No Fans for March Madness
Makes sense, they probably figure they will have massive tv ratings as a side effect.
Posting at the top for visibility. This is a post from a reddit thread about current happenings in Italy. Take it fwiw, but this is what some worthy people are trying to prevent. Source is not verified, obviously.
I live in the heart of the Lombardy region. All my family has it and my grand uncle died. People just stay home and that’s it. There is not much to do and shops are closed.
You can hear ambulances all day and night.
My uncle is in the hospital with a high fever. His wife got it as well but she is home as her symptoms are milder. My cousin is taking care of her and miraculously she is fine.
However her grandpa died and she couldn’t even go to visit him. Her grandma is sick as well and she can’t see her either and she can’t see her dad. Hospitals are closed.
The available hospital beds in intensive care have run out and doctors are making tough choices for who to try to save which is terrifying considering most of my family is old and they might not get a bed.
Doctors are overworked and tired and since I know many people that work in the hospital, they are sharing with me these gruesome pics of people recovered in the intensive care unit. They are intubated and it just is a sad view.
Hospitals are so full of people on life support because of Coronavirus people are amassed on the corridors because they lack rooms:
My friend who gets people with the ambulance is working non stop to get people who are in critical conditions.
People keep saying it’s just a flu. Yes sure, but a flu without having had a vaccine can be quite dangerous. The youngest person I know that has it, he is in his forties and has had 40 degrees Celsius temperature for two weeks straight and counting.
Don’t catch it, it’s really not fun even if your immune system is strong, trust me on this, I have seen the repercussion on my family first hand.
No church is open or public event is held.
Since Italy is primarily populated by old people, we are used to see the streets being empty and everything being quite. Right now is just quieter.
They couldn’t even held the funeral for her grandpa.
My grandma woke up sick and I truly hope she has something else.
So many people in my city have it and yet they keep going around the city and spreading it. Incredible.
Some people go to the supermarket and get out of it with tons of food so that they don’t need to go shopping again. Others, like my grandma, go everyday because “how else is she going to get fresh bread?” Luckily we have convinced her that she cannot go anymore and she said from tomorrow she won’t leave the house. Just this Sunday she HAD to go to church to confess. The town priest has been taken to the hospital today because he catched Coronavirus and he is in critical conditions.
I wonder how this death count will go up now that the hospitals are overfilled.
Rumor has it that my cousin’s grandma got it because she was in the hospital being treated because she broke her back but I can’t be sure about this so this is just our personal speculation based on no real evidence so don’t take my word for it.
Fear Porn at it's finest.
Do you think what is happening in Italy is fake?
You really don't get it, do you?
You may very well survive, but a lot of people will not. How hard is that to understand?
If I could double or triple thumb down this, I would. Jackass.
I am totally masturbating to people dying due to an epidemic right now. You caught me red-handed and purple-balled.
Wolverine Devotee is gonna be pissed
Perhaps this will give him a chance to obtain a purpose in life other than stalking sports events played by athletes that attend a University that he couldn't attend.
Da fuq?
"sports events"
Uh, yes, the last I checked the NCAA basketball tournament was a "sports event"
Savage, but most likely true
Don't know why ya have to hate like that, especially when he also provides information about the less covered sports that other folks might find interesting. Actually, you know, contributing to the board. Just sayin'.
You should probably go ahead and scroll down a little ways...
You should probably learn your blog history rather than being captivated by and looking the other way at WD's behavior just because of swimming and gymnastics posts.
Just sayin'.
spot on. spot on
Including the Frozen Four in Detroit
No impact on the regionals in Allentown and Loveland
Inevitable... but well done.
"Ticket sales up slightly for the Loveland regional as local residents look for safe havens to escape crowds and self-quarantine"
Detroit should be given next year's Frozen Four as compensation. They hardly get the benefit of hosting the event.
Seems like the best decision. Have it go on, but don't force the unnecessary travel and gatherings.
It won't help. It will be as widespread as the flu and everyone will know someone who has it within a month. Then it will die off. I love how when I said stop all international flights 6 weeks ago, people lost their mind. That would have stopped it. If you were an American on business travel, sorry, wait 6 weeks to come back. If you don't agree with that, then STFU and deal with the virus.
I would love to see President Trump declare next Thursday and Friday a National Holiday to slow the virus over 4 days. I love him and work on his Blacks for Trump Campaign, but I think this would get more moderate dems on board.
Blacks for trump
lol
Not sure why you laughed. You apparently have no idea how many of us there are. SE Michigan alone my man. Joke is on you.
Just because there’s a lot of you doesn’t mean you aren’t all dumb
I love how when I said stop all international flights 6 weeks ago, people lost their mind. That would have stopped it. If you were an American on business travel, sorry, wait 6 weeks to come back. If you don't agree with that, then STFU and deal with the virus.
It was already too late 6 weeks ago. It wouldn't have stopped it. Nothing was going to stop it. You would have been committing an egregious constitutional violation, stranding people for six weeks -- you want to be stranded for six weeks in a foreign country? -- and accomplished nothing.
Might not have, but we will never know. I wouldn't like it, but I sure as hell would understand it. I would not want to put people at risk.
How many people can even afford to take 6 weeks of unplanned vacation in a foreign country? Did you have travel insurance? Need hospital coverage? Guess what; most US medical plans don't cover overseas treatment. And you're assuming it's only 6 weeks.
People were already at risk. Look at what China did, and now, think about it. They're getting lauded for destroying the lives of sixty million people.. but it didn't stop the virus. They took containment measures far in excess of what would be permissible in the US, and it didn't make a bit of difference.
The virus was already present in the US well before it was a known quantity. That's what happens when you have a global economy and an illness that is very contagious but not necessarily very symptomatic.
Nearly everything that has been done to "stop" the virus has either been done either out of ignorance, fear, or with the cynical goal of making it look like the people in charge are doing something.
You do realize that those measures you said didn’t make any difference in fact largely isolated the problem to Wuhan - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/08/813401722/who-official-says-coronavirus-containment-remains-possible
Tell that to the people of Italy or Iran.
China is seeing reimported cases. They will continue to see more, despite the fact that they have isolated themselves to a degree unthinkable anywhere else save North Korea.
Isolating Hubei was a great way to make sure that the people of Hubei couldn't get proper medical care. It might have slowed down transmission somewhat. But, again, by the time the travel restrictions were put into place, it was already too late. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Strand my ass in Bora Bora....I'm on board.
Go Blue!!!!
You will never get moderate Dems. The one thing they care about is not stirring the pot, and thats all Trump does.
A two day national holiday for people to go out and do whatever they do on regular holidays? Yeah, that makes sense.
Surreal. It’s going to be interesting how teams respond. If a team normally feeds off the energy of the crowd they’re going to be in trouble looks like.
I watched a few minutes of soccer game from Milan this past Sunday, just to see what it was like with no fans in the stadium. It was definitely "bizarre." Hearing the players themselves, more or less the coaches yelling instructions as clearly as possible took some time to get use to.
Already prepared for Izzo's speech about how the empty stands caused their opening round loss to Belmont.
This actually kind of sucks for the lower seeds. When the high seeds are losing the fans from all the other schools rally and start getting loud in hopes of seeing the upset. That won't happen now.
Since many here claim that Crisler is such a lousy atmosphere (an opinion I do not share), they should feel that this development is an advantage for us.
It's remarkable how things change. A week ago this was unthinkable; by today it seemed inevitable.
Pro sports are going to follow suit.
This thing is getting weirder by the day. In no alternate version of the universe did I envision the NCAA prioritizing something other than money.
then again - are the tickets already sold and paid for?
Don't worry, the NCAA has a massive insurance policy to cover these things. They will still get paid. I'm sure tickets will be refunded.
Do you suppose insurance will cover losses resulting from the NCAA's voluntary decision? I am not aware of any legal prohibition (yet) against public attendance at these games. Even if authorities do prohibit public attendance, I would think that that decision would be excluded from an insurance policy.
It is not impossible that a pandemic could be a covered event, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that anyone has an insurance policy for "these things."
Does anyone have experience with insurance policies for sporting and entertainment events?
Unfortunately most of the money was from TV to begin with and our $250 nose bleeds hardly made a dent in the bottom line.
They are prioritizing money. They have to keep their Chinese masters happy.
you're going to be able to hear every single cuss word for a month of hockey and hoops games.
can you imagine tiny tom with no crowd noise to drown out his psycho histrionics? it'll be like yelling in a church.
The CBS censors working the cough button are going to be busy.