05-16-2020, 12:30 PM
(05-16-2020, 11:21 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Do we shut down the NFL or nay sport when a team has a case of the flu hit them? Sickness is a part of life, recovery is the real story. How many recover? If recovery is 98.5% or higher we have been duped by fear and not facts.
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.
