March Madness and Covid-19

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sheepdogs1 said:
I think the general belief is warmer weather will slow the transmission, but to what extent is still an unknown.
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Hope this is right. Viewing it as a selfish sports fan, not from a health or economic perspective which I get is more serious, can't imagine this lasting to impact entire MLB or football seasons.
 
The hysteria over this thing is gonna end up being way worse than the actual cause in this case. I do think in like 6 months or whatever it'll all be blown over by then and not near as bad as people thought overall. But the hysteria over a flu world wide is pretty funny to see. I'm not saying don't be serious about the flu but this is a big overreaction to it. SARS, Malaria, Ebola were all way more deadly than this virus is. This one will infect more people but it'll just end up being basically like a regular flu bug when all is said and done. The flu has killed about 5,000 people the last few months nobody cares.
 
MJSooner said:
That's kind of my point, Boulder, when do we go "back" to living our lives? With this kind of extreme reaction to cancel events, what is the catalyst that makes it go back? If crowd control slows down the virus, why would they allow it to go back to crowds everywhere, like normal? If it doesn't slow it down, the cancellations will get worse or at least continue.

Even the Director of Infectious Diseases said today that we have to accept life is now different compared to two months ago. I don't see normal happening anytime soon. Hope I am wrong.
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Figure the catalyst to being much like how winter ends and people generally are tired of being cooped up inside and they want to engage in something different for a change.
 
MJSooner said:
That's kind of my point, Boulder, when do we go "back" to living our lives? With this kind of extreme reaction to cancel events, what is the catalyst that makes it go back? If crowd control slows down the virus, why would they allow it to go back to crowds everywhere, like normal? If it doesn't slow it down, the cancellations will get worse or at least continue.

Even the Director of Infectious Diseases said today that we have to accept life is now different compared to two months ago. I don't see normal happening anytime soon. Hope I am wrong.
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in this case the long term damage to the ecomony might kill more people then this in the united states
 
NickZepp said:
The hysteria over this thing is gonna end up being way worse than the actual cause in this case. I do think in like 6 months or whatever it'll all be blown over by then and not near as bad as people thought overall. But the hysteria over a flu world wide is pretty funny to see. I'm not saying don't be serious about the flu but this is a big overreaction to it. SARS, Malaria, Ebola were all way more deadly than this virus is. This one will infect more people but it'll just end up being basically like a regular flu bug when all is said and done. The flu has killed about 5,000 people the last few months nobody cares.
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This. Is. Not. The. Flu.

Read the thread, we've covered this extensively.

Covid-19 is in the same family of viruses as SARS and MERS.
 
steverocks35 said:
This. Is. Not. The. Flu.

Read the thread, we've covered this extensively.

Covid-19 is in the same family of viruses as SARS and MERS.
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You are right the flu has killed way more people and probably infected more people too.
 
this ncaa decision is going to really really hurt the arena workers all over the country

it will be a huge boon to the bars in towns
 
BoulderSooner said:
this ncaa decision is going to really really hurt the arena workers all over the country

it will be a huge boon to the bars in towns
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Maybe, but these things are hard to tell. I'm guessing a large percentage of the people that would have traveled to the games will just watch them at home.
 
NickZepp said:
You are right the flu has killed way more people and probably infected more people too.
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Correct. Which is why the NCAA banned spectators at the tourney last year, SXSW canceled for the first time ever, and the market went down 20% in two weeks last year.

Oh, wait, that didn't happen. So maybe government and health officials DO think this is MORE than "just the flu".
 
steverocks35 said:
You sound like Jim Traber. He was spewing the exact same irresponsible garbage on the radio yesterday.
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**** Jim Traber but the hysteria and panic over this will be worse than the actual results coming out. This is no different from swine flu 10 years ago that tanked the stock market for a short time back then.
 
MJSooner said:
Correct. Which is why the NCAA banned spectators at the tourney last year, SXSW canceled for the first time ever, and the market went down 20% in two weeks last year.

Oh, wait, that didn't happen. So maybe government and health officials DO think this is MORE than "just the flu".
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That was my point the panic and hysteria over this is worse than what this disease will actually be.

I was wrong on my 5k flu quote. About 10k people have died of the flu since this virus was first revealed in late December. That's only in the US.
 
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NickZepp said:
That was my point the panic and hysteria over this is worse than what this disease will actually be.
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And you know this how??? The entire country of Italy is shut down. Scroll up and read that Atlantic article I posted.
 
MJSooner said:
That's kind of my point, Boulder, when do we go "back" to living our lives?
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I think we go back to something like normal when a) there's a vaccine (which, if I understand correctly, would probably be updated every year, like the flu shot) and b) when they come up with treatments that lessen the likelihood of death (I'm no doctor so I don't know how likely the latter is, but the former will come in time).
 
steverocks35 said:
And you know this how??? The entire country of Italy is shut down. Scroll up and read that Atlantic article I posted.
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serious question why does italy have more cases than the USA ??

their first case was after the first case in our country ??
 
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