(03-12-2020, 02:08 AM)sandwedge Wrote: By the time the season starts, the virus should be long forgotten, hopefully.  As for the NBA, they could fold for all I care.

(03-12-2020, 09:14 AM)TheBengalsMind Wrote: https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw

Here is a video, from an expert on medicine and viruses.

It's possible, this truly could last 16 months to 2 years, which is how long it could possibly take for a vaccine to be made that's safe for everyone to take.

I hope it doesn't.

It's not as deadly as the Spanish Flu, but it's so highly contagious that if your breathed on by an infected person, there is a chance that you now have it.

Since they now believe it to be caught through mainly airborne pathogens, washing your hands does little to actually help against this disease.

Young people, especially children seem to be unfazed by it.

Most cases involving children show little to no complications from it. Though doctors are unsure of why that is.

It appears to be a death warrant for long term smokers, especially if they have pre existing conditions.

Most of the Chinese people who died were elder man, who had been long term smokers.

My guess is they're hoping that isolationism will contain it.

Worse case scenario is probably having all 7.7 billion people getting infected and if death rates (I keep hearing anything from .7 to 2 percent) remain consistent about 144 million people could die.

The only good that would come from that is that our own bodies system would create antibodies against it and would likely contain it for a couple generations.

It's sad, but anybody hoping this is a two week to four week thing is probably wrong.

Some of it is media hype, like it being "incurable." For most 98 percent it wouldn't be a death sentence and would be just like any flu, but 2 percent is a lot of people, especially if it happens to be your family.

Though I hope for everybody's sake that they're right and it does pass soon.

Everybody be safe out there!

(03-12-2020, 11:12 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Fair enough, make sure you also focus on posts against the POTUS or else you are a hypocrite. I responded to a shot taken.

(03-12-2020, 02:08 AM)sandwedge Wrote: By the time the season starts, the virus should be long forgotten, hopefully.  As for the NBA, they could fold for all I care.

(03-12-2020, 11:31 AM)Hammerstripes Wrote: The sad fact of the matter is that there are so many people on social media taking the numbers and skewing them.

Don't ignore the data.  It's pretty simple.  A vast majority of the population won't be truly affected by this  - either they get it and have a brief illness or they won't get it at all.  It's not a death sentence.

The people that I am truly concerned about our my parents and others who struggle with respiratory illnesses in general as well as people over the age of 60.  Everyone else seems to do ok even if they catch it.

I would encourage anyone to look at the data.

(03-12-2020, 02:08 AM)sandwedge Wrote: By the time the season starts, the virus should be long forgotten, hopefully.  As for the NBA, they could fold for all I care.

(03-12-2020, 11:22 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Not necessarily forgotten, but I think it will be curbed tremendously.


Good stuff and I'm in the same boat; I mentioned on another board that I'm not, "seeking out to get COVID-19," but I wouldn't be opposed to getting it, as my body will become immune to it (to an extent). Thus, in case of a reprisal down the road, the antibodies are already there.

(03-12-2020, 11:31 AM)Hammerstripes Wrote: The sad fact of the matter is that there are so many people on social media taking the numbers and skewing them.

Don't ignore the data.  It's pretty simple.  A vast majority of the population won't be truly affected by this  - either they get it and have a brief illness or they won't get it at all.  It's not a death sentence.

The people that I am truly concerned about our my parents and others who struggle with respiratory illnesses in general as well as people over the age of 60.  Everyone else seems to do ok even if they catch it.

I would encourage anyone to look at the data.

(03-13-2020, 08:15 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Doesn't work that way Truck. This is a flu like virus, not chicken pox or measles. You can get it over and over. They already have patients become re-infected.

(03-13-2020, 08:19 AM)Daddy-O Wrote: It has nothing to do with the data in regards to percentages and the demographic of who is at risk. This is about an infectious disease that has no cure, no vaccine, can be transmitted by 100% of the population and is extremely dangerous to folks with underlying conditions - not just people over 60; anyone that has a jeopardized immune system is at risk, including pregnant women who's immune systems are lowered during pregnancy as to not attack their unborn children.

People need to stop comparing this to the normal flu or other infectious diseases and stop blaming the media / social media for blowing it out of proportion. There's a reason the WHO, CDC and now our own government is taking action like never before.

(03-13-2020, 10:16 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Of course, absolutely; the cold and the flu are both coronaviruses as well, after all.

But the immunity will be there and should there be any reprisals, my body would be able to fight it off no problem, as if I had a cold or similar.

That's what I'm saying; the VERY first time any of us got a cold or the flu, was always the worst. When it comes back subsequent times, it never gets as bad as that very first.


Not to be nitpicky over the wording rather than the message, but this is NOT a disease; diseases and viruses are two different things.

(03-14-2020, 09:02 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Right, but my point is, you can get this virus over and over. While you might not get AS sick, you would still have to be quarantined to keep from spreading it to other people. And if you have antibodies built up to where you just feel a little off, how many people are you going to infect?  Getting this and then not worrying about getting it again is not a good idea. It's too easily transmittable.

(03-12-2020, 10:28 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Only in the USA do we blame our President for a virus that originated in China as he acted swiftly banning China from entering the USA. Look back in history of how other President's handled health crisis and you you will see we are very lucky Trump is in charge this time around.

As for empty stadiums, I think MLB is in much bigger danger to eliminate fans.