OT NBA season suspended & NCAA cancelling all sports for coronavirus

Wow minimum 30 days? This is unprecedented. So does that mean next time we play we possibly have Zach and Nurk back?

 

For 99% of people in the above categories, based on the bold, it’s the flu.

If you honestly live your life afraid of things that are 1% or 2% (or less) likely to happen...

well that’s probably not a very fun time.

Especially if you’re near the San Andreas fault...

Or ever drive a car.

Or fly.

Or walk outside.

So, I stand by my statement, for 99% of people in those age brackets, it’s a bad flu.

 

how can they have 472 tests but 1300 positive cases?

 

Couple buddies work in healthcare in and around PDX

“We are only testing patients who exhibit symptoms AND are having respiratory issues; otherwise discharged.”

(Just confirming that I’ve heard the same.)

Also heard people were faking sick to steal masks so they had to lock them up, lol.

 

it's the not the fucking flu. wish people would stop repeating that

 

oh man if Zach isn’t back in another 30 DAYS when it was said March he’ll be re-evaluated then he must have bigger problems to worry about

 

Yet school is still in session for high school and below.

 

this is terrific. from the pac nw.

https://www.kptv.com/news/local-lab...cle_c4c32ce6-6400-11ea-adaf-df7ff9405b39.html

 

What you’re missing is the cumulative impact of a major outbreak like this. One site I looked at showed that the number of confirmed cases increase by a factor of 10 every 16 days. At that rate it would only take a couple of months to completely overwhelm the medical systems of the country. The best estimates are expecting 70-150 million cases in the US from this epidemic. If the death rate is as low as 1%, we could be looking at over a million deaths. Many more than that would need intensive medical care. What’s critical is whether that happens over a matter of weeks or whether it can be stretched out over a longer period. There are only limited numbers of ICU beds and doctors. A fast spread would result in very sick people having no place to get medical care. All of these measures to reduce large groups are intended to slow the spread so that we can cope with this.

 

I’m not missing anything. I was the first to say that the financial ramifications are going to be worse than the actual sickness. And people are all like “money money money, how dare you”

And then look at this: http://va.topbuzz.com/s/ZecbZe

Like I said, if there’s a 1% chance I die, I’m not worried about it.

(In fact while everyone else is up in arms, I enjoyed a nice flight to Taiwan. Then Thailand, where I currently am, chilling by the beach as everyone freaks the fuck out.)

Oh, and I have a compromised immune system, so I’m likely to have complications.

So like I said, if there’s a less than about 5% chance of something happening (death) I’m not worried about it.

which is why I flew across the world, super cheap.

I do understand for the 1%, yea, that sucks. But I’m not living my life in fear like that.

Other people can. Not me.

I stay level headed and can acknowledge, yea, that’s terrible but the likelihood it’s that bad for me... pretty low.

Obviously I’m not gonna Gobert it and cough on people and shit, but physically, *most people* in the grand scheme will be fine.

Edit: I think it’s an important distinction to make that I’m not saying “everything is ok”. I’m just saying, by the numbers, it’s not SARS or anything that’s likely to wipe out a *significant portion* of the world, or US, population.
I’m just saying, for most people, the actual sickness isn’t that bad. The other affects are worse.

like displacing people who would otherwise need treatment as you mentioned, patient neglect, etc.

 

Sure, if you’re young there’s not much chance that you’re going to die from this. You’ll likely get it, but will get over it in a couple of weeks. I’m not suggesting that you should be particularly worried for your own health. Of course, if you’re in a car wreck and there’s no room at the hospital for you because it’s full of sick old people you could be screwed. And, if the old lady across the street croaks and there’s no one to cart her away, that stink could get kind of annoying. But, overall, yeah, you’re probably good. A few of us older guys from the board may go missing, but I guess that won’t bother you either.

 

and the dead

 

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Edit: I think it’s an important distinction to make that I’m not saying “everything is ok”. I’m just saying, by the numbers, it’s not SARS or anything that’s likely to wipe out a *significant portion* of the world, or US, population.
I’m just saying, for most people, the actual sickness isn’t that bad. The other affects are worse.

like displacing people who would otherwise needtreatment as you mentioned, patient neglect, etc.

Guessing you missed this bit...