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Post by travlinman on Mar 11, 2020 21:16:21 GMT -5
One player gets ill and they stop the entire season. Either we are being lied to about the severity of this illness or EVERYONE is overreacting You should get the Coronavirus, then it would be interesting what you say then. This is not a game we are playing with the Coronavirus. It is very, very serious, dying serious. While I get your point on one hand, look at the other. Assuming Gobert isn't sick (and probably doesn't get tested in the first place) with the amount of sweat and body contact happening in the paint, it has the potential to transmit at an exponential growth rate. That would be just within the "confines" of the NBA. Now, take that example and apply it to the rest of the population. Does it suck? Yep. But don't you want to cut off rotten branches from a healthy tree when you have a chance?
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Post by openhanddink on Mar 11, 2020 21:19:15 GMT -5
One player gets ill and they stop the entire season. Either we are being lied to about the severity of this illness or EVERYONE is overreacting You should get the Coronavirus, then it would be interesting what you say then. This is not a game we are playing with the Coronavirus. It is very, very serious, dying serious. Sorry to strike a chord with you. Just seems odd that we change everything over 40 deaths in the USA so far. Real cool wishing illness on others. Mature. 👍
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Post by preschooler on Mar 11, 2020 23:10:08 GMT -5
One player gets ill and they stop the entire season. Either we are being lied to about the severity of this illness or EVERYONE is overreacting So I am not sure that it’s been established that one player is positive in regards to any of the volleyball teams here in discussion. There have been players in other sports soccer and basketball. We were not actively looking for this novel virus but now we are and now we are responsible for mitigation. Will everyone be happy about it no and not every decision will be perfect
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Post by ironhammer on Mar 12, 2020 0:04:28 GMT -5
The NBA has suspended the season. Rudy Gobert (Jazz) has tested positive for the coronavirus. He was planning to play tonight, teams were taken off during warm ups. And Gobert was so sure the coronavirus is nothing more than a flu, he even intentionally touched all the mics to prove his point...2 days later he tested positive:
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Post by oldpaltz on Mar 12, 2020 0:21:29 GMT -5
The NBA has suspended the season. Rudy Gobert (Jazz) has tested positive for the coronavirus. He was planning to play tonight, teams were taken off during warm ups. And Gobert was so sure the coronavirus is nothing more than a flu, he even intentionally touched all the mics to prove his point...2 days later he tested positive:
In his case, it looks like he was right. Honestly if he wasn't a NBA player, I'm guessing he wouldn't have asked for a test. By all accounts, he was showing symptoms of a quick bout with the flu. Relatively speaking, it's rare for a person not in an at risk group to show anything more than mild or light symptoms, and even some asymptomatic cases. The issue is that there is a huge jump in symptoms and mortality rate among that at-risk groups and from the mild cases to the serious cases, and it's something I'm sure every scientist in the world is trying to answer.
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Post by colonial2415 on Mar 12, 2020 5:39:16 GMT -5
Doesn't Rudy Gobert have a right to medical privacy? Shouldn't the NBA said "A player on the Jazz" or "A player" has the coronavirus. Does HIPPA laws not apply to pro athletes?
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Post by bealzabubba on Mar 12, 2020 7:44:37 GMT -5
Doesn't Rudy Gobert have a right to medical privacy? Shouldn't the NBA said "A player on the Jazz" or "A player" has the coronavirus. Does HIPPA laws not apply to pro athletes? Employers are generally not "covered entities" under HIPPA.
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Post by Confucius on Mar 12, 2020 8:49:39 GMT -5
Doesn't Rudy Gobert have a right to medical privacy? Shouldn't the NBA said "A player on the Jazz" or "A player" has the coronavirus. Does HIPPA laws not apply to pro athletes? Employers are generally not "covered entities" under HIPPA. Id imagine it also doesn't take much to figure out that the mystery player is the one guy who didn't go to the game. Then they probably released the info because anybody who was in contact with him would need to know.
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Post by testyt on Mar 12, 2020 9:54:02 GMT -5
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Post by allymcbeal on Mar 12, 2020 10:18:09 GMT -5
The media are having a field day with coronavirus, just as they do with hurricanes etc. They have one goal: higher viewer$hip. If they really cared, they'd report without commercial breaks. I agree with Trump. There are differences between coronavirus and the flu, but they are relatively unimportant differences. The fact remains that flu kills roughly 40,000 people in the US alone every winter. China's epidemic is mostly over (a fact largely ignored by the media), and roughly 3,000 people died out of a population of a couple of billion. What will kill the most people during this epidemic (or "pandemic," in the media's scare parlance) is starvation, inability to obtain diabetic and other critical drugs, people in nursing homes dying of abandonment, and many other byproducts of our overreaction.
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Post by vball1818 on Mar 12, 2020 10:24:37 GMT -5
Tell that to Italy where doctors are deciding who lives and who dies. Harvard, Princeton and MIT all cancelled sports and sent their students home. Gotta figure they know more than the average person who thinks this isn't worse than the flu.
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Post by kmmvp on Mar 12, 2020 10:36:36 GMT -5
The media are having a field day with coronavirus, just as they do with hurricanes etc. They have one goal: higher viewer$hip. If they really cared, they'd report without commercial breaks. I agree with Trump. There are differences between coronavirus and the flu, but they are relatively unimportant differences. The fact remains that flu kills roughly 40,000 people in the US alone every winter. China's epidemic is mostly over (a fact largely ignored by the media), and roughly 3,000 people died out of a population of a couple of billion. What will kill the most people during this epidemic (or "pandemic," in the media's scare parlance) is starvation, inability to obtain diabetic and other critical drugs, people in nursing homes dying of abandonment, and many other byproducts of our overreaction. China's epidemic is not over, but has slowed down after the city of Wuhan issued a mandatory quarantine. They literally put speakers in the streets saying a quarantine is in effect and no one is allowed to leave their home, or be subject to fines/charges. Also the Flu is similar to corona virus in regards to symptoms, but the contagion factor is 3 folds meaning the likelihood of contracting the virus from someone who has it is that much higher. The death rate is the corona virus is also 2300% higher than that of the flu 2.3% compared to 0.1%.
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Post by allymcbeal on Mar 12, 2020 10:37:08 GMT -5
You know what, let's use Tom Hanks as a guinea pig (as rude as it sounds). He is 63 and diabetic and has been diagnosed with coronavirus. If he doesn't die within 2-3 weeks then neither will the vast majority of healthy Americans.
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Post by akbar on Mar 12, 2020 10:54:13 GMT -5
Social distancing...wash your hands....shop and take care of errands for your elderly loved ones.
wipe down everything.
I expect the US school systems to close down very very soon.
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Post by bealzabubba on Mar 12, 2020 11:00:55 GMT -5
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