Will the NCAA March Tourney be played without an audience?

[Leebo]

Tokyo Marathon was run yesterday with only elite athletes, no general public participants (of which there are usually several 10s of thousands). Conspiracy.

 

[RF79]

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

 

[Leebo]

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

Don't see what happening?

 

[TerryBoyz]

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..

Thank you for serving.

 

[Kathy]

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.

There is also a vaccination for flu that many people get.

 

[dennismenace]

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.

Hockey uniforms seem just about right.

 

[dennismenace]

Thank you.

"Stayed tuned to us...............Nanny media will protect you".

 

[billybud]

Semper Fi. Was a Corpsman with the 1st Marine Division.

Semper Fi, Doc.

Never met a Corpsman in a bar that I would let buy his own drink/s. The best and the bravest.

 

[cohenzone]

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.

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.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

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.

This is an insanely stupid take even by Boneyard standards.

 

[Stinger92860]

Pence says we have it under control. Big hoax.

Which is the hoax? That’s its under control or the panic? Sorry, could not determine from the way it was written.

 

[CTBasketball]

It’s spreading in China because it’s literally the most unsanitary place in the world. They stuff millions of people into a 5 story apartment complex and call it “efficient”. Why do you think every big virus starts there?

NCAA Tournament will be played with spectators. This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.

 

[weyuo]

NO POLITICAL COMMENTS ON THIS SITE

How is that a political comment? The Vice President made a statement that he repeated here. What's so political about that? You guys really need to lighten up.

 

[Leebo]

It’s spreading in China because it’s literally the most unsanitary place in the world. They stuff millions of people into a 5 story apartment complex and call it “efficient”. Why do you think every big virus starts there?

NCAA Tournament will be played with spectators. This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.

You heard it here first. Murica don't get no viruses.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

At least 30 flu deaths IN CONNECTICUT this season.

 

[BlueDogs]

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.

See huskymedic info above. It’s fairly minuscule. The data makes sense because a severe respiratory disease places enormous stress on the cardiovascular system.

 

[Leebo]

See huskymedic info above. It’s fairly minuscule. The data makes sense because a severe respiratory disease places enormous stress on the cardiovascular system.

The message you quoted was a reply to that post. How does it compare to the flu? The huskymedic post was a response to my post about how people are saying the flu is just as bad or worse to get.

 

[Pmurph678]

How is that a political comment? The Vice President made a statement that he repeated here. What's so political about that? You guys really need to lighten up.

You're asking why quoting the vice president is political? Wow

 

[Hi-Low]

NO POLITICAL COMMENTS ON THIS SITE

Hardly political...we don't need leaders (like Pence) saying all is under control when serious testing has only ramped up the last couple days....just the facts please.

The truth is nobody knows the severity of the spread in the US yet. We'll hopefully know alot more in a week if we have ten+ thousand tests done not just hundreds.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Just learned today that two high school students from the town next to mine have tested positive. School had a senior class trip to Italy, which is very hard hit. A school in Pawtucket also went to Italy and a teacher tested positive. That school is shut for two weeks with online only classes.

It's coming folks.

 

[CL82]

Not to worry the NCAA is working on a plan as we speak:

 

[Stinger92860]

Not to worry the NCAA is working on a plan as we speak:

View attachment 51438

That a bogus photo. They are not wearing gloves.

 

[tzznandrew]

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

It might be, but it's already killed more people than SARS and MERS combined.

 

[methodology]

At least 30 flu deaths IN CONNECTICUT this season.

And that's with a vaccine that a large portion of the population gets.

People in good health should be fine if they were to get

The message you quoted was a reply to that post. How does it compare to the flu? The huskymedic post was a response to my post about how people are saying the flu is just as bad or worse to get.

Its difficult to get an accurate death rate because cases are severely under reported right now. Theres people who probably had Coronavirus, got sick as you would the flu, never got tested and got better without seeking any medical help.

So as of right now the death rate is 2% vs the flu usually around 0.1% in the USA.

But with cases under reported that 2% would be a lot lower.

How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu?

Research so far indicates that COVID-19 spreads more easily and has a higher death rate than the flu.

www.livescience.com

For instance, in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, the death rate reached 2.9%; in other provinces of China, that rate was just 0.4%. In addition, older adults have been hit the hardest. The death rate soars to 14.8% in those 80 and older; among those ages 70 to 79, the COVID-19 death rate in China seems to be about 8%; it’s 3.6% for those ages 60 to 69; 1.3% for 50 to 59; 0.4% for the age group 40 to 49; and just 0.2% for people ages 10 to 39. Nobody 9 and under has died of this coronavirus to date

 

[methodology]

It might be, but it's already killed more people than SARS and MERS combined.

That means absolutely nothing. Death rate is the key number

CFR stands for case fatality rate

Study of 72,000 COVID-19 patients finds 2.3% death rate

www.cidrap.umn.edu

In comparison to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronaviruses, which were both identified in the past 20 years, COVID-19 is likely more highly transmissible but not as deadly, the researchers noted. (SARS had a CFR of 9.6%; MERS has a CFR of 34.4%.) And unlike SARS and MERS, hospital-based outbreaks do not seem to be hallmark of COVID-19 at this time.