Bucky Brooks: Bengals could be competitive quicker than many anticipate

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(05-16-2020, 12:30 PM)Geno_Can_Dunk Wrote: I really don't want to get away from sports on this board, but there's a reason this isn't the flu. Because it's "novel", there is no herd immunity for coronavirus like there is for the flu, which means that in the absence of these safety measures virtually every American would get it. 98.5% recovery looks like a lot, until you realize 1.5% of Americans is about 4.5 million people. Even if that estimate is high, you're still talking about millions of people. 

So basically you're saying "why sacrifice entertainment for the sake of millions of lives?" (and just in the U.S. alone). 

Comparing Corona to the flu is to completely ignore the facts. 

It’s really sad (and a bit scary) that this has to be explained.