The NBA announced Wednesday that it was suspending the remainder of its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for COVID-19.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1296550
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1296550
Wow. The right thing to do and all, but the world is going to become hard to recognize. And what about MLB?
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Don’t expect the MLB season to start anytime soon. Once a large entity like the NBA make a decision the other leagues will have no choice but to shut down. Travel by plane to NCAA sites is likely to be cancelled as well. Everyone is whistling past the grave yard right now.
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A moment of levity.
(context for those who do not follow ~sportsball~: both are ESPN journalists)
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Gobert got COVID-19 by being a fucking idiot.
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I understand that both teams have been put into quarantine
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KC reporter
The Mariners were already talking about staying at their Arizona spring training site to open the season, since groups of more than 250 are banned in Seattle now.
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Things are starting to get freaky. Buckle up.
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I live in Oklahoma City. At this point, Oklahoma only has 2 confirmed cases, which are both in Tulsa and travel related. None in Oklahoma City metro area. Is testing what it should be? No, but that is the case across the U.S. This guy traveled when he was clearly sick. Local media said he tested negative this morning for flu and strep. I have heard, unverified, that his Covid-19 test was done at the hospital. The local paper says he is under care of health officials in Oklahoma. So he has exposed all of his teammates, the OKC players, employees in his hotel, and health care workers at the second largest hospital in OKC. I keep thinking back to the story about the attorney in New York who infected 50 people. It is infuriating to me that we could have the start of an outbreak in OKC due to this moron.
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Well, this is one way to keep the Bucks from getting a Championship this year.
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The fellow in New Rochelle came back from Italy and has no symptoms until he had been home for a few days. He went to services and other gatherings which was a problem for his family and the community. The NBA player made a show of touching microphones and other equipment to other day as a joke. A real horse’s ass.
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Given the average lapse of 5-7 days between contact and symptoms, do we think he caught it from those microphones he laughingly touched? Or did he spread it to 10-50 people by doing so?
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If you get it but get better, are you then immune? Similar question, if you get it, self-quarantine, get better, are you still part of the vector that can spread it?
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We literally don’t know the answer to either question! Pretty exciting, right?
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HolyFucingShit!
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We are quickly moving to a state where everything shuts down, as more and more we are getting stories of people getting the virus in situations like this. It’s going to force people to pull back from their lives and stay at home except when they absolutely have to go out. And, that is going to crush a lot of Americans, since a significant fraction can’t handle a $500 emergency…they won’t survive economically staying at home for a month, or watching their job close down.
And, at the same time, our leadership is clueless…cancelling travel to Europe is not going to have any effect at this point, it’s worse than useless. Trump just literally did something to make things even worse, economically, without doing a damn thing to make the situation better. If that’s the best Jared could come up with we’re really screwed.
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Look at the graphs in the lower-right of this webpage. Pay close attention to the upward arc of the most yellow plot points.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
China is now relatively flat. Europe and the US are in that yellow plot points graph that indicates an exponential infection growth. This is very, very bad from the standpoint of a rapid onslaught of very sick people overloading our hospital infrastructure. The US has one million hospital beds, two-thirds of which are occupied in a steady-state fashion. If this upward curve continues as shown, our hospitals will be full of acutely sick patients by early to mid-May. The US has around 35 million N95 masks that should only be used by health care workers. There are 18 million health care workers…around a two days supply. We don’t manufacture these masks in the US. We don’t even manufacture the materials that are used to fabricate these masks; China makes them for us.
We should use the armed forces to build MASH units everywhere NOW, because we’re going to need a lot of new beds, a lot of isolation wards, and a lot of intubations for folks who have bilateral viral pneumonia. Either that, or start building a lot of crematoriums. We’re going to have to do something about masks, but I suspect the army has a lot of masks that are a lot more robust than a fabric N95 mask. The problem is the quantity of masks versus the quantity of health care workers.
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