No Fans for March Madness
Climate change will.
I’m not sure the audience is ready for that discussion today.
Select people will still be in attendance. If one can get designated as staff they will have great seats to the games.
If only 1 or 2 percent of people are in danger of dying if infected - either elderly or those with history of respiratory illnesses, why are we treating this like Ebola or the Plague, where it's deadly for anyone? Instead of quarantining (or at least restricting) everyone, why not have those at high risk quarantine themselves. Then the rest of us can live normally, spreading this virus amongst ourselves no differently than any other annoying, but not deadly virus.
There are major health ramifications of a crashing economy - especially for those on the lower rungs of the income ladder. Schools closing means many will be left with the horrible decision of whether to lose a job or leave young kids home alone. Major recession will force many more people into homelessness. Lack of money will make people less likely to seek medical treatment for any ailment until it's too late.
Survival of the fittest, my boy.
Yes, let's just ask millions and millions of old people and immunocompromised people to self quarantine. I'm sure they'll listen and start taking all measures immediately.
Or they'll be like you and complain, ignore the requests of public health officials whose whole job is to combat this stuff, go about doing their daily shit, and it'll get worse.
How about, just once, you take a slight hit to convenience your used to for the sake of public safety.
Yes, let's just ask millions and millions of old people and immunocompromised people to self quarantine. I'm sure they'll listen and start taking all measures immediately
If they don't, they're taking their lives into their hands regardless of whether or not events are cancelled. Basically choosing to make a risky life or death decision, knowing what the potential ramifications are.
I have less sympathy for people making such a decision than for those forced to lose a job to stay home with kids, those forced into homelessness, those who will be no longer able to afford medical treatment, etc. There are very real life and death ramifications involved when decisions are made to shut down down the economy piece by piece. Not as obvious, but they can impact more than 1% of the population.
It's really not about my convenience. I'm lucky enough to have health care and a job where I work from home. My life actually gets easier if I stop traveling for work. None of this is inconvenient for me. But it's life changing for a lot of less fortunate folks.
Easier said than done. Many of the most at risk need caregivers and frequent medical assistance. Would we quarantine all of those people too?
If 0.2% of the population got sick at the same time, that would literally take up every ventilator in my US metro area. And that is ignoring all the patients who need ventilators for other reasons. So slowing down the transmission could save lives.
I guess because some people think it’s fun to lose their shit.
You really don't get how this works do you? Also this may come as a surprise to you but this people at risk--the elderly and those with underlying conditions LIVE IN THE SAME HOMES WITH PEOPLE WHO ARENT AT RISK... if those people are out and about in the community they will get it and bring it home. In order for these things to work they have to be done on a massive scale.
Influenza kills far more elderly people, we don’t shut down America for that! Complete overreaction!
Lol!! Sheeple negging with no retort. Influenza does kill more elderly people, that is a fucking fact!
Exactly
Damn, it is going to be really odd watching a game with no crowd noise. They could always pipe it in like they do for NFL games, right?
Hopefully they do that so if were losing I can blame it on the other team receiving more artificial fan noise
Personally, I'd rather they use laugh tracks like a sitcom. That would be more entertaining than fake crowd noise.
I'm attending a comic con this weekend and will not be worrying about the Corona boogeyman.
Might even take some toilet paper from work and sell it from my trunk prior to the show.
So is this a new precedent?? Influenza kills far more people, so are we going to shut down America for flu season next year??
Lol!! Sheeple negging with no rebuttal! Influenza does kill more elderly people, that is a fucking fact! Go ahead and hide in your bunkers!
Answer my question, why not shut down America like we are doing now for influenza?? It kills far more people and it’s just as contagious!!
March 11th, 2020 at 10:25 PM ^
Can you show me anything that substantiates your claim that “it’s just as contagious”?
March 11th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
All I’m saying is, we all know how flu spreads every flu season and kills tens of thousands of people in America and we don’t shut down all activities in America for flu season. Why are we ok with doing this now for basically something that is more or less a common flu for most people who contract it?
"The federal government’s top infectious disease expert told lawmakers Wednesday that the novel coronavirus spreading across the globe is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.
“I mean people always say, 'Well, the flu does this, the flu does that,'” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said Wednesday during a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
“The flu has a mortality rate of 0.1 percent. This has a mortality rate of 10 times that. That’s the reason I want to emphasize we have to stay ahead of the game in preventing this,” he added."