@Wojespn: The NBA has suspended the season.
@KaplanSportsBiz: “The NBA is suspending game play following the conclusion of tonight’s schedule of games until further notice. The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic. “
Details to follow I am sure.
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Wasn’t Rudy Gobert recently mocking the whole situation and touched and grabbed a bunch of microphones at a presser and now all of a sudden has come down with an illness?
That would be a Karma slap.
Almost as bad as a certain midget kicker that blew out his ACL for celebrating
Shits getting real now
You start cancelling sporting events or barring fans from attending this is serious
Adam Silver gets major props for this in my opinion. Whether they suspend it for a week or 6 weeks, it's the right thing to do until you know what's really going on. It's going to cost them a lot of money, but he just showed that he considers some things more important more than money.
I just hope everybody who lives paycheck to paycheck can get through this major disruption.
Nebraska coach (Hoiberg) taken to the hospital after coaching in the Big 10 tourney tonight with flu-like symptoms. Team held in locker room awaiting his coronavirus test results.
This may be enough to cancel March Madness altogether.
Tschmack posted:Wasn’t Rudy Gobert recently mocking the whole situation and touched and grabbed a bunch of microphones at a presser and now all of a sudden has come down with an illness?
This is a serious concern for the elderly and those weakened by other diseases (diabetics, immunodeficiency diseases, etc.). It’s a doozy- but it’s not killing healthy people.
Hell, I had one of these last year- was out a couple days, had a cough for a while, then life moved on. China is stabilizing now, so its running its course.
When Magic Johnson had/has HiV, they didn't cancel the season.
LOL no, but Suns owner Jerry Colangelo led the charge to get Magic canceled from the NBA.
The league doesn't want Milwaukee to win the title.
The State of Washington is cancelling/outlawing all events which have over 250 people in attendance. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are in Australia and have tested positive for the Coronavirus, there. Luckily for them, they are in Australia where testing is readily available. If they were in the US and were trying to get tested, they may never be able to do so, with the current state of affairs regarding testing for Coronavirus, here in the USA. South Korea leads the world in getting people tested for this pandemic. South Korea tests over 10,000 people a day for Coronavirus. The US has tested barely 10,000 people, in total, since the Coronavirus came into existence back in Wuhan, China, almost a year ago. Trump disbanded the US's Global Pandemic response team just prior to this outbreak. There are no plans for testing, that have been put into place, as of yet. Any minutes or findings from the Trump Administration's meetings regarding this pandemic are being kept secret from the public. Projections, in the US, for how many people will be affected by this virus fall into the 30 million to 150 million range, if the response is not effective. The numbers increase exponentially. The US has about 65,000 ventilators, I believe, which will be needed for patients with respiratory illnesses and many of those illnesses do not include the coronavirus infected patients. If the virus gets a foot hold, and it looks like it has, in the US, look for MASH type tents around US population centers to be employed by Health Organizations to treat patients as the hospitals will be overwhelmed.The exposure curve we face in the US is closely following Italy's exposure curve on the charts. Italy has many more people exposed to the coronavirus than the US does because they are closer to the disease as it spreads across Europe. Italy is barring travel into or out of the country and will, reportedly, be closing all businesses, stores and shops except for grocery stores and pharmacies. The devastation to their economy will be matched only by the devastation to the numbers of the infected population. All, while we worry about whether or not there will be a sporting event go to. The bungling of the response to this pandemic, in the US, will cost many lives. The best advice we have received from Health organizations worldwide, is to wash our hands for at least 20 seconds; Stay home from work if you are sick; stay away from public places/events; Cover your mouth if you are going to sneeze; do not touch your face; and clean surfaces, doorknobs and light switches in your home with a cleaner containing bleach or another virus /bacterial killing agent. Good luck finding anti bacterial cleaning agents in the stores, now. You might be better trying to order them online and have them shipped to your house, anyway, if the online retailers have any left in stock.
Posted this in the lounge, but I believe it bears putting here. Lots of misinformation out there fueling hysteria. People need to educate themselves. Here is the take from a pretty well-respected Stanford MD.
If the virus is going to go away when the weather warms up how did Hanks and Wilson get it in the Australian summer? If indeed they did contact it there.
ER doctor perspective:
At this point, the cat is out of the bag. The virus will spread and many will get sick. Currently, it appears that most people will not die from this virus. However, the older you are and the more health problems you have, the greater the risk for significant issues.
The main goal will be to slow down the rate of infection so as to allow those who are really sick to be taken care of. Simply put (in example numbers) if 1000 people are infected in a small town, it's better to have them seek medical care over a one week time period than in one day. We will probably not be able to control the amount of people that get sick, but we might be able to control when they get sick. That is the reason that group gatherings, sporting events, etc are being cancelled.
Hand washing, sanitizing, etc are important steps. Do the same things you would do to avoid getting sick from any other type of illness. This is NOT an airborne disease. It is a respiratory droplet disease. Meaning secretions from coughing/sneezing get on a surface or on you and then get into your body when you rub your eyes, pick your nose, etc.
Although, it seems counterintuitive, unless you are REALLY sick, don't go to the doctor/ER. The first step would be to call your doctor and have them direct you regarding the next step. If they just tell you to go to the ER, then they are not well informed. Most likely they will have you call your local health dept. who will ask you a bunch of questions and determine if you need testing. They will help coordinate this testing if needed.
This going to get worse before it gets better. Be patient, be kind, be rational. Above all else, remember that the bears and the viqueens will still suck.
Boris posted:When Magic Johnson had/has HiV, they didn't cancel the season.
Unless he was going to have sex on the court with someone or share a needle during the game there was no risk. HIV is not transmissible via contact, sweat, air, etc. It's also a retrovirus, not a coronavirus, that makes a difference. Also, given the drug cocktails he was on (at least when he came back to play in the mid-90s), his viral titers (the amount of viral particles in his blood) were probably almost undetectable. HIV titers are astronomically high the first few days or weeks of an infection, but then in most patients drop to very low levels. Magic probably had a high fever for a few days a couple of years before he was diagnosed and would have been most infectious then (but even then would need to have sex or share blood with someone to transmit). The trouble with HIV is that slowly kills off all your CD4+ T cells (which are key immune cells to fight infections). You don't die from the high viral titers (or your bodies response to it - which is what happened with 1918 Spanish Flu) as much as you die from it slowly killing off your immune system.
In contrast, coronavirus likely replicates to very high titers and someone who is infected basically becomes a coronavirus factory. Every time you sneeze or cough, it's likely you expel millions (and probably billions) of viral particles from your body.
The problem with this virus is it's almost a perfectly virus to spread through a population and be dangerous to a portion of it. It appears to be incredibly contagious and most people carry it with minimal to moderate symptoms and then recover. However, it looks to be incredibly dangerous to the elderly and those with respiratory problems.
COVID-19 seems to be in the perfect window for a pandemic virus. If it was too lethal too quickly (like Ebola) it would burn itself out quickly because if people die rapidly from it they don't have a chance to spread it. If it was less dangerous (like a common cold) we obviously wouldn't be worried about it.
Could we get Doc and MP2 a bigger soap box, perhaps the Oval Office?
Thanks guys.
Just read an article where the virus mutated during transmission within the same family.
MichiganPacker2 posted:Boris posted:When Magic Johnson had/has HiV, they didn't cancel the season.
Unless he was going to have sex on the court with someone or share a needle during the game there was no risk.
We've had enough of your kink shaming. Heroin Americans are outraged.
Here's a really detailed article on all this backed by statistics. It may overestimate some of the fatality rates, but it's a good read on why the virus was relatively contained in Taiwan and Singapore (they learned from SARS and were prepared) and what we need to do in a worst case scenario.
Take this for what you will. I recently read a new book by Bill Bryson, called The Body. I got it from the library, returned it so I can't quote exactly from it, here goes.
A guy was fitted with a little tube in his nose, this tube occasionally dribbled a bit as if he had a runny nose. The drippy substance contained an agent that could be seen under a black light. They sent the guy into a meeting, in a meeting room with a bunch of other folks, the meeting lasted 4 hours. After the meeting they took the black light around the room. The substance basically showed up everywhere, tables, cups, silver wear, bathroom faucets, door knobs, other hard surfaces, etc. If this could happen from just one guy in just one room what chance do we have if or when the big one comes?
MichiganPacker2 posted:Tschmack posted:Wasn’t Rudy Gobert recently mocking the whole situation and touched and grabbed a bunch of microphones at a presser and now all of a sudden has come down with an illness?
Donavan Mitchell tests positive too.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story...positive-coronavirus
Jazz players are privately saying that Gobert showed a cavalier attitude toward the virus with his teammates in the locker room, touching them and their belongings.
Chongo posted:Posted this in the lounge, but I believe it bears putting here. Lots of misinformation out there fueling hysteria. People need to educate themselves. Here is the take from a pretty well-respected Stanford MD.
Good info ...unlike some of the other freak-out scare crap....thanks Chongo
Tschmack posted:Almost as bad as a certain midget kicker that blew out his ACL for celebrating
Almost as bad as showing up for a vote on funds to aid with COVID-19 wearing a gas mask as a gag and then end up infected.
Music City posted:This is a serious concern for the elderly and those weakened by other diseases (diabetics, immunodeficiency diseases, etc.). It’s a doozy- but it’s not killing healthy people.
Hell, I had one of these last year- was out a couple days, had a cough for a while, then life moved on. China is stabilizing now, so its running its course.
Not sure I would trust any info coming from China. That said, I agree that the elderly and those with other underlying conditions are at risk. Things are going to get worse as more testing is done, but I am thinking this will fade away like all of the other viral scares.
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Don't worry though....the NFL draft is still on!!
NFL likes their 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
On the bright side, if the NBA resumes the season after 30 days they most certainly won't play out the regular season, so the Bucks HCA would appear to be safe.
I see they are talking mid June restart as an optimistic scenario? 
From BSPN so take with a grain of salt.
Mid June JFC
Kevin Durant with a positive test result
And 3 other Nets.....
Music City posted:This is a serious concern for the elderly and those weakened by other diseases (diabetics, immunodeficiency diseases, etc.). It’s a doozy- but it’s not killing healthy people.
Hell, I had one of these last year- was out a couple days, had a cough for a while, then life moved on. China is stabilizing now, so its running its course.
It is now a week later since the above post. No, you did not have one of these last year. And it has not run it's course. We have no fucking idea when it will run it's course.
I have an idea. It’s all I have been dealing with the last 2 weeks.
I work for a mid to large publicly traded company. Senior management level. Am on our pandemic response team.
In Wisconsin, they have only run 1000 tests. We have employees being told no more tests. Why the fuck not? Oh let me guess.
I have a very hard time believing this: https://sports.yahoo.com/coron...is-no-004326751.html
"So, I don't have access to hoop," Antetokounmpo said during a conference call on Friday.
"A lot of NBA players have a court in their house or something, but now I just get home workouts. Ride the bike, treadmill, lift weights and pretty much stay sharp that way, but I don't play basketball."
Antetokounmpo – whose Bucks were leading the NBA prior to the postponement – added: "Obviously, they give us bands, a bike. "They provide us with workouts that we can do at home and also provide us with food. They have a catering company that brings us food for us
"That's pretty much it. We're supposed to stay home, do our workouts, take care of our bodies at home, and that's pretty much it."
