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Message: [QUOTE="Peacefrog, post: 3738198, member: 986"] I'm very excited about this team and really hope a way(s) can be found to put together some semblance of a season. Storrsbred, I'm going to agree and disagree with you. The "experts" are indeed changing their opinions often but its not surprising given that this is a novel virus and we are still learning new things about it at a fast pace. This is one of the reasons that I don't think we should necessarily view it as a mere "annoyance" to young people. It might seem like that in the short term but the fact is, we don't know what the long-term effects might be. I think a lot of people are ignoring the distinct possibility (and I have put forth this perspective in other threads) that this is not a two-outcome disease. Its not simply that you survive it or not; there is a spectrum of outcomes, many of which are not yet fully understood. I'm pasting an excerpt from my b-i-l who is an MD. I had asked him about the latest on treatments and if there was something I might take prophylactically (emphasis mine): "Of course, I REALLY don't want to catch it at all - even if I somehow could know that I would remain asymptomatic . Some patients who were asymptomatic were found to have pulmonary opacities on CT scan suggesting lung damage and also elevated troponin levels post infection indicating cardiac muscle damage that was later verified by echocardiography. [B]Summary - This is a very nasty virus, and no one (even the young and healthy) should be nonchalant about catching it. We do not know what the long term effects will be at 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 30 years post-infection. There could be some unexpected post infectious deleterious consequences given what little we know of this virus.[/B] " So, is it important enough to play? I don't know but all the potential outcomes should be part of the decision-making process. [/QUOTE]

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