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Will the NCAA March Tourney be played without an audience?

Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Has anything like this happened in anyone’s lifetime? I’m 32 and the closest I remember is just this fall with EEE.
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Sure, SARS in 2003. Affected Canada more than US, but many business conferences and other events cancelled.
 
When I was a young Marine, I was hospitalized for a week with what my records say was Acute Respiratory Disease...unknown origin and not pneumonia.

Now, it would kill me..
 
None of us have a crystal ball. Bickering over fatality rates and severity of symptoms vs flu is a waste of your time. No telling how this thing will spread here. We saw what it did to China so that’s all we can go off of. Nothing wrong with developing a contingency plan.... and hopefully it is not needed
 
The business channel on Friday had a guest that said that the airlines would be in big trouble if transatlantic flights to Europe had a reduction in business travel. He said that it was way more important volume wise than tourist bookings. The concept of a safe 2 meter difference in public puts many events at risk such as games, political rallies, as well as mass transit, schools. This could be quite a disruption to things for a while.
 
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Young, healthy people have died from this coronavirus. Not sure where people are getting the idea that it's the same as the flu.
 
Leebo said:
Young, healthy people have died from this coronavirus. Not sure where people are getting the idea that it's the same as the flu.
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I’m guessing “young” and “healthy” are relative terms:

Age of Coronavirus Deaths
COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE:
*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on the age group. The percentages shown below do not have to add up to 100%, as they do NOT represent share of deaths by age group. Rather, it represents, for a person in a given age group, the risk of dying if infected with COVID-19.

AGE​
DEATH RATE
confirmed cases		DEATH RATE
all cases
80+ years old​
21.9%​
14.8%​
70-79 years old​
​
8.0%​
60-69 years old​
​
3.6%​
50-59 years old​
​
1.3%​
40-49 years old​
​
0.4%​
30-39 years old​
​
0.2%​
20-29 years old​
​
0.2%​
10-19 years old​
​
0.2%​
0-9 years old
​
no fatalities​

COVID-19 Fatality Rate by COMORBIDITY:
*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on pre-existing condition. The percentage shown below does NOT represent in any way the share of deaths by pre-existing condition. Rather, it represents, for a patient with a given pre-existing condition, the risk of dying if infected by COVID-19.

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION​
DEATH RATE
confirmed cases		DEATH RATE
all cases
Cardiovascular disease​
13.2%​
10.5%​
Diabetes​
9.2%​
7.3%​
Chronic respiratory disease​
8.0%​
6.3%​
Hypertension​
8.4%​
6.0%​
Cancer​
7.6%​
5.6%​
no pre-existing conditions ​
​
0.9%​
*Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). The percentages do not have to add up to 100%, as they do NOT represent share of deaths by condition.

Another view: Who Is Most Susceptible to the New Coronavirus?
 
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huskymedic said:
I’m guessing “young” and “healthy” are relative terms:
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Listening to some people you'd think every person who died was 80 and already about to die from something else. Obviously those people are going to be the most susceptible, as you would expect, but it's not 100% of the deaths that are like that.
 
No one should attend NCAA tournament games .
If all movie theatres are closed ,
Broadway shuts down , Hollywood shuts down all motion picture production and Major League Baseball is cancelled.
All schools and universities are closed, All shopping malls are closed
plus any other place were folks gather.Like the New York Stock exchange.
Whose prepared for that type of total isolation?
Singling out the NCAA tourney is just a publicity stunt to create a dissonance.
Folks who suggest stuff like this ,really believe you are morons.
This thread itself is political and should be moved to wherever we put stuff like that.
 
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billybud said:
When I was a young Marine, I was hospitalized for a week with what my records say was Acute Respiratory Disease...unknown origin and not pneumonia.

Now, it would kill me..
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Semper Fi. Was a Corpsman with the 1st Marine Division.
 
The death rate might even be lower than reported because cases are under reported at this point in time. SARS and MERS were much more deadly.

Precautions should still be taken but as has been said this might be more in line with the flu
 
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Tokyo Marathon was run yesterday with only elite athletes, no general public participants (of which there are usually several 10s of thousands). Conspiracy.
 
How many deaths did it take to shut down the most populated continent in the world? Or 13 million school children in Japan? I don’t see it happening
 
RF79 said:
How many deaths did it take to shut down the most populated continent in the world? Or 13 million school children in Japan? I don’t see it happening
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Don't see what happening?
 
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Jay-Bone said:
Would you guys rather go to a basketball game that 1 in 100 people have the flu or 1 in 100 people have the coronavirus? Personally, I'd take my chances with the flu, but that's just me.
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There is also a vaccination for flu that many people get.
 
Exit 4 said:
I believe the plan is for the audience to stay home, to use remote control cameras, for the refs to wear body suits and for the players to wear gloves and masks. Players that can dribble with gloves will have a tremendous advantage.
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Hockey uniforms seem just about right.
 
Huskyhoops25 said:
Semper Fi. Was a Corpsman with the 1st Marine Division.
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Semper Fi, Doc.

Never met a Corpsman in a bar that I would let buy his own drink/s. The best and the bravest.
 
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uconngb said:
But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.
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Right. The media is causing decision makers to panic. So the media shouldn't report something that the world is taking seriously, the stock markets are plummeting over and the POTUS is going on TV to talk about what health officials are planning to do. Might this all be a big nothing. I hope so. But ok, the media should just shut down and nothing bad will ever happen in the world.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
No one should attend NCAA tournament games .
If all movie theatres are closed ,
Broadway shuts down , Hollywood shuts down all motion picture production and Major League Baseball is cancelled.
All schools and universities are closed, All shopping malls are closed
plus any other place were folks gather.Like the New York Stock exchange.
Whose prepared for that type of total isolation?
Singling out the NCAA tourney is just a publicity stunt to create a dissonance.
Folks who suggest stuff like this ,really believe you are morons.
This thread itself is political and should be moved to wherever we put stuff like that.
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This is an insanely stupid take even by Boneyard standards.
 
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