NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?
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The AAC and Big-10 just canceled their tournaments
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SEC tournament canceled
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@kjayhawks not even 20k now. Less than 1000 with only 250 total spectators allowed in.
I’m becoming more and more doubtful there will be a tournament.
On here’s a scenario that may work. Delay the tournament 10-14 days. During that time any teams that want to play, and any essential staff, and the 125 fans from each team should be quarantined and monitored by medical staff. That weeds out the infected; should be plenty long for the incubation period. (And it gives Garrett time to heal
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There will be no tournament at this rate. All the conference tournaments have been canceled…
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
So, millions are riding subways and elevated trains each day in major cities. The whole country is still working and going to school for the most part. But we are worried about 20k at a basketball game. Just doesn’t sound remotely logical to me.
It’s not and that’s why Italy was essentially shut down.
I’m a teacher on spring break right now. My district hasn’t made any announcement yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent an email out sometime before Monday that they are delaying the return of students as well to minimize risks.
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@BeddieKU23 ACC just shut down…maybe. Clemson isn’t taking the court.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 they should. Schools foster disease. Kids are great at spreading colds and such. It’s as if they’re meant to supplant us.
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@kjayhawks Bidet ??
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Rick Barnes says the UT players were very worried about playing. ESPN reported their Asst AD for communications is very relieved: had a liver transplant in 2018 and is still on immuno-suppressing meds, and is one of those ancillary people who would be affected by any decision to play.
Jazz players report Gobert was touching everyone in the locker room, and the news conf showed him picking up all the reporters’ mics (not sure when). What an ass.
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Big 12 cancelled.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@Texas-Hawk-10 they should. Schools foster disease. Kids are great at spreading colds and such. It’s as if they’re meant to supplant us.
And if my district says I have to be there, I’m still going to be there because I still have bills to pay. As much as I would disagree with that decision, I don’t have the PTO saved up to take an extended break until this outbreak settles down.
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ACC just announced they are cancelling their tournament. 11:23 am. Announcement is sad to listen too. Big12 next…
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Wonder if they would try to move it back to like May if this stuff clears out?
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Just named FSU the ACC champ and Leonard Hamilton coy
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Big 12 done too
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Wonder if they would try to move it back to like May if this stuff clears out?
I may be mistaken, but I believe the Ivy League has cancelled spring sports already - like baseball.
I don’t think it’s going away soon. I really hope I’m wrong.
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The nfl isn’t thinking about canceling, because only Tom Brady and the oldest coaches are at risk. Lol
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28891831/nfl-not-delaying-start-league-year-coronavirus
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Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, but when I hear people say: “…but there’s only 1000 cases in the US…” I feel they are missing some key points:
- There aren’t enough test kits to test everyone with symptoms.
- The incubation period is at least 14 days, and consequently…
- … an unknown number of people are infected, and unaware and un-symptomatic
- It is known to be highly contagious and easily transmitted…
- which means you might not have to come in contact with a contagious person, but simply in contact with something that was in contact with a contagious person.
- I’m not even talking about mortality rate, which is unclear as well.
- It’s a novel virus, which means no one has immunity.
- Best estimates are that a vaccine is a year away.
Given the unknowns, and the few knowns, I conclude that the actions are prudent. It sucks, but the population needs to take 2 weeks pause at least to let the infected people develop the symptoms so we can get a better sense of the scope.
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Is it possible that all the young folks that statistics have proven will survive the virus will now have anti-bodies to protect them when they are elderly and no longer need to fear the virus? Is it possible it has a latent period like chicken pox and shingles? Are we under or over reacting? Either way it should’ve been done a month ago.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 My spring break is next week. I definitely didn’t shake every kids hand as they walked in the door today! Stood there with my hands in my pockets and said “Good Morning!”
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@benshawks08 elbows
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i’m not a epidemiologist but my understanding is that this virus is corona-style which is not one that people tend to develop immunity as compared to chicken pox/shingles… I think it’s a different strain…
People can get the coronavirus more than once, experts warn — recovering does not necessarily make you immune
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-reinfection-2020-2
Not sure of the validity of this, so would encourage looking for other sources.
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@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
i’m not a epidemiologist but my understanding is that this virus is corona-style which is not one that people tend to develop immunity as compared to chicken pox/shingles… I think it’s a different strain…
COVID-19 shares about 90% of its DNA with SARS from what I’ve read.
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@bskeet said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
i’m not a epidemiologist but my understanding is that this virus is corona-style which is not one that people tend to develop immunity as compared to chicken pox/shingles… I think it’s a different strain…
People can get the coronavirus more than once, experts warn — recovering does not necessarily make you immune
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-reinfection-2020-2
Not sure of the validity of this, so would encourage looking for other sources.
That doesn’t sound promising for an effective vaccine then.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
That doesn’t sound promising for an effective vaccine then.
Entirely possible. HIV took a long time to get under control. SARS, H1N1, Zika…not sure what’s available.
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Maybe with the NBA shut down we’ll get a bonus year of Dok (hardship waiver medical or otherwise) and Dot. Ok, I know I’m dreaming…
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Baseball and NHL suspending as per ESPN
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Sports Armageddon.
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Looks like we will all have an opportunity to reevaluate our lifestyles.
Great opportunity to work on family relationships.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
The nfl isn’t thinking about canceling, because only Tom Brady and the oldest coaches are at risk. Lol
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28891831/nfl-not-delaying-start-league-year-coronavirus
The NFL also doesn’t have much going on either right now. It’s easy enough to FaceTime Pro Day drills and interviews and still get the information teams need/want on players.
The next thing in their agenda that’s going to be affected is the draft in April in Las Vegas. In a little over a month. I’d expect that to be closed to the public based on projections of when the spread of this disease should slow down.
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@drgnslayr said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Looks like we will all have an opportunity to reevaluate our lifestyles.
Great opportunity to work on family relationships.
This board counts as a family, right?
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It sure does, my friend!
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Not great for retirement funds. Might have to work extra now. This is the real tragedy. I’m out of shape about sports, but the economy is getting bent over and being gently screwed with a chainsaw right now. Might present a buying opportunity for someone if they can figure out the bottom.
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This thing is toast
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@Crimsonorblue22 One kid got a fist bump…
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@dylans LOL… well, the market’s growth over the last 2 years was a house of cards. The debt skyrocketed… lots of Fed fiddling and infusing funds… the bloodletting is scary, but not totally unexpected.
Also, you are absolutely right that this is an opportunity if you have resources and happen to time things right.
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All major sports leagues in North America are now on hiatus that are in season as MLB, NHL, and MLS have suspended operations for the time being.
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I was just googling H1N1 and it happened in 2009 and was considerably more deadly. Virtually everything when on business as usual. I still think we are blowing this way outta proportion. We have done nothing in previous pandemics that statistically are 20 and 30 times deadly than this.
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
I was just googling H1N1 and it happened in 2009 and was considerably more deadly. Virtually everything when on business as usual. I still think we are blowing this way outta proportion. We have done nothing in previous pandemics that statistically are 20 and 30 times deadly than this.
Maybe it killed a lot more people because it was business as usual…?
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I live in a small town. We all have a central post office to get mail (No door to door delivery). Everyone in town (1,500) will get it if one person does.
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@FarmerJayhawk it’s morality was much higher from the get go. We will be laughing at this in a month and talking about how insanely stupid it was. Remember which president was in and got a pass on this. Also the media didn’t go completely bananas when that happened or west Nile or Ebola or Zika.
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@dylans me too, not worried at this point personally.
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so - our boys, the number one team, won’t get to play in the big dance. obviously they ae going to have to cancel it. this just blows bing time - I’m soooo pissed
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@Bosthawk I am very upset myself, I will continue to be so if it blows over like it pretty much has in China now after a few months and they had the highest morality rate.
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@Bosthawk said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
so - our boys, the number one team, won’t get to play in the big dance. obviously they ae going to have to cancel it. this just blows bing time - I’m soooo pissed
well don’t feel like the lone ranger you no different then thousands of others I’m pissed too feel so bad for Doke but we know this was the RIGHT decision , like they were talking your putting the college players at risk to , the players them selves thinking well not really wanting to play but yet wanting to play for the team just can’t take that risk - sucks cause think this was OUR year , this screwing with our economy HUGE
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@FarmerJayhawk it’s morality was much higher from the get go. We will be laughing at this in a month and talking about how insanely stupid it was. Remember which president was in and got a pass on this. Also the media didn’t go completely bananas when that happened or west Nile or Ebola or Zika.
We’ll be happy we took measures to protect a bunch of people. It’s the problem with getting people to believe these things actually work. They see “oh look, nothing happened!” And think it was all just hype. The patterns are really, really bad. If we can save lives by canceling some entertainment temporarily let’s do it. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
I was just googling H1N1 and it happened in 2009 and was considerably more deadly. Virtually everything when on business as usual. I still think we are blowing this way outta proportion. We have done nothing in previous pandemics that statistically are 20 and 30 times deadly than this.
To those who are young and have no respiratory or auto-immune issues, and only care about themselves – this probably seems like overkill because they are unlikely to be severely affected by this strain.
But for members of at-risk populations, it could be too little too late. Covid-19 is considerably more contagious than H1N1. No one has immunity, as it is novel. The mortality rate in at-risk populations may be as high as SARS.
