OT NBA season suspended & NCAA cancelling all sports for coronavirus

[Mediocre Man]

Step 1: Test all players and refs for Covid-19
Step 2: Fly all players and refs to an island with sporting arenas already built
Step 3: Play the games there

So use scarce tests on healthy college athletes just so they can play a game?

 

[Shaboid]

Tom Hanks is one of the only celebrities that I actually like. I'll be angry if this virus takes his life.

 

[crandc]

Players get paid but not ushers, concession stand staff, parking lot attendants, security. Sports bars Lise customers.

First priority is health but people also losing livelihood. And social isolation increasing.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Tom Hanks is one of the only celebrities that I actually like. I'll be angry if this virus takes his life.

He’s rich; he’ll most likely be fine.

 

[Pinwheel1]

While it's not remotely the same thing......
Do something like implement
1. Speed limits
2. Helmet laws
3. Seatbelt laws
4. Cell phone laws
5. Car safety laws

The problem is that they can't be enforced unless we put up camera's everywhere. Too many stupid, reckless and impatient drivers on the road for cops to pull them all over. But if you really wanted to save lives, restrict cars so they can't go over 30 miles an hour. Of course, that would be an inconvenience that no one (including myself) would tolerate. But "if it could save just one life a day wouldn't it be worth it?" Of course not.

Again not saying that the "Inconveniences" that are being forced on us right now is not the right thing to do..... just wondering how long we will tolerate it.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

probably the most informative, practical and useful discussion i've heard. dude predicted almost the exact scenario 6yrs ago

Probably Joe's best episode yet.

 

[TBpup]

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a talion?

I found this on the web but I'm guessing that was not what you were wanting to convey?

Talion
A giant cuckold who cannot manage a team properly.
It can also be used as a term for someone with an erectile dysfunction

barfo

Autot correct.... was supposed to say, "I'm Italian", but then in context, I'm guessing you knew that's what that meant. And thank you for the concern about my friends and family in Italy dealing with this.

you need to apply critical context. The mortality rate of the 2009 swine flue (H1N1) was 0.02%. There were well over a billion people infected

the mortality rate of covid-19 is around 3% currently. If say 200 million are infected worldwide, the death toll could be 2-6 million. That's why the media is focusing on it....the virus appears to spread easier than the flu and is exponentially more deadly

They have no idea how many people really have this so figuring out mortality rates is next to impossible. The vast majority of healthy/younger people present with what they think are mild flu symptoms and treat it accordingly and recover. Of course there are differences, but so far, it is the old, respiratory challenged and already immune deficient that are passing away.

Again, it's not to make light of it but was a comparison of reaction.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

 

[GDiama]

Gobert destroying his team singlehandedly

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[tlongII]

Gobert gotta lotta splainin to do.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Gobert gotta lotta splainin to do.

Typhoid Gomary!

 

[chris_in_pdx]

If this isn't wake up call for some people that this shit ain't no joke... come on, guys and gals. Wash your hands every hour. Wipe down shit with cleaning wipes. Use some common sense. This isn't a game we are playing anymore.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Mediocre Man]

Gobert gotta lotta splainin to do.

Why?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[illmatic99]

Scapegoating Gobert is kinda stupid. He's an idiot for mocking this and deliberately touching shit, but there is no way to tell that Donovan got it directly from Rudy. 57 of the 58 people associated with the Jazz tested negative yesterday.

 

[Chris Craig]

Scapegoating Gobert is kinda stupid. He's an idiot for mocking this and deliberately touching shit, but there is no way to tell that Donovan got it directly from Rudy. 57 of the 58 people associated with the Jazz tested negative yesterday.

Well when you say everyone is overacting and touch everything to make a joke out of it and then get the virus..well that's on him. Is it his fault the NBA is suspended...nah. It was going to happen one way or the other. Coronavirus isn't fucking around.

 

[Chris Craig]

So we should expect schools to be closed in 4 days?

 

[illmatic99]

Well when you say everyone is overacting and touch everything to make a joke out of it and then get the virus..well that's on him. Is it his fault the NBA is suspended...nah. It was going to happen one way or the other. Coronavirus isn't fucking around.

don't get me wrong, as a closet germophobe, i found what he did absolutely disgusting.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So we should expect schools to be closed in 4 days?

We'll see Monday.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Where did you see this?

 

[Chris Craig]

don't get me wrong, as a closet germophobe, i found what he did absolutely disgusting.

It is just ironic he was all joking about it and did that and then was the 1st NBA player (as far as we know) to get the virus

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Where did you see this?

Reddit

 

[Chris Craig]

We'll see Monday.

PPS never closes

That said, if they do I have been told I will be compensated for the missed time...I hope that holds up

 

[PtldPlatypus]

 

[PtldPlatypus]

So we should expect schools to be closed in 4 days?

I can tell you that Parkrose has canceled all non-essential school-related activities, including student-teacher conferences, field trips, and performances. Wouldn't be surprised at all by school as a whole being closed by this weekend.

 

[Chris Craig]

March Madness indeed!