. If 100 million people contract this and there's a 2% mortality rate that's 2 million dead

    I hope all the reports are alarmist and way off base. Unfortunately, the reporting is based upon estimates from experts. As someone said earlier, maybe the best we can do is flatten the curve of infection rate in order to manage care better without a collapse. And one way to do that is to discourage large gatherings of people like at a BB game or a concert.
     
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