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Something to keep an eye on in regards to Virus and AAC tournament

NJHusky said:
Has there been any evidence of this, other than wild speculation?
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What's known for sure is that it didn't evolve or even alter in humans; the virus entered humans for the first time in October 2019 -- this is known because all viruses around the world have the same sequence, New coronavirus may have started in bats. But how did it hop to humans?, and if it had dwelt in humans at all before October there would be much more variation in genomic sequences.

So the virus either evolved in animals, or in the mind and lab of a scientist, and then jumped directly to humans.

The idea that it leapt to humans from an animal is pure speculation. The virus has not been observed in animals, including bats. Moreover it's almost inconceivable that a virus could have evolved such fine tuning for human infectiousness in another species. All other zoonotic infections come into humans with maladaptations and then within humans evolve better fitness for humans.

There was the Indian paper, now retracted, that claimed that several novel parts of the new virus compared to other coronaviruses were identical to proteins in HIV. If true that would be proof of bio-engineering. It should be straightforward to settle this if that is the case.
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Doesn’t the Ivy League not have a tournament?
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Started a few years back - it's a final four format. My question is why send Yale? Not because Yale is undeserving...but, I mean, if you're not going to hold a tournament...
 
Oh please god no. Please tell me they’re flying out today. This would be crushing to the players.
 
JimHurley said:
Oh please god no. Please tell me they’re flying out today. This would be crushing to the players.
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The major 7 conferences won’t be canceling their tournaments unless it gets to biblical proportions. Although I do believe the NCAA tourney won’t be as we have come to expect it. Expecting empty arenas tbh.
 
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Ajs120102 said:
The major 7 conferences won’t be canceling their tournaments unless it gets to biblical proportions. Although I do believe the NCAA tourney won’t be as we have come to expect it. Expecting empty arenas tbh.
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is the aac a major 7 conference?

i overheard aresco talking and he said the aac will be canceling the tournament and will award the #1 seed the auto bid.
 
kobe said:
is the aac a major 7 conference?

i overheard aresco talking and he said the aac will be canceling the tournament and will award the #1 seed the auto bid.
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That’s what I read on twitter once. I was feeling nice today. I read two articles that referred to the power 6 tournaments in basketball and left the AAC out, so I was just throwing them a bone.
 
They need to play the AAC tourney without a crowd. Terrible timing, but it's a ridiculous risk to take right now.
 
auror said:
Preliminary studies suggest that COVID-19 is 20% more infectious than Swine Flu (H1N1) and 4-6x more deadly. So both more contagious and more deadly.

So sure. Let's do the same thing that killed 12,000 people instead of taking more precautions.
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Don't you know? Approaching subjects with scientific care and concern is a liberal angle!!
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
At this point, data set is woefully incomplete to make any solid estimates/comparisons. Especially the fatality rate. Lots of suggestive evidence as it’s travelled outside of China that it will be lower than what you listed. Time will tell though.

Even if it’s only 1.5x more fatal than flu and a bit more contagious, it’s a serious issue because we don’t have a vaccine nor any reliably active medication to target it yet.
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I know it’s already caused us to cancel a vacation to SoCal scheduled 2 weeks from now and staying an overnight with my son and his family tomorrow because the kids schools are closed due to children attending their school who are kids of two MDs in Westchester County who have tested positive for the virus. I know it seems extreme to be canceling major events, but we really don’t know of it’s really extreme. Better safe than sorry.
 
cohenzone said:
I know it’s already caused us to cancel a vacation to SoCal scheduled 2 weeks from now and staying an overnight with my son and his family tomorrow because the kids schools are closed due to children attending their school who are kids of two MDs in Westchester County who have tested positive for the virus. I know it seems extreme to be canceling major events, but we really don’t know of it’s really extreme. Better safe than sorry.
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Everything needs to be cancelled. Health organizations are saying the official numbers are just a fraction of the real number of infected, and we're dealing with an illness that multiplies 10-fold week by week. It is selfish to not be proactive on this.

Cancel the damn basketball games.
 
cohenzone said:
I know it’s already caused us to cancel a vacation to SoCal scheduled 2 weeks from now and staying an overnight with my son and his family tomorrow because the kids schools are closed due to children attending their school who are kids of two MDs in Westchester County who have tested positive for the virus. I know it seems extreme to be canceling major events, but we really don’t know of it’s really extreme. Better safe than sorry.
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Yeah it sucks but we’re to the point where all precautions need to be taken. I’m a special ed teacher and a big concern in districts is covering legal service hours and conducting meetings to keep documents up with legal regulations. I think this may officially be the “biggest deal” outside wars in the Middle East if my lifetime.
 
krinklecut said:
Everything needs to be cancelled. Health organizations are saying the official numbers are just a fraction of the real number of infected, and we're dealing with an illness that multiplies 10-fold week by week. It is selfish to not be proactive on this.

Cancel the damn basketball games.
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Let the boys play.
 
There was a report that some of the worst symptoms and death may be correlated with high blood pressure (not necessarily causation at this point). And kids generally have lower blood pressure. Could also just be that kids are stronger/healthier in certain ways.
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I know it hasn't been proven - but still fascinating. As a father of 2 under 10, I've been watching carefully and wondering why this was the case. Not the best case scenario for me, but I'm more concerned about them.
 
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Tex-Lager93 said:
There was a report that some of the worst symptoms and death may be correlated with high blood pressure (not necessarily causation at this point). And kids generally have lower blood pressure. Could also just be that kids are stronger/healthier in certain ways.
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I know it hasn't been proven - but still fascinating. As a father of 2 under 10, I've been watching carefully and wondering why this was the case. Not the best case scenario for me, but I'm more concerned about them.
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A three year old in my county just tested positive. Caught it from his father who caught it on a business trip to California. Only a matter of time before cases appear in Fort Worth. Wish I had not bought tix to the AAC.
 
They’re going to cancel the AAC tourney and the NIT on us aren’t they? Good lord please NOT NOW!
 
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glastonbury50 said:
As if the handshakes after the game would have been the only point of transmittance....
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Exactly. Its not like they pass a ball around and huddle up and fist bump and what not...
 
pj said:
What's known for sure is that it didn't evolve or even alter in humans; the virus entered humans for the first time in October 2019 -- this is known because all viruses around the world have the same sequence, New coronavirus may have started in bats. But how did it hop to humans?, and if it had dwelt in humans at all before October there would be much more variation in genomic sequences.

So the virus either evolved in animals, or in the mind and lab of a scientist, and then jumped directly to humans.

The idea that it leapt to humans from an animal is pure speculation. The virus has not been observed in animals, including bats. Moreover it's almost inconceivable that a virus could have evolved such fine tuning for human infectiousness in another species. All other zoonotic infections come into humans with maladaptations and then within humans evolve better fitness for humans.

There was the Indian paper, now retracted, that claimed that several novel parts of the new virus compared to other coronaviruses were identical to proteins in HIV. If true that would be proof of bio-engineering. It should be straightforward to settle this if that is the case.
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unfamiliar with the concept of 'phylogenetic clustering' are we? or maybe you read that dean koontz make believe book one to many times? you know, 'the eyes of darkness?' hmm, 'eyes' and op. decidedly not on the chinese menu anymore are 'pangolin soufle,' or 'roast pangolin,' or 'pangolin tartar.' wash ur hands, and ur mind. chinese cooties has a clear footprint, just like 'camel virus,' better known as 'mers.' I blame adam west, the mayor of cohaug.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
unfamiliar with the concept of 'phylogenetic clustering' are we? or maybe you read that dean koontz make believe book one to many times? you know, 'the eyes of darkness?' hmm, 'eyes' and op. decidedly not on the chinese menu anymore are 'pangolin soufle,' or 'roast pangolin,' or 'pangolin tartar.' wash ur hands, and ur mind. chinese cooties has a clear footprint, just like 'camel virus,' better known as 'mers.' I blame adam west, the mayor of cohaug.
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You seem to be unfamiliar with logic or dictionaries. The reality is that zoonotic infections do not magically start as highly infectious diseases in the first human they infect. The case of HIV is illustrative -- it's thought to have crossed from monkeys to humans in Africa in the 1920s, then it needed 50 years of evolution within humans before it became a dangerous disease. The only way for a germ to be so well adapted from the get-go at infecting humans as this one is, is if it was engineered.
 
is the team scheduled to arrive today?

Just looking for that confirmation that at least the games will be played.
 
UConn cancelled all out of state travel. We will likely not be going to Dallas if we’re not there.
 
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